The Audacity of Association

Our great agent of change keeps having more and more questionable connections. First it was his wife, Michelle.

"That is why I am here, because Barack Obama is the only person in this who understands that. That before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation."

And more.

“Hope is making a comeback and, let me tell you, for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country. Not just because Barack is doing well, but I think people are hungry for change,” she said during a rally in downtown Milwaukee.

And more.

"We live in isolation, and because of that isolation, we fear one another... [Barack Obama] is going to demand that you shed your cynicism, that you put down your division, that you come out of your isolation.

... Barack Obama will require you to work....that you move out of your comfort zones, that you push yourselves to be better, and that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual - uninvolved, uninformed."

And that's just his wife. Then there's the whole Rezko deal.

Rezko's behind-the-scenes connection in the Obama house deal became public as Rezko revealed personal financial details as he sought to post bail.

While Rezko's wife paid the full asking price for the land, Obama paid $300,000 under the asking price for the house. The house sold for $1,650,000 and the price Rezko's wife paid for the land was $625,000.

Then there's the minister of his church for 20 years, where the Obamas were married, and their children baptized. He's no longer the minister there, because evidently he's taken some position with the Obama campaign as a spiritual adviser or something like that.

In a sermon delivered at Howard University, Barack Obama’s longtime minister, friend, and adviser blamed America for starting the AIDS virus, training professional killers, importing drugs, and creating a racist society that would never elect a black man as president.

I urge anyone to read the full article of Rev. Wright's speech. It's alarming that someone considered by some to be the front-runner of the presidential race would use this man for spiritual guidance. He is a typical anti-American runt, spewing vitriol and cursing America. This story is even worse.

"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people," he said in a 2003 sermon. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."

Absolutely insane. Rush just made a point of how the media pretty-much drove the Romney campaign into the ground because of his Mormonism, yet nobody's making a big deal about Obama's anti-American religious adviser.