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WHY HASN’T OBAMA WRITTEN OR TALKED ABOUT HIS MOST EXTENSIVE EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE?

Seems curious, doesn’t it? One of the major negative criticisms leveled is that he’s not ready for the Presidency, because unlike McCain (military - leading an entire air group after his return from ‘Nam) and Palin (years as mayor and governor), he’s never made executive decisions. But, he has!
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From 1995 to 1999, he led an education foundation called the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC), and remained on the board until 2001. The group poured more than $100 million into the hands of community organizers and radical education activists.

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The explanation seems to be the involvement of Bill Ayers, the ‘60s Weather Underground bomber, who escaped prosecution for his crimes (“guilty as hell, free as a bird”) solely because of the FBI’s mal-or misfeasance in assembling the evidence.

The CAC’s basic functioning has long been known, because its annual reports, evaluations and some board minutes were public. But the Daley archive contains additional board minutes, the Collaborative minutes, and documentation on the groups that CAC funded and rejected. The Daley archives show that Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers worked as a team to advance the CAC agenda.

One unsettled question is how Mr. Obama, a former community organizer fresh out of law school, could vault to the top of a new foundation? In response to my questions, the Obama campaign issued a statement saying that Mr. Ayers had nothing to do with Obama’s “recruitment” to the board. The statement says Deborah Leff and Patricia Albjerg Graham (presidents of other foundations) recruited him. Yet the archives show that, along with Ms. Leff and Ms. Graham, Mr. Ayers was one of a working group of five who assembled the initial board in 1994. Mr. Ayers founded CAC and was its guiding spirit. No one would have been appointed the CAC chairman without his approval….The Obama campaign has cried foul when Bill Ayers comes up, claiming “guilt by association.” Yet the issue here isn’t guilt by association; it’s guilt by participation. As CAC chairman, Mr. Obama was lending moral and financial support to Mr. Ayers and his radical circle. That is a story even if Mr. Ayers had never planted a single bomb 40 years ago.

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Of course, the records of the CAC’s efforts to improve Chicago public schools show that tens of millions of dollars were spent, with no (as in “zero”) positive outcomes—that is, the schools were in no better shape after the spending of over $50 million. That may be the reason Obama doesn’t talk about this part of his life.
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You can judge for yourself, after you’ve READ THE WHOLE THING

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