Oct 10 2008
Obama’s telling associations
Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post Writers Group
WASHINGTON - Convicted felon Tony Rezko. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. And the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack Obama sporting associations with three more execrable characters. Yet let the McCain campaign raise the issue, and the mainstream media begin fulminating about dirty campaigning tinged with racism and McCarthyite guilt by association.
It seems when I bring this and other similar issues up about Barack Obama it is some kind of evil and bad thing. Well I have called the Democratic leadership in the North Carolina general Assembly corrupt for their good ol’ boy politics. Read the following quote and think hard before you decide to vote for Barack Obama.
This was patently absurd. Racism is treating people differently and invidiously on the basis of race. Had any white presidential candidate had a close 20-year association with a white preacher overtly spreading race hatred from the pulpit, that candidate would have been not just universally denounced and deemed unfit for office but written out of polite society entirely.
Obama’s political career was launched with Ayers giving him a fundraiser in his living room. If a Republican candidate had launched his political career at the home of an abortion-clinic bomber he would not have been able to run for dogcatcher in Podunk. And Ayers shows no remorse. His only regret is that he “didn’t do enough.”
Obama is not the first politician to rise through a corrupt political machine. But he is one of the rare few to then have the audacity to present himself as a transcendent healer, hovering above and bringing redemption to the “old politics” — of the kind he had enthusiastically embraced in the service of his own ambition.
Guilt by association, huh… Perhaps one should look just as thoroughly at Senator McCain’s “acquaintances”…