Very dangerous times we live in, indeed.
It would be truly an exceptional person who reaches adulthood without having had some experiences or associations in their past for which they are not entirely proud. That's given.
It is the same for everyone, so I don't regard it as completely objectionable or shocking that politicians and other public figures have skeletons in their closet, so to speak. We almost expect it and though we'd like it to be different, we have to be realistic.
As far as these facts of life in American politics are concerned, THE significant point becomes, how do you handle what these past indiscretions/misjudgments/personal misdemeanors, etc. once they are public information?
In the way “O” reacted to the ‘Rev. Wright’ flap… he committed, and without exception, every conceivable and possible blunder:
• He did not respond promptly
• He did not make a logical or believable response
• He did not make an unambiguous or unequivocal response
• He did not remain consistent IN his response to OR in his assessment of the damage
• He did not express personal regret about this association, only annoyance that it was exposed
• He did not comprehend (nor YET comprehends) how damaging the association is
• He did not agree (nor YET allows) that such an association was (is) improper for the President of the United States of America-in fact would be improper for ANY elected official in this country
I could work on this list all day long and never complete it. But you understand.
What enrages Americans most about this is that the careers of far better politicians than “O” have been completely and permanently destroyed for ‘infractions’ and personal failings which do not approach “O’s” personal, direct, intimate and long-standing association with near-lunatic, treasonous and criminally Anti-Ameirican individuals who THEMSELVES have not and will not moderate their speech or demonstrate reason in their views or activities!!!