Unrepentant Weatherman Bill Ayers in in the news, linked to his friend and colleague from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Barack Obama.
The NRO editors join in while we wait for Stanley Kurtz to riffle the Challenge archives at the University of Illinois Chicago library.
Fox News got a peek at the archives:
FOX News was among several news organizations that reviewed the university’s records by appointment. In one agenda, a March 15, 1995, meeting featured Obama making introductions and Ayers giving a briefing.
But more than a year later, Obama pushed the group to be bolder in its reforms, according to the Associated Press, which also reviewed the documents. Minutes from an October 1996 gathering show Obama, a guest at a meeting of the collaborative, raised questions about what the group should be doing.
The Associates Press reports the minutes characterized Obama’s concerns as twofold: Whether the group was raising additional money and whether money was being used “to prop up existing organizations as opposed to creating fresh educational practices in the schools?”
“At the end of five years, will we have broken the mold? Not much seems to be bubbling up that is inspiring or substantive,” the minutes say, paraphrasing Obama.
The "collaborative" to which they refer was founded and led by Bill Ayers (see his resume) and did a lot of the staff work for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
And here is the AP:
The minutes of the Annenberg Challenge meetings show that during a June 1995 meeting, Ayers was credited with having "worked diligently" to support the effort. More than a year later, Obama pushed the group to be bolder in its reforms.
"At the end of five years, will we have broken the mold? Not much seems to be bubbling up that is inspiring or substantive," October 1996 minutes say, paraphrasing Obama.
Ayers and Obama clearly worked together - odd that Obama forgot.
The Chicago Tribune describes the media frenzy at the library and notes the Obama cover-up:
The UIC records show that Obama and Ayers attended board meetings, retreats and at least one news conference together as the education program got under way. The two continued to attend meetings together during the 1995-2001 operation of the program, records show.
At a Democratic debate this year when the association between Obama and Ayers was raised, Obama said: "This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood. . . . He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis." Obama called Ayers' past radical acts detestable.
But critics note that Obama visited Ayers' home for a meeting at the start of his first state Senate bid in the mid-'90s.
And the Canada Free Press wonders whether criticizing Obama is a crime. Geez, when the Canadians mock our press freedom...
The NY Times is all meta - they are happy to bash the shadowy group besmirching their candidate but are unwilling to note the long. strong tie between Ayers and Obama by way of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. When last we looked, Jim Rutenberg of the Times was utterly unaware of (or at least, unwilling to report) that tie; now, his final paragraph warms up their readers for revelations to follow:
The fight may move to another front this week.
The University of Illinois at Chicago is in the process or releasing documents detailing Mr. Obama’s involvement with a non-profit education project started by Mr. Ayers.
It's almost like reporting!
The WaPo also focuses their coverage on Obama's bold, non-Kerryish push-back. Here is a bold, colorful quote from an Obama operative who WON"T BE BULLIED:
Obama campaign lawyer Robert F. Bauer replied: "If someone rides up to a convenience store with a sawed-off shotgun and a prior record, I'm not intimidating anybody by calling the cops. . . . If this [Republican] campaign is going to be run in McCarthyite fashion by lawbreakers in an illegal way, they are going to pay a price."
Boy, talking about Ayers and riding around with shotguns - wise?
The WaPo aids the mainstreaming of Bill Ayers and lays the groundwork for Obama's alibi:
Ayers was a member of the Weather Underground, a radical organization that claimed responsibility for a dozen bombings between 1970 and 1974. He is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and an expert on public school reform.
However, the rest of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge link will have to wait for another story - as of this reporting, the Ayers/Obama tie is still quite tenuous in WaPoWorld:
Ayers did hold a gathering for him in 1995 when Obama first ran for the Illinois Senate, and he later contributed $200 to his reelection campaign. But Bauer said that hardly constitutes launching the political career of a University of Chicago Law School lecturer and the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review, who had just published his first memoir, "Dreams From My Father."
The WaPo website hosts the AP story noting the Chicago Annenberg Challenge but their featured A1 story is silent on that connection. That is actually funny, in a head-bangingly predictable sort of way.
JM Hanes-
See if this comment goes through.
