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self-described "October surprise": It took me a while to put the pieces together, but I think I've figured out what's had the Obama camp so worried about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge records. In fact, it connects the dots between Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and Obama's own early radicalism.
The gist of what I found is that, from his position as board chair at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama was funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Jeremiah Wright. As I argue in today's piece, this puts the Wright issue back in play in this campaign."
CIESS was "linked to a network of schools within the Chicago public system" called the "South Shore African Village Collaborative." According to Kurtz, this network which was linked to an organization which got a grant from a group on whose board Obama served, "was very much a part of the Afrocentric rites of passage movement'" and also at time did events featuring guys named Jacob Carruthers and Asa Hilliard. These two, in turn, seem to have held fringy opinions somewhat similar to some of Jeremiah Wright's fringy opinions. Seriously, though, is there anyone who could withstand this kind of guilt-by-association. Obama was on the board of an outfit that gave a grant to an outfit that was linked to another outfit that organized an event where some dude spoke, and thus Obama is responsible for the dude? Does that make Heritage's board members responsible for stuff on my blog? UPDATE: I should make clear that I don't know anything about Jacob Carruthers or Asa Hilliard other than that, according to Kurtz (who's not a reliable source), they had fringey ideas. I'm told by a colleague that Hilliard, at least, was no fringe figure at all.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:20 pm Of course McCain's transition chief was a lobbyist for Saddam Hussein. Why do they even want to play the guilt by association game?
October 14th, 2008 at 4:22 pm I spoke at the Heritage Foundation once. Does that make Heritage's board members responsible for stuff on my blog? I think there are serious questions about the judgment of someone who's paling around with conservative ideologues. There are fascinating arguments indicating that Grover Norquist may have ghost written Heads in the Sand.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm > I spoke at the Heritage Foundation once. Does that > make Heritage's board members responsible for stuff > on my blog? But it does make you personally responsible, and culpable, for every position that the Heritage Foundation has taken over the last twenty, thirty years.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm Hugh Hewitt, I'm sure, will be adding Jacob Carruthers to the list of previously anonymous but ominous nonentities that we should be gravely concerned about. Beware the Obama/Rezko/Ayers/Wright/Carruthers/Some-Muslim-College-Professor Chicago Thugocracy!
October 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm Is Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon, I mean Barack Obama, really the October surprise? I guess it is better than the I am rubber you are glue strategy that they are currently employing.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm I spoke at the Heritage Foundation once. Does that make Heritage's board members responsible for stuff on my blog? Seriously though, when have Republicans ever made much sense? They haven't since at least Commander Codpiece became CiC, if not before.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:31 pm John McCain was endorsed by Arnold Schwarzennegger. Why does John McCain support the murder of single mothers within our own borders via time-travelling cyborgs?
October 14th, 2008 at 4:34 pm It would be more straightforward to say that Obama was working for Annenberg, Annenberg was friends with Reagan, and Reagan illegally traded arms for hostages and illegally funded the Contras. What do you think the chances are that Reagan ghost wrote Dreams from my Father?
October 14th, 2008 at 4:39 pm Whenever I read Stanley Kurtz I always imagine him with white make-up and a big red round nose. That way i dont get angry at the constant bs he produces.
Wright's beliefs may or may not be a legitimate issue, but there's no reason why any of this nonsense should play a role, since Obama *really was* palling around with Wright for years.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:49 pm Mr Colonel Kurtz proves without a doubt that Obama is in fact the fifth beatle and the man who shot JFK. I await the reunion concert on the white house grassy knoll, film by O Stone, of course.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:50 pm Why does John McCain support the murder of single mothers within our own borders via time-travelling cyborgs? First of all, she wasn't a mother yet when the cyborg tried to kill her (and admittedly, killed several innocents in the process). In addition, need I remind you that said time-traveling cyborg not only repented for that attempted murder, but actually came back specifically to protect that single mother AND her child from other time-traveling cyborgs?
Wright's beliefs may or may not be a legitimate issue, but there's no reason why any of this nonsense should play a role, since Obama *really was* palling around with Wright for years. Wright's views didn't matter when Obama was in Wright's church every Sunday. I think they're getting flummoxed by their own 3 Card Monty.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:54 pm It is true that anyone running for President would be wise to conceal any evidence that they were a known associate of Matt Yglesias.
Therefore, I am responsible for the turmoil in Pakistan. Musharraf is friends with Bush, so I am also responsible for everything that's gone wrong in America, too.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:56 pm Finally I know who's doing all that good Heritage work. Keep up the good work MY That's why it's called a liberal front organization.
October 14th, 2008 at 4:58 pm Does anyone remember who Annenberg was? What does it say about Obama that he was associated with an organization funded by that guy?
October 14th, 2008 at 4:59 pm First of all, she wasn't a mother yet when the cyborg tried to kill her You're forgetting that life begins at conception and that there were a good 30-45 minutes of the movie during which Sarah Connor was, in fact, an expectant mother while the cyborg was trying to kill her.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:03 pm There are all sorts of things wrong with this. First of all, she wasn't a mother yet when the cyborg tried to kill her ... She was pregnant by the end of the movie, therefore, in the eyes of God, a mother.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:03 pm MY is leaving out a crucial portion of Stanley Kurtz's case. The case should be summarized as follows: Obama was on the board of an outfit that gave a grant to an outfit that was linked to another outfit that organized an event where some dude spoke, many of the people involved in this network had dark skin like Obama, and thus Obama is responsible for the dude.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:26 pm I have, by the way, a theory about Bill Ayres. He's an undercover FBI agent, tasked, back in the 1969s, with undermining and, ultimately, destroying the radical left in the US. By advocating (and, subsequently, refusing to condemn) politically-motivated violence, he brought the left into disrepute.
October 14th, 2008 at 5:28 pm Being from Chicago and traveling the circles that Kurtz is obsessed about... Jacog Carruthers who passed away not long ago founded the Center for Inner City Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. He believed that young Black children could bridge the achievement gap if they were instructed about this history of Africa. I taught at Northeaster Illinois for years and worked as an adjunct at the center for Inner City Studies.
De Zutter, Obama makes a point of repudiating anti-white, anti-Semitic, and anti-Asian sermons." His "radicalism" in Kurtz's articles seems to consist entirely of believing that black churches should become more politically activist.
com/features/stories/archive/barackob ama/ ), we find: "Obama thinks elected officials could do much to overcome the political paralysis of the nation's black communities. He thinks they could lead their communities out of twin culs-de-sac: the unrealisti...
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