Some republicans from Chicago are saying what most of us knew all along. Bill Ayers was a commonly acceptable figure in Chicago by everyone--Democrats, Independents, and even Republicans.

Are they all America hating, terrorist loving traitors to America?!

In fact, this NPR piece speaks to the Republican funded cause that Obama and Ayers worked on together. And that:

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"It was never a concern by any of us in the Chicago school reform movement that he had led a fugitive life years earlier," said former Illinois state Republican Rep. Diana Nelson, who worked with both Obama and Ayers over the years. "It's ridiculous. There is no reason at all to smear Barack Obama with this association. It's nonsensical, and it just makes me crazy. It's so silly."

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Yesterday, in a rehash of the MSM acknowledged issues of the day, NPR did a short piece on Obama and Ayers. Fortunately for many, they made news.

First, Obama began working with Ayers and others (Republicans, Independents, and Democrats) at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Well, what is the Anneberg Challenge? Who is Annenberg? Well according to NPR,

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The Obama campaign says he first met Ayers in 1995, when Obama became chair of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a $50 million fund that awarded grants to groups trying to implement new programs to improve inner city education in Chicago.

Walter Annenberg, a lifelong Republican and former ambassador who was appointed by Presidents Nixon and Reagan, funded an ambitious program to reform urban education in many cities in the mid 1990s. Ayers was an important member of the group that developed and wrote the grant proposal to the Annenberg Foundation.

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Second, there were people of all political persuasions working on this effort with this "terrorist" Ayers and who saw him as acceptable and Obama was no closer than any of the others.

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...no one on the board or on the Annenberg Challenge staff remembers Obama being any closer to Ayers than to any other member of the board. The Annenberg board also included several civic, business and education leaders, many of them Republicans...

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In fact one person close to the issue states:

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"I don't remember ever hearing anyone raise concerns or questions or concerns about [Ayers'] background," says Anne Hallett, who has worked closely with Ayers on the Annenberg Challenge grant and with Obama on education and other community and legislative matters. "And that included everybody I was engaged with," including prominent Republicans, and corporate and civic leaders in Chicago, Hallett adds.

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So not only was Obama working on a Republican funded initiative, but prominent Republicans were involved on the board with Ayers.

Do they all hate America so much that they are "palling" around with terrorist? He had been in their midst for years, why did not the Republicans run him out of town?

Ayers had been there for years, building a reputation that was so mainstream that a life long Republican, who was a former Ambassador appointed by Nixon and Regan, allowed the release of $50 Million to let him, prominent Republicans, corporate, civic leaders, and a Harvard trained community organizer form a board to oversee the disbursement of these funds related to school reform.

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"Hallett calls this attack on Obama's association with Ayers and the Annenberg Challenge by further association, "a smear campaign. It's a political diatribe that has no basis in fact. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was an extremely positive initiative. It was well-vetted, thorough, and the fact that it is now is being used for political purposes is, in my opinion, outrageous."

ABC, you forgot the byline crediting this article to the RNC.

The DOW is down 510 points again today. Palin's politics of sleaze does not help the American people. Palin, please sit down with a reporter at Bloomberg or CNBC and talk details of our economy.

Palin's husband was a member of the Alaska Independence Party, run by Joe Vogler who declared to everyone and anyone that he hated America. She spoke at their last convention. McCain was a board member of a group that colaborated with Nazis and supported death squads. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Why would Barack Obama and the DNC File a Motion to Delay Delivery of Obama’s Citizenship Documents?

Well, I’ll take a wild guess. Maybe he doesn’t have any that haven’t been Photoshopped.

It seems that Obama’s team assumed that this case would be dismissed by now. But the judge is taking his time; not sure what that means…

In the meantime, Berg’s original Request for Discovery, or “Production of Documents,” filed on Sept. 15, gave Obama until Oct. 15 to cough up citizenship documents, including a valid Birth Certificate.

Now, reasonable people — you know all those folks who called us conspiracy theorists — are starting to wonder why Obama doesn’t just hand over the damn documents. Berg has even stated for the record that he would drop the lawsuit if Obama will present certified evidence of his sole US citizenship and birth record.

How simple and quick it would be for most of us to produce official copies of basic records related to our existence. But apparently this is not the case for Obama.

Well, none of the writers for this blog are surprised.

Meanwhile, Berg filed his own motion today, as he seeks to amend his original complaint based on new information related to Obama’s Indonesian citizenship and “other pertinent facts,” his office reported to me.

Many people across the spectrum dismiss Philip Berg as the “9/11 nut.” Well, let them. I haven’t analyzed Berg’s professional history in detail. But I can tell you this, and I’ll stand by it: Whether this particular lawsuit survives at the trial court or proceeds to appeal — It has merits. And ultimately, one way or another, the issues will be heard and the outcome will not be favorable for Mr. Obama.