Re: Michelle and Dohrn. They worked together at Sidley Austin in the late 1980's before Obama interned there.
Also I wish someone could snope around Columbia because I've got a hunch that is where Barack first met the Ayers family.
Posted by: RichatUF | August 27, 2008 at 02:11 PM
Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland | August 27, 2008 at 02:11 PM
Chesa Boudin's mom is Cathy Boudin. Her father was Leonard Boudin a prominent leftist. Her long-suffering mother was the beloved sister of I.F. Stone's lovely (Republican) wife Esther.Cathy's brother is a conservative lawyer who Ronald Reagan appointed to the US Ct of Appeals for the Dist of Columbia Circuit.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 02:14 PM
MayBee: It's really got that Obama look, doesn't it? And the woman already looks like Hillary! In fact, the other guy even looks a little like Ayers, no? It may be Above My (photoshop) Pay Grade, but it's got some real potential.
Posted by: JM Hanes | August 27, 2008 at 02:15 PM
Rich:
I soooo agree. Establishing a connection which goes all the way back to Columbia could ultimately sink the ship. It would certainly cement the ticket, so to speak: You've got two candidates who invent their own biographies, and one of them is actively covering up his past.
Posted by: JM Hanes | August 27, 2008 at 02:24 PM
Gabriel-
What about Pam Gellar at Atlas Shrugged?
Hey that's a good idea. I'll send her an email.
Posted by: RichatUF | August 27, 2008 at 02:25 PM
JM,
What about using pictures of the protesters in Denver?
Posted by: Sue | August 27, 2008 at 02:38 PM
I somehow thought that there was a Dohrn connection at the hospital too, but I could have cut that from whole cloth.
Posted by: JM Hanes | August 27, 2008 at 02:39 PM
If there is a connection to the UofC Hospital it is probably through work at Sidley Austin.
Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland | August 27, 2008 at 02:40 PM
I'd put the 7-eleven logo in there somewhere
Here are the pictures of Ayers door and wall
Posted by: Rocco | August 27, 2008 at 02:44 PM
Major Garrett, Fox News Strategy Room, is saying there will be a full delegate count.
Posted by: Sue | August 27, 2008 at 02:44 PM
Well, shoot. Hot Air is saying there won't be a floor vote. It will take place at the hotels before the delegates arrive at the convention. Who is right? I sure hope there is a fuss over this.
Posted by: Sue | August 27, 2008 at 02:47 PM
Congrats Hit and JMH at the Insta-recognition!
Posted by: centralcal | August 27, 2008 at 02:49 PM
I somehow thought that there was a Dohrn connection at the hospital too, but I could have cut that from whole cloth.
I think Stanley Kurtz has said something about Michelle at her University job (the job preceding the one at the hospital), getting volunteers for an Ayers-associated group.
Posted by: MayBee | August 27, 2008 at 02:51 PM
Sue: The state delegates will all vote at their hotels. Then the roll call vote will be held on the floor, where the leader of each state delegation will anounce their vote.
This per Politico.
Posted by: centralcal | August 27, 2008 at 02:58 PM
Wonder what saint Al Gore will say when he intros the "One"? This will be great theater, you have to admit. But, I am with
Clarice, let's hope for a squall about 9pm--
Axelrod is saying on MSNBC/obama that the
new polls showing McCain rising are B.S.-that their internals show everything on track for win. Now, this is as uber stupid
as thinking Ayers is unimportant.
By the way, did everyone get sick here last night when the camera keyed on Bill mouthing
"I'll love you forever" to Hill? Talk about great theater!
Posted by: glenda waggoner | August 27, 2008 at 03:02 PM
Weekly Standard is blogging about another instance where an Obama press lackey is conducting a staged interview on the floor of the convention.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/08/bullying_on_the_floor_1.asp
Does anyone remember that video report from the London Guardian that was produced by an American reporter covering the NH primary. She was video reporting from the Obama volunteer call center talking to some volunteers. The Obama team dispatches minders to EVERY interview with a Team Obama volunteer.
I think the guy that appears in the CNN video linked by Weekly Standard is the same guy that appears in the London Guardin video report.
And this why is why you save your bookmarks people. BLAH!
Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland | August 27, 2008 at 03:05 PM
Jane, this one's for you:
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | August 27, 2008 at 03:15 PM
"Bill mouthing "I'll love you forever" to Hill?"
Glenda,
Watch it a little more closely - isn't it "I've loathed you forever."?
Posted by: Rick Ballard | August 27, 2008 at 03:16 PM
Parthenon is a temple dedicated to the "Virgin" goddess.
Oh. That's why Bill isn't going.
Posted by: bgates | August 27, 2008 at 03:25 PM
Nice. I found the Guardian video.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2008/jan/08/obama
Posted by: Gabriel Sutherland | August 27, 2008 at 03:31 PM
Here is a heads up on Kurtz:
Via Malkin:
Kurtz is in Chicago to review the documents and will report tonight on his findings for two hours on Chicago station WGN’s Milt Rosenberg Show.
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | August 27, 2008 at 03:39 PM
Nothing to see here, please move along...
No 'smoking gun' in Obama relationship
Posted by: Chicago Machine Investigations | August 27, 2008 at 03:40 PM
They said reporters would be arrested if George Bush was elected. And they were http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Conventions/story?id=5668622&page=1>right
Posted by: Sue | August 27, 2008 at 03:46 PM
Rick--you are probably right about the loathing. He still acts for the camera, but
I won't watch him tonight-it's my b-day and I want the evening to be pleasant.
He is the most yellow-toothed worm in the room/ Can you imagine how he feels about Carter getting more respect from Obambi's
people? Lord forgive-but that anti-semite (Jimma)needs to move to Syria or Venezuela where he is more at home.
Posted by: glenda waggoner | August 27, 2008 at 03:54 PM
I'm holding off writing my piece until I can hear the WGN interview. If anyone else is listening and taking notes, pls post them here in case i miss something. Thanks.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 04:00 PM
Wait a damn minute. Obama spent two months flogging the quote of McCain and staying in Iraq for 100 years. Hell when the audience is sufficiently progressive, he still rolls it out today. Even though it was clear that McCain said immediately he meant as presence like Germany Italy and Korea, not fighting for 100 years.
So based on that, I see the word "tiny" in the quote Jack Tapper has up. Good enough for me.
When Obama admits the distortion on the 100 years thing, I will be willing to discuss if this is fair or not fair. But both sides must be allowed to fight under the same rules.
Posted by: GMax | August 27, 2008 at 04:07 PM
OOPS wrong thread I will post there.
Posted by: GMax | August 27, 2008 at 04:24 PM
For just a moment when I saw an ad about Obama called "tiny" I hoped it was phallically based.
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 04:24 PM
OOPS Hoped it was NOT phallically based
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 04:27 PM
The coverage may be a little pathetic but at least something is being said about Obama/Ayers:
What's with this violent streak Obama and his staffers have going on? Gangsta wannabees?
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 04:42 PM
This is interesting, from ABC news:
Out:Edwards
In: The guy willing to pay off the mistress. He's more valuable to the DNC
Posted by: MayBee | August 27, 2008 at 04:44 PM
Obama/Ayers LUN
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 04:44 PM
Maybee you are great at right getting to the meat of the matter
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 04:45 PM
Bad,
I think we have to wait for Bob Herbert's analysis of the symbolism inherent in Obama's appearance, centered in a semi-circle of massive white columns. He seems to have an intense interest in that sort of thing.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | August 27, 2008 at 04:55 PM
Why is this different than Kerry's reaction? He couldn't answer the Swift Boat ads, so he threatened the stations that carried the ads and attacked those who donated to run them.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 04:56 PM
For just a moment when I saw an ad about Obama called "tiny" I hoped it was phallically based.
Naw bad. That one is entitled "Gifted".
It's twue, it's twue.
Posted by: Soylent Red | August 27, 2008 at 05:05 PM
BTW...
Glenn Beck has picked up the CAC story and is going to bash on it on his television show. I think he's on CNN.
At any rate he spent a pretty long segment on it on the radio today.
Posted by: Soylent Red | August 27, 2008 at 05:07 PM
bad :-)
from bad's link:
We could play a Highlights Magazine-type game with this sentence.
