Biden: McCain Attacking Obama, Obama Attacking Issues

Mccain your done!

Good glad it is blowing up in their faces ,P{alin is in on this too.She is a witch and will do anything to get this place in Government which she is not fitted for…..

Lots of republicans were hitting McCain. Backing off was his only option.
But the faithful gop rabble are going to be pissed. lol. They believe this rubbish, McCain knows it’s only theater.

McCain’s problem is also comments like this:
“John McCain, who admitted on Sunday that “the economy has hurt us a little bit in the last week or two”

Obama’s Kenya campaign
http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/12/obamas-kenya-ghosts/
How will Obama spin this one.

These attacks are hurting McCain within his own party. The polls show they are backfiring completely.
WRITTEN BY PAIGE _______________________________
paige,
YOU ARE MISREADING THE POLLS COMPLETELY
MCCAIN IS NOT BACKFIRING.. THE FIRST SHIFT CAME AFTER OBAMA ASSOCIATIONS WERE ATTACKED.
I AM A MCCAIN SUPPORTER BUT HE IS AN INCONSISTENT MAN IN THIS ELECTION..
REPUBLICANS OUGHT OT KEEP THAT PRESSURE GOING.. QUESTION OBAMA FOR ONE.
ANYTIME MCCCAIN IS ATTACKED BY PUNDITS, HE BACKS OFF.
PUNDITS WANT MCCAIN DISARMED… THEY ARE ALL PRO-OBAMA.

TJ – I don’t have to send you far. See Gary Langer’s BLOG, The Numbers, right here on ABC.COM .

McChicken and his cynical followers…….tsk, tsk. If they only had a brain.
Did you see McCain in a photo with the Acorn leadership on Politico? This is what was said…
Bertha Lewis, Acorn’s chief organizer, said in a statement that came with the photo, “It has deeply saddened us to see Senator McCain abandon his historic support for ACORN and our efforts to support the goals of low-income Americans.”
”We are sure that the extremists he is trying to get into a froth will be even more excited to learn that John McCain stood shoulder to shoulder with ACORN, at an ACORN co-sponsored event, to promote immigration reform,” she said.
To be honest, McCain is so far behind B Rock, we’re going to need a high powered telescope to find him after he get’s SCHLACKED in the GE.
Hypocrits always LOSE. Always.
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S ONLY A MATTER OF TIME

Obama’s 95% Illusion!!
One of Barack Obama’s most potent campaign claims is that he’ll cut taxes for no less than 95% of “working families.” He’s even promising to cut taxes enough that the government’s tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% — which is lower than it is today.
APIt’s a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he’s also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of “tax cut.”
For the Obama Democrats, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. In their lexicon, a tax cut includes tens of billions of dollars in government handouts that are disguised by the phrase “tax credit.” Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand no fewer than seven such credits for individuals:
- A $500 tax credit ($1,000 a couple) to “make work pay” that phases out at income of $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 per couple.
- A $4,000 tax credit for college tuition.
- A 10% mortgage interest tax credit (on top of the existing mortgage interest deduction and other housing subsidies).
- A “savings” tax credit of 50% up to $1,000.
- An expansion of the earned-income tax credit that would allow single workers to receive as much as $555 a year, up from $175 now, and give these workers up to $1,110 if they are paying child support.
- A child care credit of 50% up to $6,000 of expenses a year.
- A “clean car” tax credit of up to $7,000 on the purchase of certain vehicles.
Here’s the political catch. All but the clean car credit would be “refundable,” which is Washington-speak for the fact that you can receive these checks even if you have no income-tax liability. In other words, they are an income transfer — a federal check — from taxpayers to nontaxpayers. Once upon a time we called this “welfare,” or in George McGovern’s 1972 campaign a “Demogrant.” Mr. Obama’s genius is to call it a tax cut.
The Tax Foundation estimates that under the Obama plan 63 million Americans, or 44% of all tax filers, would have no income tax liability and most of those would get a check from the IRS each year. The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis estimates that by 2011, under the Obama plan, an additional 10 million filers would pay zero taxes while cashing checks from the IRS.
The total annual expenditures on refundable “tax credits” would rise over the next 10 years by $647 billion to $1.054 trillion, according to the Tax Policy Center. This means that the tax-credit welfare state would soon cost four times actual cash welfare. By redefining such income payments as “tax credits,” the Obama campaign also redefines them away as a tax share of GDP. Presto, the federal tax burden looks much smaller than it really is.
The political left defends “refundability” on grounds that these payments help to offset the payroll tax. And that was at least plausible when the only major refundable credit was the earned-income tax credit. Taken together, however, these tax credit payments would exceed payroll levies for most low-income workers.
It is also true that John McCain proposes a refundable tax credit — his $5,000 to help individuals buy health insurance. We’ve written before that we prefer a tax deduction for individual health care, rather than a credit. But the big difference with Mr. Obama is that Mr. McCain’s proposal replaces the tax subsidy for employer-sponsored health insurance that individuals don’t now receive if they buy on their own. It merely changes the nature of the tax subsidy; it doesn’t create a new one.
There’s another catch: Because Mr. Obama’s tax credits are phased out as incomes rise, they impose a huge “marginal” tax rate increase on low-income workers. The marginal tax rate refers to the rate on the next dollar of income earned. As the nearby chart illustrates, the marginal rate for millions of low- and middle-income workers would spike as they earn more income.
Some families with an income of $40,000 could lose up to 40 cents in vanishing credits for every additional dollar earned from working overtime or taking a new job. As public policy, this is contradictory. The tax credits are sold in the name of “making work pay,” but in practice they can be a disincentive to working harder, especially if you’re a lower-income couple getting raises of $1,000 or $2,000 a year. One mystery — among many — of the McCain campaign is why it has allowed Mr. Obama’s 95% illusion to go unanswered

