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Dick Morris: The Obama-Ayers Connection
Real Clear Politics ^ | October 08, 2008 | Dick Morris

Posted on 10/07/2008 11:43:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

In the best tradition of Bill Clinton’s famous declaration that the answer to the question of whether or not he was having an affair with Monica depended on “what the definition of ‘is’ is,” Barack Obama was clearly splitting hairs and concealing the truth when he said that William Ayers was “just a guy who lives in my neighborhood.”

The records of the administration of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), released last week by the University of Illinois, show that the Ayers-Obama connection was, in fact, an intimate collaboration and that it led to the only executive or administrative experience in Obama’s life.

After Walter Annenberg’s foundation offered several hundred million dollars to American public schools in the mid-’90s, William Ayers applied for $50 million for Chicago. The purpose of his application was to secure funds to “raise political consciousness” in Chicago’s public schools. After he won the grant, Ayers’s group chose Barack Obama to distribute the money. Between 1995 and 1999, Obama distributed the $50 million and raised another $60 million from other civic groups to augment it. In doing so, he was following Ayers’s admonition to grant the funds to “external” organizations, like American Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) to pair with schools and conduct programs to radicalize the students and politicize them.

Reading, math and science achievement tests counted for little in the CAC grants, but the school’s success in preaching a radical political agenda determined how much money they got.

Barack Obama should have run screaming at the sight of William Ayers and his wife, Bernadette Dohrn.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2008; acorn; annenbergchallenge; ayers; ayersobamaconnection; bo; cac; democrat; democrats; dickmorris; election; elections; mccain; nobama08; obama; obamaayersconnection; obamatruthfile; pentagonbomber; proterrorist; rezko; votefraud; voterfraud
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dick Morris should try to be a bit more careful about names and facts. He writes: "Barack Obama should have run screaming at the sight of William Ayers and his wife, Bernadette Dohrn." As it happens, Ayers' wife is named Bernadine, not Bernadette (Morris, being the age he is, was probably thinking of the lovely and talented Bernadette Peters). And earlier this evening on "Hannity & Colmes", Morris mistakenly identified Ayers' wife as Kathy Boudin. But Boudin is the Weather Underground domestic terrorist who spent 22 years in prison for the 1981 Brinks robbery.

Such things are easy to check these days, Dick, and tripping on the small pebbles calls into doubt your sure-footedness on the boulders.

21 posted on 10/08/2008 12:43:39 AM PDT by snarks_when_bored
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Dick is always succinct and systematical. He thinks and reads dulcetly direct.
22 posted on 10/08/2008 12:44:55 AM PDT by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet


In my opinion the only thing that can stop Obama is exposing Black Liberation Theology and its/Obama's beliefs. It is the only thing that can shock voters and expose Obama as a Fraud.
23 posted on 10/08/2008 12:47:53 AM PDT by igoramus08
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To: anglian

It’s a pity you or I were not debating Obama tonight, but we weren’t. You are absolutely correct, Obama’s “tax cut” is welfare and income redistribution, period. McCain should have nailed him hard on that and referred to as wasteful spending and against hard working Americans who pay taxes.

Also, you may have noticed when Obama came off with the “McCain wants to give to the wealthiest, blah, blah, blah, blah”?

Again, an opportunity to nail Obama to the floor. No matter the income level, these people earned this money and no one is giving them a damn thing. How can you give one their own money? McCain might have then asked Obama if a poor man had ever given him a job.


24 posted on 10/08/2008 12:49:41 AM PDT by WildcatClan (The world is full of fatheads; so I invented Diet Shampoo)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The amount of money floating around the underground from various foundations is staggering.

Think of what could have been done for the schools in Chicago and then think of how that money was actually used to benefit of those exploiting those citizens


25 posted on 10/08/2008 12:53:37 AM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............but does have a bracelet!!!!)
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To: weegee

He didn’t mean domestic terrorists. And actually he wouldn’t even attack islamic terrorists. They are his friends.


26 posted on 10/08/2008 12:55:24 AM PDT by Carley (she's all out of caribou.............but does have a bracelet!!!!)
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To: snarks_when_bored
I heard those two mistakes tonight also, snarks. He really threw me on the Boudin mix-up.

Three degrees to Bernadine Dohrn. ;-)

27 posted on 10/08/2008 12:58:52 AM PDT by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: RobbyS
Why doesn’t McCain shows how the dots connect?

Up until 1-2 days ago, nobody had connected the dots.

28 posted on 10/08/2008 1:01:00 AM PDT by Rudder
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Cliche: “too little too late”. The only time it’s too late is Novemeber 5th.

