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The American government secretly backed leading figures behind the Egyptian uprising who have been planning “regime change” for the past three years, The Daily Telegraph has learned. The American Embassy in Cairo helped a young dissident attend a US-sponsored summit for activists in New York, while working to keep his identity secret from Egyptian state police. On his return to Cairo in December 2008, the activist told US diplomats that an alliance of opposition groups had drawn up a plan to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak and install a democratic government in 2011.

So, what was Barack Obama up to when he ran former Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers' "education reform" foundation? Not much good - at least according to the guy in charge of Chicago's public schools while he was there. "There was a total lack of accountability" at Obama and Ayers' Chicago Annenberg Challenge, former city school superintendent Paul Vallas has told The Post. Indeed, "If you went back and asked, you'd be hard-pressed to find out how the money was spent." Well, maybe. As it turns out, the Obama-helmed CAC was directing big bucks toward the propagation - in Chicago...

While main stream media dismisses the question of Obama's relationship with radical professor William Ayers an unrepentant exterrorist bomber. Which Obama has consistantly lied about. It is true Obama was a mere 8 when Ayers,(son of Thomas Ayers CEO of utility giant Commonwealth Edison,) was busy organizing riots and tossing bombs. Obama teamed up with him to distribute over 100 million dollars through a series of funds set up by Ayers which was intended to advance education but wound up given to organizations promoting radical causes. Leaving applicants promoting worthy educational projects flatly turned down . What they did with...

Univ. of Chicago Press Release, 2002: Obama was a Community Organizer in NY Many researchers and reporters have highlighted Obama’s secrecy about his years at Columbia University in New York City. In our recent article on Obama’s friendship with William Ayers, I wrote: Now the Mainstream Media is onto this story too, and has (finally) noticed that Obama is hiding records from Columbia University, where he completed his undergraduate studies after transferring from Occidental College in California. To be more precise, it’s not just Obama’s academic files that are missing, but more curiously, the files of his life. The Wall...

Fox radio news has issued a bulletin claiming Obama's relationship with U of I Professor William Ayers, founder of a socialist radical group known as The Weathermen was "Tenuous". The report heard over Chicago's WIND was repeating the New York Times claim probably and picked up through AP. The Obama's campaign reply to Palin charge that relationship between Ayers and Obama were "pals" was their relationbship was "tenuous". Reliable sources however have reported that not only did Ayers fund raise and assist Obama in his bid for Illinois state senator. But also sat on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge board which...

Garbage. Pure garbage.

Xrlq points us to this ridiculous FactCheck.org piece on Obama and gun rights. I am by now completely disenchanted with FactCheck.org and virtually every other “fact checking” site out there, and this piece does nothing to dispel my depression. The summary version: FactCheck ridicules the NRA in this piece. But the NRA is careful to say: look at Obama’s record and not his rhetoric. And at least two of the NRA claims are backed up by references to Obama’s record. Yet FactCheck.org goes on to minimize or completely ignore Obama’s record on these points, choosing instead to concentrate on citations...

Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists. ... In works like "City Kids, City Teachers" and "Teaching the Personal and the Political," Mr. Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression. His preferred alternative? "I'm a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist," Mr. Ayers...

The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama's only claim to administrative leadership (as covered today by Thomas Lifson), was evaluated by the esteemed Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an independent outside body with expertise on educational reform. A larger study has a section focused on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Obama's project. It does not take much for grantees who receive funds from the Obama-Ayers led Anneberg Chicago effort to sign its praises. When an outside group audits the performance and reveals scores of millions of dollars were all but wasted, I think that should have some bearing on our evaluation of Obama...

Steve Chapman takes Barack Obama to task over his dodge about the relationship between himself and William Ayers. Not only does Obama misrepresent the connection, Chapman writes, he appears not to understand what it says about him and his judgment. The Chicago Tribune columnist offers a handy analogy for those who still don't comprehend it: