the Republican "Ayers smear" of Obama

[Phred42]

Sorry - they are still trying to use this crap - so I feel a need to post this again.

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On the Republican "Ayers smear" of Obama

The Board that Ayers and Obama were on at the same time was The Annenberg Foundation http://www.annenbergfoundation.org /

There are, and always have been, a lot of Republicans on the board of The Annenberg Foundation (can we get their names and spread that around?)

Walter Annenberg was good friends with Ronald Reagan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Annenberg

Obama had nothing to do with Ayers being on that board - THE ANNENBERG FOUNDATION invited Ayers to be on that board.

The Annenberg Foundation has done some good work over the years

HOW DO THE ANNENBERGS FEEL ABOUT BEING LINKED TO TERRORISM?

So why do Republican friends of Ronald Regan hire Terrorists?

Put the Anenbergs on the spot and let them drive a stake through the heart of this bullshit. They haven't bothered to step up to the plate on this crap yet so they are fair game.

Additions:

Ms. Annenberg has endorsed McCain

The Annbergs sponsor FactCheck.org

[Hope And Change]

1. Ms. Annenberg has also endorsed McCain.I wonder what she has to say about this.

[Phred42]

3. Good point

Someone needs to interview her and ask her why she invites Terrorists to the Board.
and ask her if She has any OTHER ties to terrorists

and tx - I'm going to add that to the list!:toast:

[Hope And Change]

6. You are welcome Phred42.

:toast:

[Cirque du So-What]

2. They sponsor a website called FactCheck.org, f'cryin' out loud!

Don't you think an organization so concerned with getting out the truth would step up to the plate when one of the recipients of their largess is under fire?! WTF is their problem?! They could have dispelled these absurd notions months ago, but they prefer to keep the populace in the dark. Not very 'fact-check-y' of them, I'd say.

[Hope And Change]

4. Good point.They have been pretty silent on this issue.

[Phred42]

5. Makes you wonder about FactCheck.org - Dosen't it?

:shrug:

I"ll be questioning anything from FC from now on

Tx - adding this to the list
:toast:

[Phred42]

7. Someone with access to the Annenbergs want to ask them about this?

[Hope And Change]

8. Here`s some more info Phred42...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7425569&mesg_id=7425569

[Phred42]

11. Thanks

[soccermomforobama]

9. Mrs. Annenberg also donated $2300 to John McCain in May 2008

The other interesting thing is that Ayers was not one of the "founding board members" of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Project.

Founding members of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Board were: Susan Crown, vice president, Henry Crown Company; Patricia Graham, president, The Spencer Foundation, and former dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education; Stanley Ikenberry, president-emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Handy Lindsey, executive director, Field Foundation; Barack Obama; Arnold Weber, former president, Northwestern University, and president, Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago; and Wanda White, executive director, Community Workshop on Economic Development.


■ The Chicago Annenberg Challenge has no record of providing any salary for William Ayers.

Ayers was one of the three people who got the Chicago Annenburg Project going. Here is a pdf that has some letters to and from Ayers regarding the beginning of the project. http://globallabor.info/Annenberg%20Documents/CAC%20First%201996%20Program%20Report%20.pdf

[Phred42]

12. Nice catch! Tx

[Raine]

10. That's my question too...WHY did the Annebergs put a "terrorist"

on their board???? Of course Obama would think Ayers was rehabilitated since rich repugs like the Annebergs had him serving on their board, duh.