By Steve Diamond on Jul 14, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Chicago politics, Joyce Foundation, Richard Daley, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 160 Comments
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 […]
By NancyA on Jul 5, 2008 in Acorn, Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago politics, George Soros, Joyce Foundation, Voter Fraud, Woods Fund | 77 Comments
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 […]
By Steve Diamond on Jun 19, 2008 in Annenberg Chicago Challenge, Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago politics, Joyce Foundation, Race, Slavery, Weather Underground, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 100 Comments
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” […]
By Mel on Jun 2, 2008 in ABC News, Bamboozling, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Chicago politics, Education, Emil Jones, George Stephanopoulos, Hoodwinking, Joyce Foundation, Rezko, Richard Daley, Terrorism, Tony Rezko, Weather Underground, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 28 Comments
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 […]
By Mel on May 29, 2008 in ABC News, Barack Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Chicago, Chicago politics, Crown family, David Axelrod, Education, Emil Jones, Exelon, Fox News, George Stephanopoulos, Joyce Foundation, Maytag, Media Bias, Michelle Obama, Obamedia, Pat Leahy, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., Richard Daley, Tony Rezko, Weather Underground, William Ayers, Woods Fund | 72 Comments
[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 […]
By SusanUnPC on Apr 20, 2008 in Barack Obama, Joyce Foundation, Second Amendment, William Ayers | 44 Comments
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 […]