Manchurian Candidate #3
Bill Ayers ... IS a friend of Barack Obama's. Michael Barone from U.S. News & World Report makes this clear. But first ... who is Bill Ayers and what does he represent?
To make things clearer, you need to know more than his terrorist background ... he came from a family of wealth and prestige: he father, Thomas Ayers, was the CEO of Commonwealth Edison Company, also as "ComEd" (not ConEd), the largest electric utility in Illinois. T. Ayers was a close friend and political supporter of the Daleys, father and son. As you would need to be to do business in a city as fantastically corrupt as Chicago under [pick one] Daley. As Barone writes: [t]he voters of Chicago and Illinois respect family ties in a way that voters in no other state or city do. The current Mayor Daley is, of course, the son of the late Mayor Daley; the two Daleys have been mayors, and effective and competent mayors, of Chicago for 40 of the last 53 years. The attorney general of Illinois is the daughter of the speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. The governor of Illinois is the son-in-law of the Democratic ward committeeman in the 33rd Ward. The congressman from the 2nd Congressional District is Jesse Jackson Jr. Jackson's predecessor-but-one in the district was Morgan Murphy Jr., whose father was chairman of (get this) Commonwealth Edison.
Clear?
Jet back to Ayers, whom Obama claimed (t0 Stephanopoulos -- talk about "in the tank") "was just a guy in the neighborhood," deciding to attend Teacher's College at Columbia Univ. at age 40. There he supposedly had an "epiphany" under Maxine Greene, who urged teachers too "tell children about the evils of the existing, oppressive capitalist social order." (WSJ 10/17/08). Greene wrote of promoting an educational system that would portray "homelessness as a consequence of the private dealings of landlords, and arms buildup as a consequence of corporate decisions, racial exclusion as a consequence of a private property-holder's choice." (WSJ). Imagine how this sounded to Ayers, who has written of his moment of infamy, "Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon. The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them." Nice that. Even though he didn't actually do it himself, rather the Weathermen did.
Ayers continues to be a terrorist and is unashamed of his actions: from the New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001. "I don't regret setting bombs," Ayers is quoted as saying. "I feel we didn't do enough."
Ayers had found his niche. And moved back to Chicago after getting his PhD to take a job being handed out by Daley Jr., to people such as Bobby Rush (former chairman of the Chicago Black Panthers), Louis Gutierrez (leader of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party). Daley hired him to train school teachers and participate in teh $160 million Annenberg Challenge grant -- which distributed funds to school reform projects, including Acorn supported schools. One Barack Obama became the first chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge organization in 1995.
And oh, by the way, Ayers is now tenured "professor" at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His Urban Education course includes the "Pedagogy of the Opperssed" by Paolo Freire, a Brazilian marxist leader, among other radical texts. Ayers' faction of loonies is advancing: Ayers was elected Vice President for curriculum of the American Edication research Association -- "the nation's largest organization of education professors and researchers." (WSJ).
Ayers and Obama ... it is well known (or should be) that Obama launched his State Senate campaign in Ayers' living room -- at an event hosted by Ayers, so there can be no mistaking pure happenstance. Obama has admitted it: "maybe I should have picked some other place...." Also well known is that Obama and Ayers attended meetings together for the Annenberg gig from 1995 through 2001. They sat on the board of the Woods Foundation together for almost three years. They are friends. And Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist and far-left loony. Did I mention that UIC refuses to release documents that might shed light on the connection between Obama and Ayers?
We may not see Ayers in the Lincoln Room of the White House, but the road to the White House was launched in his living room and Obama has never even tried to disassociate himself from Ayers -- "the guy around the neighborhood." Maybe your neighborhood, maybe your social neighborhood -- but never mine, Mr. Obama.
Next: Acorn -- den of thieves. And Barack knows it.
To make things clearer, you need to know more than his terrorist background ... he came from a family of wealth and prestige: he father, Thomas Ayers, was the CEO of Commonwealth Edison Company, also as "ComEd" (not ConEd), the largest electric utility in Illinois. T. Ayers was a close friend and political supporter of the Daleys, father and son. As you would need to be to do business in a city as fantastically corrupt as Chicago under [pick one] Daley. As Barone writes: [t]he voters of Chicago and Illinois respect family ties in a way that voters in no other state or city do. The current Mayor Daley is, of course, the son of the late Mayor Daley; the two Daleys have been mayors, and effective and competent mayors, of Chicago for 40 of the last 53 years. The attorney general of Illinois is the daughter of the speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives. The governor of Illinois is the son-in-law of the Democratic ward committeeman in the 33rd Ward. The congressman from the 2nd Congressional District is Jesse Jackson Jr. Jackson's predecessor-but-one in the district was Morgan Murphy Jr., whose father was chairman of (get this) Commonwealth Edison.
Clear?
Jet back to Ayers, whom Obama claimed (t0 Stephanopoulos -- talk about "in the tank") "was just a guy in the neighborhood," deciding to attend Teacher's College at Columbia Univ. at age 40. There he supposedly had an "epiphany" under Maxine Greene, who urged teachers too "tell children about the evils of the existing, oppressive capitalist social order." (WSJ 10/17/08). Greene wrote of promoting an educational system that would portray "homelessness as a consequence of the private dealings of landlords, and arms buildup as a consequence of corporate decisions, racial exclusion as a consequence of a private property-holder's choice." (WSJ). Imagine how this sounded to Ayers, who has written of his moment of infamy, "Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon. The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them." Nice that. Even though he didn't actually do it himself, rather the Weathermen did.
Ayers continues to be a terrorist and is unashamed of his actions: from the New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001. "I don't regret setting bombs," Ayers is quoted as saying. "I feel we didn't do enough."
Ayers had found his niche. And moved back to Chicago after getting his PhD to take a job being handed out by Daley Jr., to people such as Bobby Rush (former chairman of the Chicago Black Panthers), Louis Gutierrez (leader of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party). Daley hired him to train school teachers and participate in teh $160 million Annenberg Challenge grant -- which distributed funds to school reform projects, including Acorn supported schools. One Barack Obama became the first chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge organization in 1995.
And oh, by the way, Ayers is now tenured "professor" at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His Urban Education course includes the "Pedagogy of the Opperssed" by Paolo Freire, a Brazilian marxist leader, among other radical texts. Ayers' faction of loonies is advancing: Ayers was elected Vice President for curriculum of the American Edication research Association -- "the nation's largest organization of education professors and researchers." (WSJ).
Ayers and Obama ... it is well known (or should be) that Obama launched his State Senate campaign in Ayers' living room -- at an event hosted by Ayers, so there can be no mistaking pure happenstance. Obama has admitted it: "maybe I should have picked some other place...." Also well known is that Obama and Ayers attended meetings together for the Annenberg gig from 1995 through 2001. They sat on the board of the Woods Foundation together for almost three years. They are friends. And Ayers is an unrepentant terrorist and far-left loony. Did I mention that UIC refuses to release documents that might shed light on the connection between Obama and Ayers?
We may not see Ayers in the Lincoln Room of the White House, but the road to the White House was launched in his living room and Obama has never even tried to disassociate himself from Ayers -- "the guy around the neighborhood." Maybe your neighborhood, maybe your social neighborhood -- but never mine, Mr. Obama.
Next: Acorn -- den of thieves. And Barack knows it.
posted by Zaphod at Friday, October 17, 2008
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