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September 23, 2008

The Obama Ayers connection

Stanley Kurtz, subjected to Obama thugs, still comes through

Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.

The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, and he has never expressed regret for his actions. Barack Obama's first run for the Illinois State Senate was launched at a 1995 gathering at Mr. Ayers's home.

The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis." Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC. Those archives are housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago and I've recently spent days looking through them.

Read the whole thing and forward it to ten friends.

(h/t Dan Collins)

Posted by Darleen at September 23, 2008 06:13 AM

Comments

And we're supposed to care about this because...?

Ever heard of Charles Keating?

Posted by: Josh at September 23, 2008 08:46 AM

Um . . . because they're lying about it? Because he's a terrorist? Because he's a communist?

Posted by: Dan Collins at September 24, 2008 05:49 AM

Or, you could read this.

Posted by: Dan Collins at September 24, 2008 05:58 AM

Oh no! Obama knows a communist! AMy stars!

That Maguire bit is really damning. Ayers wanted to reduce the power of teacher's unions? That's crazy talk!

Such damning horrible stuff. It must be a media conspiracy that's suppressing it.

Posted by: Josh at September 24, 2008 09:13 AM

The press has made no attempts to find any of this out while giving Palin and McCain colon-oscopies. McCain was related to Keating 5 in that he was COMPLETELY exonerated.

Posted by: PressSucks at September 28, 2008 05:13 AM