Tuesday, September 23, 2008
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Is This Barack's Idea of Educational Improvement?
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Posted by:
Carol Platt Liebau at
9:58 AM
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In the pages of the Wall Street Journal, Stanley Kurtz details how Barack worked with Bill Ayers under the aegis of the Annenberg Challenge to introduce radicalism into Chicago schools.
Kurtz reveals about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge:
Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with "external partners," which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn).
Mr. Obama once conducted "leadership training" seminars with Acorn, and Acorn members also served as volunteers in Mr. Obama's early campaigns. External partners like the South Shore African Village Collaborative and the Dual Language Exchange focused more on political consciousness, Afrocentricity and bilingualism than traditional education.
Yes. Just the kind of "education reform" we need nationwide, right?
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Tom Ayers is the guy behind the curtain of the Daley Chicago Democratic Machine. Why was Obama cozy with Bill Ayers? To get in the door of Chicago Politics:
Chicago politics a key question has always been, who "sent" you? The classic phrase is "We don't want nobody that nobody sent" - from an anecdote of Abner Mikva's, the former White House Counsel (Pres. Clinton) and now retired federal judge. (And someone I campaigned for while in high school when he ran, unsuccessfully, for Congress in the early 70s.) As a young student, Mikva wanted to help out the his local Democratic Party machine on the south side of Chicago. In 1948, he walked into the local committeeman's office to volunteer for Adlai Stevenson and Paul Douglas and was immediately asked: "Who sent you?" Mikva replied, "nobody sent me." And the retort came back from the cigar chomping pol: "Well, we don't want nobody that nobody sent."
So it is reasonable to ask, who "sent" Barack Obama? In other words, how can his meteoric rise to political prominence be explained? http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/04/who-sent-obama.htm l
The answer is Tom Ayers.
More on Bill Ayers: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/23/the-obama-ayers-conn ection-chicago-annenberg-challenge/ |
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The [Annenberg] Challenge was radical, but not the right wing's simplistic view of "radicalism." Rather it represented an authoritarian and bureaucratic agenda - a desperate attempt to use parents to control teachers through a politically correct curriculum, yes, but more importantly to use them as canon fodder in the battle to control teachers and administrators. This authoritarian approach is entirely consistent with Ayers' long held political views as he has consistently sided politically with the most undemocratic regimes available, including most recently that of Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
And at Ayers' side the entire time during this battle was his comrade-in-arms, Barack Obama, who served as President and Chairman of the board of directors of the Challenge.
http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/09/obama-ayers-and-ann enberg-challenge.html
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Talk about a radical concept in education...but didn't Joe Biden state last week that it was a patriotic idea to pay ever increasing taxes in America?
I recall, oh so many years ago, that my primary school teachers taught me that the "Patriots" opposed King George's high and ever increasing taxes. That the "Patriots" organized and hosted the Boston Tea Party to protest high taxes. That the "Patriots" wrote the Declaration of Independence and eventually fought a war for independence all motivated by unfair taxation.
I can think of many other words to describe Biden's comments on higher taxes and patriotic is not one of them!
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Is going to get all of us further in life than calculus and chemistry.
How silly I was for majoring in biology. Science is a dead art. |
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