The Authoritarian Radicals: Barack Obama, Bill Ayers and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge

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Great catch on that little detail of the Post American World.

How does one go about downloading it? Downloading priveledges seem to be restricted.

You have to create a free account. If you wish I could email it to you - just provide email address (if you wish).

Click on the link posted, click on ‘download’, click on one of the download locations (I used Stanford). Your download should start.

Thanks for the info. I thought you have to be a member of one of those universities to receive it.

Here’s the rest of it from:
http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/10/05/how-did-ayers-make-obama-chair-of-the-chicago-annenberg-challenge/

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.

At their November meeting together, Ayers may have delegated to Leff, Ayers and Simmons the task of recruiting a pool of potential board candidates but only he could give the final approval - a condition of the Collaborative’s receipt of the grant, as set forth in the exchange of letters between Gregorian and Ayers.

There are any number of ways that Ayers could have gotten Obama’s name into the mix.

For example, how did Leff think of Obama? Perhaps because Ayers had suggested his name to Simmons - an old friend of Leff’s from their days at Princeton - who passed it on to Leff without telling Leff that the name came from Ayers. Perhaps because Ayers had first suggested Obama to Leff for the Joyce Foundation board earlier in 1994 and then it occurred to Leff that Ayers would approve of Obama for the CAC as well.

Or perhaps when Ayers asked Leff to help with the selection process he provided her with clear guidance on the kind of board chair he wanted: someone young, dynamic, a lawyer, with a background of supporting the CAC agenda of school reform, and someone who represented, as committed by Ayers to Gregorian, the racial and ethnic diversity of Chicago. There were actually very few, if any, such individuals in Chicago other than Barack Obama, in light of the hostility of mainstream black organizations to the CAC agenda.

Or perhaps Leff, Simmons and Graham came up with several names and only when Obama’s was finally mentioned did Ayers grant his approval.

It does not really matter how Obama’s name got into the mix because in the end only Ayers had the legal authority to approve of Obama, whether or not Leff, Simmons and Graham understood that, much less the New York Times. Only if the Collaborative had revoked Ayers power to represent them, could that have changed. Of course, the opposite happened - they made Ayers co-chair and he represented the Collaborative at the board meetings of the CAC itself once it was established in March, 1995.

Actually, the Times indirectly confirms this explanation when it quoted Ben Labolt that Ayers and Obama met for lunch, after Obama met with Graham. Since LaBolt says this was the “first time” Ayers and Obama met, this lunch must have taken place before the CAC’s first board meeting in March of 1995. Although it is undoubtedly true that Ayers and Obama met long before this, that is legally sufficient evidence that Ayers approved of Obama as the board chair.

To test this proposition, ask what would have happened if Ayers, as the legal agent of the CAC grant recipient had said after that lunch, no, I do not want this person for the board? Leff, Graham and Simmons would have had no choice but to go back to the drawing board. They were only agents of Bill Ayers, the legal representative of the Collaborative, for the purpose of recruiting potential board members. They had no legally cognizable ability to impose a choice on Ayers and the Collaborative. This is true no matter what Graham or others may have thought when they told the Times that Ayers was not involved.

The individual with the legal power to overrule a decision is the person with the actual decision making authority.

That was Bill Ayers and his decision was: Barack Obama.

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I am a lawyer, political scientist and law professor. I teach courses and conduct research on the global capital markets, business law, international human rights and labor law.

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SusanUnPC’s note: We all know Steve Diamond for his investigative work on Obama’s ties to Bill Ayers. Steve is a lawyer, political scientist and law professor. His blog is Global Labor and Politics.

This lawyer has done extensive research into the relationship between Ayers & BHO. If you read through his investigative work, it appears that that the trail extends at least back to 1988. He also does a great job explaining Neo-Stalinism, Reparations, and Political Philosophy as related to BHO’s potential agenda throughout the blogs listed on the right-hand column.

Many of his opinions are worthy of posts of their own and would contribute significantly to the board. I’m not sure of all the posting rules & regs and don’t want to repost info that has already surfaced here. So I’m leaving it up to you guys, I hope someone will capitalize on these and post a few of them.
Thanks.
G

http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-sent-obama.html

Who “sent” Obama?
Global Labor and Politics ^ | 04/22/2008 | Steve Diamond

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 3:57:18 AM by Diamond

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2088622/posts

Thank you, Gemsbok.

I let a few things get in the way of producing that page yesterday. A bit tied up at the moment too. Hope to ping you very soon!

Make sure that you see Diamond’s Blog. His writing & research gives a bird’s eye view into the leftist mind of the nominnee, ‘Dear Leader.’
Only one of the articles has been published on FR to the best of my knowledge.
I hope that someone will comb thru & post many more as time & space will allow..
Thanks.
G

http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-sent-obama.html

Date posted: September 02, 2008 ; Last revised: September 17, 2008