Obama Ayers Money Ties
October 9th, 2008 at 08:03am KMorrison
Some may wonder why bring up William Ayers now? Hasn’t this already been addressed? No, it hasn’t. Last week Stanley Kurtz of the National Review wrote an article entitled Obama’s Challenge that details Senator Obama’s connection to William Ayers as much more than a passing aquaintance. Obama was essentially William Ayer’s money man on his foundation Chicago Annenberg Foundation. The full article is definitely worth a read, and below are excerpts.
The partnership between Ayers and Obama is about much more than the number of occasions on which the two were recorded together in the same room. As CAC board chair, Obama was essentially authorizing the funding of Ayers’s own educational projects, and the projects of Ayers’s radical allies. And especially in CAC’s first year, Ayers was largely in charge of the process. One of CAC’s own evaluations notes that during 1995, CAC was a “Founder-Led Foundation.” That is, Ayers was not merely an ex officio board member that year, but as the key founder and guiding spirit of CAC, he was effectively running the show…
…So when CAC’s own evaluators call 1995 the period of the “Founder-Led Foundation,” they are essentially saying that, in 1995, Ayers was the most powerful individual at CAC. The Obama campaign treats that suggestion as “absurd,” yet it is effectively made by CAC’s own evaluators. This needs to be kept in mind when considering the Obama campaign’s minimization of the Ayers-Obama connection that year…
…While the appearance of self-dealing receded after CAC’s first year, the reality may still have been in place. Evaluators, both internal and external, have criticized CAC for over-committing its funds in 1995, and also for doing far too little to demand accountability from grant recipients, very much including the initial batch. Many of the initial grantees continued to receive funds for years. Evaluators consistently note the lack of flexibility in grants, and complain that the huge 1995 commitments, with relatively few changes in follow-on years, significantly undercut CAC’s impact and effectiveness…
…The Chicago Annenberg Challenge stands as Barack Obama’s most important executive experience to date. By its own account, CAC was a largely a failure. And a series of critical evaluations point to reasons for that failure, including a poor strategy, to which the foundation over-committed in 1995, and over-reliance on community organizers with insufficient education expertise. The failure of CAC thus raises entirely legitimate questions, both about Obama’s competence, his alliances with radical community organizers, and about Ayers’s continuing influence over CAC and its board, headed by Obama. Above all, by continuing to fund Ayers’s personal projects, and those of his political-educational allies, Obama was lending moral and material support to Ayers’s profoundly radical efforts. Ayers’s terrorist history aside, that makes the Ayers-Obama relationship a perfectly legitimate issue in this campaign.
The radicalism Ayers wanted in the classroom is also discussed in the article The Bomber as School Reformer
As I have shown in previous articles in City Journal, Ayers’s school reform agenda focuses almost exclusively on the idea of teaching for “social justice” in the classroom. This has nothing to do with the social-justice ideals of the Sermon on the Mount or Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Rather, Ayers and his education school comrades are explicit about the need to indoctrinate public school children with the belief that America is a racist, militarist country and that the capitalist system is inherently unfair and oppressive. As a leader of this growing “reform” movement, Ayers was recently elected vice president for curriculum of the American Education Research Association, the nation’s largest organization of ed school professors and researchers.
Obama was Ayer’s Money Man
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1. Joe | October 9th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
WTF???? Will you talk about freaking issues?
Nobody in America gives a rat’s ass about Ayers and the degrees of separation between him and Obama.
If you want to play that game, I guess McCain accepts money and endorsements from those who “pal around” with Bill Ayers.
Yep… Leonore Annenberg endorsed McCain and is on his top 100 donors.
You know… that person who also served on the same board as Obama and Ayers.
This whole thing is just stupid.
Since none of you post here defending it, I can only assume the RNC has asked you to post this. You do so holding your nose and don’t want to discuss it…. since you know how foolish it truly is.
2. smokey | October 9th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Ayres, Raines, Rezko, Wright?
Who are these men and what is their association with Barack Obama. I encourage you to do the research yourself after reading the brief summaries below.
Bill Ayres is a former member of the Weather Underground. During a planned bombing of a police monument a bomb went off in his house killing three of his friends. His group bombed the Pentagon. Bill Clinton pardoned him for some unfathomable reason. He has served on several boards with Barack Obama and appointed Obama to at least one of those. Obamas first political fundraiser was held at Ayres home. Since his pardon he has written and spoken of his past and is unrepentant on the bombings, which did kill several innocents, and recently suggested we need a communist revolution in this country.
