Obama’s Ayers problem deepens

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 27, 2008 09:34 AM

The Chicago bully tactics aren’t going to work. While Obama sics his lawyers and Kossack minions on TV stations that dare to air an independent ad about his close relationship with Weather Underground terrorist-turned-academic Bill Ayers, the truth is seeping out. Thanks to the efforts of NRO’s Stanley Kurtz, blogger Steve Diamond, and intense pressure from Internet readers and talk radio listeners, the University of Illinois – Chicago was forced to release a trove of papers that a former official attempted to shield from public view. There are some 140 boxes and 1,000 files to sift through — and MSM outlets have barely scratched the surface. Kurtz is in Chicago to review the documents and will report tonight on his findings for two hours on Chicago station WGN’s Milt Rosenberg Show. (Good background here, too, in an in-depth discussion on the malign influence of Ayers’ educational philosophy and practice.)

Despite only partial review of the papers, some outlets are pooh-poohing the disclosures. The Chicago Tribune writes: “A partial examination of the documents did not reveal anything startling about the link between Obama, the Democratic presidential contender, and Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground, a Vietnam-era anti-war group that claimed responsibility for several bombings.”

And yet:

The UIC records show that Obama and Ayers attended board meetings, retreats and at least one news conference together as the education program got under way. The two continued to attend meetings together during the 1995-2001 operation of the program, records show.

At a Democratic debate this year when the association between Obama and Ayers was raised, Obama said: “This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood. . . . He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” Obama called Ayers’ past radical acts detestable.

But critics note that Obama visited Ayers’ home for a meeting at the start of his first state Senate bid in the mid-’90s.

The UIC records showed that Ayers was instrumental in securing the $50 million education grant to reform Chicago Public Schools, part of a national initiative funded by the late Ambassador Walter Annenberg. . After Chicago was awarded the money, Obama served as president of the Challenge’s board of directors, the fiscal arm that disbursed the grants to schools and raised private matching funds. Ayers participated in a second entity known as the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, the operational arm that worked with the grant recipients.

Fox News’s James Rosen uncovered more of Ayers’ unrepentant, radical face while researching his latest book:

William Ayers, who was a founder of the 1960s and 1970s radical group the Weather Underground, told FOX News correspondent James Rosen in a candid 2004 interview that he still believed he was “on the side of justice” years after the group’s wave of attacks.

In the interview, conducted three years after the September 11 attacks, Ayers argued the U.S. government had carried out “many other acts of terror … even recently, that are comparable,” and claimed he and his bomb-planting comrades were “restrained” in their actions.

Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, served with Barack Obama on the board of the charitable Woods Fund of Chicago for three years and helped launch Obama’s political career in Illinois by hosting in his Hyde Park home an informal campaign event for the future state senator in 1995.

Ayers claimed the Weathermen were driven by “hope and love,” not despair, and said he did not think the group’s violent acts, targeting federal officials and local law enforcement officers, were “a big deal.”

…Interviewed in May 2004 in connection with Rosen’s book “The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate,” published recently by Doubleday, Ayers affirmed that 9/11 was “an act of pure terror,” one that had caused him to weep, and that terrorism is “always wrong, always evil.” But Ayers also condemned the Bush administration for using the attacks “to advance a right-wing agenda on every front: every uterus must be examined, every tree chopped down, every oil well dug. I mean, it’s absolute madness.”

“I mean, the only group of people that I know who weren’t weeping for the next several weeks [after 9/11] were the people who were busy typing legislation into their computers,” Ayers continued.

When asked about some Palestinians who had been captured on videotape dancing in the streets after the attacks, Ayers said coverage of those individuals had been “overwrought” in the U.S. media, and added: “[E]verybody in the world knows that Americans are geographically challenged and historically challenged. We don’t have a sense of who we are or where we are. So I think every American that I know was weeping over the next several weeks, and devastated and shocked. Was that an act of pure terror? It absolutely was.

“And there are many other acts of terror carried out by our government, even recently, that, that are comparable.

Ayers is not only a flag-trampling apologist for domestic terror. He’s an inveterate liar. Andy McCarthy refreshes your memory.

Obama can wrap himself in the flag and attempt to gag his critics, but his false portrayal of Ayers as just a guy in the neighborhood is not going to fly. Obama’s friend is America’s enemy.

And America deserves to know.

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  1. #423236
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:37 am, Goldwater Knight said:

    Go Ayer your dirty laundry Obama.