In how many ways can it be mocked:
I'll start. Kerry obviously thought hundreds of decorated Vietnam vets fabricated their war records by pretending they weren't ear-cutting rapists.
Posted by: MayBee | August 27, 2008 at 05:08 PM
Krauthammer on the Greek temple theme:
"The Berlin folly -- in English.
The Superbowl Halftime Show -- without the game.
What's the finish? Maybe Obama’s got Zhang Yimou to do the hidden-rope trick, and have him lifted, Beijing-style, to the heavens when he’s done. Will he reappear three days later at the Bird’s Nest? "
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 05:17 PM
Clarice: What's the finish?
Check this out:
Obama to Depart Speech on Faux Air Force One? Can’t Possibly Be True. Can’t Possibly Be That Stupid!
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | August 27, 2008 at 05:20 PM
Good grief!
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 05:31 PM
I think that Obama may well have dropped the Annenberg chairmanship from his resume because he finds it acutely embarrassing.
The organization's own records contain, for instance, the assessment that $150 million was spent to generate change in educational performance and achieved precisely zip.
This doesn't mean much to people already dismissive of Obama's whole 'community activist' schtick, we expect no different, but in his world this shatters illusions on a grand scale, and makes him look like an inexperienced, ineffective idiot (either for presiding over these results or for leaving the evidence lying around, according to your level of 'sophistication').
Posted by: ZF | August 27, 2008 at 05:35 PM
American Issues Project has responded to a 2nd letter to DOJ by the Obama Campaign over the Ayers ad. It is quite long, so here is a link:
AIP 2nd response to DOJ
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | August 27, 2008 at 05:42 PM
I'm thinking this whole Greek temple thing is some sort of ruse. They know how effectively they were mocked after the German thing. No way they don't see it coming this time.
Posted by: Extraneus | August 27, 2008 at 05:42 PM
The Barackopolis is what the McCain Campaign has christened the set.
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | August 27, 2008 at 05:48 PM
Planet Moron cracks me up:
Q: Did you see the part where Bill Clinton mouthed the words “I love you” when Hillary was about to start her speech? That was kind of sweet.
A: Yes it was. It would have been sweeter if he’d been looking at Hillary, though.
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | August 27, 2008 at 05:54 PM
Cleta the lawyer writes a very good letter, Sara.
I especially liked her touch of listing the left leaning contributors to left leaning organizations similar to right leaning AIP.
Posted by: Jim Rhoads aka vnjagvet | August 27, 2008 at 06:19 PM
For those who may have missed it on Youtube:
Ayers and Obama. via Jim Geraghty
Linked Under Name
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 06:25 PM
Jim,
I think that was the "strong letter" which was promised as a followup to a short exclamation by Harold Simmonds. McCain's appointment of a replacement for one of the five squishes would make me hope that this would reach the Supremes in about three years.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | August 27, 2008 at 06:36 PM
H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y G L E N D A ! ! !
Posted by: hit and run | August 27, 2008 at 06:44 PM
Clarice (quoting Krauthammer):
"The Berlin folly -- in English.
The Superbowl Halftime Show -- without the game.
At least at the super bowl the wardrobe malfunction last all of a half second.
When Obama speaks at Invesco, how long will be exposed to the boob?
Posted by: hit and run | August 27, 2008 at 06:46 PM
Sara, I just read (NRO?) that the Air Force One was already scheduled for another event that will follow the convention and it's arrival just happened to coincide with Obama's sermon on the mount.
Posted by: centralcal | August 27, 2008 at 06:50 PM
I saw that Centracal, but it isn't nearly as much fun. It is just too much to have that parked right outside Invesco, no matter why.
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | August 27, 2008 at 06:53 PM
So, the Dems have a nominee.
Posted by: JM Hanes | August 27, 2008 at 06:55 PM
It was strong, Rick. I think it is unlikely that either the Obama goons or the DOJ will pursue this beyond the letter writing stage.
Posted by: Jim Rhoads aka vnjagvet | August 27, 2008 at 07:00 PM
Jim,
I agree. The letter of complaint was a sop to the fools who screamed that Kerry should have "fought back" harder. Fighting the truth is pretty tough, whether you're Kerry or Obama.
I do consider it a kind gesture by the Obama campaign to call so much attention to the ad so early in the season. That kind of publicity costs millions if you have to pay for it.
