Well there it is, in living color, President DUI and Mrs. Traffic Accident posing with the whole family of Sami Al-Arian in living color. What a sight. So, in the bestest Fish curiousity, I wanted to know, how did Sami Al-Arian and family get to pose with the candidate and his plastic spouse? Could it have been money? Influence? Were they buddies of Karl Rove's? So I went to the FEC site found nothing really intriguing and then Googled for other money numbers from the 2000 Election Cycle, which led me here, to OpenSecrets.org, where I should have started looking. Interestingly enough, it looks like a family of very split-ticket donors...note Bonior (Al-Arian's son was an intern in Bonior's office); Cynthia McKinney and Tom Campbell, and Henry Hyde, who were recipients of his wife's (?) largesse...strange.

Have to wonder about this, especially since it's been reported that Al-Arian's son had access to some places in DC that you might not expect the son of a suspected terrorist to get into.

I wonder if the Al-Arian's are going to get those telemarketing calls soliciting donations from Tom Delay to make them "Business Leadership Advisory Council members" since there is an MD in the family somewhere.