Posted by
Deane Pradzinski on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:25:23 PM
What does John McCain have to do tonight? He has to ask Obama if he still endorses Bill Ayers education "reform" agenda. As little as two years ago Bill Ayers spoke in Venezuela in a speech that paid tribute to Hugo Chavez where he said, in part,
"I began teaching when I was 20 years old in a small freedom school affiliated with the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The year was 1965, and I’d been arrested in a demonstration. Jailed for ten days, I met several activists who were finding ways to link teaching and education with deep and fundamental social change. They were following Dewey and DuBois, King and Helen Keller who wrote: “We can’t have education without revolution. We have tried peace education for 1,900 years and it has failed. Let us try revolution and see what it will do now.”
In 1997 Obama endorsed and praised Ayers book in the New York Times, "A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of the Juvenile Court". Obama called it "a searing and timely account of the juvenile court system".
In light of all this it would surely be germane to ask Obama if he still agrees with Ayers agenda, which is anti-American. I would want John McCain to ask Obama what his view of Ayers views are. After all, i would add, Obama, sat has recently on boards with Ayers, funneling millions to those boards, and all for teaching small children how to hate America. This is relevant.
I would not allow the media to convince me that voters hate this 'divisive' strategy. Not true. The American people have a right to know what Obama thinks of anti-American education for children.
Unfortunately, I don't think John McCain will do it. John McCain is a nice, honorable man. Though he has brought up some issues of interest to the conservative base, on the whole I think McCain has an illusion that Obama is running an honorable campaign and that the media will be fair. It is up to the base to alert the American people of Obama's radical views. So radical that U.S. communists say "their time has come" (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3XP-_KUyChI-BScTCBNRspcdi2g).