The reason she is relevant is because she is another example of who Obama chooses to associate with. In fact, if you told me that the his choice of churches, led by Rev. Wright, were actually driven by her - it would seem to be entirely plausible.
Again, maybe this wouldn't be an issue if Obama had anything but a paper thin record and a lot of fuzzy rhetoric. But, that is all we have to go on him.
It is ridiculous that only a few weeks before the election - we are only starting to get wind of this:
http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/...-obama-was.html
which claims there is a paper trail that shows Obama was indeed a member of the socialist New Party in Illinois. I have no idea what he did then or what his involvement was, but how are we learning about all this now? Oh, that's right. No one bothered to ask...