Why Obama's Association with Bill Ayers should disqualify him from the Presidency

[jordan179]

I've heard several people claim that it is unfair for John McCain and Sarah Palin to attack Barack Obama over his association with Bill Ayers. They say alternately that the association was not a close one, or that Bill Ayers is a perfectly respectable figure in Chicago politics who many people associated with

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[cutelildrow]

ok, and news sources are incapable of putting spin?

Let's take this article for example.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20081007/tuk-man-shot-for-wearing-obama-t-shirt-dba1618.html

I read and re-read the article. Again and again and again. And other than 'racist abuse' being hurled at the victim of the shooting, I could not see how the racist abuse related to the shirt being worn - or the wearer's support of Obama, or Obama himself. The name of the victim suggests not being of Anglo-saxon origin - It sounds either Indian, Middle Eastern, or African. No note of the man's race or nationality was made, despite the repeated racist abuse - unusual because you normally hear it so you are allowed to put it into context. Similarly, his attacker was not even superficially described - beyond being of 6 ft height and having short hair. Is this to imply that Africans don't have short hair either and those of African descent are unable to grow to the height of six feet? (Shaquile O'Neil, you are AN ILLUSION!)

A casual reader would get "Obama shirt wearer shot", while a more astute reader would wonder 'how did that shirt tie in to the attack?' No mention of American political influence was there beyond the shirt, but the way that the article is written very clearly obliterates ALL other factors in the event. That this could not possibly be a racist attack in of itself, but INVOLVES OBAMA SUPPORTERS. If so, why was there no mention of the victims' support of Obama in his words in clear, undeniable terms, or even being the reason of his being attacked in his words again?

Another news article may be clearer but that's not the point I'm making - THIS one is a news article, not a blog post. But it is not clear what is going on, and an obvious agenda is being pushed.