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Wm Ayers Has Been the Mastermind Behind the Rise of Barack Obama
Contrarian Commentary | Sept 9 | Andy Martin

Posted on 09/10/2008 6:06:35 AM PDT by Invictus

WILLIAM AYERS HAS BEEN THE MASTERMIND BEHIND THE RISE OF BARACK OBAMA

AYERS HAS DESIGNED AN OBAMA CAMPAIGN STRUCTURE WHICH IS BASED ON AYERS' THEORIES OF MAOIST REVOLUTION.

THE CHICAGO VERSION OF "FRIENDS"

OBAMA LIED TO ABC NEWS AND A NATIONAL TV AUDIENCE

(NEW YORK, NY)(September 9, 2008) Nailing down the relationship between "mad bomber" William Ayers and Barack Obama has been the greatest challenge of the 2008 presidential campaign.

The second biggest challenge of 2008 has been deciphering and understanding Barack Obama's campaign structure. His campaign is unlike any other presidential campaign in U. S. history. Obama's operation is authoritarian, disciplined and centralized in Chicago. Obama's reliance on a nationwide network of local "offices" and mailing lists points inexorably to a political latticework straight out of William Ayers' revolutionary playbook.

The bottom line: After an exhaustive investigation ContrarianCommentary.com can confirm that Barack Obama appears to be William Ayers' "front" for a national, ongoing Maoist-style revolutionary campaign structure which will endure past November 4th.

Ironically, as we searched for the Ayers-Obama relationship in the present, it was staring us in the face: Obama's campaign is structured precisely the way Ayers would want. That is why Obama has created "Camp Obamas" across the United States to indoctrinate workers, and adopted other similar Fidel Castro/Hugo Chavez tactics.

The puzzle pieces are finally starting to fall into place. Last week we asked why would Black Panther party revolutionary Khalid Al-Mansour start soliciting money for Obama's legal education? The answer: Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, were close associates of the Black Panther Party and even unleashed a terrorist attack on a New York judge who heard a Panther case.

In the 1980's, the Ayers/Dohrn revolutionary terror network was still working through individuals such as Al-Mansour, who had sufficiently laundered his radical past to assume respectability as a front for a Saudi Prince. The same way Ayers laundered his own past to become a professor of "education" at Illinois' taxpayer-subsidized university.

Ayers and Al-Mansour appear to have been in contact. Ayers vouched for Obama to Al-Mansour, who then began a law school fund-raising campaign among prominent African-Americans.

Obama's law degree thus appears to have been financed through the encouragement of persons who had been violent revolutionaries and remain unrepentant to this day, the same unconventional way the purchase of Obama's Chicago mansion was party financed by an Iraqi billionaire.

Why did Obama get hired as a "summer associate" in 1989 at the law firm which had hired Ayers' wife, and where Ayers' father was a prominent friend of the managing partner at Sidley & Austin? The answer is obvious. Ayers was grooming Obama as his future "front."

Where did Obama get his first and only legal job after Harvard? At a law firm where Tony Rezko was a prominent client and where name partner Judson Miner was a law school classmate of Bernadine Dohrn-Ayers. Yes, the pieces are starting to come together.

Was Obama telling ABC the truth when he said met the Ayers' at a coffee klatch at the Ayers home in 1995? Ayers had already been working with Obama for seven years; Ayers had appointed Obama to head a $50 million foundation. Did Ayers appoint a stranger? Or a front man? The answer is obvious.

Obama has relentlessly tried to conceal the Ayers/Obama time line, and the ongoing connections between the men. When bits and pieces of the Ayers/Obama relationship have popped up this year, Obama has sought to debunk and deflate each isolated piece of information. No one was able to grasp the big picture.

Until today, no one had actually connected all of the dots. ContrarianCommentary.com is the first to do so.

We always wondered why Obama had structured his campaign the way he did: small "offices" all across the United States. No other presidential campaign has ever done this. Bill Ayers is a proponent of locally based revolutionary tactics. Ayers' playbook is Mao Tse-Tung's handbook. And Obama's campaign structure follows Ayers' matrix. A nationwide network of "Camp Obamas" controlled from Chicago (i.e. Ayers)? You get the picture.

