WSJ Reports that Obama and Ayers Pushed Anti-Government Radicalism in Schools

Right Werds, Korrekt Speech ^ | 09/22/2008 | Bear Nichols

[Obamalujah]

Here is the article from the Wall Street Journal:

Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools

[Obamalujah]

Oh, boy!!!

[BobbyT]

I thought it was pro-massive-government radicalism.

[Obamalujah]

Maybe anti-American government pro massive commie government

[Fred]

WSJ - Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools

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.

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........

[Fred]

[igoramus08]

In works like "City Kids, City Teachers" and "Teaching the Personal and the Political," Mr. Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression. His preferred alternative? "I'm a radical, Leftist, small 'c' communist," Mr. Ayers said in an interview in Ron Chepesiuk's, "Sixties Radicals," at about the same time Mr. Ayers was forming CAC.

Obama's benefactor is a self confessed communist and employs Obama in CAC to fund education [brainwash the kids] programs to turn teachers into "community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression".

[pieceofthepuzzle]

“Obama’s benefactor is a self confessed communist and employs Obama in CAC to fund education [brainwash the kids] programs to turn teachers into “community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression”.”

In this election we have on one side an American war hero, imprisoned and tortured in a war in which nearly 60,000 Americans lost their lives, and who fully backs those who serve our country in the military, and who fully backs our response to the 9/11 attack on our own soil.

On the other side we have a man who worked closely with a self-proclaimed communist to push an agenda that subverts the America generations of Americans have died to protect. That candidate affiliated himself for years with this self-proclaimed communist, William Ayers, a man who bombed the Pentagon while thousands of young men his age and younger were dying fighting against the expansion of communism and its subversion of freedom in the world.

That this is even a contest is a troubling thing to consider. I don't care about all the ways John McCain isn't perfect. He is the only choice in this election, and even when he makes decisions you might not agree with, you have to know that he makes them with love of America in his heart.