Kurt Nicklas
2008-10-14 11:11:07 UTC
Why Ayers Matters
By Michael Reagan
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, October 14, 2008
To listen to the Obama spin-masters you’d think that the McCain
campaign’s questioning of their candidate’s association with
unrepentant terrorist bomber Bill Ayers is a smear tactic falsely
elevating a casual relationship between the two men into one where
they worked together in promoting Ayers’ far-left goals.
Their reaction to the continuing revelations that disprove that claim
is one of sheer panic -- and they have a good reason to be scared
witless that any in-depth probe of what went on between the two
comrades will reveal Obama’s true colors -- all of them dark red!
If the truth becomes better known -- and it will if the Ayers issue is
doggedly pursued -- it will be clear that Obama was not only deeply
immersed the fetid swamp of Chicago’s far-left political scene, but
was from the very beginning of his career carefully groomed by the
city’s socialist left to follow the path he’s on now in his quest for
the presidency of the United States.
Giving credence to the charge that Obama was “groomed by an older
generation of radical leftists for insertion into the American
political process, trading on good looks, brains, educational
pedigree, and the desire of the vast majority of the voting public to
right the historical racial wrongs of the [past]” as the American
Thinkers’ Thomas Lifson has written:
Obama benefited from association with the socialist New Party,
described by Lifson as “a radical left organization, established in
1992, to amalgamate far-left groups and push the United States into
socialism by forcing the Democratic Party to the left.” A March 22,
1998 article by John Nichols in These Times revealed, “After six
years, the party has built what is arguably the most sophisticated
left-leaning political operation the country has seen since the
decline of the Farmer-Labor, Progressive and Non-Partisan League
groupings of the early part of the century.”
Obama has been allied with ACORN and their Project Vote, the radical
leftist group now charged with massive vote fraud aimed at electing
Barack Obama president of the United States. Obama has long been
directly involved with ACORN. An article by Toni Foulkes of ACORN,
“Case Study: Chicago-The Barack Obama Campaign,” which appeared in
Social Policy magazine in 2004, Foulkes revealed ACORN noticed Obama
when he was organizing on the far south side of the city with the
Developing Communities Project. Wrote Foulks: “He was a very good
organizer. When he returned from law school, we asked him to help us
with a lawsuit to challenge the state of Illinois’ refusal to abide by
the National Voting Rights Act … Obama took the case, known as ACORN
vs. Edgar … and we won. Obama then went on to run a voter registration
project with Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol
Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered
50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about
5000 of them). Since then, we have invited Obama to our leadership
training sessions to run the session on power every year, and, as a
result, many of our newly developing leaders got to know him before he
ever ran for office.”
Obama and Bill Ayers were close associates for years, going back as
far as 1995 if not earlier. According to CNN: “A review of board
minutes and records by CNN show Obama crossed paths repeatedly with
Ayers at board meetings of the Annenberg Challenge Project. The
Annenberg Foundation gave the project a $50 million grant to match
local private funds to improve schools… Obama was asked to serve as
the board chairman in 1995… For seven years, Ayers and Obama -- among
many others -- worked on funding for education projects, including
some projects advocated by Ayers ... The board, for example, gave
hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bill Ayers' small schools project…
The funding, according to records… CNN reviewed, came directly from
the Annenberg foundation which Obama chaired. While working on the
Annenberg project, Obama and Ayers also served together on a second
charitable foundation, the Woods Fund.”
No wonder the Obama campaign wants the Ayers connection to be off-
limits.
By Michael Reagan
FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, October 14, 2008
To listen to the Obama spin-masters you’d think that the McCain
campaign’s questioning of their candidate’s association with
unrepentant terrorist bomber Bill Ayers is a smear tactic falsely
elevating a casual relationship between the two men into one where
they worked together in promoting Ayers’ far-left goals.
Their reaction to the continuing revelations that disprove that claim
is one of sheer panic -- and they have a good reason to be scared
witless that any in-depth probe of what went on between the two
comrades will reveal Obama’s true colors -- all of them dark red!
If the truth becomes better known -- and it will if the Ayers issue is
doggedly pursued -- it will be clear that Obama was not only deeply
immersed the fetid swamp of Chicago’s far-left political scene, but
was from the very beginning of his career carefully groomed by the
city’s socialist left to follow the path he’s on now in his quest for
the presidency of the United States.
Giving credence to the charge that Obama was “groomed by an older
generation of radical leftists for insertion into the American
political process, trading on good looks, brains, educational
pedigree, and the desire of the vast majority of the voting public to
right the historical racial wrongs of the [past]” as the American
Thinkers’ Thomas Lifson has written:
Obama benefited from association with the socialist New Party,
described by Lifson as “a radical left organization, established in
1992, to amalgamate far-left groups and push the United States into
socialism by forcing the Democratic Party to the left.” A March 22,
1998 article by John Nichols in These Times revealed, “After six
years, the party has built what is arguably the most sophisticated
left-leaning political operation the country has seen since the
decline of the Farmer-Labor, Progressive and Non-Partisan League
groupings of the early part of the century.”
Obama has been allied with ACORN and their Project Vote, the radical
leftist group now charged with massive vote fraud aimed at electing
Barack Obama president of the United States. Obama has long been
directly involved with ACORN. An article by Toni Foulkes of ACORN,
“Case Study: Chicago-The Barack Obama Campaign,” which appeared in
Social Policy magazine in 2004, Foulkes revealed ACORN noticed Obama
when he was organizing on the far south side of the city with the
Developing Communities Project. Wrote Foulks: “He was a very good
organizer. When he returned from law school, we asked him to help us
with a lawsuit to challenge the state of Illinois’ refusal to abide by
the National Voting Rights Act … Obama took the case, known as ACORN
vs. Edgar … and we won. Obama then went on to run a voter registration
project with Project VOTE in 1992 that made it possible for Carol
Moseley Braun to win the Senate that year. Project VOTE delivered
50,000 newly registered voters in that campaign (ACORN delivered about
5000 of them). Since then, we have invited Obama to our leadership
training sessions to run the session on power every year, and, as a
result, many of our newly developing leaders got to know him before he
ever ran for office.”
Obama and Bill Ayers were close associates for years, going back as
far as 1995 if not earlier. According to CNN: “A review of board
minutes and records by CNN show Obama crossed paths repeatedly with
Ayers at board meetings of the Annenberg Challenge Project. The
Annenberg Foundation gave the project a $50 million grant to match
local private funds to improve schools… Obama was asked to serve as
the board chairman in 1995… For seven years, Ayers and Obama -- among
many others -- worked on funding for education projects, including
some projects advocated by Ayers ... The board, for example, gave
hundreds of thousands of dollars to Bill Ayers' small schools project…
The funding, according to records… CNN reviewed, came directly from
the Annenberg foundation which Obama chaired. While working on the
Annenberg project, Obama and Ayers also served together on a second
charitable foundation, the Woods Fund.”
No wonder the Obama campaign wants the Ayers connection to be off-
limits.