Franklin Raines, former CEO of Fannie Mae was forced out in 2004 by the mortgage finance company’s board of directors Fannie’s financial statements. During his tenure he received a 25,000,000 bonus and also testified before congress that the assets were solid. On July 16, 2008, The Washington Post reported that Franklin Raines had “taken calls from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign seeking his advice on mortgage and housing policy matters.” Also, in an editorial in August 27, 2008 titled “Tough Decision Coming”, the Washington Post editorial staff wrote that “Two members of Mr. Obama’s political circle, James A. Johnson and Franklin D. Raines, are former chief executives of Fannie Mae.”
Tony Rezko is a past fundraiser for Sen. Barack Obama, was convicted of scheming to use his clout with the politicians in Illinois to squeeze kickbacks out of companies wanting to do business with the State government. This is the same Mr. Rezko that Mr. Obama purchased some land and a home from.
Reverend Jeremiah Wright was Barack Obama’s, friend, mentor and father figure. He suggested the title for his book, The Audacity of Hope. Reverend Wright is on record as blaming the government for causing AIDS in the black community, blamed America for bringing 9/11 on itself, numerous racist statements against Caucasians as well as being anti semetic and a former Muslim who is a fan of Louis Farrakhan.
3. Joe | October 10th, 2008 at 7:26 am
Couldn’t agree more with this…
McCain and his backers are getting out of their mind crazy!
4. Jim | October 11th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
It is a tragedy when our nation’s worst enemies are those whom we have entrusted to protect our sacred right to freedom and they are thro wing it away.
Sound the battle cry. “We will take it no more forever.”
Everyone seems to know what Senator McCain should be talking about and how he should address our nation except McCain.
American’s don’t care if McCain works across both isles. Most politicians do that. They don’t care if he has stood up against party leaders. They don’t care about most of what was discusse d in the most recent debate.
American’s want McCain to say something like the following:
“Folks I am to blame for some of what has happened, Senator Obama needs to accept part of the blame as well. Both the Democrats and Republicans have a portion of responsibility to accept as well. Will you please forgive us?
Please know that I am committed to winning in Iraq and bringin g honor to our troops, but please hear me clearly. If the choice comes down to saving America’s economy or staying in Iraq…hear me well, we will withdraw our troops and hold our head high because you and this country come first.
I am committed to life. I will do all I can to defeat Roe vs. Wade because I believe in life and the right of every person born or unborn to live. My opponent Senator Obama has voted twice to uphold the right of Doctors to kill babies that were aborted but still lived. This speaks volumes about his character. In our recent debate he talked about how we would have come to the aid of the holocaust victims. We have a holocaust right now in America with the killing of the born and unborn. Why isn’t Obama coming to the aid of the helpless that have no voice? Have you ever wondered what Senator Obama think s about older Americans who get sick and their right to live?
Think about it. Your life depends upon it. Your vote depends upon it.
As a former prisoner of war, I know what it is to stay focused and endure hard times. I was forced to learn to endure. Many of you are going to be forced by our country’s economy to endure hard times. We may not be able to reduce your taxes. We won’t know until we fully assess the situation we are in. I am not going to stand hear and give you the usual rhetoric that you are used to hearing. We are in a crisis and now is not the time to play political games.
When I said that fixing Social Security would be easy, I did not mean it in the way that many of you perhaps thought. Social Security needs to be fixed and it will be but in light of the many problems facing us right now fixing social security will be easy by comparison.
Regarding health care, I will fight so that everyone can have access to the help that they need to live healthy lives. I have talked about what I will do.
I will take on the drug companies. A day of reckoning is coming for them.
I promise you that.
If you want a straight talker and one that will do what they say, then vote for me on election day. I understand your anger. I am grieved over what we as your elected officials have done to you and this country. It is not just Bush’s fault. It is not just Clinton’s fault. It is all of ours. And I will bring change to Washington. You have my promise on that.
We are not going to expand our government to provide items20that we cannot afford any more than we are asking you to go out and buy what you can’t afford.
Finally, I will make sure that those executives who blatantly stuck their middle fingers at American citizens when they went on a week retreat and spent nearly $200,000 for rooms that week, $150,000 for meals and $23,000 in spa charges will have consequences for their actions. They acted as spoiled children who have always been protected from their irresponsible actions but no more. Hear me America, no more.
5. Richard Rhodes | October 12th, 2008 at 2:45 am
Hey joe you jackass why don’t you check out some of the even more horrible stuff coming out of Obama supporters mouths. And yes Ayers does matter. And if you don’t think working with someone like this and all the other people he has worked with, befriended and chose as mentors in his words then you are morally bankrupt.
