http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/he_lied_about_bill_ayers.html
McCain cranks out some false and misleading attacks on Obama's connection to a 1960s radical.
McCain says in an Internet ad that the two "ran a radical 'education' foundation" in Chicago.
After what appears exhaustive research Factcheck has debunked the McCain statement. Or have they. They failed to mention a grant went to Michael Klonsky, a known Chinese communist, and ACORN a relatively radical organization. Also they fail to mention that Ayers mentions Obama in his book.
It is curious that an article reserched as deeply as this one didn't bring up these points.
Also they mention the Governor of Illinois and Mayor Daily as if they were substantial character references, which at best is dubious.
I assume they knew these facts and intentionally didn't mention anything they thought wasnt common Knowledge. I have read the Chicago Anneberg Challenge papers and two people named Ayers remained on the board, and funds were given to Acorn, Klonsky as well as Ayers.
The statement that the CAC was "Mainstream" is curious because all they did was funnel monies to groups that would "Partner" with schools. You really have to follow the money trail to establish the point. WHICH FactCheck did not. This was the layered approach Ayers presented when applying for grant. This insulated the board from their failure to produce any results.
Then is it "Mainstream" education to spend $150,000,000 without any discernable results? You bet, that's education in Chicago.
Abolutely nothing was accomplished with the $150million distributed by CAC (50 from Anneberg with funds and 100mill from matching contributors, one the Chicago School system run by Daily.So Obama partakes in a failed project. He just handed out the money to people who accomplished nothing. Or did they? I'll bet they trained a lot of community organizers. Where are your kids?
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ACORN's a radical organization? Wow, here are the facts: ACORN paid people to register voters. These people were lazy, so they just looked up some names in a phone book or made some up. So there's been fraud perpetrated probably on ACORN if they paid these individuals and they actually didn't do registrations. How are voter registration organizations radical? Furthermore, there's ample proof that most of much of this is itself exaggerated, and ACORN isn't even advertising Obama's campaign. And how was the Chicago Annenberg Challenge radical? The founding board of directors included: Patricia Albjerg Graham,
Barack Obama, civil rights attorney at Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland; lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School; member of the board of directors of the Joyce Foundation and the Woods Fund of Chicago; winner, Crain's Chicago Business 40 Under 40 award, 1993; former president of the Harvard Law Review (1990–1991); former executive director of the Developing Communities Project (June 1985–May 1988), Stanley O. Ikenberry, president of the University of Illinois (1979–1995); member of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago (1983–1995); former professor of education (1965–1971) and senior vice president (1971–1979) of Pennsylvania State University, Arnold R. Weber, president of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago (1995–1999); member of the board of directors of the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial and the Tribune Company; former president of Northwestern University (1985–1994) and the University of Colorado (1980–1985); professor of labor economics and friend and colleague of George P. Shultz at MIT, the University of Chicago, and in the Nixon administration
Raymond G. Romero, vice president and general counsel of Ameritech; Chicago School Finance Authority board member (appointed in 1992 by Governor Jim Edgar); candidate in the 1996 Democratic primary for the 5th Congressional District of Illinois; winner, Crain's Chicago Business 40 Under 40 award, 1991; former Illinois Commerce Commission commissioner (appointed in 1985 by Governor Jim Thompson); former civil rights attorney as Midwest regional director of MALDEF where he was lead counsel for Hispanic plaintiffs in the 1985 Chicago ward remap, Wanda White, executive director of the Community Workshop on Economic Development; former policy director of the Women's Self-Employment Project; former deputy commissioner of economic development under Chicago Mayors Washington, Sawyer and Daley
Susan M. Crown, president of the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial; vice president of Henry Crown & Company; daughter of Lester Crown, Handy L. Lindsey, Jr., executive director (1988–1997) then president (1997–2003) of the Field Foundation of Illinois; outgoing chairman of the Donors Forum of Chicago; former associate director of the Chicago Community Trust (1986–1988)
Yes, in 13 states and 10,000's of cases ACORN workers took advantage of ACORN. ACORN has no accountability. If they were Wal-marts employees scratching your cars in the parking lot or any other group of emplyees seriously direlect noone would propose the employer had no responsibility.
ACORN is radical, they send storm troopers to banks, demonstrate outside peoples homes etc. etc. ON THE RECORD.
CAC is in question because only by misguiding the monies to alternate schemes of education, such as social engineering, did they manage to spend $150,000,000 and not raise anyones reading or math skills. THEIR OWN REPORTS SAY NO DISCERNABLE IMPROVEMENT. What does that list of names mean to me? They didn't accomplish anything. They chose to take an opportunity to improve Chicago education and turned it into another failed socialistic experimental program. Success has it's own rewards. To here you tell it so does failure.
If they had devoted $1,000 dollars per student for special tutoring classes say with 5-10 students to improve reading and math skills 150,000 students would be better off. How hard is that?
October 15, 2008 9:04 PM
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