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'This story is going to kill Obama at the polls'
American Thinker ^ | 8/24/08 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 08/24/2008 9:32:44 AM PDT by pissant

Clarice Feldman lays out the reasons why the William Ayers/Annenberg Challenge story will seriously damage the candidacy of The One. A sample:

...the story was that Ayers was an old professor in Mr. Obama’s neighborhood who just happened to host a fundraiser for him in 1995 which launched his political career.

Some mush was thrown in along the way about having served with him on a charity board, but Obama did not correctly describe the charity or the dates or the extent of their association on it.

The truth is that the two men worked closely together for years, beginning several months before that 1995 fundraiser. The fund Obama chaired and which was supposed to improve public education in Chicago never met its stated purpose of improving public school pupils’ performance and, in fact, probably hindered it, despite having blown through $110 million in the process. And as chairman of this group Obama funneled this money to politically useful types including Fidelistas and Maoists who like Ayers (now vice-president elect of the American Education Research Association) are working to make our public schools indoctrination centers for the left .

Once the public learns more of the CAC, will the voters decide that the manner in which Obama exercised his sole opportunity at executive authority was so good that he deserves the keys to the Oval Office?


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: annenbergchallenge; billayers; damncommies; larrysinclairslover; obama; obamasecrets; uic; williamayers
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To: pissant

What story will?

A pro-nuclear power, pro-drilling statement?

A statement against gun control?

Did he say something about the Iraq war being a good thing for the world?

Did he point out that the income tax never taxes “rich”, just those who are trying to make money?

Nope. This is just an anti-American supporting another anti-American. The media won’t even mention it in passing.


41 posted on 08/24/2008 10:11:37 AM PDT by dan1123 (If you want to find a person's true religion, ask them what makes them a "good person".)
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To: pissant
"....Obama funneled this money to politically useful types including Fidelistas and Maoists....."

I would like to see that, and this image of Obama's campaign Headquarters played in ads in South Florida!

it would cement Florida IMHO.


42 posted on 08/24/2008 10:12:22 AM PDT by za_claws
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To: Popman; Calpernia

Cal, do you have this?


43 posted on 08/24/2008 10:13:35 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: varon
The general public will not understand the significance nor relevancy of this information

....and sadly, nor do they care.

The last 20 years, and particularly the last 4 years, have been devastating for patriotism and honor in the U.S. We are now faced with the prospect of actually having the lunatic, traitorous left succeed in getting a hard line marxist elected POTUS.

If McCain cannot convince the third of Americans who are wishy-washy "centrists" that Obummer is not a good choice, and the left gets all of what they want, Obummer just might try to be like Chavez....

I will be 71 years old in Nov. and this is the scariest election in my lifetime.

44 posted on 08/24/2008 10:14:34 AM PDT by B.O. Plenty (I am not ....him!)
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To: Pamlico

I understand why that would cause some confusion. However, as someone stated above, McCain was up by 5 points before the church forum, in which he killed Obama, so it would make sense that he’d be up more than 5 points now. However, I can’t find any link to prove it, at the moment.


45 posted on 08/24/2008 10:14:45 AM PDT by library user
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To: quintr
If I were one of the poor folks living in Chicago’s south side, or west side, I’d want to know why the likes of Obama and Wright and Biden live in multi-million dollar digs while they live in public housing that can’t even get heat in the winter!!

The Admin Moderator will almost certainly delete this comment [in 3, 2, 1 seconds...], but if you were "one of the poor folks living in Chicago’s south side", then you wouldn't be intelligent enough to wonder "why the likes of Obama and Wright and Biden live in multi-million dollar digs" while you lived "in public housing".

Moral of the Story being that, in the long run, people tend to get the kind of government that they deserve.

46 posted on 08/24/2008 10:19:50 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: pissant

This story will get zero coverage by the MSM and other than in blogs and maybe on Fox News will this ever see the light of day.


47 posted on 08/24/2008 10:20:31 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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To: pissant

I’ld be happy to rip it and make it a thread; but it is 138 pages long.


48 posted on 08/24/2008 10:22:44 AM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

“Diamond is fairly certain that Barack has known the Ayerses and Michelle has known Dohrn for WELL OVER 20 YEARS NOW.”

