I don’t think I am the one with the Messianic Kool Aid drinking glow right now. You will not lift a finger to examine your own unscholarly approach to this subject at all.

If you want to do a “fact check,” I suggest you use the universally well-regarded Fact Check.org, part of the Annenberg Educational Center and fully bi-partisan in its analysis. There you will find the distortions of both candidates. I have nothing to fear from a true discussion of the issues, but you sure do–that’s why you spread this Ayers nonsense. I suggest you go to Factcheck.org and read the debate reviews. If you do take a serious look at both candidates weaknesses and mistatements, I will listen to your arguments.

Sadly, the mistakes of your spiritual leader, messiah and guru, John McCain, His Holiness, His Excellency, in whom you only see all good things, are there compared to a humble politician named Barack Obama, who made a couple of mistakes in the debate as well.

As for the “started his career” frame, I offer the following, non-salacious “reality” in response to your ludicrous conspiracy theory that even John McCain is ashamed to mention in Obama’s presence. The New York Times investigated he merits of the story and found:

“– Bill Ayers long ago rehabilitated himself in Chicago, evolving from wild-eyed radical to education activist and English professor. While he’s never been any kind of adviser to Obama, he has advised others.”

“He’s done a lot of good in this city and nationally,” Mayor Richard M. Daley said in an interview this week, explaining that he has long consulted Mr. Ayers on school issues. Mr. Daley, whose father was Chicago’s mayor during the street violence accompanying the 1968 Democratic National Convention and the so-called Days of Rage the following year, said he saw the bombings of that time in the context of a polarized and turbulent era. “This is 2008,” Mr. Daley said. “People make mistakes. You judge a person by his whole life.”

“– The get-acquainted coffee at Ayers’ house wasn’t exactly, as the McCain ads say, the place where Obama launched his political career. It was one of a series of such coffees:”

Neither did “– Ayers engineer Obama’s appointment to the board of the Annenberg Challenge,” according to the New York Times.

This is sad, repeated nonsense.

You refuse to see that you are making nasty, unfounded arguments that are not intellectual and could not stand up in a court of law. I would never judge McCain on his many terrorist associations but sadly, you have set these terms.

You ask for documentation and there is more than enough documentation to make far worse and far more glaring cases against John McCain’s associations with:

Latin American death squads through General John Singlaub; Nazi Collabortaors who worked with him when he was part of the U.S. Council on World Freedom;

It’s also easy to make the case for McCain’s racism:

McCain opposed making the birthday of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King a national holiday. During his 2000 campaign for President, he told reporters on his “Straight Talk Express: “I hated the gooks (North Vietnamese). I will hate them as long as I live”;

McCain’s use of the anti-Asian slur “gook” publicly for 27 years before dropping the use for his current Presidential run;

McCain’s endorsement of George Wallace Jr., a frequent speaker at white supremacist events;

His vote against establishing a holiday for Martin Luther King’s birthday and then another vote to rescind the holiday;

In answering a question about divorced fathers and child support, McCain called the children “tar babies”;

McCain also hired White Supremacist and Klan supporter, Richard Quinn, to head his campaign in South Carolina in 2000 (By the way, the Ku Klux Klan’s terrorist activities far exceed anything perpetrated by the Weather Underground back when Obama was four years old and in Hawaii);

The details of McCain’s “Guilt by association” are so endless and may be easily established by going to google news or by reading a “real” news wires instead of crank websites that report the Ayers flapdoodle.

If you actually believe that the four year old Obama, from his lair in Hawaii, was masterminding terrorist activities with a Chicago-based group of 60s radicals, I am impressed by your attempt to argue absolute silliness.

If you believe that Obama’s brief association with Ayers on a panel created by conservative (Reagan Republican) Leonore Annenberg is as signifincant as John McCain’s actual participation, as an fully grown adult, in racist/semi-Nazi organizations, I am impressed by you ability to distort reality.

If you think that a brush with an African Shariah activist is as significant as Palin’s crazy “end times” Christianity or her actual fear of witches, then I’m shocked that you cannot separate meeting someone from actually believing in something.

If you think that being a member of the Alaskan Secessionist Party and actively trying to undermine the Union AFTER 9/11 is a light activity, then go ahead and vote for Palin.

My advice is for you to choose a candidate based on the issues. If you keep the “Guilt by Association” arguments coming, they will backfire on you. With candidates as compromised as John “I hate Martin Luther King” McCain and Sarah “Abuse of Power/Destroy the Union” Palin, it will be like shooting fish in a barrel for any thinking person to counter these painfully weak and very desperate arguments.

