Why McCain Won

Obama advisor wants talks with terrorists

The revelations about Obama's relationship with Khalidi follows a recent WND article quoting Israeli security officials who expressed "concern" about Robert Malley, an adviser to Obama who has advocated negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist group.

Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, has penned numerous opinion articles, many of them co-written with a former adviser to the late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, petitioning for dialogue with Hamas and blasting Israel for numerous policies he says harm the Palestinian cause.


Malley also previously penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books piece largely blaming Israel for the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at Camp David in 2000 when Arafat turned down a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and eastern sections of Jerusalem and instead returned to the Middle East to launch an intifada, or terrorist campaign, against the Jewish state.

Malley's contentions have been strongly refuted by key participants at Camp David, including President Bill Clinton, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and primary U.S. envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross, all of whom squarely blamed Arafat's refusal to make peace for the talks' failure.

"That doesn't mean Obama lost because all, or even most, McCain voters allowed race to be a factor. But enough did to change the outcome." You have that backwards Jonathon, Obama will win BECAUSE of race ... 95% of blacks will vote for him and that will be the deciding factor. It's likely that more than 1/3 of white voters wil go for Obama ... if the same percentage of black voters went for McCain, this election would not even be close. Before questioning the "decency and common sense" of whites who vote for McCain (some small percentage admittedly due to skin color), you might first want to question the much, much larger percentage of black votes he receives for that very same reason. Personally I say to each his own ... vote for whomever you want for whatever reason you want, but if you are going to question certain voters motives, then provide a balanced portrait.

Has anyone noticed that Obama seems to be catching up in Arizona? And he is doing better than expected in Texas. McCain may loose his home state.

Jonathan Alter should be ashamed of himself. His assumption is that anyone who votes for McCain is a racist, and lacks common sense and decency. I thought the election was supposed to be about the best man for the job and not the color of his skin. There are still many voters who truly believe that McCain is the best man for the job and that Obama is poorly perpared to be the Commander-in-Chief. Please don't disrespect those voters who actually care more about the issues and less about the color of skin.

"If you let me write $200 billion a year in hot checks, I'll give you an illusion of prosperity too," said Lloyd Bentsen describing Reagan's economic policies. The republican irresponsible 'cut taxes' mantra, annual deficit spending, and 'borrow and spend' philosophy has brought this nation to the verge of bankruptcy. They choose to ignore the ten trillion in national debt to the Chinese, Saudis, and others. Taxes have to be paid and responsible adults understand this. Irresponsible people don't.

It would look like Alter on OXYCODONE and Jack Daniels. . Olbermann in apoplexy. Baldwin in Europe. MOVEON in mourning. Colmes losing more hair. Matthews losing more mind [what little there is left]. Dowd drinking more Scotch. The NY Times making up more stories than they do already..Fineman getting more gray [for real this time]. Palestinians gnashing teeth. Jews dancing horas. Assad shooting some more malcontents. Ahmedinjezad looking for another job. Lefties beating their heads with copies of DAS KAPITAL,Euros going on cheap wine binges. Jesus breathing a sigh of relief as there is only enough room for one Messiah.

Hey Jonathon Alter,

How about not voting for Obama because:
1) He was the No.1 (rated by the National Journal) tax and spend, far-left, liberal in the Senate for 2007.

2) He is the most inexperienced individual to run for President with only a few months of Senate experience before deciding to run for the leader of the free world. Can you say EGOMANIAC?

3) He has friendships with radical left individuals like Ayers, Wright, Pfleger, which explains his radical left political positions such as wealth redistribution. IT ALSO SHOWS REPEATED BAD JUDGMENT. WHO WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THE OVAL OFFICE?

4) Obama voted for allowing infanticide if performed in conjuction with a botched abortion. This illustrates quite clearly that Obama is a far-left nut!

5) Obama received records amount of money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac ($40K per year). How can you count on Obama to clean up the Fannie/Freddie mess when his friends like Franklin Raines and Jim Johnson, former CEOs and Obama advisors, got rich on the taxpayers back.

6) His one monumental foreign policy decision he had to make was wrong: the decision for the surge. OBAMA WANTED TO RETREAT-IN-DEFEAT WHEN THINGS WEREN'T GOING WELL IN IRAQ. This was very bad judgment.

I could go on and on but there are plenty of reasons why McCain should defeat Obama.

