Obama and Ayers pushed radicalism on schools

[stephanie]

this is the author the Obambam has been trying to have shut up..

By STANLEY KURTZArticle

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.

AP
Bill Ayers.
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.
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created ostensibly to improve Chicago's public schools. The funding came from a national education initiative by Ambassador Walter Annenberg. In early 1995, Mr. Obama was appointed the first chairman of the board, which handled fiscal matters. Mr. Ayers co-chaired the foundation's other key body, the "Collaborative," which shaped education policy.
The CAC's basic functioning has long been known, because its annual reports, evaluations and some board minutes were public. But the Daley archive contains additional board minutes, the Collaborative minutes, and documentation on the groups that CAC funded and rejected. The Daley archives show that Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers worked as a team to advance the CAC agenda.
One unsettled question is how Mr. Obama, a former community organizer fresh out of law school, could vault to the top of a new foundation? In response to my questions, the Obama campaign issued a statement saying that Mr. Ayers had nothing to do with Obama's "recruitment" to the board. The statement says Deborah Leff and Patricia Albjerg Graham (presidents of other foundations) recruited him. Yet the archives show that, along with Ms. Leff and Ms. Graham, Mr. Ayers was one of a working group of five who assembled the initial board in 1994. Mr. Ayers founded CAC and was its guiding spirit. No one would have been appointed the CAC chairman without his approval.
The CAC's agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers's educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism. In the mid-1960s, Mr. Ayers taught at a radical alternative school, and served as a community organizer in Cleveland's ghetto.

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[mundame]

this is the author the Obambam has been trying to have shut up..

By STANLEY KURTZArticle

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.

AP
Bill Ayers.
The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers

This was the lead op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today. I just read it.

This is really shocking to me!! The author makes it clear that Ayers picked Obalamabama for this highly radical organization at the same time he was calling himself a "small c communist." Also that the beginning of Obama's political career started at a fundraiser in Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn's living room!!

This is completely, wholly, entirely unacceptable to me.

Nothing wrong with '60s peaceniks per se, most of us were, be sure given the catastrophe the Vietnam War was, but these communist leaders, who are STILL communists? Behind a presidential candidate????

Darn, this is really the outside of enough.

[stephanie]

this is the type of person the Democrats and their cult members think is acceptable to become our President..

Hows that for giving a shit about our country and the American citizens..

[theHawk]

It never ceases to amaze me how in bed Democrats are with full blown communists. They can't help but to be drawn into Marxist ideas, yet they spend their entire political career trying to hide those feelings.

Perhaps Obama's campaign slogan should be "Communism First".