As a single acquaintance, it is thin.  When taken in the context of the most liberal guy in the Senate, Rev. Wright is a close buddy (bff), as are Raines, Johnson, and many others, this is about judgment.  I don't have any friends with a past like this guy.  He hates America.  His wife REALLY hates America. 

There is no equivalent republican or conservative, anywhere.  This guy didn't mature out of his dingbat beliefs, like most people do.  He still harbors them.  And is still working on them.  And, at no point has Obama distanced himself from those beliefs, any more than he has any of his other bff's.  It's about judgment.  And the ideology he has been marinating in for twenty years.  He doesn't believe ANY of it?  What won't you believe?  What won't you defend to get your inexperienced lameass into office? 

Sorry, the press has not done its job on this guy and many others.  If there was an equivalent guy on the right (Rev. Hagee isn't even close) and the press could draw an association or relationship between him and McCain, you'd hear nothing else.  Absolutely in the tank for Obama.  What else do they know about that they are suppressing?