Ayers and Obama in their CAC career were able to hand out over $100,000,000 in disbursements. Ostensibly these were to improve learning performance in schoolchildren, although the bottom line report at the end of the campaign showed no such improvement.
So what were they up to, exactly? Certainly political organization and agitation, in opposition to the elected Chicago School Board’s administration. But a reading of their organizational goals leaves the reader gasping in admiration for the glib verbose clouds of meanlingless drivel and wafty considerations – as if the language deliberately concealed the smallest hint of specific actions the CAC shelled out to support.
We are therefore left to wonder, who benefited? Certainly not the schoolchildren. Nor the elected school board, which was forced to spend significant resources in political defenses against the enormous Obama-Ayers war chest.
Most likely, the beneficiaries were Obama and Ayers themselves, in that those mighty resources enabled them to organize and maintain a very large political network, useful to them in fields far beyond education. One pinpoint view is that of Ayers’s endowment of the Maoist Klonsky – and how many other radicals buried within local groups?
I would conclude that Obama’s proposal for a Federal do-gooder corps, funded in parity with the US military, is his logical next step after his pilot project with the CAC. If a hundred million organized the radicals well enough to float Obama’s political career, think how such Federal resources might be used as a slush fund to endow hundreds of thousands of ‘activists’ in overwhelming the democratic process in every urban center of the country. Hint: they wouldn’t be Republicans.
