Former IRI President: Gramm-pa McCain personally supported grants for mainstream Khalidi group

By GottaLaff

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Former International Republican Institute (IRI) President Bruce McColm said that Grammps did something that pretty much makes him look like a big ol' hypocrite. Remember what he and IWRC* Palin said about Obama palling around with that scary monster terrorist boogeyman Professor Rashid Khalidi? Well, guess what:

[A]s chairman of the IRI board, [he] directly supported funding for Professor Rashid Khalidi’s Center for Palestine Research and Studies in the early 1990s:

All our [grant] proposals had to be approved at board meetings with John McCain in attendance and in agreement. John did think highly of these grants. … Ironically, it was Khalidi’s academic background and his known coolness to the PLO that attracted our interest. How strange to see the McCain campaign use Khalidi as a “type of terrorist” with whom Obama hangs around.

Over the last week, the McCain campaign has attempted to smear Khalidi as a radical and link him to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).

Gramm-pa's sleazeball tactics have backfired every. Single. Time.

*"In What Respect, Charlie?