  2. #423240
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:41 am, sonofdy said:

    The worst part of this could be the attempted suppression of peoples right to know. At the library and with the ads. Do we really want a president who will try to put his political enemies in jail ala Mugabe?

  3. #423242
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:42 am, ajmontana said:

    Ayers claimed the Weathermen were driven by “hope and love,” not despair, and said he did not think the group’s violent acts, targeting federal officials and local law enforcement officers, were “a big deal.”

    Sound Familiar?

  4. #423243
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:42 am, josetheguerilla said:

    And America deserves to know.

    But will they care after they know? This candidate is being sold as the change candidate, and the Obammedia is willing and able to suppress this kind of stuff. The American people are led to believe that if we don’t get change, change, change it will be catastrophic. Will most care if he was a friend with an admitted terrorist in 1995? I think a lot of people are becoming invertebrates.

    The guerilla

  5. #423245
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:44 am, Fineous Reese said:

    Obama, the truth will set you free! (to pursue things other than the presidency)

  6. #423247
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:45 am, guitarplayer said:

    Ayers goes under the bus in 3…2…1…

  7. #423248
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:45 am, sonofdy said:

    Change? The following people would be a change.

    Hitler
    Stalin
    Mao
    Pol Pot
    Franco
    Altla the hun
    etc etc etc

    Be carefull what you ask for.

  8. #423250
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:47 am, kwyoung said:

    Stanley Kurtz will be blamed for “swift boating” Obama in this election style. If not for the likes of him, the MSM would completely ignore the truth that lies beneath.

    Stanley Kurtz, Swift Boater ‘08

    Paddle like crazy!

  9. #423251
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:48 am, DBNinKY said:

    Obama’s friend is America’s enemy.

    And America deserves to know.

    Not if PMSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, NYT, LAT, and all the other BHO sycophants in the MSM can help it!

  10. #423257
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:52 am, Insomniac said:

    Hope and Change Semtex

  11. #423258
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:52 am, kwyoung said:

    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:45 am, guitarplayer said:
    Ayers goes under the bus in 3…2…1…

    Latest sponsor of Obama

  12. #423263
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:53 am, JP_Texan said:

    Ayers and Wright and … “Once is an accident, twice is a trend.”

  13. #423267
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:56 am, guitarplayer said:

    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:52 am, kwyoung said:

    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:45 am, guitarplayer said:
    Ayers goes under the bus in 3…2…1…

    Latest sponsor of Obama

    I thought it was Greyhound. :lol:

  14. #423271
    On August 27th, 2008 at 9:59 am, sonofdy said:

    Latest sponsor of Obama

    I hope they have stocked up on those :lol:

  15. #423273
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:00 am, oldedude said:

    MSM take note-the very first thing to go under a dictatorship is the press.
    His Holiness and his minions are not even waiting for the title before they start to shut you down. They hope to succeed with this because MSM hates the targeted group. That makes it easier to do the next time and pretty soon MSM will become Obama Streaming Media.

  16. #423274
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:01 am, Marshall Russ said:

    Obambi’s Black Liberation Theology view of the world and the “bully, misguided” America is why he was drawn to Ayers and his hate for America. What a fit. The “wanna’ be” and the “has been” hiding in the liberal Chicago working together to get back at”mean, unfair, nasty” America.

  17. #423276
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:02 am, englishqueen01 said:

    But will they care after they know? This candidate is being sold as the change candidate, and the Obammedia is willing and able to suppress this kind of stuff. The American people are led to believe that if we don’t get change, change, change it will be catastrophic.

    Look at the polls. According to the media rapture, Obama should have a double-digit lead over McCain. He doesn’t. And he’s lost some of his lead, too:

    A Biden negative bounce? CNN’s new poll has the race tied up at 47. Obviously, Obama will get a big bounce this week (I expect he’ll be up by double digits a week from now), but hes having a hard time with the Hill backers… who re probably still wondering, what’s Biden have that Hillary doesn’t?

    So what’s the difference now?

    It may be supporters of Hillary Clinton, who still would prefer the Senator from New York as the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

    Sixty-six percent of Clinton supporters, registered Democrats who want Clinton as the nominee, are now backing Obama. That’s down from 75 percent in the end of June. Twenty-seven percent of them now say they’ll support McCain, up from 16 percent in late June.

    “The number of Clinton Democrats who say they would vote for McCain has gone up 11 points since June, enough to account for most although not all of the support McCain has gained in that time,” says Holland.

