Posted on 10/09/2008 5:49:45 PM PDT by Chet 99
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But the relationship between Obama and Ayers went deeper, ran longer and was more political than Obama -- and his surrogates -- have revealed, documents and interviews show.
A review of board minutes and records by CNN show Obama crossed paths repeatedly with Ayers at board meetings of the Annenberg Challenge Project.
The Annenberg Foundation gave the project a $50 million grant to match local private funds to improve schools, and Ayers fought to bring the grant to Chicago, according to participants and project records.
The project's organizing committee asked Obama to serve as the board chairman in 1995. Annenberg Project Executive Director Ken Rollings said Ayers was not a member of that ad hoc group when the decision was made.
For seven years, Ayers and Obama -- among many others -- worked on funding for education projects, including some projects advocated by Ayers.
"The specific job of the board of directors was to give out the money," said Stanley Kurtz, a conservative researcher for the Ethics and Public Policy Center and frequent Obama critic.
"Instead of giving money directly to schools, they gave money to what they call external partners and these partners were often pretty radical community organizer groups," said Kurtz, who also has been reviewing the Annenberg Challenge's recently released records.
The board, for example, gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bill Ayers' small schools project. The project promoted alternative education, including projects like the Peace School -- where the curriculum centered on a United Nations theme -- and another school where the focus was African-American studies.
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I think it’s telling we haven’t heard anything from Ayers himself. BO needs Ayers to come out and say they were not associates and I’m not a terrorist. But it’s too big a lie, so Ayers has to shut up.
That was the point of campaign TV work done at the Berlin Wall -- to allude that Obama is another JFK.
Yet JFK had the savvy JFK knew they were wrong in appeasing Hitler.
Now Obama claims he knew nothing about Bill Ayers and his past.
That is incompetence...
The President of the United States should not be doing an intimation of Bozo the clown. Foreign powers will pounce on the US during such a Presidency...
Yet JFK had the savvy to know that appeasing Hitler was wrong. He disagreed withhis own father (Joe Kennedy, Sr.) as well as Prime Minister Neveille Chamberlain on this issue. JFK knew they were wrong in appeasing Hitler with the Munich Pact.
Ping to CNN article.
One of the best parts of the movie "An American Carol" is when the JFK "ghost" comes back and tells off the Michal Moore character. It's classic!
Wow, this from CNN? :-O
Why is Mr. Kurtz's political affiliation mentioned when Mr. Rollings' isn't? Hmmmm?
Thanks for the ping.
“They want not only Change and Hope,they want our money”
Or you could say that their “Change” and “Hope” IS YOUR MONEY...Nothing else!
That is turning USA into a welfare state and then a kind of third world country with big uneducated minorities(becoming majorities)living from public benefits...
So what. I sit on nonprofit boards with others all the time. I don’t consider them my friends cause I see them only at meetings where we conduct business. I believe in the missions of my organizations and work to fulfill their goals. What was Barack supposed to do....run from the room like his hair was on fire??? No evidence that Barack endorsed the guys ‘60s activities. This is a dead issue.
I believe that.
Do you make public appearances on stage together at multiple forums, blurb each others books and have political get-togethers in each others living rooms?
I have read through your posting history over the entire four days you have been here. I have my doubts as to your veracity.
The one just has to rally them all by saying, do any of you make more than 250K a year? They eat that stuff up. They are waiting in line for free money.
Why is no one stating the obvious. Ayers is in the same league as Mcveigh!! If BO had his political coming out party at Kaczynski’s house he would not have been elected to a ANYTHING!!!! Just because this guy is free doesnt mean he is innocent!
Hyde Park is like a small town. Everyone who’s anyone knows each other.
Love you too.
Maybe it's time for some Freep activity against this guy:
Obama is Ayers’ protege. Ayers dun real good so far...
check out amazon.com Ayers’ book “The Fugitive Years”.
Go to reviewer comments page. It is chilling.
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