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A Tilt in Campaign Coverage
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Charles Krauthammer's Oct. 10 op-ed column ["Obama & Friends: Judge Not?"] was a sophisticated misrepresentation of Sen. Barack Obama's core values and his political path to success.
Acknowledging that Obama is not "as corrupt" as Tony Rezko and is neither racist nor radical exuded phony objectivity to gain acceptance for a baseless charge of cynicism and ruthlessness.
There is no basis to charge that Obama's association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright means that he does not consider the most extreme of Wright's oratory as "beyond the pale" since there was much more to Obama's relationship with Wright than the worst of Wright's oratory.
Similarly, Bill Ayers's odious acts took place when Obama was 8 years old. At the time of their association serving on a board together, Ayers was a university professor and one-time "Citizen of the Year," and he and Obama had a common objective of improving education in Chicago.
It is precisely the rich, diverse associations in a tough neighborhood as a Chicago community organizer that prepared Obama to bridge the most bitter partisan divides. It is a tribute to his character that he could learn empathy from these associations, which did not subvert him but better prepared him to deal realistically with a tough, complex world.
-- Andre Sauvageot