Attacks aren’t working. McCain needs to show he understands the issues, he hasn’t done that. Obama has.

tj
it’s not that the media is “neocon liberals”
it’s that the media is Americans who do not want to see lies be propagated as news.
or another 8 years of being worked so you and others can propagate such lies
the same lies that got us here.
Americans…including those Americans who might work for the media…
are taking their country back from the far right nut jobs and the lies they propagate, their war on facts and the mischief and bologne they have played at the cost of our kids futures.

Ich Bin Ein Beginner…tell the rest of that story. How JFK told Russia after the blockade was put in place that no ships would be allow to go to Cuba. JFK, the young president, call Russia bluff and made them turn their ships around and remove missiles from Cuba.

Top 2 reasons the tide as turned against the Republicans and John McCain:
1) Tax cuts in a time of war and great spending hasn’t help stimulate the economy.
2) Deregulation of the financial services market to the point of absurdity.
All the rest is hot air.

Extremists drew us into a war and have brought our economy to the brink of financial disaster. We fell for the bait.
We need to take back our country from this disastrous Bush/Neocon foreign policy, which is now bleeding into our economy.
McCain’s foreign policy is very closely aligned with Bush and company.

The right wingers are busy digging deep down into their underpants and trying to smear Obama with their brains. I LOVE it!

If Obama is elected to president after all that is known about his backgound, then the country needs to be punished, and it will be. One thing that you can count on is that when it gets bad enough, the people will return to their roots. We have enough strenght to overcome even the worst president for a matter of four years. Carter proved that.

Willard, it ain’t gonna be worse than 8 years of Bush.

Obamacrat, He isn’t attacking Bush. He’s attacking Bush’s policies, which McCain has supported 90% of the time.

Lets look at the records reddog0216 !
http://obama.senate.gov/press/070425-obama_durbin_in/
You are an idiot. You really shouldn’t even be posting because you don’t even know what the hell you are saying.
Posted by: Mark | Oct 13, 2008 1:29:13 PM
And where did it go with his democratic buddies running congress???

Sen. Barack Obama [D-IL]hide cosponsors
Cosponsors [as of 2007-01-08]
Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]
Sen. Robert Menéndez [D-NJ]
Cosponsorship information sometimes is out of date. Why?
Bill Text: Summary | Full Text
Status: Introduced Feb 14, 2006
Reported by Committee -
Voted on in Senate -
Voted on in House -
Signed by President -
This bill never became law. This bill was proposed in a previous session of Congress. Sessions of Congress last two years, and at the end of each session all proposed bills and resolutions that haven’t passed are cleared from the books.
Last Action: Feb 14, 2006: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Other Titles: — Stopping Transactions which Operate to Promote Fraud, Risk, and Underdevelopment Act

Mark,
His own buddies turned it down!!! barney frank chris dodd I guess they were busy getting money from fannie and freddie well we know what barney frank was getting from one of the exexcutives over there!

