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You are a classic case of what has happened in the American education system. Lots of ability to blindly regurgitate discrete facts with no ability to critically think about an issue or analyze it.
In case you haven't noticed, Barack Obama has no ties whatsoever to the Weather Underground. He was a young child when their deeds took place. Since those many decades passed, Ayers himself has changed to become an estemmed, tenured professor of education who works with many prominent Chicago politicians (including the mayor) and businessmen in regards to education. Barack Obama was merely ONE of those people.
Only an idiot would conflate Barack Obama's political life and history with the deadly actions of a young and radical student several decades ago. However, this is pretty much the level that you are on Sandy. You are far happier dealing with irrelevancies than with the concrete reality that our economy has been virtually destroyed by greed, a near-total lack of leadership and a systematic gutting of oversight orgs by the Bush administration. The same can be said of our involvement in Iraq.
But this is the great strategy we are now to hear from the McCain camp. No big ideas to trnaform our economy, just a lot of smears and lies. Good luck on election day because you'll need it.
