Two Bloggers' Work Makes Closeness of Obama-Ayers Ties More Obvious Than Ever

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Two Bloggers' Work Makes Closeness of Obama-Ayers Ties More Obvious Than Ever By Tom Blumer October 19, 2008 - 11:44 ET

Two recent finds noted by bloggers have put further dents in the Obama campaign's core claim about its candidate's relationship with Bill Ayers, the unapologetic domestic terrorist who has not ruled out recidivism, as seen here at Obama's FightTheSmears.com home page:

The first was discovered by SeeDubya, former weekend blogger at Michelle Malkin's site. SeeDubya came out of retirement for one morning to note a neighborly reference to Obama by Ayers in the former Weather Underground leader's 1998 book on parenting.

The second is the revelation by blogger Verum Serum that Obama and Ayers were located on the same floor of a what I can show was a small building -- for three years.

Here is the passage SeeDubya spotted in Ayers's "A Kind and Just Parent" (a fuller text scan is at the link):

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Ayers's take on Farrakhan and his security detail also would seem to raise questions about the nature of Obama's relationship with the Nation of Islam leader, including whether the Obamas feel they owe Farrakhan or his flock any future favors for the extra level of protection Ayers clearly feels the Fruit have provided.

Then there are Verum Serum's findings:

(The) Chicago Annenberg Challenge website from 2002 shows the total amount of funds given to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop from 1995 to 2001. ..... According to this page, the total given under Barack Obama’s direct supervision was $1,056,162. Adding that amount to the money given by the Joyce Foundation and Woods Fund during Obama’s tenure brings the grand total to $1,968,718. Just shy of two million dollars! That’s a lot of scratch, to put it bluntly. And don’t forget, this doesn’t count the 3/4 million that went to John Ayers during the same time period.

..... (Also) Bill Ayers and Barack Obama shared an office. Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop, the one Obama directed all that money too (sic) is located at 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607.

..... In 1998, the address for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama presumably worked, was 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607.

Verum Serum has screen grabs supporting his same-address claim at his post, including web archive and tax return evidence that both the Annenberg Challenge and the Small Schools Project were located on the third floor.

If that was indeed the case, this Google Earth look, with address identifiers added by me, would indicate that there was not much, if any, elbow room between the two organizations (a larger version of the graphic is here):

115 S. Sangamon appears to have been demolished. A search at the Cook County Assessor's office for addresses between 100-150 S. Sangamon has no such listing:

The orange box added to the Google Earth shot approximates where 115 S. Sangamon might have been. By reference to parked vehicles in the Google Earth shot, it's hard to imagine that the third floor could have been any larger than 50x50. It was more than likely smaller than that.

With each additional finding, certainly including the ones noted here, it becomes even more obvious that the Fight the Smears site is where the "outright false" claims reside.

It also becomes ever clearer that Old Media's steadfast refusal to investigate the Obama-Ayers relationship beyond the most superficial level has been journalistically negligent, more than likely deliberately so.

"Tenuous," schmenuous.

Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.

—Tom Blumer is president of a training and development company in Mason, Ohio, and is a contributing editor to NewsBusters

[MHGinTN]

‘Old media’ are Marxist scum themselves, so their protecting this Marxist squirrel is not surprising. What is surprising is the steadfast refusal to ven cover their filthy butts when their sycophancy is revealed. You would think, since they are so corrupt, that they would at least send token ‘journalist’ out to look at the facts being revealed by real journalistic work! But no, these scum are so in the septic tank for thier Obamessiah t hat they don’t even think to do that and instead work to assassinate the character of a comman plumber who queries their scummy little squirrel.

[TexasCajun]

There is also a tie between the founder of ACORN, Bill Ayres, Obama and the Annenberg Foundation.

Another radical from the 60s.

[savedbygrace]

With each additional finding, certainly including the ones noted here, it becomes even more obvious that the Fight the Smears site is where the "outright false" claims reside.

I just wanted to read it again. HA!

[pallis]

Ayers had a dream, a reason for his radical terrorism. Barack is going to fulfill that dream. These guys are way beyond the dime a dozen Hugo Chavezs in the world. The US is finally going to become what all the intellectual Marxists have always wanted.

[Daniel Ramsey]

The sheeple are lost, they have a fat belly because the food was spread evenly, they are ripe and ready to be harvested, its too late to sway them but there is hope some will jump the corrals when they start hearing “The Silence of the Lambs”

Many of us bloggers have to be the wolves in sheeps clothing, vegetarian wolves mind you but we can save the flocks through persistent expose of the FACTS, the undeniable fact that Obama, AKA Barry has repeated history as the modern day Hitler, Mussolini, Chavez and even so far as possibly a Saddam Hussein.

I wish it was a simple fix like disabling a mind control radiowave transmitter like used in the movie “They Live” and letting the world see what is really controlling them, if it was so simple.
Sarah Palin is our version of Rowdy Roddy Piper, no doubt about that, and she has better ankles to boot.

[GOPJ]

With each additional finding, certainly including the ones noted here, it becomes even more obvious that the Fight the Smears site is where the "outright false" claims reside.

Would the MSM have treated Sarah the same way if she had directed money toward Timothy McVeigh - and shared an office with him? I think not.

What do Osama and Obama have in common - they both had friends who bombed the Pentagon. (from another FR thread)

[GOPJ]

Ayers's take on Farrakhan and his security detail also would seem to raise questions about the nature of Obama's relationship with the Nation of Islam leader, including whether the Obamas feel they owe Farrakhan or his flock any future favors for the extra level of protection Ayers clearly feels the Fruit have provided.

Then there are Verum Serum's findings:

(The) Chicago Annenberg Challenge website from 2002 shows the total amount of funds given to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop from 1995 to 2001. ..... According to this page, the total given under Barack Obama’s direct supervision was $1,056,162. Adding that amount to the money given by the Joyce Foundation and Woods Fund during Obama’s tenure brings the grand total to $1,968,718. Just shy of two million dollars! That’s a lot of scratch, to put it bluntly. And don’t forget, this doesn’t count the 3/4 million that went to John Ayers during the same time period.

..... (Also) Bill Ayers and Barack Obama shared an office. Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop, the one Obama directed all that money too (sic) is located at 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607.

..... In 1998, the address for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama presumably worked, was 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607.

Verum Serum has screen grabs supporting his same-address claim at his post, including web archive and tax return evidence that both the Annenberg Challenge and the Small Schools Project were located on the third floor.

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