Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Obama Brushes Off Terrorist Ties, But CNN Digs Deeper & Finds There's More to the Story

[credit where due]

... Ayers, however, was far from being just another guy. He co-founded the organization Weather Undergroud [recommended if you're unfamiliar], which took credit for multiple bombings and targeted the Pentagon and the Capitol. Ayers' case was later dropped due to technicalities, and he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois [I'm shocked] in Chicago. AS the CNN piece revealed, Ayers may no longer use force, but he is still a [extreme] radical... [snip]

According to CNN, Obama was "recruited as the chair" of Ayers' organization aimed at bringing the Annenberg project schools in order to improve the system: "For seven years, Bill Ayers and Obama, among others, worked on funding for education projects including some 'experiments' supported by Ayers."

CNN also found that Ayers and Obama served on the board of a second organization, the Woods fund. "Among its receipients: Jeremiah Wright's Trinity Church where Obama attended and a children and family justice center where Ayers' wife worked."

The CNN investigation concludes:

"The chairmanship of the $100 million Annenberg board helped volt him from southside Chicago lawyer to political player and that too has another connection to Bill Ayers.” Shortly after joining the Annenberg board in 1995, a female state senator appointed Barack Obama as her apparent political heir. “Where was that introduction made?” CNN questioned? Simple: “in the home of the 60s radicals Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn."
[i.e., it's not a case of simple acquaintance; these folks were ideological allies and activists with Obama, over years, and that disturbs me greatly {Obama's 'he's just a neighbor' response doesn't speak well of his character, either}]

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