Stay tuned.

UPDATES:

Atlas Shrugs posted an interesting addendum to this story, in which she nails Factcheck.org for stealth-editing their COLB image. Incidentally, the TD Blog still gets hits from that bogus “Born in the USA” article by Factcheck, which I responded to immediately with this post.

ALSO, Berg updated his site Monday to express outrage at the Obama/DNC delay tactic, proclaiming that “It is believed Obama is an ‘illegal alien’.” Indeed it is, Mr. Berg, as WE believe that’s probably true too. Otherwise, why wouldn’t Obama produce the birth certificate, declaration of citizenship, and other essential identity documents? I’ve had to produce more for some jobs I’ve sought than this guy has offered as a presidential prospect.

If she were running for President, or had credibility as a candidate...We would destroy her, for her associations...She married a man who wanted to seperate from the U.S. She is ducking an investigation. So, character questions is something she can't ask.She is purely saying off the wall things, because she knows Obama or Biden isn't going to respond. Her voice means nothing in this race.

Not really news anymore is it? But if it makes Palin feel better, I promise not to vote for Ayers, Wright, her idiotic witchcraft preacher either, or John McCain's love interest from the Navy.

Whose looking backwards now Sarah?

This is old, and tired, news. The DOW is dropping day after day...and McCain/Palin won't talk about it.

So you don't like the topic of the day do you John? I guess life isn't fair huh?

I didn't write the screed above.

Tha best choice is:

McCAIN/PALIN '08

When palin opens her mouth, poison pours out.
when Mcsame opens his mouth, lies come out.

Palin attacks Obama in her stump speeches and people in the audience yell
"Kill him"
"Treason"
and in McCains stump speech after attacking Obama someone yelled
"Terrorist"

This is invoking hatred and its time to stop this.

The media by not reporting or calling the McCain campaign on this is condoning this type of action.

This has gone way over the line and its bad enough this country is in 2 wars and also fighting an economy war, but we do not need a filty campaign as is the McCain/Palin campaign, encouraging another human being to be killed.

To ABC and the rest of the MSM, quit being afraid of Palin/McCain just because they hurt your feelings... start reporting on things that matter.

You reporters are just pathetic, to cover this small minded troll. The women has a brain the size of a chipmunk. It amazes me that she is allowed to go out and hurl smears with making herself available to defend her statements. You guy are just cowards!!!!

I'm reading the blogs and Palin is dropping like the Dow in likability. She was tolerate up until yesterday, but it is turning to hatred since her speach about Obama being a terrorist and someone yelling Kill Kill Kill. She is really not qualified to speak in public with such stupidity. She is easily the most hated woman in America today and dropping. McCainand Palin are really doing themselves no good at all!

Hey Pamela:

Only one lying here is your man Obama.

I think you better go to CNN.com and click on the politics link, view the video report just posted 1 hour ago showing how involved Obama was with Bill Ayers!

CNN is not known to be on the Republican side of anything, but I have to admit this is going to blow Obama out of the water! The report clearly points out just how much Obama and Ayers were involved on these boards, and where they sent the these funds.

Funny how CNN finds that money was given to the Rev. Wright's church! Obama claims not to know this man Ayer's when clearly this report blows his story away!

I am really surprised CNN did this report, I guess they figured that eventually this stuff would come out so they better be ahead of the other liberal media groups!

Enjoy the report Pamela and all you Liberals! It is all downhill from here for Obama and his radical group of friends!

“I saw no evidence of a radical streak, either overt or covert, when we were together at Harvard Law School,” said Bradford A. Berenson, who worked on the Harvard Law Review with Mr. Obama and who served as associate White House counsel under President Bush. Mr. Berenson, who is backing Mr. McCain, described his fellow student as “a pragmatic liberal” whose moderation frustrated others at the law review whose views were much farther to the left.

I can see Mclame's poll numbers drop from my house! I must be qulified to work on his campain! LMAO!!! Ditzy chick and crazy old man are yesterday's news!

Palin sounds more like McCarthy's red scare every single day.

Time for Palin to answer questions!!!!

Why is she so terrified of words?

The DOW is dropping because we gave loans to people who couldn't afford them.

The loans that Franks boyfriends company was giving and Obama, Shurmer, and Dodd were getting donations from those executives.

1. Ayers couldn't accomplish what he wanted with bombs.
2. h So then e decided to teach his terrorist principles to school children.
3. He got a grant to start a foundation to do this.
4. Obama ran the foundation for six years.

What's so hard to understand?