Well this isn't punishment.
They simply decided to withdrawl their original offer after considering the guy is both a nationally known dude with all the wrong connections, and crazy paranoid "black liberation theology" that is now very public.
They no longer felt comfortable bestowing the honor.
This stuff would be used against you whether it was a mayoral race, state legislature, you name it, and piddley elected offce.
If this was never an issue. It's quite simple Senator Obama should have come right out and stuck with his man or denounced him(which would have still be chicken shit).
It's one thing running for the Senate in Illinois, but the President, this stuff was going to come out.
There would only be a few choices on how to handle it. You throw the guy under the bus or you stick with him, or take the middle of the road approach that has now been abandoned.
If he was able to shake this or if he made better choices about his church he wouldn't be in this situation.
Punishment you say? His associates are terrorists, he condemns Carter over Hamas, but basically said he would drink Mahmoud's urine without preconditions.
His wife is a cracker hating cunt.