    SOURCE

    People are starting to get it. I hope.

    I’m not thrilled with McCain, but Obama cannot be president.

  18. #423278
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:03 am, Misscheryl said:

    Ditto on that EQ #17.

  19. #423280
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:04 am, sonofdy said:

    Apparantly obamas stage will be like a greek temple. This guy thinks alot of himself. I joke about the god emperor, but sometimes I wonder if thats what obama really thinks about himself.

  20. #423286
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:07 am, Misscheryl said:

    sonofdy said:
    Apparantly obamas stage will be like a greek temple. This guy thinks alot of himself. I joke about the god emperor, but sometimes I wonder if thats what obama really thinks about himself.

    In that same vein, I truly think he believes he can request that the DoJ do something and they will get “right on it.” He believes his own press. 1st indication he’s an idiot.

  21. #423290
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:08 am, Artbyruth said:

    I am fully convinced that the only way Obama will win in November is by stealing the election. I think more bloggers and news shows should bring this up.

    He will have to somehow stop overseas military ballots from being counted, he will have to somehow scare white people into voting for him (by threatening riots in the streets, violence like the Rodney King riots, etc.) and he will have to cause voter fraud.

    Other than that, I can’t see him winning in November.

    All these tactics are possible as we saw in 2000. Al Gore almost stole the election.

  22. #423296
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:10 am, vickisoup said:

    Chilling. Absolutely chilling. :shock:

  23. #423297
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:11 am, Dimsdale said:

    It all comes down to Obama’s judgment, which continues to be found sorely lacking.

    Of course, if you watched the liberal MSM, you would know none of this.

    I am still looking for the media hysteria about Carter calling Obama “that black boy.” You know, the same kind of hysteria generated by that Texas politician using the astronomical term “black hole” and being accused as a racist by a black legislator of limited vocabulary. Must have had some niggardly schooling in his youth.

    And don’t forget Trent Lott’s statement about Strom Thurmond or that generated by Chris Dodd’s statement about Robert Byrd. (http://www.washtimes.com/news/2004/apr/08/20040408-122244-5534r/)

    Oh wait, sorry. Nothing was made of Dodd’s statement. Forgot I was talking about a Democrat. My bad.

    Forget about Carter. Nothing to see here.

  24. #423303
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:12 am, guitarplayer said:

    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:04 am, sonofdy said:

    Apparantly obamas stage will be like a greek temple. This guy thinks alot of himself. I joke about the god emperor, but sometimes I wonder if thats what obama really thinks about himself.

    Check out the story on Hot Air about the temple. Great Star Trek analogy. :-)

  25. #423306
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:14 am, ajmontana said:

    Sonofdy, fox neWs alreadY has mentioned this morning the stage for the stooge loks like a temple…. lol, “Temple of Doom” I say.

  26. #423307
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:15 am, bloghooligan said:

    We can all thank Obama for creating yet another issue that would have never taken off, but for his mouth.

    Had Obama not sought to minimize his relationship with Ayes and instead claimed ignorance about knowing Ayres’ past, then this would have played out like republicans looking to create an issue where there wasn’t one. But because Obama and his immature minions don’t see further than the tip of their noses, Obama’s now had to try to hide documents that prove Aryes is more than a “guy for the neighborhood”.

    This controversy, just like the flag pin controversy, caught fire because of Obama’s mouth.

  27. #423312
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:17 am, Sergeant Tim said:

    FYI: Milt Rosenberg’s radio show runs 9 to 11 PM Central time according to WGN’s schedule and they have a ‘listen live’ link .

  28. #423313
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:17 am, twiggman said:

    Does anyone know why FOX will not run that ad?

  29. #423316
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:18 am, Christian Soldier said:

    Clinton is our enemy – too!

    I had forgotten that he communed the sentence of Rosenburg (sp)..
    I do remember that he pardoned LOTS of America’s enemies in his last days…..

    He also, let OBL “slip” through his grasp in 1998…..

    Why should we REEEACH across the AISLE to these Democrat people?!!!!!

  30. #423318
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:19 am, mchristian said:

    Ayers claimed the Weathermen were driven by “hope and love,” not despair, and said he did not think the group’s violent acts, targeting federal officials and local law enforcement officers, were “a big deal.”

    Ayers is a liar. The Weathermen and the other radical groups of the sixties were driven by a desire to tear down the government and replace it with their Marxist ideal. They were driven by ambition then as they are now. They discovered, however, that the means to the revolution they want to bring about is through the educational system and radicalizing students rather than armed conflict. The abdication of American parents, abetted by popular culture, has aided them in advancing their cause.

