Palin Says the Race Is Still on in Virginia

Who is Vera Baker and what is her story?
Is she the “October Surprise”?

Check this out…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/13/acorn-mccain-and-gop-used_n_134284.html
First we find out that John McCain’s IT director has been subpoenaed for his role in previous election fraud…
NOW we find out many prominent Republicans have supported ACORN whom they are now trying to smear (check out the photo of McCain at an Acorn meeting in 2006)…
JUICY.

It might be helpful if you specified which polling shows mccain ahead because none of the pollsters seem to agree with you:
RCP Average 09/28 – 10/07 Obama +6.3
PPP (D) 10/06 – 10/07 Obama +8
FOX News/Ras. 10/05 – 10/05 Obama +2
SurveyUSA 10/04 – 10/05 Obama +10
Suffolk 10/03 – 10/05 Obama +12
CNN/Time 09/28 – 09/30 Obama +9
InAdv/PollPosition 09/29 – 09/29 Obama +6

Keep fooling yourself there’s a close race in Virgina, Sarah. One day you might actually believe it.
But is the race REALLY over like everyone says it is? YOU BETHCA!
OBAMA/BIDEN FOR AMERICA

I was sitting and thinking about Obama this morning and then I flushed!
I agree, Obama IS a socialist!

From the Gut,
And how should we respond to illegitimate lines of questioning?
There is simply NO KNOWLEGEABLE person who would characterize the Annenberg Foundation as a ‘radical education orginization’.
This pro-education reform organization was founded by a Republican and friend of Ronald Regan. Important and respected Republicans, Independents and Democrats work on this important foundation.
THINK!

McCain want the government to spend $300 BILLION in ADDITIONAL TAX DOLLARS to buy bad mortgages. Thus the government owns the mortgages and the banks get a free ride at our expense.
Socialism – economic theory that endorses gov’t ownership of the means of production and/or services
We cannot allow JOHN McCAIN to carry out his SOCIALIST policies.

I’m insulted that you would say Virginia is leaning toward McCain and Parrot.
The polls we have been hearing and seeing show Obama is up a couple points over McCain!
VA will go to Obama!

2. Why are signs like “I’m voting for the chick” not sexist, but the media asking Palin, um, questions – that’s sexist?
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I was thinking that also!
AND, she had the nerve to say that the report cleared of any ethical violation!
Can she read a news paper?
Oh…wait….sorry, we can’t ask her about newspapers.

Maybe the question for the Palin/McCain ticket should be:
How sick is John McCain?
Read this:
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn10122008.html
Do we really want Todd and Sarah running (or should I say ruining) the country?

Obama better be elected OR ELSE .. you haven’t seen anything close to the riots that will take place! Trust me! Except this time you’ll have people with “white guilt” handing the bricks and lighter fluid to the homeys!

I’ll bet my pet Macaca Palin will do poorly in Virginia.

Actually the latest polling in Virginia has Obama ahead not McCain.

Valdar – entice hate? HA HA! When has that become something that’s unethical? Read your own liberal limp wristed postings and get back with us!

Nobody wants to talk about the pregnancy of the Palin girl. And we would not have to if her mama had not accepted the Vice Presidential offer knowing she had not sufficiently inculcated the values of abstinence only education in her daughter. We would probably enjoy not having to talk about illegally hunted moose or tasering children, all staples in the Palin household. On the other hand, Tina Fey is a plus.

I don’t need someone to tell me to hate Obama .. it comes easy!

Cynics seem to have their priorities twisted AGAIN. Class is in session:
1. Currently, with the states Obama already has, he’s showing 264 electoral votes. That’s not counting, OH, CO, FL or PA, which he’s up in all of them.
2. In “so called” red states such as VA, NC and WV, it appears that McCain is behind in two out of three and is losing ground in WV. West Virginia??? Is McCain that pathetic? Must be, huh?
3. Right now the electoral numbers show Obama with a massive landslide. In fact, McCain will be lucky to get 190 electoral votes.
4. After Bob Barr and Ron Paul drain another 10-15% from him, he should have enough votes for a bridge tournament at his local VFW in AZ. Buttermilk will be on tap.
5. POTUS OBAMA – It’s a lock
(Cynics already know this)

Did Joy Behar pass gas and explode yet? How’s that for hate? I can’t wait until she disappears and gets a condo with Rosie .. all the homeys will be a stoppin by to bang a white chick! That’s what they do – bang our outcasts!

as we now find ourselves, all affected by the current economic situation, coupled with other situations, let us exercise care, by being sufficiently wise, in the selection of the best candidate for president. It is true, that every person now desires real change, and not just promises to bring about real change. The vast majority are now hurting terribly, and cannot wait to experience the future sunshine. It is my view, that the party that can best deliver, by bringing about that needed change is the democratic party. May God continue to bless and to protect America and its peoples.

