For every crook or crazy preacher in Obama's background, I produce a list of equally undesirable people in McCain's background, starting with Keating and Falwell. It doesn't matter.
What matters is whether they have a plan to solve the problems going forward, not who they were having coffee with 20 years ago. On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I was a politician going to a fund raiser to be presented as the > heir-apparent to my local state delegate/senator, I would make damn sure I > knew where we were going, who was going to be there, and at least have an > idea about who the people are. > > Obama clearly knew about Ayers and his background for a long time, just like > he sat in church at Red. Wright's church for 20 years and heard all those > crazy anti-American sermons. He only distanced himself from these people > when they became a political liability. Otherwise he would still be > associating with them. > > So is that OK? He's not running for provost of U. Chicago, he's running for > President of the United States. His judgment in these issues is very > relevant, and from what I can tell, his judgment was that it was OK to hang > out with retired terrorists and radical anti-American clerics. > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Gruss wrote: > >> > RoMunn wrote: >> > So you are saying that Obama had no idea who Ayers was? >> >> No clue, but I didn't know who he was beyond some hippie radical from >> the 60s. Who the hell isn't? > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:272820 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5