Isn’t it interesting that when a handful (in a crowd of thousands) allegedly act stupidly they are automatically representative of the entire crowd?  However, others can personally schmooze, make business deals, be mentored, and have cocktails with a series of unsavory characters and it’s just… (e.g.) oh well, “he had no idea that was his past” or “I never heard him say anything like that in the twenty years he was personally ministering to me”. 

---JUST SAYIN',  I thought guilt by association was unfair.

Here's the deal.  If we are expected to give President Obama the benefit of the doubt that he is not "guilty by association" then the same consideration should be given to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who are passionately, yet peacefully, voicing their discourse across the country.  The same folks that used to take pride in protesting against what they felt was wrong with their government are now attempting to discount and suppress Americans that are doing the exact same thing now.  Double standards seem to be in vogue on capital hill.

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-communist-mentor/

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/01/sweet_obama_says_clueless_abou.html

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/04/_william_ayers_weather_undergr.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barack-obama/on-my-faith-and-my-church_b_91623.html