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The Three Blind Men and the Elephant: The New Yorker on Obama »

The New Yorker magazine made a fundamental mistake when it decided to answer the question, Who Sent Obama?  

They sent a 30-something New Yorker named Ryan Lizza to Chicago.  And Chicago ate him for breakfast and never looked back.

Of course, as patient readers of Global Labor well know, we asked, and answered, the age old […]

Obama’s Acorn »

Obama’s ACORN: A Leftist Social Reform Group
Obama’s most questionable tie is to a leftist organization called ACORN. His connection to this group begins with a woman named Madeleine Talbot. She embraced Obama and taught him the ropes. He remained a part of this group’s training cadre. Obama taught leadership conferences for the group while working […]

That “Guy Who Lives in My Neighborhood”: Behind the Ayers-Obama Relationship »

The key points of this (long!) blog post:
1) Obama education advisor Linda Darling-Hammond responds to Global Labor blog posts on Bill Ayers and Reparations
2) Review of Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) documents shows that Ayers and Obama each chaired the two CAC operating bodies from 1995 to 2000
3) CAC was at heart of Chicago school “wars” […]

Obama, We Are Smarter; We Follow the Money, and It Links You to Bill Ayers in the 1980s »

SEN. OBAMA: George, but this is an example of what I’m talking about.
This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who’s a professor of English in Chicago, who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He’s not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
And the notion […]

Ayers, Obama, Philanthropy, Corruption: What Big Media Refuses to Disclose about Obama’s Checkered Past in Chicago Machine Politics »

[Truthteller’s note:Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly broached the topic of Obama’s relationship to Bill Ayers and corrupt Chicago machine politics with a Fox News analyst and a Chicago Tribune columnist on 26 MAY. Although the panelists, who in my opinion are not very bright, provide an incomplete analysis, the Tribune columnist did mention that Leftists, Democrats […]

Obama on Board That Funded Handgun Bans »

For eight years, Barack Obama sat on the board of Chicago’s Joyce Foundation — earning $70,000 in compensation — an influential board that “funneled almost $3 million in grants to political groups opposing gun rights,” according to Politico.com reporter Kenneth Vogel.
Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has worked to assure uneasy gun owners that he believes the […]

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