I think self-preservation is even stronger than prejudice. So, even in states that you’d think Obama doesn’t have a chance, you are seeing shifts. It just proves that a frank discussion of issues can move people. The economy has affected anyone who has a 401k, a health issue, and a job that isn’t totally secure.

angie,
all the russian bravado now is because of the present administration’s approcah to foriegn affairs (the Bush doctrine included).. continuation of that will result in more of that…

Poopie, This isn’t 1950s, the socialism scare tactics don’t work. We just socialized the banking industry under a Republican President.
Wipe your shoe clean and try again.

Up Yours, Have you seen the polls? Obama is up by 10 in Gallup. The swing state polls are even worse. I’d have to say it is a good day for Americans, even the ones who support Obama.

reddog, the surge isn’t working with respect to the economy. all other stactic is silly.
Posted by: Wheels on the Bus | Oct 13, 2008 1:57:00 PM
That is peoples ignorance not listening blinders by someone who speaks well with a tele prompter it okay to look at the facts for yourself

Okay my point is if you look at the facts You cant believe what obama says equals what he has done

Obama Tells Tax-Burdened Plumber the Plan is to ‘Spread the Wealth Around’…
Hillary says economic crisis breaks her heart…
SOCIALISM!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Nam vet | Oct 13, 2008 1:02:29 PM
Hey, Fake Nam Vet, JFK’s willingness to meet Khrushchev without pre-conditions or a real plan in 1961 opened the door for the near destruction of the planet. The Cuban Missile Crisis was avoidable. That’s my point Lefty.
Obama will invite the same Risks with his willingness to meet with Thugs–without any clear purpose or conditions. Peace through strength. Diplomacy is one means to peace, not an end unto itself.
Now go back to smoking dope and blogging on DailyKos.

Joe Biden is absolutely right.
0bama attacks issues, making repeatedly boneheaded mistakes, according to His Nothingness himself.
Unfortunately, McCain has to point out these boneheaded mistakes, even though you blind supporters still do not see a light.

Joe Biden is an Idiot who earned less than 1% of the vote in the Iowa caucus.
Even he had to admit Obama should have chosen Hillary.

“Tell me who you hang out with and I will tell you who you are” says a poster here. He then goes on to cite the conventional list we are all so tired of hearing about (Ayers, Wright, Rezco, et. al.). Americans are beginning to shift towards Obama because he gets his advise from the best and brightest economists we have. Today, Paul Krugman, an Obama supporter just won the Nobel prize in economics. I am confident, as a Colorado small business owner, and independent, that Obama has everything it takes to lead our country back to prosperity.

Joe Biden is 1/2 of a great team – Obama/Biden. They will go down in history as being pivotal to changing the direction of America in the 21st Century when they began a course of cooperation and coordination with the rest of the world instead of confrontation and bullying. They will be remembered as having cared for the largest group of people constituting American citizens – the Middle class. They will be remembered for providing affordable health care for every citizen. They will be remembered for promoting education so that there were lots of bright young people who contributed to the revolutionary ideas necessary to move this country into the future with new forms of clean energy. It will be a watershed.
The Republicans are now reaping what they have sown.
Into the future with OBAMA/BIDEN!!!

I agree with James Hirsen of Newsmax: It’s time for Obama to apologize for the hate speech of his Hollywood pals, and while he’s at it he might also call off his biased buds in the media.
Sandra Bernhard said that if Palin came to New York she would be “gang raped” by Bernhard’s African-American male friends and also called Cindy McCain a “Barbie doll hooker.”
Pamela Anderson said, “I can’t stand her” and “she can s**k it.”
After telling thousands of fans, “You know who can get off of my street? Sarah Palin,” Madonna led fans in the following chant: “I’m gonna kick her a** if she don’t get off of my street!” She later shouted, “This is the sound of Sarah Palin’s husband’s snowmobile when it won’t start up in the wintertime” while letting loose with loud dissonant guitar feedback.
Cybill Shepherd called Palin an “American catastrophe.”
Betty White labeled her “one crazy b***h.”
If McCain has to apologize for people in his crowds that could be Obama plants stirring the pot, then Obama also needs to apolgoze for the hate coming from his Hollywood buds.

