So says 1 Corinthians 15:33; and if there’s a lesson from the Obama presidential campaign, increasingly, that would seem to be it. First we heard about Antoin “Tony” Rezko, and friends of Rezko’s like Nadhmi Auchi; then we learned about the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright (anyone wanting additional context can find it here); then some folks started complaining about another black South Side pastor with whom Barack Obama is associated, the Rev. James T. Meeks; then it turns out Sen. Obama is good pals with founding members of the Weather Underground, Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn. Sen. Obama tried to brush that off by saying, in essence, that their bad side was ancient history, and now they’re mainstream. Unfortunately, given these audio clips and these video clips of Ayers and Dohrn (to say nothing of Ayers’ blog), that’s not very encouraging. If this is Sen. Obama’s idea of “mainstream,” we have reason to worry. No, no one accuses him of holding the exact views of Ayers and Dohrn or the Rev. Wright; but as Mark Steyn says, “this is the pool he swims in”. Then, finally, Sen. Obama received a new endorsement—from Hamas; and while he’s tried to minimize that by denouncing Hamas, John McCain has a good point: that doesn’t mean much when Sen. Obama has already said he’ll meet unconditionally with the Iranian government, which controls Hamas.
No one denies Barack Obama is a good man; but the company he keeps is dragging him down.