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CAC Doc Drop: Obama Has More Than Ayers To Worry About Now
Riehl World View ^ | August 21, 2008 | Riehl World View

Posted on 08/26/2008 10:37:51 PM PDT by CedarDave

Continuing to follow up on what can be learned of Barack Obama's tenure as the Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), evaluations of the program during his tenure available on line demonstrate that in his only real executive test, Barack Obama was a dismal failure squandering millions of dollars on education programs which had basically no real effect. They also strongly suggest Obama's claim that un-repentant terrorist Bill Ayers is just a teacher who lived down the block is an outright lie. The structure and tone of the CAC, addressed in the documents, leave a strong impression the two men had to work together closely over a number of years. Also, as copies of CAC internal documents were given over to the evaluators, any notion that they now shouldn't be immediately shared with the public is an absolute farce.

Given Obama's significant lack of experience, aside from any Ayers connection which Stanley Kurtz continues to pursue, it's doubtful he'd want America to learn any details behind his obviously failed performance during the one time he was expected to perform as an executive in the real world.

Obama began his CAC board chairmanship in early 1995, and stepped down from the chairmanship in late 1999, though he remained on the board until CAC phased itself out of existence in 2001.

These evaluations cover precisely that period of time. At some points the criticism of the organization Obama led is scathing, particularly as it was primarily tasked with giving away millions of dollars....

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Reading through the documents gives the impression that as Chairman, Obama did little more than assist the most Leftist of activists in shuffling around millions of dollars, often to themselves in their own misguided initiatives, few if any of them producing real results. In fact, in many people's minds, they were never even designed to.

Obama as chair didn't even have the foresight to appoint an Executive Director until some two years on - and then it was only done in response to concerns from others, including the Annenberg Foundation itself. One portion of the document claims they gave money away so fast and so early, the effort may have been doomed from the start - all while Obama was Chair.

Another portion of the document demonstrates that a full two years in, relevant independent, concerned members of the education, political and business communities in Chicago didn't even have an effective idea what the challenge was about when asked by evaluators. But that didn't stop Obama and CAC from handing out cash to someone, apparently.

When those independent interested parties were asked what it was they believed the Chicago schools needed most, they generally responded in practical terms - improved test scores, better grades and improved overall performance. But the CAC didn't see those things as relevant. It was more focused on fuzzy-headed, presumably liberal ideals expressed as "time, size and isolation" - yet, said ideals were never more properly defined, making it impossible to even know what it is they set out to accomplish through spending all that cash. Is it a wonder Obama and his fifty million had absolutely no impact at all?

How's that for fifty-million dollars worth - ultimately under Obama's control? One can only imagine how much he might have squandered were the US treasury involved - God forbid.

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It cannot be emphasized enough that these evaluations speak directly to the only real world executive experience of a gifted rhetorician with incredibly light political experience, hardly any of it at the national level. That he suddenly somehow fancies himself ready and able to become the chief executive of the United States is a bad joke. Based on these evaluations, it's doubtful he is qualified for a mid-level administrative position within a school district in a mid-sized town. If the mainstream media doesn't follow up on this and the work of Stanley Kurtz and Steve Diamond, it's they who will be playing the worst of jokes on the American people. Now, Diamond has begun posting some of the internal CAC documents he already has - be sure and check it out here.

Evaluations relevant to Obama's apparently incompetent work as Chair are available on line through the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008election; annenberg; annenbergchallenge; ayers; barackobama; cac; democrats; education; electionpresident; elections; nobama08; obama; obamatruthfile; publiceducation; publicschools; schools; williamayers
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To: CedarDave

“If the mainstream media doesn’t follow up ... they ... will be playing the worst of jokes on the American people.”

You can bet the MSM will not play it up unless pressure from the pajamahadeen forces them. I’m not sure if K. Oberman, C. Matthews and the MSNBC crew qualify as MSM, but you can be they won’t touch it. Katie? oh, please. Who among them will cover this?


41 posted on 08/27/2008 8:29:59 AM PDT by EDINVA
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To: potlatch


42 posted on 08/27/2008 8:30:17 AM PDT by devolve ( "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." - Elect a cokehead *08 !)
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To: CedarDave

Thanx for the ping - interesting read.


43 posted on 08/27/2008 8:38:15 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (Seinfeld was a show about nothing - so is Obama.)
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To: Fudd Fan

I had signed off the convention thread when a poster put up the link. I looked at it and thought it needed it’s own thread. This info complements and supplements whatever Kurtz is researching. And unlike the other issues (COLB, Muslim upbringing, citizen of Indonesia, etc,), it is easily verifiable. No wonder the leftists didn’t want this Pandora’s box opened and have fought so furiously to prevent these revelations. Hopefully at least one or more proverbial smoking guns are buried in there.


44 posted on 08/27/2008 8:39:13 AM PDT by CedarDave (Rat party platform: Socialist, pro-abortion, tax everyone, surrender to anyone, sex with anything)
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To: devolve
Does it get anybetter then this!

Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting


45 posted on 08/27/2008 8:42:50 AM PDT by ncfool (Making Obama look patriotic is above my pay grade)
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To: devolve

Mornin’ devolve! Nice graphics. Funny to see him intently leaning forward when Hillary was on. Wait till tonight!! Lol


46 posted on 08/27/2008 8:44:55 AM PDT by potlatch ("OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY WE REMAIN SILENT ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER")
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To: Mind-numbed Robot
That is typical of the Left. They manage to get government and guilt ridden, soft headed rich liberals to pay for their attempts to destroy us.

They need to get money for paychecks for "revolutionaries", who would never be able to hold down a real job. Whether it's by bank robbery, or from siphoning off money from government programs, the result is the same

47 posted on 08/27/2008 9:07:29 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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To: potlatch

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Mornin’ potlatch!

I cranked up the size and cropped it to 4:3 on this composite a FReeper did

Slick Willie should provide some good vidcaps tonight

Obama will have to have his script and earbuds all ready as he rises in his Temple of Doom

I’m wondering if Obama will lip-synch his speech from the stadium......


48 posted on 08/27/2008 9:09:17 AM PDT by devolve ( "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." - Elect a cokehead *08 !)
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To: devolve
Was that photo a composite? I saw the other similar ones.
Temple of Doom, lol. Roman columns - we need a Caesar's wreath headband for Obama.

If I were Obama I would really be dreading Bubba’s speech.

49 posted on 08/27/2008 9:15:40 AM PDT by potlatch ("OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY WE REMAIN SILENT ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER")
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To: LucyT; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ..

Thanks!

> If the mainstream media doesn’t follow up on this and the work of Stanley Kurtz and Steve Diamond, it’s they who will be playing the worst of jokes on the American people. Now, Diamond has begun posting some of the internal CAC documents he already has - be sure and check it out here.

http://globallabor.blogspot.com/


50 posted on 08/27/2008 9:35:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______Profile hasn't been updated since Friday, May 30, 2008)
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To: ncfool
here are the other 2 pics i made if you want to use those as well

my favorite is this one


51 posted on 08/27/2008 9:43:38 AM PDT by edzo4 (Vote McCain, Keep Your Change)
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52 posted on 08/27/2008 9:46:18 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: CedarDave
50 million is minor league edu. spending.

Look at Washington and the Republican Party to throw our money around like it was their own. They are as bad as the democtats with their "No Child Left Behind Act"ect

Over the time of this law, Congress increased federal funding of education, from $42.2 billion in 2001 to $54.4 billion in 2007. This equates to an increase which outpaced inflation by 5%. No Child Left Behind received a 40.4% increase from $17.4 billion in 2001 to $24.4 billion. The funding for reading quadrupled from $286 million in 2001 to $1.2 billion. A 2008 study from the Department of Ed, “Reading First Impact Study: Interim Report,” analyzes the performance of students in 12 states who were in grades one to three during the 2004-5 and 2005-6 school years and concluded that the Reading First Program, a major billion dollar a year NCLB effort, had proven "ineffective."

53 posted on 08/27/2008 10:33:40 AM PDT by KDD ( it's not what people don't know that make them ignorant it's what they know that ain't so.)
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To: CedarDave

Amazing $100 million down the drain in Obama’s lone executive experience and nobody in the mainstream press has bothered to investigate this.


54 posted on 08/27/2008 12:59:55 PM PDT by cookcounty (Love That Nuance: "Hey, Umm, Uh-uh, eh-eh, where'd you put uh my eh-eh tele uh teleprompter?")
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To: CedarDave

Mr. Feces, meet Mr. Fan.


55 posted on 08/27/2008 3:35:37 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Phodopus campbelli: household ruler since July 2007.)
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To: cookcounty

Placemarker


56 posted on 08/27/2008 3:39:53 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: NOBAMA in 08
Re: #20

Don't count on it. The Sheeple will be bamboozled by the DNC lies as they are now.

57 posted on 08/27/2008 4:23:10 PM PDT by DallasDeb ((a.k.a. USAFA2006Mom!))
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To: longtermmemmory
Re: #22

I want to know what his salary waa during those years and what organizations his group funded. Wouldn't it interesting to find out he funded some Muslim terrorist groups?

58 posted on 08/27/2008 4:24:56 PM PDT by DallasDeb ((a.k.a. USAFA2006Mom!))
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To: potlatch

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Yup

Composite

Raw meat!


59 posted on 08/27/2008 8:39:37 PM PDT by devolve ( "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." - Elect a cokehead *08 !)
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To: devolve

Well, Bubba’s speech was the raw meat.


60 posted on 08/28/2008 10:54:09 AM PDT by potlatch ("OUR LIVES BEGIN TO END THE DAY WE REMAIN SILENT ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER")
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