How did Ayers Make Obama Chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge?
By Steve Diamond on October 5, 2008 at 5:45 PM in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago School Reform Collaborative, Chicago politics, Joyce Foundation, New York Times, Weather Underground, William Ayers
I can easily understand why some readers may have become confused by the explosion of stories today on the Obama/Ayers relationship.
The partial story told by the New York Times today is collapsing of its own weight but has likely added to the confusion. Since I am one of the “bloggers” referred to without an explanation in the Times’ story I thought I would summarize the top ten highlights of the current state of play. These ten key points confirm what I have argued all along - that Bill Ayers was responsible for the elevation of Obama to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge board.
1) The key question is whether Bill Ayers had a role in the selection of Barack Obama to become Chairman and President of the $160 million Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a multi year school reform effort started in 1995.
2) This is the key question because if it is true that Ayers played a role in Obama’s selection it indicates that Ayers and Obama had a pre-existing relationship.
3) If Ayers and Obama did have a pre-existing relationship it undermines claims by the Obama Campaign that the relationship between Ayers, an authoritarian political figure who once engaged in bombings to implement his politics, was “tenuous” or “casual” and that Ayers was just a neighbor of Obama’s in Hyde Park.
4) I believe that Obama and Ayers shared a similar world view with respect to education issues, at least. For example, during their time together running the Chicago Annenberg Challenge they supported funding for groups like the Small Schools Workshop and Local School Councils. These groups were criticized as engaging in “teacher bashing” by union activists and as a “political threat” to school principals by Arnold Weber, a fellow Annenberg board member.
5) I have presented evidence here at Global Labor [published at No Quarter and at the Global Labor blog] that Ayers did in fact play a direct and personal role in Obama’s elevation to the CAC board. This evidence consists of letters exchanged at the time of these events between the national Annenberg Challenge led by Vartan Gregorian, the President of Brown University, and Bill Ayers, on the one hand, and between Gregorian and Adele Simmons, President of the MacArthur Foundation, an advisor to Ayers, on the other.
Those letters state clearly that Ayers was actively engaged in the board selection process in November and December of 1994.
I described those letter to the Times when asked about this and provided them copies.
6) I also argued that these letters are consistent with the legal responsibility Ayers had as the representative of the recipient of the $50 million Annenberg Challenge grant.
7) According to the Obama campaign and now according to emails I have received from the New York Times, Ayers had “nothing” to do with the selection of Obama for the board Chairmanship.
They claim that according to Deborah Leff and Patricia Graham that only Leff and Graham recruited and nominated Obama, respectively. However, in their published story the Times did not quote Leff to that effect. Neither did the Obama campaign in its statement on the matter. I have asked the Times for clarification.
If Leff’s and Graham’s current recollections are true, then the written contemporaneous documentation I provided to the Times (letters to and from Vartan Gregorian and Ayers) appears to be contradicted and this leads to a very odd conclusion: that Leff, a lawyer, and Graham went around the back of the legal representative of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (Ayers) to recruit and nominate the CAC board Chairman (Obama).
Why would they have done that? In fact, I do not think they did.
9) In August of 1994, Leff wrote a letter to Brown’s Gregorian lauding Bill Ayers for his leadership in organizing the grant application and said that her Joyce Foundation was awarding $80,000 to his Annenberg working group, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, to continue their work to secure and establish the Annenberg program. This Collaborative was the group which Ayers represented when he submitted the final Annenberg grant application in November.
Thus, as of August, 1994, Leff’s Joyce Foundation also recognized officially that Ayers was the formal agent for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge applicant, the Collaborative, and they were financially aiding him in that effort.
In addition, letters from the Governor of Illinois, the Mayor of Chicago, the Superintendent of the Chicago school system, the Executive Director of the Woods Fund, the Executive Director of the Polk Bros. Foundation, the Chancellor of the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Council of Chicago Area Deans of Education all sent to Vartan Gregorian acknowledge the leading role of Ayers and/or the Collaborative he formed in the formation of the Annenberg Challenge.
10) To accept the story 14 years later of the Times and the Obama campaign requires us to conclude that Leff, unilaterally against her own board of directors (which in November added Obama), went around the back of Bill Ayers to impose on him secretly Barack Obama as the chair of the Annnenberg Challenge! That is a remarkable conclusion - and of course one that is not yet backed up by Leff herself!
Why not? Most likely because Leff as a lawyer understands now as she did then that whatever her personal role in the selection process, the legal power that Ayers possessed, as the agent of the CAC grant recipient - the Collaborative, to either reject or accept Obama as CAC Board Chairman was clear.
Thus, while Ayers may not have suggested the Obama name directly to Leff, only Ayers could approve of the appointment of Obama. No one else possessed the legal power to do so.
At their November meeting together, Ayers may have delegated to Leff, Ayers and Simmons the task of recruiting a pool of potential board candidates but only he could give the final approval - a condition of the Collaborative’s receipt of the grant, as set forth in the exchange of letters between Gregorian and Ayers.
There are any number of ways that Ayers could have gotten Obama’s name into the mix.
For example, how did Leff think of Obama? Perhaps because Ayers had suggested his name to Simmons - an old friend of Leff’s from their days at Princeton - who passed it on to Leff without telling Leff that the name came from Ayers. Perhaps because Ayers had first suggested Obama to Leff for the Joyce Foundation board earlier in 1994 and then it occurred to Leff that Ayers would approve of Obama for the CAC as well.
Or perhaps when Ayers asked Leff to help with the selection process he provided her with clear guidance on the kind of board chair he wanted: someone young, dynamic, a lawyer, with a background of supporting the CAC agenda of school reform, and someone who represented, as committed by Ayers to Gregorian, the racial and ethnic diversity of Chicago. There were actually very few, if any, such individuals in Chicago other than Barack Obama, in light of the hostility of mainstream black organizations to the CAC agenda.
Or perhaps Leff, Simmons and Graham came up with several names and only when Obama’s was finally mentioned did Ayers grant his approval.
It does not really matter how Obama’s name got into the mix because in the end only Ayers had the legal authority to approve of Obama, whether or not Leff, Simmons and Graham understood that, much less the New York Times. Only if the Collaborative had revoked Ayers power to represent them, could that have changed. Of course, the opposite happened - they made Ayers co-chair and he represented the Collaborative at the board meetings of the CAC itself once it was established in March, 1995.
Actually, the Times indirectly confirms this explanation when it quoted Ben Labolt that Ayers and Obama met for lunch, after Obama met with Graham. Since LaBolt says this was the “first time” Ayers and Obama met, this lunch must have taken place before the CAC’s first board meeting in March of 1995. Although it is undoubtedly true that Ayers and Obama met long before this, that is legally sufficient evidence that Ayers approved of Obama as the board chair.
To test this proposition, ask what would have happened if Ayers, as the legal agent of the CAC grant recipient had said after that lunch, no, I do not want this person for the board? Leff, Graham and Simmons would have had no choice but to go back to the drawing board. They were only agents of Bill Ayers, the legal representative of the Collaborative, for the purpose of recruiting potential board members. They had no legally cognizable ability to impose a choice on Ayers and the Collaborative. This is true no matter what Graham or others may have thought when they told the Times that Ayers was not involved.
The individual with the legal power to overrule a decision is the person with the actual decision making authority.
That was Bill Ayers and his decision was: Barack Obama.
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SusanUnPC’s note: We all know Steve Diamond for his investigative work on Obama’s ties to Bill Ayers. Steve is a lawyer, political scientist and law professor. His blog is Global Labor and Politics.
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So…Let me get this straight. Bill Ayers had to have been involved with Barack Obama being selected to head this board and the O Camp is in a tizzy and trying deny then confirm then distance then admit…good god the spin.
Lets see…whats going on here….
“This is Guy Who Lives in my Neighborhood…This kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is is somehow, uh, somewoh their ideas are attributable to me…uh…I think the American people are smarter than that…”
HE LIED
Yes thats right.
HE LIED!!!!
Lets Deal with the first issue first and its a whopper.
Barack Obama Intentionally LIED about the extent of his relationship with Bill Ayers to the American people.
Why?
Why was it so important for him to go out of his way to intentionally mislead the American Electorate about how involved his relationship with Bill Ayers was?
Why Did Barack Obama go Out of his way to point out that it was just a guy in his neighborhood, to intentionaly mislead the public that it was someone he served on some board with and nothing more.
The discovery into the annenburg challange was sure to uncover that the relationship Barack Obama had with Bill Ayers professionally was much much much deeper than one that was just SOME GUY DOWN THE BLOCK FROM HIM.
Barack Obama LIED to the american People about his involvement.
