Posted on 10/18/2008 3:27:47 PM PDT by Jack Bull
Crossing Paths Daily: Obama and Ayers Shared an Office (Update: For Three Years)
John on October 16, 2008
It’s nice to be the guy getting tips for once instead of the guy sending them. Yesterday I got two great tips from Morgen, a reader who had found my earlier posts digging into the Obama Ayers connection. Both tips appear to check out and the second one is, I think, big news.
First, the smaller one…
This Chicago Annenberg Challenge website from 2002 shows the total amount of funds given to Bill Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop from 1995 to 2001. The amount is not the $175K I had reported earlier. According to this page, the total given under Barack Obama’s direct supervision was $1,056,162. Adding that amount to the money given by the Joyce Foundation and Woods Fund during Obama’s tenure brings the grand total to $1,968,718. Just shy of two million dollars! That’s a lot of scratch, to put it bluntly. And don’t forget, this doesn’t count the 3/4 million that went to John Ayers during the same time period.
Now here’s the second and bigger break, again big hat tip to Morgen for his work on this…
Bill Ayers and Barack Obama shared an office. Ayers’ Small Schools Workshop, the one Obama directed all that money too is located at 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607 [Note the link is to a year 2000 version of their website]. Here’s a screengrab from the website’s footer:
In 1998, the address for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, where Obama presumably worked, was 115 S. Sangamon Street, Chicago, Illinios 60607. Here’s a copy of their 1998 tax return with that address:
The CAC moved to a new address sometime in 1999 or 2000, but the shared office probably persisted for at least three years. I can’t say for sure because 1998 is the earliest tax information available online. [Correction: I can say for sure that they shared the same building for the years 1995-1998. Here is a 1995 progress report from the CAC with the same address.]
Now remember, the NY Times described Obama and Ayers as having “crossed paths.” Ben LaBolt, Obama’s spokesman said:
Mr. LaBolt said the men first met in 1995 through the education project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and have encountered each other occasionally in public life or in the neighborhood.
I’m going to suggest that two guys working in the same building for a period of years probably crossed paths pretty often. For all we know, they had lunch together on a daily basis. Maybe, in an effort at conservation, they were even carpool buddies. After all, Ayers is a guy from Obama’s neighborhood.
Would someone at the Times like to contact Mr. LaBolt for a follow-up?
Update: Made the correction above. Also, Obama was a state senator from 1996-2004. However, he still likely spent some significant time at the Sangamon street address, especially in 1995. But even after his election he would presumably be working on his CAC duties at the Sangamon office, not from some other location.
According to this letter dated 1995, Obama’s office was on the 3rd floor:
And according to this memo dated 1996, Small Schools Workshop was also on the 3rd floor:
Do you think maybe Obama and Bill Ayers ran into each other once in a while?
How about living about a block apart when Obama was at Columbia?
AAAAAHHHHH! Sorry. Just preemptive screaming that this will never make the MSM.
Is the chimney part of the building or part of another building behind it?
The building itself looks maybe 100 years old. Could have been a factory at one time.
You hit the nail on the head.
The chimney is part of it. It’s tho old Eye and Ear Infirmary building. You can read more about it and see additional photos here:
http://www.preservationchicago.org/chicago7/2005/eyeear.pdf
I suggest they first crossed paths in the halls and clubs at Columbia between 1981 and 1983.
Communists like rats feed in the same places.
Post 65 link shows some great detail on the building slated for demolition.
Here’s the deal.
All connections can be traced through academia - the education elite.
That includes the media which consists of so-called “journalists” trained by Marxist professors in places like Columbia University; trained in advanced ADVOCACY journalism; the philosophy of journalism that believes you cannot be an objective, uninvolved observer, but must use your reporting to advocate for: the poor, a minority, women, oppressed people of the world, etc. etc.
So, there is no secret as to why, after the longest primary in the history of the Democrats, it is only now, as we kept pushing, that the dear one’s true and deepest affiliations are coming out. No secret at all. You can be totally sure that most of what is revelation to most Americans, and what concerns most Americans, was completely known by the major players in the media all along.
I guess the NYT missed this in their Ayers/Obama story.
Maybe Peggy Noonan and David Brooks will explain to America why this isn’t a story.
“This is all so silly. Obama had to get to know Ayers when Ayers wrote Obama’s books. But all this attention on Ayers distracts us from the fact that Obama is going to terrorize us far worse than Ayers did. Ayers was just a warm up for Obama.”
I think it was more like 1988 when Michele worked at the same law firm as Ayers wife, Bernadine Dohrn.
Just amazing, great post.
Thanks for the ping LucyT. This is something that transforms Obama into something solid enough that we can sink a drill bit into and actually leave a distinct hole.
AYers wrote Obama’s first book. Without a doubt.
Just saw the other thread on Obama’s parking tickets.
Someone should check parking tickets around the address. Maybe Ayers and Obama both have some from around there.
Oops.
Sorry. Trying to post a google map image of the address:
Thanks LucyT.
Did Obama really say THAT??
Vanity | 10/18/08 | nully
Posted on 10/18/2008 3:02:52 PM PDT by null and void
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109098/posts
Annenberg Foundation also manages Factcheck.org - the only place Obama cites in his smearthefacts.org website.
Here:
Barack Obama’s review of William Ayers’ book
In December 1997, Barack Obama gave William Ayers’ book on juvenile criminals a rave review.
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=64
google maps has a street view. If it is accurate, it is about 4 windows wide and 4 stories high.
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