Mccain will never acknowledge that Ayers was an accepted member of society and a respected college professor by the time Obama met him…

Nice try Shelley, but Newsmax is just another conservative mouthpiece, like FOX, or Limbaugh, or Coulter……..

Mccain will never acknowledge that Ayers was an accepted member of society and a respected college professor by the time Obama met him…
Posted by: malone | Oct 13, 2008 3:26:40 PM
In an article published on September 11, 2001—yes, really–the “accepted member of society and a respected college professor” said the following:
”I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. ”I feel we didn’t do enough.” Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970’s as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago. The long curly locks in his Wanted poster are shorn, though he wears earrings. He still has tattooed on his neck the rainbow-and-lightning Weathermen logo that appeared on letters taking responsibility for bombings.
This was AFTER Obama started working with Ayers on the Annenberg Challenge!
Wake up, Moron!

HEY UNREPENTANT WEATHERMAN:
ever heard of white supremacist Richard Quinn? a man who sold t-shirts praising the assasination of old Abe Lincoln? a man who called David Duke a “maverick”— Well he was a political adviser to Mccain in 2000!!! Mccains latest strategy of guilt-by association not only has YOU hook-line-and sinker, but he wouldn’t be able to stand up to his own scrutiny!!!(btw, the list goes on, my friend…)

Obama is clueless on the economic
crisis! Implementing his
multi-billion dollars spending plans
will be like pouring gasoline on a fire!
Wake up America!
Obama’s policies will make this seem
like the “good old days”!

Reaganfan,
Apparently the Republicans were clueless about where their mantra of deregulation would lead.
This country could have had a lot of good health care and education assistance and job training and other supportive services for Americans for what the Republicans have forced us to pour down a rat hole over an unnecessary war, and now this financial crisis! Isn’t this just the icing on the cake!
Your priorities suck!

Anyone looking for insight on the flaws and the solution (major overhaul) to the fix the system can find them on http://coinage.me
It goes into detail how the summary information needed to actually manage a fiat currency system is not available and therefore cannot be properly managed.
Furthermore our information system systems are not designed correctly to support such a system the data is all disparate.
The is referenced by one of Obama’s advisors and can be read at the Obama link below.
http://tinyurl.com/52bczy

I disagree that Sen. McCain is the culprit of the performance of the Bush Administration. He is not part of the Cabinet. In fact when Vice-Presidency was offered by Bush to McCain the latter refused on the ground of policy differences.
The first who should be blamed is the President himself, next is the Vice-President, then the Cabinet.
Why should Sen. Obama put heavily the blame to a single senator, from among the 99 other members, about the administration of a President?