Posted by: Rick Ballard | August 27, 2008 at 07:08 PM
And it opens up the obvious question -- what are they trying to hide?
If Kurtz and the little blogelves who will multiply his work come up with something good, Clarice will boil it down to where an even better AIP ad may be made.
Then the MSM will have to cover the issue.
Posted by: Jim Rhoads aka vnjagvet | August 27, 2008 at 07:16 PM
Well two Texas millionaires or billionaires in the this thread.
Interesting.
First Fred Baron the DNC darling and sugar daddy for Edwards concubine, is a former partner in the law firm of Baron & Budd. He is in major litigation with them now, I think it has to do with a noncompete agreement. This firm is right up Edwards alley, meaning tv advertising ambulance chasing personal injury lawyers. The kind that rank below journalists and union bosses on Americans most admired lists.
Harold Simmons. Harold can be a bit of a recluse, but no one should misconstrue that for a shrinking violet. If Obama wants a bare knuckles fight, no one would be a better choice in my opinion that Simmons. He plays to win and win all the marbles. He will take great delight in beating Obama like a snare drum.
Posted by: GMax | August 27, 2008 at 07:24 PM
An ABC producer was arrested today for filming big party donors entering and leaving a secret meeting. One of them was Fred Baron. Today, the delegates voted in their hotels before the actual roll call. The first time, as far as I can tell, that has ever happened. And democrats scream at the top of their lungs about Bush and republicans being Nazis? I am so bummed right now. I wanted Hillary to fight, fight, fight. I think her reputation has been a hoax. In fact, I think her and Bill merely got lucky, instead of being political geniuses.
Posted by: Sue | August 27, 2008 at 07:27 PM
Sue, I think what they mean is it was all Bush's fault.
"ABC Reporter Arrested in Denver Taking Pictures of Senators, Big Donors."
Could it be that if America knew who the Big Donors were, Obama would lose votes?
IMO, we are witnessing the death of a once great American Political party.
Posted by: Pagar | August 27, 2008 at 07:32 PM
Bill merely got lucky
ha ha ha ha ha
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 07:34 PM
Totally off topic, but our own convention is coming soon. Over at Townhall they mention that Huckabee went on Rush today to once again slyly carp about Romney.
"For Huckabee to continue to carry a grudge against Romney because Romney criticized him in the primaries (as Rush pointed out, that's what competitors do in primaries) is unfortunate and destructive -- and, if nothing else, highlights why he would be a profoundly unsuitable choice for any high office."
If McCain does select Romney, you can bet Hucka-doodoo will be the liberal media's darling.
Posted by: centralcal | August 27, 2008 at 07:44 PM
I still can't stand Huckabee.
Posted by: Jane | August 27, 2008 at 08:12 PM
Jane did you see the note to you from me above re: Pelosi?
Huck is a buffoon.
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | August 27, 2008 at 08:13 PM
Will Huck become the new Chuck Hagel? He's on MSNBC alot for goodness sakes. We republicans revere Reagan who pressed us to hold fire against other republicans. We're goind to have to call him on it the next time he invokes his name.
Posted by: BobS | August 27, 2008 at 08:37 PM
I think it's time for a little optimism; there's a chance for twelve years of Romney.
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Posted by: kim | August 27, 2008 at 09:18 PM
WGN offered the Obama campaign the oppotunity for equal time on WGN 720 with Kurtz but they refused. They did generate some angry phone calls protesting the show, however.
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 10:04 PM
bad-Kurtz reminded of a Univ Of Chic seminair on juvenile justice that Michelle ran where Ayres was a speaker.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 10:21 PM
M Obama presented a panel discussion on Juvenile crime where Ayers was a panelist. Kurtz says Obama and Ayers shared the same philosophy on juvenile crime just as they shared the same philosophy on education.
Kurtz believes the donor of CAC materials tried to get them back.
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 10:21 PM
AP and NYT were present in the library the last few days.
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 10:22 PM
Kurtz was called a racist and crackpot by email and phone calls to WGN in attempts to keep him off the air.
