Ohama's Civilian National Security Forces Came Up Again

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My very first post on this subject was 09 JUL 08, 7 days after the infamous words were spoken at a rally where Winter Soldiers hung out to dry and do whatever it is that they do when they are betraying their Oaths of Service.

Either a brave soul or someone with more time on their hands than they should have actually watched the Infomercial First Czar put out tonight. In that Infomercial, Czarbie mentioned that he was going to "rebuild the military." I doubt it but, several times, Obama has stated that he was going to "increase the size" of the military which flies in the face of recent statements by his fellow socialists that they intend on CUTTING the military by 25%. One of them is lying. I am banking on Obama being the liar...because he is good at it and does it quite frequently.

Little Green Footballs also reported on this Obama Civilian National Security Force way back then also and made reference to it in the above link. Makes me wonder what he was alluding to when he mentioned the "coalition of powers to bring about redistributive change" in that 2001 interview. Doesn't it make you wonder?

Gateway Pundit evidently also watched the Infomercial and is wondering the same about this CNSF of Obama's. Gateway also mentions that the Infomercial was foreign funded. Go figure. Yep. Just like a socialist democrat to lie, cheat and steal their way to an election victory. As we all have seen and perhaps more need to see it, Babalu Blog knows exactly what Barack is up to.

Sister Toldjah watched it and she said that Obama lost her at "Hello".

Sorry Czarbie. It ain't gonna work for you this time around.

Melissa at RWN says it was overkill and was not impressive...glad I didn't waste my time.

For me, there are two main issues that cloud the Fraud Obama - his Civilian National Security Forces and his AWOL birth certificate. His medical records and college records and other things are neatly and safely tucked away sealed against scrutiny while McCain has been open and has presented all there is to present.

So. what is he hiding?

Anyway, to learn more about the Civilian National Security Forces, check below and be sure to check out the audio and You Tube.

AUDIO OF BARACK'S VERSION OF THE OBAMA YOOTS OF AMERIKA.

Obama Youth: The Lame Stream Deafly Silent

The Obama Youth: The Saga Continues
Obama Youth: The Gift That Keeps On Taking

Barack's Storm Troopers - The Obama Youth Corps
The Aspirants To The Presidency Say A Lot Of Things, But...
Obama's Brown Shirts Faux Pas Gains More Scrutiny
Op-Ed: Sith Lord Obama and His Civilian National Security Force
What Does Barack Obama Intend? (video snippet) (You Tube)
Pat Dollard: Pissed Off And Wants Blood
Baracks' Civilian National Security Force - Continuing Saga Unfolding
Sith Lord Obama: Another Gaffe?
Obama: The Subtleties of A Dictatorial Tyrant
Barack Obama To Be Protected By Terror Group
When A Duck Wadddles, Does It Look Like A Barack?
And All The People Said?
Nobama's Civilian National Security Forces Explained?
Czarbama and the Civilian National Security Forces
National Service Act: Czarbama's CNSF?
Barack's Storm Troopers - The Obama Youth Corp
Even Czarbama's Following Knows Something Ain't Quite Kosher
We Live In Upside Down Land
The Obama Youth: What's Next?
Barack's Civilian Army Just Keeps Getting More And More Intreresting
National Service Act: Amerika's Newest Conscript Nation
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API, Michelle Obama, Bribery, Crooks, Crooked Crooks - Alas I Repeat Myself

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So, what is up with the Obama Campaign trying to bribe API? I don't get it. What are they trying to hide? And why are they so afraid of Truth? I find this all curious. I also find it believable seeing the track record of this crooked bunch of anti-Americanist crooks.

Six hours after the release of information by API on the planned broadcast by Fox News Network of the Michelle Obama tape, in accordance with an agreement that has been reached between API and Fox News Network, API was contacted by Obama’s Campaign Manager. [...]

Michelle Obama said in 2004 that Barack wouldn't be running for President because "he hasn't done anything yet." Then, all of a sudden, he was running for President and then we find out that he was running for President ever since he graduated college.

Barack lied about not taking public funding before he decided that he wasn't going to be able to run effectively without it because he was a nobody. He is still a nobody but he has managed to lie and buy votes. That's what crooks and liars do I guess. I also suppose that Al Capone would be proud.

His ACORN pukes are going ape snot. We know Obama lied about his association with ACORN and now it has been proven.

[...] A former staffer for an affiliate of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now testified today that the organization was provided a "donor list" from the presidential campaign of Barack Obama in late 2007 for fundraising efforts.

Anita Moncrief, a former Washington, D.C. staffer for Project Vote, which she described as a sister organization of ACORN, said her supervisor told her the list of campaign contributors came from the Obama campaign. Moncrief said she has a copy of a "development plan" that outlines how Obama contributors who had "maxed out" under federal contribution limits would be targeted to give to Project Vote, and that it was her job to identify such contributors. [...]

We know that Barack was part of the Clan that opposed fixing the DEMOCRAT PARTY induced financial crisis. Thus, we have an economic meltdown and we know that Barack oppsed any "fixing" of the problem. He blames President Bush which is a lie of convenience and if he had any moral fortitude at all, he would let people know that. Then again, we know he is a fraud and your basic fraud will never own up to anything until the end of the rope is reached. Barack's rope ends 11/4/08 with a loss of his bid to be First Czar of the USSA.

So, in order to squelch the True Michelle and the True Barack, the Obama Campaign offers a bribe to API. Swell, ain't it? I suppose we should take the blood in the streets warning seriously?

Thinkin'bout Stuff has a little more...

