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Posted at 3:32pm on May 23, 2008 Earth to Dana Milbank

By Erick

Did you mean to do this? Today you write:

Here are some things we can look forward to learning about Barack Obama:

· That he was mentored in high school by a member of the Soviet-controlled Communist Party.

· That he launched his Illinois state Senate campaign in the home of a terrorist and a killer.

· That while serving as a state senator, he was a member of a socialist front group.

· That his affiliations are so dodgy that he would have trouble getting a government security clearance.

· That there is reason to doubt his "loyalty to the United States."

These and many other implausible accusations were offered by a group of conservatives yesterday -- including a living relic from the House Committee on Un-American Activities -- in a Capitol Hill basement. The charges ranged from the absurd to the merely questionable, but anybody who watched the Swift Boat campaign of 2004 make John Kerry look like a war criminal knows that's not the point.

Dana, my friend, the first two are true.

His communist mentor was Frank Marshall Davis.

And Obama got his successful start in politics in the living room of Bill Ayers.

Just because you might not like the group, Dana, does not mean everything they say is invalid.

And frankly, if everything else on that list is false, those first two should be enough to give non-elitists who live outside the Beltway pause.

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