- All I hear is more sleay guilt by association claims.
No, Javelina, that’s just the only thing getting through the tin-foil, leftist, knee-jerk filter you have clamped on your head.
There are several interconnecting layers of issues involved here – all of which point to Obama’s unfitness to run for school board treasurer, let alone President of the United States. The complexity may be above your intellectual pay grade, but here’s a breakdown:
1. The scandal is the fact that documentation on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was initially to be made available to Stanley Kurtz for research purposes. Then, when it became apparent that the information might be embarrassing to Obama, the custodians of those documents suddenly did a one-eighty. Days have now passed during which no one can know for sure whether the documents have been preserved in their original state, given the high stakes involved. More to come on that score Tuesday. Remember: it’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up.
2. Obama and Ayers weren’t merely “associated”. They worked closely together on at least two publicly and privately funded projects, one of which was the CAC – developed by Ayers and Chaired by Obama. This close association demonstrates their like-minded sentiments regarding (at least) education “reform” (see below). Ayers’ unrepentant attitude regarding his terrorist activities in the 60s – expressed as recently as September 11, 2001 (while CAC was underway and Americans were dying at the hands of terrorists not unlike Ayers) – begs the question of what other sentiments the two share.
3. The CAC chaired by Obama was a flat failure, as clearly indicated in the project’s Final Report. Since this relatively small public project is the one and ONLY time Obama has ever held a position of executive authority, examination of that failure goes to his fitness to lead a nation of 300M+ people and the myriad, complex issues involved – both domestically and abroad. It’s clear from the CAC failure that Obama is not fit for the position of POTUS.
4. Tens of millions of dollars were distributed by CAC and no clear paper trail has been produced as yet to indicate how and to whom, by whom. As the program was a failure, this naturally raises the question of who received the money, and on whose authority. Obama, as Chair of the program, is the mostly likely individual to have directed or approved the distribution of these tens of millions of dollars.
5. Obama’s support of Ayers’ program is clear evidence that he supports Ayers’ philosophy on education, that is, that public education should NOT be a platform for teaching science, math, civics, literature, philosophy or history, but rather that it should be a medium for implementing Marxist revolutionary Change. Ayers has never made any effort to hide this firm belief. On the contrary – he has gone as far away as Venezuela to promote it as recently as 2006.
Marxist thug Che Guevara promised… “Change”. It’s no coincidence that this murdering scum is worshiped by Ayers (who named his son Chesa after him). It’s no coincidence that Obama’s campaign slogan is… “Change”.
