The Ayers-Obama relationship is relevant, not so much because Obama socialized with, collaborated on projects with, and accepted campaign funds from a known terrorist. What is even more relevant is what Obama and Ayers accomplished (or should we say, failed to accomplish) while they worked together on the Chicago Annenburg Project, and what this says about their shared educational & political philosophy.

The objective of the well-endowed Chicago Annenburg Project was to improve the education of Chicago’s children.

Ayers and Obama agreed that the core problem with Chicago’s education was that the children suffered low self-esteem due to being forced to buy into what they labeled “white” values and measures of success (such as work hard, go to college, make something of yourselves — which, of course, is what Obama himself did), and not having their own ethnicity affirmed. So they threw lots of money (millions) at programs that helped children explore their African heritage by going through African puberty rituals. Another significant reason they felt the kids weren’t learning was that they didn’t know how to resist the imperialist powers that kept them down; consequently, the kids were also taught how to be good political activists. Obama served shoulder to shoulder with Ayers on the Chicago Annenberg Project from 1995 to 2001, and during that time the children’s achievement scores saw no improvement (which is probably one reason Ayers dislikes achievement tests). The children still didn’t know how to read or write or do math sums very well, or compete in a high-tech society, but they did feel better about themselves and knew how to form unions for welfare recipients. After all, isn’t that what we send our kids off to school to do?

If this is what Obama’s educational philosophy is, and what he accomplished in his tenure with the Chicago Annenberg Project, it is scary to think what he will do with the national education system.

Some interesting articles:
http://www.powerlineblog….chives/2008/10/021780.php
http://newsbusters.org/bl…ey-kurtz-makes-connection
http://www.examiner.com/x…rrorist-Bill-Ayers-and-Me
http://www.city-journal.o…_acorns_nutty_regime.html

have you watched it?