McCain And Palin Are Spreading Hate Because Of What Anonymous Strangers Shout At Their Rallies
But Barack Obama, who allied himself politically and personally with bigots like Jeremiah Wright and radicals like William Ayers, doesn’t get any criticism.
That’s the point Charles Krauthammer makes:
Let me get this straight. A couple of agitated yahoos in a rally of thousands yell something offensive and incendiary, and John McCain and Sarah Palin are not just guilty by association — with total strangers, mind you — but worse: guilty according to the New York Times of “race-baiting and xenophobia.”
But should you bring up Barack Obama’s real associations — 20 years with Jeremiah Wright, working on two foundations and distributing money with William Ayers, citing the raving Michael Pfleger as one who helps him keep his moral compass (Chicago Sun-Times, April 2004) and the long-standing relationship with the left-wing vote-fraud specialist ACORN — you have crossed the line into illegitimate guilt by association. Moreover, it is tinged with racism.
The fact that, when John McCain actually heard one of those nasty things said about Obama, he incurred the boos of his own crowd by insisting that Obama is “a decent person . . . that you do not have to be scared [of] as president” makes no difference. It surely did not stop John Lewis from comparing McCain to George Wallace.
There are idiots on both sides of the political spectrum, and just as Barack Obama isn’t responsible for every idiot who burns President Bush in effigy in the street John McCain isn’t responsible for every mouth-breather caller who says something offensive on a talk radio show.
But Obama’s connections to Ayers and Wright (among others) go beyond that. He spent years allying himself with those people. Working with them. Socializing with them. Using his political clout to fund their projects. Accepting their clout to advance his political career.
Blaming Sarah Palin for what some idiot shouts at a rally is guilt by association. Blaming Barack Obama for what one of this close, personal allies says and does is perfectly fair.