As for McCain, I suggest you read the AP Newswire’s report on McCain’s association with General John Singlaub:

“The U.S. Council for World Freedom aided rebels trying to overthrow the leftist government of Nicaragua. That landed the group in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair and in legal trouble with the Internal Revenue Service, which revoked the charitable organization’s tax exemption.

The council created by retired Army Maj. Gen. John Singlaub was the U.S. chapter of the World Anti-Communist League, an international organization linked to former Nazi collaborators and ultra-right-wing death squads in Central America. After setting up the U.S. council, Singlaub served as the international league’s chairman.

McCain’s tie to Singlaub’s council is undergoing renewed scrutiny after his campaign criticized Obama for his link to Ayers, a former radical who engaged in violent acts 40 years ago. Over the weekend, Democratic operative Paul Begala said on ABC’s “This Week” that this “guilt by association” tactic could backfire on the McCain campaign by renewing discussion of McCain’s service on the board of the U.S. Council for World Freedom, “an ultraconservative right-wing group.”

In two interviews with The Associated Press in August and September, Singlaub said McCain became associated with the organization in the early 1980s as McCain launched his political career. McCain was elected to the House in 1982.

Singlaub said McCain was a supporter but not an active member.

“McCain was a new guy on the block learning the ropes,” Singlaub said. “I think I met him in the Washington area when he was just a new congressman. We had McCain on the board to make him feel like he wasn’t left out. It looks good to have names on a letterhead who are well-known and appreciated.

“I don’t recall talking to McCain at all on the work of the group,” Singlaub said.

McCain has said he resigned from the council in 1984 and asked in 1986 to have his name removed from the group’s letterhead.

“I didn’t know whether (the group’s activity) was legal or illegal, but I didn’t think I wanted to be associated with them,” McCain said in a 1986 newspaper interview.

Singlaub does not recall any McCain resignation in 1984 or May 1986. Nor does Joyce Downey, who oversaw the group’s day-to-day activities.

“That’s a surprise to me,” Singlaub said. “This is the first time I’ve ever heard that. There may have been someone in his office communicating with our office.”

“I don’t ever remember hearing about his resigning, but I really wasn’t worried about that part of our activities, a housekeeping thing,” said Singlaub. “If he didn’t want to be on the board that’s OK. It wasn’t as if he had been active participant and we were going to miss his help. He had no active interest. He certainly supported us.”

A news article and two documents tie McCain to the council in 1985, a year after he says he resigned. The group’s Internal Revenue Service filing in 1985, covering the previous year, lists McCain as a member of the council’s advisory board. In October 1985, a States News Service report placed McCain, Rep. Tom Loeffler, R-Texas, and an Arizona congressman at a Washington awards ceremony staged by the council.”

The AP is a conservative leaning Newswire, in case you think this is liberal lies.

It is most important that you see that McCain was an adult when Singlaub made his death squads in Nicaraugua. Obama was four years old when Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground. Had Reagan Rebublican Leonore Annenberg not asked Obama to serve on a panel with Mr. Ayers, he would never have had his brief association, which you have imaginatively colored as evil.

McCain also knows Annenberg:

“Strange Bedfellows: McCain Touts Endorsement by Head of Annenberg Foundation
In John McCain’s newest Web ad, he attacks Barack Obama for supporting a “radical education foundation” that gave millions to “idealogical allies” that resulted in scant improvement in the quality of public schools.

He was referring to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, detailed by my colleagues in this EdWeek story and this sidebar story.

McCain, who has criticized Obama for his ties to William Ayers, one of the founders of Chicago’s Annenberg project, is now associating with the very foundation that funded the “radical” work.

His campaign sent out a press release listing all of the former U.S. ambassadors who support him.

On his supporters’ list: Leonore Annenberg, 90, who was chief of protocol in the Reagan White House and is the president and chairman of the Pennsylvania-based Annenberg Foundation. She is the widow of Walter H. Annenberg, the late publisher, philanthropist, ambassador, and founder of the Annenberg Challenge.”

If you were not lead around by Fox News, you would realize this is all the height of hypocrisy for McCain to condemn Obama for serving on one of Leonore Annenberg’s foundation boards.

As for Obama’s leadership, I suggest you visit his website and read his platform issues. His approach to financial crisis, defense, education and the general welfare is far more sound than that of the eratic man of poor character that you are voting for.

Why not mention that John McCain is also tied to Ayers through Ambassador Annenberg? Or mention that your favored candidate is signifcantly tied to Latin American hit squads, Nazi party members, Ku Kluxers, and Charles Keating?

What’s more, the husband of McCain’s running mate (and probably Palin herself, though it’s been deftly covered up) is a member of the Alaskan secessionist party.

Using your own standard, it is clear we must never be supportive of terrorists like McCain and Palin.