re: #225 avanti

If you make the association with Obama’s minister a issue, you could do the same with the some at Palin’s church for example. As for Ayers, the association on a board and a meeting in his home was percieved as weak connection by the voters, especially when even some on the right had the same sort of connections with Ayers. If it could be shown that Obama heard those old sermons and remained silent, or that he was closers to Ayers, hammering it might have worked
I’m not saying either one was a respectable citizen, just that loose associations don’t sway the voters and beating that dead horse got no where.

An association of twenty years isn’t generally recognized as a loose association. The majority of marriages don’t last that long.