WHY?
And in a hamfisted Double-Pronged attack from his Propoganda Arm of the Main Stream Obama Media Today:
The New York Times tried to White-Wash the Investigation into the Annenburg challenge papers and the discovery of much more of a connection between Barry and Bill earlier today and is spining it like a top and trying to revise and explain like crazy
and
the AP attempted to warn off the McCain Campaign with threats of being painted as racists if they pursued it.
WHAT IS BARACK OBAMA HIDING?
What is so important that he would go on national television and lie to the american public about the level of involvement with Bill Ayers at a debate and push back so hard.
Why call out his Media Lap dogs to print the campaigns talking points as a news story and smear his rivals as racists if they pursue this?
WHAT IS BARACK HIDING FROM????
What does he not want people to know about hisd time running the annenburg challange that qualifies him as having executive experience, his only executive experience? Why is there no mention of Annenburg on his Often cited 1 page resume for the Job of President of the United States?
Is it his sharing of the Bill Ayers values and ideas regarding public education?
Is it the total mismanagement of the Annenburg Challenge Funds?
Is it how those funds were dispursed and the school programs used to cause a decline in education quality to support the Ayers dogma?
Is it his heavy involvement with these radicals that he now wants to claim he hardly knew?
What exactly is it he doesn’t want the american Public to know?
We already Know Billy Bomber Blew stuff up, what could possibly be worse than that?
What he doesn’t want the American public to know is that he has the worst judgment of any person who ever ran for office. He also knew that he had to hide Billy Bomber Buddy under the bus till he bamboozled the American people by failing to introduce them to his friends and supporters who would scare the shit out of everybody with a brain.
Somebody said today they were voting for ob and it was a no brainer. I say they got THAT part right.
No brain at all.
Steve, keep setting those clowns straight over at the Times. They have a hard time figuring things out when it is about The One.
Real nice of them to credit you as a blogger.
I used to read that rag everyday, now I won’t even use it as bird cage liner for my parrot.
You wouldn’t like the cage with Obama pictures from the NYT so the parrot could poop on him?
watch hannitys american on cable fox news sunday eve , its all new never seen before ties to obamas radical mentors
For Obama’s supporters who didn’t know he had such poor judgment during the primaries should have realized it when he didn’t even consider asking Hillary to be his VP with her 18 million votes. Could anyone be any more arrogant than him to assume that he’d get all those votes without her?
Perhaps Obama was more concerned with picking a VP that he thought would benefit the country, than winning votes by picking Clinton. Like, take McCain for example: his pick was all about getting votes, not benefitting the country.
You wouldn’t line the cage with Obama pictures from the NYT so the parrot could poop on him?
Tempting but no deal, no purchase, no $ to elite tabloids.
Wouldn’t even buy it to use to start a fire in the fireplace. Perhaps I will buy the Nov. 5th edition, but only if the fraud loses.
How about if your neighbor gave you theirs, gratis?
Recycling is good. Although I don’t know if recyclers will accept toxic waste like the NYT.
I speculate it is bigger than all your questions. It may be something to do with his Columbia years. Could it be that both knew each other during his Columbia days and what else went on during that time? If they keep denying that he knew Ayers in Chicago prior to CAC, that rules out knowing him in NY during his Columbia days.
yes, i think that’s it. and i think rudy has the scoop.
My gut tells me that is the connection. Now I’m rooting for Rudy.
Copied from downthread comment by Mel — may be worth following up as this unravels, as another connection between Ayers (Bill) and BO — I read somewhere else that the two Ayers brothers lived together ?in New York? at one point:
‘The unsung coincidence:
Obama went to work for the DCP in the fall of 1985 to aide with Chicago’s school reforms.
But another interesting charater was working on behalf of the most powerful Chicago philanthropy group co-ordinating with community activists for the school reforms since 1983.
Thi person was a vietnam war dodger named John Ayers, brother of terroist Bill Ayers.
So coincidence the Ayers Obama link has been one since the mid-1980’s?’
Yes! What about those “lost” Columbia years, even BO can’t recall what he was doing… I am sure his “friend” would know, if the media had any guts to ask him.
BO is using the same tactics to beat McCain that he used on Hillary, people need to wake up and stop this monster. Obots say BO beat Hill fair and square and we should get over it, but when BO has the media on his side the playing field is not even. When are people going to see this? Who in the media will finally speak for the people?
I am cynical about Barck and his memory. He says he cannot remember where he lived in NY.
I am an Army Brat I have lived all over the world yet I can tell you every address I have ever had back to infancy.
nd he can’t remember where he lived in NYC??? During College????? WTF
yep; that’s B.S. i may not remember a lot of people’s names, but i can darn sure tell you where i’ve lived throughout my life, and i’m only a few years younger than barky.
I’m certain it all has to do with the Columbia days.
Several weeks back, someone posted in the comments here a timeline of coincidences between 0bama and Ayers:
Ayers’ father knew Frank Marshall Davis from Chicago. Hawaii was one of the places Ayers was believed to have been hiding out while on the run. After resurfacing, Ayers was in CA the same time 0bama was at 0ccidental. When 0bama transferred to Columbia, Ayers was studing at Bank Street College in NY, only 4 blocks away from Columbia University. Ayers moved to Chicago; 0bama moves to Chicago upon graduation.
You all know the rest.
Coincidence?
“Once is happenstance. Twice, coincidence. Three times: ENEMY IN ACTION.”
It’s scary how well they’ve covered their tracks in the past. And now a willfully ignorant msm helps them.
I don’t believe for one moment that 0bama doesn’t know, or barely knows this man. It’s all a dog and pony show.
We are being lied to. It’s just that simple.
What you don’t understand is that Ayers is not looked upon as a terrorist in Chicago…he is a very respected educator, get it??? Your article is absolute nonsence…what are you trying to prove? Obama never said he didn’t know Ayers…NEVER!! And he never said he didn’t serve on a board with him….NEVER!! If, at one time he commented that Ayers was a guy in the neighborhood, that was a one-time comment, in no way was he denying that they had a working relationship…he has always said they did.
Obama also denounced Ayers’ past criminal activities - but Ayers was not considered a criminal when they met, get it????
For that matter, Hillary Clinton continues to say she does not remember Peter Paul, who is now suing the Clintons and others of her 2000 senate campaign….he was her biggest fundraiser as he paid over 1,000,000 for a big party to raise money for her campaign. she lied about the money and she lied about knowing him…there are tons of photos of the two of them together. Why did she LIE????
that’s what politicians do when a past association that is somewhat dubious is thrown at them. get used to it….none of these candidates’ hands are entirely clean.
Ayers is OLD news…we don’t care. The guy comes to a foundation’s office which is across from my office in Chicago….trust me, we have met him numerous times and he is not a CRIMINAL at this time…he is respected.
You sure hate Obama to continue to harp on this story…getting desparate like sarah and john.
The only reason Ayers is not a convicted criminal is because the FBI bungled a wiretap during Ayer’s terrorism days. Ayers can and has admitted to setting bombs and he did so knowing full well that he can not get indicted for it.
for anyone to say that Ayers is not a criminal is quite a stretch. Ayers himself admitted he was a criminal, but he’s just not a CONVICTED criminal.
for Obama to be in league with a SELF-CONFESSED CRIMINAL is proof of his bad judgment.
Only in Chicago would Ayers be given respect since everyone in Chicago Politics is a freakin criminal.
here’s Obama touting his CAC executive experience as qualification for Senate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-45A6I-N5I
The CAC was founded by Ayers. Obama became chairman of the CAC. you think Obama is not pals with Ayers?
Michelle Obama herself is quite close to Ayers’ wife.
birds of the same feather goes into corruption together.
We understand. You think that unrepentant terrorists could be respectable people - maybe in Chicago being a former domestic terrorist is a badge of honor, but not in the rest of the U.S. of A.
my thoughts exactly. the very fact that bill ayers could show his face in chicago gives us a pretty good idea what type of environment obama comes from. add that to the fact that his supporters are generally a bunch of blame-america-first, islam-loving, professional victim, totalitarian thugs, and i’m afraid guilt by association is entirely justified.
Another blind oBOT. Take your blinders off, honey. Your fake messiah is going down. He’s corrupt and a liar. Did you even read the article? Have you done any research on your own about Obama’s relationship with this admitted American terrorist? Or do you just blindly follow BO and believe everything he says.
Suzanne aka paid obma astroturf blog troll,
Please tell David Axelrod that his paid obama blog trolls and their “we don’t care” astroturfing is not working.
Tell him to come clean with all the details now and Obama might have another chance to run in 2032.
