Ayers and Obama crossed paths on boards, records show (cnn)

[Nambe]

Source: CNN

... A review of board minutes and records by CNN show Obama, crossed paths repeatedly with Ayers at board meetings of the Annenberg Challenge Project.

The Annenberg Foundation gave the project a $50 million grant to match local private funds to improve schools, and Ayers fought to bring the grant to Chicago, according to participants and project records.

The project's organizing committee asked Obama to serve as the board chairman in 1995. Annenberg Project Executive Director Ken Rollings said Ayers was not a member of that ad hoc group when the decision was made.

For seven years, Ayers and Obama -- among many others -- worked on funding for education projects, including some projects advocated by Ayers. ...

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/07/obama.ayers/index.html

[tblue]

1. Dishonest John pals around with terrorist's pals. McC donor was on same board with Ayers.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/7/01441/3274

[Gillian]

2. Does not bother me but I hope Obama learned something.

Please do not deny or cover up, period. We have had enough of that. If he was not sure when asked, he should have researched before saying anything. All he can do now is say he did not inhale.

[endthewar]

6. Pass the Kool-Aid!

:eyes:

[wanpete]

7. seems to be flowing rather mightily huh?

[Minimus]

12. What are you talking about?

[democracy1st]

19. say what!!!

:wtf: :shrug:

[Vattel]

21. What did he cover up?

The campaign said their paths had crossed professionally and in the neighborhood. That is true. They didn't say that their paths had crossed only once or only a few times or anything like that, did they?

[stillcool]

29. You need to read more...

[msongs]

3. funding education projects - sounds terrorist to me lol nt

[undeterred]

4. Oh, not messageboards.

:blush: Some people have lives.

[marias23]

5. Annenberg Foundation Must Be Terrorists Too

[lostnotforgotten]

8. Association Does Not Make One A Terrorist!

Guilt by association is the is just one of the sleaze ball tactics the Reich Wing uses all the time.

[Third Doctor]

9. What the?

How is this relevent to his character? I post on boards (this one obviously) all of the time and I don't think that makes me liable for the acts of other members past or present.

[wanpete]

11. hello??? Amen! This is so ridiculous and desperate. They are truly foolish for pushing this smear.

[kestrel91316]

10. I was on the governing board of a very small charitable organization

for a few years. I couldn't tell you the names of any of the other board members now, except for the friend who arm-twisted me into joining.

There were a mix of middle-aged white men and women. And a skinny gray-haired woman who was a bit of a nut.

I'd hate to be judged a terrorist based on that minimal level of contact. Jeeeeezus.

[Starry Messenger]

13. I once talked to Patty Hearst on the phone.

Does that make me a terrorist enabler? (She was friends with neighbors that I babysat for. She was looking for an au pair. Alas I was too young and missed my chance at becoming a domestic terrorist.)

[Elidor]

14. Those evil bastards! Working on funding for education projects! Who will think of the children?!?!

Oh. Wait.

[Politicalboi]

15. Obama should confront

Mr. Shit for Brains about his terrorist talk and put MaGoo in his place. MaGoo is a coward, that is one of the reasons he doesn't look at Obama.

[FVZA_Colonel]

16. It's been known for many months they served on the same board.

Of course they'd have crossed paths. And didn't a very right wing philanthropist also serve on the board?

[11 Bravo]

17. 37 years ago I was frequently within a few meters of Communist soldiers ...

trying to shoot American troops. (OK, I was one of their targets, but maybe some Commie rubbed off on me.)

[dave29]

18. I shook hands with Steve Forbes

I had to hold the spotlight on him for a speech he gave to Enron back in the mid 90's.

He's not a terrorist, but he's been on the television before, and so have terrorists.

[tkmorris]

20. Do you care? I don't.

[CitizenPatriot]

22. crossed paths! OH NOES!!!!!!111!!!

what next?????

Oh, he can never be President now, I mean, it's ALMOST as if he belonged THIS YEAR to a secessionist group! It's ALMOST as if he was related to the MAFIA! It's almost as if he were related to JP MORGAN! It's almost as if his wife stole from their charity! It's almost as if he had cheated on his income taxes! It's almost as if he were under investigation by 2 separate committees for ethics violations! It's almost as if I could go on and on forever, cuz those 2 Kriminals have tons o'dirt to hide their lying, shameful faces under.

[WCGreen]

23. I have served on a couple of boards and there was little to no

interaction outside of small talk, business and maybe a drink or two at the fundraisers.

[Matariki]

24. Wow. Funding education projects. That's pretty radical and terrorizing.

:eyes:

[notaboutus]

25. He explained Ayers during the primary

They sat on a board funded by life long republicans. The 2 republican women asked Obama to sit on the board. He did not know Ayers then. Ayers donated $200.00 to his campaign in 2001. Obama and his campaign answered questions about this during the primary. They said it was from 1995-2005 when he went to the senate and your point is? I am confused this is bull and there are so many many things about McPalin that CNN-MSNBC-ABC-CBS-NBC NEVER cover let alone talk about or mention and Obama has to explain the same thing over and over. Why?

[Boo Boo]

26. Wow... the Annenberg Foundation is

a terrorist organization. Who knew?

:shrug:

[KitchenWitch]

27. And there are six degrees of separation between Kevin Bacon and myself.

:eyes:

[Vattel]

28. CNN suggests that they have uncovered a "deeper"

relationship. What crap. They found out nothing except that the Obama campaign told the truth. Maybe they should talk about McAsswipe's actual praise and support of Gordon Libby, a convicted criminal whose plots included kidnapping.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

30. Ayers turned himself in in 1980...

and, as his association with the Annenberg Project makes apparent, is currently involved in constructive rather than destructive activities. It's only too obvious that Obama's association with Ayers was vague at best, and long after Ayers had turned his life around.

I only hope that McShame, Palinocchio, and their slimy, sleazy ilk do not provoke violence similar to that which was spawned by the Vietnam War, Johnson, Nixon, Agnew, and their cronies. I hope and pray...