Rashid Khalidi, terrorist spokesman, Obama donor, and recipient of money from the Woods Fund, on the board of which the Prophet Barack sat: (hat tip: Ed Morrissey) If Senator Obama had one or two screwball associates, I could give it……

Any Jew or friend of Israel who votes for Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders. He will sell Israel out before the end of his first year in office. He’ll have people from Hamas attending state dinners.

rockmom on October 10, 2008 at 12:37 PM

Get a grip Mommy. Israel itself is divided of this issue of dealing with the Palestinian question. The differences between Democrats and Republicans on this question are hard to see.

but 29% of the indi’s said that Ayers makes them less likely to vote for O so don’t let anyone tell you that it isn’t working.

tee866 on October 10, 2008 at 1:21 PM

Of course it’s working. That’s why folks like lorien hope we drop it soon.

Seriously, how far gone does one have to be when associating with and learning from those who absolutely despise this country and what it stands for isn’t an issue?

Mike Klonsky was a well known domestic terrorist, communist, friend and colleague of Bill Ayers. His small schools project pushed political agendas in the class room and was somehow able to be funded while afterschool math tutoring programs were not.

However, it must be pointed out that a notorious ally of Bill Ayers for many years, Mike Klonsky, is an open member of the Obama campaign. Klonsky runs a blog on the official Obama website here where he claims to be a “professor of education” (the website of the Small Schools Workshop that he directs says only that he teaches some graduate courses, though it appears he was a visiting professor for one year at Nova Southeastern University in Florida in 2006-07) and says he blogs for Obama on “education politics and teaching for social justice.”

Who is Mike Klonsky? Well, on one level, he might just appear to be a protege of Bill Ayers in the education world. He received, as I detail below, a $175,000 grant from the Ayers/Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop that he and Ayers started in Chicago to push their school reform agenda.

But that is only half the story. Klonsky was one of the most destructive hardline maoists in the SDS in the late 60’s who emerged from SDS to form a pro-Chinese sect called the October League that later became the Beijing-recognized Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist). As chairman of the party, Klonsky travelled to Beijing itself in 1977 and, literally, toasted the Chinese stalinist leadership who, in turn, “hailed the formation of the CP(ML) as ‘reflecting the aspirations of the proletariat and working people,’ effectively recognizing the group as the all-but-official US Maoist party.” (Elbaum, Revolution in the Air, 228).

I know of no indications that Klonsky has ever expressed any regrets about that activity. Perhaps like his SDS comrade, Ayers, he, too, thinks he did not do enough back then. In my view they did more than enough.

An excellent profile of that maoist milieu is available in a book called Revolution in the Air by Max Elbaum, a first hand participant whose sympathy for the maoism of the period does not get in the way of an excellent account of these idiot savants of the left.

How is it possible that someone of Klonsky’s ilk would now be playing a visible role in the Obama campaign itself on such an important issue as education policy – apparently with free reign to push his authoritarian “social justice” agenda?

Link

I’ve read through several of the CAC PDF files which list the external partner organizations and points of contact. Simply googling people and organizations you start to get a sense of who these people are. It is not rocket science.

Ayers demonstrably had conflicts of interest and used the CAC as a way to reward friends and fellow travelers. Obama was demonstrably an active participant and held many roles within in the Chicago radical milieu.

http://ccsr.uchicago.edu/downloads/p62.pdf

http://ccsr.uchicago.edu/download
I’ve always thought the best way
s/p62II.pdf

I’m no education expert, so I really can’t evaluate what they did or didn’t do. I will say that the August 2003 final report for the Challenge, which ran from sometime in 1995 through sometime in 2002, concludes that the Challenge didn’t accomplish much of anything. Obama served as president and chairman of the board from the beginning in 1995 through sometime in 1999, when he resigned to run for Congress.

