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This is the guy that UND President Charles Kuchella said had a first amendment right to be invited to UND’s campus.

1% of Americans pay 40% of the income tax.
5% of Americans pay 60% of the income tax.
10% of Americans pay 70% of the income tax.

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As someone who’s actually been forced to read Ayers’ writings by a professor, I have long believed that what is doing today is much more harmful than anything he did a an incompetent terrorist.

Ayers has spent the last 20 years trying to make our K-12 classrooms into battlegrounds and recruitment centers for Marxist revolution.

The fact is that Ayers perversion of Illinois teacher training system was taking place during the time he was most closely associated with Senator Obama, and continues to this day.

Just ask Ward Churchill: a curriculum to advance leftist politics is one of the only requirements for tenure (and getting hired in the first place).

“Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.”

The big state used to make me “pledge allegiance” to it every day when I was in grade school. talk about nationalist nonsense.

Graeme is lost.

He does this often. He’ll toddle on into a thread, throw out an off the wall comment, and then wonder why those here do not take him seriously.

The big state used to make me “pledge allegiance” to it every day when I was in grade school. talk about nationalist nonsense.

Really?  Because nobody made me say the pledge in school, and I went with a couple of kids (one was Jehova’s Witness) who didn’t say the pledge.

I think you’re just trying to make yourself out to be some sort of victim.  Certainly the pledge of allegiance has nothing to do with William Ayers.

The purpose of government shouldn’t be to do good, but simply to refrain from doing evil.

Graeme only likes “nationalist nonsense” when it comes from his buddy Hugo Chavez.

Don’t let the commie tell you otherwise. He’s big on oppressive government; America, not so much.

Courses that taught young children to feel good about being Americans are being replaced by a system that teaches them to be ashamed of being Americans. Spreading out from the schools that teach our teachers, the ideology that is promoted by William Ayers is revolutionary and anti-American. Ayers has entered his sixties, his lust for violence seems to have diminished, but his revolutionary ardor has not. Instead of planting bombs, he has been a key force in harming our schools and our children.

Ayers was a subversive when he was with the Weatehr Undergound. He is still a subversive, but does his work behind the scenes and with a broader canvass to draw upon. He no longer may lead small gang of bombers but is reaching and shaping a much larger number of people that capitalism is not only bad, but should be fought.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/04/bill_ayers_and_the_subversion.html

Obama/Ayers Update: New York Times’ Shane defends himself on Politico.com
Apparently the New York Times does not have enough news print to get the story right the first time so they have been emailing me and posting on the blogosphere in order to shore up their faulty story about the Ayers/Obama link.

I responded earlier to an email from Scott Shane, author of the story, by updating my first post on this here.

This afternoon, Shane told Politico.com the following in response to my post on his story:

As for Steve, he was great in outlining his theory—that Obama and Ayers had a relationship going back many years, to the 1980s, and that Ayers therefore must have proposed Obama for the board. He looked at the same letters I’d seen showing Ayers (and one of the two co-organizers, Anne Hallett) had discussions early on with Annenberg folks about the need for a board. Unfortunately, his theory is wrong.

What Steve didn’t do was talk to the people involved. As I report, Deborah Leff and Pat Graham give a credible account of how they chose Obama, and I have no reason to think they’re lying. Moreover, if Obama only met Ayers when Obama joined the Annenberg project, it seems hardly likely that he would have pushed for Obama’s appointment. On the other hand, since Obama already served on Leff’s board, it makes perfect sense that she would propose him.

Let me explain the facts to Mr. Shane, once again, as I did in his lengthy interview with me:

1) Ayers and Obama were both active in the successful campaign in 1988 to establish a teacher/principal watchdog group, Local School Councils, in the Chicago public schools. The LSC’s have been called a form of teacher-bashing by union activists.

2) Ayers conceived of and led the process that resulted in a $49.2 million grant from the National Annenberg Challenge.

3) As the formal agent of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative (CSRC), the working group that applied for the grant, Ayers received an inquiry in November, 1994, from Vartan Gregorian, President of Brown University about the board selection process.

4) Ayers responded by describing his personal role and noted that Patricia Graham, another foundation head, had agreed already to serve.

5) Another exchange of letters between Gregorian and MacArthur Foundation President Adele Simmons also confirms Ayers personal role in the board selection process.

6) If Ayers was not involved it would have been a violation of his fiduciary obligation to the CSRC.

7) Shane says he spoke to Deborah Leff, then head of the Joyce Foundation, about the Ayers role but she did not tell him that Ayers had no involvement.

