KG, I think you know very well how the game of politics is played, and as such I find your cries of despair over Obama representing Ayers as "a guy I know in the neighbourhood" and Obama telling lies--gasp!--to be no more than crocodile tears. Please. We're all more informed than that, I would expect.
As for Ayers and Wright, I'm wondering why the immediate conclusion from observing that Obama had those relationships is that Obama is a socialist who will spin our country wildly down a path that would spin our heads.
Why do you seem to believe that one necessarily follows from the other?
I, a pragmatist, see it differently. I suspect that Obama associated himself with the Trinity church because it would help him launch his political career. I suspect that Obama had a relationship with Ayers because it was expedient for Obama's rise as a public servant for Obama to serve on that Annenberg board. I see no reason--no reason--to logically conclude that Obama shares the same views as Wright or Ayers.
[In Joe Biden style:] I repeat. I see no reason to logically conclude that Obama shares the same views as Wright or Ayers.
Because, you see, there is whole other body of work out there. There are MANY other relationships Obama has. Right? Why do you pick and choose the relationships? What about Reinhold Niebuhr, who Obama is said to have great belief in?
You are cherry picking, and either you know it or you are too blinded by partisanship to confront it. Neither scenario speaks well for your intellectual rigor.
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