Obama is not stupid. He is a bright man, very talented, very personable and, until recently, a man without much of a personal history. But there is a shiftless, searching side to Obama's personality. Due to childhood neglect and abuse, he is a man without a conscience. He was and remains the perfect front for Ayers' ongoing revolutionary campaign to subvert and subdue the United States of America.

It can be said without fear of contradiction, a vote for Barack Obama is in reality a vote to put William Ayers in de facto control of the U. S government.

William Ayers is an admittedly unrepentant violent revolutionary who waged war against every American and who today is still scheming to wage war against the United States. This time he wants his headquarters to be in the Oval Office of the White House.

William Ayers is the mastermind behind the rise to power of Barack Obama. He has been since 1988.

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THE AYERS/OBAMA TIMELINE: (Version 1.0; a work in progress; dates are approximate)

1987 William Ayers meets Barack Obama

1988 Ayers solicits Khalid Al-Mansour to raise money for Obama's Harvard law School education

1989 Tom Ayers and William Ayers get Obama a summer job at Sidley & Austin (where he meets Michelle Obama); Ayers' wife Bernadine Dohrn also worked at Sidley at about the same time as Barack and Michelle.

1993 Ayers places Obama on Woods Foundation

1995 Ayers makes Obama Chairman of Annenberg Challenge

1995 Ayers hosts a coffee klatch for Obama's political debut (Obama falsely claims this is when he met Ayers)

2007-2008 The structure of Obama's presidential campaign increasingly comes to resemble an Ayers-designed national "community organizer matrix" straight out of Maoist theory. This is not merely a presidential "campaign." Obama's organization is the first installment of an ongoing movement being paid for with tax-exempt contributions to his campaign, approaching half a billion dollars.

2008Obama In response to ABC News, Obama tells a national TV audience he was "six years old" when Ayers bombed federal buildings, and they are only casual neighborhood acquaintances. A lie.

Even though we have finally started piecing the puzzle together, we continue to investigate. For example, where in Chicago did Barack Obama live in 1985-1988? Help if you have an address.

Because we are still assembling all of the pieces to the Ayers-Obama puzzle, feel free to submit suggestions, additions to the timeline or other information that you believe may be helpful. We will publish updated/corrected versions.

Readers of Obama: The Man Behind The Mask confirm this book is the intelligent bestseller about Barack Obama, and the only practical handbook on his unfitness for the presidency. Buy it.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: andymartin; ayers; billayers; marxism; marxist; mastermind; obama; obamabiden; radicalleft; williamayers
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To: CedarDave

Welcome.


21 posted on 09/10/2008 6:53:07 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Invictus
A thought just came to me while reading this...

How can a man and woman so blessed by this country not be proud of it? Precisely because they didn't earn their blessings. Their blessings have been orchestrated by a political machine to affect their purpose.

22 posted on 09/10/2008 6:59:28 AM PDT by pgyanke (Public "servants" have decided it's their job to use the public's money to fight the public)
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To: Invictus; Fiddlstix; PhilDragoo; Liz; onyx; potlatch; devolve; MEG33; Grampa Dave; Lady Jag; ...
bump! bump! ping ping ! ping !!!!!

23 posted on 09/10/2008 6:59:42 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Thank you!


24 posted on 09/10/2008 7:00:26 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: Invictus


25 posted on 09/10/2008 7:02:24 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: Invictus; FreedomProtector; All
"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements [1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..." -Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, pg 95.

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From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"FBI files from 1976, recently made public under the Freedom of Information Act, confirm the connections between Weatherman, Havana, and Moscow. Weatherman leaders like Mark Rudd traveled illegally to Havana in 1968 to engage in terrorist training. There, camps set up by Soviet KGB Colonel Vadim Kotchergine were educating Westerners both in Marxist philosophy and urban warfare."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

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Bill Ayers TODAY (April 6, 2008), from his own red communist star-headed website, begging to debate communism vs capitalism with Sean Hannity and STILL calling for revolution!


