Because calling him a Communist isn’t working…

In the waning days of the presidential race, raising questions about Obama’s friendship with Columbia University’s Rashid Khalidi, and Obama’s association with people who associated with people who associated with groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and Not In My Name (now also a JVP chapter), has become the last hope for the McCain-Palin ticket.

The LA Times reports that the McCain campaign wants the video:

Sen. John McCain today compared the director of Columbia University’s Middle East Institute to a “neo-Nazi” and called on the Los Angeles Times to release a video of a 2003 banquet at which Sen. Barack Obama talked about the professor, Rashid Khalidi, a leading Palestinian American scholar and friend of Obama’s from Chicago.

“What if there was a tape with John McCain with a neo-Nazi outfit being held by some media outlet?” McCain asked in an interview with a Cuban radio station Wednesday morning. “I think the treatment of the issue would be slightly different.”

If Khalidi, a respected academic, is so evil, then why did John McCain give him hundreds of thousands of dollars in the nineties? Does that mean McCain is palling around with neo-Nazis?

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