Posted on 10/18/2008 12:53:35 AM PDT by Libloather
Obama-Ayers link involved Annenberg grant
By Rita Giordano
Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted on Sat, Oct. 18, 2008
The Chicago education project that has linked the names of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and William Ayers, a former 1960s and 1970s radical turned college professor and education activist, was part of a $500 million initiative by Philadelphia publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg to aid schools around the country.
The half-billion-dollar "gift," as it was described by President Bill Clinton at a 1993 White House ceremony, would go on to provide 2-to-1 matching-fund grants to 18 school districts around the nation.
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The Windy City's initiative, which came on the heels of a school-reform movement, was supported by government and civic leaders. According to people active in the project, Obama was an attorney and up-and-coming civic leader who was tapped in 1995 by heads of leading charitable foundations to chair the initiative's board of directors.
Ayers, a former Weather Underground member who was charged but not convicted on federal riot and bombing-conspiracy counts, was by that time a University of Illinois education professor who cowrote the proposal to get the Annenberg money for Chicago.
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Hallett described Ayers, a member of a prominent Chicago family, as well-regarded and a contributor to the Chicago school-reform movement.
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Several years ago, Ayers and Obama overlapped as board members of the Woods Fund, a Chicago charity that supports community-based groups.
R. Eden Martin, a lawyer and head of the Commercial Club of Chicago, said he was on the Woods board at the same time as Ayers and Obama. He said the men did not appear particularly close. "I wasn't aware they had any relationship outside the board," Martin said.
Ayers declined to be interviewed for this article.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
He has distributed money to those he finds "worthy" (people who can be useful to him in achieving his goals)
Like the Money Changer at the Temple Obama appears to be doing a service for the faithful, but he is really enriching himself and his friends.
It's ironic that the holier-than-thou hypocrites, Barack and Michelle, tell graduates to avoid going into careers in finance.
We were first told that Ayers was just a guy in the neighborhood. Even Obama has now admitted that was a lie. Everyone is looking for more and more connections, but what about the fact that he lied about that and other things. The fact that he lied about that and other things should be a huge issue.
Another thing is, he is as peranoid as all get out. Consider peranoia + red button. Scarry scenario.
"heads of leading charitable foundations", "money for Chicago", "high-level government support", "she and two other foundations", "approached to form an organization", "Obama's name was suggested by one of the foundations" "a Chicago charity that supports community-based groups"
There are a whole lot of no-name groups here. How could anyone give $50 million to all these no-names. Either the author of this article is incompetent, or someone is hiding something.
In general, Obama's past is a work in progress.
We always rail against the media ,How about FOX news Dont they have Reporters ? How come they are not outside the Library at the University Of Chicago asking why The Papers for the Anneberg Challenge are not being allowed to be seen ? Why Are they In a Public Library and No One Can see them . FOX is as Guilty as NBC, ABC, CNN in not exposing this Communist
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