Sunday, October 5, 2008

Let's play 20 questions:

1. How did Obama pay for law school at Harvard?
He was working as a "community organizer" after graduating from Columbia. But he didn't seem to have taken out loans, unlike Michelle.
2. Why would a high profile non-profit hire a completely unknown law school graduate to chair their organization?
No foundation I know of relies on a lunch by one of the trustees to decide who will sit at the head.
3. Was money laundered through the CAC to Bill Ayers' other projects? Doesn't it indicate a conflict for the head of one organization to give money to himself at another organization?
4. Why did Michelle get a 400% raise after Obama was elected to the Senate?
5. How many earmarks have gone to Michelle's employer, or related entities?
6. Will Obama ever hold a hearing on Afghanistan?
7. How does one raise $450 million from donors giving less than $200 each?
8. Why won't Obama give access to his donor database, so we can find out who all these little people are?
9. Why won't Obama release his Columbia or Occidental transcripts?
10. Why won't Obama release his health records?
11. Why won't Obama release his client list from his short stint at a law firm?
12. Why won't Obama release his papers from his time in the Illinois Legislature?
13. Why won't Obama release the CAC papers, or call for them to be made public?
14. When did Obama first meet Bill Ayers?
15. When did Obama first meet Khalidi?
16. Why was Obama number 2 on the list of Fannie Mae money-getters, after only 3 years in the Senate?
17. How did Obama afford a million dollar home, with really no income?
18. Who would publish two memoirs from a complete unknown? How many copies were sold? To who?
19. What did Obama do to benefit ACORN while a "community organizer"?
20. Who paid his salary while he was a Community Organizer, how much was it, and what fund did it come from?

Obama and Ayers

The NYT article dismissing the relationship between Obama and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers is itself easily refuted. It is as if it was written by the Obama campaign. Too bad the writer didn't think to question any of the statements made.

1. "Their paths crossed sporadically." This would be a lot easier to prove or disprove if an Obama operative wasn't actively blocking access to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge documents. Why is Obama hiding what happened in this organization that was founded by Ayers and chaired by Obama? The organization funded millions to Ayers' favorite projects on education. It isn't credible that the two men didn't discuss it.

2. Why is there such an effort to show that Ayers has been rehabbed? Just because he is now accepted in Chicago society circles does not mean he has apologized for his terrorist activities.
In fact, he admits that his current acts are just a new way to achieve the same goals from his younger years. He believes that through indoctrination in the school system, students can be made to believe that America is racist and oppressive, and should be made to turn against their parents. Does Obama share this same radical goal? The NYT article goes to great length to not comment.

3. Why has Obama repeatedly lied about his relationship to Ayers? In several media interviews, he says that Ayers was someone who lived in his neighborhood, or that their children went to school together. The last statement is patently false - their children are too different in ages to have attended any school together. Ayers was the founder of an organization that Obama claims as one of his major accomplishments, and qualifications to be president. He spent six years as the chair. Why is he so coy about what their relationship was or is?

The media is working actively to keep this story under wraps. It is really much more important to know what Palin's parents think of their daughter running for VP. Who is Obama, and what in the heck did he do all those years in that bastion of ethics, Chicago?