Just for the sake of an asinine argument that appears to be the benchmark thrown at Presidential Candidate Barek Obama of guilty by association, even as far back as the far right wing media and questionable book authors bios go and relatives never really known or maybe even great great ancestors with any character flaws not making them perfect souls as all right wing conservatives claim to be. This is asinine but are lawyers quility by association as criminals, because their client base comes to them for professional assistance in legal matters? Or are Judges, Police also guilty of association due to affiliation with those with legal issues? You say of course not. Then why is it that the media due to not having real political substance of issues continue to place Obama as guilty by association? On a personal level we cannot help or dictate the course of our life when a parent marries more then once? Our parents or any relative’s personal conduct of their life is no ones concern except those they affect and God and their own conscious. The great communicator Ronald Reagan had a alcoholic father, but that did not stop him in life as becoming the President who historically got the agreement of the Russia leader to tear down the wall. President Lincoln had the weight of the country on his shoulders, including the frequent bouts of depression of his wife, due to the loss of a child, but that did not stop him from preventing the separation of the union of the north and south due to tough economic trade issues, which were the import of the most valuable resource to the USA, Ivory and slaves. The Ivory was the most important source of revenue as the popular source of entertainment in that day was the piano and ivory was needed to make the Ivory keyboard. Lincoln was faced with the cold fact that he could not compensate everyone and accepted not all the states in ratification to end slavery. Lincoln allowed choice to the states on the slavery issue, because the most important issue stated by him was the economic survival of the USA. Personal family issues and personalities did not prevent Lincoln from saving the union and maintaining trade agenda solvency withour neighboring borders. So must Obama continue in DEFENDING HIS LIFE? Light, Life, Love. Ruth http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQmJl1CQx2o   SMILE SMILE SMILE! http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1472056829644960642&vt=lf