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October 19, 2008 By Fausta

Zombietime: Obama reviews Ayers’s book, and The Left’s Big Blunder

I’ll be out most of today, but here’s two must reads from Zombietime:

Barack Obama’s review of William Ayers’ book

“A searing and timely account of the juvenile court system, and the courageous individuals who rescue hope from despair.”

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The Obama campaign would have you believe Ayers is just a guy “who lives down the street”,

[Obama spokesman] 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.

when in fact,

  • Bernardine Dorn worked in the same law office as Michelle Obama in 1987
  • Ayers hosted a crucial meet-the-candidate event in their Hyde Park neighborhood home in 1995 where Obama launched his political carreer.
  • Obama and Ayers shared an address for three years and both their offices were on the third floor of 115 S. Sangamon St. in Chicago (h/t Dr Sanity) as did Maoist Mike Klonsky
  • As I posted before

    There are letters going back to 1994 demonstrating that Ayers had a deciding voice on who was on the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Steve Diamond, who has that evidence, says

    I was interviewed at length by the New York Times for this story – in fact, this was the third Times reporter to interview me about the Ayers/Obama relationship – and I provided the Times with the letters I discuss here. They are not mentioned in the story at all.

    But the Obama/Ayers links weren’t limited to the CAC. Just One Minute:

    And the so-called “Fact Check” at the Obama website does not disclose that Obama and Ayers worked together on a failed education reform project from 1995 to 2001, and
    had probably first teamed up on education reform in 1987.

    Ayers and Obama effectively worked on two political projects together over a period of almost ten years.

Face it: OBAMA IS LYING ABOUT AYERS. Obama has been closely associated with an unrepentant terrorist whose aim is to destroy American democracy.

When you have a chance, also read Zombie’s The Left’s Big Blunder.

UPDATE
Check out Ace: The building where Ayers, Klonsky & Obama had an office on the third floor for THREE years wasn’t any bigger than 50 x 50.

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  1. Chet Miller says

    October 19, 2008 at 11:47 pm

    “The Obama campaign would have you believe Ayers is just a guy “who lives down the street”,”

    They would? Then why do they acknowledge on fightthesmears.com that Ayers hosted a coffee for Obama? Why have they acknowledged the two have served on boards together?

    “Bernardine Dorn worked in the same law office as Michelle Obama in 1987”

    Horrors

    “Ayers hosted a crucial meet-the-candidate event in their Hyde Park neighborhood home in 1995 where Obama launched his political carreer”

    There was nothing crucial about it, and this was not the launch of Obama’s political career.

    “Obama and Ayers shared an address for three years and both their offices were on the third floor of 115 S. Sangamon St. in Chicago (h/t Dr Sanity) as did Maoist Mike Klonsky”

    More horrors!

    An Ayers letter from 1994 “demonstrates,” they “probably” teamed up in 1987, although you don’t back this up at all.

    Face it: OBAMA IS LYING ABOUT AYERS.

    Face it: You’ve got nothing here…but an embarassing blog.

  2. whatfreshhell says

    October 20, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    By the time Obama met Bill Ayers, it’s clear Ayers was regarded as a respectable citizen, even by conservatives.

    In 1995, Bill Ayers (with two others) won the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and was awarded $49.5 million dollars by the conservative Annenberg Foundation. The Foundation had been set up by Walter Hubert Annenberg – who had been appointed as the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom by President Nixon and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Reagan. The check was presented at a ceremony in Chicago by Wallis Annenberg, daughter of Ambassador Annenberg and his wife Leonore and current VP of the Annenberg Foundation. Leonore Annenberg was appointed Chief of Protocol of the United States by President Reagan and is the current president of the Annenberg Foundation.

    In 1997, the City of Chicago awarded Ayers its Citizen of the Year Award for his work on the Annenberg Challenge Project.

  3. whatfreshhell says

    October 20, 2008 at 6:32 pm

    Obama served on the founding Board of Directors of the Chicago Arrenberg Challenge project, set up 1995. The project dealt with the reform of public schooling, as required by the Annenberg Foundation.

    If Obama was “palling around” with the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, so were the directors of the Annenberg Foundation and the following other people who, like Obama, served on the same CAC board with Ayers:

    Patricia Albjerg Graham, currently on the Board of Directors of Apache Corporation – the Texas oil and gas corporation – and professor of education history at Harvard University.

    Stanley O Ikenberry, former President of the University of illinois.

    Arnold R Weber, former President of Northwestern University and the University of Colorado. Weber has served on the boards of many corporations including Tribune Co., Burlington Northern Santa Fe Inc., PepsiCo Inc., John Deere & Company, Aon Corp. and Inland Steel.

    Ray Romero, vice-president and general counsel of Ameritech.

    Susan Crown, daughter of Lester Crown, “perennial member of the Forbes 400 list”.

    Scott C. Smith, president, CEO and publisher of the Chicago Tribune; former chairman of the South Florida Annenberg Challenge.

    Susan Blankenbaker Noyes, daughter of Republican former Indiana state senator Virginia Murphy Blankenbaker.

    The current president, chairman and sole director of the Annenberg Foundation is Ambassador Annenberg’s widow, Leonore Annenberg. Leonore Annenberg was made Chief of Protocol of the United States by President Reagan. She is a McCain supporter.

  4. Fausta says

    October 20, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    Whatfreshhell,
    This conservative will never regard as “respectable” an unrepentant terrorist who lectures on how to bring about the demise of capitalism with Hugo Chavez at this side.

    And Annenberg, Crown, Smith, et al, set bombs and boasted about being guilty as sin, free as a bird… when?

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