8) The board selection process for the CAC began in November of 1994, at least, and the board first formally met in March. Obama joined Leff’s Joyce Foundation in November. Even if Leff had a formal responsibility for the selection of CAC board members, which she did not, it strains credulity to suggest that in a few weeks she would have formed the basis of an opinion on Obama such that she could convince Graham that he should not just join the CAC board, but lead it, despite his youth, lack of experience in education, and lack of contacts to raise the $110 million in matching funds the CAC would have to raise.

In addition, Leff would have had to convince Graham to join her in secretly appointing Obama to the board without discussing the idea with the individual with formal legal responsibility for the selection of the Board, Bill Ayers.

8) Of all the people Shane spoke to, only Graham, whom Ayers helped select for the CAC board, stated to Shane that Ayers had no involvement in the Obama selection. But that quote was not put in the Times story, despite its obvious importance. We do not know how Graham explains the contradiction between her recollection, 14 years later, and the written contemporaneous record of letters between Gregorian and Ayers and Gregorian and Simmons that make Ayers’ role in the board selection process clear.

From Global Labor and Politics:

Obama/Ayers Update: New York Times’ Shane defends himself on Politico.com
Apparently the New York Times does not have enough news print to get the story right the first time so they have been emailing me and posting on the blogosphere in order to shore up their faulty story about the Ayers/Obama link.

http://globallabor.blogspot.com/
I responded earlier to an email from Scott Shane, author of the story, by updating my first post on this here.

This afternoon, Shane told Politico.com the following in response to my post on his story:

As for Steve, he was great in outlining his theory—that Obama and Ayers had a relationship going back many years, to the 1980s, and that Ayers therefore must have proposed Obama for the board. He looked at the same letters I’d seen showing Ayers (and one of the two co-organizers, Anne Hallett) had discussions early on with Annenberg folks about the need for a board. Unfortunately, his theory is wrong.

What Steve didn’t do was talk to the people involved. As I report, Deborah Leff and Pat Graham give a credible account of how they chose Obama, and I have no reason to think they’re lying. Moreover, if Obama only met Ayers when Obama joined the Annenberg project, it seems hardly likely that he would have pushed for Obama’s appointment. On the other hand, since Obama already served on Leff’s board, it makes perfect sense that she would propose him.

Let me explain the facts to Mr. Shane, once again, as I did in his lengthy interview with me:

1) Ayers and Obama were both active in the successful campaign in 1988 to establish a teacher/principal watchdog group, Local School Councils, in the Chicago public schools. The LSC’s have been called a form of teacher-bashing by union activists.

2) Ayers conceived of and led the process that resulted in a $49.2 million grant from the National Annenberg Challenge.

3) As the formal agent of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative (CSRC), the working group that applied for the grant, Ayers received an inquiry in November, 1994, from Vartan Gregorian, President of Brown University about the board selection process.

4) Ayers responded by describing his personal role and noted that Patricia Graham, another foundation head, had agreed already to serve.

5) Another exchange of letters between Gregorian and MacArthur Foundation President Adele Simmons also confirms Ayers personal role in the board selection process.

6) If Ayers was not involved it would have been a violation of his fiduciary obligation to the CSRC.

7) Shane says he spoke to Deborah Leff, then head of the Joyce Foundation, about the Ayers role but she did not tell him that Ayers had no involvement.

8) The board selection process for the CAC began in November of 1994, at least, and the board first formally met in March. Obama joined Leff’s Joyce Foundation in November. Even if Leff had a formal responsibility for the selection of CAC board members, which she did not, it strains credulity to suggest that in a few weeks she would have formed the basis of an opinion on Obama such that she could convince Graham that he should not just join the CAC board, but lead it, despite his youth, lack of experience in education, and lack of contacts to raise the $110 million in matching funds the CAC would have to raise.

In addition, Leff would have had to convince Graham to join her in secretly appointing Obama to the board without discussing the idea with the individual with formal legal responsibility for the selection of the Board, Bill Ayers.

8) Of all the people Shane spoke to, only Graham, whom Ayers helped select for the CAC board, stated to Shane that Ayers had no involvement in the Obama selection. But that quote was not put in the Times story, despite its obvious importance. We do not know how Graham explains the contradiction between her recollection, 14 years later, and the written contemporaneous record of letters between Gregorian and Ayers and Gregorian and Simmons that make Ayers’ role in the board selection process clear.

Great post.Once again thank you..
Ayers has spent the last 20 years trying to make our K-12 classrooms into battlegrounds and recruitment centers for Marxist revolution.
regards,
glyco

Don’t let the commie tell you otherwise. He’s big on oppressive government; America, not so much.

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