Is Obama Guilty by Association?
Guilt by Association is false evidence when convicting someone of a crime. A person is not guilty because his father, brother, friend, or employee is guilty. The association may be reason for more investigation, but it alone is not evidence against that person.
Politics for a voter is about understanding, ideas, and truth. What is a politician’s understanding and bias about the world? What are his ideas? Is he telling the truth about his thoughts and conclusions, or is he merely saying what we want to hear?
It is obvious that people of similar beliefs associate. “Birds of a feather flock together” is obviously true about personal belief, if ideas matter at all to a person.
Mr. Obama presents himself as a man of ideas and belief. Shall we understand that he cares nothing about the history, ideas, and beliefs of his close associates? I do not think that he, Pastor Wright, self proclaimed bomber Bill Ayers, and terrorist fund-raiser Dr. Hatem El-Hady form a personal debating society where Mr. Obama argues one position and they argue the other side.
Would Mr. Obama say in private, “I disagreed with Pastor Wright about all that horrible slander against white people and society, but I sat there because I needed to convince my political base that I was one of them”? Either he agrees with Pastor Wright, or he cares nothing about his personal belief in politics, and he would represent anything to anyone to be elected.
Does Mr. Obama have so few friends in Chicago, that Bill Ayers is the convenient person to share play dates with his children? Was it really just chit-chat with the former bomber and current idealogue Bill Ayers? Did Mr. Obama find it relaxing to have disagreements with Bill Ayers about politics and policy while the kids played? Agreement is more likely.
Association does not assign guilt to Mr. Obama. Politics is not about guilt; politics is all about ideas, belief, and association. What could the explanation be for Mr. Obama’s associations? Possibly, he agrees with his associates. Possibly, he disagrees, but has maintained these long-time associations to attract his political base, fooling them about what he believes.
Either Mr. Obama believes things that are horrifying to me, or he is as expedient a politician as I have ever seen, without any belief that matters to him in public. I can’t see a third possibility, and I don’t like either of the first two.
