don said:
to a bunch of people worried about the economy (gee, really) obama's acquaintance with a guy who used to be some sort of violent dissident (terrorist to some if you think that word works for you) is irrelevant. the other irrelevancy is that whatever obama's relationship with ayers might be or have been a great number of americans have decided it's not very important. pump it for all it's worth but you might not matter.
A "violent dissident"? Why not just call him a disgruntled citizen? Or how about what Obama calls him, "Mainstream". I don't know about the people that you run with, but in my circles, we don't call bombing government buildings and posing for a photograph standing on the US flag "mainstream". We call that unacceptable and grounds for a big ass beating, and if you defend it, you're getting an ass beating, too. We care about our country.
This is about OLenin's charachter, because some of think that counts. OT's poll simply shows to me that a whole bunch of people aren't considering charchter in this election - that or they hate this country, too.
If the economy is the concern, McCain wins hands down. He accurately predicted this whole mess years ago. What was Obama saying?