A lot is said, mainly being offered to discredit the candidates, with most of it being emotional or exaggerated garbage and even intentionally deceptive. The credibility of the facts offered, being always out of context and without complete information, is totally questionable and actually often meaningless. Each of us has to put our own biases, prejudices and emotions aside to be objective and rational to not allow ourselves to be manipulated by the garbage aimed at us and then make our own decision. When people push their preferred choice by referencing a fact, the ???truth???, an article or website, to be really and equitably informed we should go to the opposing website and find the information to counter, clarify, debunk and / or disprove what is offered. I guarantee another position will be available but that is really an unending process. One thing we can lean on is our own impression of the candidates' character and personality void of the labels, others' opinions and the BS and then decide how we each think they would act if at the helm. It is an easy read and decision for me, which I feel is fully supported by the candidates??? history, but then everyone needs to decide that for themselves.

McCain and Palin want to pin a label on Obama to scare everyone. First off, the labels Marxist, Communist, Socialist and Liberal are all real stretches of their imagination that only reflect McCain???s and Palin???s desperation but more important, what we know for sure has failed and that should really scare us is ???more of the same???. We need to realize McCain and Palin simply don???t offer anything but more of the same. They talk of change but offer nothing specific, only empty rhetoric. What McCain does change is his position frequently. First he brags that he shares Bush???s philosophy and that he voted with Bush 90% of the time and in-between he says that he isn???t Bush, that Bush???s policies failed, that he is different and will provide change from Bush. We have actually seen him change multiple times almost each day as the economic crisis unfolded, always worried about political advantage instead of finding real answers. McCain is really not convincing as he is either unsure and tentative or impulsive and poorly thought out without any real answers and only criticizes Obama who in contrast does confidently present detailed plans. McCain vacillates between his need to convince his ???conservative??? base and trying to manipulate the voters with the most likely result being that he would just provide more of the same; the same Bush-Cheney style failed ???conservative??? policies that he has supported all along. We really can???t take more of the same, whatever you want to call it!

Give_me_a_break, your comment was well said. It has always amazed me how people behind shields can love to throw rocks!!

Jonathon Alter,

It's obvious that Obama and the liberals are counting on the LOW INFORMATION VOTERS and the RACIST VOTERS. What is quite telling about the liberals is the incessant need to pull the most ignorant voters off the street to vote, with great assurance the liberals' class warfare and government giveaway message will have them voting Democrat. The liberals are buying votes with taxpayer money....DISGUSTING!

Obama and the Liberal Democrats count on:
RACIST VOTERS - Racist voters who openly admit that they are voting for Obama, NOT BECAUSE OF HIS CHARACTER, but because of the color of his skin. This is counter to the teachings of MLK. This is white liberal guilt and black racism at its worst.

THE FREE-BEE VOTERS - The entitlement class of voters are voting for Obama because he promised lots of goodies from the public treasury. I'm voting for SANTA CLAUSE OBAMA!!!!

THE LAZY, ENVIOUS VOTERS - The class warfare voters love Obama because he promises to take from the rich even more progressive income taxes and GIVE IT AWAY TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T EVEN PAY INCOME TAXES. I'M VOTING FOR ROBIN HOOD Obama!!!!

THE UNINFORMED, FOOLED VOTERS - And now the PHONY Obama is trying to pose as a fiscal conservative when he was rated as the NUMBER 1 LIBERAL IN THE SENATE by the NATIONAL JOURNAL IN 2007 . For the presidential campaign, he stopped his pork-barrel spending for 2008 when he was averaging $1 million a day in pork-barrel spending before 2008.

ALL OF THE ABOVE DESPICABLE AND UNFORTUNATE CLASSES OF VOTERS ARE TYPICAL TARGETS FOR DEMOCRATS AND FOR OBAMA.

This country CANNOT SURVIVE with an increase in voters like the typical Democrat constituencies describe above.

Barack Obama has shown a stunning lack of tolerance for free speech throughout the course of this campaign. His presidency, combined with supermajorities for Democrats in Congress, would almost certainly bring back the so-called 'Fairness Doctrine' and allow the Democrats to snuff out any broadcasters with whom they disagree.

Several situations already have given evidence of that:

??? When Chicago radio station WGN scheduled journalist Stanley Kurtz to talk about Obama's ties to unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, the Obama campaign recruited 100,000 supporters to act in a cult-like manner and besiege the station with protests.

??? When "Joe the Plumber" questioned Obama about his plan to raise taxes on small businesses, Obama supporters sought to destroy Joe and publicly embarrass him by digging through his tax files, work history and personal life.

??? Obama forces also tried to hush a national organization that ran TV and radio ads attacking the candidate's position on an issue. In that instance, Obama's general counsel fired off a letter threatening the licenses of stations that didn't pull the ad "for the sake of FCC licensing and the public interest."

??? After seeing a dip in the polls in September, the Obama campaign dispatched prosecutors and law enforcement officials in Missouri to act as so-called "truth squads" to target anyone who runs ads on TV or radio critical of Obama.