And you plan to vote for a man with ties to white supremecists, who had life handed to him on a silver platter, with the single exception of one brave decision he made in the 1970s?

The fact is, Obama was a member of a church, a very large church, who likely had quite a number of things going on. He might have suspected Wright's anti-American views, but I personally don't go to church to learn about my country, and I, personally, don't really care what my pastor thinks politically. It isn't very relevant to me, and I don't know if Obama is any different. If you do want to hold it against him, however, then why don't you hold Hagee's endorsement of McCain against him? McCain actually APPROACHED Hagee about it, according to a Huffington post article, (here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/29/john-hagees-mccain-endor_n_8918...) which you might not believe, but it's just as credible as the idea that Obama somehow isn't patriotic because of salutes or flag pins.
Hagee is anti-catholic, anti-muslim, and has blamed the holocaust on the Jewish people, saying that "God allowed it to happen."

I think the ACORN stuff is overblown, and allow me to explain why. I believe ACORN commited fraud, at the VERY least through negligence by not monitoring their people closely enough, but to blame Obama for that is silly. First of all, Democrats always like when more people vote, because the Republicans tend to do better when most Americans aren't paying attention, so it makes sense that a Democratic candidate would support voter registration. That doesn't mean that Obama was privy to the exact methods ACORN was using to register voters, which was to employ any random person and pay them based on commission.

So ACORN employee's would just flip through the phone book and register people multiple times, register some bs like Wendy Store to the address of a local Wendy's or something, and get their pay. But when you actually think about, how would that 'corrupt our votes'? Wendy's isn't going to actually vote, nor will some guy who was registered 72 times ACTUALLY show up and vote 72 times. Other than piss off the voter registration office, I don't see how this would have actually made a difference. It was unethical, but honestly, I can't think of how a scheme this stupid could be due to anything other than the sheer incompetance of the people on the ground registering for ACORN.

As for Ayers, ok. Obama knew him. He's repeatedly said he didn't agree with him, which seems to hold water if you would actually pay attention to the words coming out of his mouth, instead up plugging your ears and saying 'lalalala, nohearliberal, lalalala' whenever he starts to speak. If you want to thoroughly examine this issue, let's do it at the same time we thoroughly examine McCain for his relationship with the Keating 5, Richard Quinn, and just about every lobbyist over the last 26 years. The argument that Obama somehow lacks judgment because of the people he knew and served on a board with could be easily flipped around on McCain; both of them hold an equal amount of water, which is to say, not much.

Both of them also have nothing to do with the issues, or what I'm concerned with about America's future. Let's fix the economy, let's stop corporations from bleeding hard working Americans dry of every penny they can, and let's regain the respect of our allies; all things that John McCain would fail miserably at doing, by the way.