CNN: Obama’s lying about William Ayers

I don’t think it will get any traction. I agree with others. If the general economic climate was better, then perhaps.

I’m sorry but this is short-sighted. McCain could most certainly make The Obamanation’s connection to Ayers an economics issue.

Imagine this speech:

My friends, as we try to provide you with more information about Sen. Obama’s dubious ties to the likes of unrepentent domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers, and radical Leftist groups like ACORN, it is inevitable that his defenders will attempt to deflect your attention away from these relationships by stating that these are just smears, an attempt to distract you from the overwhelming issue that is front and center in the minds of all Americans – the economy. But this is most certainly not the case, since we believe that that these relationships – along with many others – provide clear examples of the dangers an Obama presidency poses to this country’s future economic well-being.

The overall health of the US economy is a complicated balancing act between private-sector freedom and govt oversight. As our nation’s current financial crisis is clearly illustrating, govt policies can – for good or for bad – have enormous effects on our financial markets. With this in mind, we need elected officials who have a clear understanding of how their political ideology and policies will interact with and effect our financial system; and not just in the short term of a year…or two years…or 10 year, but as regards the long-term effects that their ideology and policies will have on our country. We need officials with a keen respect for using the power of govt, as well as taxpayers’ money, in responsible and beneficial ways that will promote our economic well-being for generations to come.

Which brings us to the topic of Sen. Obama’s long relationship with Bill Ayers. Now, let me be absolutely clear about something before the media spin even begins – no one is claiming that Sen. Obama is a terrorist. And no one is claiming that Sen. Obama condones or is an apologist for terrorism, whether it be domestic or international, past or present. But what we are claiming is that Sen. Obama shares certain radically Leftist views with Bill Ayers and that those shared radical views found the two of them affiliated with and working with one another for the better part of ten years.

In 1995, Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn – herself, a convicted terrorist – hosted Sen. Obama’s political “coming out” party in their own living room. Also, Bill Ayers was a co-founder of an organization called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation whose primary goal was the advancement and promotion of a radically Leftist educational agenda in the Chicago school system. Ayers was instrumental in getting Sen. Obama appointed as the Chairman of the CAC in 1995, despite the fact that corporate presidents were sitting board members of the CAC and Sen. Obama was a relatively young, inexperienced associate lawyer in Chicago.

so, what was it – exactly – that the CAC did? It provided funds to Chicago-area schools under the stipulation that said schools partner with CAC-approved “community organizations” like ACORN and the Developing Communities Project, both radical Leftist groups who were determined to push a radical educational agenda on both students and teachers. so in the end, what were the final results of Sen. Obama’s 5-year tenure as Chairman of the CAC? According to the CAC’s own report before the organization disbanded: “There were no statistically significant differences in student achievement between Annenberg schools and demographically similar non-Annenberg schools. This indicates that there was no Annenberg effect on achievement.” IOW, the result was nothing – nothing at all; unless you count the more than $100+ million in taxpayer money that was spent in funding the CAC’s efforts at indoctrinating children and teachers into a radical political ideology.

And there, in that last point, is the relevant truth. The primary purpose of this money wasn’t to improve students reading comprehension or math scores; it wasn’t meant to provide them with occupational training or more individualized attention; IOW, the money wasn’t meant to prepare students with the type of solid, fact-based educational experience that the future health of our country’s economy is dependent on. The primary purpose of the over $100 million of taxpayer money that was spent was to support an effort at indoctrinating Chicago’s children into the same far-left political ideology that Bill Ayers espouses – namely, that US is an evil country, with an evil history, and that it needs to be torn-apart at the seams so that it can be reorganized into a socialist paradise.

And Sen. Barack Obama worked with this man and the CAC in order to achieve this goal in the Chicago school system.

Now, does $100 million spent on this sort of nonsense bring to mind the phrase “sound economic principles”? Do Sen. Obama’s radical attempts at turning our nation’s school systems into political indoctrination centers sound like the activities of a man who has this country’s economic best interest at heart? It most certainly does not, as it sounds to me like Sen. Obama is man who cares more about spreading his radical political views to our nation’s children than he does about preparing them for their future roles as the stewards of our economic future.

But if that doesn’t convince you, let’s talk about another – more direct – example of Sen. Obama’s lack of judgement when it comes to the stability and prosperity of our nation’s economy. Let’s talk about his role as a “leadership trainer” with ACORN, and how the very “training” he provided this group is directly tied to the current financial meltdown that our country is enduring…

All of that, coupled with hitting him on Fannie and Freddie…Raines and Johnson…and contributions he’s received that were intended to keep everything just the way it has always been?

It would be devastating.

rvastar on October 7, 2008 at 1:56 PM