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He disassociated himself when Wright started flapping his gums after the campaign had started, 17 years later. Would you or most folks for that matter sit and listen that long if you didn't have some agreement? I wouldn't. Also, you are 100% correct, he was not a 60's radical. He was a late 80's radical who hung around with Marxists. The below is taken from FactCheck
Actual quote from "Dreams from My Father" [pg. 100-101]: To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. We smoked cigarettes and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed necolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society’s stifling constraints. We weren’t indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated. But this strategy alone couldn’t provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.

 

If I believed all the stuff I can find out about him on Google, I would believe he is an Indonesian born, Muslim plant that will declare Marshall Law before the next election and declare himself the supreme leader. I'm glad you know all about him from Google.

 

At least Reagan never called a Marine a Corpseman.

 

He is though.

 

You are rotten to the corpse.

 

The pity is you ignored my point completely and cherry picked what you wanted to make some kind of a point. I was showing where the media focused in minutia everything about Romney and blew past Obama. You say they were hard on him in 2008 which is laughable. I already showed where two highly respected "newsmen" admitted they knew nothing about him after he won. Really deep research on their part. I couldn't give a rats rear who you hung around with in college. Obama continued to hang out with Marxists and radicals AFTER college, including an appointee Van Jones, an admitted radical.

 

Good point and I have a theory about that: I think everyone in their right mind knew that Romney was not a whacko and that he had a reputation for being a pragmatic governor, but where he ran into trouble was with his party and many of the positions that Romney had to espouse in order to win the nomination cost him dearly in the general. If the Republicans can do a better job of squelching their fundamentalist voices then someone like Jeb will have a real chance.

 

there was no such thing as a Taliban when Reagan was president.