Is this the same as everyone knew that OJ murdered his wife years ago, got off scott-free and became everyone’s friend? Still everyone knew he was guilty…doesn’t change the fact, jail or not!
As far as those that “respect” Ayers and overlooking the fact that he set off all these bombs, no matter how long ago, and doesn’t regret any of it, doesn’t speak well for those being associated with him today.
Thanks for your comment. It’s nice to know that Obama supporters dont care about Ayers, a person who plotted to bomb a military installation (Fort Dix). Comments like this really gives me an idea of the bigger picture in a Obama presidency.
Suzanne…wow dear get some psychiatric help. You are delusional. I have a cousin in Chicago who runs a really good clinic and she’d be able to work you in. Good luck dear with your problems!
Listen, honey. Get it straight. All of you Chi Town lefties don’t think Louis Farrakhan is anything but a good guy either…or Wright…or Meeks…or Resko…or Soros. You live in a bubble of unreality. The rest of the country do not think of these people…or you…as main stream. They are known as those who would gladly overthrow the government given the chance. That’s the definition of a traitor. That’s why he has always been unelectable. Not because he’s black but because he is a manipulated puppet of he aforementioned sickos. People know he has been put where he is to attack from the inside. There’s no way Ayers can be scrubbed clean.
Ya know, I really do understand. When we were all 60’s counterculture activists as young sprouts, we thought that Hoffman and Rubin were good guys too. Now with a little maturity? Trash. Maybe you’ll see when you grow up.
That may be the problem with Chicago and Obama supporters…that a guy who said on September 11, 2001 that he was sorry that the Weather Underground ‘did not do enough’ is considered ‘mainstream’.
Suzanne, you are weak-minded. Lenin would have described you as a ‘useful idiot’, as good a definition of Obama supporters as you’re likely to find. You probably think Che was a freedom fighter, he wasn’t, he was a cold-blooded killer.
The only difference between Ayres and McVeigh is that McVeigh was a less educated person, but a more successful terrorist - and that’s the ONLY difference.
What part of ‘unrepentant’ don’t these Botheads understand??????
Obama will not win!
NEVER!! NEVER!! NEVER!!
Oblahma NEVER lies. NEVER!!
Oblahma hasn’t accomplished a single thing in his life. NEVER!! He NEVER tries to trick the American public. NEVER!!
SEE how stupid you sound? Just because you like the word NEVER, doesn’t mean you are right!!
I care about Ayers. I have been the victim of terrorists twice. Once in Europe and here in the USA.
I care because I cannot understand why Obama ended up In CHicago or doesn’t know where he lived in NYC.
I care about Ayers because he is still unrepentant over the pain he caused. He chooses to teach radicalism in Chicago. But his money makes him “respected” in Chicago politics.
I want to understand what Obama has done in his life–I know virtually every detail about Sarah Palin in 5 weeks and yet in 2 years Obama has changed his spots daily.
FISA
Cheney’s Back room Oil Deal
Jerusalem
Troop Funding
Taxes
Iraq
Afghanistan
Draft
Creating a militia as big as the army?
Rev. Wright
NAFTA & Canada
Sit Down w/ Iran President
Reducing military
Slowing Military development
Bombing our Ally Pakistan
The Surge in Iraq
Yeah not to good here folks
THIS IS IT NO MORE MUST READ!
http://hillaryloyalistnowformccain.com/THEFREERIDEISOVERNOMORENOHOWNOOBAMA.aspx
Yes, and he only barely knew Rezko. He did “about five hours” worth of work for him “for his church.”
The man lies all the time. This is not a surprise. The surprise is why the MSM lets him get away with it. If it was any other candidate, they’d be all over him.
Does anyone here know what ties George Soros has to any MSM? I have suspected since March that the Soros money that has funded Obama since 2004, has been used to buy and instruct the so-called journalists who would be creating Obama as the savior of the Democratic Party, and it would mean defending him at all costs, and working together to ignore and debunk any truths that might be discovered along the way. I believe Oprah is right along with him using her power in the Media to secure favors and ensure loyalty to hers and Soro’s Golden Boy.
Doesn’t Soros own some of the MSM stations?
SO PELOSI/REID BAILOUT BILL DIDN’T WORK.
Credit markets are still frozen and will remain so for a couple months. Where did the 850b go to?
THE FREE RIDE IS OVER
NO WAY. NO HOW. NO OBAMA.
Maybe…from the Frank Marshall Davis days in Hawaii, it has been rumored that Davis was actually a spy for the old Soviet Union.
Perhaps…going down that dark alley, can the KGB be far behind, stealthily watching? helping? cajoling through the other “front men” that BHO came to know in Occidental College, Columbia and Chicago who helped him financially using Frank Marshall Davis old Chicago connections, references?
?
Let the fun begin.
go team mc. go.
Even if Ayers was not the driving force behind barky being made the CAC chair, they worked closely together, funneled money back and forth, their wives worked together, Michelle even put them together for conferences. With Chicago being the “Who Sent You” city and Ayers hosting barky’s first meet and greet fundraiser at his home, red flags should go up.
WHO SENT OBAMA???? http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-sent-obama.html
From the above link.
Oh he wicked webs we weave when we practice to deceive.
Thanks, you saved me the trouble of posting that link myself. I just read it earlier today and highly recommend it!
Any argument against Obama is just racist.
And what the hey? Why is Jeremiah Wright off the table?
He isn’t…They are waiting for his book to drop…i think its next week or the week after.
So Steve is saying that the only one who had the power to approve or disapprove nObama to the chair of Annenberg Challenge was Bill Ayers.
nObama doesn’t want anyone following the money from the Annenberg Challenge, which I understand was close to 100 million dollars. It would be interesting to know where and how, specifically, that money was spent.
Anyone know where Daddy Ayers was during nObama’s rise in Chicago politics?
Which Radical Thinkers were funded by the annenburg challenge?
What were their programs and how specifically did they improve the education system.
Why is there so little known about Barack Obama’s time at COlumbia which coincided with Bill Ayers Time at COlumbia.
What are the goods that Rudy Guliani is Holding for release soon about Barack Obama’s time at columbia?
How exactly did Obama get a 40,000 DOllar advance as a never before published writer to write a book about himself?
Who Really got him that book deal?
Why did Obama spend 3 weeks in Afghanistan during his time at COlumbia and what was he really doing there?
Who exactly is the middle east financier who helped get Barack Into harvard and helped with the costs and how is he actually connected with Ayers and the Radical Islam groups in chicago?
All of these questions and many many more are still unanswered and its all related.
YOU BETCHA!
29 days to resolve the mystery before Election Day.
God Help Us all.
Xcellent Mr. Diamond…NQ ROCKS!
I thought Ayers was Mr. Rogers, just some guy in the neighborhood donning a cardigan?
Would you be mine, could you be mine, won’t you be my neighbor.
If I bring up the hilarious Eddie Murphy Mr. Robinson’s neighborhood will I be called a racist?
Sure why not. Anything we say is racist now.
I think Mr. Rogers was bisexual, too.
You Betcha.
As I wrote before the key question here is :
When and how did Ayres and Obama meet for the first time?
That this is unknown is stunning… How come no-one has been able to establish when and how these two met for the first time?
Why is this such a secret? What are the people that have this info. covering up?
Question: Barack and Michelle met in 1989; was Michelle friends (at work?) with Bernardine Dohrn then and how close was that frindship? If so I find very hard to believe there was no contact then between Ayres and Barack between 1989 and their wedding 1992. Does anyone know if there was any party/celebration of the wedding and who were in attendance?
I had the same idea in my post above. They must have known each other in NYC. What else happened?
pm317:
Why do you say NYC? I thought Michelle worked for Sidley Austin law firm in their Chicago headquarters (where Obama as a law student did an internship and met MO in 1989).
Do you know what was Bernardine Dohrn doing at the law firm –if it was there where they became friends?
Bernardine Dhorn and Bill Ayers was instrumental in Michelle And Barack Meeting and falling in love.
Ayers, Dohrns husband was in NYC at the time that Barack was going to Columbia.
Before he came to chicago and met Michelle who was working in a law firm that Dohrn had heavy involvement with in some way…i dont recall exactly…
Someone needs to write a chronology of where Ayers Obama Michelle and Bernardine and Rezko and Khaladi and Auchi were over the past 20 years SIde by side and start connecting the dots!
I agree !! We need a CHART!!
If anyone can provide a factual chronology i will be happy to build a nice flash animations with bobble heads showing the movement of all relevant parties over the timeline.
Easy, stomach. The Creature from the Black Lagoon meets the Swamp Thing. Yuck.
