Research help needed (got it, Tks)

Yesterday, the McCain campaign got into a little pissing contest (the first of many, one hopes) with the Obama campaign over McCain's remark that Hamas would love to see Obama elected.

When I heard this, (and Obama's ineffectual answer like "Oh well, he's a geezer, geezers get it wrong sometimes") I had an immediate harken back to last year, when (I'm very sure about this) Hamas actually issued such a statement that they hoped Obama would win.

I was going to skewer the Obama folk for this here, but I haven't been able to come up with the quote, which I believe was from Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hamas in Lebanon.

Am I wrong, could it have been President I'm-ding-a-ling of Iran who made the claim of support for Obama, or could it have been both of the Islamist nut jobs?

We need to lock this down. Various anti-US leaders around the globe have been mumbling thoughts about how they believe they can essentially wrap Obama around their little fingers once he's elected, for over a year now, and we need to keep a running score on those statements, and keep them in front of EVERYONE.

I'm a little weak on setting up search engines to find stuff, and the keywords I ran last night were "Nasrallah on Obama" but got nothing except articles where both might have been mentioned in the same article, but not Nasrallah extolling Obama.

A little help please?

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1. I got some help from the pro-Israel Weekly Standard. Their chief correspondent thinks Obama WOULD meet with Hezbollah MFWIC Nasrallah (yes, I did cornfuse Hamaz and Hezbollah, AGAIN!). Thanks, EllTee.

2. World News Daily had a radio interview with the top political commissar of Hamas in Gaza, and he DIRECTLY said he wanted Obama to win, and furthermore, said that was Hamas' hope. Quoted in the Conservative Voice blog.

3. Fox News recently pointed out that Obama's church (the one with the wascally wevewend Wight) has reprinted Hamas talking points in it's regular news bulletin.

4. Apparently, this all started with a CNN smear of McCain back on April 19. Full story here. Thanks, Suds.

Comments

[Barry L. Plotz]

Googling "Hamas endorses Obama" (yes, I am a rather simple soul) gave lots of blog links, a Newsmax link claiming the endorsement was done by Ahmed Yousef in an interview with WorldNetDaily and Radio host John Batchelor. There's suppose to be audio also at Breitbart TV and on Youtube. The WND article posted on April 14.

BarryL

[Heartless Libertarian]

You're getting your anti-Israel, Iranian-funded, Islamist terror groups a bit mixed up.

Nasrallah is the leader of Hezbollah, which is based in southern Lebanon.

Hamas is based in the Gaza strip.

[Aaron Neal]

I'm a tad tired to work on this tonight (looking after Alex, buddy had minor car problems, putting same buddy's Blazer back together, and supervising a pair of new shooters - busy afternoon/evening) but I'll see what I can come up with. Those quotes ring a bell, and you're right on the money with the attitudes of some of these goobers - I just can't remember where I read them off the top of my head. I'll try to work on it some over the weekend.

Using the search on Instapundit might not be a bad start; that's probably where I found some of it, although it may point more to blog entries than MSM articles.

Barry L. Plotz - could you provide links to some of the things you found, so we don't duplicate effort?