Mark Levin has an excellent post about Barack Obama and why his associations matter.
As someone who has written critically of John McCain on a host of issues, including the Keating Five, none of it compares to the life that Barack Obama has led and his belief system. Obama is not merely associated with domestic terrorists, Palestinian radicals, Marxists, and black liberation ideologues — he was their favorite candidate. They groomed him. They befriended him. He befriended them. He socialized with them. In other words, these people saw Obama as representing their views and aspirations and he saw them the same way. I am not among those who raise Obama's associations but add "of course, it doesn't mean Obama shares their views." Oh really? These miscreants include Obama's former pastor, political mentors and allies, and friends. Obama attempts to downplay and distance himself from his own circle of allies now that he is running for president. But he is one of them. Obama is getting a pass that no other candidate in my memory has ever received.
While some are crying because the McCain campaign is limiting press access, the same people refuse to care about Obama's past and how it reflects on his future. They claim that Obama's use and abuse of legal tactics, as well as attempts at intimidation are "descriptions of the last 8 years under George Bush." Oh, really? George Bush threatens to pull FCC licenses when stations run programs critical of him?
As Levin says, if John McCain had a tenth of the questionable friends, mentors and associates that Barack Obama has, he would have been run out of town long ago. So now, the Left thinks hanging out with an unrepentant terrorist equates to being cleared of wrongdoing in the Keating Five scandal? Talk about allowing the ends to justify the means.
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