ROFL that was funny visual
I wonder if Ayers was at Obama wedding betcha. I bet there are pics
bill ayers was in nyc when nobama was.
Thomas Daddy Ayers had Bernadine Dohrn hired at Sidley as a favor. She had no law license.
Wait, I thought nO met michelle at law school.
As an aside, has anyone noticed how that law firm, Sidley Austin seems to have been a central entity in alot these connections? bernadine, davis, michelle, obama, ayers, etc.
I don’t think so… Obama entered Harvard law Schoool in Sept. 1988 and Michelle graduated in May 1988.
My understanding is that they met at the law firm. Barack went there as a “summer associate” as a student still in summer 1989 for an internship (and Michelle was his mentor at the Law Firm).
This is common practice when you are at Law school you spend the summers in between your years there working as an intern on some law firm.
Michelle Roberts graduated from Harvard Law in 1988. But she likely also was a summer associate in 1987 and likely 1986.
Bernardine Dohrn was at Sidley Austin a law firm in Chicago from 1984 to 1988. Was Dohrn Michelle’s mentor ?
If memory serves me I recall reading they met there and become friends.
Bernardine went to work for Sidley Austin because the head of the firm (Trienens) was a close friend of Tom Ayres.
(Bill Ayres father) Trienens admitted they used to hire “friends”.
Go back a few threads — there is plenty of basis for believing that Ayers and BO got to be friends (or something) while at Columbia, maybe even before, when BO was at Occidental.
Thats what he is hiding.
Thats what Barack doesn’t want america to know about his relationship with Ayers.
Now the Question is WHY doesn’t he want america to know?
Because creating chaos is something that Obama has been trained to do. And he also has been trained what to do after chaos is well under way.
you are so full of sh…! there is NO indication that Ayers met Obama at Columbia, none, nada, zilch. why is this even an issue???
I dunno Suz, maybe because Barry won’t disclose ANY INFO about his time at Columbia. Nada, zip, zilch. No address, no classmates, no professors, no grades, NOTHING. It’s a big abyss, another empty record of his life. Except that an adminstrator said he did not graduate with honors. Then how the hell did he get into HARVARD LAW SCHOOL???
What say you, Suz?
Crickets from suz.
Can you answer the question, Suz?
Didn’t Obama’s dad go to Harvard? Maybe it’s a legacy thing like with GWB.
Ayers lived down the street from Obama when Obama was at Columbia.
Its documented.
Why do you ask such patently obtuse questions, Little Debbie?
the communist connection? Ann Dunham and Stanley Dunham had to have known Frank Davis to invite him to mentor nobama. So, why did they know him, and did they also know Daddy Tom Ayers?
links go back to high school. they certainly met in NY between 1981 and 1984. Look at the archives here at NQ where this is documented!
I just had a thought.
Michelle’s father was a Precinct Captain for the Daly Machine. Maybe we need to find out more about Michelle and her family.
For some reason, the thought that we’ve been digging and digging into Barack’s past and we always hit a wall. Well, maybe if we started digging into Michelle’s that wall might come tumbling down.
Yes, and the notion that their kids were in activities together…BO’s are in elementary school,Ayers are grown .
When America hears about the “Juneteenth” Celebrations..they will be surprised.
Just another example of the Obamabots throwing something out to see if it’ll stick.
I don’t know what is wrong with the Republicans. Obama is running on the value of his “Good Judgement”, all they have to do is point all all of Obama’s Bad Judgements, like hanging with Ayers, like having Rezko help you buy your house when you know Rezko is under investigation by the FEDS, like going to Wright’s Church for 20 years, like writing letters in support of Rezko’s Slum Projects, like giving Gov’t and Private money to Father Mike and Rev. Wright, like suing Banks for ACORN, forcing them to give loans to deadbeats etc.
GOP is doing a great job…strategy…Let Republicans be Republicans…chuckle…
That’s exactly it. Obama uses Bush’s policy of preemption to preempt the notion of bad judgment by superimposing good judgment. The chaos of both messages running simultaneously is deafening. DEAFENING.
Who wins the bunker or the bunker busting bomb?
The bomb can be redesigned and can be dropped again. The bunker can’t.
I suspect that Palin will redesign the bomb and throw it frequently. Will she? And will he?
The thing that hits me is it is so clear after reading so many connections to Ayers and ob for a year now, is that ob knew Ayers well BEFORE CAC and Ayers and his family selected ob for it personally.
Ob had no background in education. Illogical choice.
I will not be the least bit surprised if Mac has solid evidence to prove a pre-existing relationship that went back way before this time as well as other connections over the years.
The Ayers connection freaked me out way back in February when it was first mentioned in the press.
Unfit to be POTUS and a monumental LIAR about every single part of his entire existance.
I’m sure you’re right. They have the goods on Ayers/Obama.
People are impatient, but McCain is timing his attack carefully for maximum impact.
That’s why the trolls are so restless.
I think so, too. Whatever they have, I think they want to give Team Obama as little time to counter it before Nov 4 as possible, and are planning on dropping it in the final days.
My concern is that so many people vote early/absentee, that it won’t have the impact that they want it to.
What has me freaked out is just what was that trip to Pakistan etc. between Occidental and Columbia, during a time when, apparently, non-muslims were not allowed in, and, if BO liked hanging around with domestic terrorists so much, maybe he wanted to increase his circle of acquaintances?
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Barack Obama’s Mother was working in Indonesia at the time.
He went to visit her then traveled to Afgahnistan with a “freind” and spent three weeks there apparently “with his friends family” during a time when the country was in a state of war.
During a time when the Freedom Fighter Usama Bin Laden was fighting against the Russian Occupation in Afgahnistan.
During a time when only Muslims or those who had family or were sponsored by the state could enter Afghanistan legally i believe.
During a time when almost every other college student would go to Cancun or Fort Lauderdale or some such place to get trashed and have a blast…Obama was polishing his foreign Policy Credentials…
Kal is right, there was also a report that Obama made a trip to Pakistan. I believe this was reported at NoQuarter.
Yep….Aaaaaand Berg has that tid-bit in his Barky show your records lawsuit..chuckle…
obamacrimes.com
What is extremely uncanny is that no one comes out of the woodwork to expose the relationship as a witness or with even one lousy photo.
Yes…. they’ve been REAL careful.
That’s the part that scares me the most!
That there’s no photo, in my mind, means that they were careful not to be photographed together.
It reminds me of that photo of Michelle sitting at a table with Rashid Khalidi. 0bama is talking to him and she has an extremely disgusted look on her face. Could it be that she didn’t want that picture taken? And there was nothing she could do about it.
But 0bama doesn’t have a lot of the usual photos:
No prom picture
No graduation pictures from Columbia
And his only proof of him being at Columbia is a photo of him and his grandparents sitting on a bench on Morningside Drive, which is not on the Campus per se, but nearby.
I know that bench, very well.
It’s curious that they chose to pose there instead of right on Campus where there are lots of benches and places to sit that establish the setting. The only reason why I know where they are is because I live here.
0bama is so full of shit. And his Bothead brain dead supporters are, too.
OMG
The AP is playing the race card in reference to Ayers/Obama.
“And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John McCain himself may come to regret.”
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2008/10/05/3686390.htm
Yeah I bet John McCain is real scared of the AP, I use the AP to wipe my butt, how can anyone call that real journalism. I believe after the debate on Tuesday there will be some major BOMBSHELLS from the McCain camp that will bring Obama down once and for all
Let’s hope the truth comes out. The media has done a good job of covering Obama’s seedy background.
Today Sunday at Fox News, 9pm eastern, there is is a program solely dedicated to Obama and his friends, a History of Radicalism. This program will also be aired later on tonight.(repeat)
I meant covering up Obama’s background.
Aside from the “up” part, you were right the first time. Seedy is apropriate, as it were, given his connections with ACORN.
Keep at it, Professor Diamond. The truth will eventually set us free.
Is it possible that Daddy Tom Ayers knew Frank Marshall Davis before Mr. Davis went off to Hawaii and “befriended” young Barack?
Also, I read on another blog that Obama belonged to the SDS at Occidental. Weather Underground eventually sprouted from SDS.
Another coincidence? There are too many unexplained ones in Barack’s life.
What the hell is his agenda?
go back to the Percy Sutton youtube. How long has Nahdmi Auchi and prince alaweed bin talil been backing nObama? Who paid for that exclusive prep school in Hawaii, where Frank m Davis was ‘mentoring’ nobama? How and what relationship did Ann Dunham or Madelyn/Stanley Dunham have to Tom Ayers, Frank M. Davis?
More questions with every revelation…
How is it possible that this man be ahead in the polls at this time? For the life of me I can’t begin to figure it out. Is surreal.
