Victor Davis Hanson: Affirmative Action in the News

NRO/ The Corner ^ | August 07, 2008 | Victor Davis Hanson

[bpjam]

I know that Ayers were the people who threw the first fundraiser for Barrys political career on the advice of Alice Walker (his then mentor, who he subsequently legalese’d off the ballot when she decided that she wanted to keep her elected office that she asked him to run for).

But although he was a ‘community organizer’ (otherwise known as an ACORN employee and a member of a continuing criminal conspiracy), WHY did he go to Chicago? How did that come about? You don’t need to go to Chicago to be an organizer since you were already at Harvard and Boston is chock full of corrupt political circles who needed a freshfaced black guy to be a front man.

I dont’ see any other connection to Chicago in his past so why not go back to Kansas and just take over the Democrat party with his glorious personality? Or go to Hawaii and take over with his sparkling aura?

[okie01]

But the one which I don’t have an actual source for is the first one where Barry is told to go to Chicago. Does this come from his book?

I've no source, either. I'm theorizing from the circumstantial evidence.

Frank Marshall Davis was obviously in a position to give Obama names and phone numbers.

Whether Obama was actually motivated by Davis to use these contacts -- or he simply stumbled into the environment coincidentally -- won't ever to be known.

[dennisw]

Frank Marshall Davis ......He also was from Kansas

So had something in common with Barack’s mother

[okie01]

So had something in common with Barack’s mother

Did you mean to put a /sarc after that?

Actually, they were born in adjacent counties -- but 18 years apart.

I doubt they ever knew of each other...until Hawaii.

[dennisw]

No sarcasm..... Both being from Kansas was a jumping off point for conversation. They both had Kansas roots

[GOPJ]

...the entire Affirmative Action industry...benefits mostly elites — self-contradictory, hypocritical, illogical, and finally unworkable.

BINGO

[Tolik]

Wrong rule, but I can’t object to Zeta Jones, regardless of the rule - did I contort myself into a pretzel? Catherine can do that to me...

[bpjam]

Okie (i’m a one-time okie myself),

This just adds to the questions about the guy. He is only 46 and he has been public only for the last 12 years and even THAT part can’t really be nailed down.

But Jesus had a big blank spot in his resume prior to age 30 so I guess that is why the media is giving The Obama a pass on his resume holes.

Me, I’m not looking for another Jesus. If the real one shows up, the answer to all the questions ought to be pretty self-evident.

[Kenny Bunk]

ACORN employee

Dumb of me not to figure it out ....but I didn't know THAT! Thanks.

[Kenny Bunk]

There is a deep Bernadette Dohrn/Michelle Obama connection ... but I don't know whether it predates the Bill Ayers connection. Bernadette was hired and paid big-time by Bill Ayers Dad's law firm ... despite no bar membership. I beleive she brough Michelle in ... and then Barack?

Michelle makes super big coin ($250 large++) working as the Affirmative Action Consultant for some Foundation. You know what I mean ... maybe she keeps the Federal Brown Paper Bag sample in her desk to check out everyone's skin color for AFfrimative Action Benefits. Her anti-America rap is the same as bomber-Bernadette's.

[bpjam]

Kenny,

TexasBlueBell found this link for me which gives an account of the only link which appears to create a causus belli for the Chicago move from Havard Law Review (not exactly a step up, ya know? No ‘bright’ person with hundreds of thou in debt decides to avoid all the recruiters to hang around Harvard and head to the slums of Chicago as a total stranger).

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3582291.ece

[Kenny Bunk]

.....He had met Michelle Robinson, also a young Harvard-educated lawyer, but from a well-connected middle-class Chicago family, during a summer internship at a city law firm in 1989. .....

The plot thickens. The "law firm" is the Ayers family firm, where Ms. Dohrn worked and was the mentor of Michelle. This is the source of the funding Weatherman Terrorists Ayers and Dohrn received from Ayers' father during their years on the run.

Bill Ayers is very close to ACORN (a Director then, as BHO became).) The UK article does not mention the ACORN connection and does not even hint at the Chicago Public Schools Project, which Obama and Ayers turned into an unmitigated disaster.

This article is more like an adulatory press release than news. It is understandable, if not obvious that Obama's terrorist connection wired him as the community organizer, got him into Harvard, and put him up for office.

The Daley Machine was either too dumb to fathom the commie connection, or too cynical to care.

[bpjam]

Why would the Daley machine care? They’ve assimilated all kinds of corrupt people. They control as much of the machine as they need to in order to do what they want to do. Otherwise, I’m sure they’re always on the lookout for new blood who appear to be bright and ethically manueverable.