Former ’60s domestic terrorist Bill Ayers had some truly radical ideas about reforming the Chicago public school system:
The (Chicago Annenburg Challenge’s) agenda flowed from Mr. Ayers’s educational philosophy, which called for infusing students and their parents with a radical political commitment, and which downplayed achievement tests in favor of activism…
In works like “City Kids, City Teachers” and “Teaching the Personal and the Political,” Mr. Ayers wrote that teachers should be community organizers dedicated to provoking resistance to American racism and oppression. His preferred alternative? “I’m a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist,” Mr. Ayers said in an interview in Ron Chepesiuk’s, “Sixties Radicals,” at about the same time Mr. Ayers was forming CAC.
I wonder how that worked out for him…
I’m glad to see that at least one member of the MSM is paying attention to this. It’s been a long time coming; Obama has steadfastly denied his relationship with Ayers – and now he can’t.
Please – let the squirming begin, someone.
Funny how BhO’s “community organizing” wasn’t providing infant formula or healthcare for needy children.
The SoB was doing exactly what we thought he was and was getting paid pretty well to do it.
Alternative service it was. Bet this story gets no traction, except for the blogosphere.
I’ve watched this so often over the years. Even with hard evidence of a fact, like this chicanery, believers seem to have a deafness to reality that’s just about complete. What is the expression? La-la-la… I’m not listening?
Marianne — who just got the electricity back this afternoon, after sweltering in the dark for 11 days since Ike hit town.
Hey, I was a community organizer! I used to go into elementary schools dressed in green shorts to pass out flyers for community meetings in the school lunch rooms. We would recruit adult leadership, ask them to fill leadership roles and assign training dates. I would also approach business leaders and church pastors about sponsoring community groups I would organize at these meetings.
For five years I organized Cub Scout Packs, Boy Scout Troops and Explorer Posts in Pensacola, FL and Twin Falls, ID. I wholeheartedly believed in what I was doing; I had a real passion for the work.
Maybe I should run for President.
Tony Blankley has a great column this morning on the coordinated press campaign to sell Obama, The Man Who Never Was. Best line from it?
A computer-whiz friend of mine was discussing the coming election with me and came up with an interesting question. Not being a computer whiz myself [which should be obvious] I don’t know where to go to check this factoid.
The Whiz said that he had noted in his computer surfing that Obama had dual citizenship — American citizenship through his mother, and Kenyan citizenship which is still valid through his father. He asked if an individual with such dual citizenship could legally become President of the United States. Would someone please tell me how I could find out the answer to this?
Marianne
Marianne: I did a Google search on presidential requirements and found quite a bit of interesting info in that link. There is a Q&A section in which I found this:
Doesn’t appear that there is an exact prohibition on holding dual citizenship. Which does appear to be a fact, based on this article I found dealing with Obama’s dual citizenship. There does seem to be questions regarding whether Kenya actually allows for it.
Oh and Marianne: congrats on surviving Ike and the aftermath. I’ve done 5 days without power and it was horrible; can’t imagine what 11 days are like.
Kris … thanks so much for the research on my question. I’ve gone to both links, and I see that the question has been raised before.
We’re still so groggy from the power outage, we’re having trouble getting back in the groove. Like most Houston houses, our house has windows which are sealed, so the nights were pretty bad [no air movement, etc]. I took a lot of cold baths during this period. Our neighbors were wonderful and helpful and we worked like a team. Makes me realize once again how great Americans, and America, are.
Marianne
“Oh and Marianne: congrats on surviving Ike and the aftermath. I’ve done 5 days without power and it was horrible; can’t imagine what 11 days are like.”
It’s called camping Kris, you and the Hubby should try it sometime. It can be fun!
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So glad to hear that Y’all came through Ike somewhat unruffled.
Marianne, bless you sweetie. My neighbors are still out and the generator I was loaning them died last night when I got back from moving my son to College Station. Battery appeared dead. They all had new food in their fridges and now I got to figure out how to fix my generator to give them back their power. One Alzheimer’s patient and his sitter aren’t doing too well either. 3 houses depending on that now. I got two other directly powering their fridges from my house.
