Posted on 09/11/2008 10:18:57 PM PDT by SatinDoll
Mike Klonsky : Obama blogger
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Mike Klonsky has had a blog on Obama's official website for a few months now (His first article is from February)...
Soooo who's Mike Klonsky?...
Quote: Michael Klonsky (born 1943) is an American educator and political activist. He is perhaps most famous for being National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society in 1968...
...On May 12, 1969, Klonsky and four other SDSers were arrested at the organization's Chicago national headquarters for assaulting a police officer, interfering with a firefighter, and inciting mob action[/b]. A prank call to a local police station said there had been a shooting at SDS' offices. When the police arrived, Klonsky and the others were convinced it was a ruse to gain access to SDS' offices.[1] Klonsky convinced the police everything was fine, when a second prank call brought local firefighters to the scene. When the police attempted to force entry to the offices, Klonsky and the others resisted. Convinced state repression of SDS was coming, Klonsky told a national television audience on CBS' "Face the Nation" that police repression of the New Left was being planned by the U.S. Department of Justice...
...At SDS' June 1969 national convention in Chicago, Klonsky played a major role in the dissolution of the organization. A group of 11 SDS national leaders—including Bernardine Dohrn, Jeff Jones, John Jacobs, Mark Rudd, Bill Ayers, Terry Robbins, and Howie Machtinger—had met in April and May of 1969 to craft a response to PL supporters within SDS. Their article, "You Don't Need A Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows," was published in New Left Notes on June 18, 1969, the day the convention opened. The "Weatherman" statement denounced imperialism and racism, and repudiated PL's claim that youth culture was bourgeois. The Weatherman statement called for revolutionary violence at home to stop imperialism, and the formation of collectives in major cities to support violence and stop factionalism.
Maybe you'd like to see a little more from our Weatherman friend?...
Quote: In late 1969, Klonsky founded the October League, a communist party which in 1977 became the Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist. He was elected the party's chairman. The group opposed Gay Liberation and supported the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran. Klonsky made several trips to China beginning in July 1977, where he was warmly received by government and Communist Party of China officials and treated to state dinners.
Now either you believe that Obama complicitly allows this thing to happen on his blogs because of his association or you believe that their campaign site is run by such ignorant people that they unknowingly and freely let anyone who feels like blogging get their own page...
Of course, you could easily say "maybe Obama doesn't know anything about this loon and doesn't want anything to do with him!"...
tsk, tsk, tsk...Not so easy, my compadres...read on...
Quote: In 1991, Klonsky co-founded the Small Schools Workshop in Chicago
Co-founded?...
Wonder who co-founded it with him?...
Quote: William Ayers, Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society, teaches courses in interpretive and qualitative research, urban school change, and teaching and the modern predicament.
Okaaaaayy...
So what does this have to do with Barack Obama?...
Well let's look at the grant support for this workshop...
Quote: GRANT SUPPORT
Grants obtained for the support of the Small Schools Workshop and/or the Chicago Forum for School Change at the University of Illinois at Chicago, co-director, principal investigator.
Annenberg Challenge -1997 - 260,000
Annenberg Challenge?...What's that?...
Hmmm....wonder who the chairman of the Annenberg Challenge was in 1997....
Quote: Obama served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge from 1995–2002, as founding president and chairman of the board of directors from 1995–1999
There you have it folks...
Mike Klonsky - Communist leader...and along with Bill Ayers, promoter of American terrorism, created a school workshop that received a grant from the Annenberg Challenge, the Chicago branch created by Bill Ayers and had Barack Obama as president and chairman, and now Klonsky gets his own little blog on Obama's offical website...
But you're not supposed to believe in "guilt by association", eh?...
Let's look back at what Obama said about Bill Ayers...
Quote: At the debate, Obama said of Ayers: “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis. And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.”
When Bill Ayers started the Annenberg Challenge and YOU became the founding president and chairman of it, you weren't 8 years old dummy...
Only your blind supporters are willing to bypass it... __________________ "You get the respect that you give" - cnredd
SDS’ers were real pains in the 70’s when I was in college. Most students looked at them pretty much as a lunatic fringe.
Once they'd found the real thing they dropped Klonsky and his slavering buddies like rocks.
Keep exposing these vermin to the light of day
Some more detail...excerpted from a blog..
June 27, 2008
Mike Klonsky Joins the Crowd under Obama’s Bus
Another militant kook has joined the crowd under Obama’s bus. Gateway Pundit reports:
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.
Unsurprisingly, Klonsky was such a big supporter of Obama, he had a community blog on BHO’s official website — until the other day, when he was airbrushed out of existence, just like a disfavored party member in the late and lamented (by moonbats) Soviet Union.
Bump!
Yep. And they’re not exactly a group considered to be be “independent” and “unassociated”.
excellent research. Obama nailed again to radical left wing lunatics. He’s a marxist plain and simple. I sure hope this all gets blown across this nation, sea to sea.
Put a fork in Obama. He’s done.
More links for Obama and the communists. Ayers is still a communist though the media refuses to identify him as such. Klonsky is too, though he softpedals his maoism.
The rest of his family are reds, so why shouldn’t he? He was a “red diaper baby” thru his father Robert, a CPUSA stalwart.
The longer I consider Obama’s associations, I conclude he is the radical pig wearing the lipstick of mainstream respectability.
The truh is being hidden, which muslims call “al taqiyyah.”
Anyway Weatherman went for the disaffected white petite bourgeois youth like Ayers, Dohrn, Rudd, Howie themselves were. Rudd's dad was actually a colonel in the Air Force if I remember correctly. Direct action was so much more romantic that the hard organizing PLP and RYM2, the faction which aimed at community organizing in close association with the Black Panther Party. It eventually took over the Uptown neighborhood and it leader Slim Coleman put Helen Schiller into an alderman's seat were she still poisons what she can. Slim is now running the “Reverend” scam. I would expect he would be a recipient of these grants as well through his "church".
Enjoying the fruits of hard work in a capitalistic society yearning for the USSR...the disorder is evident.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/01/obamas-man-in-k.html
Well, that didn’t take long, I was listening to the Rusty Humpries radio show about 5 hours ago and he had on an author who said to watch out for the name Mike Klonsky.
The author mentioned that he should have something coming out on Monday about Klonsky.
Obama’s whole campaign is riddled with former SDS folks. Guess those are the only types Bill Ayers is comfortable at having around him.
Can he produce one friend for me who isn’t a radical anti-American, ONE? How about a neighbor, a bitter/clinger type or something?
I am going to relish his crushing defeat, I’m going to drink coffee and stay up all night reading DU and Kos and laugh until my eyes bleed.
This surprises you..how?
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