Devastating Video, Obama talks about job Ayers gave him(Authors spelling :) )

Why am I not surprised that she was involved with ACORN...where most of the CAC money went? (eye roll)

“1975 – 1976 Editor, Puget Soundings Magazine”

Looks like she too...has a background in journalism as an editor. Do we know where she went to college or if she has a degree? Wonder if she believed in the same things as Ayers or went to school with him! She looks about the same age. 1975 seems like a strange place to start your resume. Wierd.

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People power: Chicago’s real clout
Chicago Sun-Times - April 8, 1990
Author: M. W. Newman ; Lillian Williams

The name was Saul Alinsky . Title: hell-raiser, and proud of it. He began stirring up poor people in the slums Back of the Yards half a century ago.

EXCERPTS

Chicago has generated a Who’s Who of top-rank community organizers and strategists: Gale Cincotta, Heather Booth, Msgr. John J. Egan, Ed Chambers, Tom Gaudette, Mary Gonzales, Nancy Jefferson, Jean Mayer, Mary Nelson, Bob Lucas.

(snip)

The grass-roots partisans are all Alinsky ‘s heirs. They fight, lead, talk, listen, coddle, toil, dicker, deal and live to do it another day.

But they almost never get the Chicago spotlight reserved for big-shot politicians or downtown wheels. They lose a lot of fights. They can’t count on an inside seat when business and political heavies make major decisions here.

It’s a tough scuffle for them, this Chicago Sun-Times report shows. The community groups are real Chicago - perhaps the real Chicago. They draw factory workers, teachers, businessmen, homemakers into an extra life as somebodies in the community. Thousands of people have come into their own that way.

(snip)

“The businessmen found they could only go so far,” said Anne C. Hallett , executive director of Chicago’s Wieboldt Foundation. “But their eyes opened when they talked to community people and saw how bright they were.”

The two sides, both wanting the same basic changes, found a common cause. The politicians chose to go along and hundreds of little government councils were created. It’s still hard to believe, but it happened.

Some of Chicago’s best-known foundations help keep the community movement afloat. The wealthy MacArthur Foundation set up an $11.3 million fund to help Chicago communities develop business and housing.

“Neighborhood groups are lifelines to the people,” said Ken Rolling, program director of the Woods Charitable Fund and a onetime organizer himself.

“Our aim is to get them to the negotiating table. There’s a place for confrontation and protest, but then you sit down and talk.”

(snip)

Dick Morris just said this is the only Obama-Ayres connection that matters

Bill Ayers esta Abu Zayd.

Hmmmmm..the usual suspects that Kurtz has said need to answer a few questions:

http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NTM4ZmU1NGFkODJlMjhmYjkxMjg4Y2Q0NTVlYjAzMmY=

“The Obama campaign’s initial response to this issue notwithstanding, the question of how a young and inexperienced lawyer like Obama was chosen to head a foundation created by Bill Ayers in 1995 is still very much open. Ken Rolling, Warren Chapman, Anne Hallett, and indeed, Barack Obama and Bill Ayers must now provide some answers.”

We need to find out Hatlett’s background before 1975-76...something tells me she might have been involved or sympathetic to ‘The Weathermen’ and Bill Ayers back in ‘the day’. Will see what I can find later and will ping you. Can’t work on it until late tonight without having too many distractions in the house..:)

Thanks for all of your great work! Lots of angles/people to pursue here.

http://www.muckety.com/Woods-Fund-of-Chicago/5021630.muckety

Woods Fund of Chicago
People related to Woods Fund of Chicago:
William C. Ayers - director
Lee Bey - director
Doris Salomon Chagin - director
Jesus G. Garcia - director
Lucia Woods Lindley - director emeritus
Ricardo A. Millett - president
Beth E. Richie - director
Laura S. Washington - director
Charles N. Wheatley - director

Woods Fund of Chicago past relationships:
Barack Obama - director

Can you elaborate, please?

Sorry, Morris was referring to what is stated at the top of this thread (copied below).