What do you expect from the electorate? People’s
thinking is fluid not rigid. We are a month out and that is a long time.

The only cnadidate with major gaffes is Obama. McCain
does not have the baggage that Obama has.


29 posted on 10/08/2008 1:42:31 AM PDT by ChiMark
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To: TAdams8591
Ayers procured a Muslim gentleman, a member of the Black Panthers, who then raised money from prominent African Americans, to send Obama to Harvard law school. Barack obtained summer employment and employment after graduation from Harvard Law school through Ayers and his wife

And how did Ayers know Obama to do all this in 1988?

I'll tell you..

Because in 1982/83 when Obama was at Columbia, Bill Ayers was just 371 yards away down Broadway studying at Bank Street College of Education. They were co-located in New York for four years. They may even have lived together. We don't know because Obama won't reveal a single detail of his time in New York.

We do know they had mutual acquaintances, Edward Said being one.

30 posted on 10/08/2008 1:55:08 AM PDT by Wil H (No Accomplishments, No Experience, No Resume, No Records, No References, Nobama..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Go to some coffee shop frequented by leftist college students. They don’t care one iota about Obama’s past just the same as they didn’t care about the Clinton scandals a few years before. They are socialists & believe anything is ok so long as socialism goes forward.


31 posted on 10/08/2008 2:11:04 AM PDT by preacher (A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
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To: snarks_when_bored

I understand what you are saying, because this does give ammunition to those who not only know and understand, but do not care about this stuff.

However, it can also be easily pointed out to those who object to this mishandling of information that in this case, it is the equivalent of attacking the spelling or grammar of someone who makes a point.

Just because someone may mangle his birthdate or misspell Hitler’s name does not change who he was and what he did. (I think I avoided having Godwin’s law invoked by stating it in this context...:)

And so it is with Barack Obama.


32 posted on 10/08/2008 3:09:12 AM PDT by rlmorel (Who is Saul Alinsky and why is Barack Obama a disciple of his methods?)
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To: Texas4ever

We need to be bulldogs on this. Obama is chumming around with some creepy and sleazy friends. It matters.

Now to crawl inside an Obama supporter’s head:

I’m one of those rare people who can admit I’m wrong at the drop of a hat. Most people aren’t that way. They feel too insecure. [I get in insecure moods sometimes too, but it makes me feel ashamed.]

They will not admit that ‘their guy’ is wrong, but you can often see their self-doubt in their eyes. Once self-doubt is opened, he/she will need time to mull it over. Then the doubter seeks a support group. If the doubter catches one lie from his/her side — snap, mind changed.


33 posted on 10/08/2008 3:33:32 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (BO Change is BS Change. A little o Change to help Ayers and Raines.)
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To: Cindy

Who is “ALL” and does he/she really need to be spammed with links and graphics a hundred times a day?


34 posted on 10/08/2008 3:33:57 AM PDT by TankerKC (Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.)
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To: TankerKC; Lazamataz

I frequently post to ‘whoever’. One day, I was surprised to get a response from a poster named ‘whoever’. The guy didn’t much like what I had to say. But, I thought, he was the one who chose that screen name [not wise]. So I didn’t much care. I kept posting to ‘whoever’ whenever I darn well felt like it.

A week later, ‘whoever’ told me that he put me on his ‘ignore list’. I still post to ‘whoever’ all the time though.


35 posted on 10/08/2008 3:40:45 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (BO Change is BS Change. A little o Change to help Ayers and Raines.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
That's funny! Of course, I do post to ALL occasionally too. I'm just getting really, really peeved with all of the spam (off topic or links to their own blog/site) being posted. There are several Freepers doing it. I'm wearing out my scroll button when I look through the recent posts. ;)
36 posted on 10/08/2008 3:45:22 AM PDT by TankerKC (Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Morris was just on Fox & FRiends, he made it very simple to follow why it was important to reveal the relationship between Barak and Ayers.
37 posted on 10/08/2008 3:47:28 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. FReerepublic,com baby)
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To: TankerKC

Tanker, the link set changes 3 or times a day.
It’s not spam.

A good day to you sir.


38 posted on 10/08/2008 3:51:41 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: Cindy
It most definitely is off topic spam under any definition.
39 posted on 10/08/2008 3:54:41 AM PDT by TankerKC (Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.)
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To: TankerKC

TankerKC, if you have a complaint, handle it privately.
Hit the “Abuse” button and inform the moderator what
your complaint is.

That’s the big boy way.


40 posted on 10/08/2008 3:57:24 AM PDT by Cindy
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