6. Joe | October 13th, 2008 at 7:33 am
With the lack of responses from KM, Geoff and Matt, I guess one can assume you have all come to your senses and have abandoned the McCain/Palin straight talk train wreck.
What did it for you?
Was it the hate-baiting that has occurred lately?
Was it the realization that having a nut like Palin being a heartbeat away was just completly crazy?
Was it the fact that McCain’s healthcare plan was nothing more than more deregulation and “letting market forces take over”?
Maybe the fact that McCain really would be carrying on more of the same that we’ve had for the last 8 disasterous years?
What finally pushed you to the point of not defending the McCain/Palin campaign any longer?
7. Joe | October 13th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
I just have to add one more comment……..
Does Sarah Palin EVER answer a question that is asked? Check out this from her “press conference” (if you could call it that) about Troopergate:
No response to the question. Why? Because they would only allow one question per reporter. That is not a freaking press conference!
I love that question… “Have you read the whole report?”
You know the answer is NO since the FINDING #1 was that she did abuse her power.
She is a complete and utter drag on the floundering McCain campaign.
8. Jenn | October 15th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Joe Joe Joe, such rage.
Regarding the supposed re-emergence of a lunatic far right made me laugh. I wonder where you have been for the last 8 years while the left in this country have burned effigies of Bush and Cheney while dancing about in drum circles and spewing verbal sewage at troops who work at military recruitment centers. That’s when they are not setting up camp in Crawford Texas to harass President Bush, his family and everyone who lives within 50 miles. Slashing tires, throwing pies, advocating assassination, throwing maltov cocktails at people’s homes, bodily harm, assaulting police officers, stalking, fake cries of racism. Let’s not forget the “peace protesting” they do that often results in veterans being spat upon. I have personally been harassed, bullied and threatened with psychical violence over the years for showing my support for the GOP.
Defending Barack Obama’s relationship with Ayers, as much of the mainstream media has??? If Ayers were the only dirty sock in Obama’s laundry basket of bottom dwellers I guess giving him a pass on one terrorist friend would be permissible (HAH). But the guy has an army of lost left socks behind him each worse that the one before. Rezko, Ayers, Pfleger, Wright, Davis….I could go on and on.
Maybe the reason the elitist lefty media and losers like you are suddenly stunned by masses of “Angry Republicans”, is because we’re finally angry enough that we’re not going to take their candidate protectionism anymore. Barack Obama is the least qualified candidate to ever run for the presidency. His “community organizer” days left scores of people still living in ramshackle asbestos laden ghettos. His grandiose foreign and domestic policies read like a socialist’s fantasy. And it’s clear he lacks any kind of judgment in picking friends and close advisers, so I can’t imagine why we’d want him picking supreme court justices. Not to mention his time working with ACORN which is now under investigation in over 10 states for rampant voter fraud. And let’s not forget HIS party is the party of the lowest rated most thoroughly corrupt and worthless Congress in American history.
You bet your bottom dollar we on the right are mad and we’re not going to take it anymore.
9. LiberalNitemare | October 18th, 2008 at 9:05 am
WTF???? Will you talk about freaking issues?
Joe-
Hmmm, sounds like someone is trying to distract americans from the issues at hand here.
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Since McCain and Palin started to talk about this issue roughly 2 weeks ago, McCain has seen the polling numbers tighten considerably.
One is forced to conclude that the american people believe that this is a valid issue.
Heres a clue. Obama doesnt get to decide what the issues are. The american voters get to make that decision.
10. Joe | October 18th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Heres a clue. Obama doesnt get to decide what the issues are. The american voters get to make that decision.
Yep… the American people make the decision. That is why McCain’s poll numbers are tanking once he started bringing up Ayers, etc.
American people are sick and tired of the crap politics the Republican party has played for too long. The economy is what people want to talk about. Ayers and Acorn are non-issues to anyone who is not an already declared Obama-hater. So you 22%-ers can go jerk each other off and call liberals/progressives/Democrats (whatever you want to call them) idiots. Your side of the political spectrum is becoming more and more obsolete.
When the “TRUE” Republicans come back, then let me know.
11. NedC | October 19th, 2008 at 7:15 am
I’ve been absent from the election for awhile, but am ready to go full throttle on the last two weeks of the election. Sen. McCain is still in the running (despite what the MSM wants to project) and I am ready to fight for the McCain campaign, and to fight for capitalism and democracy in general. A vote for McCain is not only a vote for a hero, but also a vote against the left’s socialist agenda.
Please visit my blog (newly updated) for my commentary on the latest Politcal news.
http://partisanamerican.blogspot.com
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