Video of Obama in his own words from various interviews regarding Chicago Annenburg Challenge and who hired him. Bill Ayers, infact, Ayers built the foundation with a 50 Mill grant then hired Obama, the ACORN community Organization attorney (Obama) to run it. It was one of his only job resume points he pointed to while running for US Senate.

Thank you!

It’s important to know to whom Ayers was associated, and behind Obama.

The name was Saul Alinsky . Title: hell-raiser, and proud of it. He began stirring up poor people in the slums Back of the Yards half a century ago.

From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."[2]

[2] Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm

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From the Boston Globe, August 31, 2008:

[Saul Alinsky's] Son sees father's handiwork in [2008 democrat] convention

ALL THE elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situations and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd's chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people.

The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style. Barack Obama's training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness.

It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.

I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.

L. DAVID ALINSKY
Medfield

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/08/31/son_sees_fathers_handiwork_in_convention

“1975 seems like a strange place to start your resume. Wierd”

Very perceptive. Let’s find out what “activities” she was involved in in the 60’s. Gotta be a smoking gun somewhere! (early connection to Ayers/WU)

Important tie of Obama with MAC(Gamaliel Foundation affiliate in Chicago)

http://www.community-wealth.org/_pdfs/articles-publications/state-local-new/report-awad-et-al.pdf

(snip)

Results
Chicago
“Since 1998, the Metropolitan Alliance of
Congregations (MAC) has fought for and won the
creation of a partnership with ten banks, providing
up to $1 billion in loans for 13,000 families through
2005. To ensure that the set-aside funds would be
utilized, over 100 MAC member churches and sister
organizations based in Aurora, Hazel Crest, Joliet,
and Chicago, Ill., agreed to recruit and train families
in homeownership. More recently, following the fall
2004 closure of a Chicago West Side Hospital and a
move to the suburbs, more than 3,000 individuals
(white, African American, Latino, and others) and
union leaders gathered in Chicago to challenge what
Gamaliel’s director of metro equity, Mike Kruglik,
terms, a “landscape of abandonment and neglect that
is morally wrong.”
At that meeting, veterans of the civil rights
movement openly supported civil rights for
immigrants. And together, they found common
ground with the health care workers union, Service
Employees International Union (SEIU) and its 400
rank-and-file in attendance. Together, their crosscoalition
agenda called for immigration reform,
expanded health care, fair school funding, and
transportation equity.
Invited and responding to MAC’s community
agenda were Illinois Congressmen Luis Gutierrez,
Danny Davis, and Jesse Jackson, Jr. Also in
attendance and speaking was then Illinois Senate
nominee, now U.S. Senator, Barack Obama.”

MUST READ..all the usual suspects involved..Carl Levin..Kwame Kilpatrick...Fannie Mae....Needmor Fund....the list goes on and on. Don’t let the philantropic aspect fool you either...most of these foundations and actors get billions of tax-payer money through the government.

The sad thing is that although uplifting minorities and the poor is a worthy goal...most of the money goes into the pockets of the race racketeers,politicians, democrats,socialists and the looters in society.

Now our entire economy is teetering on the verge of collapse due to nixing sound economic policy in favor of societal aims!

No doubt that Obama’s former church(Rev. Wright) is involved with MAC, but oddly enough...MAC’s website is down (eye roll)

This was on Hannity tonight.

Here is Obama, Dick Durbin and MAC trying to ‘shake down’ Bank Of America’ back in 2007 over housing and credit cards for ‘the poor’!! Going to paste it because the article is no longer at the short link shown on the search cache page.

http://72.14.205.104/search?q=cache:2pW9kxOG-AwJ:www.bankofamericabadforamerica.org/storage/documents/Banking%2520Newsletter%25201.pdf+%22metropolitan+alliance+of+congregations%22+%2B+%22Barack+Obama%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us