    As for Ayers contention that the US government has carried out acts of terror and his are restrained in comparison, well, who the hell ever elected that self-important asshole to anything? It was his, and Dohrn’s, delusions of grandeur that allowed them to believe that they could bring about revolution and that murder was jusitified.

  31. #423319
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:19 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Bill Ayers also attends University functions, and publishes web articles for the University of South Carolina, of which GOP Gov. Mark Sanford is Chairman of the Board.

    If we’re going to play the “company that you keep” game based on four-times annually board meetings for an anti-poverty non-profit, we should probably play it for everyone.

  32. #423323
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:20 am, Trollman said:

    oldedude said:

    MSM take note-the very first thing to go under a dictatorship is the press.
    His Holiness and his minions are not even waiting for the title before they start to shut you down. They hope to succeed with this because MSM hates the targeted group. That makes it easier to do the next time and pretty soon MSM will become Obama Streaming Media.

    The press is already gone. The MSM already is the Obama Streaming Media.

  33. #423324
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:21 am, sonofdy said:

    Obama for god emperor 2008!!!!

  34. #423326
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:22 am, MtsEdge said:

    Obama wearing the flag pin these days may strike a chord with his followers, but it is just more lame attempt to obfuscate his chosen association with the anti-America crowd. What I’d like to see is Bill Ayers and co. move out of the US for good–since he hates it here so much…oops, his delusional mind seems to think he is being kept here against his will, it is against his will, right???

  35. #423329
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:24 am, Trollman said:

    sonofdy said:

    Apparantly obamas stage will be like a greek temple. This guy thinks alot of himself. I joke about the god emperor, but sometimes I wonder if thats what obama really thinks about himself.

    Obama’s new campaign slogan:

    “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto Obama, the things which are Obama’s.”

  36. #423332
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:26 am, FamilyMan said:

    We must be very careful to have every scrap of evidence that will tie Ayers and Obama together. The MSM will have a field day if this begins to look like McCarthyism witch-hunt.

  37. #423334
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:27 am, Tennyson said:

    Obama for god emperor 2008!!!!

    Obama concurs!

  38. #423335
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:28 am, beenthere said:

    Does anyone know why FOX will not run that ad?

    My guess is that this is another version of the George Bush Syndrome. It goes like this. Obama is boycotting Fox News. Oh no! Fox News heads are distressed. What to do? Show Obama that they like and respect him, that’s what! They won’t run that nasty Ayers ad and then Obama will think: Gosh and gollies, they’re not so bad after all. So I will stop boycotting them and tell all my friends too that Fox News is cool!

    You’d be surprised how much “thinking” along those lines takes place in the higher elevations of corporate and political America. It’ll be the death of us all.

  39. #423336
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:28 am, DagneyT said:

    Michelle, I heard the riot you caused in Denver, with the moonbats attacking you on Glenn Beck! Darlin’ Lady, are you alright? That had to have SCARY!

  40. #423339
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:30 am, bedje said:

    The Chicago Tribune writes: We didn’t find anything that we didn’t want to find. No, wait we found something, but it turned out to be nothing. No, wait, we meant we found nothing at all when we looked at the boxes containing the files that no one should be looking at anyway.

  41. #423342
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:31 am, FamilyMan said:

    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:19 am, mchristian said:

    They discovered, however, that the means to the revolution they want to bring about is through the educational system and radicalizing students rather than armed conflict. The abdication of American parents, abetted by popular culture, has aided them in advancing their cause.

    That just about says it all

  42. #423343
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:31 am, mijacat said:

    Obama can’t even get Chicago-style intimidation right.

    If he were using Chicago tactics, the station managers daring to air the Ayres ad would have “eaten the curb” by now.

    If he were using Chicago tactics, any reporters covering the stories would have received free pizzas – with a note saying that it could just as easily have been something else.

    If he were using Chicago tactics, Chelsea would have “gone on vacation”.

    Obama’s a poseur.

    Mew

  43. #423345
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:32 am, ajmontana said:

    Tennyson , can’t get your link to work.

  44. #423346
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:33 am, On-my-soap-box said:

    Obama’s friend is America’s enemy.

    And America deserves to know.

    Just advertise during Dancing with the Stars and people will. Still, half will not care.

  45. #423349
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:34 am, kwyoung said:

    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:17 am, twiggman said:
    Does anyone know why FOX will not run that ad?

