Posted on 09/15/2008 10:37:46 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
Ex-communist leader tied to terrorist eliminated from campaign website
The official campaign website of Sen. Barack Obama has completely scrubbed a series of user-generated blog postings on the candidate's site by a former top communist activist who is an associate of former Weathermen terrorist leader William Ayers.
The move has raised questions regarding Obama's relationship with the deleted blogger, Mike Klonsky, who runs an education organization that was founded by Ayers and that received a substantial grant from a group directed by Obama.
Obama's official site allows registered users to form groups and post content in online "community" blogs. The site boasts tens of thousands of such community blogs. Obama's spokesmen previously have stated the campaign does not monitor all content posted on the blogs, but it promptly removes any content brought to its attention that is deemed inappropriate or hateful.
Klonsky posted several blog pieces on Obama's site on education policy that did not contain what can be described as hateful material, but his postings were entirely deleted in June after several independent bloggers noted Klonsky's connections to Obama and Ayers.
Klonsky is director of the Small Schools Workshop, an outreach program founded in 1991 by Ayers with the stated goal of providing support for teachers who want to create smaller learning environments. Ayers reportedly recruited Klonsky to head the Workshop.
The Small School Workshop was originally associated with the University of Illinois in Chicago, where Klonsky previously taught in the education department alongside Ayers. The group was headquartered for a time inside the university's department of education building.
In 1995, with Obama as its chairman, the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or CAC, a school reform organization, gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000. The CAC provided another $482,662 to the Workshop over the next few years.
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They used to do the same thing in the Soviet Union. People were just “eliminated” from history, pictures, books, etc.
This happened months ago. WND must have been napping.
bttt
Do you know which source it appeared at months ago?
Follow the $. See where it leads. Listen to the recipient’s words. Watch their deeds.
Thanks for posting.
“In 1995, with Obama as its chairman, the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or CAC, a school reform organization, gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000. The CAC provided another $482,662 to the Workshop over the next few years.”
The article could have gone on, but didn’t: Over a period of five years, Obama and Ayers squandered $150 million in grants and donations. Much of the money went to crackpot schemes (or worse) in the hands of people like comrade Klonsky. After the Annenberg Foundation trustees finally pulled the plug, two separate audits agreed that the money had produced no significant improvement in Chicago’s education system. But it certainly helped a good many Lefties to continue their ‘good work’ without having to forego too many bourgeois luxuries while they struggled...
Make no mistake. It’s precisely this mixture of socialist goals and Chicago machine means that makes The One such a threat.
Thanks.
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