"Imperialism. I’m against it, and if Sean Hannity and others were honest, this is the ground they would fight me on. Capitalism played its role historically and is exhausted as a force for progress: built on exploitation, theft, conquest, war, and racism, capitalism and imperialism must be defeated and a world revolution—a revolution against war and racism and materialism, a revolution based on human solidarity and love, cooperation and the common good —must win.

We begin by releasing our most hopeful dreams and our most radical imaginations: a better world is both possible and necessary.

Source: Bill Ayers' own website
http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/04/page/2/

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"a better world is both possible and necessary"

Looks to me like Bill Ayers stole (or borrowed) this phrase from Bob Avakian, chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party

"The following is an excerpt from an historic talk by Chairman Bob Avakian, soon to be available on video and DVD from Three Q Productions-REVOLUTION: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About. This talk, delivered in 2003, followed by questions and answers, is a wide- ranging revolutionary journey, covering many topics."
http://rwor.org/a/1238/introbaspeech.htm

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Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006

Interview with Bill Ayers:
On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times

http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html

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From Investor's Business Daily (IBD), August 27, 2008:

"Ayers, now a tenured distinguished professor of education at UIC, works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.

One of Ayer's descriptions for a course called 'Improving Learning Environments' says prospective K-12 teachers need to 'be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and ... be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

The Annenberg papers are quite extensive — 132 boxes containing 947 file folders with 70 linear feet of material. They undoubtedly contain more surprises regarding Obama's relationship with Ayers, one of many relationships Obama has sought to hide.'..."

Article: Annenberg Papers: Putting On Ayers?
http://www.ibdeditorial.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=304729375940845

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Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright,
Obama's pastor for twenty years

Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02

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From "45 Communist Goals":
#27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion.
http://www.uhuh.com/nwo/communism/comgoals.htm

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Catholics for Marx
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD

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From the New York Times, April 28, 2008
Reverend Wright at the National Press Club
"In the late 1960s, when Dr. James Cone's powerful books burst onto the scene, the term 'black liberation theology' began to be used. I do not in any way disagree with Dr. Cone, nor do I in any way diminish the inimitable and incomparable contributions that he has made and that he continues to make to the field of theology. Jim, incidentally, is a personal friend of mine."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/politics/28text-wright.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=sloginL

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From Jeff Head's website...
One notable quote from [James] Cone describing his Black Liberation Theology is as follows:

"Black theology refuses to accept a God who is not identified totally with the goals of the black community. If God is not for us and against white people, then he is a murderer, and we had better kill him. The task of black theology is to kill Gods who do not belong to the black community ... Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal. Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love." - "Divine Racism: The Unacknowledged Threshold Issue for Black Theology", in African-American Religious Thought: An Anthology, by William R Jones, ed Cornel West and Eddie Glaube (Westminster John Knox Press).
http://www.jeffhead.com/blacklibtheology.htm

African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/African-American-Religious-Thought-Anthology/dp/0664224598

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HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html

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YouTube: Glenn Beck on Obama and Black Liberation Theology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cA0GEV1ibY&eurl=http://maggiesnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/04/im-speechless.html

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"Their founding document [the Weather Underground's] called for the establishment of a "white fighting force" to be allied with the "Black Liberation Movement" and other "anti-colonial" movements[1] to achieve "the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism."..."-Berger, Dan (2006). Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity. AK Press, 95.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_Underground#cite_ref-Berger_0-0

Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity (Paperback) by Dan Berger
http://www.amazon.com/Outlaws-America-Underground-Politics-Solidarity/dp/1904859410

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Much more on the ObamaRat-commie connections at my FR Profile/Home page.
Everything there is linked directly to its source:
http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl

26 posted on 09/10/2008 7:02:51 AM PDT by ETL (Smoking-gun evidence on all the ObamaRat-Commie connections at my FR Profile/Home page)
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To: holdonnow; MarkLevinFan; Fudd Fan
Mark, you need to read this:

http://www.pr-inside.com/william-ayers-and-barack-obama-finally-r797225.htm

The bottom line: After an exhaustive investigation ContrarianCommentary.com can confirm that Barack Obama appears to be William Ayers' "front" for a national, ongoing Maoist-style revolutionary campaign structure which will endure past November 4th.