    It seems to me they want to maintain their “Fair and Balanced” reputation and not “smear” Obama. I say they should forget F&B and declare that they are the news outlet of the right. Everybody knows they lean to the right anyway so why hide behind the F&B slogan? The future of our great country hangs in the balance and they’re worried about running an ad that is truthful and legal (not to mention damning to Obama). It doesn’t make sense.

  46. #423351
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:37 am, beenthere said:

    If we’re going to play the “company that you keep” game based on four-times annually board meetings for an anti-poverty non-profit, we should probably play it for everyone.

    Oh dear, kind sir, I do so agree. I agree most emphatically, sir! You can bet any amount of change and boogers on that. If a RINO sticks his hand in Mr. Ayers pants, then yes, in the name of love, love, hope, and change, cut it off and make him eat it. Metaphorically speaking, of course.

  47. #423352
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:37 am, Flyoverman said:

    Obama’s new campaign slogan:

    “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto Obama, the things which are Obama’s.”

    The problem here I that Obama also thinks he is Caesar….

    William Ayers has been a subversive all of his adult life. Like Reverend Wright Obama’s attempt to trivlialize his relationship with Ayers is ludicrous. Look at the money backing Obama. Do any of you believe for a minute that socialist immigrant George Soros is a patriot? Not hardly.

  48. #423354
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:38 am, cblesz said:

    You will not hear a word about this from the MSM. Not a word.

  49. #423355
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:38 am, FamilyMan said:

    kwyoung
    It doesn’t make sense

    .
    Fox News is being very very careful.
    The MSM will have a field day if this begins to look like McCarthyism witch-hunt.

  50. #423357
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:39 am, sonofdy said:

    They discovered, however, that the means to the revolution they want to bring about is through the educational system and radicalizing students rather than armed conflict. The abdication of American parents, abetted by popular culture, has aided them in advancing their cause.

    Part of the process is to take power from the perants as well. Almost any form of punishment is now considered “abuse” and the children at school are told to report thier perants if it occurs. Real abuse is a really bad thing but when johnny knows that his perants can’t touch him reguardless of what he does, then he does what he wants to do. Which for 15 year old johnny is usualy a bad thing. I know of a person who was assulted by his teenage kid and in defending himself he left a bruse on the kid. Guess who went to jail? The father. Since he was military, he lost his job, his house, his benefits and can never own a gun again. Why? because he defended himself from his 16 year old son who weight as much as he did.

  51. #423358
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:39 am, CantCureStupid said:

    …Americans are geographically challenged and historically challenged. We don’t have a sense of who we are or where we are.

    I love when libs us the pronoun ‘we’, as if they’re part of the group they’re describing, when what they really mean is ‘the rest of you ignorant dipsticks’. This guy is a criminal and a piece of crap and should have been buried under one of any number of federal prisons.

  52. #423362
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:40 am, sambo said:

    Christian Soldier said:
    Clinton is our enemy – too!

    I had forgotten that he communed the sentence of Rosenburg (sp)..

    that’s not the only terrorist he let free. Don’t forget the Puerto Rican separatist group.

  53. #423363
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:40 am, Christian Soldier said:

    Thank you for the link:

    Andy McCarthy refreshes your memory.

  54. #423364
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:41 am, Tennyson said:

    Tennyson , can’t get your link to work.

    Sorry. It’s there but Imageshack blows. Power Line’s got it posted too.

    Toga! Toga! Toga!

  55. #423370
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:43 am, Christian Soldier said:
  56. #423371
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:44 am, FamilyMan said:

    CantCureStupid
    Before Ayers is gone, lets use him to bring down Obama.

  57. #423372
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:44 am, Tennyson said:

    Can’t wait to see what Stanley Kurtz and Steve Diamond come up with next. Imagine the media hysteria if it was McCain with the terrorist connections.

    I think people are starting to realize that the MSM has failed miserably in reporting the truth about Obama. Hillary might’ve sent that message loud & clear last night…

  58. #423373
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:44 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood. . . . He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” -Obama

    Soooo…. exactly how often DO you exchange ideas with Ayers? Every now and then?

  59. #423376
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:46 am, FruNobulux said:

    African-style dictatorship is what he wants.

    That explains why he wants some one-on-one time with Ahmadinejad, Chavez etc. Not to negotiate, but to get some tips.

  60. #423377
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:46 am, JohnnyD said:

    Ayers said [...] We don’t have a sense of who we are or where we are.

