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Democrats and their friends in the press are moose-hunting angry this morning over Sarah Palin's recent comment that Senator Obama "pals around with terrorists" which she made in reference to his being pals with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. The big line of defense we hear against this charge is "guilt by association". Their argument is absolutely true, if the charge is terrorism. You can't call Obama guilty of terrorism merely for associating with terrorists. Of course, it's a straw man position. He isn't being accused of any guilt which ought to be Ayers' burden. He's being accused of precisely what he is guilty of: associating with terrorists. That's not guilty by association. It's guilty OF association ... association with information, I might add, because there's no way he didn't know about Ayers. Even if he didn't know about the terrorism, a loudmouth radical like Ayers doesn't keep his loudmouth radicalism under wraps. It was on account of his leftism that he and Obama made such frequent and successful allies. What's more, it is not an isolated argument from the right. The question is more than one of Ayers. The question is, rather, why are so many of Obama's friends such low-lifes, and why doesn't anyone care? Take, for example, this article in the New York Post. According to their sources, here is a man with whom Obama launched a charity project, funded by 100,000 grand in pork barrel tax money he obtained via his relationship with Barack Obama. Eight years later, Kenny Smith still hasn't built the promised south Chicago botanical gardens. The Illinois Attorney General is investigating Smith, and the project that he and Obama promised to Chicago. Do we even need to mention Tony Rezko, Obama's crooked partner in land deals and fund-raising? How about Penny Pritzker, Obama's National Finance Chair and a sub-prime "villain," if judged by the standards the Democrats have established in their campaign rhetoric? How about Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias? Alexi has ties to Tony Rezko and has repeatedly been under fire for loans made to crime figures and mobsters by his hand. Alexi is a fundraiser for Obama and received a glowing endorsement from Obama available at the GOPs "BarackBook" Web site. Let's not even get started on Fannie and Freddie, I'll do that one in a separate blog. This list, of course, goes on. Sure, you can look at the array of villains featured in Barack Obama's political and social circles and say "guilt by association" and be done with it. Many pundits say the very thing. However, as I've said before, while the company a man keeps isn't the factor which defines him, it ought to be a part of the algorithm. Voters should be asking themselves what makes Obama associate with so many who are so questionable and corrupt. Is he questionable and corrupt himself, or does he simply suffer from an extremely bad case of poor character judgment? Moreover, what makes him lie about those associations? One thing is certain, Senator Obama is, several times over, guilty OF association, and that matters. That is what Governor Palin is talking about, and wisely so. On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> RoMunn wrote: >> the circles that Obama belongs to in Chicago? > > I'm curious Robert, what charities do you belong to? Have you ever > served on any charitable boards? Do you know anything at all about > those "circles"? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:272715 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