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 10:25 PM
May have been more but for ceretain went thru $110 million.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 10:31 PM
1995 Obama made chair of CAC. Reason to believe, not absolute fact yet, that Ayers brought in Obama to be chairman of the board of CAC.
Ayers and Ann Hallett were considered to be ex officio members of the board and Ayers attended many of the board meetings.
Ayers was co-chair of another wing of CAC called "The Collaberative."
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 10:35 PM
You were wise to stick to that figure, Clarice. No marinalization because of one money figure.
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 10:36 PM
**marginalization**
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Since Kurtz has been buried in the library, I wonder if he knows that Obama listed CAC on his early resume and then dropped it?
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | August 27, 2008 at 10:40 PM
Saw it Sara - thanks!
Posted by: Jane | August 27, 2008 at 10:42 PM
Grants wewre made on ideological basis--yes for Ayres Peace School (conflict of interest, too) not for groups like the Algebra Project whose sole aim was to improve student achievement. Therefore, no surprise that both evaluations found that the CAC achieved NOTHING.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 10:46 PM
bad, I always try to be conservative with facts--using only what i have rather solid back up for.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 10:49 PM
Firestorm was engendered by Obama campaign.Encouraged callers and gave them talking pts and told them to call and report back how they were treated.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 10:53 PM
Grant was approved for South Shore African Village Collaborative to help African Americans celebrate Juneteenth described as "Negro Texans celebrated Juneteenth rather than 4th of July."
Ethnic and ideologic grants tended to be approved rather than English as a second language.
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 10:59 PM
Gamaliel Foundation has a book full of language and theology and ideology very much like Jeremiah Wright's.
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Rosenberg getting roaylly pissed at the Obama campaign--now they're claiming it was wrong to have this tonight because they are too busy with the convention. Rosenberg says they are 1/4 mile away and not too busy to set off firestorm..Kurtz there because he's at the library and he's there now because the library held up turning over the stuff until now.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 11:14 PM
The book is called "Doing Justice" by Dennis Jacobson
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 11:14 PM
JacobsEn I think--
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 11:17 PM
Recurring theme is economic redistribution as means of achieving equality.
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 11:17 PM
Thanks, I plan to read it.
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 11:18 PM
No--that is the recurring theme of O's state senatorial career.
The recurring theme of the book is that the US is a sinful Bablyon and that authentic Christians need to go into a state of "perpetual exile" in this country.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 11:19 PM
The head of the Gemalial foundation who approved this book was O's mentor and O organized for Gemalial.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 11:20 PM
They are talking Brownback for Veep over at NRO The Corner. That would p!ss me off.
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | August 27, 2008 at 11:21 PM
Steve Diamond who writes at Global Labor says he is from the left politically, from the labor movement.
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 11:31 PM
But he and Kurtz see pretty much eye to eye on what happened at CAC..Steve added details about CAC's fight with Daley who was trying to recentralize control over the schools.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 11:32 PM
Politico and the Chicago Tribune blog are documenting the scare tactics the O brownshirts are using to keep Kurtz off the air.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 11:33 PM
documenting or celebrating?
Posted by: Sara (Pal2Pal) | August 27, 2008 at 11:37 PM
All of the callers are stressing "equal air time." They are all Obama supporters with the exception of Steve Diamond.
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 11:43 PM
Diamond said Axelrod's parents communists. Rosenberg said I don't know about that. Diamond said it's documented, Rosenberg said he's red diaper baby? Diamond said yes, and Klonski too.
Posted by: SWarren | August 27, 2008 at 11:44 PM
Clarice,
The former Commerce Secretary from Chicago was just on with Greta. She asked him about the Obama/Ayers connection. I didn't catch everything he said, but he did say that folks in Chicago are proud of what CAC was able to get done. I wonder if that is true why Obama is running so hard and fast from CAC and Ayers?
Posted by: Sue | August 27, 2008 at 11:45 PM
Well, both the Annenberg Challenge and an independent outfit reviewed the CAC and determined it was poorly designed and accomplished absolutely nothing so the former Commerce Secretary is talking out of his ass.
Posted by: clarice | August 27, 2008 at 11:47 PM
And they paid enormous sums for those evaluations according to the CAC tax returns.
Posted by: bad | August 27, 2008 at 11:49 PM