[NormsRevenge]

Indicted supporters to the left, venomous activists to the right and crazed preachers and teachers abound.

You will know him by the people he surrounds himself with.

In this May 7, 2007 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama acknowledges the crowd after being introduced by Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the Detroit Economic Club in Detroit. After his preacher problems, Obama doesn't need another association with a charismatic, radioactive public figure. Still, Kilpatrick, the tarnished mayor of Detroit, is a hard man to avoid completely. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

[NormsRevenge]

Just checking to make sure Kwame ain't out working the audience..

Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) shields his eyes as he speaks in Aberdeen, South Dakota May 31, 2008. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)

[milwguy]

Good story....I think Michigan is really in play because of Kwame. The rest of the state realize what a diasaster Kwame has been for Detroit, and what Gov Granholm has been for the state. Her recent raising of taxes has pissed off a lot of voters, and now even that tax increase appears to have not been enough. The stock of the Dems in Michigan is tanking and Sen Levin, Gov Granholm, and Mayor Kwame can’t lay Michigan’s woes on George Bush. Barry gonna have tough sledding in Michigan.

[CGTRWK]

Obama doesn't need another association with a charismatic, radioactive public figure.

Ever notice how when a Democrat buddies up with racial supremacists, convicted terrorists, indicted criminals they're inevitably described in ambiguous non-judgemental terms like "charismatic" (Kwame), or "outspoken" (Wright), or "reform activist" and "respected advisor" (Ayers) ?

Meanwhile McCain gets the endorsement of a guy like Hagee who he's known for a whole 40 minutes and that's phrased as "extremist evangelical Christian", "revealing comments the Holocaust was God's will", etc.