The Really: McCain campaign desperate and more desperate.

Actually the man is not a terrorist at all. He is a scholar. But in the lookinglass world McCain-Palin present to their low-information followers the fact is that most of their attacks on Obama turn out to be prima facie absurdities.

The newest whack-job attack is that the Los Angeles Times has some video of Obama at some event with some guy named Khalidi. Turns out this guy’s organization was funded by John McCain.

Gramps is either forgetful or Vanna turned the wrong letter. The lying and hyposcrisy is becoming galling though and may hurt the Republican party as a whole. Nice, clean campaign you promised Gramps.

Here is the McCain-Khalidi connection from Harper’s:

Of course, Khalidi has been involved in Palestinian causes. McCarthy ought to ask John McCain about that, because McCain and Khalidi appear to have some joint interests, and that fact speaks very well of both of them. Indeed, the McCain–Khalidi connections are more substantial than the phony Obama–Khalidi connections McCarthy gussies up for his article. The Republican party’s congressionally funded international-networking organization, the International Republican Institute–long and ably chaired by John McCain and headed by McCain’s close friend, the capable Lorne Craner–has taken an interest in West Bank matters. IRI funded an ambitious project, called the Palestine Center, that Khalidi helped to support. Khalidi served on the Center’s board of directors. The goal of that project, shared by Khalidi and McCain, was the promotion of civic consciousness and engagement and the development of democratic values in the West Bank. Of course, McCarthy is not interested in looking too closely into the facts, because they would not serve his shrill partisan objectives.