    The world as it is and the world as it should be!

    Hmmm, sounds kind of familiar, yes?

  61. #423381
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:47 am, sambo said:

    CantCureStupid said:

    …Americans are geographically challenged and historically challenged. We don’t have a sense of who we are or where we are.

    I love when libs us the pronoun ‘we’, as if they’re part of the group they’re describing, when what they really mean is ‘the rest of you ignorant dipsticks’.

    I take the ‘we’ part as him and his marxist friends…so I have to agree!

  62. #423382
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:49 am, CJ said:

    I’m not convinced that it’s the Ayers-Obama link that the campaign wants to hush up. Oh, they’d like that to go away, but I think there may be something more damaging.

    BO was Chairman of the Board of the CAC, which had a cool $100+ million to enact hopeandchange in some of Chicago’s worst schools. So, after blowing through this cool $100+ million, where’s the hopeandchange??? The kidlets who had the opportunity to experience this $100+ million of hopeandchange are now adults. Did their schools start graduating a higher percentage of students? Did test scores rise? Did more students attend (and the all-important statistic, graduate from) college?

    What kind of education can a cool $100+ million buy? The average cost a private school is about 5K/year. If that cool $100+ million had been used to award scholarships to poor students stuck in the worst of these schools, a couple of thousand of them could have attended private schools — for all 12 years of their childhood.

    BO was ultimately responsible for the cool $100+ million. How was it spent? Who was hired? Why don’t we see the promised hopeandchange? And most importantly, if Barak Obama was a failure in his ONLY executive endeavor, why would anyone even consider him fit to run a country???

    And if the American people start thinking about that last question …

  63. #423390
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:52 am, Little Ma said:

    At 9:45 am, guitarplayer said: “Ayers goes under the bus in 3…2…1…

    I’m waiting for Obama to do that too, and I’m wondering what’s taking him so long. Maybe the lefties are threatening him. It’s possible that the sword hanging over his head is a lot bigger than we realize.

    On the other hand, he wasn’t in a hurry to throw Wright under the bus either.

  64. #423391
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:52 am, madchef said:

    If Obama is Ceasar, then I guess Jesse Jackson is in charge of the eunuchs.

  65. #423394
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:53 am, ronbotex said:

    Let hope …
    “The chickens have come home to roost” for Comrade Obama

  66. #423396
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:53 am, KitFox said:

    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:37 am, Flyoverman said:

    …The problem here I that Obama also thinks he is Caesar….

    Nah, he thinks he’s Xerxes from “300.” All he’s missing is the official title of “God-King” and a pair of tight little gold undershorts.

  67. #423399
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:54 am, sonofdy said:

    Sorry. It’s there but Imageshack blows. Power Line’s got it posted too.

    Toga! Toga! Toga!

    thats god emperor to you mere mortals!!!

  68. #423400
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:55 am, Christian Soldier said:

    # 64 madchef–

    :-) (-:

    Thanks-I needed a Laugh and it’s only 7:45 AM here!

  69. #423401
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:55 am, sonofdy said:

    and a pair of tight little gold undershorts.

    Okay who has a way of cleaning out an image from your brain?

  70. #423404
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:56 am, DiamondMair said:

    It just seems to me this points up how truly skewed Odrama’s “values” are – he throws his minister under the bus, his spiritual mentor/counselor, with little to no apparent consideration, yet he continues to profess allegiance to an anarchist, who, if Odrama doesn’t “do” what the anarchist wants, the anarchist will have no hesitation in ‘calling to arms’? I just thank God I’m no longer active duty, with the prospect of Odrama as commander in chief ……………….

    Semper Fi’
    DM

  71. #423406
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:56 am, sambo said:

    CJ said:
    …I think there may be something more damaging.

    BO was Chairman of the Board of the CAC, which had a cool $100+ million to enact hopeandchange in some of Chicago’s worst schools. So, after blowing through this cool $100+ million, where’s the hopeandchange??? The kidlets who had the opportunity to experience this $100+ million

    Did test scores rise?

    Yes they did…at the same rates as schools that were not under this program!

  72. #423407
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:56 am, JRob said:

    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:19 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Bill Ayers also attends University functions, and publishes web articles for the University of South Carolina, of which GOP Gov. Mark Sanford is Chairman of the Board.

