Washington Post Condemns McCain's "Increasingly Reckless Ad Hominem Attacks"

Washington Post:

WITH THE presidential campaign clock ticking down, Sen. John McCain has suddenly discovered a new boogeyman to link to Sen. Barack Obama: a sometimes controversial but widely respected Middle East scholar named Rashid Khalidi. In the past couple of days, Mr. McCain and his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin, have likened Mr. Khalidi, the director of a Middle East institute at Columbia University, to neo-Nazis; called him "a PLO spokesman"; and suggested that the Los Angeles Times is hiding something sinister by refusing to release a videotape of a 2003 dinner in honor of Mr. Khalidi at which Mr. Obama spoke. Mr. McCain even threw former Weatherman Bill Ayers into the mix, suggesting that the tape might reveal that Mr. Ayers -- a terrorist-turned-professor who also has been an Obama acquaintance -- was at the dinner.

For the record, Mr. Khalidi is an American born in New York who graduated from Yale a couple of years after George W. Bush. For much of his long academic career, he taught at the University of Chicago, where he and his wife became friends with Barack and Michelle Obama. In the early 1990s, he worked as an adviser to the Palestinian delegation at peace talks in Madrid and Washington sponsored by the first Bush administration. We don't agree with a lot of what Mr. Khalidi has had to say about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the years, and Mr. Obama has made clear that he doesn't, either. But to compare the professor to neo-Nazis -- or even to Mr. Ayers -- is a vile smear.

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Comments

[retrocozayshin]

And McCain continues his progression into e v i l.

[SLC X]

The repudiator becomes the repudiated. Shame on you, maverick.

[curioussoul]

Maverick? i don't think so.

[Glenn1441]

Wonderful editorial piece at Washington Post dot com.

Political campaigning without mudslinging is asking too much perhaps, but McCain really sinks to the depths on the Khalidi connection. Considering McCain's own chairing of an organization that significantly funded this controversial yet widely respected AMERICAN educator is astonishing.

How does McCain expect to lead a nation as diverse as ours if he should become POTUS/

Should he lose, as he deserves to -- How can he possibly return to the Senate with his head held high?

Tragic. Really, really tragic.

[CaptainVideo]

If he runs for reelection in 2010, he will be defeated.

[atila]

November 5th John Mccain is going to wake up to see that his image as a "war hero' or a "maverick" has disappeared..that day is going to understand that he bet everything he had in this race realizing that has anymore respect and honor....one more sad man defeated by his own ambition....

[KOisGod]

History is full of such men, he'll join a disfunctional, dellusional group headed up by the current republican president.

[CeeCee]

We can only hope. He and his soulmate have slimed so many people -- now they'll have to live with it.