The report, perhaps prophetic, criticized the Challenge for having vague goals. For example, and I realize I’m cherrypicking, page 105 of the report notes the following:

“Because of its commitment to the principles of local autonomy and self-determinism, the Challenge eschewed the articulation of specific goals and means for development. Instead, it laid out broad and diffuse goals that were perhaps overly ambitious and rhetorical. Rather than concrete ends, it provided a ‘vision’ and a set of general principles for reform. It identified certain priorities around which schools should organize their efforts, but offered little direction on how to address them. Nor did it specify particular activities or processes for schools to follow.” (emphasis mine)

Among other things, the report criticizes the planning and implementation, and it gives an impression that as early as 1995 the Challenge and the participating schools weren’t exactly on the same page.

In glancing through the two pdfs, I came away with at least two impressions. First, Obama cannot possibly say that Ayers was just some guy in his neighborhood. This Challenge entailed a lot of work. Maybe the facetime members of the board mailed it in, but I have to believe that Obama, as president, was involved in many of the details and Ayers seemed to have his fingerprints all over this foundation. Second, this is Obama’s only example of executive experience. And with nearly $150 million at their disposal, the results seem mediocre at best.

Unfortunately, I can’t address what kind of monkey business Ayers was up to in directing money to third parties (External Partners, the term used in the report), but there’s a list of External Partners in Exhibit A. I came away wondering, aside from some local colleges and arts organinzations included in the list, who the other organizations are and why were they in the mix.

I really wish some conservatives with a background in education were looking at these documents.

It’s going to be the whole motley crew’s followers that are going to be rioting. Our police can deal with them.

wise_man on October 10, 2008 at 1:57 PM

With a little assist from our friends in the NRA.

Kevin in Washington State on October 10, 2008 at 2:25 PM

Everyone resist the urge to do what would be easy to do on this anonymous post online petition.

Don’t do it. Please. Don’t.

I saved the embedded spreadsheet in the i-frame of the web page. It’s a whose who list of far left leaning radical professors and activists.

Maybe it could be of use one day….

If Hussein wins, we get his whole motley crew more or less in power. If McCain wins, we’ll have riots in the streets.
I’ll take the riots.
Akzed on October 10, 2008 at 12:23 PM

It’s going to be the whole motley crew’s followers that are going to be rioting. Our police can deal with them.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/kenyas_killing_fields/

Fixed.

It’s the only issue -anyone- cares about. Except republicans.

And I’m not into godwinification.

But that’s a good reason to explain why Obama is wrong on economic issues, isn’t it?

But, hey, stare at Ayers and Wright a little longer, if you want.

Whistle past that graveyard.

Stay focused on the issues that people I care about, Ed.

And we wonder why McCain is gonna lose in a landslide.

lorien1973 on October 10, 2008 at 12:33 PM

Fixed.

And just a reminder to you, lorien1973: One of the appeals of a guy called Hitler back in early-1930s Germany was that he would “fix the economy,” too. Which he did. For a while.

His past was better-known to the German public than Osama Obama’s is to us….

lorien1973 on October 10, 2008 at 12:36 PM

You’re right, the financial crisis is serious.

However, I would add that who would you trust to fix it?

An American hero that really has bled for this country.

Or, an enigma that has associations and alliances with:

- known marxist domestic terrorists that advocate the violent overthrow of the US gov

- financial RICO candidates and felons that have contributed to the cause of the mortgage crisis

- a Kenyan leader that has ties to radical Sharia-based Islam

- a religious leader that teaches a mutant strain, religi-fied version of marxism and condems America from the pulpit as deserving of the attacks of 9/11.

A Presidential candidate who has misled, told ‘untruths’, and LIED about the nature of his relationships above and repeatedly tried to re-focus the election on the “real” issues.

The real issue is; can you trust him?

If you can’t trust what he says about his alliances and associations, then how can he be trusted that he’ll do anything that he says?

I don’t here any,especially through the night,and it
doesn’t matter if its CoastoCoast,or Sports Talk Radio!

I hope Team McCain/Palin,are not writing off radio,there’s less than 4 weeks to go before D-Day(Voting day,)pull out
all the stops,the political war is still ongoing!

Guilt of Assocation:

Barack Obama,every preacher,teacher,professor,political
partner,business partner,every person that knew Hopey,
is tainted one way or another!!

God help America,and the Free World,if this Terrorist
(Ayers-Dorhns)lovin,Liberal Democratic nominee becomes
President of the United States of America!!