    Nice try. Gov. Sanford is the ex officio chairman. Meaning that he holds that title by only virtue of his office. In the same way that former Sec. of Education (and former Gov. of SC) William Riley was (as a side note, both Riley and Sanford are graduates of Furman Univ. and have no other ties to USC). He does not participate in the business of the board. In fact, other than his signature on the diplomas, really has nothing to do with USC.The man who actually presides over the Board of trustees for USC is one Herbert Adams.
    For the sake of argument, however, let’s say that Sanford actually presides at board meetings. Trustee interference with matters of faculty usually sends a red flag to accrediting agencies. Sanford would have zero say in Ayers’ faculty relationship. Further, Sanford has never received counsel, recommendation or other assistance from Ayers. Nor do they even espouse the same political philosophy and/or ideology. Therefore, your straw man does not stand.

  73. #423408
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:57 am, ajmontana said:

    Ha Tennyson! hope and Change or Whatever…. lmao
    ‘the toilet ticket’
    No Odumpo/Bidet 08

  74. #423413
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:59 am, sambo said:

    and a pair of tight little gold undershorts.

    OMG…can just image LGM going nuts over that.

  75. #423414
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:59 am, SuzEQCitizen said:

    All he’s missing is the official title of “God-King” and a pair of tight little gold undershorts.

    ::gag::

  76. #423419
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:00 am, madchef said:

    Also starring Bill Clinton as Brutus.

  77. #423423
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:02 am, ajmontana said:

    madchef said:
    Also starring Bill Clinton as Brutus Caligula.

  78. #423425
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:03 am, sambo said:

    JRob said:
    Red State Skeptic said:

    Bill Ayers also attends University functions, and publishes web articles for the University of South Carolina, of which GOP Gov. Mark Sanford is Chairman of the Board.

    Nice try. Gov. Sanford is the ex officio chairman.

    Thanks for the info…former Gamecock here getting ready to check into this and let some emails fly.

  79. #423430
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:03 am, Misscheryl said:

    I can see Obama now, head tilted upward in complete arrogance
    “I did not have a relationship with that man….Mr. Ayers and to question me is a criminal offense. I will sic the DoJ on you and then..off with your head!

  80. #423442
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:08 am, josetheguerilla said:

    Look at the polls. According to the media rapture, Obama should have a double-digit lead over McCain. He doesn’t. And he’s lost some of his lead, too:

    The poles don’t mean much until the beginning of October. They pole mostly democrat/undecided anyway. I believe the poles are misleading. Remember when the poles had Kerry in a tie or ahead of President Bush in the 2004 election? Most people believe the Iraq war was a mistake and a waste of time. This is because the MSM reports news from a partisan point of view. They don’t report when we’re winning the war, they just report the bad stuff. They were able to turn American opinion on the Iraq war. The same thing is happening with Obama. It is McCain that should have a double-digit lead in the poles. They give Obama a pass on almost every single misstep.

    They’re following the Hugo Chavez play book. If it’s not reported it did not happen. They decide what the news is.

  81. #423452
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:14 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:56 am, JRob said:
    On August 27th, 2008 at 10:19 am, Red State Skeptic said:

    Bill Ayers also attends University functions, and publishes web articles for the University of South Carolina, of which GOP Gov. Mark Sanford is Chairman of the Board.
    Nice try. Gov. Sanford is the ex officio chairman.

    Do you think for a second that if Bill Ayers were that dangerous to society, Mark Sanford wouldn’t be able to get his status revoked?

  82. #423453
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:14 am, Auggie Dog said:

    But critics note that Obama visited Ayers’ home for a meeting at the start of his first state Senate bid in the mid-’90s.

    Nothing to see here. He was just hanging with the neighbors smokin a fatty.

  83. #423457
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:18 am, MikeOK said:

    JRob, thanks for lighting the match to RSS’s idiotic strawman argument — although it is worth pointing out that liberals have launched vicious smear campaigns against conservatives based on flimsier arguments than the one RSS made.

    It’s worth repeating again — if McCain or any other Republican had significant intellectual or political ties to the likes of George Lincoln Rockwell or Eric Rudolph, liberals would be going apeshit.

    This is no time to back down. We need to know exactly what kind of people helped develop Obama’s worldview.

  84. #423461
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:22 am, MrOlympia said:

    LMAO Auggie

    Hey Bill I’ll be over in a little bit to discuss more of your commie philosophy, you have any Philly Blunts?

  85. #423472
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:31 am, On-my-soap-box said:

    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:02 am, ajmontana said:
    madchef said:
    Also starring Bill Clinton as Brutus Caligula.

