Posted on 09/22/2008 9:48:56 PM PDT by maccaca
Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists. ... In works like "City Kids, City Teachers" and "Teaching the Personal and the Political," Mr. Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression. His preferred alternative? "I'm a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist," Mr. Ayers said in an interview in Ron Chepesiuk's, "Sixties Radicals," at about the same time Mr. Ayers was forming CAC.
CAC translated Mr. Ayers's radicalism into practice. Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with "external partners," which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn).
Mr. Obama once conducted "leadership training" seminars with Acorn, and Acorn members also served as volunteers in Mr. Obama's early campaigns. External partners like the South Shore African Village Collaborative and the Dual Language Exchange focused more on political consciousness, Afrocentricity and bilingualism than traditional education. CAC's in-house evaluators comprehensively studied the effects of its grants on the test scores of Chicago public-school students. They found no evidence of educational improvement
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Important news. I just wished the people who needed to hear it read the Wall Street Journal.
I wonder if any money was given to terrorist groups, under the guise of charity or education?
I just wish they could read.
You know what, I would venture to say a sizeable portion of them don’t read anything. They think Obama is nice. They think Obama will bring change. They watch Oprah. They get snippets of the news from the biased MSM. They hear disinformation about Republicans and Bush and conservatives and that’s what stays in their mind. They don’t try to find out anything because they don’t know enough to even be interested. They just want to feel good.
The Obamanation will NOT win on Nov. 4.
No matter how much the MSM propagandizes for him, word of this and his countless other failings and weaknesses WILL get around widely. We have blogs, email, talk radio..... the MSM cannot control the information flow ... no matter how hard they try they will fail this time.
As cynical as I can be, I refuse (yet) to believe that a majority of Americans could vote for this anti-American radical Trojan Horse for the demented left.
About time!!
Bump for the Truth.
I imagine this news will only prompt the WaPo and NYT to go interview more Alaskan librarians.
Too short a time is given to this stuff by O'reilly and too much to “pinheads and patriots” and the “back of the book segment”
Another good and important article on the same theme as many others, but hopefully with repetition and time the truth will get out to the masses.
Who had to eat the $100M excrement sandwich, and why have we not heard of any weeping and gnashing of teeth about that little fact? Why was there zerO responsibility visited upon Barry-Boy?
I'd bet there was educational degradation, correlated inversely with a greater likelihood of voting a straight Democrat ticket!
Add to that that both those outcomes were, in fact, grandly welcomed by the funder(s) of this CAC project, Barry was seen as the next standard bearer for the entire Dhimmacratic potty!
HF
very frigtening stuff. Obama will do wonder for Bin Laden in the white house. In the end, a military coup might be the only way to save US when bambi decides to trigger a nuclear bomb in DC at the order of Bin Laden.
Truly scary.
I hope you are right. I think this election will be very telling about exactly what the numbers are of the demented left.
Then email everyone you know, with documentation. Where is a Web site that has the following on one page, documented?
- Barack Obama’s grandparents
- Barack Obama’s father
- Barack Obama’s mother
- Frank Marshall Davis
- William Ayers & Bernadine Dohrn
- Khalid al Mansour
- Michelle “First Time” Obama
- Saul Alinsky’s ACORN
- Jeremiah Wright
- David Axelrod
- Tony Rezko
- Mazen Asbahi
- Raila Odinga
- Recent CEO’s of Fannie Mae, paid millions for the big bring-down
...the list of the Marxists, new-Marxist radicals, crooks, Islamists, and terrorists goes on, fitting around Obama like a plaster cast.
BTTT for more FReepers to read.
Now someone like AP needs to tie this story to ACORN’s ongoing problems with fraudulent voter registrations etc, Ayer’s wife Dorn’s history, amplify Ayer’s sordid history etc into one big story.
Dream on.
Wonder how much made it into his back pocket. More Chicago corruption.
Pray for W, McCuda and Our Troops
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