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TONIGHT: John Batchelor Show - "Obama's Plumbing"
There is a secret group in the Obama-Biden campaign tasked with
shutting off any leaks from the record that links Barack Obama to his longtime adviser and mentor Bill Ayers, professor of education at the University of Illinois and unrepentant Weatherman terrorist and fugitive from the 1970s. This surprising fact has been developed by Chicago-born and Ralph Nader-supporting Professor Steve Diamond of Santa Clara University Law School, who maintains the Global Labor and Politics blog and has pieced together over many months the unusual surreptitious activity around the public records of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) grant now housed at the University of Illinois and Brown University. Since the spring, Diamond has led the investigation into the intimate working relationship between Obama and Ayers that dates back at least to the beginning of 1995 and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge Grants. Diamond believes this group is not harmless. "It's a 'Plumbers' unit. You know, we are old enough to recall the Plumbers in Richard Nixon's White House. This is like that. The job is to stop anyone trying to use the (Chicago) Annenberg (Challenge) papers to figure out how Ayers and Obama worked together on education." The "Plumbers" were a Nixon administration fiasco, the so-called secret White House Special Investigative Unit 24 tasked to stop the leaks of classified material. Once revealed, the Plumbers unit led to more bizarre discoveries that culminated in the Watergate impeachment and resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974. Diamond believes this Obama-Biden "Plumbers" unit was responsible for the harassment of Stanley Kurtz of National Review, who sought access to public records of the now defunct CAC at the University of Illinois Library in Chicago in mid-August. He also believes it may have played a part in frustrating his own investigation of similar CAC records in the papers of the nationwide Annenberg Challenge program that are housed at Brown University. The question now is who among the major figures in the Chicago progressive circle, as well as former Annenberg Challenge officials, are unofficial members of Obama's Plumbers? And who among other responsible officials of the University of Illinois are their unwitting allies? There is a substantial independent report from a major Democratic source that confirms Diamond's suspicions. The source confirms the unit is led by Bill Ayers himself and likely includes Tom Hayden and other members of "Progressives for Obama." Most critically, the Democratic source says this unit has direct access to media adviser David Axelrod of the Obama-Biden campaign. Obama has struggled since the primary contest with Mrs. Clinton last spring to avoid answering candidly about his relationship with Ayers. His motivation is entirely obvious, seeking to avoid the political damage that would result from exposure of his friendship with a strident radical who posed standing on an American flag to promote his 2001 autobiography "Fugitive Days" and who was quoted in the New York Times on September 11, 2001 as saying, "There's a certain eloquence to bombs." In April 2008, Obama, speaking to George Stephanopoulos, described Ayers -- as if from a great distance -- as "a guy who lived in my neighborhood." Obama also mislead Stephanopoulos with the peculiar characterization of Ayers as "a professor of English." In September, Obama dropped the brittle pose of not knowing intimate details about Ayers and told Bill O'Reilly, "I haven't seen the guy in a year and a half," and, "I come to Chicago. He's working with Mayor Richard Daley, not known to be a radical. So, he and I know each other as a consequence of work he's doing on education. That is not an endorsement of his views." Obama went on to answer a question that O'Reilly actually did not ask in the course of the conversation. Obama declared, "This guy is not part of my campaign. He's not some adviser of mine." The leaking that the "Plumbers" unit has blocked so far began last spring when Diamond posted several literate articles on his Global Labor and Politics blog on how Obama, an outsider to Chicago, had risen so swiftly in the Cook County machine. On June 18, Diamond posted "That Guy Who Lives in My Neighborhood," in which he discussed the CAC for the first time, using research he'd done from the CAC papers on file at Brown University. Diamond was puzzled when an additional request to Brown for more information was met with silence; and he now wonders if this was an oversight or the work of the "Plumbers." Kurtz ran into the Plumber unit August 11 when he requested CAC documents at the University of Illinois library in Chicago. Kurtz was denied access, and