This is the start of a very dangerous period in America.

“Yet, still…Senator Obama is held aloft, …there is no “evidence” that he orchestrated or even participated …certainly none that he embraced this bubbling cauldron of leftist agitprop. That is, if you ignore the influence of “Frank”, ignore Ayers and his wife of no soul, ignore 20 years with Wright and Cone’s hatefest, ignore Pfleger, ignore Klonsky, ignore Odinga, ignore Rashid Khalidi, ignore Khalid al Mansour, ignore his father’s writings, ignore Edward Said, ignore Sam Graham-Felsen, ignore “discomfort” with the “wrong kind of patriotism”, ignore the “spread the wealth”, ignore Robert Malley, ignore Samantha Power, ignore Brzezinsky, ignore McPeak, ignore the radical professors at college, ignore …essentially the whole of his life and the whole of his foreign policy team. And Lugar and Jones do not give me greater comfort as a staunch supporter of Israel, they give me less. If he had added James Baker or Pat Buchanan, I would have felt precisely the same.

These associations don’t provide “guilt” by and through them alone, but they do provide a worldview with which he appears to be quite comfortable. I am not.

He admits to being “inspired and guided” by some names on this list. I am not.”

We seek the company of, comfort with, and camaraderie among those we identify with the most. Barack Obama is most comfortable among those on the list provided by cfbleachers. While there may be no single source “smoking gun”, when does an amalgamation of his preferred associates become a smoking gun on its own merits? One, two, maybe three of his past associations may be explained away with a reasonable argument that it was a time of self discovery in his youth. But, when the list grows exponentially longer and longer with admitted influences on his life, what else can one deduce? He is most certainly not an anthropologist, dedicated to the study of man. He purposely chose to be a community organizer well before embarking on a journey to Kenya to discover his familial connections on his father’s side. The sum of the parts make up the whole and how the whole operates depends on the way the parts have been assembled.

The “smoking gun” is Barack Obama himself, not one particular association with a Bill Ayers. Bill Ayers is only one of the indentifiers of who Obama really is.

Obama may indeed govern from the middle much like Clinton but I have serious reservations about it. Maybe for the first two years until he can consolidate his power base but then, I believe he will ultimately surrender himself to follow his natural path, a path instilled in him by the nurturing of his chosen influences in his life. We will see an America leaning further left than any other time in our history and ultimately, if the electorate does not wake up and correct the situation, the dye will be cast and a return to any similance of conservative ideals will be lost forever.

Absolutely. Whatever funds made it into schools under the Ayers/Obama dispensation of cash through the “Annenberg Challenge” (in other words, that money that didn’t make it into the pockets of ideological cronies) would have been in the name of effecting this agenda.

Whatever Bill Ayers does and says these days as a professor of education in Chicago should be seen as promoting the same agenda he held in the 60’s and 70’s with a more insidious slant than outright bombing.

To hell with academic discipline, “the three R’s” and so forth, we’re here to brainwash the kiddies.

While the dropout rate in Chicago schools, the 3rd largest district in the nation, remains around 50%.