Barack Obama Endorsed By Hamas
Hamas leader Ahmed Yousef actually said: “We like Mr. Obama and we hope that he will win the election.” Jeffery Goldberg of the Atlantic interviewed Obama and it is this month’s issue of that magazine (the link takes you to the entire interview).
John McCain jumped on this statement, calling it a “legitimate point of discussion,” and tied it to Obama’s putative softness on Iran, whose ever-charming president last week called Israel a “stinking corpse” and predicted its “annihilation.”
And one of Barack Obama’s Middle East policy advisers disclosed yesterday that he had held meetings with the militant Palestinian group Hamas. Hamas is a group that has been labeled as a terrorist organization by the US State Department. The aide, Robert Malley, has claims he stepped down as an advisor to Obama. However it is being widely reported that Obama sacked Malley. Barack Obama had criticised former President Jimmy Carter for holding direct talks with Hamas.
Then, Barack Obama said he had been to 57 states and had two to go (advisors said it wasn’t worth the time traveling to Alaska and Hawaii) since he began campaigning for Presidency. As I pointed out on in my comment on Bullwinkle’s post, there are 57 Islamic States, so I can understand the confusion.
This is the kind of thing that will cause Obama problems and gives me hope as a Conservative American.