Wright 101
Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Rev. Wright’s anti-Americanism
By Stanley Kurtz
It looks like Jeremiah Wright was just the tip of the iceberg. Not only did Barack Obama savor Wright’s sermons, Obama gave legitimacy — and a whole lot of money — to education programs built around the same extremist anti-American ideology preached by Reverend Wright. And guess what? Bill Ayers is still palling around with the same bitterly anti-American Afrocentric ideologues that he and Obama were promoting a decade ago. All this is revealed by a bit of digging, combined with a careful study of documents from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the education foundation Obama and Ayers jointly led in the late 1990s.
John McCain, take note. Obama’s tie to Wright is no longer a purely personal question (if it ever was one) about one man’s choice of his pastor. The fact that Obama funded extremist Afrocentrists who shared Wright’s anti-Americanism means that this is now a matter of public policy, and therefore an entirely legitimate issue in this campaign.
African Village
In the winter of 1996, the Coalition for Improved Education in [Chicago’s] South Shore (CIESS) announced that it had received a $200,000 grant from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. That made CIESS an “external partner,” i.e. a community organization linked to a network of schools within the Chicago public system. This network, named the “South Shore African Village Collaborative” was thoroughly “Afrocentric” in orientation. CIESS’s job was to use a combination of teacher-training, curriculum advice, and community involvement to improve academic performance in the schools it worked with. CIESS would continue to receive large Annenberg grants throughout the 1990s.
The South Shore African Village Collaborative (SSAVC) was very much a part of the Afrocentric “rites of passage movement,” a fringe education crusade of the 1990s. SSAVC schools featured “African-Centered” curricula built around “rites of passage” ceremonies inspired by the puberty rites found in many African societies. In and of themselves, these ceremonies were harmless. Yet the philosophy that accompanied them was not. On the contrary, it was a carbon-copy of Jeremiah Wright’s worldview.
Rites of Passage
To learn what the rites of passage movement was all about, we can turn to a sympathetic 1992 study published in the Journal of Negro Education by Nsenga Warfield-Coppock. In that article, Warfield-Coppock bemoans the fact that public education in the United States is shaped by “capitalism, competitiveness, racism, sexism and oppression.” According to Warfield-Coppock, these American values “have confused African American people and oriented them toward American definitions of achievement and success and away from traditional African values.” American socialization has “proven to be dysfuntional and genocidal to the African American community,” Warfield-Coppock tells us. The answer is the adolescent rites of passage movement, designed “to provide African American youth with the cultural information and values they would need to counter the potentially detrimental effects of a Eurocentrically oriented society.”
The adolescent rites of passage movement that flowered in the 1990s grew out of the “cultural nationalist” or “Pan-African” thinking popular in radical black circles of the 1960s and 1970s. The attempt to create a virtually separate and intensely anti-American black social world began to take hold in the mid-1980s in small private schools, which carefully guarded the contents of their controversial curricula. Gradually, through external partners like CIESS, the movement spread to a few public schools. Supporters view these programs as “a social and cultural ‘inoculation’ process that facilitates healthy, African-centered development among African American youth and protects them against the ravages of a racist, sexist, capitalist, and oppressive society.”
We know that SSAVC was part of this movement, not only because their Annenberg proposals were filled with Afrocentric themes and references to “rites of passage,” but also because SSAVC’s faculty set up its African-centered curriculum in consultation with some of the most prominent leaders of the “rites of passage movement.” For example, a CIESS teacher conference sponsored a presentation on African-centered curricula by Jacob Carruthers, a particularly controversial Afrocentrist.
Jacob Carruthers
Like other leaders of the rites of passage movement, Carruthers teaches that the true birthplace of world civilization was ancient “Kemet” (Egypt), from which Kemetic philosophy supposedly spread to Africa as a whole. Carruthers and his colleagues believe that the values of Kemetic civilization are far superior to the isolating and oppressive, ancient Greek-based values of European and American civilization. Although academic Egyptologists and anthropologists strongly reject these historical claims, Carruthers dismisses critics as part of a white supremacist conspiracy to hide the truth of African superiority.
Carruthers’s key writings are collected in his book, Intellectual Warfare. Reading it is a wild, anti-American ride. In his book, we learn that Carruthers and his like-minded colleagues have formed an organization called the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC), which takes as its mission the need to “dismantle the European intellectual campaign to commit historicide against African peoples.” Carruthers includes “African-Americans” within a group he would define as simply “African.” When forced to describe a black person as “American,” Carruthers uses quotation marks, thus indicating that no black person can be American in any authentic sense. According to Carruthers, “The submission to Western civilization and its most outstanding offspring, American civilization, is, in reality, surrender to white supremacy.”
