Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools (Kurtz returns)

Wall Street Journal ^ | 9/23/08 | Stanley Kurtz

[NoobRep]

Obama and Ayers Pushed Radicalism On Schools By STANLEY KURTZ

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. [Obama and Ayers] AP

Bill Ayers.

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.

[NoobRep]

Kurtz returns...

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=radicalism

[Thomas W.]

“I did not have sex with that man, Mr. Ayers.”

Liar, liar, Barry.

Pants on fire.

[centurion316]

Mr. Obama has clearly been lying about his association with Mr. Ayers and his involvement with the CAC. Makes one wonder what other lies has he been telling. Its hard to avoid jumping to the conclusion that his whole life is a lie and a deception.

[snowrip]

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.

CAC translated Mr. Ayers's radicalism into practice. Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with "external partners," which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn).

Mr. Obama once conducted "leadership training" seminars with Acorn, and Acorn members also served as volunteers in Mr. Obama's early campaigns. External partners like the South Shore African Village Collaborative and the Dual Language Exchange focused more on political consciousness, Afrocentricity and bilingualism than traditional education.

Email to all your liberal friends/enemies. O stands for Zero... and Obama is a communist.

[nathanbedford]

Not one American in a thousand will have been made aware of this story by the election unless Obama does something really foolish like take on this report directly.

All of this will be washed away in the financial crisis. Even without that crisis, the only way this story would have gotten traction is if the candidate himself pushed it and McCain has little stomach for that sort of work.

We Freepers read these stories and react to them and then on election Day we cannot understand why any part of the country would have truck with the likes of Obama. Ask your friends and neighbors next week who are not political junkies like we are, without leading them, what they know of this story. You know what the answer will be.

These neighbors vote.

[syriacus]

Very informative column. Thanks for posting it!

Mr. Ayers's defenders claim that he has redeemed himself with public-spirited education work.

Without repentance, there is no redemption.

[downwdims]

You make great points. However do you really want someone with ties like this, and a track record like this, submitting budgets to congress and endorsing a radical failed agenda.

Plus this is one of the few times The 0bama ever actually lead or ran anything that wasn’t for elected office

[wtc911]

Perhaps because of where we live there are a lot of mindless obama voters in my world. Many are students (daughters' friends) but many are successful white collar types too.

For months I have asked...

Do you know who Reala Odinga is?

Do you know who Khalid al-mansour is?

Do you know what the Annenberg foundation is?

The answer is always "no". But I know that even if they knew these issues in depth they would still close their eyes and vote for "change".

[itsthejourney]

Mr. Obama has clearly been lying about his association with Mr. Ayers

The alphabets have been lying by omission about his association with Ayers and others.

[ConservativeGreek]

Has Kurtz or anyone disclosed if Barry’s Chairmanship was a paid position? If so, how much?

[freespirited]

Mr. Obama has clearly been lying about his association with Mr. Ayers and his involvement with the CAC. Makes one wonder what other lies has he been telling.

Exactly. In fact, you might wonder how it is that a kid who grows up in the paradise of Hawaii and choses a college in LA decides to transfer to Columbia U at a time when NYC was a hellish place to live.

There is speculation that he had met Ayers while at Occidental and transferred to Columbia because Ayers was there. Who knows but nothing would surprise me.

[Elle Bee]

and in context with comrade Davis as a mentor in his formative years ......

Who is Frank Marshall Davis?

Former Terrorists Bill Ayre and Bernadine Dohrn Involved in Key Pro-Obama Organization

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[Harley]

That’s right Barack you’re not guilty by association with Ayers, you’re guilty by participation.