Mark's Rant:I don't know whose words these are and Hussein may not be a terrorist, and he may not be a Muslim, and he may not be a racist, and he may not be a Communist but he is way to friendly with way to many of them to be President of The United States of America.This sent in from Shirley,I’m talking about
Obama’s role in the Chicago
Annenberg Challenge (
CAC), and his ill-conceived ad attacking McCain’s associations which opened the door for McCain to bring to public view something
Obama has — with clear media connivance — lied about and tried to conceal: His close association with William Ayers in a program he botched.
The last thing
Obama should want made public are his dubious associates. The public has had some exposure to his long time spiritual adviser, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, many have heard of the convicted Chicago fixer Tony
Rezko, and some have just a bit of knowledge about William Ayers. As McCain said Wednesday: “If
Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let’s start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, at whose home
Obama’s political career was reportedly launched . Mr. Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group responsible for countless bombings against targets including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and numerous police stations, courthouses and banks. In recent years Mr. Ayers has stated, ‘I don’t regret setting bombs. … I feel we
didn’t do enough.’”Some mush was thrown in along the way about having served with him on a charity board, but
Obama did not correctly describe the charity or the dates or the extent of their association on it.
The truth is that the two men worked closely together for years, beginning several months before that 1995 fundraiser. The fund
Obama chaired and which was supposed to improve public education in Chicago never met its stated purpose of improving public school pupils’ performance and, in fact, probably hindered it, despite having blown through $110 million in the process. And as chairman of this group
Obama funneled this money to politically useful types including
Fidelistas and Maoists who like Ayers (now vice-president elect of the American Education Research Association) are working to make our public schools indoctrination centers for the left .
Once the public learns more of the
CAC, will the voters decide that the manner in which
Obama exercised his sole opportunity at executive authority was so good that he deserves the keys to the Oval Office?
Will the voters conclude that the old- professor- in- the- neighborhood story was so disingenuous that
Obama was lying to hide from them facts they deserved to know indeed, facts every bit as relevant as Hillary’s failure at health care reform about which they were informed in the primaries?
Will voters who consider education an important issue and surely that includes many important voter groups for
Obama take kindly to a man who took $110 million of charitable funds which were earmarked for improving public education and squandered it on salaries for men like Weatherman Ayers and Michael
Klonsky, the Maoist leader of the Revolutionary Youth Movement which worked with the Weather Underground and who at the time of
CAC’s lavish grants to him worked as a cab driver?
Will the voters regard it as relevant that while Ayers and
Obama were furthering their career interests in the disposition of the Chicago
Annenberg Challenge millions, they did absolutely nothing per a formal review of the program to improve the academic performance of the pupils in their program and, indeed, may have hindered their academic progress by trying to turn every school they worked with into laboratories of revolutionary action in line with
Ayres’ authoritarian agenda and belief that the public school system is nothing but a reflection of capitalist hegemony?
At the moment, the University of Illinois inexplicably has refused to make public all of the documents on the
Annenberg Challenge, though on Friday after considerable criticism they announced they will release the documents on Tuesday. The library has refused to name the donor it claims is blocking the release of the documentation. The major media are still dancing the dance of seven veils around the story, but McCain has kicked the story up a notch and the
blogosphere is not letting go of it. And the reason for all of this, I believe, is because the University which played a major role in this rip off, the press which is so invested in
Obama, and the
blogosphere all know the answer to the questions I posed.
This story is going to kill
Obama at the polls.
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