Polls are fixed.
You are not alone, I assure you. These polls, including battleground states (one of which I live in), national polls, and electoral maps just astound me. I CANNOT believe that the sentiments and opinions voiced by residents in my state reflect these polls.
The media would have us believe the O’s “spike in the polls” is the result of the current “bailout” and its repercussions to the economy. However, that does not compute in my brain at all. How could the American public place such ecomomic “trust” in a man who never held an administrative post,never balanced a budget, and never created jobs? To make matters worse, it appears that all he did was “take” money and “earn” it for himself. “Let me write a book or two about myself…because I’m important, and you should know that..” I wonder how much “money” he raised for his constituents in Chicago as opposed to how much money he raised for himself and MO. MO and Bo. What a scary duo.
Maybe Diamond should contact Rusty over at mypetjawa and they could work on the investigation together. Rusty was the one who shut down AQ web sites and broke the story of Ethan Winner trashing Palin.
Hopefully, some of these questions will be presented to Mr Obama at the second Presidential debate this Tuesday. The debate is supposed to be question and answer format with Tom Brokaw moderating. Some of the questions are supposed to be coming from the internet.
Obama will probably have an answer memorized. Perhaps Mr McCain can pull a surprise response and get him stuttering and stammering again. The NYT article was probably intended to be padding for Obama….”well, the NYT said so.”
Mr McCain should at least have some spectacular examples of untrue/misleading info from the NYT. Hopefully, McCain will also have some of the good information here condensed into a form digestible by persons unfamiliar with the issue. Hopefully, Tom Brokaw will allow the issue to be discussed.
We’ll see.
It is likely that Ayers and possibly Dorhn as well co wrote Obama’s novels there are many many similarities in their writing style and if that comes out into the light Obama is DONE!!!!!!!
Richard Fernandez:
Glenn Reynolds argues that whatever befall, the Obama-Ayers issue has now crept onstage. But where exactly might this issue lead? One of Glenn’s readers has flipped the question and argues that the real question isn’t what drew Obama to Ayers, but what drew Ayers to Obama. “Here is the thing that eats at me. What did Ayers see in him? … Dorhn, Ayers, Wright all saw something in Obama that made them want to be with him and promote him? These are not people who like promoting pro-America candidates.”
Of course Obama’s defenders can argue that people are in the unfortunate habit of projecting their aspirations onto politicians, especially one who famously described himself as a ‘blank screen’ on which different groups could project their dreams. Maybe what you see in Obama is whatever you want to see in Obama. Such as for example, these madrassa kids. Glenn Reynolds realizes that this argument applies both to the critics and believers in Obama. David Brooks caustically remarked that “Barack Obama loves the future because that’s where all his accomplishments are.” His supporters might argue that’s also where his defects lie. Which brings us back to Ayers.
Although Obama’s accomplishments may all lie in his glittering tomorrow, Ayers and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge are inconveniently part of his existing record. Ayers and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge are a substantial component of his political political career. It is one point upon which Obama actually has “history”. Unlike the prospective, which is infinitely malleable, Ayers is the one of those things about BHO by which he can actually be measured. Therein lies the danger.
That’s a great point. Thanks for sharing it.
That’s a great point. Thanks for sharing it.
Come on, if Ayers was into bombs and things, that’s a lot of anger. And we know his intellectual justification was anticolonialist theory, blame it on racism, etc. — but he was white!! So he got to channel BO’s fake AA ‘heritage’ as a way to make it ok for him to be a way rich white boy getting off on blowing things up in the US over US racism!
Unfortunately, I know more than one way rich white boys right now supporting BO in this race, and they like to say things to the tv like ‘no I won’t polish your shoes anymore!’ to show how supportive they are of BO. Lots of channeling there too, I don’t get it, but it’s there.
Chew on it again folks…That’s what you call analytical thinking. Excellent.
I t may also relate to Obama possibly being involved with Bernadine Dohrn BEFORE SHE TURNED HERSELF IN!!! Who were her attorneys at that time and where was she hiding?????????
Dohrn recruited Michelle to the law firm where ayer’s father tom offered obama an internship
Obama lied too when he said Rezko was only someone who he did 5 hours of work for. What a liar!!!!
Exactly what I always think of when someone brings up the statement he made about Ayers: ’some guy from the neighborhood.’ I remember the first thing I wanted to know when I heard Rezko did a walk-through on BO’s new house before the purchase was whether he - Rezko - submitted a bill. Because if he didn’t then, these men are friends. Now, of course, we know the Obama’s visited the Rezko’s at their vacation home. That’s a long way from ’someone I did 4 or 5 hours of legal work for.’
hell of a nice neighborhood Obama lives in, ‘eh?
I wonder if the cab drivers have a special name for it… “crooks alley” or something.
Hum…Rezko, Ayers, and Rev Wright
Obama claims he doesn’t really know the former two, and the latter he finally admonished. “I knew them, but I didn’t know them.” Could you tell me what the definition of “know” is? Meanwhile, all three men (of questionable character) have “aided and abetted” Obama’s wealth, stature, and ambitions.
Yet, at every turn, Obama denounces these men or denies his ties to them. I wonder how these godfathers feel, suffering his abandonment and criticism. Ultimately, he has used them and then left them behind. Hum. If Obama treats his “friends” this way, how will he treat YOU?
Not a lie…his firm showed that they did only a minimum of work on this case, and Obama barely any. he may have known Rezko, but not through working in his law firm for him
Books can be cooked quite easily. I don’t buy a single word of it.
We have only the word of interested parties for this. Get a clue.
Wake up and smell the coffe, Suzanne. I think it’s boiling over.
People like Suzanne, Freedom Fighter, and others break my heart.
Their Kool Aid is so thick they can’t even see the dots to connect them.
This obamabots are True Americans that don’t want to face the obvious, because it menaces their indoctrinations. They still linger in this blog, with their collective enterprise of distraction. Bloggers here own our own light, and they, poor trolls are trying to understand the obvious, and what lies in their subconscious; That they are wrong and that they no longer are free thinkers to understand the differences between right and wrong, between fact and constructed lies.
I pray for them because even if they achieve their wish, they will wake up to a rude Awakening and smell the RAT.
Stanley Kurtz was on Fox today and debunked NYT’s “debunking” of the Obama-Ayres association, and he clearly stated how when they were on the CAC board together, they burned through $100,000,000 for education and showed no improvement for it. Where did that money go? Who received it and what did they do with it? What were those programs that this money supported? Why did they fail to positively impact Chicago schools, which are in very bad shape already?
Why is Obama throwing good money after bad and then trying to hide that botched effort under the rug so that voters can’t see what his real record of experience is? Is this how he is going to Change our economy? It fits right in with his dangerous tax plan that will only take us out of the frying pan and into the fire! You can’t tax your way out of an economic crisis.
Is Obama still channeling Ayres’ ideas about education too? We know he has taken a lot of hard left positions on things like partial-birth abortion and sex education. These issues need to be raised again, forcefully and with conviction.
If Sen. McCain can start raising these questions, and offering Americans a sound and rational alternative at the debate this week, he can go a long way to getting back in the lead. Not only talk directly to the people, without the media filter, as Gov. Palin did so well last week; Sen. McCain should look Sen. Obama square in the eye and state exactly why Obama’s record is one of failure and his proposals are a danger to our economic and national security. And offer the right solutions in a time of crisis, as well as a positive vision for America that builds on the strength of our spirit and history of greatness.
McCain should ask Barry these questions by following it with “American deserve to know the truth”. Barry will stutter like a fool.
The answers to most of those questions can be found by exploring my blog.
Thanks, Steve, for getting the word out. Now McCain needs to put it out there.
Steve : what’s your best educated guess as to when did Obama met Ayers for the first time? It seems to me that once that question is answered the rest will fall in place easily.
Steve : what’s your best educated guess as to when did Obama meet Ayers for the first time? It seems to me that once that question is answered the rest will fall in place easily.
you know, those books of O’s are probably the trojan horse, doncha think? right in our faces all along.
maybe co-written by the terrorist-twins, but in any case written as foils, as the faux-bio that would keep us all off the true track.
and if you started composing a faux narrative for yourself back 10 years ago, just think how much lead time you’d have to hide/destroy contradictory evidence?
it boggles the mind. he gets the books out — gauges reaction, gauges counter-intelligence. when they are swallowed whole, by an adoring public, the time is right — go for POTUS! he already had a self-selected group of duped/dupable water-bearers — ready to go!
Who got Obama his first book deal?
It is unheard of for an unpublished writer to recieve a 40,000 dollar FORTY THOUSAND DOLLAR ADVANCE to Write a book with no history of ever having written a successful book before!!!