Political Coffee Break: Nostalgia With Jerry Lewis

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From: orsobruco

Jerry Lewis and The Famous Typewriter Scene

McCain Gaining Ground and Obama Losing It

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Gateway Pundit brings us news via the Russian Interfax that former socialists will be voting for McCain. I wonder what they know that Obama's uneducated masses don't know. After all, many of them don't even know what socialism is. I find that relatively hard to understand but I see it every day as I try and reeducate the college YOOTS of America.

Yid With Lid brings us the stealth socialism of the Marxist Obama and fills us in on all the "buzz words" - Freudian slips? - that Czarbie uses. Then again, one can always go over to the American Thinker and learn all about the manufactured "troubles" or the various manufactured crises so invented by the Leftinistra. (NOTE: few official definition of Leftinistra here.) No matter the spin as spun by the official Spinmeisters hired by the Marxist Czarbie, the fact that Obama has donated to Marxists in the past causes the vast majority of Americans to question Obama's loyalties - to whom or to what does he swear his allegiance?

As a side-bar, I am inwardly ecstatic that someone else has decided to begin spreading the news about the List of 45. We are far and few between you know but in the light that Czarbie is turned on himself by letting the world know that he is in fact a socialist, it makes it easier to explain to these college kids I see everyday what the Red Threat is that we face in Obama and his kind.

As the title so states, Obama is in a free-fall no matter what the pollsters are blathering about. As more and more is made known about the Obama-Khalidi connection and the MSM hiding the evidence, all this does is cast shadows of doubt and we all know how suspicious Americans are about such activities - aren't we? I am. If it isn't such a big deal, why not disclose it? What is there to hide if it will just reveal how GREAT the relationship is? Many of us have folks on the inside and we have been receiving word that the polls have been purposefully skewed. A confession can be found here.

It goes the same in regards to the Obama-Ayers connections.

It goes the same in regards to the Obama-Wright connections.

It goes the same in regards to the Obama-Rezko connections.

It goes the same in regards to the Obama-CPUSA connections.

It goes the same in regards to the Obama-Pakistan connections.

It goes the same in regards to the Obama anti-Constitution rhetoric.

It gos the same in regards to the Obama anti-Americanist associations.

If they aren't such a big deal and quite OK, why not then come out and admit them instead of trying to vainly and unsuccessfully spin the relationships? Everybody recognizes the spin and we aren't buying the "plausible deniability" crap anymore.

Not one time has Obama said any tangible or viable explanations as to how he is the right one to protect this nation against the threats we face. Not once. Ever. Why? Because he doesn't have what it takes. Why? Because he has no experience at all. None. Neither does his gaffemeister Biden that once stated that the Presidency was not a position that afforded the availability of on-the-job training - he was referring to Barack Obama.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has recently stated:

[...] Sarkozy has made his criticisms only in closed forums in France. But according to a senior Israeli government source, the reports reaching Israel indicate that Sarkozy views the Democratic candidate's stance on Iran as "utterly immature" and comprised of "formulations empty of all content." [...]

Yet, we are to believe that the inexperienced Marxist Obama that has befriended known Enemies of The State both foreign and domestic is the cat's meow of National Security.

We have all heard the audio clip of Barack Obama exposing his socialism in 2001. The entire audio has been released and it is located here in mp3 format. I have listened to the entire clip and there is no contextual disparities iin the full length version and the You Tube version. However, the Obama Goons have been asking that the You Tube version be removed and the answer was a loud NO.

Some of you have inquired as to why we didn’t request a takedown notice for the YouTube video. Here’s the deal: As an organization we strive to be an impeccable source of independent, unbiased news and information. While our audio content in this case was excerpted and repackaged in way that wasn’t in keeping with our own editorial standards, the source audio was available to others on the web and its use in this case was within generally acceptable fair use provisions. Thus, we didn’t have any clear legal claim to intervene one way or the other. And more importantly, to do so would have been tantamount to intervening on behalf of the Obama campaign. To take actions that could be construed as helping either campaign (Obama’s or McCain’s) is contrary to our own standards of reporting in an unbiased and independent manner. Instead, we believed the best approach was simply to make available the original source of the audio - in its entirety - for others to listen to themselves and to decide what Senator Obama said and meant.

And that is how it should be. Get over it. As for Barack's self-professed and inexcusable socialism, The People's Cube has all you would ever need to check for yourself. To go along with that, whenever a Presidential Aspirant compares the country he wants to rule to Nazi Germany, I doubt his Patriotism and his veracity as a sane individual.

When a Presidential Candidate refuses to provide proof of their Constitutional eligibility to aspire to the Presidency and has judges running interference for him in the process of evading Truth, I question their motive(s) which causes the doubts to morph into suspicion which turns into complete and total disgust. I hate cowards. What is he afraid of? Truth? Who fears Truth?

When a Presidential Aspirant, claiming to know the United States Constitution and having been professor TEACHING the Constitution doesn't even know the Constitution, how then can he be a leader of a Constitutional Government? Unless, naturally, he intends to eliminate that Constitution. After all, Barack's Marxist ideologies are diametrically opposed to Freedom and the US Constitution stands in his way.

Barack didn't even write his own book.

No one knows if the polls are accurate. No one. Better people than I are in a tizzy about the polls and others swallow the poll data as Gospel. It has been said that the internal polls do not agree with the polls released to the general public.

Obama Advisor Praises Iran

OBAMA ADVISOR PRAISES IRAN

A note from Radarsite: "Welcome to the future of our foreign relations under Barack Obama. Much like his campaign, it involves dreams and fantasy." This from Ed Lasky in his superb editorial response to The Boston Globe. Now more than ever, in these last few days before this fateful election, it is vitally important to thoroughly understand what is at stake here, and to remember that what is happening in America right now has happened before.

