There is much talk these days about Barack Obama and his acquaintances. Some people say it doesn't matter who his friends are. I tend to disagree, from my earliest memory , whenever I would start a friendship with some one in school whose reputation or character was questionable, my mother would be down my throat about it. I can still see her looking at me and saying, "birds of a feather flock together." In other words people with common interests and goals always develop friendships. We are judged by our acquaintances. I knew that the best thing I could do was maintain a distance between this individual and myself, not only to keep mom off my back, but it was for my own good as well.
I certainly don't agree with all the opinions of my friends, I have really good friends on both sides of the political spectrum, and enjoy lively, civil debate with most of them However, there are limits, no way would I associate with people  Mr. Obama considers his closest friends and mentors.

When we first moved to Sarasota, we started attending a church that had a liberal agenda, this bothered me some, as I believe that politics should never be discussed in a house of worship. Most of the time it was not emphasized a whole lot, so it was bearable. The Sunday after 9/11, the pastor launched himself into a tirade about how evil Bush was, how the attacks were America's fault,and all the typical rhetoric. I had never heard anything like this in a church before. That was the last time we sat foot in that establishment! There were no DVD's of the service, no articles in the church magazine, I never went to Harvard or Columbia, but I was still intelligent enough to figure out what was going on, and I wanted no part of it.

Most politicians have associates of questionable character, it would be difficult to attain a high office without developing those types of relationships. However, for a person to sit in a church for twenty years, subject their  children to the type of hatred Reverend Wright was spewing, and to then state he had no idea what was happening in that church shows either he wasn't paying attention, or he completely agreed with what is being said. What kind of attitudes are the children going to develop when a person of this character is a role model?
Another close associate, William Ayres, tried to destroy the pentagon, blow up the Capitol, and publicly stated the only thing he regretted was that more damage wasn't done. Do we need a president with friends like that?

His 2 closest financial advisers are 2 of the individuals most responsible for our current mortgage dilemma. He has 25 year ties to the Arab community, all or part of his Harvard education was paid for by leaders in the Arab world, people who would like to see the United States destroyed. I'm not sure this guy has any normal friends.

He was a student of Marxism during his college years.

 All of this in my eyes , if nothing else, shows extremely poor judgment, the kind of judgment we don't need in the White House. Do we want to hand the secrets of the United States and the world over to someone of this type of  character and judgment.

"As the twig is bent, so grows the tree", this twig has been bent in the wrong direction for many, many years!

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