In that Andy McCarthy piece I quoted earlier today, there was mention of how (former?) Maoist Mike Klonsky was functionally erased from Obama’s campaign web site when a blogger pointed out his literally revolutionary ideas on education. This isn’t the first time I’ve read about controversial information unmysteriously vanishing from the Internet when it becomes [...]
Obama: A Change We Can Upload
October 22nd, 2008 No Comments
Tags: ACORN · Ayers · Klonsky · New Party · Obama · revisionism · Wright
Why do Ayers and Wright matter? Policy.
October 15th, 2008 No Comments
Guilt by association obviously doesn’t tar Obama. When I disucssed William Ayers with my mom last week, she shrugged it off, “It was the sixties.”
Stanley Kurtz, however, has done the boring work of connecting the dots between Obama’s many questionable relationships and how it has manifested in his policies. While he was distributing money for [...]
Tags: annenberg · Ayers · Obama · Wright
Conspiracies from the Right: Did Bill Ayers write Obama’s first book?
October 15th, 2008 No Comments
That’s what this literary fraud expert thinks. I find it hard to believe most conspiracy theories. I doubt secrets like this can be safely kept. However, in the course of his argument he unearths some poetry written by Obama.
Tracing Obama’s literary ascent is complicated by what Politico.com calls a “scant paper trail.” That trail [...]
Tags: Ayers · Dreams from my Father · Obama
Obama’s friends & neighbors
October 8th, 2008 No Comments
From a National Review Online editorial:
The New Republic has reported that Obama joined Trinity around this time because he “was taken with Wright’s worldview.” The reporting of NR’s Stanley Kurtz has revealed that in the late 1980s, Wright’s worldview entailed a burning hatred of Western capitalism and a belief that black assimilation into the middle [...]
Tags: Alice Palmer · Ayers · Obama · Rezko · Wright