The Messiah – a generation in the pews hating whites.

“Guilt by association” must be the only descriptive phrase available to liberal political pundits right now. Mention Obama’s associates, colleagues, clients, or mentors and the universal response is that you advocate guilt by association.

However, that is besides the point. No one is talking about anyone’s being guilty of a crime. In our legal system, one’s associates, however, unsavory, are not a basis for criminal action.

For an example of how mere association is handled in the criminal courts see the following from an illustrative Missouri court case, State v. Brown, 741 S.W.2d 53, 58-59 (Mo.App.W.D. 1987):

It is also clear that any probable cause as to the Monte Carlo was based entirely on its association with the suspect Cordoba and the incarcerated suspect Whatley. Not even the totality of the circumstances test can be stretched this far. While it is evident that the two cars were traveling together, and that the parties knew a jailed robbery suspect, such behavior and knowledge is as consistent with innocent behavior as with criminal activity on the part of the occupants of the Monte Carlo. Mere proximity, without more, to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not establish probable cause to search that person. Ybarra v. Illinois, 444 U.S. 85, 91, 100 S.Ct. 338, 342, 62 L.Ed.2d 238 (1979). See also, State v. Young, 701 S.W.2d 490, 494 (Mo.App. 1986)(mere association is insufficient basis for arrest). The fact that someone meets and travels with another person suspected in criminal activity, and/or knows a jailed suspect with nothing more falls short of probable cause.

A much overlooked aphorism in need of dusting off is the ever instructive “Birds of a feather flock together” which does not bother with the diversionary issue of whether Obama is “guilty” of anything. It gets us straight to the issue of what is in this man’s head – something that he has gone to great lengths to hide from us, giving us instead platitudes and horsefeathers like, “Yes, we can” and “Change we can believe in.”

Oh! I get it. Sorry I asked.

A great deal can be discovered about someone’s thinking by examining his habitual associates. When those associates are unsavory and reek of sedition and a determination to separate themselves from the healthiest and most vital currents of one’s society we can assume that the person who seeks out these others shares their beliefs and impulses.

If you find out that someone has been standing beside multiple piles of garbage for years, you’re a fool not to conclude that he’s fond of the smell.

Fjordman touches Obama’s associates, as so many have, and has an additional insight on how far the political spectrum has shifted to the left:

Obama represents everything the American Founding Fathers tried to avoid when they wanted to make their young nation a constitutional Republic, not a mass democracy.

The dilemma is that both major parties ended up with arguably the worst possible candidates. The choice is between John McCain, an open-border fanatic with an anger management problem who isn't a real conservative, and Barack Hussein Obama, who has for a generation been a member of a church which is explicitly hostile to the majority population of his country, who has Socialist sympathies and ties to anti-American and Islamic radicals. As in the rest of the Western world, the radical Left has largely succeeded in moving politics to the left. The Republican candidate is now what the Democratic candidates used to be like, and the Democratic candidate comes from a background where open shows of hostility to one's own country are commonplace.^[1]

If Obama is elected, it will be because a lot of idiotic people fell in love with feeble, empty rhetoric and pissed away their heritage. Any number of blacks would have made far superior candidates to this crafty, studied climber who chose his associates carefully, as he tells us in his first book.^[2]

Yes, he most certainly did choose his associates. Very carefully. It mattered to him whom he was seen with and whom he wasn’t seen with.

Bottom line: if Obama ended up associating with Bill Ayers the Terrorist or Jeremiah Wright the Racist, it was because he thought about it long and hard and decided that was where he wanted and needed to be.

But, what the heck. Let’s make him commander in chief of the U.S. military and have him appoint some Supreme Court justices. That’s what American patriots should do.

Notes
^[1] "Barack Hussein Obama and the Triumph of Marxism." By Fjordman, Brussels Journal, 10/27/08.
^[2] "One Reporter’s Opinion — Obama Has Racist Agenda." By George Putnam, NewsMax, 3/28/08.