Wow, I thought this kind of thing was done away with years ago

[Jester]

I heard the other day that there is credible evidence to the theory that Bill Ayers ghost wrote "Dreams Of My Father".

Uh hunh. And I heard the other day that there is credible evidence that Elvis is alive and working at a K-mart in Alabama. Don't believe everything you read - especially when it comes from rightist conspiracy nuts.

If you scratch under the surface of this administration, you will find plenty of things to raise your eyebrows over.

Or if you furiously dig with both hands, looking for every possible connection to everything you don't approve of. You can sure find a lot when you start playing "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" with politics.

Obama himself has been careful to always smile and stay uncommitted to the rantings of his friends. And, as we saw with Rev. Wright, Van Jones, and others, if his friends become a liability, he is more than willing to toss them under the bus.

Wright got tossed under the bus. Van Jones resigned, and his motives for doing so seemed clear - he saw the criticism he was attracting as a liability for the causes he believed in. I haven't heard anything about him being pressured to do so.

I think this is one reason he is getting flack from the more leftist wing of his party. They feel they have a mandate for "Change" which they saw as something other than his more "centrist" approach. That is, centrist, as seen from the far left.

If anyone ever saw Obama as anything but a centrist, they were clearly wearing tinted glasses of some kind.

The far right is in shock and horror. The middle is uncertain, and increasingly choosing the fence. Remember that in the Bush / Gore election the country was split pretty much 50/50.

And in the last election, the country elected Democrats over Republicans by a pretty fair margin - and polling is still bearing that divide out. You can add whatever qualifiers you like, but the current climate is not one of 50/50 division. More like a small majority for Obama, and about 30% on the right having a gigantic freakout over every issue they can get their hands on. Lord only knows congressional Republicans are polling like absolute crap, and there isn't anything resembling a leader - unless Messrs. Limbaugh and Beck can be said to lead anything.

I believe the current administration knows that if they stray too far left, there will be a march on Washington. The country is ripe for it.

I'm not sure what you're insinuating here, but it sounds like you're talking about the sore losers of an election overthrowing the government. Or are you talking about just another middling sized protest? They can have lots of those. As the left found out decades ago, they don't accomplish a hell of a lot.

Regardless, the original question stands - is there any evidence of a friendship between Obama and Farrakhan? Or even a casual acquaintance?

-Jester