there have been several inconsistent explanations as to why. What is now believed more accurate is that the former executive director of the CAC, Ken Rolling, who was a long-standing associate of both Ayers and Obama, contacted the library officials to stop Kurtz's inquiry. There are inconsistent statements made by Rolling about the reason for and timing of his intervention, and he told the Chicago Tribune that he got involved because of surfing on the net from his home in Mississippi, despite the fact that there was no mention of the CAC on the net before August 11 -- except in Steve Diamond's blog. What is clear is that by mid-August Rolling was in communication with major University of Illinois officials, including B. Joseph White, the university's president, Thomas Bearrows, the university's counsel, and Tom Hardy, the university's executive director for university relations. An August 23 Ken Rolling e-mail to Bearrows (obtained by the Freedom of Information Act) points to telephone communications the day before between all of the principals involved in the decision to withhold the documents from Kurtz and others. What is not answered at this time is when and why Rolling was in regular contact with university officials, though the few facts indicate Rolling began his interference -- and Diamond calls him "the lead Plumber" -- at exactly the same time Kurtz made his request: August 11. Did a university official give Rolling a heads-up? Most significantly, the August 23 e-mail indicates a range of materials that Rolling wants to review personally and to restrict in the documents. "I can be at the UIC library between 9:00 am and 10:00 am on Monday August 25 to review the files." Much of the material Rolling aimed to review relates to the first year of the CAC, 1995, when Ayers and Obama were most active together in making decisions on the large cash awards. Thanks to the FOIA, we know the response by Bearrows to Rolling's request was suggestive -- "as promised, we will carefully consider the concerns that you identify..." Importantly, we do know that at least one of the awards in 1995, the largest that year, went to a group led by Ayers and his partner and fellow radical Mike Klonsky. Who is Ken Rolling? He was a member of the Woods Foundation board that was responsible for awarding the grant that first brought Barack Obama to Chicago as a community organizer. Later, Ayers is said to have been involved in choosing Rolling to be executive director of the CAC. It seems more than coincidence that Obama, as a 33 year-old junior lawyer at a modest Chicago law firm, was then brought onto the CAC board as chairman, despite the prominence of other members that included two university presidents. In a September 10 New York Times article on Obama and education that mentions Ayers and depends upon Rolling as an informant, one of the presidents, Stanley O. Ikenberry of the University of Illinois, remembered about the choice of Obama as chair, "It was unusual: here you had a person trained in the law chairing a board on school reform." The CAC documents were again opened to the public on August 26, several days after the exchange of information between Rolling and library officials. We await Stanley Kurtz's forthcoming articles to explicate the details of the Ayers-Obama-Rolling CAC working relationship. What is not clear is whether or not all the CAC materials are yet available for the full discovery of the relationship between the unrepentant radical Ayers and the guarded presidential candidate Obama. http://www.johnbatchelorshow.com |
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TONIGHT: John Batchelor Show - "Obama's Plumbing"
On Sep 14, 3:03*pm, wrote:
Importantly, we do know that at least one of the awards in 1995, THE LARGEST that year, went to a group led by Ayers and his partner and fellow radical Mike Klonsky. http://www.johnbatchelorshow.com Who is Mike Klonsky? Mike Klonsky is one of the founders of Communist Party (Marxist- Leninist) (USA) and the Students for a Democratic Society a fervent Obama supporter, friend and former member of the terrorist group the Weatherman. http://www.theminorityreportblog.com...riend_of_obama (...) a notorious ally of Bill Ayers for many years, Mike Klonsky, is an open member of the Obama campaign. Klonsky runs a blog on the official Obama website here where he claims to be a "professor of education"... and says he blogs for Obama on "education politics and teaching for social justice." Who is Mike Klonsky? Well, on one level, he might just appear to be a protege of Bill Ayers in the education world. He received, as I detail below, a $175,000 grant from the Ayers/Obama-led Annenberg Challenge to run the Small Schools Workshop that he and Ayers started in Chicago to push their school reform agenda. But that is only half the story. Klonsky was one