Conservatives Tie Obama Education Speech to Bill Ayers, Hugo Chavez

[babylonsister]

http://washingtonindependent.com/57868/conservatives-tie-obama-speech-to-bill-ayers-hugo-chavez

Conservatives Tie Obama Speech to Bill Ayers, Hugo Chavez
By David Weigel 9/4/09 11:59 AM


If you want to understand where the truly unexpected “Obama will indoctrinate our kids” controversy came from, look no further than the latest column by Michelle Malkin. She begins by mocking “the sneering defenders of Barack Obama who can’t fathom the backlash” and cites, as WorldNetDaily cited, an August 28 assembly at Eagle Bay Elementary School in Farmington, Utah, in which celebrities pledged to “be of service to Barack Obama.”

Then she nails her culprit: Bill Ayers.

Obama served with Weather Underground terrorist and neighbor Bill Ayers on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge education initiative. Downplaying academic achievement in favor of left-wing radical activism in the public schools is rooted in Ayers’ pedagogical philosophy. Obama served as the program’s first chairman of the board, while Ayers steered its curricular policy. The two oversaw grants to welfare rights enterprise ACORN and to avowed communist Michael Klonsky — a close pal of Ayers and member of the militant Students for a Democratic Society. SDS served as a precursor to the violent Weather Underground organization.

As investigative journalist Stanley Kurtz reported, Klonsky and Ayers teamed up on the so-called “small schools movement” to steer schoolchildren away from core academics to left-wing politicking on issues of “inequity, war and violence.”

A cadre of like-minded educators and national service administrators across the country share the same core commitment to transforming themselves from imparters of knowledge to transformers of society. The “change” agenda trains students to think only about what they should do for Obama — and rarely to contemplate how his powers and ambitions should be limited and restrained.

The smoking gun? A 2006 speech by Ayers in Caracas, a secret so deep that it’s, err, posted on Ayers’ Website. While the White House’s clumsy rollout of the speech (its original questions for students, about how they could “help the president”) sparked the controversy, this is what’s fueling it.

[rox63]

1. I swear, they must all be smoking crack or something...

:crazy:

[BOSSHOG]

2. They know all about a speech they haven't heard yet!

Yo michelle don't "backlashes" occur after something happens?

[ej510]

4. Michelle Malkin isn't dumb. She wants to get paid. Most right wing leaders are intelligent, but

there is a big market for making shit up and saying outrageous shit.

[Jennicut]

3. There was nothing wrong with the questions that "could help the President"

Its just that the RW in this country have fallen so far off the deep end they will despise anything Obama does. They really hate being out of power and are pissy.

[BOSSHOG]

5. Yeah, "your'e either for us or against us" is much more patriotic

[The Wielding Truth]

6. God! What sour grapes paranoia! We have a country to save!

Michelle Malkin is a silly chicken little, who is clucking loudly about a man who wishes to repair the 8 years of Republican and free from conscience corporate domination, while the economy,environment,world conflict, and the price of health care eats us alive.

It's time to get out of this silly fearful stagnate phase.

Shut-up,baby RW'rs! It's time to make our country BETTER!

[LaPera]

7. "Conservatives or republicans?

"conservatives" is a much nicer name the republicans love & prefer, like GOP, righties or right-wing....as opposed to mean ugly cold-hearted Republicans....Republicans is the name republicans don't want to be labeled as ...But after all every "Conservative" GOP, Righties and/or Right-wing asshole votes fucking republican!

Call them what they are fucking Republicans!

[niyad]

8. even though I have no children, I called the largest school district in my area to complain

the superintendent is leaving it to the individual schools (copout, as he is new) and this
is one of the reddest counties in the country, so guess what? told him I am sick that my
taxes are paying for pandering to the ignorant, stupid, reactionary reichwingers in this
county. don't think they like me much.

[still_one]

9. The sad truth is that many of the people that are being fed this crap have the potential

for violence

I also have no doubt that a large majority of those that subscribe to this are racist, and that is their real impetus for this so-called anger

[Arkana]

10. Wow, they are more threatened by Bill Ayers

than by Osama bin Laden, I'd wager.

A guy who gave up and renounced what he did 30 years ago is more terrifying and frightening to the teabagging Neanderthal morons than Osama fucking bin Laden.