The Barack Obama campaign loves to shout to the heavens that ol’ Barry didn’t have anything to do with the unrepentant-domestic-terrorist Bill Ayers, and that although he sat in the pew of the Trinity United Church of Christ he never once heard ol’ Rev. Wright say anything controversial, like G. D. America and such and that he never was involved with ACORN, the community organizing group facing investigation for voter registration fraud. But, God bless him, ol’ Stanly Kurtz just keeps on a diggin’ and continues to come up with the evidence that The One not only knew Ayers well, but that his Education Groups funded programs run by Ayers and his wife, domestic terrorist Bernardine Dohrn. From Fox News:

The Annenberg Challenge and the Woods Fund of Chicago funded numerous controversial groups while Barack Obama served on their boards between 1995 and 2002, an analysis of their tax returns shows.

In 2001, when Obama was a part-time director of The Woods Fund of Chicago, it gave $75,000 to ACORN, the voter registration group now under investigation for voter fraud in 12 states.

The Woods Fund also gave $6,000 to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ, which Obama attended. The reason for the donation to the church is unclear — it is simply listed as “for special purposes” in the group’s IRS tax form.

It gave a further $60,000 to the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University, which was founded and run by Bernardine Dohrn, the wife of domestic terrorist William Ayers and, with her husband, a former member of the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground.

Other controversial donations that year included $50,000 to the Small Schools Network — which was founded by Ayers and run by Michael Klonsky, a friend of Ayers’ and the former chairman of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), an offshoot of the 1960s radical group Students for a Democratic Society — and $40,000 to the Arab American Action Network, which critics have accused of being anti-Semitic.

The Woods Fund did not respond to questions about the funding.

When Obama co-chaired the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which calls itself “a public-private partnership improving education for 1.5 million urban and rural public school students,” it gave to some of the same groups — partnering with ACORN to manage funding for schools and giving over $1 million to the Small Schools Network.

It also gave nearly $1 million to a group called the South Shore African Village Collaborative, whose goals, according to Annenberg’s archived Web site, are “to develop more collegial relationships between teachers and principals. Professional development topics include school leadership, team building, parent and community involvement, developing thematic units, instructional strategies, strategic planning, and distance learning and teleconferencing.”

But the group mentions other goals in its grant application to the Annenberg Challenge:

“Our children need to understand the historical context of our struggles for liberation from those forces that seek to destroy us,” one page of the application reads.

So, how does a program like the Annenberg Challenge, whose foundation was originally funded by a close friend of Ronald Reagan, end up funding radical-leftists like Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn and Michael Klonski? Kurtz has part of the answer:

“If you read Ayers’ proposal to Annenberg, it doesn’t sound radical. But if you actually read Ayers’ education writings, they are very radical indeed,” Kurtz said. “Ayers, like so many other savvy professors, knows enough not to state his actual views frankly when applying for money. But you can find the truth in his writings.”

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“I feel certain [Obama] knew about these radical groups,” Kurtz said. “We know that he read the applications because he made statements about the quality of proposals.”

Barry keeps to his story that Bill Ayers is just a guy in his neighborhood, that he never knew about his radical youth or his radical ideas. But hey, it’s all OK — ’cause it’s the Obamessiah don’t ya know — and he always knows what’s best. If John McCain had ever been in charge of a foundation that was funding David Duke or some chapter of the Klan, we all know what would happen with that info. Front-page and breaking-news mania 24/7, that’s what! Since it’s Barack, the MSM just looks the other way.

BTW — it’s not the former terrorist part, the bombings of the Pentagon, the Capital, a police station and the murder of a cop that makes the Ayers connection so important, (although that should be a bit disturbing to a normal person), it’s the radical educational ideas espoused by Bill Ayers and his America-hating wife and friends that should have caused Barack Obama to be revolted, instead of sympathetic, to anything proposed by those two. Of course, you have to disagree with something revolting to be revolted.

Guilt by association — and by agreement via funding. That must be The CHANGE we’ve all been told about ad nauseum — no doubt.

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