Penetrating Insights into the Obvious
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
Apparently Obama is not only cool but cold. he is doesn’t even relate to reporters who have been his biggest boosters. If elected, he would join Wilson, Hoover, and Carter in the presidential prig club.
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/10/07/politics/fromtheroad/entry4507703.shtml
Thank you very much for the link, Robby. Interesting article. In addition to your comment, it also appears McCain’s campaign is better organized, which as he’s a Republican, is not surprising. : )
In the interests of accuracy, I’ll correct my own correction of Dick Morris: apparently, it’s ‘Bernardine Dohrn’, not ‘Bernadine Dohrn’. I, too, was distracted by the lovely and talented Bernadette Peters when I wrote my earlier comment!
Not that there's anything wrong wirh that. :-)
LOL, snarks. Even we gals get distracted by the lovely and talented Bernadette Peters. ;-)
Not that there's anything wrong wirh that. :-)
Indeed!
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