Carruthers’s goal is to use African-centered education to recreate a separatist universe within America, a kind of state-within-a-state. The rites of passage movement is central to the plan. Carruthers sees enemies on every part of the political spectrum, from conservatives, to liberals, to academic leftists, all of whom reject advocates of Kemetic civilization, like himself, as dangerous and academically irresponsible extremists. Carruthers sees all these groups as deluded captives of white supremacist Eurocentric culture. Therefore the only safe place for Africans living in the United States (i.e. American blacks) is outside the mental boundaries of our ineradicably racist Eurocentric civilization. As Carruthers puts it: “…some of us have chosen to reject the culture of our oppressors and recover our disrupted ancestral culture.” The rites of passage movement is a way to teach young Africans in the United States how to reject America and recover their authentic African heritage.
America as Rape
Carruthers admits that Africans living in America have already been shaped by Western culture, yet compares this Americanization process to rape: “We may not be able to get our virginity back after the rape, but we do not have to marry the rapist….” In other words, American blacks (i.e. Africans) may have been forcibly exposed to American culture, but that doesn’t mean they need to accept it. The better option, says Carruthers, is to separate out and relearn the wisdom of Africa’s original Kemetic culture, embodied in the teachings of the ancient wise man, Ptahhotep (an historical figure traditionally identified as the author of a Fifth Dynasty wisdom book). Anything less than re-Africanization threatens the mental, and even physical, genocide of Africans living in an ineradicably white supremacist United States.
Carruthers is a defender of Leonard Jeffries, professor in the department of black studies at City College in Harlem, infamous for his black supremacist and anti-Semitic views. Jeffries sees whites as oppressive and violent “ice people,” in contrast to peaceful and mutually supportive black “sun people.” The divergence says Jeffries, is attributable to differing levels of melanin in the skin. Jeffries also blames Jews for financing the slave trade. Carruthers defends Jeffries and excoriates the prestigious black academics Carruthers views as traitorous for denouncing their African brother, Jeffries. Carruthers’s vision of the superior and peaceful Kemetic philosophy of Ptahhotep triumphing over Greco-Euro-American-white culture obviously parallels Jeffries’ opposition between ice people and sun people.
More of Carruthers’s education philosophy can be found in his newsletter, The Kemetic Voice. In 1997, for example, at the same time Carruthers was advising SSAVC on how to set up an African-centered curriculum, he praised the decision of New Orleans’ School Board to remove the name of George Washington from an elementary school. Apparently, some officials in New Orleans had decided that nobody who held slaves should have a school named after him. Carruthers touted the name-change as proof that his African-centered perspective was finally having an effect on public policy. At the demise of George Washington School, Carruthers crowed: “These events remind us of how vast the gulf is that separates the Defenders of Western Civilization from the Champions of African Civilization.”
According to Chicago Annenberg Challenge records, Carruthers’s training session on African-centered curricula for SSAVC teachers was a huge hit: “As a consciousness raising session, it received rave reviews, and has prepared the way for the curriculum readiness survey….” These teacher-training workshops were directly funded by the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Another sure sign of the ideological cast of SSAVC’s curriculum can be found in Annenberg documents noting that SSAVC students are taught the wisdom of Ptahhotep. Carruthers’s concerns about “menticide” and “genocide” at the hand of America’s white supremacist system seem to be echoed in an SSAVC document that says: “Our children need to understand the historical context of our struggles for liberation from those forces that seek to destroy us.”
When Jeremiah Wright turned toward African-centered thinking in the late 1980s and early 1990s (the period when, attracted by Wright’s African themes, Barack Obama first became a church member), many prominent thinkers from Carruthers’s Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations were invited to speak at Trinity United Church of Christ, Carruthers himself included. We hear echoes of Carruthers’s work in Wright’s distinction between “right brained” Africans and “left brained” Europeans, in Wright’s fears of U.S. government-sponsored genocide against American blacks, and in Wright’s embittered attacks on America’s indelibly white-supremacist history. In Wright’s Trumpet Newsmagazine, as in Carruthers’s own writings, blacks are often referred to as “Africans living in the diaspora” rather than as Americans.
Asa Hilliard
Chicago Annenberg Challenge records also indicate that SSAVC educators invited Asa Hilliard, a pioneer of African-centered curricula and a close colleague of Carruthers, to offer a keynote address at yet another Annenberg-funded teacher training session. Hilliard’s ties to Wright run still deeper than Carruthers’s. A close Wright mentor and friend, Hilliard died in 2007 while on a trip to Kemet (Egypt) with Wright and members of Wright’s congregation. Hillard was scheduled to deliver several lectures to the congregants, and to speak at a meeting of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization, which he co-founded with Carruthers and other “African-centered” scholars. On that last trip, Hilliard accepted an appointment to the board of Wright’s new elementary school, Kwame Nkrumah Academy. Speaking of the need for such a school, Wright had earlier said, “We need to educate our children to the reality of white supremacy.” (For more on Wright’s Afrocentric school, see “Jeremiah Wright’s ‘Trumpet.’”)
