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To: Blue Turtle

Yea but the MSM (now NPR) is trying to clear Obama Bin Biden of ties to Ayers, this time using a RINO. Can we freep NPR?

“On NPR today: “It was never a concern by any of us in the Chicago school reform movement that he had led a fugitive life years earlier,” said former Illinois state Republican Rep. Diana Nelson, who worked with both Obama and Ayers over the years. “It’s ridiculous. There is no reason at all to smear Barack Obama with this association. It’s nonsensical, and it just makes me crazy. It’s so silly.” The Obama campaign says he first met Ayers in 1995, when Obama became chair of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a $50 million fund that awarded grants to groups trying to implement new programs to improve inner city education in Chicago. Walter Annenberg, a lifelong Republican and former ambassador who was appointed by Presidents Nixon and Reagan, funded an ambitious program to reform urban education in many cities in the mid 1990s. Ayers was an important member of the group that developed and wrote the grant proposal to the Annenberg Foundation. ...no one on the board or on the Annenberg Challenge staff remembers Obama being any closer to Ayers than to any other member of the board. “


55 posted on 10/07/2008 1:44:17 PM PDT by VonMises2004
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To: VonMises2004

“...no one on the board or on the Annenberg Challenge staff remembers Obama being any closer to Ayers than to any other member of the board. “

Were they all “just people in the neighborhood?”


136 posted on 10/07/2008 3:34:01 PM PDT by jessduntno (Good Grief.)
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