And don’t they all connect back to Daley?


49 posted on 08/24/2008 10:23:58 AM PDT by Heart of Georgia
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To: pissant

“The fund Obama chaired and which was supposed to improve public education in Chicago never met its stated purpose of improving public school pupils’ performance and, in fact, probably hindered it,”

Shocking!
So - when The-One-We-Have-Been-Waiting-For proposes neat goodies like free college, free health care,subsidized green tech, free daycare, free preschool, free abortions,and new civilian peace-keeping force - we can’t look at any previous work he can point to and say “there! I set out to accomplish something and I did it!”

His previous adventures were failures?

And he STILL thinks he’s so much smarter than everyone that he should take charge of most of the private sector?


50 posted on 08/24/2008 10:24:51 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Calpernia

Geez, I think we better stick with links and excerpts. LOL


51 posted on 08/24/2008 10:25:23 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: library user

I saw a little bit of that ABC show.

Cokie had fear in her eyes.


52 posted on 08/24/2008 10:26:01 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Huck

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working to make our public schools indoctrination centers for the left
<<

Which is why McCain’s positive mention of homeschooling and vouchers is so important.

It is time for conservatives to put their money where there mouth is and take your children out of public school.


53 posted on 08/24/2008 10:26:50 AM PDT by theBuckwheat
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To: pissant
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54 posted on 08/24/2008 10:26:53 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: 2Jedismom; StarCMC; metmom; Tired of Taxes

See the PDF at the link in post 38?

On page 77 of that PDF there is charting of studies to measure how much influence teachers have on influencing students in their decision making. And influence in what those teachers had in the schools themselves.

You may want to clip this and look it over for your homeschool information.


55 posted on 08/24/2008 10:28:01 AM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: KayEyeDoubleDee

the public might think the story is a big yawn unless something more concrete is handed to them.
If they are confronted with the photos/bios of the murder victims and if grieving family members come forward - that is something that is not easily ignored.

They need to show America - “Here! THIS man was murdered by David Ayers and his friends! THIS man’s life means nothing to Obama or he wouldn’t have befriended one of the murderers!”


56 posted on 08/24/2008 10:29:54 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: B.O. Plenty

Well, B.O. - this just means that you will have to live to at least a hundred and stand and deliver in the patriot category. So, start taking better care of yourself, it’s going to be a bumpy ride.

(If Obama - another B.O., at least you have that in common with him - is not elected this time, the likelihood of Hillary still being viable in the next election is still with us. If he does get elected this time, the public will soon get a belly full of his “change” and the Democrat Party will go the way of Carter. - I worry more about a royal dynasty takeover by the Clintons than anyone.) Obama won’t have the advantage of the Reagan economic results that Bill Clinton had a decade later that made BC look good.

That said, I still don’t want Obama/Biden.


57 posted on 08/24/2008 10:31:38 AM PDT by Twinkie (TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT !!!)
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To: Heart of Georgia
And don’t they all connect back to Daley?

No, if you read Diamond's work on it, it's kinda weird - Ayers's and Obama's program was so radical - so Maoist/Castroite/Sandinistan in nature, and such an obvious power grab - that even the Chicago teachers' unions recoiled in horror:

Behind the Annenberg Gate: Inside the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Records
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/08/behind-annenberg-gate-inside-chicago.html
So Daley and Ayers/Obama were actually ENEMIES within the snake pit of Chicago politics until very recently, when Daley decided to let bygones be bygones and bury the hatchet and hitch his wagon to the rising star of The One We've Been Waiting For™.
58 posted on 08/24/2008 10:34:25 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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To: pissant; 2Jedismom; StarCMC; metmom; Tired of Taxes

The entire PDF at post 38 is measured success and narrowed factors of success in producing little radicals. No kidding. That is a university tracked study to show what needs to be done to produce more successful outcomes of little radicals.


59 posted on 08/24/2008 10:35:25 AM PDT by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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To: Scotswife
"Here! THIS man was murdered by David Ayers and his friends!"

WILLIAM Ayers [specifically William Charles "Bill" Ayers].

But I agree with your general idea, and I believe that there may have been one or two policemen who were murdered by the Weather Underground over the years [both in bombings and in bank robberies].

60 posted on 08/24/2008 10:37:35 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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