And so a McCain spokesman has accused the Los Angeles Times of “intentionally suppressing” a video that would “show a clearer link” between the Democratic candidate and Professor Rashid Khalidi, the most important scholar of Palestinian history in the world, who at the time the video was shot, was a neighbor of Obama and colleague at the University of Chicago.



According to the Times story, in the video in question Obama “reminisces about meals prepared by Khalidi's wife, Mona, and conversations that had challenged his thinking.”



I was fortunate as a graduate student to have been to one of the Khalidis' soire