funky chicken on August 20, 2008 at 7:26 PM

Steve Diamond rocks.

One of the first grants awarded in 1995 was a $175,000 Implementation Grant to the Small Schools Workshop. The Workshop had been founded by Bill Ayers in 1992 and was headed up by his former SDS comrade and hardcore Maoist, Mike Klonsky. Klonsky actually visited China and met with its stalinist leaders in the early 1970s. Klonsky still heads up the Small Schools Workshop and, until it was summarily removed, hosted a blog on “social justice” and education issues on the official Barack Obama Presidential campaign website. Hundreds of thousands of dollars more would be forthcoming from the CAC for the Klonsky group.

The Chairman of the Board who must have approved this grant to an, er, “mainstream” Communist? Barack Obama.

Oh well, I suppose that after Mr. Annenberg approved a grant proposal from an unrepentant terrorist and mainstream communist like Bill Ayers he must have figured that the coast was clear for Klonsky the Maoist.

McCain: “My good friend… Ayers to E4 Checkmate.”

Obama brought his pistol to intimidate McCain, but then McCain pulled out his shotgun.

I’ll take an old man with great aim over a young man with all hat.

Barack Hussein Obama woke up this morning and found himself five points behind John Sidney McCain. This after he suffered a serious blow at the Saddleback forum that saw all but the most seriously mentally ill calling it a big win for McCain. Obama a…

Johnny Mac, whadya say we run a prime time Ayers ad in every major media market every day until November 1st. We could do a bunch:

- Ayers standing on the U.S. flag in the alley,
- Pictures of the Pentagon after 9-11, in flames, with flashes of the NY Times Magazine piece on 9-12 and favorite quotes (i.e., “we didn’t do enough”),
- Pictures of the Philly rowhouse debris after your maggot friends blew themselves up (”how are you enjoying hell, boys?”),
- Pictures of the dead cop’s grieving widow and partner, and the funeral service with all the cop cars,
- Pictures of the Manson loonies (who said the ads had to be fair?).

This is going to be So.Much.Fun.

OWright

ORezko

OFarrakhan

How well is the Community Organizer® “answerable” for the mess in the neighborhoods he left behind?

wepeople on August 20, 2008 at 9:19 PM

I liked the part with the Keating five. They explained it, showed all the details and it was pretty obvious that McCain didn’t do anything wrong. And as far as the “you don’t get what you pay for with McCain” claim, that only holds true if Keating thought that he bought McCain. He didn’t. So that claim is false. Keating ‘got his money’s worth’ from Cranston.

And for the Obama program, they never mentioned Ayers (that I remember seeing,) and they relied on video, photos, documents and interviews with people who were and still are Obama’s friends and associates. Maybe there wasn’t any video of the time that Obama launched his political career from Ayers house. Maybe no one wanted to come on camera and tell the story about how they embraced warmly and everyone cheered. No pictures, no story. So it was disappointing that they spent more time on Rezko, and less (if nothing) on Ayers.

If anyone else saw the program, what did you think of it?

Maybe Rev. Wright is hiding out in there?

i b squidly on August 20, 2008 at 8:17 PM

need more Farrakhan.. >:D

the dudes crazy!.

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=156903

love it

Obama is so vulnerable on so many areas he shouldn’t be throwing rocks. Intersplice his Wright apology with the good reverend’s bon mots. Work in his typical racist grandma. Farrakhan’s body guards are dressed in the same colors as the Obama seal and Louis likes it for his ties. Yeah, we want NOI goons replacing the Secret Service detail and escorting the inaugural parade. Ayers dancing on the flag while Obama pronounces his patriotism. How much tax money did Rezko get? Make a list. The gloves are off.

Could Obama melt down before the convention?

“I don’t have time for that mess”. Wow. How “street”.
LtE126 on August 20, 2008 at 7:42 PM

Tailored for the audience, do doubt. I’m surprised he didn’t say, “I don’t got time for that shiznat”.

Bishop on August 20, 2008 at 7:47 PM

Miss Ingraham was nailing Obama today about his chameleon dialect that he slips in and out of depending upon his audience. She played parts of his speech at MLK’s old church when Barack spoke there. His voice was thick with ebonics.
Then she played him at Saddleback; the difference was amazing.
This shows that the man is a fake, a panderer.

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.

For example, the Annenberg Challenge grant money was aimed at solidifying the school reforms put in place in Chicago in 1988 when a campaign for “local control” emerged in the wake of a teachers’ strike that galvanized business and community opposition to the power of teachers’ union and the Chicago school bureaucracy.

Both Obama and Ayers were active in that reform post-strike campaign. Ayers helped organize a major force in the lobbying for that 1988 campaign, the Alliance For Better Chicago Schools, or ABCs. The Developing Communities Project which Obama headed at that time was a member of the ABCs, apparently one of the few members of the ABCs that worked with the black community. Many in the black community knew that teaching, the unions and school administration were one avenue to the middle class for blacks and thus were wary of the reform effort.

Certainly support for “local control” would have been a pre-requisite to allowing Obama to chair, at such a young and untested age, the Annenberg Challenge. Thus, I think we can safely date the beginning of the Obama-Ayers relationship to at least 1988 when the ABCs effort was underway in Chicago schools. That was also when Ayers and Obama would have met up with the future Executive Director of the Annenberg Challenge, who would have been hired by Ayers and Obama, Ken Rolling. Rolling in 1988 was on the staff of the Woods Fund which provided several grants to the school reform effort and to Obama’s Developing Communities Project at that time. Of course, a decade later, in 1999, as is already widely known, Ayers would join Obama on the board of the Woods Fund itself.

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