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None of this concerns me in the slightest. Bill Ayers is someone who committed his atrocious acts when Obama was 8. He since reformed and is a respected person in the education community in Chicago. And indeed, McCain has his own ex-radical in his own closet:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122350949805717257.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Reverend Wright is a non issue. He’s a Navy Veteran whom no one who knows him would ever accuse him of being anti-American. His goddamn America was him saying that for the sins of our own past transgressions, by God’s standards, America would be damned. If you look at these sermons in context as I did at the time, you’d realize, he rails against social injustice, which is the role of a Pastor. And I’m not even a religious person, but I 100% totally and completely agree with every single thing Wright said when taken in context. I encourage you to look at the whole picture and not just the 10 to 30 second loops that were played over and over and over again on Faux News. And if you’re going to hold someone’s pastor against them, perhaps you want to look at that video of Palin’s pastor inoculating her against witchcraft
Tony Rezko was a friend of Obama’s who committed fraud, but there is not one single, solitary shred of evidence to suggest that Obama had ANYTHING to do with Rezko’s fraudulent activities. And the land Obama bought from Rezko was bought at market prices…he never took any improper favors or anything of that nature. Obama has conducted himself honorably and without fault, THAT is what’s important to me. As for an association with someone who committed fraud, look into Keating 5. Charles Keating defrauded S&L customers of billions, and the Senate concluded that McCain had acted inappropriately…nothing of this nature has EVER happened to Obama.
The second tier argument as to why this is just dirty, personality politics is it’s guilt by association…no different than McCarthyism. I don’t judge a man by the actions of those he’s met, known or worked with….by that standard, NOT A SINGLE ONE OF US would pass muster. Are you going to tell my you’d want to be judged by the actions of your co-workers? In politics, a person comes across a lot of people. Not McCain, not Palin, not Biden, not a single Senator or Congressperson, not you and not me…NO ONE would pass this level of scrutiny. I’d be far more concerned if there were not a single bad person Obama had ever met, spent time with or worked with who turned out to be dirty in some way. It’s the way of the world.
I don’t think the “number” of these is weird, because the only strategy Republicans seem to have is digging up any association they can. If they were to come up with one substantive argument against Obama (and ACORN is not it either…for one thing, registration fraud is not voter fraud…I highly doubt the Dallas Cowboys are going to show up to vote in Nevada, and for another, it’s the individuals who work for this organization who are trying to meet quotas who falsify these…ACORN does it’s best to filter them out, and orders CERTAINLY don’t come from Obama), then I’d consider it. But there have been many substantive examples of actual behavior by the candidates themselves on which I can judge them.
And I judge a man by the content of his character…the best way to do that is to look at a man’s actions and not his words (and certainly not his associations). And Obama’s actions practically scream integrity and greater good to me. He after all could have, after graduating Columbia, taken a 6 figure job on Wall Street. Instead, he took a $13k a year job working with poor people on the streets of Chicago.
If these things concern you, fine, but realize they are cooked up distractions which were designed to fool the uncritical.
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