One of the biggest misconceptions about Germany's infamous Third Reich is that Adolf Hitler somehow seized power and that the worst excesses of Nazism were later unleashed on the unsuspecting German people after he had assumed the reins of government. (Note: Before letting out that exasperated sigh and saying, Oh no, not another Hitler parallel, please read on). Thus the German Volk have been disingenuously portrayed as innocent victims rather than the complicit participants they most certainly were. The truth of the matter is a little less attractive. The overt murderous racism, the horrors of the Holocaust, the ruthless military aggressions, the almost complete suppression of civil rights, the ultimate invasion of Russia -- all of these fateful and ultimately catastrophic realizations of the goals of the Third Reich were clearly spelled out for all to see long before January 1933 when Hitler finally assumed the Chancellorship of Germany.

Throughout the pages of Mein Kampf, and in all of the Nazi manifestos, and in their hundreds of widely-publicised speeches their intentions were made crystal clear. And, far from seizing power, Hitler and the Nazis were legally voted into office. Subsequently, through a whole series of votes and referendums, all of Hitler's wildest ambitions were easily ratified and given the force of law.
Why? A wildly popular and charismatic leader had promised change. And the German people desperately wanted change. And they most certainly got it.

Here once again we are being seduced by the siren song of yet another popular charismatic leader who is promising us change. And in his Twenty-First century version of Mein Kampf, and in all of his party's manifestos, and in all of his innumerable speeches, his wildly ambitious and ultimately disastrous agenda is laid out openly for all to see. This article is just one more example of what we can expect from an Obama government. This will be our impotent answer to the existential threats posed by the mad mullahs. This will be our future.

If Barack Obama wins this election this coming Tuesday, no matter how horrific the consequences of an Obama presidency might be, we cannot pretend that we didn't know what was coming, and that a majority of Americans didn't enthusiastically embrace it.

Please God give us the courage and the wisdom the steer the right course through these perilous waters. - rg
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Cross posted from PA Pundits

h/t to Tony from Oz at Real Clear Politics
October 28, 2008
Ed Lasky

Well, is it that hard to believe in this day and age that a major American newspaper offers up an op-ed filled with praise for Iran? This would be Friday’s Boston Globe in an op-ed written by Lawrence Korb and Laura Conley, both of whom work for the liberal minded Center for American Progress.

By the way, the fact that Korb has been identified as a key foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama is completely unmentioned - a major journalistic lapse but not a surprising one by the New York Times-owned Boston Globe.

Korb and Conley look upon Iranian efforts to help topple the Taliban as proof of the potential for Iran to work with America in bringing about some sort of Pax Persia in the region. This is a fallacy. Iran opposed the Taliban because the Taliban - a Sunni extremist group - hated the Shiite Persians that were on its border and hated the Shiites within Afghanistan. The Taliban murdered Iranian regime officials. The downfall of the Taliban was in the interest of the regime and their help when America sought to oust the Taliban was based strictly on self-interest. In the diplomatic realm, nations don’t have permanent friends, they have permanent interests. The interests of the Iranian regime is regional hegemony and the acquisition of nuclear bombs.

Korb and Conley blame Bush for failure to reach out to the Iranians. This argument falls flat. In fact, various Bush officials have sought to reach out to the regime (as even the op-ed mentions in passing) but have been rebuffed - as have a long line of other Presidents who have tried to establish relations with the Iranians. This is a fact that the op-ed ignores.

The op-ed also seems to blame Bush for the progress of the Iranian nuclear program. This is absurd. The program did not start under Bush (and was actually temporarily put on hold in the wake of our invasion of Iraq) but had its origins going back to the 1980s. The program has progressed apace - under Democrat and Republican Presidents. We have sought, along with the United Nations and our European allies, to work with the Iranians to curb their nuclear program in return for various “carrots” offered to them. The result? Rebuff after rebuff, as the centrifuges spin away.

What is especially striking in this op-ed is the complete silence regarding the nature of the Iranian regime. One would hope that a foreign policy expert close to Barack Obama would at least recognize how important it is to consider the nature of a regime when advocating diplomatic outreach. Where is the recognition that the regime is - and has long been - designated as the number one terror-sponsoring nation in the world (as Bill Clinton so designated Iran)? Where is the recognition that Iran has been helping kill Americans in Iraq and has done so in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, or the awareness that Iranian proxies have killed innocent Argentineans, Lebanese, Israelis and for that matter Iranians (a regime that hangs children and gays and brutalizes women wins praise from Korb and Conley?).
That little matter of denying the Holocaust while openly boasting of plans to bring about another one? The theological and apocalyptic musings of its leaders (not just President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad), the talk of halos and apocalypse spoken by Ahmadinejad from the podium of the United Nations to bring about the return of the missing Imam? Sheer piffle, not worth mentioning. We will see more of these efforts to burnish Iran in the days ahead. The Iran lobby is stepping up efforts in Washington. The Persian red carpet is being rolled out.

Welcome to the future of our foreign relations under Barack Obama. Much like his campaign, it involves dreams and fantasy.

