The font of all things Ayers and education is the Global Labor and Politics blog (http://globallabor.blogspot.com/) which is doing more than the entire MSM put together times a hundred to get at what happened at the Annenberg Challenge, where BHO and Ayers worked together hammer and tongs (but he’s just this guy from the neighborhood).
I don’t have the time or interest to delve into every little bit of it,but it seems clear enough to me that Ayers and Obam were attempting to hijack the Chicago public education system in a rather bald-faced attempt to turn it into a kind of Maoist indoctrination camp (even more so than it probably already is). Along the way they greased many a palm with the endless millions of dollars in contributions they received.
Now the Sainted One has more in his sights, of course. Why not put ALL of America’s youth into mind-shaping camps? And by gum, he’s proposed exactly that already, along with a Citizens Brigade with ALL THE POWER OF THE MILITARY, I reckon to keep the proles in line if they get a bit snippy when Junior comes home and rats out mom and dad for leaving a can out of the recycling.
This guy is so radical it belies belief. He’s exactly like the crazies that prattle on at Pacifica Radio and other outlets of hard-core Marxism. But the soft Left won’t even admit the possibility of this. In a recent New York magazine, Kurt Andersen was writing about the candidates. Kurt is a great barometer of soft Leftie opinion. Always ignorant, always blissfully sure of himself and not even remotely aware that there could even BE another opinion on something. And he writes the following:
Half the anti-Obama e-mails I received from readers last spring earnestly referred to him as a “Marxist.” On the ridiculousness scale, this seemed somewhere between Colbert’s “secret Muslim” mock-slur and the idea that the Bushes are shape-shifting reptoids…
Ahh yes, BHO being a Marxist is as likely as the Bushes being space aliens. And he really believes this!
How do you combat this kind of ignorance?
