The snake oil road show rolls into Washington

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I wonder if they will adopt a few Jewish phrases like they miraculously started speaking in southern country accents while whoring themselves in Selma.

I thought Hillary was anti-Israel.

Hil & Bam gear up for battle over Jewish vote

WASHINGTON - Fresh off their battle for the hearts of black Americans, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are about to go head to head for Jewish votes.

The leaders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 plan dueling receptions Monday when an influential pro-Israeli lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, holds its major Washington policy conference.

The competing receptions are one more sign of the intensifying scrum between Clinton and Obama over key Democratic interest groups, highlighted Sunday by near-simultaneous civil rights speeches in Selma, Ala.

"It would be amazing if you didn't have a fierce competition," said Norm Ornstein, an American Enterprise Institute scholar who is leading a panel at the AIPAC forum.

Clinton had been counting on black support before Obama got in the race. Ornstein said she had a natural base among Jews because of her Senate work and her husband's record, but some liberal Jews favor Obama because he opposed the Iraq war.

"If you get over the bar on the Israeli issue, which I think he has, then for many people, Iraq becomes the issue," Ornstein said.

Obama got help from an unlikely source yesterday when pro-Palestinian Prof. Rashid Khalidi denied a report that Obama used to be sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and had recently shifted his stance to pro-Israel.

Khalidi spoke to the Daily News to rebut a report on a pro-Palestinian blog that was circulated by Clinton supporters. The blog, the Electronic Intifada, offered no evidence that Obama used to be supportive of the Palestinian cause, but cited private conversations, including one at a 2000 Obama fund-raiser hosted by Khalidi.

Khalidi, now head of Columbia University's Middle East Institute, said he hosted the fund-raiser because he was friends with Obama while the two lived in Chicago.

"He never came to us and said he would do anything in terms of Palestinians," Khalidi said.

Oy vey, click on the link

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159 and a wake up...?

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Obama got help from an unlikely source yesterday when pro-Palestinian Prof. Rashid Khalidi denied a report that Obama used to be sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and had recently shifted his stance to pro-Israel.

So in effect he was against Israel before he was for it. Or he was for the PLO before he was against it. Even better, the local spokesman for the PLO which he now is against comes out to help.

You have to ride a fast horse to keep up with the dems changing positions.

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Obama got help from an unlikely source yesterday when pro-Palestinian Prof. Rashid Khalidi denied a report that Obama used to be sympathetic to the Palestinian cause and had recently shifted his stance to pro-Israel.

So in effect he was against Israel before he was for it. Or he was for the PLO before he was against it. Even better, the local spokesman for the PLO which he now is against comes out to help.

You have to ride a fast horse to keep up with the dems changing positions.

Reminds you of John Kerry huh?

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159 and a wake up...?

Yes sir! I found 10 days I had originally miscalculated for today. Made a day where I sat in medical and dental getting prodded, poked, and scraped much more bearable.