GUILT BY PARTICIPATION - Republican OBAMA attack ad

Barack Obama has tried to make voters think he barely know Bill Ayers, a confessed and unrepentant terrorist of the 1970s. Its important to be clear on why the connection matters beyond Obamas judgment in choice of associates.

Ayers and Obama collaborated in something called the Annenberg Challenge after a $50 million donation from the Annenberg Foundation (along with many millions from other donors) intended to improve Chicagos schools. Ayers founded the Chicago Annenberg Challenge; Obama served as board chairman for four years after 1995 and a board member for two years after that. Ayers was co-chairman of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, which cooperated in drafting Challenge policy for the first year and served as an adviser for the remaining years of the project. (Post-project evaluation found no evidence that schools had been improved.)

In effect, Obamas organization carried out the funding policies set in collaboration with the Ayers group.

But what was Ayers up to? As Sol Stern of City Journal noted, to call Ayers an education reformer, as Tom Brokaw did, is like calling Joe Stalin an agricultural reformer.

Ayers entire work in education has been an attempt to convert schools into ideological engines indoctrinating students with a far-left agenda. In 2006, he visited Venezuela and told dictator Hugo Chavez, We share the belief that education is the motor force of revolution. As a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Ayers has written that teachers must be capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation.

Obama complains that Republicans are trying to score cheap political points by bringing up Ayers. Cheap they are not. This one has not been answered: Does Obama believe the schools should advocate a leftist social justice ideology?

: The Ayers agenda:
By Boston Herald Editorial Staff

[ OCTOBER 2008 ]


CAREER First, Country SECOND : Guilty! - Republican attack ad

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Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby Poll: Obama 48%, McCain 44% : Obama's lead declines

Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama slipped back into a statistical dead heat with Republican Party nominee John McCain, but still holds the advantage over McCain, the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby likely voter poll shows.

In this latest report, McCain gained eight-tenths of a point, while Obama lost one full point.

While the worldwide economic system underwent dramatic turmoil last week, the poll shows the presidential race remarkably unchanged overall at the end of the first full week of daily tracking. Through the week, Obama has always held a small lead, as large as 6.1 points (on Saturday) and as little as 1.9 points (last Wednesday).

The rolling telephone tracking poll included a sample of 1,206 likely voters collected over the previous three 24-hour periods spanning four calendar days approximately 400 per 24-hour period from Oct. 9-12, 2008.

Obama retains a substantial 17-point lead among independent voters, but that edge receded from 21 points yesterday. In terms of securing their political bases, both Obama and McCain are doing well. Among Democrats, Obama wins 86% support, while McCain wins 88% support among Republicans.

http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1584

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[jzumbro19]

so sheeple hows that change going for ya?

[shawno66]

You can say a lot of bad things about McCain, Lord knows I have. Coward is not one of them. He would of been a bad President, no doubt. Obama is a horrible President though. Probably will go down as one of the worst ever. I voted for Ron Paul.

[candyohara]

What pisses me off most...is the lies. There are none. Which pisses me off. Damned hate filled facts. Evil provable history.

[UncleIrv]

Yeah, the '09 election probably gave us the most pathetic "lose-lose" choice in history: "Would you like a president who will destroy the country in four years, or would you like a president who will destroy the country in six months?"

But for you Ron Paul people...I'm sorry, but a delusional libertarian nut-case is not much of a third choice.

[kriefdar]

career first...becoming more and more evident each day.

[shawno66]

Yes I meant to impose terror on the current administration like they did back when.... Sorry I was trying to be facetious.

[HapaLife]

All credibility? In every national poll more than 50% of America says they are conservative in nature.

[pkat]

Dude - they're already there. They're using the constitution for toilet paper and running the country into the ground

[supergreek50]

why? They'd just have a group reunion..

[shawno66]

Maybe we should send the weather underground to the white house today....

[mrbadx19]

how's that hoax and chains working these days?