of the most destructive hardline maoists in the SDS in the late 60's who emerged from SDS to form a pro-Chinese sect called the October League that later became the Beijing-recognized Communist Party (Marxist- Leninist). As chairman of the party, Klonsky travelled to Beijing itself in 1977 and, literally, toasted the Chinese stalinist leadership who, in turn, "hailed the formation of the CP(ML) as 'reflecting the aspirations of the proletariat and working people,' effectively recognizing the group as the all-but-official US Maoist party." (Elbaum, Revolution in the Air, 228). I know of no indications that Klonsky has ever expressed any regrets about that activity. Perhaps like his SDS comrade, Ayers, he, too, thinks he did not do enough back then. In my view they did more than enough. An excellent profile of that maoist milieu is available in a book called Revolution in the Air by Max Elbaum, http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Air...282892&sr=8-13 a first hand participant whose sympathy for the maoism of the period does not get in the way of an excellent account of these idiot savants of the left. How is it possible that someone of Klonsky's ilk would now be playing a visible role in the Obama campaign itself on such an important issue as education policy - apparently with free reign to push his authoritarian "social justice" agenda? http://globallabor.blogspot.com/2008...ghborhood.html |
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(OT) : The Obama-nation -imply- John "Smiley" McCain to crippled to{be President}
On Sep 14, 2:42*pm, Dave wrote:
wrote: On Sep 14, 3:03 pm, wrote: Importantly, we do know that at least one of the awards in 1995, THE LARGEST that year, went to a group led by Ayers and his partner and fellow radical Mike Klonsky. http://www.johnbatchelorshow.com Bill Ayers helped end the war and thus saved lives. *He is an American hero. John Batchelor is a joke. - Question: *if McCain is too crippled to work a computer, - how come he can grill barbecue ribs? "I have so much nervous energy, it keeps me moving,” said McCain, dressed in jeans, running shoes, a sweatshirt and baseball cap as he used tongs to flip the ribs." http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/po.../john_mccain_g... Dave {The Obama-nation} -writes- " Question: if McCain is too crippled to work a computer, how come he can grill barbecue ribs?" Dave you are a clear example of a Liberal Democrat "McCain to crippled to" {Be President} lacking All Humanity toward any Conservative. John "Smiley" McCain is Honorably "Disabled" and a Hero : NOT 'crippled' The Obama-nation -imply- John "Smiley" McCain to crippled to {be President} John "Smiley" McCain is Honorably "Disabled" and a Hero : As a result of His Service to America in the US Military. * Can the 'draft-dodger' Barack Hussein Obama II say the same . . . NO. http://groups.google.com/group/rec.r...c5e7081f6d5687 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/archives/...for-the-draft/ * Selective Service and the Draft ? Barack Hussein Obama II Did He ? -or- Didn't He ? http://my.barackobama.com/page/commu...skJ/commentary John "Smiley" McCain is Honorably "Disabled" and a Hero : As a result of Being a Prisoner-of-War fighting for America. * Obama'08 website calls "Military Slavery (draft registration)" http://my.barackobama.com/page/commu...ttwendt/gGxzPV |
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(OT) : The Obama-nation -imply- John "Smiley" McCain to crippledto {be President}
RHF wrote:
Dave {The Obama-nation} -writes- " Question: if McCain is too crippled to work a computer, how come he can grill barbecue ribs?" Dave you are a clear example of a Liberal Democrat "McCain to crippled to" {Be President} lacking All Humanity toward any Conservative. John "Smiley" McCain is Honorably "Disabled" and a Hero : NOT 'crippled' If McCain is too honorably disabled to work a mouse with his cute little hands, how does he work magic on the grill, with tongs even? |
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(OT) : The Obama-nation -imply- John "Smiley" McCain to crippledto {be President}
On Sep 14, 6:35*pm, RHF wrote:
* Selective Service and the Draft ? Barack Hussein Obama II Did He ? -or- Didn't He ?http://my.barackobama.com/page/commu...ffman/gGxskJ/c... John "Smiley" McCain is Honorably "Disabled" and a Hero : As a result of Being a Prisoner-of-War fighting for America. * Obama'08 website calls "Military Slavery (draft registration)"http://my..barackobama.com/page/community/post/scottwendt/gGxzPV From the comments section "Hillary hinted that there was some secret about B. Obama that would affect his electability, but never revealed it out of party loyalty. Maybe this was it." It would seem to me she has an obligation to the American people. Unless, of course, she is a Neo-Communist Liberal Fascist. Uh huh. "It appears that while Senator Obama was away at college in California, his World War II veteran Grandfather filed a Selective Service registration for Obama in Hawaii after Obama refused to register." "The signature on the registration form is not Senator Obama's signature. That is why Senator Obama refuses to release his Selective Service registration." Ooh, this is a good one RHF. Thanks for this. |