Ed Lasky is the news editor for American Thinker. >

Obama, ACORN, Fraud: Alas I Repeat Myself

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Apparently, the Obama Campaign is running scared and running on empty. Having outspent McCain close enough to call it 3:1, all Obama can do is "close the deal" on an even par or a dead heat? That's it? To top it off, when the left-leaning pollsters cannot hide the fact that the Obama spread is categorically ZERO, something is amiss in their "unbiased" statistical collection and data mining. Behold:

The KOSmonoffs have been attempting to sway the masses that Obama is light years ahead of Jesus Christ via their version of a scientific poll. They have been saying that Obama is as much as 57 to McCain's high 30s to mid-40s totally running against the historical magic number for a Democrat "win majority" of 48 as explained and proved by that turn-coat and renegade Zell Miller. However, it doesn't end there. The panic setting in among the most ardent worshipers of the Marxist Obama can be witnessed here if it hasn't been removed yet. This is the perfect picture-perfect problem with living by the pollsters and not having a brain of your own.

The only way Obama can win is to lie, cheat and steal as the Democrat Party is habitually and historically prone to do. How many dead Republicans have turned up to vote on elections days? Compare that to how many dead Democrats show up to vote and you will have your answers as to where the voter fraud problems originate.

Obama and Biden have stated recently that they have had no ties to ACORN which, we all know to be an absolute lie. I suppose nearly $800K from the Obama Campaign being funneled to ACORN was simply a "misstep" of sorts.

Obama's Education Plan: All About Reparations? All About White Supremacy?

Cross-posted by Maggie at Maggie's Notebook

Of the many concerning issues revolving around the possible election of Barack Obama as President, education has been somewhat pushed by the wayside.

Let us examine his education plan...as he has said...his "life's work" has been within education...and examine also what and who will further guide his educational policies.

Links to each candidate's education plan at end of this post

My research reveals that three individuals have, and will have, great influence on Barack Obama's plans for educating our children:

1) Linda Darling-Hammond, Obama's current Education Advisor, and thought be Obama's Secretary of Education

2) Gloria-Ladson Billings who has authored and endorsed educational thought which Darling-Hammond and Barack Obama affirm

3) Williams Ayers, whose close working relationship with Obama, as Obama entered the education arena, is perhaps the most influential of the three.

In their own words first (emphasis Maggie's Notebook):
Linda Darling-Hammond - currently Senator Barack Obama's Education Advisor
Charles E. Ducommon Professor of Education at Stanford University

As Gloria Ladson-Billings, former president of the American Educational Research Association, [Ayers is currently the Vice-President-elect] has noted, the problem we face is less an "achievement gap" than an educational debt that has accumulated over centuries of denied access to education and employment, reinforced by deepening poverty and resource inequalities in schools. Until American society confronts the accumulated educational debt owed to these students and takes responsibility for the inferior resources they receive, Ladson-Billings argues, children of color and of poverty will continue to be left behind.

[advocating for]...a system of teacher preparation and professional development that would routinely produce high-quality teaching; curriculums and assessments that encourage critical thinking and performance skills; high-quality preschool education, libraries and learning materials; and healthcare for poor children. Instead, the law wastes scarce resources on a complicated test score game that appears to be narrowing the curriculum, uprooting successful programs and pushing low-achieving students out of many schools.

Major investments must be made in the ability of schools to hire and support well-prepared teachers and leaders. While NCLB sets an expectation for hiring qualified teachers, it does not include supports to make this possible. Federal leadership in developing an adequate supply of well-qualified teachers is needed. Just as it has helped provide an adequate supply of physicians for more than forty years, it can provide training for those who prepare in specialties for which there is a shortage and agree to locate in underserved areas.

A Marshall Plan for Teaching could insure that all students are taught by well-qualified teachers within the next five years through a federal policy that (1) recruits new teachers using service scholarships that underwrite their preparation for high-need fields and locations and adds incentives for expert veteran teachers to teach in high-need schools; (2) strengthens teachers' preparation through support for professional development schools, like teaching hospitals, which offer top-quality urban teacher residencies to candidates who will stay in high-need districts; and (3) improves teacher retention and effectiveness by insuring that novices have mentoring support during their early years, when 30 percent of them drop out.

For an annual cost of $3 billion, or less than one week in Iraq, the nation could underwrite the high-quality preparation of 40,000 teachers annually--enough to fill all the vacancies taken by unprepared teachers each year; seed 100 top-quality urban-teacher-education programs and improve the capacity of all programs to prepare teachers who can teach diverse learners well; insure mentors for every new teacher hired each year; and provide incentives to bring expert teachers into high-need schools by improving salaries and working conditions. Source: The Nation, May 2, 2007

Question here: Why are teachers not coming out of their higher learning educations as "high-quality" teachers? Why are we hiring "unprepared" teachers? Mentoring for new teachers should come from the spirit of any fellow worker helping out a fellow worker. Why do we a need a program? Why must we pay to mentor others? Does anyone think Darling-Hammonds program can be enacted for $3 Billion?

Gloria Ladson-Billings

Not much here from Ladson-Billings herself other than the paper below, which is immensely revealing, however, you'll find much said by Ayers and Darling-Hammond.

From a Ladson-Billing paper (just the link - click to read her work) From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S.Schools

[quote from her book blurb: The Dreamkeepers...] Historically, they have been denied schooling, subject to separate and unequal education, and forced into unsafe, unhealthy, substandard schools.

William Ayers:

The following Ayers quotes link to his blogs

The dominant narrative in contemporary school reform is once again focused on exclusion and disadvantage, race and class, black and white. “Across the US,” the National Governor’s Association declared in 2005, “a gap in academic achievement persists between minority and disadvantaged students and their white counterparts.” This is the commonly referenced and popularly understood “racial achievement gap,” and it drives education policy at every level. Interestingly, whether heartfelt or self-satisfied, the narrative never mentions the monster in the room: white supremacy

Gloria Ladson-Billings upends all of this with an elegant reversal: there is no achievement gap, she argues, but actually a glancing reflection of something deeper and more profound—America has a profound education debt. The educational inequities that began with the annihilation of native peoples and the enslavement of Africans, the conquest of the continent and the importation of both free labor and serfs, transformed into apartheid education, something anemic, inferior, inadequate, and oppressive. Over decades and centuries the debt has accumulated and is passed from generation to generation, and it continues to grow and pile up.

