From the Confederate Yankee and Times UK Online:

“Barack Obama sacks adviser over talks with Hamas”

Reliably, the Obama Middle East Policy Advisor only met with Hamas because he belongs to a “peace outfit” - a leftist crazy ‘conflict resolution’ think tank. Isn’t it interesting that Obama would fire someone for participating in talks with Hamas when Obama said he would “negotiate” with them?

Obama has said:

And what we should be doing is reaching out aggressively to our allies, but also talking to our enemies and focusing on those areas where we do not accept their actions, whether it be terrorism or developing nuclear weapons, but also talking to Iran directly about the potential carrots that we can provide in terms of them being involved in the World Trade Organization, or beginning to look at the possibilities of diplomatic relations being normalized.

So he wants to negotiate with terrorists.

The president has to lead that diplomacy, which is why I’ve said I would convene a meeting of Muslim leaders upon taking office because I think we have to send a strong signal that we are willing to listen and not just talk, and certainly not just dictate or engage in military action.

There again he’s all about negotiating with terrorists.

From Powerline on Hamas’ endorsement of Obama:

[…] Aaron Klein and John Batchelor interviewed Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to the Prime Minister of Hamas, on WABC radio. The interview produced a scoop which, for some reason, has not been widely publicized: Hamas has endorsed Barack Obama for President. Yousef said, “We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election.” Why? “He has a vision to change America.” Maybe Yousef has some insight into what Obama means by all these vague references to “change.”

He and his PR people certainly want it to APPEAR as though they’re outraged over a campaign worker talking with Hamas. What really matters is what lies in your heart. John Hawkins asks an interesting question:

Now that prominent members of Hamas are endorsing Obama, can Hizbollah and Al-Qaeda be far behind?

“Change you can believe in”. That slogan is starting to invoke immediate fits of uncontrollable laughter from me whenever I hear it now.

CY: [Obama] kicks off his political career by attending a fundraiser in the home of a pair of well-known and infamous domestic terrorists that led a group that had targeted and in some cases killed American citizens, including off-duty soldiers and police officers. When this association is highlighted, he labels it a “distraction.”

[…]That’s not change you can believe in. That’s moral cowardice and craven opportunism.

Exactly.