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| Obama's Foundation Funded the Former "Communist Party" Leader |
| 2008-10-27 |
| A foundation chaired by Barack Obama that was designed to improve Chicago public schools gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Small Schools Workshop, an organization led by former Weatherman Bill Ayers and by Michael Klonsky, a former chairman of both Students for a Democratic Society and, according to The Washington Post and New York Times, a group called the “Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist).” "Ayers and an old comrade from SDS, Mike Klonsky, run the Small Schools Workshop to mentor and provide guidance and technical support to educators seeking to start small schools,” The Chicago Tribune reported on Sept. 16, 2001. In a September 6, 1977 article headlined “China’s Ideal American; U.S. Marxist Gets Red-Carpet Welcome in China,” The Washington Post said Klonsky was “chairman of the newly organized Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of the United States of America.” “Secretary of State Cyrus Vance got a good reception in Peking last month, but nothing like the red-carpet treatment received by that distinguished representative of the American people, Michael Klonsky,” the Post reported, before asking: “Michael who?” Answering its own question, the Post said: “Klonsky, as it turns out, is the chairman of the newly organized Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) of the United States of America, an amalgam of various pro-Peking leftist troops whose memberships are not thought to total more than a few hundred people--if that. Klonsky enjoyed a period of notoriety during the late 1960s when he headed Students for a Democratic Society and, for the first time, brought a radical Communist rhetoric to that New Left organization.” The August 26, 1977 New York Times, citing Klonsky as leader of the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), reported that he was one of only five Americans other than Secretary of State Vance and former President Richard Nixon and two Chinese-American scientists to have met with new Chinese Communist Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng. According to publicly available IRS 990 documents, the Small Schools Workshop that Klonsky ran with Bill Ayers received at least $800,000 from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) between 1998 and 2002. Obama chaired the CAC. Rest at link. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #4 Jack, civ war... don't think so. 1. Obamarx is a loser. He'll not win. Many reasons, the most relevant is that a majority is not stupid. It may be silent, but it realizes that losing would mean its last opportunity to vote--it would be just an acclamation with Obamarx at the helm from then on. Even the political affiliation does not play a major role. Many Dems will vote Mac, they are sick of Obamarx, to the point of violent nausea just seeing and hearing that shapeshifting slime. Black, purple or orange-green striped has nothing to do with it. 2. Obots may be rioting (actually, rather a certainity), but basically they are cowards. A few cracked obot skulls and they'll think twice to stir trouble. Make my day, I say! |
| Posted by: Spike Uniter 2008-10-27 17:15 |
| #3 Its looking more and more like a 2nd civil war and to finally put to an end what started in the 60's, disguised itself for years and is now emerging from under their respective rocks. If reparations are on the table, as it seems, there will be hell to pay. What the hell do you call The Great Society and all the "inner city" programs, EEO/AA etc. We are talking trillions and trillions. I just cannot see Americans taking this laying down. |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2008-10-27 13:33 |
| #2 That's the idea ... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-10-27 12:47 |
| #1 You know, Fred, I understand the idea behind the "Seedy Politician" Grouping, but frankly seeing them all together just scares the hell out of me. |
| Posted by: Omolurt de Medici3274 2008-10-27 12:39 |