Needs Attention! Republican Clears Obama On Ayers!(Audio)

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From DailyKos

Needs Attention! Republican Clears Obama On Ayers!(Audio)
by JustForTheRecord
Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 10:11:20 AM PDT

Uh-oh...Ayers won't work anymore (There goes the kitchen sink, I guess here comes the table)...Some republicans from Chicago are saying what most of us knew all along. Bill Ayers was a commonly acceptable figure in Chicago by everyone--Democrats, Independents, and even Republicans. Are they all America hating, terrorist loving traitors to America?!

In fact, this NPR piece speaks to the Republican funded cause that Obama and Ayers worked on together. And that:

"It was never a concern by any of us in the Chicago school reform movement that he had led a fugitive life years earlier," said former Illinois state Republican Rep. Diana Nelson, who worked with both Obama and Ayers over the years. "It's ridiculous. There is no reason at all to smear Barack Obama with this association. It's nonsensical, and it just makes me crazy. It's so silly."

Yesterday, in a rehash of the MSM acknowledged issues of the day, NPR did a short piece on Obama and Ayers. Fortunately for many, they made news.

First, Obama began working with Ayers and others (Republicans, Independents, and Democrats) at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Well, what is the Anneberg Challenge? Who is Annenberg? Well according to NPR,

The Obama campaign says he first met Ayers in 1995, when Obama became chair of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a $50 million fund that awarded grants to groups trying to implement new programs to improve inner city education in Chicago.

Walter Annenberg, a lifelong Republican and former ambassador who was appointed by Presidents Nixon and Reagan, funded an ambitious program to reform urban education in many cities in the mid 1990s. Ayers was an important member of the group that developed and wrote the grant proposal to the Annenberg Foundation.

Second, there were people of all political persuasions working on this effort with this "terrorist" Ayers and who saw him as acceptable and Obama was no closer than any of the others.

...no one on the board or on the Annenberg Challenge staff remembers Obama being any closer to Ayers than to any other member of the board. The Annenberg board also included several civic, business and education leaders, many of them Republicans...

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Cont'd: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/7/131120/885/357/622049

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1. kick for timliness - more folks need to see this

this has some excellent talking points on the Ayers nonissue/distraction

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2. Just so you know..

this was posted earlier but, of course, something like this need lots of attention!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7346543

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3. Thanks zidzi, I suspected it might have been - and I didn't have time to search heavily for it

:hi:

The board is moving so fast - in anticipation of the debate, no doubt. It's such important info in light of all this Ayers crap!

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5. It's Super Important..I just

wanted you to know why "maybe" there weren't as many replies as would be expected from this kind of Important news!

:hi:

[Fridays Child]

4. k/r

[zbdent]

6. This should kill the Ayers thing once and for all ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4183457

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8. Thanks for the link, zbdent

[dana_b]

7. very nice

it's good to see that not all Repubs are delusional