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Welcome To Chicago - See You In November
JustOneMinute — Columnist John Kass of the Chicago Tribune welcomes Stanley Kurtz to Chicago and laughs at the idea that Kurtz will get ahold of the ...

Annenberg Challengers
Gateway Pundit — ... was investigating the story this past month until he ran into some roadblocks. The Chicago Richard J. Daley Library will not allow him to review the records. A suspicious donor locked him out. ...

Obama hiding behind Daley’s skirts?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... John Kass has an explanation for Stanley Kurtz for why he couldn’t access what should be public records at the University of Illinois at Chicago.  Kurtz apparently didn’t read the name of the building in which the files from the Chicago Annenberg Challenge reside.  It’s the Richard Daley Library, and when a Daley gets involved in a Chicago issue, openness flies right back out the door: 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's sealed records: Daley Library
The Swamp — ... 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. See the rest of John Kass' column on Obama's Chicago Annenberg Challenge records in today's Chicago Tribune.

Da Daily Machine Protecting Obama
The Jawa Report — August 21, 2008 Da Machine Protecting Obama Via Chicago Tribune: 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. ...

Charming! Obama's Only Executive Role A Disaster
Confederate Yankee — ... to him aside. It is those same business-as-usual allies in Chicago that are now protecting Obama from deeper scrutiny of his 21-year relationship with the Ayers family, specifically his involvement in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge with infamous domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. At the moment the internal documents for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge are in a special collection at the Richard J. Daley Library. Think they'll ever see the light of day? As the Chicago Tribune's John Kass put it : The relationship between the ambitious Obama and the unrepentant Ayers is a subject ...

Shortshanks and Me
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Thursday, August 21, 2008 [image] Shortshanks and Me [ Stanley Kurtz ] Apparently, I have a lot to learn about Chicago. 08/21 10:24 AM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us This page loaded in 0.007944 seconds. ...

Barack Obama and William Ayers - “They’re Friends. So What?”
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — From the folks at Power Line Blog about the relationship of Barack Obama, William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Jim Geraghty has more on this relationship, Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago and the apparent cover-up at the library of the University of Illinois at Chicago. Key graph: Chicago Mayor Richard M. ...

Update: Still No Movement on Ayers-Obama Annenberg Papers
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — In my post on Tuesday, I wrote about Stanley Kurtz's efforts to access the Annenberg Challenge files housed at the University of Illinois-Chicago. These files documented an educational initiative started by Bill Ayers and chaired by Barack Obama. At that point, only AP writer Pete Yost had written anything about the story. Additionally, U of I rep Bill Burton issued a press release. Since that time, there has been no movement from the university and coverage by the MSM has been minimal, though it is finally beginning to pick up. To wit, as reported in a blog post at the Chicago Tribune, Chicago mayor, Richard Daley, declined to intervene in the matter ...

Instapundit — SCATTERED, SMOTHERED, COVERED IN LOVE (CONT'D): Obama shops for snacks! But no questions on the things he'd rather not talk about. ...

Mayor Daley's Smear
The Corner on National Review Online — [image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Friday, August 22, 2008 [image] Mayor Daley's Smear [Ramesh Ponnuru] Speaking of Bill Ayers and Obama, Daley says , "They're friends. So what?" I assume that the Obama campaign will correct this vicious right-wing smear. They're not friends: Ayers is just a guy who lives in Obama's neighborhood . 08/22 01:43 AM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media Kit | Contact Us This page ...

Illegal Fundraising On Obama’s Website
Stop The ACLU — Palestinians running a phone bank for Obama , connections to extremely shady dealings with an un-indicted American terrorist and now someone giving away pizza coupons in exchange for donations? When does the corruption stop? Add in the story Rick Moran from Right Wing Nut House broke (thanks to yours truly getting a heads up in an email) about extremely illegal fundraising from a Nigerian group IN Nigeria and you are seeing a shade of the corruption this country will face with Hussein in the White House.

Going To The Library
JustOneMinute — ... about the role being played by the library where the Chicago Annenberg Challenge archives were housed. Conservative critic Stanley Kurtz had contacted the University of Illinois at Chicago library requesting permission to review the archives. For some reason, this set off alarm bells at the library. Mr. Diamond writes: ...

Obama, Ayers and...Republicans?
Weekly Standard Blog — I don't make a practice of posting excerpts of press releases from the presidential campaigns, but this is so funny it's worth making an exception. For some reason, the usually smart Obama campaign has decided to fight back against attempts to link their candidate to William Ayers, the Weather Underground terrorist who said in 2001 that he wished he had been a more effective bomber of American targets. The Ayers-Obama relationship is the subject of an ad from the American Issues Project, an anti-Obama group, which suggests that Obama and Ayers are friends. In response, the Obama campaign has launched a counter-ad and has written to the Justice Department to intervene. ...