While “so-deep-in-the-Obama-tank-I-can’t-see-straight” writer Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic (I have to admit to enjoying most of his work) is getting “tingley feelings” over Obama’s jumping all over John McCain’s “too-many-homes-to-count-so-che…

If I were John McCain, I would display this image at every opportunity. A picture is worth a thousand words….

Dear Mr. B. Joseph White
Its seems there is a white washing going on related to certain documents in your schools possession “the internal files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge”. For some reason they are not being made available for inspection by the public and more over by Mr. Stanley Kurtz.. It’s about time to take immediate public steps to insure the safety of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, to release the identity of the Collection’s donor, and above all to swiftly make the Collection available to Mr. Stanley Kurtz, and to the public at large. To do anything less would only further the notion that there is a cover up going on. It could be surmised that as your school employees a admitted terrorist bomber in William Aryers you are also covering up to insulate your school from ridicule or worse your hiding information from the public to help a political ally in the presidential election . So I must ask what are you afraid of? Being tied to and employing a terrorist or are you afraid to allow the public to see the documents, that will show your political ally running for president of the United States has deeper ties to this terrorist. At the same time prove he was lying to the American people from the very beginning about his relationship to your terrorist professor.

Time to grow a set and do the right thing. Release the documents or release the name of the donor who is putting up the road blocks.

Sincerely yours

This is troubling – link via a post at Powerline – short audio from WLS’s Jerry Agar available here. A spokesperson for the U of Illinois at Chicago Library doesn’t rule out that the now missing Chicago Annenberg Challenge records…

I sincerely request that you allow the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records be made available to whoever wishes to view them.

The importance of making these records available to the public is because one of the people involved in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge is currently the presumptive presidential nominee of one of our major political parties. It would be very detrimental for the voters of our great country to not have as complete an understanding as possible of an individual who could be our next President upon which make their voting decision. This is a case where the needs of the many far outweigh the needs of the few.

I trust that in your capacity as the head of a major institution of higher education, you will be equally concerned that voters will not have all the pertinent information on which to make an informed decision when casting their vote for the next President of the United States of America.

Thank you. Sincerely,

A concerned citizen of these United States of America

2) If Annenberg transferred the docs to the Daley Library, is there any public paperwork to that effect?

If Annenberg retained OWNERSHIP we’re probably going to be SOL as far as compelling a release.

#38 re: Sandy Berger – Wikipedia claims he was fined $50,000, given 2 years probation, 100 hours of community service and security clearance suspended 3 years for a guilty plea to misdemeanor unauthorized removal and retention of classified information.
More details <a href=”http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/may/16/20070516-113137-9942r/”> here via the Washington Times.

“If you don’t make the Annenberg Challenge records available to reporter Stanley Kurtz (or any other interested reporter) pronto, then you run the risk of depriving the American electorate of information potentially crucial to their decision.

Don’t do a John Edwards; he’ll never recover, and neither will you if you continue to stonewall.”