Ironically, as we searched for the Ayers-Obama relationship in the present, it was staring us in the face: Obama's campaign is structured precisely the way Ayers would want. That is why Obama has created "Camp Obamas" across the United States to indoctrinate workers, and adopted other similar Fidel Castro/Hugo Chavez tactics.

~~snip~~

Obama's law degree thus appears to have been financed through the encouragement of persons who had been violent revolutionaries and remain unrepentant to this day, the same unconventional way the purchase of Obama's Chicago mansion was party financed by an Iraqi billionaire.

The old saying fits here:
Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.

27 posted on 09/10/2008 7:07:36 AM PDT by CedarDave (Sign at Albuquerque rally: "Sarah, you had us at 'Hello'")
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March; Invictus; ETL
One thing I keep wondering — who is behind the anarchists? I had been thinking Putin, but what about China? I also would assume that foreign funding often goes hand-in-hand with terrorists like Ayers.

Do not the possibility of Middle Eastern money via the Khalid Al-Mansour connection.

But you are right. The Obama timeline has been a list of patrons who have decided this young man was just the guy to advance their interests.

28 posted on 09/10/2008 7:14:16 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
1989 Tom Ayers and William Ayers get Obama a summer job at Sidley & Austin (where he meets Michelle Obama); Ayers’ wife Bernadine Dohrn also worked at Sidley at about the same time as Barack and Michelle.

Dohrn worked there 1984-88(Wiki). Michelle started there in 88. BHO was a summer intern (or whatever they call it) in 89...Michelle mentored him. Note, that is NOT to say that Michelle did NOT spend summers there in 86 and 87.

29 posted on 09/10/2008 7:17:20 AM PDT by Roccus (Someday it will all make sense............maybe.)
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To: Invictus
Ayers was the original "community organizer" when he headed the Weatherman Underground. Now he has taken his "organizing" to another level with the Obama campaign. Birds of a feather "flock" together. And, where I come from, a man is known by the company he keeps.

Why are all of Baracky baby's "friends" radicals? Could it be that they are all he has?

30 posted on 09/10/2008 7:21:29 AM PDT by Invictus (Sarah: Mc Cain's "CURE" for electile dysfunction.)
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To: PapaBear3625
Do not the possibility of Middle Eastern money via the Khalid Al-Mansour connection.

Percy Sutton, Dem. clubhouse hack from Harlem, claims that al-Mansour (Nee. Donald Warden of the Black Panther Party) asked him (Sutton) to write a recommendation for Obama to Harvard. The Obama campaign denies that BHO knows al-Mansour.....but the name Warden is not mentioned.

31 posted on 09/10/2008 7:24:54 AM PDT by Roccus (Someday it will all make sense............maybe.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Yes, the Middle East too. But the anarchists — I have a feeling that’s either KGB or China. Do they seem to orchestrate with Obama? They seem to use Alinski methodology. And Ayers is the most brassy one in this campaign.

Here’s the thing about China:

Let us not forget the Clintons and Chinagate. [Although Bill was contacted by Johnny Chung back in the 80s if I recall.]

Al Gore was also tapped by China in the 80s.

Perhaps Ayers, who is apparently infatuated with Mao, has a contact with some Chinese front company like Lippo?

The only missing link on a perfect record is Kerry. And he threw the Vietnam vets under the bus. But Kerry probably doesn’t have a direct tie to Chinese front companies.

As for the Middle East connection — Cynthia McKinney was caught with her hand out in an awkward appeal to an anti-US hostile she apparently knew little about. Thus, perhaps Ayers has his hand out like her? Possibly.


32 posted on 09/10/2008 7:26:04 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Barack Milhous Obama aka HE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED [We dare not speak his name!])
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

Google Mike Klonsky


33 posted on 09/10/2008 7:29:50 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When He rolls up His sleeves, He ain't just puttin' on the Ritz)
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To: Roccus
Thank you for the info. The heck of it with wikipedia is Ayers was not even mentioned on the Obama page yesterday. That's fine. If wikipedia wants to bend left, it's their loss and the FR’s gain. But I do like their organized formatting. Is that even possible in a conservative forum like this? Like they say, it could be like hauling cats in a wheel barrow. FRegards ....
34 posted on 09/10/2008 7:33:14 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Barack Milhous Obama aka HE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED [We dare not speak his name!])
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To: PapaBear3625

For BHO/Sutton/al-Mansour/Black Panther link and BHO campaign denial

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Obama_camp_denies_Sutton_story.html


35 posted on 09/10/2008 7:33:39 AM PDT by Roccus (Someday it will all make sense............maybe.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

We just have to keep connecting dots.


