Things That Make You Go-WTF???

Postman: Ayers family put 'foreigner' Obama through school
Claims he met young Barack who boasted he'd someday be president

This is a very long piece but it should be read all the way to the end.

Jack Cashill on Sarah's Co-Author

Palin co-author probed, Obama's ignored

Posted: October 02, 20091:00 am Eastern
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Politico's Ben Smith found it newsworthy that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin chose a "partisan evangelical" Christian to co-author her upcoming instant best-seller, but somehow he and the mainstream media have decided that serious evidence suggesting an unrepentant Marxist terrorist had a primary role in President Obama's highly acclaimed literary memoir is of no interest.

Not a single mainstream reviewer or political editor has so much as mentioned the controversy over authorship of "Dreams from My Father" that was resurrected last week when a major new book reported Obama sought the literary assistance of William Ayers, founder of the radical Weather Underground group, points out WND columnist Jack Cashill.

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Cashill observes, in a column yesterday, that scores of major media organs have reviewed Andersen's book, including CBS News, USA Today, the Chicago Sun Times, the Seattle Times, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Chicago Tribune and the Telegraph of London. Yet none have mentioned the author's detailed narrative about Ayers collaboration with Obama.

In a new column today, Cashill comment's on Smith's story yesterday in Politico about Palin's co-author, Lynn Vincent, a former editor for the evangelical World magazine.

Smith writes that Palin's "most consequential choice since leaving the Alaska governor's mansion may be her co-author – a staunch conservative, devoted evangelical Christian, and intensely partisan Republican from far, far outside the Beltway."

Vincent, Smith notes early in his piece, was co-writer of a memoir by controversial Gen. William Boykin and co-authored "Donkey Cons," a book that describes the Democratic Party since its inception as "pro-gangster" and the "party of treason and subversion."

Cashill comments: "It seems to me that having a collaborator who is a self-professed communist and unrepentant bomb thrower is more newsworthy than having a collaborator who is a Christian conservative with no known rap sheet."

The Fort Dix Dance

Your parents and my parents were right. You are known by the company you keep.

While Barack Obama showed poor judgment by following the Black Liberation Theology taught by Reverend Wright, he did so because of either religious reasons (leftist thought does tend to be a religion) or a cynical search for street credibility. Barack Obama also associated with Tony Resko. While deplorable, Obama IS a creature of Chicago politics.

But there is no excuse for associating with people like this:


Gen'l Powell, stated in his endorsement, downplayed Obama's association. He said that he dislikes the emphasis on Ayers in McCains's campaign, because it was such a "limited relationship." So, because: Obama is reaching out and being more inclusive", according to Powell, Gen'l Powell is ready to overlook all of Obama's faults and troublesome progressive ideas. He's ready to forgive and forget all of Obama's shady associations.

While, then-Major Powell was risking his life and defending his country's interests, terrorists were trying to kill his fellow soldiers back home at Fort Dix. And now, General (retired) Powell is endorsing a man that supports scum like this.

For shame.

The Ad 0bama Doesn't Want You To See

Back To Obamamania

Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?

The problem of Barack Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers will not go away. Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn were terrorists for the notorious Weather Underground during the turbulent 1960s, turning fugitive when a bomb — designed to kill army officers in New Jersey — accidentally exploded in a New York townhouse. Prior to that, Ayers and his cohorts succeeded in bombing the Pentagon. Ayers and Dohrn remain unrepentant for their terrorist past. Ayers was pictured in a 2001 article for Chicago magazine, stomping on an American flag, and told the New York Times just before 9/11 that the notion of the United States as a just and fair and decent place “makes me want to puke.” Although Obama actually launched his political career at an event at Ayers’s and Dohrn’s home, Obama has dismissed
Ayers as just “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” and “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.” For his part, Ayers refuses to discuss his relationship with Obama.
Although the press has been notably lax about pursuing the matter, the full story of the Obama-Ayers relationship calls the truth of Obama’s account seriously into question. When Obama made his first run for political office, articles in both the Chicago Defender and the Hyde Park Herald featured among his qualifications his position as chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation where Ayers was a founder and guiding force.
Obama assumed the Annenberg board chairmanship only months before his first run for office, and almost certainly received the job at the behest of Bill Ayers. During Obama’s time as Annenberg board chairman, Ayers’s own education projects received substantial funding. Indeed, during its first year, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge struggled with significant concerns about possible conflicts of interest. With a writ to aid Chicago’s public schools, the Annenberg challenge played a deeply political role in Chicago’s education wars, and as Annenberg board chairman, Obama clearly aligned himself with Ayers’s radical views on education issues. With Obama heading up the board and Ayers heading up the other key operating body of the Annenberg Challenge, the two would necessarily have had a close working relationship for years (therefore “exchanging ideas on a regular basis”). So when Ayers and Dorhn hosted that kickoff for the first Obama campaign, it was not a random happenstance, but merely further evidence of a close and ongoing political partnership. Of course, all of this clearly contradicts Obama’s dismissal of the significance of his relationship with Ayers.
This much we know from the public record, but a large cache of documents housed in the Richard J. Daley Library at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), is likely to flesh out the story. That document cache contains the internal files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. The records in question are extensive, consisting of 132 boxes, containing 947 file folders, a total of about 70 linear feet of material. Not only would these files illuminate the working relationship between Obama and Bill Ayers, they would also provide significant insight into a web of ties linking Obama to various radical organizations, including Obama-approved foundation gifts to political allies.
Obama’s leadership style and abilities are also sure to be illuminated by the documents in question.

Cover-Up?

Unfortunately, I don’t yet have access to the documents. The Special Collections section of the Richard J. Daley Library agreed to let me read them, but just before I boarded my flight to Chicago, the top library officials mysteriously intervened to bar access. Circumstances strongly suggest the likelihood that Bill Ayers himself may have played a pivotal role in this denial. Ayers has long taught at UIC, where the Chicago Annenberg Challenge offices were housed, rent-free. Ayers likely arranged for the files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to be housed in the UIC library, and may well have been consulted during my unsuccessful struggle to gain access to the documents. Let me, then, explain in greater detail what the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) records are, and how I have been blocked from seeing them.

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