McCain's False Claims On Bill Ayers and how he can be linked to a terrorist sympathizer

[zulchzulu]

It appears that McCain will try to bring up Ayers in the debate. I'm sure Obama is waiting for him to walk right into the quicksand. Here are some great points about the Repig strategy...

CBS) A recent web advertisement from Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain makes two false claims about a connection between Bill Ayers and Senator Barack Obama.

1. “Ayers and Obama ran a radical education foundation, together.”

The foundation they are referring to is the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), set up in the early 1990’s with funding from the Annenberg Foundation to reform public schools. Walter Annenberg is a well-known philanthropist and conservative Republican.

“This was not the Bill Ayers and Barack Obama show,” says Ken Rolling who was the Executive Director of the CAC and ran the organization, “It was not created by two people, it was created by a hundred people.”

Was it radical? Rolling says that’s in the eyes of the beholder, but he confirms that the CAC funded programs with the following purpose: teacher training, music education, support for new school council candidates, afterschool programs, education research, improvements for literacy and arts programs and initiatives to strengthen parental involvement in public schools.

“The idea that the Annenberg Challenge was somehow the extension of the Weather Underground of the 1960’s, that is just one of the most lunatic contentions I can imagine,” says Mike Flannery, political editor at the CBS Chicago affiliate WBBM who has covered Chicago politics for 35 years.

Flannery says the other people on involved in the CAC with Obama and Ayers were "business types and Republicans."

Obama chaired the board of the CAC but he did not serve on the board with Ayers. Ayers served on a separate advisory board.

2. “They wrote the foundation’s bylaws together.”

“They didn’t sit over a coffee table somewhere and say ‘let’s do it this way,’ they were involved with a large group of people,” Rolling says, “They did not actually write them.”

Rolling says Ayers served on a voluntary advisory board that hired a lawyer to write the bylaws that were eventually approved by the entire board of directors - one of the votes for the bylaws came from Obama.

Flannery says the negative attention that is being paid to the CAC is mystifying to Chicago reporters, "Those of us who have covered politics in Chicago the way I have for 35 years simply don't recognize the caricatures and the ridiculous descriptions of this group."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/13/eveningnews/realitycheck/main4518056.shtml

What's even funnier is that McCain was bragging about people who had endorsed him:

John McCain’s campaign released a list of 100 former ambassadors endorsing the GOP presidential nominee. Second on the list, though her name is misspelled, is Leonore Annenberg, currently the president and chairman of the Annenberg Foundation and widow of ambassador and philanthropist Walter Annenberg. Ms. Annenberg was herself the "chief of protocol" at the State Department under President Reagan. If the last name sounds familiar, it’s because it also graces the name of the Chicago education board where Barack Obama and William Ayers sat in the room six times together.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/us-elections/37749-mccain-trumpets-endorsement-figure-foundation-established-ayers-board.html

Is Leonore Annenberg (standing with Reagan), who is linked to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), which allowed William Ayers to sit on the board, a terrorist sympathizer?

Get her, Johnny!

[Hope And Change]

1. K & R!

[goodboy]

2. Annenbergs gave 50 million to Ayers. And endorsed McBush...

So he's not only endorsed BY TERRORIST SYMPATHIZSERS, he's ACCEPTED THEIR MONEY!

Also bring up the Palin/AIP, terrorist sponsored group who endorsed her, and of which her hubby was a card-carrying member as late as 2002.

[City Lights]

3. I predict the Obamarang will hit McSlime squarely in the face tomorrow night, and

McSlime will end up being soiled by his own fecal matter.

[Sebass1271]

4. Mr. Flannery and mr. Rollins should have a press conf.

and debunk all these lies if they deeply care about Mrs. Anneberg's reputation and the American people.