Ladson-Billings argues that the US owes a moral debt to African-Americans, a dept that `reflects the disparity between what we know is right and what we actually do. Bill Ayers January 2008 blog

In the same Ayers writings linked above, he talks about the difference in standardized test scores between Blacks and Whites, and the idea that there are "genetic differences" between them. He offers two arguments, and then he boils it down to White belief that they are "superior," in the first argument, or in the second that White's have "the advantage of pretending to give a bit more than a pig’s eye for the well-being of Black people while disturbing none of the pillars of white privilege.

A basic tenet of democracy is that the ultimate authority on any individual’s hurt or desire is that individual himself or herself. Education in a democracy demands equity, access, and an acknowledgment of the humanity of each person. The job of schools is to stimulate latent interests, desires, and dreams that cause people to question, to challenge, to criticize, and to act. Obedience and conformity are the enemies of democracy; initiative and courage are its hallmarks.

A fundamental choice and challenge for teachers, then, is this: to acquiesce to the machinery of control, or to take a stand with our students in a search for meaning and a journey of transformation. To teach obedience and conformity, or to teach its polar opposite: initiative and imagination, curiosity and questioning, Bill Ayers March 2008 blogs

Snippets from other links (some duplicates for emphasis):

Gloria Ladson-Billings supports Weather Underground terrorist, Bill Ayers. She signed the petition, one of many academics to do so, in support of Bill Ayers' character.

Global Labor and Politics:

In fact, Ayers and Dohrn would take their initial interest in the Black Power movement to an extreme arguing then, as they do now, that "white supremacy" and "white skin privilege" are the central sins of American life. Thus, Ayers has endorsed a proposal made by Linda Darling-Hammond, an education advisor to Barack Obama, to repay something she calls "education debt" that has, she argues, accumulated over centuries to people of color.

The idea was initiated by a colleague of Darling-Hammond's and Ayers', Gloria Ladson-Billings, who roots her proposal in the argument among some in the black community, like the Trinity church that the Obama family belongs to, that whites owe blacks reparations for slavery

The Obama-Ayers Top Ten Highlights

Obama’s DCP [Developing Communities Project] supported radical school reform project together with Bill Ayers. In 1987 in the wake of a controversial strike by the Chicago Teachers’ Union, the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools, or ABCs, was formed to lobby for a new Illinois law that would mandate the establishment of a new power center in Chicago public schools. Local school councils would be established to watchdog union teachers and their principals and they would have the power to fire principals at will.

Bill Ayers helped organize the ABCs [Alliance for Better Chicago Schools] group, was its contact person and later its chair. Barack Obama worked on school reform efforts for the DCP at that time and the DCP was a member of the ABCs. Chicago United, a business group established by Tom Ayers, Bill’s father, was also a member of the ABCs.

The Woods Fund also provided additional financial support to the DCP in 1988 to support its school reform efforts. A program officer of the Woods Fund at the time was Ken Rolling who would later be hired by Bill Ayers and Barack Obama as Executive Director of the $110 million Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

In 2006 Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings of the University of Wisconsin, the then president of the American Education Research Association (AERA), the nation’s leading School of Education professional association, proposed a new policy to tackle the problems of America’s public schools: the repayment of centuries of “education debt” that allegedly is owed to people of color as a result of slavery and discrimination. She rooted the concept in the literature supporting reparations for slavery.

In 2007 Linda Darling-Hammond, a prominent and respected professor at the Stanford University School of Education, endorsed the same idea in an article in The Nation. In late 2007 Darling-Hammond was named an education advisor to the Obama campaign. In February 2008 Darling-Hammond issued a blueprint for education reform by the next President that set as its #1 priority the repayment of the “education debt,” as proposed originally by Ladson-Billings.

Bill Ayers has endorsed the idea of repayment of the “education debt.” Ayers is now a Vice President-elect (Division B: Curriculum Studies) of the AERA.

A chapter called “Education for Democracy” by Darling-Hammond appeared in a volume co-edited by Ayers called A Light in Dark Times. A chapter co-authored by Ladson-Billings on “racing justice” appeared in a book co-edited by Ayers called Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader. Ladson-Billings wrote the foreword to Ayers’ book, To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher. Ayers and Ladson-Billings are co-editors of City Kids, City Schools: More Reports from the Front Row just published. Ladson-Billings contributed a chapter in a book edited by Bill Ayers, Rick Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Jesse L. Jackson called Zero Tolerance: Resisting the Drive for Punishment published in 2001.

More fundamentally, Bill Ayers introduced the concept of “white supremacy” as America’s original sin...

Ayers argues that the fundamental issue in American life is “white skin privilege” - that white Americans benefit from being white at the expense of blacks.

Bill Ayers long time comrade Mike Klonsky blogs [now gone from campaign website] for Obama.One of Bill Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s comrades in the late 60s Students for a Democratic Society was Mike Klonsky. When Dohrn and Ayers moved in one direction toward the violent tactics of the Weather Underground, Klonsky, in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, dropped the pro-Russian communist politics of his parents and became a committed Maoist. As leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) in 1977 he traveled to Beijing and was toasted by the senior Beijing leadership.

