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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	No fan of Obama But...
	Date:	9/11/2008 1:59:45 PM

I think his Muslim association has been pretty well examined and while you could argue that he was "born into the Muslim faith" and his early years would probably be characterized as being Muslim, I have no doubt that he is a Christian and that his early exposure to Islam is not an issue that we need to spend a lot of time worrying about. We need to be careful about raising red herring issues because it gives Obama the opportunity to characterize all questions about who he is as baseless, politically motivated attacks rather than genuinely important questions about his character and past associations.

What concerns me is the 20 years he spent with Reverend Wright whose POLITICAL (not religious) beliefs I find anathema. What influence has this man had on Obama's political beliefs? That disturbs me more than any of the other religious issues. I am also disturbed by his relationship with Bill Ayers, an unrepentant terrorist/murderer. I would like to know more about his relationship with Tony Rezko, a convicted criminal, and how Obama the "reformer" came to buy his home and an adjacent parcel of land. All these issues drive to who he really is rather than the image he has been promoting.

I personally think the mainstream media has been negligent in not carefully and fully examining these relationships because they are in the tank for Obama. What happens though is the abdication of the proper role of the mainstream media leaves a vacuum that is quickly filled by the alternative media. What we then get is a lot innuendo and false claims rather than a focus on substantive concerns about his past. At the end of the day if we know everything about these issues we can individually decide whether they are important. To many Obama supporters they will not matter in the least. To a lot of independents and undecided voters they could influence them, hence the desire by the mainstream media to leave these issues alone.