OK, after reading your super-duper links, I’ve read the answer to my question.
Wow... obama does seem to need a piece of paper with written answers or a promter to be in the public eye!!!
Thanks for the those great links!!!
You know, everybody says Nobama has no executive experience because he's 'never run anything in his life.'
Well, guess what? It just so happens that
he HAS run something at the executive level, and it was an utter failure.
Read this article by a guy named Steve Diamond who has followed the Nobama-Bill Ayers connection from the beginning:
That “Guy Who Lives in My Neighborhood”: Behind the Ayers-Obama Relationship
Some points of interest:
1. Nobama was the Chairman of the Board for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), which existed from 1995-2001 as a way to use $50 Mil. of Walter Annenberg's philanthropic money combined with $60 Mil. from public and private funds.
2. CAC had 3 pieces: the Board (led by Nobama, made all funding decisions), the Chicago Schools Collaborative (known as The Collaborative, led by Ayers, was the operational arm where the money was spent), and the Consortium of Chicago Schools Research, which was to measure their effectiveness.
3. The whole thing was aimed at wresting control of Chicago schools by recruiting and electing Local School Councils (LSCs) so they could force schools to do it Ayers' way.
4. Among the recipients of the funding was a guy named Mike Klonsky, an unabashed Maoist, who thought so much of Mao and gang that he visitied China in the 70's and came back with the appellation that his pro-maoist organization was the de-facto Communist Party of America. Klonsky was a crony of Ayers in the SDS, and, like Ayers, went on to a teaching career. He got the CAC money to teach 'Social Justice Workshops', which were nothing more than seminars to spew his Marxist-Leninist theory.
Mike Klonsky is now part of the Nobama campaign, and runs a blog on the Nobama website.
5. And finally, since the CAC was a non-profit that accepted public funds, their records were supposed to be accessible by the public from the University of Illinois Chicago library -- except when Stanley Kurtz tried to see them, they were mysteriously
withdrawn and classified as 'Restricted'.
Bottom line is that the CAC, jointly run by Nobama and Bill Ayers, and after spending $110 Million, had absolutely no effect on test scores or on the improvement of the delivery of public education in Chicago, but kept Ayers and his buddies like Klonsky fully-funded for about 7 years...and Ayers is the guy Nobama wants us to believe is 'just some guy who lives my neighborhood'...;-))