Guilt by association or a verdict on judgment?

Barack Obama has spent the last year explaining why his lack of experience is an asset for his candidacy for the White House. Experience doesn’t make up for judgment, he has told rapturous audiences. His judgment outweighs the slightly longer experience of Hillary Clinton and the vastly superior experience of John McCain because he won’t be obligated by decades of connections in the Beltway environment.

Now, however, his campaign has suddenly balked at looking at Obama’s connections outside the Beltway. Calling that “guilt by association”, they have pushed back against criticism of Obama’s political and personal connections to people like Jeremiah Wright, William Ayer, and Rashid Khalidi. Andrew McCarthy puts all of them together into a single coherent narrative that explains the sudden offensive from Team Obama:

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