When the crazy left of the 70s died in the 80s, Klonsky went to graduate school in education in Florida and then moved to Chicago. While driving a cab there he was recruited by his old friend Bill Ayers to head up a new project called the Small Schools Workshop in 1991. It’s offices were in the Department of Education building at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus where Ayers taught. In 1995 the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge headed by Ayers and Obama gave the Workshop a grant of $175,000. The Annenberg Challenge [Obama was the CEO) also had its office space in the same building as Ayers Department and the Workshop, rent free courtesy of the University.

"Social Justice" Teaching

In 2008 Klonsky ran a blog on the official Obama campaign website on education policy and “social justice” teaching. When discussion of the Klonsky blog emerged in the blogosphere, it was promptly shut down by the campaign and all of the posts made by Klonsky were removed from the site.

Real Ayers Danger: Education Radicalism

But in looking deeper into the Ayers connection, I realize that part of the story has not been effectively told -- and that is the practical impact that Ayers will have on the education policy of an Obama presidency. The most significant aspect is a focus on "education debt" -- essentially paying reparations to minorities for the "history of oppression" perpetrated by Whites. This is a cornerstone of Bill Ayers' education reform program, and is also a key element in the race-based education philosophy of Linda Darling-Hammond -- a Professor of Education at Stanford, Obama's primary education adviser and prospective Secretary of Education in an Obama administration.

Here's part of what I found -- excerpted from my piece entitled "Reading, Writing and Radicalism":

It is in this context that the Obama-Ayers relationship should be viewed. While the Ayers’ terrorist connections are significant retrospectively, his education goals that were actively endorsed and sponsored by Barack Obama are prospectively even more important.

And this is where things get interesting. While it is obvious that Ayers will not have a formal role in an Obama administration, it is equally obvious that Obama’s experience with Ayers and the CAC [Chicago Annenberg Challenge] will animate his education policy as president.

The Obama Campaign’s primary education adviser is Linda Darling-Hammond, a Professor of Education at Stanford University, and well-known expert in school design and teacher training. Hammond has been mentioned as a possible Secretary of Education in an Obama administration, has been a vocal supporter of traditional teacher certification programs, current union control of public education and opposes charter school programs. She also has been a vocal critic of the implementation of the current No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. More importantly, she is an advocate of a race-based paradigm for education that fully embraces the concept of “education debt” – a form of reparations for generations of racial bias perpetrated by White America.

Hammond argued forcefully last year in the liberal magazine The Nation, for example, the importance of “pay(ing) off the educational debt to disadvantaged students that has accrued over centuries of unequal access to quality education.” The concept of education debt is an idea laid out in 2006 by Professor Gloria Ladson-Billings of the University of Wisconsin, the then-president of the American Education Research Association and actively supported by Ayers. Ayers wrote himself in January of 2008 on his website the following:

Further, the long-standing professional relationship between Ayers, Darling-Hammond and Ladson-Billings – and thus Barack Obama -- is well established.

As legal analyst Steve Diamond writes at No Quarter, a chapter called “Education for Democracy” by Darling-Hammond appeared in a volume co-edited by Ayers called “A Light in Dark Times”. In addition, a chapter co-authored by Ladson-Billings on “racing justice” appeared in a book co-edited by Ayers called “Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader”. Ladson-Billings wrote the foreword to Ayers’ book “To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher” and Ayers and Ladson-Billings are co-editors of “City Kids, City Schools: More Reports from the Front Row” just published. All have been consistent in support of a radical education reform program.

Linda Darling-Hammond’s piece in The Nation is an excellent illumination of what may underscore education policy under a President Obama. She makes abundantly clear that she supports the notion of education reparations and that this should be paid in part by a wholesale revamping of NCLB to focus on more on investment and less on testing – modifications that the Obama Campaign’s education platform also supports . She calls for a “New paradigm for national education policy…guided by dual commitments to support meaningful learning on the part of students, teachers and schools; and to pay off the educational debt, making it possible for all students to benefit from more productive schools.” This is education code-speak for vast sums of money to be poured into minority schools and community programs to atone for past sins.

The Ayers-Hammond approach to education debt has been essentially supported by Barack Obama on the campaign trail. In fact, Obama has spoken repeatedly about the need for reparations to make amends for the past oppression of minorities. On “Meet the Press” in July he said:

[Obama]The biggest problem that we have in terms of race relations, I think, is dealing with the legacy of past discrimination which has resulted in extreme disparities in terms of poverty, in terms of wealth and in terms of income…And that involves investing in early childhood education, fixing the schools in those communities, being willing to work in terms of job retraining. And those are serious investments.

Obama’s education platform as outlined at his campaign website is full of community-focused programs that will be ripe targets for massive “reparation” investments in a reformulated NCLB [No Child Left Behind]. His K-12 Education Fact Sheet discusses at length the expansion of Head Start programs, universal preschool and includes “enlisting parents and communities to support teaching and learning”, including “school-family contracts” and a massive school redesign project that includes increased funding for teacher recruitment and retention. It is a blueprint taken almost whole-cloth from one written by Darling-Hammond that calls for a “Marshall Plan” for teaching and the institution of a more authoritarian structure for driving curriculum development, testing and investment. Like Ayers’ own admiration of Venezuela’s centralized educational dictatorship, Darling-Hammond has expressed support for countries such as Singapore that have instituted highly structured systems that are the antithesis of school choice – signaling what will certainly be a strong emphasis on the unionized public education system in the U.S. under an Obama administration.