    I don’t know what is more disturbing; that you spelled it right or that I know your right! :lol:

  86. #423476
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:33 am, doppelganglander said:

    Sweet! I would give anything to be Stanley Kurtz’s research assistant right now.

  87. #423484
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:36 am, Lucifer Jones said:

    We have long had a bet down here that Obama will, if you pardon the pun, flame out.

  88. #423486
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:36 am, Lucifer Jones said:

    We have long had a bet down here that Obama will, if you pardon the pun, flame out.

  89. #423490
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:38 am, Lucifer Jones said:

    If media outlets pooh-pooh this without reading the documents, then you know they’re in the tank for this third-rate antichrist.

  90. #423491
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:38 am, travlinman said:

    Obama’s relationship with Ayers may well be the “swiftboat” issue of the 2008 campaign. I think Obama is an empty suit and has bitten off way more than he can chew.
    It will be interesting to see if he can handle the pressure without imploding.
    One still has to wonder if the Clinton’s have an October surprise in store for Obama. Could they possibly expose him in such as a fashion that he would have to resign the nomination? Would that leave Hillary as the new “savior” of the party, and the country, letting her glean enough sympathy votes to give her the White House?

  91. #423494
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:42 am, bear1909 said:

    Flinchy Binghole Obama is an addictive personality hopelessly co-dependent on the image the world reflects back to him, negative or positive, and has been retarded emotionally and socially by his addictive proclivities.

    He has not let one of his “ideas” become real in the world. How does one become Senator in the US Congress and not author one piece of legislation or be a player on a major committee. FBO does not know how to commit himself. He prances about as the bright boy who does well in class and doesnt consort with the other kids in the school yard. And if anybody takes issue with him he takes cover behind skirts and authority figures who “know” he is special.

    FBO and Ayres are delusional and have in common the grandiosity that leads to ruin for those who do not see eye to eye. Notice Ayres survived the ruin of his previous convictions that bombs were the only way. What happened to his comrades?

    And FBO’s delusions of grandeur re the USA being able to spend its way out of Great Society era program defects that have crippled millions and ruined public education— who will survive that?

    Flinchy Binghole and his delusional party (Bill Clinton mouthing for the camera last nite as his “wife” took the stage to speak “I love you forever”…
    as if she could see it and as if he actually loves anything but power itself) are co-dependent to the core and need validation from each other without a whit’s effort to create something of value, something real, beyond the realm of their brains that they do not know how to run for themselves.

    Addiction is a beench. And then ya die.

    Bear1909out.

  92. #423503
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:50 am, travlinman said:

    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:18 am, MikeOK said:

    It’s worth repeating again — if McCain or any other Republican had significant intellectual or political ties to the likes of George Lincoln Rockwell or Eric Rudolph, liberals would be going apeshit.

    Amen!

  93. #423516
    On August 27th, 2008 at 11:58 am, FamilyMan said:

    This is what the Daily Kos thinks of us.

    McCainocrats are premeditating ballot support for an exclusive club of racist, union-busting, woman-suppressing, bedroom-peering, rights-scoffing, warmongering, torture-backing, buccaneering, global warming-denying, privatizing, public land-grabbing, Supreme Court stuffing, empire-building, Constitution-shredding raptors.

    I discover new things about myself everyday/sarc.

  94. #423519
    On August 27th, 2008 at 12:00 pm, Misscheryl said:

    #91 – wow!

  95. #423521
    On August 27th, 2008 at 12:03 pm, Old Scout said:

    The real and current danger from Bill Ayers is with schools.

    Watch out for idealists and especially for leftists like Bill Ayers when it comes to the the educational system of large cities. New York City’s high schools were destroyed by these type of re-formers when they implemented so-called “community control” in the late 60’s.

    For example, the authority of school principals to expel unruly students was taken away and moved to centralized hearing boards, with a very lengthy process. (More further down)

    It is the belief of idealists and liberals that NYC’s special academic high schools, which require a entrance exam with NO consideration of race AT ALL, are, get this – racist institutions. Why – because the hard working students who travel on the subways 1+ hours a day are being removed from their local and academically deficient (not to mention dangerous) high schools – thus hurting these poor schools.

    What Ayers and the like don’t mention is that they have reclassified Asians and achieving Hispanics as “white” in their calculations of race.

  96. #423528
    On August 27th, 2008 at 12:06 pm, greydude said:

    #93 – Yes, Misscheryl, da bear is back!

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