Posted on 10/09/2008 5:49:45 PM PDT by Chet 99
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But the relationship between Obama and Ayers went deeper, ran longer and was more political than Obama -- and his surrogates -- have revealed, documents and interviews show.
A review of board minutes and records by CNN show Obama crossed paths repeatedly with Ayers at board meetings of the Annenberg Challenge Project.
The Annenberg Foundation gave the project a $50 million grant to match local private funds to improve schools, and Ayers fought to bring the grant to Chicago, according to participants and project records.
The project's organizing committee asked Obama to serve as the board chairman in 1995. Annenberg Project Executive Director Ken Rollings said Ayers was not a member of that ad hoc group when the decision was made.
For seven years, Ayers and Obama -- among many others -- worked on funding for education projects, including some projects advocated by Ayers.
"The specific job of the board of directors was to give out the money," said Stanley Kurtz, a conservative researcher for the Ethics and Public Policy Center and frequent Obama critic.
"Instead of giving money directly to schools, they gave money to what they call external partners and these partners were often pretty radical community organizer groups," said Kurtz, who also has been reviewing the Annenberg Challenge's recently released records.
The board, for example, gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bill Ayers' small schools project. The project promoted alternative education, including projects like the Peace School -- where the curriculum centered on a United Nations theme -- and another school where the focus was African-American studies.
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I am betting that Obama met Ayers in 1981 in New York, while attending Columbia.
Not when Bill and Hillary are in charge.
Wouldn't you like to put Obama on a lie detector.
I’m with you on that one.
Maybe some in the press realize the huge mistake they made. It might be too late, but I saw a story on Drudge from a CBS reporter saying the Obama plane stinks (Obama -> typical of the low class leftwing base of the Democratic Party -> smelly and unwashed) and they treat the elite journalist poorly (poor baby, he is too white. Get used to it.).
I didn't ride into town last night in a watermelon truck.
Maybe, they see that a government run press won’t need so many reporters and they are now waking up their own dire future?
Actually, this is the clintoons working behind the scene.
I noticed that as well however their bias panel covering the debates haven't gotten the memo yet. Begala/Carville should be banished for suggesting race riots and burning will occur O should lose.
Now the question they need to ask is “Why did B. Hussein Obama try to hide his relationship with Ayers?”
A. He knew he was associating with a terrorist and didn’t
want to hurt his chances at getting elected.
B. He knew he was associating with a terrorist and didn’t want to hurt his chances at getting elected.
C. Both A and B.
They want not only Change and Hope, they want our money!
I'd rather put him on a slow boat to China.
It is a fascinating article that I started this morning and just finished.
Especially interesting was the part where he described Ayer's short stint as a merchant seaman. He list all the 'nautical' terms that appear in both Ayer's book and Obama's. Understandable for Ayer's to use them in his book, but no reason that Obama would...had he written it himself.
Obama, the end is near.
CNN calls Hussein Obama a liar. Surprise, surprise!
Will this ever hit the airwaves or just sit out on an internet server?
Google Cashill
He’s just a guy from Obama’s hood, who coincidentally wrote one of his books.
To quote Cher........”and the beat goes on”......
It aired on CNN Anderson’s Cooper 360.
Yes, but 4 of those 17 are people we're trying to reach! :-)
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