The MSM, including Fox on occassion, has had to be dragged kicking and screaming to any major revelations about who this charlatan has surrounded himself with.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
The MSM, including Fox on occassion, has had to be dragged kicking and screaming to any major revelations about who this charlatan has surrounded himself with.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
This has been out since April. I have yet to see the MSM, or the McCain campaign, pick it up and run with it.
That is discouraging!
BIG STORY from a fellow leftist who states:
-I have pointed to the joint participation of Senator Obama and Professor Bill Ayers in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an education reform project, as evidence of an older and deeper relationship between Ayers and Obama than the Senator has acknowledged.
- Ayers has put a racialist stamp on his politics for several decades. He was part of the leadership of the Weather Underground group in the late 1960’s that broke apart the Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS. He argued then, as he does now, that “white supremacy” is the original sin of American life.
- The Alliance for Better Chicago Schools (“ABCs”) was formed then to push for the LSC idea in the Illinois state legislature. Active in the ABCs was Bill Ayers, Barack Obama’s Developing Communities Project...
- As I have argued elsewhere on this blog, I do not think that the link made here between the LSC’s and “democracy” is, in fact, accurate. I think that such “councils” look eerily similar to efforts by regimes like those in Nicaragua under the Sandinistas and Venezuela under Chavez to impose control over teachers and their independent unions by an authoritarian regime. Thus, it is not a surprise to me that Bill Ayers has traveled several times in recent years to Venezuela where he has spoken in front of Hugo Chavez and has enthusiastically applauded that regime’s efforts to link education policy to the Chavez “revolution.”
As Ayers stated in a speech there in November 2006 “La educacion es Revolucion!” He applauded “the profound educational reforms underway here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chavez” and he said he “share[d] the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution.”
- The Ayers/Hallett proposal described a three-piece structure established to carry out the CAC. The three “over-lapping entities each of which has clear tasks and responsibilities” included:
“The Chicago Annenberg Challenge Board (the Board); the Chicago School Reform Collaborative (the Collaborative); and the Consortium of Chicago Schools Research (CCSR).”
The first chairman of the CAC Board was Barack Obama, at that point, 33 years old and a third year associate at Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a small Chicago law firm.
He began the Board position in early 1995 and stepped down from the chairmanship in late 1999, though he remained on the Board until the CAC phased itself out of existence and handed off its remaining assets to a permanent new institution, the Chicago Public Education Fund, in 2001.
- The co-chair of the CAC’s Collaborative from 1995 until 2000 was Bill Ayers. In 1997 Ayers was named Chicago’s “Citizen of the Year” for his work on the CAC.
Thus, the leaders of the two operative arms of the CAC from its inception until 2000 were Bill Ayers and Barack Obama.
- I. Conclusion: an academic failure but political success?
The Challenge allowed Barack Obama and Bill Ayers to work together, no doubt closely, in the heat of political battle to help disburse more than $100 million to allies, particularly in the LSCs, in the Chicago School system. Under the circumstances, it seems more than a bit disingenuous of Senator Obama to dismiss Bill Ayers as “some guy who lives in my neighborhood.”
I was at the local airport today. The ignorance of some people is what is frightening and appalling. I saw one woman with a very oversized shirt that read “I (heart symbol) Obama.” I saw another woman with an Obama pin that read “Change.” I saw a guy with a CCCP T-shirt and an Obama button and then I saw a gent with a T-shirt that read “1-20-09 Bush’s Last Day” wearing a baseball cap crooked and the galling image of two pair of pants — the outer pair halfway down the posterior. All four were in their 20’s.
Obama’s first TV ad for the general election: “America is a nation of strong families and strong values. I was raised by a single mom and my grandparents.”
What’s interesting to me is that he offers being brought up by a single mom and grandparents as AN EXAMPLE of a strong family, rather than family dissolution!
Proving that Newspeak has become the American language.
Outstanding post. Thanks 4buttons. Fascinating read/links. Thanks powerlineblog & Steve Diamond.
No Commie Left Behind? Bill POS Ayers (in my 1st deck of domestic enemies playing cards) BUMP!
I’m appalled that people like Ayers have influence in this society. Only buttheaded academics at a University would want the despicable man as a colleague.