September 24, 2007
For Chicago, a Change for the Worse

“Just one day after a controversial Federal Reserve Board ruling on the proposed takeover of LaSalle Bank by Charlotte-based Bank of America, Chicago-area elected officials andcommunity leaders told a packed room at the Chicago Temple that they would continue to fight to win commitments for job preservation, community investment, and consumer protection. “I think we have every right to ask, to cajole, to demand that the largest bank in the country, Bank of America, when it comes to Chicago . . . make[s] concrete commitments,” Congressman Luis Gutierrez told the 350 people assembled at the September 15 hearing, which wasorganized by the Save Chicago Jobs and Community Investment Coalition. Gutierrez, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Financial Services, and Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias presided over the public hearing at which they listened to testimony from religious leaders, community organizations, labor leaders, andworkers about the impact Bank of America’s acquisition of LaSalle Bank may have on Chicago. While the merger has received preliminary approval from the Federal Reserve, it cannot take effect until at least September 29. A number of community leaders and elected officials are petitioning the Federal Reserve to reconsider its decision, and are also pursuing other regulatory paths to ensure that the deal preserves Chicago-area jobs and community investment while protecting customers from Bank of America’s anti-consumer policies. A Devastating Loss for Chicago The hearing took place just one day after Senators Richard Durbin and Barack Obama issued a letter to BofA asking that CEO Ken Lewis meet with them to discuss the potential consequences of the LaSalle acquisition. In their letter, Durbin and Obama cited concerns about job loss, reduced competition and its effect on consumers, the lessening of cultural and charitable support for the Chicago area, and the “the contraction of community reinvestment in distressed areas of Chicago.” A recent study confirms the assertions of the Illinois U.S. Senate delegation. At the hearing,Tim Mahon of Anderson Economic Group described his firm’s independentanalysis of the “I think we have every right to ask, to cajole, to demand that the largest bank in the country, Bank of America, when it comes to Chicago . . . make[s] concrete commitments.” U.S. Rep. Luis GutierrezIssue 1, September 24, 2007

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Chicago Banking Monitor • September 24, 2007 • page 2 economic impact of the acquisition. AEG conservatively estimates that over a two-year period, Chicago could lose 10,500 jobs, $48 million in tax revenue, and $780 million in wages from the economy. AEG’s analysis assumes that BofA is able to achieve only two-thirds of its announced savings goal of $1.5 billion; if the bank is entirely successful at cost cutting, the losses to Chicago could be even deeper.Chicago Can Do Better Bank of America’s refusal to make concrete commitments to Chicago stands in stark contrast to the company’s 2004 acquisition of Boston’s Fleet Bank. Even before securing regulatory approval for that acquisition, Bank of America made specific commitments to Boston aroundjob preservation and community investment. “Why won’t Bank of America do for Chicago what it did for Boston?” asked Service Employees International Union Local 1 Vice President Dan Schlademan, who together with Metropolitan Alliance of Congregations President Marilyn Pagán-Banks, Woodstock Institute President Malcolm Bush, and other coalition members met with Bank of America on September 6. While BofA at that meeting listened to concerns from the community, officials refused to make any specific commitments to Chicago. While LaSalle Bank has an established reputation for investing in charitable and civic causes—as well as supporting Chicago’s small business community through more flexible lending policies—Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias urged Coalition members not to set their sites too low in negotiations with Bank of America. “Let’s not ask them to do the same, let’s ask them to do even more,” Giannoulias said at thehearing. “They’re a national corporation, they have tremendous assets. They can do more.” A Climate of Fear and UncertaintyWhile big changes always carry with them a certain amount of uncertainty, BofA’s lack of communication with Chicago stakeholders has made those changes even more difficult to stomach for workers at LaSalle and the organizations that have counted on LaSalle’s support for years. SEIU’s Dan Schlademan presented the panel with statements from two LaSalle workers afraidof losing their jobs. In their statements, the LaSalle workers said they were afraid to appear in person after the bank threatened their severance packages if they became involved withthe Coalition. In addition to the direct bank employees who may lose their jobs as a result of the merger, contracted employees also see their livelihoods at risk. “I’m really worried about Bank of America,” said Carlos Malave, a security officer at LaSalle Bank who fears that Bank of America will hire a contractor that does not share the same commitment to fair wages andbenefits as his current employer. “I’m worried that what will happen to our family, if we can’t pay the rent or buy food for the kids, that’s a real possibility that if I lose my job I won’t find any other way for me to get any other income.” Community organizations share that same fear. Ed Shurna, Executive Director of the ChicagoCoalition for the Homeless, described what LaSalle Bank’s support has meant for the organization and for poor and homeless people. The Chicago Coalition for the Homeless works to address and prevent the root causes of homelessness, including poverty, forexample by advocating for affordable housing. A Change for the Worse, continued from page 1 “Let’s not ask them to do the same, let’s ask them to do even more. They’re a national corporation, they have tremendous assets. They cando more.” Illinois State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias

