Comments on: Barack Obama, William Ayers & The Annenberg Challenge

By: theclassiclib

theclassiclib — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:09:43 +0000

And the media herd can’t figure out why their revenues keep dropping … Hmmmmm …

Without bloggers like you, nobody would even know about any of this at all!

Obama is a candidate for the presidency of the United States, and he has significant ties, direct associations, with anti-American radicals, and terrorists who’ve bombed our nation.

If the media herd had even done half the job their customers expect, outside of Chicago, nobody would even know Obama’s name.

By: Conservative_American

Conservative_American — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:37:08 +0000

I wonder how much of that $200M could have been funneled into various coffers to be used at a later date to support a political campaign that miraculously generates millions in dontations?

Obama was created to run for president. Getting into the Illinois Senate was easy since that is their back yard. I think the biggest unknown was getting him into the U.S. Senate and that ended up being a joke. However, the Senate was just a stepping stool to gain legitimacy for a presidential campaign.

I wonder if there are any connections between campaign contributors and recipients of these various grants. Furthermore, are there any connection between the grant recipients and Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, and Ted Kennedy since they were instrumental in freezing out Hillary.

By: aaa again

aaa again — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:24:57 +0000

The facts presented in BoomerJeff’s note are absolutely correct. Further, the context is also absolutely correct. (More even handed, I might add, than John McCain’s commercial on the subject, in which Ayers is described as Obama’s “friend.” Ayers and Obama may or may not be friends – we do not know – but there is no denying they were close business associates for a number of years. And we know Ayers hosted the initial fundraiser for Obama’s Senate run.)

Ayers is widely known as an advocate of far from mainstream approaches to education. This project was his baby, and he chose Obama to lead it. There are three relevant points on this issue:

Performance
As an executive, how did Obama do? Well, $200MM later, by their own admission there is “no statistical difference” between Annenberg and non-Annenberg schools. He did not do well. Were those funds spent wisely?

Honesty
Has Obama been genuine in describing his relationship with Ayers? Simple: No. In fact the campaign has been blatently devious in their characterization. Somehow I just don’t believe a guy with no more standing than “he’s a neighbor” wouldn’t host a political fundraiser for me in his home, or appoint me to run his pet $200MM project.

Character and Judgement
Why was Obama working for an admitted, and unrepentant, terrorist? An interest in education improvement is certainly a noble endeavor, but most people draw the line at working with the criminal element, certainly when those criminals only explanation of themselves is “we didn’t do enough.”

The nation deserves an explanation from Obama. The flimsy explanation about Obama being 8 years old when Ayers was bombing away is plainly a dishonest dodge. If Obama has conviction in his actions and decisions, he ought to explain that in clear terms.

After all, if it came to light that John McCain had been appointed by a white supremicist to chair a “community outreach” project, wouldn’t we want to understand the makings of that decision?