The real impact of the Obama-Ayers relationship is not in Ayers’ radical past but rather in his radical present. The influence that Ayers’ has had on Obama’s view of education during his time at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge can be seen in his appointment of Linda Darling-Hammond as his primary education advisor, and signals what is certain to be radical reform at the core of Obama’s education policy as president. This will include more investment into the current public school monopoly at the expense of free market solutions like vouchers and charter schools, and a more aggressive social change agenda that will result in greater control by unions and community organizations – all orthodox elements of the William Ayers radical agenda.

Transcript:
On October 21st, Education Week moderated a debate between Senator Obama's Education Advisor, Linda Darling-Hammond and Senator McCain's Education Advisor, Lisa Graham Keegan. The transcript can be read here.

The Obama-Biden Education Plan
Note that this plan clearly promises to educate your child from age zero to five years.

The McCain Education Plan


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And if you still believe that Barack Obama does not, and has not, had a close relationship with William Ayers, if you still believe that Ayers is "just a guy in the neighborhood:
Obama and Ayers Shared an Office for Three Years

Obama: Racist/Socialist

The news of the day reveals an audio tape of a radio interview Senator Obama did in 2001, while he was a law school lecturer. World Net Daily posted a video containing a substantial portion of the interview.

WBEZ claims to have an audio tape; I could not make the download work. I transcribed the following from the version posted at WND.

If you look at the... victories and failures of the civil rights movements, ... and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously
dispossessed peoples so that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter an order as long as I could pay for it I'd be ok. But the Supreme court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and sort of more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society and uh to that extent and as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, uh it wasn't that radical, it didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by by the founding fathers in the Constitution at least as it's been interpreted and the Warren Court interpreted it in the same way that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the States can't do to you; says what the Federal Government can't do to you, but it doesn't say what the Federal Government or the State Government must do must do on your behalf, and that hasn't shifted and I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was , because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think
there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change and in some ways we still suffer from that.

I'm not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts, the institution just isn't structured that way. You just look at very rare examples where during the desegregation era, the court was willing to, for example, order uh, changes that cost money to a local school district; and the court was very uncomfortable with it, it was hard to manage, it was hard to figure out; ah, you start getting into all sorts of separation of powers issues in terms of the court monitoring or engaging in a process that essentially is administrative and takes a lot of time... . The court's just not very good at it, and politically, its just, its very hard to legitimize opinions from the court in that regard, so I think that although you can craft theoretical justifications for it legally, I think any three of us sitting here could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts.

The reference to the civil rights movements sets the context: Obama is focused on race relations: Black vs White, just like the focus of the church he attended for twenty years. The first reference to redistribution of wealth establishes the subject. Barrack Hussein Obama was talking about empowering the Federal Government to take money from 'rich' Whites and give it to 'poor' Blacks. He was making a pitch for Black votes at our expense. What could be more racist?

The subsequent reference to 'economic justice' confirms the obvious, removing all doubt. Next, Obama dives into the Warren Court's interpretation of the Constitution, saying that it was not radical because "it didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution". No court in its right mind, faithful to its oath of office, would break free from those essential constraints. We must assume that Barack Hussein Obama would appoint Justices who would perform that act of unconstitutional injustice.

Obama continues on the Constitution: "but it doesn't say what the Federal Government or the State Government must do must do on your behalf". For a Constitutional lawyer, he seems singularly unaware of the significance of the philosophy held by the founders. The Federal Government is not your mother: it does not wipe your ass & nose. The Federal Government is not Santa Clause: it does not bring you presents. Those are not its functions.

Now we must listen between the lines: I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court focused, I think there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change and in some ways we still suffer from that. The Civil Rights movement was about obtaining civil & legal equality, not redistributing wealth. Obama switches its focus retroactively to convert it into a means of obtaining money from Whites. It should have shunned litigation and brought about redistribution of wealth through organizing coalitions of power. Armed robbery, perhaps? Or racial politics, in which a minority would convert the Federal Government for robbery by proxy?

Next, Obama reveals his strategic objective: I'm not optimistic about bringing about major redistributive change through the courts, the institution just isn't structured that way. We know what he wants to do. It ain't just, moral nor constitutional. Now we know what he will set out to do legislatively.

We have learned that Obama is a divider, a racial divider, not a uniter. We have learned that he intends to take our income and give it to his Black constituency in the slums of Chicago. We have learned of his intense contempt for the Constitution and the principles upon which it is founded. We can only conclude that his political career must come to an end with his first term in the Senate, for which he is both unworthy & unqualified. God forfend and voters forbid he should ever cross the threshold of the White House!

McCain: Obama, Pelosi and Reid - A Dangerous Threesome

~Snooper~

I thought McCain was going to address the Obama 2001 "redistribution of wealth" meme but he did not.

He did say that government will be getting OUT of the housing business almost immediately and that is a GREAT thing, dammit!

The MONEY quote was:

"Obama, Pelosi and Reid is a dangerous threesome."

AMEN AND AMEN!!

UPDATE: The Hill is now writing about this but I heard it live and blogged it before the press conference concluded.

If Biden Can Flourish, So Can I

~Snooper~

A pictorial is worth a bazillion words. Verbiage can be written or spoken but pictures do much better. Then again, pictures and verbiage is even better. Correct? All pictures below are courtesy Anti-Mullah.

