That Which Is Hidden Will Be Known

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Barack may get away with something, but he can't get away from:

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"Ayers and Dohrn invited Windy City liberals into their living room to meet Obama when he first ran for Illinois state senate in 1995. 'They were launching him' — as Chicago’s Maria Warren recalled in her Internet diary, 'Musings and Migraines' — 'introducing him to the Hyde Park Community as the best thing since sliced bread.'

...While Obama today calls Ayers’ behavior 'detestable acts,' the question nevertheless occurs: What did Ayers and Dohrn see in Barack Obama? What inspired these unrepentant, hard-Left, former domestic terrorists to hand the chairmanship of Ayers’ foundation and share their home and friends with the charismatic then-35-year-old whose current 95.5 percent Left-wing vote record made him The National Journal’s 'Most Liberal Senator In 2007?'"

— Deroy Murdock, asking the most important question of this election, for the National Review Online

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"The Obama campaign claims that his name was suggested [for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge] by a couple of other foundation presidents who were on a committee there, and that may or not be true. But the truth is that Bill Ayers was the most powerful person on that foundation and he was on that committee that selected the board members. It is extremely unlikely that Obama would have been chosen without Ayers’ say so. And I also published recently an e-mail message I got as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. You can read that message a couple of ways, but I think the most plausible reading is that the fellow who sent it—who used to the executive director of this foundation—was basically admitting to some people that he had been avoiding reporters’ questions about the full story about how Obama got chosen. I wish the press would follow it up, but at least it begins to look as though there might have been a cover up there about Ayers’ rule and choosing Obama in that—to be head of that foundation."

-- Stanley Kurtz, on one of the questions the press won't investigate (during a discussion on how the Obama campaign has used intimidation tactics to try and silence him) on Townhall.com.

"Ayers was the only individual,...with legal authority to select board members. He relied on advice from Leff, Graham and Simmons but only he had the legal authority to approve board members. Thus, legally, Ayers approved the selection of Obama as a result of meeting with him prior to the board meeting (in fact, even if they had not met or first met at the board meeting Ayers’ silence would be deemed approval). Thus, Ayers was “involved” and in fact had to have been given his role as the legal agent of the Collaborative.

If Ayers objected to Obama, Obama could not have become a member of the CAC board because no one else had the legal authority to approve his selection. If Ayers had come out of that lunch with Obama and expressed an objection Leff, Simmons and Graham would have had to go back to the drawing board.

While I have speculated that Ayers and Obama knew each other before the CAC, it is nonetheless clear to me that Ayers appointed Obama to the board and thus helped Obama’s career at a very significant point – just in advance of his first political campaign which as we know was launched at Ayers’ house a few months after these events. That impact stands apart from whether they shared a pre-95 history."

-- Steve Diamond, in an e-mail to the The New York Times "reporter" that interviewed him three times (but without the NYT printing his answers, or documents, revealing the multiple business connections between Obama and Ayers) while the rest of "the press" continues to act like Diamond doesn't exist - with his left-wing blog Global Labor and Politics.

The Fact Of The Matter: Obama's Lying (Again)

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This Ain't No Game

The game mainstream media is playing while covering Barack Obama's campaign is just stunning. Is it that they don't want to do their job? Or they no longer know what their job is? Are they part of the "Obama Cult"? Being a news junkie, those are but a few of the many questions I'm left to wrestle with these days.

Take the language "journalist" Ron Claiborne (above) used in this ABC News article on the McCain campaign's decision to go forward with attacking the connections between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers:

"There is scant evidence that the two men were much more than acquaintances who happened to serve together on two not-for-profit boards several years ago."

Really? From what I've heard, their families have a relationship that goes all the way back to 1987 when Michelle Obama and Ayers's wife, the terrorist Bernadine Dorne, worked together in a Chicago law firm. Funny that the "girls" of The View never brought that up. But since it's out there, and documented as fact, do you think it's fair or accurate for Claiborne to report "there is scant evidence that the two men were much more than acquaintances"?

