Barack Obama does indeed have some executive experience, unlike John McCain. The problem is, he doesn’t want to talk about and works to find out few know about it.
It has to do with his helping run Ayer’s Chicago Annenberg Challenge. a board Obama chaired in it’s first year. This group managed something like $100 million, so you’d think someone with as thin a resume as Obama’s would tout this experience. The reason he doesn’t is what it used the money for:
CAC translated Mr. Ayers’s radicalism into practice. Instead of funding schools directly, it required schools to affiliate with “external partners,” which actually got the money. Proposals from groups focused on math/science achievement were turned down. Instead CAC disbursed money through various far-left community organizers, such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (or Acorn).
You remember ACORN; the groups whose members have been repeatedly charged with and convicted on voter fraud charges all over the country.
Obama keeps trying to throw the bomb-using radical Bill Ayers under the bus, but having started his political existence from Ayer’s house and serving on the CAC board with him for years, only an ‘in-the-tank’ Imperial News Media is keeping Obama’s ‘executive experience’ from being a front page issue.
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There you go again with the wild exaggerations, Mike:
“members have been repeatedly charged with and convicted on voter fraud charges all over the country.”
What I find on Google is that three employees perpetuated a payroll fraud on ACORN and were convicted.