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• Monday, September 15, 2008 02:50 PM

  @paulpsd7

  That's because you just made up the whole "20 year ongoing close" part [about William Ayers]

  Wrong, thanks for playing.

  First, Obama has a lot to fear about his connection to Ayers. That's why he lied during one of the primary debates when asked about Ayers and responsed, "He just a guy in the neighborhood."

  First, Obama launched his presidential exploration committee in Ayers' living room. And in fact, Obama and Ayers' relationship goes back to the mid-'80s, when they worked on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the only executive experience Obama has.

  And what a cock-up it was. It was supposedly a charitable organization that took grants from the Annenberg Fund to be used to improve Chicago schools. In reality, it funneled millions to Ayers' pet causes while turning down grants to genuine educational organizations such as the Chicago Algebra Connection. In the end, Chicago schools scores actually declined.

  But if it was innocuous, why did Obama go to such great lengths to keep it suppresed, and why did he lie in the debate? The records for the Annenberg Challenge were stored at University of Chicago, which refused to release them until sued by Stanley Kurtz. When a Chicago radio station had Kurtz on to talk about what he had found thus far (only a few days into researching thousands of files), the Obama campaign sent an e-mail blast to all its supporters to try to shout down Kurtz and the radio station. (An Obama rep was also invited to be on the show, but they declined, citing logistics, even though Obama's Chicago headquarters is a mere few blocks from the radio station.) The brown shirt tactics were pathetic, people all reading from the same script as they deluged the radio station to try to silence it.

  Why? What's in those records? Why is the University of Chicago (a public institution, by the way) trying to protect Obama?

  There's way more here, and when Kurtz gets more time to go through the files, the shit will truly hit the fan--just in time for election day.

  Read and weep:

  http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MTgwZTVmN2QyNzk2MmUxMzA5OTg0ODZlM2Y2OGI0NDM

  http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/obama-ayers-and-the-annenberg-challenge-cover-up/

  http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/09/annenberg-gate-university-tipped-off.html

  And read the many fact-filled links on the latter page, full of dirt on Obama's lying and stonewalling on this. Where there's smoke, there's fire, and Obama is trying like mad to hide the smoke.

  —T. Suarez Read T. Suarez's other letters
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