And why are reporters taking the word of Obama's supporters and ignoring his many critics, when his supporters have, repeatedly, been doing nasty things to keep the story quiet? Their ugly attempts to censor others, alone, should be a huge story considering the supposed intent and image of the campaign Obama claimed to be leading. But, for some reason, the MSM hears and sees no evil.

Barack Obama headed Bill Ayers's multi-million dollar pet project, The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and it was a complete and utter failure. Hardly the relationship of just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood" that Obama described to George Stephanopoulos. Where are the TV news stories and newspaper articles holding up The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or The Woods Foundation, or the results of his housing policy, as proof Obama doesn't know how to run anything? Isn't that the media's job?

And why can I find all these articles but Ron Claiborne and George Stephanopoulos of ABC News can't? What are they doing with their time this election season? Apparently coming up with clever ways to say nothing so, if there's an Obama presidency, they're insured to have access so they can spew more blow-dried nonsense to the citizens of the country.

Check out the lawyer-speak Obama used when talking about Ayers:

"He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."

So Obama admits he does "exchange ideas" with the commie terrorist; it just doesn't happen "on a regular basis", right? Maybe we've got some kind of "Manchurian Candidate" thing going on here?

Maybe not. But wouldn't you think a real "journalist" would want to know what ideas a potential president of the United States is exchanging with an unrepentant terrorist who has said he's determined to bring down America and our capitalist system? Sounds like a front page headline for whoever gets to the bottom of all this stuff but, for some reason - after 19 months on the campaign trail - no journalist has seen fit to find out. Bizarre, isn't it? I mean, it's bad enough that Obama said it during a televised debate and neither George Stephanopoulos, most other journalists, or the general public cared enough to bat an eyelash, but considering that charges of cultism have been leveled at the Obama campaign for some time now, I ask you: what else could be going on here? Or am I to believe, when it comes to the highest office in the land and the most powerful position in the world, all these supposedly smart people just got struck with a bad case of stupid?

Ron Claiborne continues:

"What was known about Obama and Ayers' relationship was that Obama attended a political function at Ayers' home in Chicago in 1995. They served together on a couple of non-profit community service boards. Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's state Senate campaign in 2001."

This is just a bunch of easily disproven lies. That "political function at Ayers' home" was actually the coming out party for Obama's Senate campaign. Those "non-profit community service boards" were actually Left-wing organizations with a mandate to indoctrinate our youth with Ayers's ideology. And why would Ayers give any money to a guy he hardly knows, or thinks rejects his ideology? This story - and the reporting that's offered as "coverage" - stinks like a pastor smoking in church. What gives?

Claiborne again:

"The McCain campaign kept suggesting there was more to it. Whenever McCain officials were asked what more they knew, they would say only that they were certain the relationship was closer than Obama described it."

Wouldn't anybody think reporters would try to see if they're right? Get a little "Watergate" action going? What are they waiting for? Like Steven Colbert is going to get to work? Ayers is a terrorist, y'know? Why wait for the McCain campaign to sort it out? Is it just me or isn't running for office what political campaigns are supposed to do and investigations of terrorists what reporters are supposed to do? Could I be confused about that? All Ron Claiborne seems to want to know is what he ends his article with:

"Obama was at Ayers's house once 13 years ago. They served together on two boards. Their children went to the same school."

Sorry, bub, but, amongst those of us who still have working brains, that simplistic assessment of this particularly complex relationship just won't do:

This ain't no game.

Partners: The Monster And The Man

“Despite having authored two autobiographies, Barack Obama has never written about his most important executive experience. From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.

The CAC was the brainchild of Bill Ayers, a founder of the Weather Underground in the 1960s. Among other feats, Mr. Ayers and his cohorts bombed the Pentagon, and he has never expressed regret for his actions. Barack Obama's first run for the Illinois State Senate was launched at a 1995 gathering at Mr. Ayers's home.

The Obama campaign has struggled to downplay that association. Last April, Sen. Obama dismissed Mr. Ayers as just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood," and "not somebody who I exchange ideas with on a regular basis." Yet documents in the CAC archives make clear that Mr. Ayers and Mr. Obama were partners in the CAC.”

-- Stanley Kurtz, digging out the communist mole Barack Obama appears to be, in the Wall Street Journal.