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Nihad Awad, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and former Congressman and United States Senate candidate Tom Campbell
Philip Klein over at The American Spectator has the story. Read it all.
One month after the September 11 attacks, Tom Campbell accepted a lifetime achievement award from a Muslim group at a conference in which speakers cited poverty and U.S. policy toward Israel as the “root causes” of terrorism.
And in 2000, Campbell, who as now, was running for U.S. Senate in California, raised $35,000 from Muslim groups “grateful for his efforts to cut aid to Israel,†according to a newspaper account at the time.
It is as much as what Campbell has done in the past as how he portrays his actions today. To say the least, Tom Campbell is suffering from a complete LACK of political credibility.
More from Klein:
So, in 2000, Campbell was raising money from Muslim groups on the basis of his votes against Israel and his views on foreign policy, and now he’s claiming those same positions are being misrepresented. Meanwhile, a month after Sept. 11, he was willing to accept an award from a group that was pushing the view that the root causes of the attacks were poverty in the Muslim world as well as U.S. support for Israel. Either Campbell was misrepresenting himself then, or he’s misrepresenting himself now. It can’t be both.
As the evidence mounts that Campbell has a history of hob-nobbing (including accepting money) with Islamic terrorist sympathizers and anti-Israel zealots, he demurs and says his views are being misrepresented.
Not going to fly, Tom.
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Updated: CA-Sen: Tom Campbell, Sami al-Arian and Political Access
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Former California Congressman Tom Campbell who has accepted campaign contributions from prominent Muslim activist Sami al-Arian who is alleged to have formed with others a terrorist support network across the United States and who pled guilty to conspiring to help associates of the terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Tom Campbell said he GOOFED and finally admits accepting the political contributions. Of course, I posted the records from the Federal Elections Commission days ago:
AL-ARIAN, SAMI TAMPA, FL 33687 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA
Tom Campbell tells the Politico that he made an “honest mistake”
Campbell further muddied the waters on the Al-Arian issue this week by denying in an interview with the New Ledger website that he had ever taken any contributions from Al-Arian. Yet a Federal Election Commission report showed a donation of $1,000 on May 2, 2000, and of an additional $300 later reattributed to Al-Arian’s wife, Nahla. The candidate said Wednesday that he simply goofed.
“I apologize, but I made a mistake,†Campbell wrote. “I was aware that Sami Al-Arian had asked others to contribute to me (emphasis mine), as I’ve stated plainly, so no one can claim I am attempting to hide it. I did not realize that Sami Al-Arian had contributed himself. It was an honest mistake, with no attempt to mislead.â€
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Day By Day by Chris Muir
Sam, some wives would be threatened when an EX military cohort of the husband was a partner in a business enterprise, namely the Florida Bar. Zed has enough of a real life bad dream happening at present.
Talking about “bad dreams” what about President Obama’s health care summit yesterday?
Via Hengler, a succinct statement of Jay Nordlinger’s point and of what I suspect will be the media consensus tomorrow. Not the only kind words he had for the GOP either:
The folks in the White House just must be kicking themselves right now. They thought that coming out of Baltimore when the President went in and was mesmerizing and commanding in front of the House Republicans that he could do that again here today. That would revive health care and would change the public opinion about their health care bill and they can go on to victory. Just the opposite has happened.
I watched the health care summit for a little whiole before I was off to the dental clinic and practiced real life health care – in the trenches, so to speak. From what I saw, Obama looked defensive, spiteful and “in your face, I am doing it my way anyway.”
If Congressional Democrat leaders were hoping that the President would mesmerize the country into providing them cover for budget reconciliation passage of Obamacare with a public option, they failed miserably.
Obamacare today appears to be just as dead as it was prior to the summit. Watch the Democrats in marginal House districts run for cover and strat repudiating Obama.
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Is Tom Campbell an anti-Semite?
Is Tom Campbell a terrorists sympathiser?
Is Tom Campbell best described as simply being ‘anti-Israel’; making a habit out of befriending violent, jihadist Palestinians?
…or is this much to do about nothing?
Marty Wilson, Carly Fiorina’s campaign manager, made his charges clear this afternoon’s emergency media teleconference stating, “Tom Campbell has a record that is anti-Israel; the voters will have to decide if Tom Campbell is sympathetic to terrorists.â€
In a growing dust-up, Republican candidate Tom Campbell’s past votes, former relationships and numerous campaign contributors have come under great scrutiny from certain media and the Fiorina campaign.
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Patients were routinely neglected or left “sobbing and humiliated†by staff at an NHS trust where at least 400 deaths have been linked to appalling care.
An independent inquiry found that managers at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust stopped providing safe care because they were preoccupied with government targets and cutting costs.
The inquiry report, published yesterday by Robert Francis, QC, included proposals for tough new regulations that could lead to managers at failing NHS trusts being struck off.
Staff shortages at Stafford Hospital meant that patients went unwashed for weeks, were left without food or drink and were even unable to get to the lavatory. Some lay in soiled sheets that relatives had to take home to wash, others developed infections or had falls, occasionally fatal. Many staff did their best but the attitude of some nurses “left a lot to be desiredâ€.
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Government run healthcare = FAIL
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The Obama administration’s determined effort to reduce America’s missile defense capabilities initially seemed to be just standard Leftist fare — of a piece with the Democratic base’s visceral hostility to the idea of protecting us against ballistic missile threats. A just-unveiled symbolic action suggests, however, that something even more nefarious is afoot.
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Read it all – sadly true…..
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The President’s Job 1 at the health-care summit, which runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., is to build the impression that Republicans had their chance, and were players in the process. Then look for a day or so of quiet as Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid take the temperature of their caucuses. After that, the most likely course (“Plan B-1â€) is for Dems to try to push comprehensive reform through swiftly on simple-majority votes. This could include POTUS making the case on the road. “Plan B-2†is the a la carte, “skinny bill†approach, which might be even more infeasible, since it would mean months — rather than weeks — of work on an unpopular measure at a time when skittish members are focused on Nov. 2.
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Probably neither
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The Dog and Pony show on Obamacare is about to begin this morning. The President and Congressional Democrats have wasted a year in massaging this supposed “comprehensive” health care reform bill.
But, as the media gathers and the White House prepares the show, Obama has already floated a Plan “B.”
President Barack Obama will use a bipartisan summit Thursday to push for sweeping health-care legislation, but if that fails to generate enough support the White House has prepared the outlines of a more modest plan.
His leading alternate approach would provide health insurance to perhaps 15 million Americans, about half what the comprehensive bill would cover, according to two people familiar with the planning.
It would do that by requiring insurance companies to allow people up to 26 years old to stay on their parents’ health plans, and by modestly expanding two federal-state health programs, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, one person said. The cost to the federal government would be about one-fourth the price tag for the broader effort, which the White House has said would cost about $950 billion over 10 years.
Officials cautioned that no final decisions had been made but said the smaller plan’s outlines are in place in case the larger plan fails.
One wonders why this modest proposal took over a year of political machinations to submit?
BECAUSE OBAMACARE HAS FAILED.
President Obama should admit his Obamacare health care reform plan is NOT going to pass the Congress, is out of favor with the American public and start working with the Republicans to obtain some meaningful health care reform.
But, that would be asking alot now, wouldn’t it?
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