We live on the west side (Dairy Ashford and Westheimer) and feel for the folks down south and east who ain’t going to get theirs back for several more weeks. My son is finally getting to go back to TAMU Galveston this Saturday to get his stuff out of the dorms and move it on up to College Station where their classes got moved. I know there’s a lot of folks who got it a lot worse than I do.
I lived thru Hurricane Hugo in Charleston and it took 3 weeks to get power. That is a tough time for anybody. So I am so glad you got power back now. Hopefully, you’ll be able to help someone else nearby with your good fortune. I’ve been doing it everyday since the storm. I know it could have been a lot worse for me.
If you need anything ma’am, email me. subsunk@tds.net
Carry on, milady.
Subsunk
Unka – camping fun? Fiddle dee dee. My idea of roughing it is a Sheraton, without a pool.
Going to dive in here, and will make it short (?), but sweet. In the previous post, where Lex decided to join the sing along about Obama’s stint as a community organizer, Nose made the following statement:
He finished his comments with this observation:
I answered Nose’s challenge in that thread by examining Obama’s career time line in detail. Apparently that thread has became active again, and I will answer those folks shortly.
I will approach the issue the way a doc does: the why, the where, what am I missing, where am I being mislead, can I put a story together to explains what is happening. After all, this business of “community organizer” is a mystery, a bit of forensics is required.
The central and overriding question is why did the McCain brain trust decide to make community organizer such a big thing? All major speakers, with the exception of the big guy himself, hit on this topic. The simplest explanation is death by a thousand cuts, after all, the campaign is being managed Steve Schmidt, one of Carl Rove’s wunderkids.
And then, much to Michelle Malkin’s utter disgust, McCain, oozing sincerity, publicly stated that he had nothing but the highest admiration for “community organizers”. Hallo, anybody home??? Is there something we may be missing???
On the Obama side, the big question is why did he wimp out? The Dem establishment went nuts. The refrain from the big wigs was why is Obama not “attacking McCain”. But, that only lasted a few days before it was shut down. Maybe, just maybe, it was in his interest not to get bogged down in a pseudo-controversy…
The one thing about Obama is that he is a long range thinker, he is a realist, and he is able to apply risk benefit principles to his campaign. He identified the only way he was going to be able to beat the Clintons was by capturing the young, and with their enthusiasm, overwhelm the established Democratic machine at those states that had caucuses. He succeeded.
Given the way this man thinks and acts, he knew the election was going to come down to the three debates. In America, with its long history of racial intolerance, the odds of a bi-racial man becoming president were incredibly small. The first step was to capture the nomination – that was accomplished. The second step was to knock out his presidential opponent, and that could only happen in the debates.
Somewhere, in those debates he will say this:
In my response to Nose, I point out that when Obama graduated with distinction from Harvard Law school, and after a stint as editor of the Harvard Law Review, he could have written his own ticket. Instead he chose Chicago, and a for starters, a low paying job as a community organizer. Most would consider that an idealistic step, for it takes fire in the belly to pass up a lucrative and satisfying legal career. Steve Schmidt knew two things: (1) a controversy over “community organizer” would obscure Obama’s significant accomplishments at Harvard. (2) McCain could not be part of the smear, for folks with an open mind would spot the implications of this attack.
A while back Lex questioned my use of the terms “slime” and “smear”. In my response to Nose (the link is above) I define when and how I use these words. To fully understand this post, it has to be framed within Obama’s time line.
I will leave you with what drove Our Lady of the Poison Pen up a tree:
The bolding is not mine, it is Michelle Malkin’s. Although she does not understand the political shell game that Steve Schmidt is playing, she sure knows how to tickle our fun bone.
Re: Subsunk and no power for three weeks…well, that was week one 19 years ago. I was homeported there and…19 years ago, still swinging at the hook, awaiting a call on what to do off Charleston.
Been blogging the memories of that storm’s day, too.
Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate voted “present.”
I had an acquaintance, now in her 40s, who was born in South America, with her siblings, to American parents. (missionaries)
She told me that when each child turned 18, they were required to “choose” between their dual citizenships, by US law.
That’s what she said…anyone know if that has changed?
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Peter, were you a DE? I’m a District Commissioner. And ASM, and Pack Committee Member, and Advisor for a nascent Crew.