Friday, October 17, 2008
Bite Your Tongue Scene Exposé: Obama's Nashville Link to Acorn
Posted by Jack Silverman on Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Sen. Barack Obama leaving Acorn several months ago
An unnamed source close to Barack Obama's campaign has confirmed the presidential candidate has close personal ties to Acorn, and in fact has dined at the 28th Avenue eatery on several occasions during visits to Nashville.
According to the source, Obama's ties to Acorn began during his days as a community gourmandizer in Chicago, where he frequented many of the tonier establishments along that city's Magnificent Mile.
In fact, in an interview last month right here on Bites, Acorn chef Andy Hunter hints at the restaurant's link to the Obama campaign. Despite Hunter's best efforts, he barely conceals his liberal agenda, making several references to pork, promoting an author from France (!), noting that "simplicity is elegant" (a clear defense of Obama's elitism) and discussing Fat Mo (as in the big momentum Obama is carrying into the election).
At a recent visit, Obama exhibited his penchant for liberal spending. For appetizers, the candidate had the acorn squash (during which he made a joke about "squashing the McCain campaign") and the Korean barbecue beef wraps (a clear attempt to appease Kim Jong-il), followed by the Acorn Caesar. (Et tu, Barack?) For his entrée, Obama ordered the grilled filet of beef. (Here in America we call it "steak," Senator.) According to the server, when asked how he'd like his beef cooked, he responded, "I'll have my meal without any preconditions."
Ironically, the last time Obama ate at Acorn, John McCain was eating what campaign aides say was "a man-sized Porterhouse" just a few blocks away at Jimmy Kelly's Steakhouse. When the Scene showed the Arizona senator Acorn's imaginative menu, he remarked, "It's radical food for a radical candidate who hangs out with ’60s radicals."
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Barack Obama was clearly splitting hairs and concealing the truth when he said that William Ayers was "just a guy who lives in my neighborhood."
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) administration records released last week by the University of Illinois, show that the Ayers-Obama connection was, in fact, an intimate collaboration and that it led to the only executive or administrative experience in Obama's life.
After Walter Annenberg's foundation offered several hundred million dollars to American public schools in the mid-'90s, William Ayers applied for $50 million for Chicago.
The purpose of his application was to secure funds to "raise political consciousness" in Chicago's public schools. After he won the grant, Ayers's group chose Barack Obama to distribute the money.
Between 1995 and 1999, Obama distributed the $50 million and raised another $60 million from other civic groups to augment it. In doing so, he was following Ayers' admonition to grant the funds to "external" organizations, like American Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) to pair with schools and conduct programs to radicalize the students and politicize them.
Reading, math, and science achievement tests counted for little in the CAC grants, but the school's success in preaching a radical political agenda determined how much money they got.
Barack Obama should have run screaming at the sight of William Ayers and his wife, Bernadette Dohrn. Ayers has admitted bombing the U.S. Capitol building and the Pentagon, and his wife was sent to prison for failing to cooperate in solving the robbery of a Brink's armored car in which two police officers were killed. Far from remorse, Ayers told The New York Times in September 2001 that he "wished he could have done more."
Ayers only avoided conviction when the evidence against him turned out to be contained in illegally obtained wiretaps by the FBI. He was, in fact, guilty as sin.
That Obama should ally himself with Ayers is almost beyond understanding. The former terrorist had not repented of his views and the education grants he got were expressly designed to further them.
So let's sum up Obama's Chicago connections. His chief financial supporter was Tony Rezko, now on his way to federal prison. His spiritual adviser and mentor was the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, of "God damn America" fame. And the guy who got him his only administrative job and put him in charge of doling out $50 million is William Ayers, a terrorist who was a domestic Osama bin Laden in his youth.
Even apart from the details of the Obama/Ayers connection, two key points emerge: a) Obama lied and misled the American people in his description of his relationship with Ayers as casual and arm's-length; and b) Obama was consciously guided by Ayers's radical philosophy, rooted in the teachings of leftist Saul Alinksy, in his distribution of CAC grant funds.
Since Obama is asking us to let him direct education spending by the federal government and wants us to trust his veracity, these are difficulties he will have to explain in order to get the votes to win.
Now that Obama is comfortably ahead in the polls, attention will understandably shift to him. We will want to know what kind of president he would make. The fact that, within the past 10 years, he participated in a radical program of political education conceptualized by an admitted radical terrorist offers no reassurance.
Why did Obama put up with Ayers? Because he got a big job and $50 million of patronage to distribute to his friends and supporters in Chicago. Why did he hang out with Jeremiah Wright? Because he was new in town, having grown up in Hawaii and Indonesia and having been educated at Columbia and Harvard, and needed all the local introductions he could get to jump-start his political career.
Why was he so close to Rezko? Because he funded Obama's campaigns and helped him buy a house for $300,000 less than he otherwise would have had to pay.
Not a good recommendation for a president.
Many will be laughing at themselves & how they were taken in and forgot to use a little sense when the whole ACORN story comes out- Gommer Pyle said it first.
- use the Internet & search for Wade Rathke, Drummond Pike, Teresa Heinz Kerry, TIDES foundation even Soros. The far left of the Democratic party is behind Obama and he is with them.
and that's what happens when you have a search-bot.
Me, I knew the first time I spoke to Chef Hunter that something big was going on. It's that reporters' sense. Yep. No denying it, so thanks, Jack, for this important investigative piece.
Hey, Mr. (Ms.?) ACORN Obama Connection:
I'm having a party next weekend and I'd love you to be there! You're sure to be the life of the party!
You know the right wingers are panicking when this is all they have left. Watching them flail away helplessly is one of the most sublime pleasures I've experienced.
My favorite part of the Hannity video on Mr. ACORN Obama's linked website:
"ACORN uses shady tactics and intimidation to get what they want."
I had no idea they had Karl Rove advising them! Shouldn't we be examining the ACORN-Karl Rove connection?
- use the Internet & search for Wade Rathke, Drummond Pike, Teresa Heinz Kerry, TIDES foundation even Soros.
That's weird. I tried, and I just keep getting redirected to Charles Keating, John Dramesi, Carol McCain, Tom Gosinski and "894th out of 899."
McFalin, I don't care if you're a man, woman, dog or fish (though if I had my druthers I'd go with woman).
Will you marry me?
McFalin, if you got to the second page of those search results you'll find Phil de-regulation Gramm, a couple of crashed fighter jets, Stage II melanoma with high probability of recurrence, video 'confessions' from Hanoi, and a sub-zero cold shoulder from the Reagans over that whole leave the suddenly shorter, crippled wife for the rich bombshell thing.
