From left to right, Michelle Obama, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama, Columbia University Professor Edward Said and Mariam Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Image from archives of Ali Abunimah)

h/t: As’ad AbuKhalil in 2007 who warned, “if Obama advances in the presidential race, the dirty trickmisters of the Clinton campaign will make a big deal of this picture.”

From left to right, Michelle Obama, then Illinois state senator Barack Obama, Columbia University Professor Edward Said and Mariam Said at a May 1998 Arab community event in Chicago at which Edward Said gave the keynote speech. (Image from archives of Ali Abunimah)

h/t: As’ad AbuKhalil in 2007 who warned, “if Obama advances in the presidential race, the dirty trickmisters of the Clinton campaign will make a big deal of this picture.”