Just filling in some background...on Ayers...and raising the question as to why Ayers would choose someone to manage his cherished Annenberg Project who differed much from his views...!!!!!
It would be good for the public to know what the projects were that Obama handed out the 50 million dollars to under the supervision of Ayers.
Bill Ayers - trust fund baby who did not get his a$$ kicked enough growing up.
Last night I was chatting with a student, a sophmore in a public high school. She's a very sweet kid, with a good heart and a sunny disposition. I really enjoy working with her. That's what infuriates me so much about what is happening in our schools.
I was just making small talk while we worked, asking about school, what classes she likes, what she's learning. She told me about social studies, which is her favorite, because she likes US history. Fine, so what are you studying right now?, I asked. Well, lately all our teacher has been talking about is McCain and Obama, she replied.
What about your art class? I asked. You like that one, right? Yeah, she said, but our art teacher is constantly talking about how she's a vegan.
She likes these teachers. She's a typical idealist bleeding heart kid. She's a smart kid, but still very much a skull full of mush.
I don't discuss politics with the kids, or any business contact, as a matter of policy, and I certainly wouldn't try to use my position to try to influence kids on stuff that is outside my perview. I think it's unethical. Obviously, that's not a concern for the young indoctrinators who are our teachers.
But I was pretty annoyed by what she told me, and so I said to her that those teachers were trying to subvert the minds of children. Why? she asked, probably not knowing what subversion is, poor innocent thing.
I said it's because they are using their position as teacher to try to influence you on subjects that are not their responsibility, and have nothing at all to do with what they are supposed to be teaching. She replied, you should write a book. You say so many interesting things...blah blah. Impressionable minds.
Look, I said, just do me a favor, and try not to be too influenced by people. By anyone. As you get older, you'll learn from experience what life is about, and how things work. Just take everything with a big grain of salt, and be patient and you will learn for yourself.
Sorry for the long story. Just needed to get it off my chest.
It's not an isolated incident. All I told her was to think for herself, and beware. I didn't push my point of view on her, and when asked who I am voting for, I don't tell.
Bottom line is that we are losing the war to the commies, who are polluting the minds of children.
It’s already happening. I’m taking a course now in how to teach social studies. The reason civics is returning is because teachers see a way to use it to indoctrinate students and use traditional terminology to do it. Civics today teaches our children how to become community organizers. Nothing more or less. We’re using a mainstream textbook that talks about all this. And I’m taking courses in a relatively conservative school with a relatively reasonable teacher. It’s chilling.
Inside Obama’s Acorn
May 29, 2008 4:00 AM
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By their fruits ye shall know them.
By Stanley Kurtz
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What if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about. Acorn is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because Acorn works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. Acorn likes it that way. And so, I’d wager, does Barack Obama. |
Obama and the Radicals: Soulmates?
Right-Wing Nut House ^ | Feb. 23, 2008 | by Rick Moran
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Posted on Sat 23 Feb 2008 08:10:27 AM PST by jdm
I have waxed both seriously and clownishly on this site about Barack Obama’s “Cotton Candy Candidacy” and the fact that his nebulously formed ideas make him something of an empty suit when it comes to trying to figure out where he stands on many issues.
I have also pointed out that this is deliberate obfuscation on his part, done in order to hide his liberal past. Indeed, there is no candidate in recent memory who has taken such pains to see that his political philosophy remains a cipher – a razor thin record in the Illinois Senate along with almost as invisible US Senate votes are carefully hidden away in the campaign’s attic, gone and mostly forgotten in the rush to proclaim the candidate The Agent of Change.
A slippery fish, this fellow Obama. Controversial votes when he was a state senator were avoided by voting “present” or claiming later that he erred by pressing the wrong button and didn’t really mean to take that position. Seen in the context of the “Great Game” the left plays with the American people in trying to mask their liberalism for fear of rejection by the voter, Obama, it turns out, is a master of “post partisan problem solving” – hiding his liberalism under an avalanche of platitudes and feel-good bromides that have his supporters swooning and the media eating out of his hand.
But the closet Obama may be in the process of being revealed. This is the Obama that voted to make a criminal out of a homeowner who was forced to use a gun in his own defense in his own home. This is the Obama that voted against making it a criminal offense for convicts on probation or on bail to have contact with a street gang. Indeed, Obama’s record on anti-gang legislation is simple; because gang members are more often people of color, they shouldn’t be singled out for increased attention or special penalties by the law.
But beyond his clearly liberal voting record in the state senate and his being named the most liberal senator in the US Senate by National Journal there is an issue just starting to bubble and froth below the media radar that may or may not become a huge issue depending on how protective the national media wants to be of Obama.
I am talking about the extent of the candidate’s ties to domestic terrorists from the 1960’s and how the American people might feel about their future president paling around with someone who set off bombs as a member of the group Weather Underground and to this day refuses to apologize for it. William Ayers told his followers back then: