I believe in conducting my "associations" based on what there is to be gained, either individually or as part of a group, from the association. That said, I would have a difficult time associating with an active terrorist. A man who is now a teacher who was once a terrorist? Yeah, I'd still personally - as a humanist - have issues dealing with him.
GOOD, then you're not completely over the edge.
As for racists - I do everything in my power to put up with them as much as possible, as is evidenced by the fact that you haven't been banned from this forum yet.
That is utter slander, and I dare you to present even one shred of evidence to support that assertion, or you can apologize as quickly as you've slandered me!
Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, you don't believe in holding the resident libs (including yourself) to the same standard that you do the conservatives here, that's BLATANTLY obvious to anyone with half a brain. You sent me a warning for a "personal insult" when damned near any and every post popeye, top gun, and the rest of the Commie, Pinko, liberal bomb throwers around here make is a personal insult or a direct attack, and neither you, nor any of the Moderators have had SPIT to say to them about it.
In any case, I was attempting to provide a personal anecdote to accompany the food for thought I was presenting. Since I've never associated with former terrorists or demagogic leaders of racially-charged churches, I had to reach for whatever was in my grasp. I'd venture to guess that few of us have made such large associations - part of the problem with condemning Obama for such associations is that we have no frame of reference in which to judge them. I was attempting to provide that.
It was a poor attempt. The thing that you, and anyone else that equivocates about this conveniently neglect is the fact that NONE of his associates are in the least bit repentant about their crimes and racisms. Ayers and that skank he's married to are a pair of sociopaths, who murdered people, and they not only don't care, they BRAG about the fact that they got away with it (thank you Mr. Bill for that last minute Presidential pardon). Wright and that other looney toon preach HATRED of a degree that i never saw even during the 60's!
Ask yourself: have any of your friends ever done anything that you felt was unconscionable? Did you possess the loyalty to forgive them, or did you simply dump them for a more morally superior crowd?
Lady, I'VE done things that were "totally unconscionable" by your standards, and I pay for them damned near every night. The difference being that I did them for this country, Obamas boys did it for FUN AND PROFIT!
Or, simply dismiss this as pointless equivocation and continue refusing to even attempt to understand the other side of arguments. Why should you attempt to grow and understand when spitting in the face of whoever disagrees with you is so much easier?
There is no "other side" of the equation vyo, this is a simple matter of RIGHT AND WRONG, and Ayers is a F***ING TERRORIST. He and his b!tch MURDERED people. They INTENTIONALLY SET OFF BOMBS at a New York City Police Headquarters, the Capitol building, and the Pentagon, and he said in an interview printed in the NY Times, that was published on September 11, 2001, that not only was he not sorry, that he said that he wished that he could have done MORE!
The only reason his sorry ass isn't rotting in a prison cell for the rest of his life is because some liberal judge didn't like the way the government gathered their information on him. If it were up to me, not only would they both be UNDER the prison, in isolation, on bread and water, for the rest of their natural lives, but I'd throw that idiot judge in the cell next to them!
Wright is a Black supremecist who preaches HATRED and "Black Theology", a bastardized version of christianity that perverts the Bible by preaching things that if ANY White preacher said the same things in his Church, he'd have been charged, arrested, tried, and probably convicted for HATE SPEECH!
THESE are the kind of people that Obama calls "friends" and "mentors", and if you're so blinded by your "hate America first" defeatism, then there's no hope for you at all.