10-10-2008 11:30 AM
Anybody else paying more attention to the their retirement accounts, mutual funds and kids’ college funds than they are about the alleged association between Barack Obama and former 60’s radical Bill Ayers?* I suspect that this is most of us.
However, I did come across something that gives food for thought and pause to people who blindly attack on the most trivial of matters.
You see, we are expected to believe that Obama should be tied to Ayers primarily because they served on a community board together.* This would seem to equate to some as “palling around with terrorists”.* Well, if you’re a terrorist sympathizer for serving on a board with Bill Ayers, what does that say about the people who run the foundation on whose board Ayers sat?* If he is supposedly an “unrepentant terrorist”, wouldn’t having him on your board make you even more of a terrorist sympathizer?
Enter the Anneberg Foundation.
Both Obama and Ayers served on a board for the Anneberg Challenge.* This charitable foundation was set up by the late Walter Anneberg, a philanthropist and former U.S. ambassador.* The current president and chairman of the foundation is Walter’s widow, Leonore Annenberg.* Both were/are Republicans who were friends with Ronald Reagan.* In fact, Leonore Annenberg served as Reagan’s “chief of protocol” in the State Department.
So, why is this a case of “guilt by association” coming back to bite McCain.* Well, a couple of days ago, the McCain campaign released a list titled
“100 Former Ambassadors Endorse McCain-Palin”.* You want to guess who number two on the list is? If you said “Leonore Annenberg”, you’d be right (granted, they misspelled her name but, you get the point).
Therefore, by McCain’s own logic,
he would be cavorting with and accepting endorsements from know terrorist sympathizers. If he or his camp accuse Obama of treason for merely serving on a board with him, shouldn’t he be calling for at least that much for the Leonore Annenberg, who served under Ronald Reagan, for enabling Ayers to serve on a board she helped finance?
Or, to look at it another way, if such long-standing conservative stalwarts as the Annenbergs did not have a problem overlooking Ayers’ past then, what’s the story here?
Oh, I think I understand, now.*
According to a top McCain strategist, “If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we’re going to lose.”
So, as we watch the Dow take a hit for a week straight, I guess Bill Ayers should trump my financial concerns.
*Sigh*
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