Comments on: New York Times On Obama And Ayers http://www.edwize.org/new-york-times-on-obama-and-ayers Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Steve Diamond http://www.edwize.org/new-york-times-on-obama-and-ayers/comment-page-1#comment-66079 Steve Diamond Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:58:43 +0000 http://edwize.org/?p=2135#comment-66079 Indeed, and the Times refused to let its readers know about the detailed written contemporaneous records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge that demonstrate that only Bill Ayers had the legal authority to appoint the first board members of the CAC including Barack Obama. Instead of telling their readers about the letters between Vartan Gregorian and Ayers, they rely instead on irrelevant chatter from two former foundation presidents 14 years after the fact. Neither Pat Graham nor Deborah Leff had any legal authority whatsoever to appoint Obama. They only had an advisory role to Ayers and Anne Hallett who were the agents of the grant recipient, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative. I provided the Times with the CAC letters between Ayers and Gregorian. They either wilfully and maliciously ignored them or did not understand their implications. Indeed, and the Times refused to let its readers know about the detailed written contemporaneous records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge that demonstrate that only Bill Ayers had the legal authority to appoint the first board members of the CAC including Barack Obama.

Instead of telling their readers about the letters between Vartan Gregorian and Ayers, they rely instead on irrelevant chatter from two former foundation presidents 14 years after the fact.

Neither Pat Graham nor Deborah Leff had any legal authority whatsoever to appoint Obama. They only had an advisory role to Ayers and Anne Hallett who were the agents of the grant recipient, the Chicago School Reform Collaborative.

I provided the Times with the CAC letters between Ayers and Gregorian. They either wilfully and maliciously ignored them or did not understand their implications.

]]> By: R. Skibins http://www.edwize.org/new-york-times-on-obama-and-ayers/comment-page-1#comment-66075 R. Skibins Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:58:09 +0000 http://edwize.org/?p=2135#comment-66075 People are entitled to their own opinions, not their own facts. Anyone can write anything on a blog. People are entitled to their own opinions, not their own facts. Anyone can write anything on a blog.

]]> By: Steve Diamond http://www.edwize.org/new-york-times-on-obama-and-ayers/comment-page-1#comment-66072 Steve Diamond Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:41:48 +0000 http://edwize.org/?p=2135#comment-66072 And as I said here last June the reality is quite different than the Obama Cam...oops I mean the New York Times wants you to believe: http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/10/ayersobama-update-david-blaine-award.html And as I said here last June the reality is quite different than the Obama Cam…oops I mean the New York Times wants you to believe:

http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008/10/ayersobama-update-david-blaine-award.html

]]> By: R. Skibins http://www.edwize.org/new-york-times-on-obama-and-ayers/comment-page-1#comment-66071 R. Skibins Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:48:11 +0000 http://edwize.org/?p=2135#comment-66071 Sorry. I posted the above on the wrong thread. It's late at night. Barak Obama met William Ayers when Ayers already had been an assistant deputy mayor in Chicago and noted education professor. Obama knew him in this capacity when both served on the board of the Annenberg Challenge, as he was only a young child when Ayers was involved in the Weather Underground. It's ironic how Sarah Palin is viciously attacking Barak Obama for ties to him considering her ties to the anti-American Alaska Independence Party, through adresses to the group, a videotaped thank you to the group, and being married to a card-carrying member who only gave up his membership when it suited her political ambitions. What hypocrisy. Sorry. I posted the above on the wrong thread. It’s late at night.

Barak Obama met William Ayers when Ayers already had been an assistant deputy mayor in Chicago and noted education professor. Obama knew him in this capacity when both served on the board of the Annenberg Challenge, as he was only a young child when Ayers was involved in the Weather Underground. It’s ironic how Sarah Palin is viciously attacking Barak Obama for ties to him considering her ties to the anti-American Alaska Independence Party, through adresses to the group, a videotaped thank you to the group, and being married to a card-carrying member who only gave up his membership when it suited her political ambitions. What hypocrisy.

]]> By: R. Skibins http://www.edwize.org/new-york-times-on-obama-and-ayers/comment-page-1#comment-66070 R. Skibins Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:45:58 +0000 http://edwize.org/?p=2135#comment-66070 My school has just had $500K cut from its budget and is facing another 2.5% in cuts. Three teachers and a paraprofessional are losing positions, and two school aides are being laid off. Meanwhile, Klein has awarded $150 million + in no-bid contracts, spends $50 million a year on consultants for "Quality Reviews" and millions more on school report cards when Albany and Washington already rates the schools. He has a squad of lawyers whose sole function is to find ways to deny tenure and circumvent it. He even has people on the payroll just to post pro-Klein messages on message boards and blogs!! He pays millions on the New Teacher Project to hire thousands of Teaching Fellows,subsidizes their Master's degrees, gives them a housing stipend, and half leave after three years! He has millions to do the same for the Leadership Academy, where even the dog catcher can become a principal just as long as they subscribe to his anti-union dogma. And now more educrats are being hired. It's time for William Thompson and Andrew Cuomo to launch full-scale audits and investigations. Also it's time to end mayoral control of the schools. My school has just had $500K cut from its budget and is facing another 2.5% in cuts. Three teachers and a paraprofessional are losing positions, and two school aides are being laid off. Meanwhile, Klein has awarded $150 million + in no-bid contracts, spends $50 million a year on consultants for “Quality Reviews” and millions more on school report cards when Albany and Washington already rates the schools. He has a squad of lawyers whose sole function is to find ways to deny tenure and circumvent it. He even has people on the payroll just to post pro-Klein messages on message boards and blogs!!

He pays millions on the New Teacher Project to hire thousands of Teaching Fellows,subsidizes their Master’s degrees, gives them a housing stipend, and half leave after three years! He has millions to do the same for the Leadership Academy, where even the dog catcher can become a principal just as long as they subscribe to his anti-union dogma. And now more educrats are being hired.

It’s time for William Thompson and Andrew Cuomo to launch full-scale audits and investigations. Also it’s time to end mayoral control of the schools.

]]> By: Redcatcher http://www.edwize.org/new-york-times-on-obama-and-ayers/comment-page-1#comment-66052 Redcatcher Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:51:54 +0000 http://edwize.org/?p=2135#comment-66052 ...and still the mainstream media has refused to ask the senator how many times Ayers has visited his home or gone out with him and his wife socially. …and still the mainstream media has refused to ask the senator how many times Ayers has visited his home or gone out with him and his wife socially.

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