I am forwarding Tina Fey””’ post to PUMA. I know it will reinforce their redicrected love of the Palin-McCain ticket.

MY FELLOW PRISONERS:
With my campaign in shambles combined with my inability to get rid of the leper with lipstick, I now realize the depth of doo doo I’m in. In fact, I’m speaking to you through a tube because I’m so deep, I can’t fathom the reality of it.
“THAT ONE” has not only taken our milkshakes, but he’s only one and poured out the other one. What an elitist! I tell you what, MY FELLOW PRISONERS……..THAT ONE opened up a can of whoop a** that I will never ever ever eva eva forget.
CAN YOU SAY BLOWOUT?
I now know that donkeys don’t win thoroughbred horseraces.
John McChicken McCain.

MY WIFE AND I RECENTLY WENT ON A CRUISE TO ALASKA…
We have never seen a bigger population of toothless white trash in our lives!! Do you know that in Juneau there are about 40 bars in like a 5 block area (the whole downtown), it is incredible!!
Rusted cars on blocks in all the yards, red faced drunks stumbling down the streets, blue plastic tarps covering many roofs of houses, half the population living in trailers, filth and squaller!!
THIS IS SARAH PALINS ALASKA!!!!
REMEMBER JUNEAU IS THE CAPITOL! And she calls Alaska a “microcosm” of America!

I’z a dumbarse nig .. sorry people!

Take that Alaska – I’m a dumbarse who’s just a racist pig and knows know better .. we all know race goes one way! Down with whitey and Alaskans! You simple SOB!

I’ll admit it IS more important who Obama Hussein has as a VP .. no doubt about it!

Isn’t it hilarious to make cynics just pull plug after plugs of hair from their little heads knowing they’ll be bald by November 4th?
Cmon, you can do better than that, can’t you?
Listen up….Shhhh….Secret.
Barnum and Bailey are taking applications for desperate clowns.
You cynics are a lock for the job!
POTUS OBAMA – A Cynic’s Worst Nightmare

Take that Alaska – I’m a dumbarse who’s just a racist pig and knows know better .. we all know race goes one way! Down with whitey and Alaskans! You simple SOB!
Posted by: Davis. | Oct 13, 2008 6:15:15 PM
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Gee you little McCain worm, if your going to steal my name and post nonsense with it, can you at least speak proper English, spell correctly and be funny??

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/va/virginia_mccain_vs_obama-551.html
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/oh/ohio_mccain_vs_obama-400.html

I can’t wait to finally take down my Farrah Fawcett poster and touch myself to my Obama one tonight .. he’s hot! I love those tea cup ears – you guys?

Ahhhhh, Cynics………
If you only had a brain.
You neanderthals can grunt, huff, puff and beat on your chests like your fearless leader McChicken has done, but in truth, your Great White Hope and been reduced to the Great White NOPE who wears heels.
POTUS OBAMA – IT’S A LOCK!!!!

Nat Turner> is a troll trying to stir up racial tension on this blog. Nice try but no one is buying.
Just ignore this idiot.

Sarah Palin – abuse of ethics, lies and has the intelligence of a halloween pumpkin…she’s another Anita Bryant but she lost when she ran for beauty queen unlike the nut job Anita.

Palin Says the Race Is Still on in Virginia.
Palin says she can see Russia from Alaska so she has foreign policy experience.
Palin says that being Mayor of a 6,000 resident town, and the 2nd to last smallest state in population qualifies her to be VP.
Palin says she is an expert in energy because Alaska gets most of its revenue from oil and natural gas
Palin says she reads all the newspapers and magazines
Palin says her investigation into troopergate cleared her of all wrong doing
So basically, we can assume that whatever Palin says, the opposite is true.

Obama: Tax the Rich (Except Me, of Course)
“Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wants to raises taxes on the wealthy, but as a member of that social class, he isn’t eager to fall victim himself. He has invested at least $1 million in a fund that yields tax-free income.
The Illinois senator’s latest campaign-finance disclosure shows that his investments have nearly tripled in the past two years to as much as $7.4 million, and his income in 2007 surged past $4 million, not counting his government salary.”
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/MutualFunds/HowTaxBoostingObamaCutsHisOwn.aspx

Who is the REAL John McCain???
“I would not support repeal of Roe vs. Wade, which would then force X number of women in America to (undergo) illegal and dangerous operations.” Sen John McCain 2000
“I have always believed in the importance of the repeal of Roe vs. Wade, and as president, I would work toward its repeal.” Candidate McCain 2008
“I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who need tax relief.”–Sen John McCain, May 2001
“I support a continuation of the Bush tax cuts” Candidate McCain 2008
Sen McCain’s 2006 immigration proposal was much broader and included a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants who were already here.
Q?”At this point, if your original proposal came to a vote on the Senate floor, would you vote for it?”
A: No. Candidate McCain 2008

– Redistributionism. It’s what’s for dinner after January. Pay up you successful (rich) jerks –
Yeah, we were all hurting real bad under Clinton.. and Obamas tax plan will raise taxes on the wealthy less than Clinton. I watched as everyone was claiming that his ‘radical’ tax plan would be the end of this country too.. didn’t exactly happen as they claimed it seems.
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/

If Palin say’s it. ITS A RAP. You can rest assured. ITS A LIE.

