“Professor Bill Ayers Office”
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Obama’s Real Problem With Ayers.
At an education forum in Venezuela, Bill Ayers showed the real issue is not his terrorist past. It’s the socialist revolutionary agenda that he and Barack Obama want to impose on the nation’s schools.
Still more evidence of how the media are in the tank for Obama was evident in Tom Brokaw’s description of Ayers on Sunday’s “Meet The Press.”
“School reformer” is how Brokaw identified the co-founder of the Weather Underground, the radical organization that, among other activities, bombed government buildings, banks, police departments and military bases in the early 1970s.
Yeah, right: Ayers is a school reformer in the same sense, as City Journal’s Sol Stern put it, as Joe Stalin was an agricultural reformer.
An idea of what Ayers has in mind for America’s schools was provided in his own words not 40 years ago when Obama was eight years old, but less than two years ago in November 2006 at the World Education Forum in Caracas hosted by dictator Hugo Chavez.
With Chavez at his side, Ayers voiced his support for “the political educational reforms under way here in Venezuela under the leadership of President Chavez. We share the belief that education is the motor-force of revolution. . . . I look forward to seeing how . . . all of you continue to overcome the failures of capitalist education as you seek to create something truly new and deeply humane.”
Ayers told the great humanitarian Chavez: “Teaching invites transformations, it urges revolutions large and small. La educacion es revolucion.” It is that form of socialist revolution that Ayers, and Obama, have worked to bring to America.
“Obama. Socialist.”
Image courtesy of http://firstfriday.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/barack-obamas-reckless-tax-increase-to-save-social-security/.
What do these men have in common?
A Socialist agenda.
And just in case you want to know what that upstanding University of Illinois at Chicago professor Ayers has decorating his office door in the image above, read more at Michelle Malkin and Chicago Tribune.
Ayers’ office door is decorated with pictures of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Che Guevara and Malcolm X. It is also home to pictures of children, bills of rights for students and parents, and a rainbow-hued greeting card advising “How to Be Really Alive.” A place of prominence is give to a New Yorker cartoon of a man interviewing for a job. The interviewer says, “I’m trying to find a way to balance your strengths against your felonies.”
Would you want your college student child sitting in Ayers class, as he proselytizes over his radical educational agenda of Socialism? Better yet, would you like to pay for that class?
See:
- http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=308271974461547. Obama’s Real Problem With Ayers. October 7, 2008.
- http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/15/whats-on-bill-ayers-door/. What’s on Bill Ayers’ door. October 15, 2008.
- http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-ayers-15-oct15,0,842672.story. Bill Ayers: ‘What could I possibly add?’ Decades removed from his radical opposition to the Vietnam War, UIC professor William Ayers lies low amid the political furor. October 15, 2008.
1 response so far ↓
mplimasol // October 16, 2008 at 7:03 pm
i’m quite pleased with my deduction skills. when i saw the picture i thought to myself, “um, commies?” of course, communism and socialism aren’t the same thing, but to a capitalist they might as well all be put into the same threatening basket.
i sometimes get frustrated because i wonder how it is that people can, in spite of complete informational overload, remain ignorant, but this quote from your first link sums the predicament up quite nicely:
“Yeah, right: Ayers is a school reformer in the same sense, as City Journal’s Sol Stern put it, as Joe Stalin was an agricultural reformer.”
our media is trashed, and in some senses no less far gone than the former soviet states, who are still strangulated by putin’s overwhelming desire to be thought of as the second messiah.
as for obama? i don’t fall for his teleprompters, or his hundreds of foreign policy yes-men, or his communist-era posters with the bright colors and hard geometric shapes. i will not be duped like the rest of my counterparts. anyone who describes the economic situation of today as “just as bad as the great depression” needs to commit himself to an institution.