Once upon a time, there was an election in the United States. It was the very last of the free elections and the rest for several generations were those in the Saddam Hussein Iraq era. He always got 100% of the votes with the dissenters placed in rape rooms, brothels and wood shredders. The One that brought about these new style elections was a magical entity and he was able to sucker the once mighty Main Stream Media since relegated to zipping and unzipping the trousers of The One...he cannot be soiled you know. Thus, their reward was leg shivers for as long as they desired. It was indeed uncanny and eerie but the journalists, with nothing of importance to report any longer save that which The One deemed appropriate, necessary and fair, what else was there to do but tend their allotted lot in life. They neither had more or less than what they needed to get by on from day to day and the lines at the State Food Dispensaries were always stocked with the required sustenance for the day.

The One frolicked with his most ardent and loyal friends day by day and he was pleased. His many women were clad eloquently in the garb of the day. They were once called Burrkahs but, that was no longer chic. Rosie O'Donnel renamed them something else which escapes me at the moment, allah be praised. The Civilian National Security Forces were ardent followers of The One and ensured strict compliance to the New Code and the New Way of The One, lord messiah and prophet of the New Order.

The newly formed Islamic 57 States World Compliance Enforcement Committees saw to it that the populace behaved according to The One. Hawaii was made the New Reeducation Camps with limited access so as to not raise Cain and irk the ire of those suited unfit to dwell among The One's Chosen.

The One was said to be the archaic Anti-Christ but The One merely chuckled to himself and let that be because after all, he did have a sense of humor. Also, he stipulated that the christ was dead and he is The New One. So, there was no need to really banish those that so believed in the silly 666 Myth. However, those that were rather madly convinced were sent to The Camps in Hawaii...out of sight and out of mind, as it were...allah be praised. Alas, I have gotten ahead of myself. We must take a trip down memory lane, The New One willing. Change was in the air and now that Change is here, we can look back to see how The Change came to be.

Unknown to the silly people that so thought Freedom was The Ideal, there were agents of The Change sent to the now defunct USA, once a great power and Beacon of Hope and Freedom to reteach the Wanderlings and sway them from their evil ways and means.

The Changlings were sent to lead The New Way and the New Social Order because those that went before them had failed and were banished to obscurity and worked behind closed doors to pave The Way for The One to emerge. They were known as The Ayers and The Alinsky and more that cannot be known because the elements in Hawaii just might get loose one day and ruin it all. Those are the silly people that called themselves conservatives.

The One had friends and there was not much difference between them. Their goals and beliefs were the same. The USA had become iconic and The One was jealous because he was destined to be The New Icon and his friends agreed. He was schooled in their ways in a remote land called Kenya and Indonesia now part of the rightful Caliphate, allah be praised and exalted above all and everything, but The One. Aren't those hats just the cat's tongue? But, The One was lonely for his family because his father has deserted him as a child and was adopted by an enemy of the old USA, that terrible Beacon of Hope and Freedom that the world both worshiped and hated. His family was far away but the word soon reached The One and he was pleased.

They were on their way. It wasn't clear how they would traverse the High Seas but The One would find a way. Having heard that their The One had accomplished his Hope and Change in a far away place, they came from hither and yon, seeking their rightful solace in their The One's shadow and worth presence and shelter.

They brought nothing but what they could carry knowing that The One would grant them all they would ever need to live day by day. They were The Family from different parents, some having upwards to 9 different mothers and hundreds of fathers or so the lore was passed down from that single tree with no limbs. It was quite simple really.

Soon, adequate housing would finally be afforded to them as it was their right of passage. No longer would they live in squalor and fight off those Malaria buzzy bugs. No more sleeping in mud huts with dirt as their carpet. Milk and Honey was the order of the day. Security would no longer be a problem because all are the same and no one would need more than their fair share. Nor would they desire anything more than The One so proclaimed. The One spoke and all that was to be as it was spoken by The One would be. No longer would the rains fill the bedding. Utopia, that mythical place of No Place was finally discovered and was within reach of all that bowed at the feet of The One.

No longer were there rumors and factual voter fraud, that ugly four-letter Freedom Word. The One made sure of that. Oddly enough, after The One was crowned Prince of allah in The New World, he received all of the votes because he was The One and was well beloved.

It no longer mattered that he was not born of the Old World because he was a Citizen of The New World and that was all that mattered...it was settled in The New World Courts and the Disjointed and Unilaterally Tainted Nations of Old York. Old York was the vast wastelend that was created during the testing. The Testing Time was a frightening time for all - even for The One. The One was told by his friend of Persia that all would be well as long as he had all of Arabia and the lands between, adjacent to and abutting those lands between and next to and beyond. But The Other One soon became enraged with ire and loss of sleep from working 20 hours a day with no rest.

The testing came and all was not well at the Temple Of Doom and Gloom, affectionately named because none were worthy of allah save The Real One that The Other One truly hated. The skies filled with rocket pollutants and poked holes in The Ozone which was worshiped by The Gore now sequestered in a safe but undisclosed location rumored to be made of rubber for his own sacrifices to The One which banished him from other people that would do him harm - especially those banished to the Reeducation Camps. The rockets had no guidance and went to and fro seeking whom they could devour and destroy. They went wild and followed their programming by The Other One that hated The True New One that had a number 12 on his hinder parts so none could see who he was. It is said that the skies were filled with mushrooms, but, alas, that was before my time and The One is not so openly speaking of such things now that time has passed and the crops have once again started to grow, albeit they glow in the dark.

It makes it easier to harvest.

As time went by, those that could or would pray, both Man and Beast, did so and The One hunted them down but could not find them...he couldn't swim.

If allowed, vote accordingly.

Trackposted to Rosemary's Thoughts, Political Byline, Woman Honor Thyself, McCain Blogs, Right Truth, DragonLady's World, Pirate's Cove, The Pink Flamingo, Cao's Blog, and Democrat=Socialist, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.