Well, Hamas Did Say They Would Like to See Obama Elected President...

Barack Obama sometimes has problems dealing with established facts that are at odds with the image that he is trying to portray on the campaign trail. I received the following in an e-mail from CNN promoting Barack Obama's appearance later today with Wolf Blitzer:

Barack Obama chastised John McCain Thursday for engaging in “smear” politics, and defended himself from critics who question whether he is capable of being commander-in-chief, during a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer -- his first sit-down since the Indiana and North Carolina primaries.

“This is offensive, and I think it's disappointing,” Obama told Blitzer, when asked his thoughts about McCain’s comments that the terrorist organization Hamas wants Obama to be president. “Because John McCain always says ‘I am not going to run that kind of politics,’ and to engage in that kind of smear is unfortunate, particularly because my policy toward Hamas has been no different than his.

“I’ve said it’s a terrorist organization and we should not negotiate with them unless they recognize Israel, renounce violence, and unless they are willing to abide by previous accords between the Palestinians and the Israelis. So for him to toss out comments like that I think is an example of him losing his bearings as he pursues this nomination. We don’t need name calling in this debate.”

Unfortunately for Obama, John McCain was simply repeating what Hamas' top political adviser Ahmed Yousef himself stated clearly in an interview on WABC in mid-April.

During an interview on WABC radio Sunday, top Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef said the terrorist group supports Obama’s foreign policy vision.

“We don’t mind–actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance,” Yousef said in response to a question about the group’s willingness to meet with either of the Democratic presidential candidates.

I'm certain Wolf Blitzer mentioned this inconvenient fact to Obama during his interview. It's true that Hamas is a terrorist organization that has sworn the destruction of Israel, and has killed American citizens. It's equally true that Hamas wants Barack Obama elected President.

I wonder why?