36 posted on 09/10/2008 7:35:20 AM PDT by Roccus (Someday it will all make sense............maybe.)
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To: CedarDave

BTTT


37 posted on 09/10/2008 7:49:20 AM PDT by EggsAckley
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To: Invictus

BTTT


38 posted on 09/10/2008 7:57:34 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Annoy the media, end the Obamanation, vote maverick, McCain/Palin '08)
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for future reference


39 posted on 09/10/2008 7:58:52 AM PDT by Zman516 (socialists & muslims -- satan's useful idiots.)
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To: Jim Noble

Took your advice and googled [ “Mike Klonski” radical ]. Big fight in wikipedia. Klonksi is apparently defending himself there in the wikipedia discussion section. Now for two research blogs:

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-throws-maoist-hardliner-and.html

Mike Klonsky, the Maoist Hardliner, Obama supporter and former best friend of the Weatherman terrorist group founders William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, received a $175,000 grant from the William Ayers/Barack Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop.

Klonsky belonged to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and was best friends with William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who later became famous for their acts of terrorism when the SDS broke up and the Weathermen terror group was formed.

Between 1979 and 1981, Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) (CPML) chairman and Obama supporter Mike Klonsky was repeatedly feted with state-dinner-level visits to Beijing.

Yesterday, Klonsky was posting a blog on the Obama website:

[screen shot displayed]

But, that was yesterday. [prior to the report]

Today his blog was removed from the Obama website.
Comrade Klonsky is no longer with us.

[snip]

[several links added to the page]

Now for Global Labor:

http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/06/that-guy-who-lives-in-my-neighborhood.html

However, it must be pointed out that a notorious ally of Bill Ayers for many years, Mike Klonsky, is an open member of the Obama campaign. Klonsky runs a blog on the official Obama website here where he claims to be a “professor of education” (the website of the Small Schools Workshop that he directs says only that he teaches some graduate courses, though it appears he was a visiting professor for one year at Nova Southeastern University in Florida in 2006-07) and says he blogs for Obama on “education politics and teaching for social justice.”

Who is Mike Klonsky? Well, on one level, he might just appear to be a protege of Bill Ayers in the education world. He received, as I detail below, a $175,000 grant from the Ayers/Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop that he and Ayers started in Chicago to push their school reform agenda.

But that is only half the story. Klonsky was one of the most destructive hardline maoists in the SDS in the late 60’s who emerged from SDS to form a pro-Chinese sect called the October League that later became the Beijing-recognized Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist). As chairman of the party, Klonsky travelled to Beijing itself in 1977 and, literally, toasted the Chinese stalinist leadership who, in turn, “hailed the formation of the CP(ML) as ‘reflecting the aspirations of the proletariat and working people,’ effectively recognizing the group as the all-but-official US Maoist party.” (Elbaum, Revolution in the Air, 228).

I know of no indications that Klonsky has ever expressed any regrets about that activity. Perhaps like his SDS comrade, Ayers, he, too, thinks he did not do enough back then. In my view they did more than enough.

An excellent profile of that maoist milieu is available in a book called Revolution in the Air by Max Elbaum, a first hand participant whose sympathy for the maoism of the period does not get in the way of an excellent account of these idiot savants of the left.

How is it possible that someone of Klonsky’s ilk would now be playing a visible role in the Obama campaign itself on such an important issue as education policy - apparently with free reign to push his authoritarian “social justice” agenda?

The answer to that question escapes Darling-Hammond.

[snip]

[Goes on about Darling-Hammond, Ayers, and reparations.]


40 posted on 09/10/2008 7:59:03 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Barack Milhous Obama aka HE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED [We dare not speak his name!])
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