They say you can judge a man by the company he keeps. If so, the company Barack Obama seems to keep surely says something about him.

In recent days, it’s been hard reading a website or newspaper without coming across the name of Obama’s mentor and long time pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Obama was forced to put distance between himself and Wright because of racist and anti-Americans comments Wright made during the course of many sermons.

“I don’t regret setting bombs!”

According to a posting on Salon.com by Edward McClelland, Obama also befriended Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.

“Ayers and Dohrn were the ’60s most glamorous radical couple: the Bonnie and Clyde of the Weather Underground, they spent 11 years underground after an accidental bombing that destroyed a Greenwich Village townhouse, killing three of their comrades,” McClelland writes.

Obama got pretty tight apparently with the Hyde Park Illinois couple and still is.

Ayers and Dohrn are now both involved in national education policy. But, in Ayer’s memoir, the Salon article points out, Ayers says : “I don’t regret setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.”

Now there’s a good friend to have if you get elected President of the United States.

Rashid Khalidi

Khalidi is an Arab-American scholar whose was labeled “a harsh critic of Israel” in one article, says Salon.

He and Obama also got to know one another in Hyde Park and became–and still are–friends.

Khalidi is quoted as saying “we owe reparations to the Iraqi people.”

Maybe when Obama is president, he can start paying those reparations?