Wright delivered the eulogy at Hilliard’s memorial service, with prominent members of ASCAC in the audience. To commemorate Hilliard, a special, two-cover double issue of Wright’s Trumpet Newsmagazine was published, with a picture of Hilliard on one side, and a picture of Louis Farrakhan on the other (in celebration of a 2007 award Farrakhan received from Wright). In short, the ties between Wright and Hilliard could hardly have been closer. Clearly, then, Wright’s own educational philosophy was mirrored at the Annenberg-funded SSAVC, which sought out Hilliard’s and Carruthers’s counsel to construct its curriculum.
Perhaps inadvertently, Wright’s eulogy for Hilliard actually established the fringe nature of his favorite African-centered scholars. In his tribute, Wright stressed how intensely “white Egyptologists recoiled at the very notion of everything Asa taught.” As Wright himself made plain, it seems virtually impossible to find respectable scholars of any political stripe who approve of the extremist anti-American version of Afrocentrism promoted by Hilliard and Carruthers.
Ayers’s Pals
An important exception to the rule is Bill Ayers himself, who not only worked with Obama to fund groups like this at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, but who is still “palling around” with the same folks. Discretely waiting until after the election, Bill Ayers and his wife, and fellow former terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn plan to release a book in 2009 entitled Race Course Against White Supremacy. The book will be published by Third World Press, a press set up by Carruthers and other members of the ASCAC. Representatives of that press were prominently present for Wright’s eulogy at Asa Hilliard’s memorial service. Less than a decade ago, therefore, when it came to education issues, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright were pretty much on the same page.
Obama’s Knowledge
Given the precedent of his earlier responses on Ayers and Wright, Obama might be inclined to deny personal knowledge of the educational philosophy he was so generously funding. Such a denial would not be convincing. For one thing, we have evidence that in 1995, the same year Obama assumed control of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, he publicly rejected “the unrealistic politics of integrationist assimilation,” a stance that clearly resonates with both Wright and Carruthers. (See “No Liberation.”)
And as noted, Wright had invited Carruthers, Hilliard, and like-minded thinkers to address his Trinity congregants. Wright likes to tick off his connections to these prominent Afrocentrists in sermons, and Obama would surely have heard of them. Reading over SSAVC’s Annenberg proposals, Obama could hardly be ignorant of what they were about. And if by some chance Obama overlooked Hilliard’s or Carruthers’s names, SSAVC’s proposals are filled with references to “rites of passage” and “Ptahhotep,” dead giveaways for the anti-American and separatist ideological concoction favored by SSAVC.
We know that Obama did read the proposals. Annenberg documents show him commenting on proposal quality. And especially after 1995, when concerns over self-dealing and conflicts of interest forced the Ayers-headed “Collaborative” to distance itself from monetary issues, all funding decisions fell to Obama and the board. Significantly, there was dissent within the board. One business leader and experienced grant-smith characterized the quality of most Annenberg proposals as “awful.” (See “The Chicago Annenberg Challenge: The First Three Years,” p. 19.) Yet Obama and his very small and divided board kept the money flowing to ideologically extremist groups like the South Shore African Village Collaborative, instead of organizations focused on traditional educational achievement.
As if the content of SSAVC documents wasn’t warning enough, their proposals consistently misspelled “rites of passage” as “rights of passage,” hardly an encouraging sign from a group meant to improve children’s reading skills. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge’s own evaluators acknowledged that Annenberg-aided schools showed no improvement in achievement scores. Evaluators attributed that failure, in part, to the fact that many of Annenberg’s “external partners” had little educational expertise. A group that puts its efforts into Kwanzaa celebrations and half-baked history certainly fits that bill, and goes a long way toward explaining how Ayers and Obama managed to waste upwards of $150 million without improving student achievement.
However he may seek to deny it, all evidence points to the fact that, from his position as board chair of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama knowingly and persistently funded an educational project that shared the extremist and anti-American philosophy of Jeremiah Wright. The Wright affair was no fluke. It’s time for McCain to say so.
— Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Bidens a traitor to his own people. He said during the primaries that Oslima was not ready and McCain was. Now because he has a chance for a little more power and prestige he sold his sole to the Devil below. To hell with you OBiden, literally.

Want a hint of what Obama Presidency will be? – Check on his campaign overspending!