SO WHO REALLY GOT OBAMA HIS FIRST BOOK DEAL?????
This is a key question. I’m gonna guess it was Ayers. And then of course when BO couldn’t produce, even with a salary at U of Chg, it sounds like Ayers went ahead and wrote it for him.
AYERS…GOT BARKY HIS DEAL…AYERS GHOST WROTE HIS BOOK…What a cowinkydink…
Read this, he had an earlier advance that was taken back.
http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/did_bill_ayers_write_1.htm
OMFG! This is a must read series of articles on Who actually wrote Dreams of My Father!
Get a cup of tea and read the article linked above…goodness…
Wow!
Holy smokes, Batman, I feel a YOU BETCHA coming on.
YOU F*CKIN BETCHA!!!
Nice Washington Post article on how McCain’s character was forged by his experience as a POW:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100402351_pf.html
Hmmmm….Aaaaand so the collective press ass covering begins….sheeeesh!
Someone needs to look into his relationship with Khalidi also. Obama and Ayers attended a farewell party for Khalidi before he left to teach at Columbia University, and then Khalidi invited Ahmadinajad to speak there during his visit to the United Nations last year.. There is just too many bad connections.. And what about his connection to Auchi? Obama and Rezko attended 2 parties with Auchi there, one of them was in honor of Auchi (Micheele attended that one too)..Auchi is NOW not allowed in USA, but he did send rezko $3.5 mil 3 weeks before Obama bought his manshion with Rezkos help..
Hannity is talking about Khalidi tonight on Hannity’s America!
Tune in everyone!
Than God we have Sean!
Sean Hannity is the evil of television and radio. That fat slob is a racist pig and not at all intelligent. for 5 months he has led EVERY night with a story of Obamas’ associations…every night but two in five months! This is a man on a mission, because he has NOTHING else to say about the election and he is scared to death Obama will win and that will be doom for Faux News and Hannity. That man is truly living in a cesspool - he should be sued.
Suz, to the contrary! If Obama wins, it will give Sean endless opportunties.
You sound afraid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xhJnXl4kIA
You sound like that troll, Little Debbie. Like her, your posts are irrelevant, illogical and a waste of valuable electrons. Try posting at huffPo, third door down the hall on the extreme left.
I love Sean Hannity. Everytime I send him a news tip on Obama, I tell him just that! I bet he knows my name by now. I have sent him so many links just in case he didn’t know.
I once sent him all of the Evelyn Pringle expose about the Obama/Rezko connection. All that money tied to Obama and spread as far as Iraq. tsk, tsk, tsk. I kind of think the Rezko deal is going to get him, but there are just so many skeletons, one can never know if there may be a new explosive Barfy scandal.
October is so exciting!
Good for you. You never know what little information will move mountains. In this upside down world we live in, Hannity is a gateway to getting at the truth. Can’t believe I just said that…but it true.
Anyway, Sarah lit the long fuse today and it will probably explode on Tuesday’s debate. An ‘Ayers Bomb’.
Reminder: Larry on the radio tonight.
7:30 pacific
8:30 mountain
9:30 central
10:30 eastern
Go here and click on Listen Live in upper left. Use Explorer browser.
I hope Larry has something new and juicy to report.
We have to keep pressing on this issue. How long has he known Ayers? Why doesn’t anyone remember him at Columbia? Where are all of his school records? I like the idea someone stated above, about an ad, that features Tim McVeigh, and then morphs into Ayers. More people can relate to Tim McVeigh. Too many of the voters have no connection to the 60’s and 70’s and don’t understand what Ayers and his group did. Thank you Steve, for your passion in getting to the truth. This relationship must be exposed before the election.
yes, I like it too. McCain camp, are you reading these posts??
Makes me wonder if Obama spent any time at those Maktab al-Khadamat Mosques in Brooklyn and New Jersey, the ones later taken over by Omar Abdel-Rahman, the infamous blind cleric responsible for the first WTC bombing.
Naturally, that leads me to thinking about Abdel-Rahman’s defense attorney, Lynne Stewart, who also defended Bill Ayers’ boyhood pal, the Weather Underground bomber Kathy Boudin.
Lynne Stewart was herself defended, in her trial for abetting terrorism, by Michael Tigar, who defended Timothy McVeigh’s partner, Terry Nichols.
Even more interesting, George Soros contributed $20,000 toward Lynne Stewart’s defense fund.
Hey - just wonderin’.
Hannity is having a special on tonight all about Obamas associations. It is suppose to be realy something.
What time and time zone? thanks
9PM Eastern
Keep up the great work!
9 pm est
thanks nurse! setting recorder.
Yes. Stay on Ayers. But..
This from last April, we should not forget:
We sorta got distracted during Hillary’s comeback in May and stories like this just pettered out into the sunset.
Thank you Steve Diamond !!
Can you imagine how ugly these Obommunists will get if they lose in November??? They will demand riots and insurrection for they are not Democrats , They are no better than Ayers and Khalidi and Dohrn
Good point! They get in your face like terrorists!
So if Obama wins or loses, Ayers, Khalidi and Dorhrn win. Unreal.
Lark..OT
This article you will appreciate.
If Obama is elected and he raises taxes like he says then what we have to worry about is far worse than a depression.
Call it the Great Deflation!
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidRStokes/2008/10/05/fdr_and_the_great_deflation
Yes, I agree it is an important article for today. History is kind of repeating itself in many unfortunate ways.
This bailout bill may turn out to be a real nightmare not easily dispose off. It has so many repercussions that are not easily constructed in a few strokes.
Yes, Barky may hit our country at a very critical time and his ideas for solution will include raising taxes substantially and raising international trade barriers, except for crude oil. I believe he will push for an oil alliance with Russia in lue of giving up on a ‘drill baby drill’ policy. Yes, Chavez will drop his jaw. But that’s Chavez luck. Remember he is south of latitude 19. So who in the north really cares.
And why woulld Barky would strike an oil deal with the Russians? First to appease them. Second to counter the China-Russia alliance.
Any way, yes, Barky, if President will spell ‘deflation.’ Absolutely. The bailout bill almost says so already.
Lark..
I’m very worried for my industry and company!
It is really an OT question but one of the questions that intrigues me is “Why did the Annenberg Foundation choose the Ayres project to fund?” Was that foundation not aware of Ayres Weatherman Underground past? Or were they aware and sympathetic. Think about Annenberg and his vast fortune; he was very tied up with Russia and oil. What if any political sensibilities did Annenberg have for Russian political ideas? I’m not sure about Annenberg’s overall politics but he was a major philanthropist in the LA scene.
This is clearly a calculated move on the part of the McCain campaign and it is a shot across the bow just before the next presidential debate. It is taking up a lot of oxygen and is beginning to push the economy aside in the world of political theater. Sarah makes a great warrior to deliver the first shot.
What comes to my mind on this? Sarah in that photo in camouflage gear shooting an assault rifle equipped with high powered scope. I think it is officially moose hunting season.
I think you mean Obama hunting season.
Have y’all seen this blog from New Zealand? This guy’s got some great stuff on nobma called the Obama Files:
http://newzeal.blogspot.com
Have y’all seen this blog from New Zealand…he’s got some great research called the Obama Files:
http://newzeal.blogspot.com
Wow! Powerful stuff! I had an inkling about the black radical groups but its great to see it laid out in a logical format. Obambi must be so desparate to keep this under the rug until the election. Its got to come out!! Send it around everyone
Jangles,
I believe the Annenberg folks were sympathetic to the anti-union and anti-school administration approach of the Chicago reformers led by Ayers. That is why there were some mainstream figures, even Republicans, who supported the CAC early on. However, divisions quickly opened up and at one point there was a conflict between Arnold Weber, the former president of Northwestern and a business sector representative to the CAC board, and Ayers. Obama sided with Ayers and the Ayers approach - supporting the teacher watchdog Local School Councils - won the day.
The larger context of the CAC was that it was a front in what were known back then as the Chicago School Wars. The CAC was on one of side in this war, and Mayor Daley on the other.
Steve Diamond
Steve: I need to correct my post. Annenberg was not the LA philanthropist involved with Russia and oil he was in the media business. Was responsible for knocking out a Dem from PA who was trying for President. Close friend of the Reagan’s and pretty much into Republican side of politics in CA. He made the largest contribution ever made to the United Negro College Fund. His national Annenberg Challenge was funded through the Annenberg Foundation to the tune of 500 million.
What happened in the other Annenberg grants?
But all in all the bottom line is no one sits on a Board as President of that
Board and does not know the co-chair or have general discussions with said chair. Have you interviewed teacher union members from any of those schools? Might be hard for them to talk honestly without winding up in the bottom of Lake Michigan. I remember seeing a post from a union leader back in Feb. that was not at all favorable to the project. If I remember that time, unions( both teacher and non-teacher employees) were being selected as a prime cause of failing schools.
And guess who owns factcheck.org
Annenberg!
Indeed, the whole Local School Council project was aimed at the power of the teachers unions and Ayers and Klonsky come out of a wing of the 60s movements that was hostile to organized labor.
Weird. That sounds like today’s right wing mantra: Blame the unions.
yes, that is why some mainstream figures like Arnold Weber and Stanley Ikenberry were willing to join the CAC board at first. Both later resigned.
One would think that Obama’s activities during his stewardship of CAC are important. Obama sided the Ayers is the LSC dispute? Does this mean they shared a common philosophy to educational reform? Was Obama, like Ayers, using the CAC to promote an agenda based of that philosophy?
Yes, see my paper linked on my blog called The Authoritarian Radicals.
Steve:
Do you mean against each other or both against the teachers from different ends? Wasn’t first a “war” b/t the teachers and Daley
How did Obama get to befriend Daley after the CAC?
The CAC was defeated politically by Daley and Obama now had to cozy up to Daley. From Daley’s perspective, it was a question of keeping your friends close and your enemies closer. Having Obama around was like having Colin Powell in the Bush Administration - not because they are both black but because they were both potent competitive political threats. Obama was thinking about a run for Mayor, after the example of one of Obama’s heroes, Harold Washington.
Speaking of Obama’s college years, has anyone ever heard of a former Barack Obama girlfried coming forth to say what it was like to date him?
Or, did he not date anyone until he met Michele? Just seems kind of strange we haven’t heard, or let us know if you have.
I was thinking of all the money those ex-girlfriends could make selling their story to the tabloids.
Or, did the Obama campaign pay them off already?
I don’t so much care about his preference, in terms of orientation, it’s the idea he may be lying about it, and pressuring others to do likewise, keep quiet.
Wondering about the late Donald Young.
It’s pretty obvious Michelle was introduced to Obama to “straighten” him out.
I don’t know…her very presence might have the opposite effect of straight.
Well, Michelle does give off a very WNBA vibe herself, not to mention her little sister act with Oprah and Gayle.
That she does.
Jesus, don’t SAY that! I’m still trying to get over the crawling flesh I get when I think that Rachel Maddow is a member of my community. YIKES!!!!
By the way, I don’t think she gives off a WNBA vibe. She gives off one hell of a sick, twisted self hating vibe.
Isn’t Rachel Maddow Keith Olbermann’s Illegitamate son from an affair he had with karl marx??
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
Sorry for the multiple posts.
that’s very funny. and very possible. I don’t think that it’d work though. And she certainly doesn’t look like a “satisfied” woman.
That is one horrific nightmare. The humanity.
I’ve been thinking about this too. Obama clearly is at least bisexual. And in college probably wasn’t quite so paranoid about keeping that secret.
I think the high school friend who supposedly
tried to blackmail Obama (remember that guy who completely disappeared from the scene)probably had that info to work with.
Obama either has a history of same sex encounters and/or a history of violence. You can see his violent tendencies all over his face– nasty stuff written there.
The third option (and it may well be all of the above when dealing with Obama) is the radical ties.
Larry Sinclair, Donald Young… they fit in so easily to Obama’s character.
Any chance of someone at the Townhall asking a question about Larry Sinclair?
That’d be sweet.
No ex-girlfriends have come forward.
He wrote about a white girl-friend in one of his books, but I don’t know if she exists.
remember how he said that the “characters” in his book were composites of other people. Look for him to have dated a white guy, not gal.
There must be a lot of people who know about Obama unless he was such a dork nobody socialized with him.
The section in his book about the white girl-friend is terribly written. It’s not even up to romance novel standard. There’s no sexual frisson at all.
Think about Me-chelle and you’ll understand why.
Michelle Obama is Barry’s Dominatrix. I’m quite sure at home she’s “Ms. Michelle” to him.
I am on a personal drive to get as much information out there to the undecided as I can this week.. Today I sent out oodles of emails to them to show them evidence of the obama use of our children and youth to honor him just as hitler did, and his plan to start a civilian force stronger than our militart.. Tomorrow, I plan to send out info on obamas attemps to take away our freedom of speech by using prosecuting sheriffs to intimidate us if we say or display ads with anything negative about him. I also will show videos about his views on guns and use the NRA ads, We need to protect our first and second admendments.. Later this week, I plan to send video sites of proof of his lies.. Then proof of the real causes of the economic crisis and Fannie Mae.. Will show Barneys and others saying that fannie mae was not having problems and also the video clip of fannie mae CEO telling the black caucus and obama and michelle that they all were like family to Fannie mae. Also have proof of McCains co sponserring regulation reform and warning of a crisis in 2006.
Send them this site. It should convince everyone.
http://www.theobamafile.com/
ooops, lots of goofs in there. Must be the peanut butter in my keyboard.
here’s a video with Obama citing his Executive experience with the CAC as qualification to run for the Senate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-45A6I-N5I
but now he’s not using the CAC experience as part of his executive qualification. Why is that? because he knows that if given the light of scrutiny, his dealinds in the CAC will show a lot of corruption. it’s not surprising as well that Jeremiah Wright’s, Father Fleger’s, and Rev. Meek’s churches were among the recepients of millions of dollars from Ayers and Obama’s CAC.
These are exactly the points that need to be made. What did Obama do with all that money? Is this the person we are going to trust during a huge economic crisis, someone who has funneled millions to friends and cronies for failed causes? It seems the only things that improved thanks to Obama’s efforts have been his friends’ bank accounts.
How did he get into Harvard? At the time that Obama was completing Columbia, Harvard and other elite schools had a major push (and still do) to diversify their student bodies. They were giving full ride scholarships to minority students who had potential even if they might not have the full creds. That is also probably how he got into Columbia. I don’t think we have much more about his student achievements at Harvard. We have nothing he wrote even though he had the position of Editor of the Harvard Review. I have heard it said that he graduated at the top of his Harvard class but have never seen any evidence of that. Class standings and honors at Harvard should be a pretty open book so I am probably just not informed.
THats what I was wondering—Dont you usually have some writings if you are Editor of the Harvard Review?
yeah, that’s the point. The Law Review is the school’s student journal.
America apparently ready to elect this man who has really no experience, along with many notorious friends. Yet there are so many many many unanswered explored questions about this man. TOO MANY Blanks not filled in.
I have never known the media to let a man with this type of character references get this far in a presidental election. Much less they are not even investigating 1/2 of the stuff.
Here’s one way to get to Harvard.
here’s the truth on how Obama got into Harvard:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=74231
there’s a lot more juicy stuff in that article. read it and pass it on!
I normally dont wish bad on people are try to be extremely negative. But the MSM pushing the Palin racist theme…I hope they lose there jobs. They are like little heartless soul-less scumbags. Why? Because there trying to push the same crap from the primaries knowing good and damn well she is not racist but they know its a winning strategy with his base. But just imagine being her son in a hostile environment where you need all your focus on the mission but your worrying about family at home. Someone who had never become “racist” until she had the audacity to make the statement we in the blogosphere have been asking the entire election.
I know how it is there and for that alone I hope those in the media pushing this lie reap what they sow. I will add Gov Palins son to my prayers in that he can focus on the mission and task at hand on getting the job done, and the soldiers in his unit and platoon rally around him,….instead of focusing and worrying about these ignorant bastards trying to smear his mothers good name.
The Obama campaign and the media are calling Sarah Palin a racist.
How dare those ratfuckers do that!!
Now, what are We The People going to do about it?
Stand up and fight!!
Vote Country First!!
That’s what we’re going to do about it!
I am fired up and ready to go!!
McCain-Palin ‘08
Hillary ‘12
YES WE CAN AND YES WE WILL!!
Academics doubling down and defending Ayres from “McCarthyism”:
http://www.supportbillayers.org/
Yes, I think Timothy McVeigh needs to be brought out to show the nature of someone like Ayers.
Too much cuteness from the left.
I’m so tired of academics.
LOL… what a bunch of losers.
This line is especially cute:
“It’s true that Professor Ayers participated passionately in the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s, as did hundreds of thousands of Americans.”
I’d say his political passions were quite explosive.
lol….Workingclass will gag on that one and spew it Wriiiiight back in Barky’s & whatever celebrity is handy’s face…rflmao…that is a classic una
That was stunning; and then they write “but that is history” . NUTS.
