Subversives for Obama

Unrepentant terrorist and Obama buddy Bill Ayers has moved his website, still has the commie Red Star adorning his site, plus Maoist Mike Klonsky on his blogroll. Meanwhile, PUMA Power has discovered Steve Diamond, who has closely researched the origins and dismal performance of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and the Ayers and Obama role. Did Bill Ayers hire Barack Obama, despite the campaign trying to obfuscate the issue? Diamond thinks so:

The Campaign's statement says that the founding board, including the former University of Illinois President Stanley Ikenberry, voted to appoint Obama to the board. No doubt, on a formal level, that is true. But does the Campaign believe that the board did so without any input from Ayers? That Ayers did not care and did not speak up about the matter?

In fact, there is a problem for the Campaign about this story: [former University of Illinois President Stanley] Ikenberry, a leading national figure in education policy and scholarship and once head of the College of Education at the University of Illinois, is already on the record expressing his surprise at the appointment of Obama. He told the New York Times that it was "unusual" for Obama, a young lawyer with no serious background in education or fundraising, to be appointed to the board and that it was only over time that Obama earned the "respect" of his far more prominent and experienced colleagues on the board.

And while Obama may have been formally elected by the founding board members, he was elected President of the Challenge by the board at its first meeting on March 15, 1995. That meeting started out with a briefing on the CAC by Bill Ayers. Ayers was present at the entire meeting according to the minutes I have reviewed and was asked to join with Obama, among others, to assist in the preparation of the By-laws of the Challenge.

Somehow the least experienced and least well known board member became its Chairman and President, yet without any input from Bill Ayers.

And Melanie Phillips, The Spectator, "Subversives for Obama", raises this issue and also the charge that Barack Obama's Harvard Law School was paid for by a Saudi advisor and mentor to the radical Black Panther party:

A few months ago, a claim was made by former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton that Obama had been funded through Harvard law school by Khalid Al-Mansour, a ‘mentor’ to the founders of the Black Panther party and advisor to ‘one of the world’s richest men,’ Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal. It was Prince Alwaleed whose $10 million check to help rebuild Manhattan after 9/11 was refused by New York mayor Rudy Guiliani because the Saudi prince hinted publicly that America’s pro-Israel policies were to blame for the attacks.

According to this story by Kenneth Timmerman, Camp Obama denied this claim -- and referred to a story on Politico.com in which reporter Ben Smith wrote that ‘a spokesman for Sutton’s family, Kevin Wardally’ said that Sutton had been mistaken when he made those comments. But when contacted, Sutton’s family not only denied that Sutton had misspoken but also said they had never even heard of Kevin Wardally – who appears to work for a Harlem political consulting firm.

So the claim that Obama was funded through Harvard by a radical Black Muslim activist with ties to the Saudis remains on the table.

Subversives for Obama. They tapped him and supported him very early on. The list keeps growing. And the MSM silence is deafening.