Garth Brooks has a famous song called “Friends in Low Places.” The Obama campaign may want to consider adopting it as their official campaign song. Sen. Obama’s associations with characters like Rev. Jeremiah Wright, unrepentant terrorist William Ayers and the “Hip Hop Mayor” Kwame Kilpatrick are telling. They highlight a history of poor judgment. Here’s another reminder of Sen. Obama’s close association with convicted felon and slumlord Tony Rezko:
Stanely Kurtz, who’s been researching Sen. Obama’s association with William Ayers, has run into problems. The Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) have refused to release the documents. Kurtz explained
Unfortunately, I don’t yet have access to the documents. The Special Collections section of the Richard J. Daley Library agreed to let me read them, but just before I boarded my flight to Chicago, the top library officials mysteriously intervened to bar access. Circumstances strongly suggest the likelihood that Bill Ayers himself may have played a pivotal role in this denial. Ayers has long taught at UIC, where the Chicago Annenberg Challenge offices were housed, rent-free. Ayers likely arranged for the files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to be housed in the UIC library, and may well have been consulted during my unsuccessful struggle to gain access to the documents. Let me, then, explain in greater detail what the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) records are, and how I have been blocked from seeing them.
Can the United States afford a president with friends like these?