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When Daley says shhh, library is quiet on Obama
John Kass
August 21, 2008
Conservative writer Stanley Kurtzresearching an article for the National Review about connections between Barack Obama and former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayersmade a big mistake.
The poor man took a wrong turn on the Chicago Way. Now he's lost.
Kurtz's research was to be done in a special library run by the University of Illinois at Chicago. The library has 132 boxes full of documents pertaining to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation vested heavily in school reform.
Kurtz believes the documents may show Obama and Ayers were closefar closer than Obama has acknowledgedover oodles of foundation gifts on education projects the two worked on together.
First the librarians told Kurtz yes, come look. But by the time Kurtz landed in Chicago, the librarians changed their minds. The donor of the documents hadn't cleared his research. Perhaps they'll let him look at the documents on Nov. 5.
The relationship between the ambitious Obama and the unrepentant Ayers is a subject that excites Republicans, who haven't really thwacked that pinata as hard as they might. It really irritates Obama and his political champion, Chicago's sovereign lord, Mayor Richard M. Daley.
"This is a public entity," Kurtz told us Wednesday. "I don't understand how confidentiality of the donor would be an issue."
You don't understand, Mr. Kurtz? Allow me to explain. The secret is hidden in the name of the library:
The Richard J. Daley Library.
Eureka!
The Richard J. Daley Library doesn't want nobody nobody sent. And Richard J.'s son, Shortshanks, is now the mayor.
Obama, wearing the reformer's mantle, has generously offered to extend that reform to Washington, even to Kenya, but not Chicago, because he knows Shortshanks would be miffed.
Ayers, a former left-wing radical accused of inciting riots during the anti-war protests in the 1960s, is now also under Shortshanks' protection. After Ayers finally resurfaced in 1980, he got a job the Chicago Way, as a professor at UIC.
The Tribune's City Hall reporter, Dan Mihalopoulos, asked Daley on Wednesday if the Richard J. Daley Library should release the documents. Shortshanks didn't like that one. He kept insisting he would be "very frank," a phrase that makes the needles on a polygraph start jumping...
another question: obama made his money , if i am not mistaken, from government or public works departments. has he ever really worked? I mean worked hard for his money?
i do understand that mccain married very well...dont get me started on his first wife and his lack of humanity towards her....can one be blamed for marrying well? Can you negate at any time his 5 and 1/2 years of being a captive? As you can see I have few answers but lots of questions.
i do understand that mccain married very well...dont get me started on his first wife and his lack of humanity towards her....can one be blamed for marrying well? Yes, they can when it means leaving their first spouse.
I thought that fidelity in marriage was one of the tenets of the right and not the amoral left. What a blind selfish self centered statement. For better or worse unless you get fat from medication and I find a millionairess. What a (*^*(*&
Issues aside, I am still in shock that people could vote for this guy considering all of his connections to people who hate this country.
Keating what?
Earth to Kman. Palin's husband belonged until recently to a party that openly hates this country and our flag. Does that count?
Right wing hate machine in full gear.
Keating what?
Earth to Kman. Palin's husband belonged until recently to a party that openly hates this country and our flag. Does that count?
Right wing hate machine in full gear.
Far as I know, Ayers wasn't involved in that. Nor was Obama. Separate topic.
I'm a 20 year Navy man, and I think that McCain is the absolute worst choice for president. He'd be even worse than Bush Jr.
Nope...in my book, anyone who votes for, or supports McCain is a flaming idiot of the first water. The dude is like a supply officer, all the rank and none of the smarts, because they didn't earn it, they were placed there by luck and family.
Untrue. He belonged to a party that advocates secession from the US. Hatred not required.
leftwing spin machine in full gear.
I view McCain as a ring knocker that should have stayed in Supply.
There is nothing wrong with Obama sitting on a board with this guy.
