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.
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Beware, America, Obama is a dangerous man with a secret agenda.
Yawn…issues please.
This website is a farce. You say you’re independent but CLEARLY pro-McCain. Not a single negative thing to say about McCain and not a single positive thing to say about Obama. All anyone has to do is look at your blogroll. You may think you’re independent, but you have clearly made up your mind to be republican, at least for this election.
Stop the hypocrisy please.
I’ve repeatedly stated that I am an Independent supporting Senator McCain. I have been since the early in the primaries. I’ve been an Independent for over ten years, and I understand people may not appreciate my perspective, but it is what it is and I’ve been very up front about it. Thank you for your comment.
OMG! Obama and Ayers were independently appointed to the Annenberg Foundation board along with plenty of Republicans, Democrats and independents, but somehow this means that Obama was Ayers’ “money man”? You could as easily attribute the Republican values of other members of the board to Obama.
Grow up and try to show that you can produce honest criticism if you have problems with Obama,not this baseless drivel that depends on accidents of association!
Wilma -the only growing up that needs to happen is with you .
No. 1 If you don’t like the moderator’s view - then don’t bother reading it or commenting or in anyway be a part of it.
No. 2 comment all you want and self-implode.
I think the moderator is doing a great job informing us all. Just because you choose to drink kool-aid and we don’t. We actually prefer water - pure and simple.
Jack Straw - your sleepiness must be the excuse on why you are voting for Obama and frankly “asleep at the wheel”.
Sparky,
Asking for something other than vague, unsubstantiated association is not drinking kool-aid. Nor is it self-imploding to point-out that the argument this article attempts tomake is lacking in substance. And, finally, why can’t you respond to the argument rather than go ballistic when its thinness is pointed out? Maybe you don’t have anything substantive to offer to defend your point of view?
There ya go, bringing up the past…dontcha know!
If ya wanna bring up Ayers, let’s talk about Keating.
Well, it just got quiet, huh?
LOL!!!
Maybe this is why Obama keeps saying that he wants to send 2 billion dollars to other countries for schooling! I would bet that Kenya would get a big part of that money. People we need money here and don’t need more of our tax money gave to other countries!
Wilma - there has been plenty offered, unfortunately with people like you it will never sink in, you continuously seek only the answer that you want.
Unfortunately, your arently finding it here, you either claim ignorance of the fact or stubbornness to the obvious truths presented.
I’m afraid this is another issue that people are going to dismiss because it’s not what they want to hear. We are a nation of sheep that will let our biased media choose our president and how we invest our money. Has anyone here looked at voting records of these candidates and maybe look at who has the best record to accomplish what is required in the next four years? Or maybe delve a little into what exactly each candidate has accomplished in their chosen lives. I think John McCain would come out on top so why bother with associations. It just diminishes the true reasons why Obama is not suited to be the leader of the greatest nation on God’s earth.
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The point people keep missing is how Obama sends these funds NOT to schools… but to groups to teach “radical” views. It’s not only the association of a man who bombed the US years ago… but this man still have these beliefs TODAY. And as an adult, Obama is “friendly” with him (per David Axelrod in the primaries). The question is… if you think “radical” views is the “education” you want to instill in young-minds, then yes… Obama is your man.
Axelrod also said that Mayor Daley (Chicago’s mayor) asked Ayers to help w/Chicago Education Reform. Ha ha ha… it is one of the WORSE school system in the nation! I know, b/c I lived in the mayors neighborhood. B/c the neighborhood elementary school was soooooo bad, I was hoping the gov’t there would do something about their own backyard, but nope. why should they care? their children all go to private schools any way. Well, the story of my life.
another point, Ayers and Obama met at Univ of Chicago, and now he’s at Univ of Illinois @ Chicago. I wonder why? hmmm. Sat in a class where Ayers is there now, where the professor kept hating on the gov’t and the U.S…. I couldn’t help it but had to drop that class and sign up for another. If little old me couldn’t stand it, how could a presidential nominee deal w/Wright, Ayers, ACORN, and Rezco? And that’s not all of his questionable association yet. A person is who he associates himself with… and in this case, 4 negative association was not enough.
Yet Obama’s supporters keep finding excuse for him. Yes, let’s teach the kids to hate the country and question EVERYTHING they do… whether they’re democrats, republicans, or independent… it’s never enough. Even when the country becomes radical, let’s still stand up to the gov’t and our parents. Let’s not listen to authority… and let’s not have peace. Let us continue to hate.
[...] 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 [...]
[...] 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 [...]
[...] 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 [...]
The Annenberg Foundation is not William Ayers foundation, it was founded in 1989 by William Annenberg. Obama and Ayers were both appointees to the board, along with many other prominent people including Republicans, Democrats, etc. This whole article is preposterous at best.