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	<title><![CDATA[Careful, Mudslingers: This Mud Votes]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-zogby/careful-mudslingers-this_b_140189.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[In a election season that has known many shameful moments, the McCain
campaign's slanderous effort to use Rashid Khalidi to smear Barack
Obama, was one of the more shameful. <p>

McCain and Palin grossly mischaracterized the person and work of
Khalidi. He was never, as they claimed, a PLO spokesperson, nor is he a
"radical" or an "extremist".<p>

None of this mattered to the Republicans. Since the entire effort was
designed to callously scare up votes from Florida's large Jewish senior
citizen population, the fact that Khalidi was...</p></p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-12-03T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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