How can this be McCarthysim is beyond me.
Un~a de Gato:
Did you look at the list? Take a seat: the # 5 signature is from….
(5) Rashid Khalidi Columbia University
try:
any relation?
His wife.
THATS BRILLIANT!!
Exactly what America Needs to see from the Left!!
Demonize Govenor Sarah Palin and Call her a racist but SUPPORT THE GUY WHO WAS BLOWING UP SHIT IN OUR OWN COUNTRY!!!!
If the McCain Campaign sees that its going to be Hilarious in the AD that pops out!
Don’t forget to remind the nutroots that the Rosenbergs were GUILTY, too.
Maybe he went by a different last name during the Ayers years?
Someone posted at another blog that a person doesn’t have to show his/her BC if s/he forgoes public financing.
If true, could it be Obama NEVER intended to use public financing because of the BC issue?
That’s bull. Most of meeting nominal qualifications is about self attestation. You don’t have to prove you are a natural born citizen unless it is challenged. Obama has been challenged but the challenge has only recently been in the legal sphere. The courts can delay it on technical grounds, but sooner or later he will have to produce a certified bc not a colb and certainly not an internet image.
Not just anyone can become POTUS. Any candidate who wants to become a U.S. president MUST be a proven, natural-born citizen of the United States. That’s why Arnold Schwarzenegger - who once stated that he wanted to be President - can never become POTUS.
So whether or not Obama wants to show his birth certificate really doesn’t matter. He still must disclose it to prove that he is eligible for the U.S. presidency.
Here is one relationship map(for Jeremiah), I just found.
muckety.com/Query?name=David+Axelrod+and+Deval+Patrick+and+Barack+Obama&SearchResult=91&SearchResult=4917&SearchResult=4714&graph=MucketyMap
Comment by RememberWeWill | 2008-10-05 19:45:47
Someone posted at another blog that a person doesn’t have to show his/her BC if s/he forgoes public financing.
If true, could it be Obama NEVER intended to use public financing because of the BC issue?
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Oh my GOD…Where do people get this crap? Obama HAS to show his BC. PERIOD. He’s running for POTUS. That means he has to meet CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS for him to be eligible. Why on EARTH would that be connected to public financing? Obama’s going to HAVE to show the BC. McCain did so. And, come on, who are these IDIOTS voting for a man to run OUR COUNTRY, who REFUSES TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT WHO THE HELL HE IS? THIS IS RIDICULOUS.
smells like troll flop sweat…Barky & the Minions…are d e s p e r a t e
Hannity is on FOX next, right? (9:00 Eastern)
ON NOW
Hannity now on. Gotta go watch.
You guys have done a lot of work on this…Hannity is doing a one hour special…FOX News now.
ROFL! You guys rock. Sorry I didn’t realize we ALL have it on! LOL
Hannity is good - Watch it!
How about all the money $$ that has been exchanged and also the fraudulent money raised from foreign countries
Okay Hannity is totally busting Osama. Anyone voting for Osama after this is truly BRAIN DEAD and DANGEROUS.
OK, I’m recording the next showing of this to give to those who need to be shaken awake.
Go Sean! Unrepentant Patriot.
Admit it Barack.
You are tired of saying things like:
“Ayers is not the domestic terrorist I once knew.”
The backstory is not needed. I understand it is being told to prove obama lied at the debate,okay but is that really important? I mean i had to read and digest this over quite a few times to get it. The average american will not give it that much time.
The real issue that through all this two facts have been established by obama he was the board chair of the chicago annenberg challenge and ayers created and ran cac. So the important thing now is to get out what the cac did and who it gave money to and what it accomplished. I believe the cac agenda will lead BACK to ayers and his wife terrorist past.
Since obama and records created at the time of the cac tenure has established his connection to cac, the key is to establish the agenda of cac and trace it BACK to ayers domestic terrorist agenda not the other way around.
PUMA
I am floored. I just don’t get who on earth would ever vote for Obama. He wouldn’t get FBI clearance with his circle of friends who are all terrorists and felons. WTF? WTF? WTF??????
Truly scary stuff being exposed about Obama and Ayers on Hannity’s America tonight on FOX.
WOW!!
Hope you all are watching it!!
America needs to know about the real Obama!!
I hope they repeat Hannity’s program many times.
Comment by Jeremiah God Damn Barack Amerikkka Wright | 2008-10-05 20:29:19
Isn’t Rachel Maddow Keith Olbermann’s Illegitamate son from an affair he had with karl marx??
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No paternity test needed there.
Can’t they ALL be put on a boat to CUBA?
Hannity did not mention CAC. He mentioned Woods Foundation. But he is covering a lot of ground with all the shady characters.
Obama is getting exposed tonight on Hannity’s America BIG TIME!!
No way in hell does this question NOT come up during the debates. No way.
Obama has a lot of extremely radical friends.He is the Extreme Candidate. He should get a reality show on TV and every week he will reveal another extreme friend and acquantaince and explain to us why he has relationships with these characters. It will be very entertaining indeed.
I feel really sick. We are an inch away from a really bad, bad situation. God help us all. Costa Rica is looking really good.
God help us. I didn’t know about Khalidi. From watching this I’m feeling like this entire Obama campaign is a set up to destroy Israel.
there’s such a huge list it is hard to keep track!
These are just the onvious friends. Can you imagine the ones we don’t know about?
I spent much of today reading all the great information and analysis over at your blog and then was pleasantly surprised to find your articles here at NQ.
I have been concerned about the authoritarian behavior I have observed in Obama’s campaign, especially the ever present stifling of dissent. Thanks for speaking up about it!
Hannity’s America Special Report tonight on FOX:
Obama & Friends
History of Radicalism
MUST SEE!!
America must defeat Obama!
Hannity is connecting the dots tonight.
his show will run from tonight til nov.4th.
Hillary tried to bring out the truth about Obama and Ayers and remember what the media and the Obama camp did? they used sexism against her.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/440/
now that the Ayers connection is gaining steam, it’s up to all of us to bring it to the forefront of public scrutiny. don’t let the media drown it out with allegations of racism.
read all articles of evidence and pass it on!
RNC filing a complaint
http://townhall.com/blog/g/b6822448-9507-4375-bfe4-5c1a6ce667c3
again, read it and pass it on!
What about Obama wedding I bet a whole lot of his friends he only knew for a “couple hours” where there
The Columbia connection is in the organization of SDS and the Weather Underground.
SDS originated in Columbia, and the Weather Underground became the violent offshoot for those who felt paeacful demonstration was not enough.
http://www.markrudd.com/Homepage/Who%20is%20Mark%20Rudd.htm
William Ayers ties to Columbia and Mark Rudd go back to 1968. It is undoubtedly where Obama first met Ayers.
As a Columbia Student interested in “Community Organizing” meeting Ayers would be like a Buddist meeting the Dalai Lama. Ayers would be the ultimate mentor for Obama’s organizing ideology.
Oh SH!T!
I Mean
YOU BETCHA!!
Obama was in the SDS at Occidental
Man another good one. Fox is laying the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac thing right at the feet of Carter, Clinton, Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer and the Dems overall. FOR ONCE can the rest of the idiot Osama Biden Laden voters get brains and listen to this stuff?
What year did the Dreams come out?
Everyone should contact Drudge to see if they will do some investigation into this and get it on his home page …
My husband and I watched Hannity’s show on Obama radical ties tonight. We both think it was effective and put together in such a way that can easily be followed by those not already “in the know”. It was jam packed full of informaton but flowed together well. Sean and his staff did a good job putting it together.
THE AYERS/OBAMA TIMELINE
1987 William Ayers meets Barack Obama
1988 Ayers solicits Khalid Al-Mansour to raise money for Obama’s Harvard law School education
1989 Tom Ayers and William Ayers get Obama a summer job at Sidley & Austin (where he meets Michelle Obama); Ayers’ wife Bernadine Dohrn also worked at Sidley at about the same time as Barack and Michelle.
1993 Ayers places Obama on Woods Foundation
1995 Ayers makes Obama Chairman of Annenberg Challenge
1995 Ayers hosts a coffee klatch for Obama’s political debut (Obama falsely claims this is when he met Ayers)
2007-2008 The structure of Obama’s presidential campaign increasingly comes to resemble an Ayers-designed national “community organizer matrix” straight out of Maoist theory. This is not merely a presidential “campaign.” Obama’s organization is the first installment of an ongoing movement being paid for with tax-exempt contributions to his campaign, approaching half a billion dollars.
2008 Obama In response to ABC News, Obama tells a national TV audience he was “six years old” when Ayers bombed federal buildings, and they are only casual neighborhood acquaintances. A lie.