Concerned American: Why are you so nosey about Cindy’s money? She isn’t running for the presidency. Besides that no candidate or president should show their tax returns because it isn’t the people’s business to know. Do you show your returns to your friends? People just want to know how much money politicans are worth.

– Why are you so nosey about Cindy’s money? –
Just quoting the ‘other side’ of the story from the same article.. don’t get your feathers all ruffled up.

– By the way what was that $886,000 that Obama gave to Acorn from his campaign money. –
For a get out the vote effort during the primaries. Old news.
As for ACORN, they have this to say about McCain:
“October 13, 2008, Miami, FL – U.S. Senator John McCain’s recent attacks on the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) are puzzling given his historic support for the organization and its efforts on behalf of immigrant Americans. As recently as February 20, 2006, Senator McCain was the keynote speaker at an ACORN-sponsored Immigration Rally in Miami, Florida at Miami Dade College – Wolfson Campus.”
Seems like it’s OK for McCain to form tenuous links, but ignore his own. Here is the flyer for the event mentioned above:
http://www.mdc.edu/Home/Press/rally.htm

SEXISM ALMOST 40 YEARS LATER
I will be sixty years old in a few months. My job in 1969 was what they called back then a “stewardess” with a major airline. Only women were hired in this position at that time. My true ambition was to be a pilot but I was not allowed. I could not be married, never mind have children, or I was forced to quit. I had to have weekly weight checks, where I could be taken off the payroll for being as little as one pound overweight. They set the standards. At the same time, they checked my fingernails, make up, and hair. I had to work in two inch heels and wear white gloves. I was forced to wear a girdle at 98 pounds so the businessmen could not pinch my butt. We were taught how to bend, how to reach and how to sit in a “ladylike” manner. I was considered to have one of the best jobs because I might get lucky and snag myself a rich husband!
Along came the era of civil rights and the women’s liberation movement. We became empowered! “Burn the bra” was the rally cry! Work outside the home and have a family, too? Unheard of! It took many years of hard work to try and dispel the stereo type casting and trying to achieve equal rights in all areas. When I watch how Sarah Palin is being treated, and it’s truly because of her sex, I am sickened. Where have all the feminists gone? They allow the press to ridicule her with photos and articles that are repulsive, even seeming themselves to add to the sexism! Governor Palin is all over the internet and most media outlets being portrayed as little more than a joke at a cocktail party for liberals. I am so offended by this treatment. Hilary Clinton felt some of the heat, but being a Democrat, they went easy on her. How can women let this happen to another woman? One who is quite accomplished and certainly intelligent? One who exemplifies the type of women we were striving to become? Are men so threatened and so afraid to give up power? They make fun of her and feel they must attack her every word, twisting and reinventing each sentence until it isn’t even recognizable any longer. It reminds me of the “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit” mentality; believing that if you tell lies and say things over and over enough, they become the truth. Why are more women not angry about this sexist behavior? Where’s the outrage?
Sexist behavior is so much more acceptable than racist behavior. Notice the “kid glove” treatment of Obama. Dare anyone call him by his given middle name? I don’t understand that. Should we refer to it as the “H” word? If he does win, won’t he have to place his hand on the Bible and state his full name? How is that an attack? Dare we also bring up his family or his church or his associations and ridicule any of those? If any of the insulting behavior toward Sarah Palin were directed at Obama, there would be such a media ruckus about the “racist” undertone. Yet I notice that when the insulting remarks are about Condoleezza Rice, it’s somehow not racist, but amusing. Sexism is even more noticeable in our “rap” culture where all women are being degraded and exploited, without much criticism.
Both civil rights movements started back in the sixties. Ridding the country of racism seems to have had much better success. Unfortunately we have failed pitifully when it comes to sexism. Most people seem to be uncomfortable, even today, with any woman having power. I guess we have really “Not come a long way, baby!”

