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Sunday, September 28, 2008
Guest Editorial: Obama's Radicalism
It is incomprehensible that anyone would entrust the education of children to an admitted -- and unapologetic -- domestic terrorist. Yet Sen. Barack Obama has done just that.
From 1995 to 2001, the Democrats' presidential nominee was an integral part of the radical leftist Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) education foundation, formed by William Ayers, a founder of the violent Weather Underground gang.
It's the same Mr. Ayers who (along with his followers) bombed the Pentagon and never expressed remorse about his wickedness.
And it's the same Ayers in whose home Barack Obama launched his political career in 1995.
Hand in glove, Obama and Ayers schemed to hand over more than $100 million to community organizers and radical education activists, writes Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
After the CAC evaluated its own efforts, it admitted there was no evidence that its grants furthered educational improvement.
In trying to downplay his incestuous connection to the bomber, Obama claims that Ayers only is "a guy who lives in my neighborhood" and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis."
But there are damning documents about CAC stored at the University of Illinois at Chicago that refute Obama's characterization.
The more the public learns about Barack Obama's long and deep ties to Bill the Bomber, Nation of Islam boss and notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, bizarre billionaire George Soros, race-baiter Rev. Al Sharpton -- and that Obama is a devoted disciple of radical leftist Saul Alinsky's "in-your-face" confrontational political tactics -- the more the public learns about Barack Obama.
As far as Obama and Ayers go, says Mr. Kurtz, it's not the "guilt by association" that Obama's campaign is complaining about but "guilt by participation." Indeed, it's time for Americans to judge Barack Obama not by his words but by his deeds.
Sunday 28 September 2008
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