UIC Special Collections
Base URL: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/

Webalizer page: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/webalizer/
Lots of finding aids traffic starting in June ‘08. Hmmm…

Dir listing of finding aids: http://www.uic.edu/depts/lib/specialcoll/services/rjd/findingaids/
(I love mis-configured webserver installations)
No “ChicagoAnnenbergf.html” to be found, or variants or backups. Parent dir leads to an old Special Collections page, now moved, with 10-sec re-direct.

If it existed, it’s gone now, and no sloppiness about it.

Connie on August 20, 2008 at 2:10 AM

Nice pick up, Connie.

A public university operating a public project should provide transparency on these issues, and not stall until after the election.

If those records were about McCain, they’d leak them in October when it was most damaging. With Obama, they’ll stall for years. I think it’s time for a 527 group to sue the university under Illinois’s open records law (assuming it has one). Maybe they’ll have luck convincing a judge to order them to release the documents. My guess is if the university has possession of the documents, they’re subject to open records.

This particular issue seems to me to expose Obama maybe more than anything else that’s out there. (OK, the infanticide story is a veryclose second.)

I wonder why no one cares about this?

flash,

John McCain worked for Cindy McCain’s dad, a convicted felon and war profiteer.

KK, from Wiki, not exactly a clearinghouse for right wingery, James Hensley

served three years as an officer in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.[5][6] He was a bombardier on B-17 Flying Fortresses.[7][8] On his thirteenth mission,[5] his plane was shot down over the English Channel;[7] in all his planes were shot down two or three times.[3][8] He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross

Apparently he ran afoul of the law after the war due to violating liquor rationing, which is hardly war profiteering. He recieved a suspended sentence, and his brother did a year in the pen. Not exactly Joe Kennedy.

uch worse than hanging’ out with some Dirty f*ing hippies.

alphie on August 19, 2008 at 7:52 PM

Don’t you mean dirty f*****g terrorist?

Is the nose-holding right planning on coming up with a single reason to vote for John McCain before the election rolls around?

Buchanan is a Reagan Republican…just like me, Terrye.

Nice to see he’s got you Rapture Republicans throwing hissy fits.

alphie on August 19, 2008 at 5:13 PM

alphie on August 19, 2008 at 5:51 PM

Make up your mind Right or left.

funky chicken on August 19, 2008 at 8:42 PM

Thanks for that update! That’s quite the eureka moment about the dates when Barry met Billy, and if the MSM were doing their job…

Steve Diamond should be getting a Pulitzer for all his fantabulous research, beginning with “Who sent Obama”.

How likely will it be that the university and the donor will reach an agreement between now and the election? I’d assume a very low percentage for success. The donor him/herself told the university that they didn’t have the rights to release the information, supposedly concerned about Social Security numbers getting released. That’s absurd; universities know how to redact private information before releasing records to the public.

Hey, we’ve heard this same tune before from Hillary!

…And Hillary Clinton recently said, “We’re moving as quickly as our circumstances and the processes of the National Archives permit.”…

1. What is being hidden?

2. Who ordered the obstruction?

3. Why is this not important?

Why don’t they do something useful, like provide the health care to the poor, instead of using their money to fund anti-Americanism and change this nation into a leftist workers’ paradise?

If I had associates like these I would be denied a security clearance for work. How can Obama get the highest clearance in the land?

Les in NC on August 19, 2008 at 6:12 PM

That’s a good, and very important question. Presently, Barack Hussein must disclose how many alias names he’s gone by? Also, how many dual citizenship’s and passports he holds? Then when it’s all officially sorted out, he may not Constitutionally qualify for his senate seat, let alone to run for the presidency.

Both are good friends with people who tried to destroy the Pentagon…

Saturday, June 07, 2008
You’re so 1988 or When did Barack Obama meet Bill Ayers?

This has remained until now an unanswered question. Yet it is crucial to the still unanswered question about the influence today of the authoritarian “leftists” Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn on the Obama campaign. A recent New York Times profile of Obama’s days on the South Side of Chicago contends that, according to unnamed “aides” to Obama, Obama first met Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn at the Hyde Park home of the couple. This meeting occurred apparently in November, 1995 according to an anonymous blogger who claims to have been there, as Obama was launching his campaign for the state senate of Illinois.

If the Ayers/Dohrn-Obama meet and greet took place in November, 1995, it cannot have been the first time that Obama met Ayers. By that time Obama was already Chairman of the Board of the $50 million Chicago Annenberg Challenge Grant program that was designed by Ayers. Ayers began the grant proposal design process in December 1993 and the grant was formally announced in January, 1995. Barack Obama was identified as the Chair in press reports in June of 1995.

So, unless Ayers helped pick a board chair he had never met and would never meet until the “meet and greet,” Obama, in fact, met Ayers well before the launching of his state senate campaign. Of course, it is very likely that there would have had to have been a very close working relationship between Ayers, as the lead architect of the Annenberg proposal, and the first board chairman. They would have had to have agreed on basic educational policy issues. And Obama would have been crucial in leading fund raising efforts since the $50 million grant was conditioned on a 2-1 match from other donors (and something they were quite successful at – raising an additional $60 million by 1999).

As I have written here before, my hypothesis is that Ayers and Obama had an older relationship and a deeper political affinity than has been made clear until now. The attempts by so many around Obama, and by Obama himself, to portray this as an arms length relationship simply do not fit the facts that are available.

http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/05/when-did-barack-obama-meet-bill-ayers.html

The plot thickens.

Terrye on August 19, 2008 at 5:33 PM

And in politics, timing is everything. This can wait until October.

funky chicken on August 19, 2008 at 5:45 PM

Thanks for researching this, funky chicken. Who is doing a FOIA request to Ill. U?