This may be old news to some, but I just found out about it, so it's new to me.  Let's see how many parallels this story has to the alleged Obama/Ayers link:

In the 2006 Alabama Republican Party primaries, John McCain actively campaigned for George Wallace Jr., the son of that one angry dude back in the 60s, when he was running for Lieutenant Governor  Now, assuming Wallace doesn't espouse the same views as his father....oh, wait a second...maybe he does...

McCain's Alabama visit drew fire from the Democratic National Committee, which said McCain should have denounced past speeches Wallace has made to the "racist Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC)," a group which opposes "all efforts to mix the races" and advocates U.S. withdrawal from such organizations as the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund.

Don't believe me?  See their website.  If you bother to look, you'll find all sorts of goodies about racial integrity and states' rights.  They're still ticked that Obama hasn't released his birth records yet.  Only, um, he has. 

Wallace has given plenty of speeches to the CCC in the past, and has claimed that there "is nothing hateful about those people I've seen."  After this he likely said, "Oh, they referred to blacks as a 'retrograde species of humanity'? No, they didn't say that, and if they did, I repudiate it, and I also call on Senator Obama to repudiate Reverend Wright, even though it is 2006 and I really don't know either of them."

Oh, there's this too:

The Birmingham News reported that in remarks at the reception, McCain praised Wallace as "a good and decent American" who wants to reform Alabama education and broaden the Republican Party's base.

Sound familiar?  Doesn't Obama work on a board with another once-controversial figure who works in education reform?

Look, when this Ayers thing came up back in March, I was concerned (and Rev. Wright).  But it's been looked at quite thoroughly, and not much was uncovered then or now.  It's perfectly fine to ask questions about these things, but I am very, very annoyed to see that John McCain or Sarah Palin has not yet (to my knowledge) been asked a question about the Alaska Independence Party, the Annenberg Foundation, Thomas Muthee, John Hagee, the Keating Five scandal, or this.

So, Senator, let me ask, since I find it only fair: Can we trust you, someone who pals around with white supremacists, to really put country first?  That is, are you a racist?


P.S. Sorry for posting 3 times today.  I really, really don't want to do homework right now.  And the debate's coming on in less than 2 hours, so maybe I should just give up on structural dynamics for now...