By no means do I claim to be a scholar, but only a knowledgeable person can understand the concept that life is an in-transfer of knowledge and many scholars believe that over 90% of the things we learn, we learn from others. So when you have someone like Barack and Michelle Obama graduating with honors from one of our Country most prestigious College institution, this is an above average achievement to say the least. Barack often talks about how his Mom would wake him up at 4 in the morning to study his lessons, and he often expressed how upset it would make him, but let’s look at his achievements because of his mother’s love, concern and determination. Michelle also described how her parents stayed on her and her brother emphasizing the importance of an education and limiting them to just one hour a day of television viewing. As a result of their parent’s commitment to their lives, they attended Chicago’s most prestigious academic public high school, Whitney Young.
The reason I share this story is because of a few of reasons. The first being, I too had the honor of having my niece attend Whitney Young after getting chosen out of thousands of applicants of all nationalities of Chicago’s brightest kids. As a result of attending Whitney Young, she went on to get her P.H.D. from Yale and graduated with honors also. Once again, this is no average achievement. It was a result of the countless hours that my sister devoted in preparing her when she was a young child. We all know that when you devote yourself to higher learn, it prepares you to have a better understanding of power, conflict resolution skills, discernment, philosophy, theory and many more other helpful attributes that bring about a better understanding of life challenges.
Bill and Hillary Clinton was another couple that did quite well at Ivory league School, not to mention that Bill was a road scholar. Even though we may have felt embarrassed with their questionable personal shenanigans, while in the Whitehouse. Nevertheless, there is one thing I am sure we all can agree on, and that is their political achievements were very admirable. Joe Biden has a law degree, and his wife is currently an English professor in Delaware. Now let’s look at George Bush, who was an underachiever in College (C. Student) and became this nation President. Regardless if you were one of the ones that voted for him, there is no denying that his Presidency was a complete disaster, plain and simple. After witnessing an underachiever in college get elected to the Whitehouse, and almost completely destroy our Country, we find ourselves once again contemplating foolishly doing it again with John McCain who graduated fifth from the bottom. This is simply unbelievable.
This Country has always promoted the idea that we are a nation that is built by the best and the brightest. Even our military have now adapted this same slogan, now it appears that we have a difference slogan for the Presidency, which now says that we are a nation that allows underachievers to become the President, which makes no sense. In closing, Sarah Palin attended five difference Colleges, one being a Community Junior College, and the last being Idaho which has one of the nation lowest SAT and ACT entry acceptance scores (Math SAT, 549 Verbal SAT, 559 ACT, 23). Out of 210 major Colleges I surveyed, there were only 13 Colleges with a lower SAT and ACT entry acceptance score than Idaho.
So when Sarah Palin feels like knocking Barack Obama for being a community organizer, she must have forgotten that he graduated from Harvard law School with honors and taught Constitutional law. Our best law firms in the Country only hires the brightest students from College, so why should it be any different when we choose someone for our Nation top job. This Country is the land of opportunity for those who work hard. Thus, in my final analysis on this matter is in no way meant to be cynical and undermine this basis concept, when I make it known that Gov Palin husband never graduated from College and worked 20 years as a blue-collar employee in the oil fields of the North Slope of Alaska. I know he is not running for any major office, but are these truly the credentials to get you in the Whitehouse. After electing George Bush and finding out that he had problems, with completing an entire sentence should have been the final nail in the coffin for all Americans.

Oh what hogwash. McCain is going to stand by what Bush has put through. Palin can’t answer a question, doesn’t know policies, and Todd will be able to dominate the vp’s office as he did the govenors office in Alaska for personal reasons. If elected, what a fiasco this will be. A pretty face, but no brains to go with it. How long did it take her to finish college? This really makes her qualified. Mayor of a town of 5,000, that she left with a debt of 22 million, govenor for 19 months – with ethic problems, fired some for this, but ok for her to use for personal problems.
McCain keeps reminding us he served country and was a pow, which is commendable. But we need to deal with the issues not his service record. Enough of the bashing, face the facts.

Well, we know she didn’t “read” any reports about Virginia since she can’t name any newspapers or books she’s read recently…, guess it came to her in a dream.

Folks,
This election is very plain in my eyes. McCain is a Republican. He will govern like a Republican. That means no matter what he says he will continue the same policies of his fellow Republican George Bush. McCain does not think Bush policies are wrong which is why he voted for them 95% of the time. He just believes the execution of those policies was wrong. If you are okay with that then support McCain. I am not.

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.

Sharon – stop lying, you’re not an Republican, liberals love to lie and post lies! Come out of the closet!

Sharon: You’re a twisted moron. What about some investigations concerning your Farakan Messiah you hypocrite?

Hi Indy_Voter,
Want a hint of what Obama Presidency will be? Look at his campaign overspending record.
This is the man who makes as his core campaign pick, “the failed economic policies”, while doing his own financial waste in the campaign.
He is throwing millions of money in the campaign, clearly for his interest, at the time when the US, like most of the countries, is plunged into economic crisis.
If you want not to be decieved, watch out what he is doing, not his rhetrics

Don’t vote for the greatest spender in the election.