"Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are." ~~An Old American Saying

During the two year Presidential Campaign of Barack Obama, the mainstream media refused to ask any probing questions of candidate Obama, hence the voters went to the polls voting for a candidate about whom all they knew was that he was a black man. The mainstream media said that because of his skin color alone, he must be elected to the United States presidency. No one was allowed to ask about his friends and associates, as that was considered "RACIST" by the mainstream media. So who is this guy? Who were his friends? Who were his associates?