Okay, on the eve of the Presidential Election coming up November 4th, let me address the issue of Barack Obama and Bill Ayers.  I address it because so much is in the news now, as John McCain trys to improve his electability.

The issue has very little to do with Bill Ayers' "terrorist activities" when Barack Obama was eight years old, because it has nothing to do with terrorism.  What is the issue is philosophy.  Bill Ayers has a Student for a Democratic Society (SDS) philosophy, which is a close to Socialist philosophy. 

Now, Barack Obama can say he does not eat dinner with Bill Ayers, or play tennis with him, all he wants.  None of that matters.  It is the principle of "like minds think alike", or the principle of "birds of a feather flock together", or the basic Law of Attraction.  Bill Ayers and Barack Obama are "cut of the same cloth", even if they hang in different closets.

On the other hand, John McCain has a history of being in the military, and being from a military family, so he has done a lot of talking with military men in decision making positions, and he shares a philosophy with those men that a strong military comes from strong political representation for a strong military.  That is fairly central to the Republican Party philosophy.  It is also a hawkish philosophy, which can sustain wars, more due to a hatred of losing, rather than a love of killing.

Still, John McCain has a record of being caught up in the late 80's scandal (the Keating Five), where several senators were thought to be "on the take" to a savings and loan owner, who also was a buyer of political influence.  John McCain had a close connection to Charles Keating and was the only Republican investigated for his associations (the four others investigated were Democrats); but John McCain was cleared (along with D-OH, John Glenn) because John McCain did not have anything more than a capitalistic philosophical attraction to Keating.  John McCain is a believer of capitalism, which is another fairly Republican philosophy.  Again, like minds became attracted to one another, meaning John McCain could again become involved in a friendship with someone making to use the philosophy of capitalism to make it rich.

If it was a toss up question, "Who do I take? Obama-Ayers?  Or McCain-Keating?", you might come out in favor of Obama, simply because Obama has never been investigated for associating with Bill Ayers.  Still, Obama has other associations which have to be seen as a philosophical theme that is consistently related with those who he knows.  Less has been made public about John McCain's other associations, although he did have a five-year association with the North Vietnamese.  They hold a philosophy of Communism.

Barack Obama was befriended by an African-American poet and black-newspaper man, who had moved to Hawaii.  Barack Obama met Frank Marshall Davis and became  enamored with Mr. Davis during the time that Barack Obama lived with his grandparents (ages 10 and 18).  IN Obama's memoir he refers to "Frank" as his mentor. 

Frank Marshall Davis was an admitted Communist, who wrote poetry that clearly stated his belief that America was a racist society that needed to be overthrown.  Frank Marshall Davis last worked in Chicago, before he "retired" to Hawaii, which makes young Barack migrating to Chicago at the age of 22ish either simply odd chance, or with direction, due to his association with Frank Marshall Davis.

Chicago has long been the one city in America that revels in its political corruption.  The Chicago Political Machine has been in place for many decades, under the deceased mayor Daley and now his son, Mayor Daley, Jr.  It has been Barack Obama's willingness to make deals with those in power in this Chicago machine that has made him the shooting star that he is.  That becomes a questionable association for anyone seriously wanting to make a valued judgment; unless you like how the Chicago political machine can give an election to a presidential candidate (like it did for JFK), through what we call corrupt voter registration schemes.  Seen anyone complaining about that possibility lately?

In Chicago we see the evidence of Chicago Political Machine financier, Tony Rezko, who help arrange campaign financing for your Obama.  Later, once they were busy scratching each other's backs, Rezko's wife let Obama get a steal on a piece of property bordering his lot.  Only close associates do such good things to pals.  Rezko has since been convicted of crimes, related to his misue of finances (fraud and bribery).

In Chicago, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright preached what is known as (he brings attention to this) Black Liberation Theology, which basically teaches that God will back the overthrow of the American government, because it is evil (under white domination).  Barack Obama was married in Wright's church and slept through some of Wright's firey sermons.  Obama ended his association with Wright and that church, when it became a political hot potato.  However, the association was such that Obama called Wright his religious mentor, the one who brought Obama to Christianity. 

In Chicago, Barack Obama was a "community organizer," which means he got people to sign up to vote.  The organization AKORN is a community organizer organization.  This organization has done work for Obama; and the latest $700 billion bank bailout bill was turned down because it had pork directed specifically to AKORN.  This company is currently being investigated for having sent people out to coerce youngsters to register to vote many time (in once case 73 times).  In the 1960 presidential election, Mayor Richard Daley delayed the count until the early morning hours, then turned over a 450,000 margin of victory (10% of the Illinois polulation), when Kennedy only defeated Nixon in Illinois by 9,000 votes.  This means Barack Obama is associated with organization that can manipulate the vote outcome, through absentee ballots and false voter registrations (including dead people voting).

 In Barack Obama's community organization campaigns, he became closely associated with Catholic priest Michael Pfleger, who is an admitted Liberation Theologist.  Slightly different from a Black Liberation Theologist, a Liberation Theologist is closely tied to class struggles (socio-economic religious directives),  So closely that it borders on being outright Marxism, and thus a sensitive area for the Roman Catholic Church.  This focus on class struggle becomes a similar philosophy to Communism, Socialism, where capitalism and the creation of a tiered society, based on personal achievement, is seen as a philosophy that artificially holds down the lower class.  They see the destruction of capitalism as a desired goal.

In Chicago, Barack Obama has also gained the respect of such leading African-American leaders (also located in Chicago) as Jesse Jackson (Sr. & Jr.) and Louis Farrakhan.  These men advocate politically and religiously for the consolidation of power in only African-American communities, with little done to address the shortcomings of other minority classifications.  Additionally, the wealthy television magnate, Ophra Winphrey, is also Chicago-based and she draws multiracial praise due to her free gifts given randomly to audiences to her shows.  All have endorsed Barack Obama and praised his promise to the class struggles faced by African-Americans.

Naturally, as a mixed-race American, Barack Obama can be expected to be preferential to the needs of African-Americans.  However, another association that Barack Obama has, which can indicate that he is not as aligned with the Black Democratic voters as he is with the wealthy Democratic Left, is his association with the National Democratic Party Chairman, Howard Dean.  If you take a few minutes and look up the history of Howard Dean, you find he has created Barack Obama as the candidate you know him as today.  Howard Dean is behind the entire two years (plus) of money raising (from the wealthy Democratic Left), including the propagandizing this political wing has offered to the youth of America, through the outlets of Holywood, the mainstream media, and the Internet.

If you really want to make a decision this November, based on who associates with who and how that will eventually effect you in this time of huge financial question, then I hope you are aware of everything I have just typed.  Keep in mind what kind of political system you want in America.  Do you want the income redistribution of Socialism/Communism, or do you want the same ole same ole of Capitalistic Democracy?  One will be a change you can count on making your life nothing like it was before.  The other means you won't gain anything, but you won't lose whatever you did have either.  The choice is yours.