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(OT) : The Obama-nation -imply- John "Smiley" McCain to crippled to {be President}
wrote in message ... On Sep 14, 6:35 pm, RHF wrote: * Selective Service and the Draft ? Barack Hussein Obama II Did He ? -or- Didn't He ?http://my.barackobama.com/page/commu...ffman/gGxskJ/c... John "Smiley" McCain is Honorably "Disabled" and a Hero : As a result of Being a Prisoner-of-War fighting for America. * Obama'08 website calls "Military Slavery (draft registration)"http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/scottwendt/gGxzPV From the comments section "Hillary hinted that there was some secret about B. Obama that would affect his electability, but never revealed it out of party loyalty. Maybe this was it." It would seem to me she has an obligation to the American people. Unless, of course, she is a Neo-Communist Liberal Fascist. Uh huh. "It appears that while Senator Obama was away at college in California, his World War II veteran Grandfather filed a Selective Service registration for Obama in Hawaii after Obama refused to register." "The signature on the registration form is not Senator Obama's signature. That is why Senator Obama refuses to release his Selective Service registration." Ooh, this is a good one RHF. Thanks for this. Couple questions for you: 1) do you take some blogger's word for everything? 2) have you had the signature verified (or not) by a handwriting expert? I know that my own signature has changed substantially since I was college age (you could actually READ it back then.) |
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(OT) : The Obama-nation -imply- John "Smiley" McCain to crippledto {be President}
On Sep 14, 9:49*pm, "Brenda Ann" wrote:
wrote in message ... On Sep 14, 6:35 pm, RHF wrote: * Selective Service and the Draft ? Barack Hussein Obama II Did He ? -or- Didn't He ?http://my.barackobama.com/page/commu...ffman/gGxskJ/c.... John "Smiley" McCain is Honorably "Disabled" and a Hero : As a result of Being a Prisoner-of-War fighting for America. * Obama'08 website calls "Military Slavery (draft registration)"http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/scottwendt/gGxzPV From the comments section "Hillary hinted that there was some secret about B. Obama that would affect his electability, but never revealed it out of party loyalty. Maybe this was it." It would seem to me she has an obligation to the American people. Unless, of course, she is a Neo-Communist Liberal Fascist. *Uh huh. "It appears that while Senator Obama was away at college in California, his World War II veteran Grandfather filed a Selective Service registration for Obama in Hawaii after Obama refused to register." "The signature on the registration form is not Senator Obama's signature. That is why Senator Obama refuses to release his Selective Service registration." Ooh, this is a good one RHF. *Thanks for this. Couple questions for you: 1) do you take some blogger's word for everything? 2) have you had the signature verified (or not) by a handwriting expert? I know that my own signature has changed substantially since I was college age (you could actually READ it back then.) Are you another Liberal Fascist Imbicile? The FBI will simply compare your signatures from the same time frame. Which public Calipornia schools did you attend? |
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(OT) : The Obama-nation -imply- John "Smiley" McCain to crippled to {be President}
wrote in message ... Couple questions for you: 1) do you take some blogger's word for everything? 2) have you had the signature verified (or not) by a handwriting expert? I know that my own signature has changed substantially since I was college age (you could actually READ it back then.) Are you another Liberal Fascist Imbicile? The FBI will simply compare your signatures from the same time frame. Which public Calipornia schools did you attend? I attended school back when schools still taught something, thank you very much. And not in California. And the only imbeciles are the ones that buy into everything they hear or read. Especially on the internet. As for the FBI comparing signatures, if they were inclined to do so, they would have done so by this time. Plenty of legitimate issues for/against both candidates and their VP candidates as well, without making much ado about nothing at all. |
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