Posted on 10/06/2008 7:47:21 PM PDT by DHarry
My pleasure
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122212856075765367.html
Check out this link for more details.
FOX aired segments all weekend on how the democrats caused the financial crisis. Now CNN is digging into this...This is a very welcome change.
Wasn't Odinga the one responsible for the burning alive of all those women and children who were trapped in that church?
EXCELLENT!
Sent to Drudge and Malkin. Let’s get this vid widely distributed.
“Because the C in CNN still stands for clinton”
OR “Chicken Noodle News”. LOL
Can't wait to see Bigfoot tomorrow. ;o)
G'nite
The chickens are coming home to roost! Obama and Ayers ...
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/ayers-dohrn-obama-tie-shouldnt-be-dismissed/
http://www.gop.com/News/NewsRead.aspx?Guid=768aa784-72f3-4b43-acb6-c5fe81d901cd
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/10/where-are-we-now-update-on-ayersobama.html
1) The key question is whether Bill Ayers had a role in the selection of Barack Obama to become Chairman and President of the $160 million Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a multi year school reform effort started in 1995.
2) This is the key question because if it is true that Ayers played a role in Obama’s selection it indicates that Ayers and Obama had a pre-existing relationship.
3) If Ayers and Obama did have a pre-existing relationship it undermines claims by the Obama Campaign that the relationship between Ayers, an authoritarian political figure who once engaged in bombings to implement his politics, was “tenuous” or “casual” and that Ayers was just a neighbor of Obama’s in Hyde Park.
4) I believe that Obama and Ayers shared a similar world view with respect to education issues, at least. For example, during their time together running the Chicago Annenberg Challenge they supported funding for groups like the Small Schools Workshop and Local School Councils. These groups were criticized as engaging in “teacher bashing” by union activists and as a “political threat” to school principals by Arnold Weber, a fellow Annenberg board member.
5) I have presented evidence here at Global Labor that Ayers did in fact play a direct and personal role in Obama’s elevation to the CAC board. This evidence consists of letters exchanged at the time of these events between the national Annenberg Challenge led by Vartan Gregorian, the President of Brown University, and Bill Ayers, on the one hand, and between Gregorian and Adele Simmons, President of the MacArthur Foundation, an advisor to Ayers, on the other.
hose letters state clearly that Ayers was actively engaged in the board selection process in November and December of 1994.
I described those letter to the Times when asked about this and provided them copies.
6) I also argued that these letters are consistent with the legal responsibility Ayers had as the representative of the recipient of the $50 million Annenberg Challenge grant.
7) According to the Obama campaign and now according to emails I have received from the New York Times, Ayers had “nothing” to do with the selection of Obama for the board Chairmanship.
They claim that according to Deborah Leff and Patricia Graham that only Leff and Graham recruited and nominated Obama, respectively. However, in their published story the Times did not quote Leff to that effect. Neither did the Obama campaign in its statement on the matter. I have asked the Times for clarification.
8) If Leff and Graham current recollection is true then the written contemporaneous documentation I provided to the Times (letters to and from Vartan Gregorian and Ayers) appears to be contradicted and this leads to a very odd conclusion: that Leff, a lawyer, and Graham went around the back of the legal representative of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (Ayers) to recruit and nominate the CAC board Chairman (Obama).
Why would they have done that? In fact, I do not think they did.
9) In August of 1994, Leff wrote a letter to Brown’s Gregorian lauding Bill Ayers for his leadership in organizing the grant application and said that her Joyce Foundation was awarding $80,000 to his Annenberg working group, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, to continue their work to secure and establish the Annenberg program. This Collaborative was the group which Ayers represented when he submitted the final Annenberg grant application in November.
Thus, as of August, 1994, Leff’s Joyce Foundation also recognized officially that Ayers was the formal agent for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge applicant, the Collaborative, and they were financially aiding him in that effort.
In addition, letters from the Governor of Illinois, the Mayor of Chicago, the Superintendent of the Chicago school system, the Executive Director of the Woods Fund, the Executive Director of the Polk Bros. Foundation, the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Council of Chicago Area Deans of Education all sent to Vartan Gregorian acknowledge the leading role of Ayers and/or the Collaborative he formed in the formation of the Annenberg Challenge.
10) To accept the story 14 years later of the Times and the Obama campaign requires us to conclude that Leff, unilaterally against her own board of directors (which in November added Obama), went around the back of Bill Ayers to impose on him secretly Barack Obama as the chair of the Annnenberg Challenge! That is a remarkable conclusion - and of course one that is not yet backed up by Leff herself!
Why not? Most likely because Leff as a lawyer understands now as she did then that whatever her personal role in the selection process, the legal power that Ayers possessed, as the agent of the CAC grant recipient - the Collaborative, to either reject or accept Obama as CAC Board Chairman was clear.
Thus, while Ayers may not have suggested the Obama name directly to Leff, only Ayers could approve of the appointment of Obama. No one else possessed the legal power to do so.
IIRC, many of these perps turned on Hillary in favor of Obie. Revenge is best served cold.
"So, if Obama and Ayres got together to improve education, what problem does the McCain/Palin camp have with that?"
Totally trying to take the entire article they had aired and trivialize it to the point of irrelevance.
The Clintons are more pragmatic...they sometimes do the right thing (usually for the wrong reason, to be sure). Obama may be so ideological that he’ll be much more radical. If he gets a filibuster-proof Senate, heaven help us.
There has to be a way to expose Axelrod. Someone that embedded in Obama’s Communist effort to take over America, must have deep connections.
Well, my take is people in the MSM buy stocks/investments too. Maybe they are waking up to the fact of how much money these RATS lost for them with their stupid policies. Payback time....
Obama MUST be defeated!
Ah, the old “That wasn’t the mother I knew” excuse!
Great job, thank you.
bump
Thank you! Job well done.
His “peeps”
Drew Griffen did a good job. I didn’t see anything in the report that mentions that the Obama campaign filed lawsuits against an independent group that produced a TV commercial pointing out the Obama/Ayers relationship. If Obama is suing people who are merely trying to exercise their free speech rights it gives voters a window into how Obama would clampdown on any opposing viewpoint if he had the chance. If you extrapolate forward it seems like a short jump to federally enforced speech-codes. Seems like a dealbreaker for many voters.
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