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Chicago Banking Monitor • September 24, 2007 • page 3 “Hope is often the only thing that homeless men, women and children have to hold on to,” Shurna told the panel. “But hope alone is not going to stop homelessness. We also need partners, financial partners who care about all people in the city.” LaSalle has been one of those partners, Shurna testified. “LaSalle Bank has set the bar very high and it’s walked the walk as well as talked the talk,” he said. “What commitment is Bank of America going to make to the city? What commitment is Bank of America going to make to its workforce? What commitment is Bank of America going to make to those organizations that reach out to all individuals, not just that can afford large bank accounts?” Consumers May Lose Too Bank of America is currently straining against the federal 10% cap on deposits intended to maintain competition in the industry and stabilize the banking industry as a whole. The company also controls one in five credit cards, making it a dominant player in setting the practices that other banks follow in everything from ATM charges to overdraft fees to credit card conditions. At the hearing, Illinois Citizen Action President William McNary shared stories from consumers who have been harmed by some of Bank of America’s questionable practices. McNary explained Bank of America’s policy of reserving the right to change terms on credit cards at any time, for any reason. As an example of the effects of such policies on ordinary consumers, he described the pit of debt Bank of America customer Dawn Seskind found herself in when her interest rate was suddenly raised from 9% to 26% because BofA decided she had “too much debt.” Though Seskind says she’d never missed a payment, her minimum payment doubled, and she now pays more than $100 a month in interest. Full documentation of BofA’s consumer practices is contained in a report published by the Coalition, A Change for the Worse: How the “Bank of Opportunity” Is Closing Doors on Chicago’s Workers and Communities, which is available for download at www.BankofAmericaBadforAmerica.com. “While corporations don’t have consciences, we trust that the men and women who run them do,” McNary said. “And so we appeal to the conscience of Bank of America’s CEO Ken Lewis who’s blessed enough to make $100 million last year, to sit down with leaders and elected officials and laborers and negotiate an agreement that preserves jobs, protects consumers and puts the community and public interest before their profit.” A Change for the Worse, continued from page 2 [W]e appeal to the conscience of Bank of America’s CEO Ken Lewis . . . to sit down with leaders and elected officials and laborers and negotiate an agreement that preserves jobs, protects consumers and puts the community and public interest before their profit.” Illinois Citizen Action President William McNary The Save Chicago Jobs and Community Investment Coalition Action Now; Citizen Action Illinois; Chicago Coalition for the Homeless; Chicago Interfaith Committee for Worker Issues; Chicago Jobs with Justice; Metropolitan Alliance of Congregations; National Training and Information Center; Northside Community Credit Union; Protestants for the Common Good; SEIU Local 1; and the Woodstock Institute. For more information, please contact Erica Hade at 312-233-8789. For more information, visit www.BankofAmericaBadforAmerica.org “

BTT

Thanks, Phil!

Great pic !

CNN Did A Major Ayers Investigation — Proves Little Messiah A Big Liar
CNN - Youtube ^ | 10-06-08 | DHarry

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099250/posts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvROBLortBQ

Just watched it! WOW! Looks like the MSM is trying to regain some of their shattered credibility before all of Obama’s chickens come home to roost....lol

This pretty much proves that shaking down banks to give more home financing loans and credit to risky borrowers is what the democrats actually mean when they say they fought for more ‘regulation’!

(eye roll)

Senator McCain and Gov. Palin:

Hammer them and don’t let up.