BTW- you say we shouldn’t judge him by his ‘associations’.. when have you ever applied for a job and not given references to your character.. these are the folks Obama has worked with.. Can you give us folks who can give him professional references who aren’t controversial? Odinga? Nope... Farrakhan? Nope... Ayers? Nope.. Dohrn? Nope.. Almost Everyone he is connected to politically is cut of the same mold. That says a LOT about the content of his character.
and that's when the trouble started!
"It was never a concern by any of us in the Chicago school reform movement that he had led a fugitive life years earlier," said former Illinois state Republican Rep. Diana Nelson, who worked with both Obama and Ayers over the years. "It's ridiculous. There is no reason at all to smear Barack Obama with this association. It's nonsensical, and it just makes me crazy. It's so silly."