The company he keeps

For the last twenty years, Barack

Obama has kept company with some radically-minded and angry characters, who don't think very highly of the United States of America, and that's not even counting his wife, Michelle.

Clockwise from lower color photo: Tony Rezko (convicted June 4th on 16 counts of corruption); Bernardine Dohrn (domestic anti-establishment terrorist); Jeremiah Wright (Obama's 20-year pastor); Father Michael Pfleger (pictured w/close friend Louis Farrakhan), (recently-suspended, Al Jolsen-like, "Catholic" priest); Bill Ayers (domestic anti-establishment terrorist)

Below are some quotes by and descriptions of some of Obama's long-term friends. See if you can match them with the friends above:

A.) "America has been raping people of color, and America has to pay the price for the rape!"

B.) "...for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country." (Age: 44)

C.) "Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home,kill your parents, that's where it's really at.''

D.) ''Dig it! (Charles) Manson killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, then they shoved a fork into a victim's stomach.''

E.) He lived in 15 states, taking names of dead babies in cemeteries who were born in the same year as he. He describes his typical safe house: there were usually books by Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh, and Che Guevara's picture in the bedroom...

F.) America is a "just downright mean" country.

G.) He writes about his sexual experimentation as they tried to ''smash monogamy.'' They were ''an army of lovers,'' he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend.

H.) ''I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.'' (Hint: She's now a law professor at Northwestern!)

I.) During a protest against Chuck’s Gun Shop (Riverdale, IL.), he twice threatened to “snuff out” the shop’s owner and threatened the same fate for legislators who oppose his position on gun control.“We’re gonna find you and snuff you out,” he said about the gun shop owner, likening the man to a “rat.” “We’re gonna snuff out legislators who are voting against our gun laws and we’re coming for you because we are not going to sit idly.”

J.) Has been on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List".

With friends like this, who needs (political) enemies?