Obama's Lost Annenberg Years Coming to Light »
Posted By Karlyc 2 months, 4 weeks ago in NewsOMG, Huge news that will rock the election: "The cloak of media invisibility is slowly beginning to lift from Barack Obama's most important administrative leadership experience, helming an expensive educational reform effort in Chicago that failed to produce any measurable academic gains, according to the project's own final report. "
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libsRfunny2 months, 3 weeks ago
Obama: Change you can believe in ... if you are a moron! Given his track record, looks like morons are his main constituency.
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pc252 months, 3 weeks ago
FTA
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The four plus years (1995-1999) Barack Obama spent as founding chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) represent his track record as reformer, as someone who reached out in a public-private collaboration and had the audacity to believe his effort would make things better. At the time he became leader of this ambitious project to remake the public schools of Chicago, he was 33 years old and a third year associate at a small Chicago law firm, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland.
This was a big test for him, his chance to cut his teeth on bringing hope and change to the mostly minority inner city school children trapped in Chicago schools. And he flopped big time, squandering lots of money and the time of many public employees in the process.
If Ayers were the sole point of interest in seeking the Annenberg Challenge files promised to Kurtz, all "132 boxes, containing 947 file folders, a total of about 70 linear feet of material", then the Obama camp might claim it was merely guilt-by association and persuade at least some of its own partisans. But the fact that Obama was in charge of a massive expensive project makes it indisputably a matter of proper vetting to examine his track record at delivering on promises of hope and change. -
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bigurn2 months, 3 weeks ago
This may be too complex for distribution in the media. I would like to think I'm wrong, but I doubt the media will be able to tell this story - either due to lack of data or due to inability to tell the story to the average media consumer.
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Klarissa2 months, 3 weeks ago
No wonder he didn't list this under leadership experience!
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nostalgia2 months, 3 weeks ago
Obama Campaign Wages Fight Against Conservative Group’s Ads
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As Senator Obama’s campaign makes its argument for his candidacy before a national audience here this week, it is waging a separate, forceful campaign against a new conservative group running millions of dollars of ads linking him to the 1960s radical William Ayers Jr.
Lawyers for the campaign have asked the Justice Department to investigate the group — which is operating under rules governing non-profit corporations — calling on television stations to cease airing the spot, and, campaign officials said, planning to pressure advertisers on stations that refuse to do so. The ad is running in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/politics/28ayers.html?ref=us
Shouldn't this type of complaint go to the FEC?
Looks like the Obama campaign is trying to intimidate the group that funded the ad
Wonder what they will do to any news agency that tries to report on his position with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge and Ayers connection to it?-
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Wolfie20072 months, 3 weeks ago
"In a statement, a leader of the group, Ed Martin, said, “These over-the-top bullying tactics are reminiscent of the kind of censorship one would see in a Stalinist dictatorship, with the only difference being that those guys generally had to wait until they were in power to throw people who disagreed with them into jail.”"
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Wolfie20072 months, 3 weeks ago
Whoa, I take back anything I ever said about Obama's experience, at least, his experience as a pol on the make. Back in the old days we called this kind of stuff graft.
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Wolfie20072 months, 3 weeks ago
Why is it that everything that comes out about this sleaze wad is characterized as an attack. Is there some reason we are not suppose to learn of Obama's past activities or his associates? I presume not.
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nostalgia2 months, 3 weeks ago
Obama and his wife operate in a very tangled web
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U. of C. shunning poor patients?
HOSPITAL DISPUTE | Obama's wife, 3 aides tied to plan to free up space
Sen. Barack Obama's wife and three close advisers have been involved with a program at the University of Chicago Medical Center that steers patients who don't have private insurance -- primarily poor, black people -- to other health care facilities.
Obama's top political strategist, David Axelrod, co-owns the firm, ASK Public Strategies, that was hired by the hospital last year to sell the program -- called the Urban Health Initiative -- to the community as a better alternative for poor patients
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1122691,CST-NWS-hosp23.article
I believe this is called patient dumping
The Urban Health Initiative was mentioned in the video Michelle's mother narrated at the convention - one of Michelle
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techsupport1 month, 3 weeks ago
"I believe this is called patient dumping"
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You could refer to it as such, but I would tend to disagree.
As someone who has accompanied a cancer patient in need of urgent attention (chemotherapy can cause dangerously low immunity, putting the patient at serious risk of death from something as simple as a sore throat) to a Chicago public hospital emergency room, I believe I can lend a little perspective on this.
What the program in question is trying to do is more than just reasonable. It's necessary. Emergency rooms have become synonymous with clinics to the un- or under-insured. On two separate occasions over the past few months I've sat in an overcrowded ER waiting room for hours on end (9 hours the first time, 13 the second) observing the current ER milieu. ERs have become "generic clearinghouses" for medical treatment for a variety of reasons. There are a number of good articles about this phenomenon, including one I ran across recently:
http://www.slate.com/id/2199645/
In any event, I know what it's like to sit for hours with someone who really needs emergency medical attention (in both cases once the patient in question was treated there were multiple scans done, blood work, a variety of exams, followed by the patient being admitted to the hospital for a few days of close observation and medication) alongside people with sniffles, minor coughs, headaches, or just people who were homeless and/or mentally ill. Many of these people were using a critical resource when they could have received much more rapid and effective treatment elsewhere. I don't blame these people, I just think they didn't know where else to go.
I have since spoken to other people locally who have related similar ER horror stories (e.g. a person with serious heart palpitations who had to wait more than ten hours before seeing a physician). This is a widespread phenomenon. I applaud the efforts of Michelle Obama for trying to change what is rapidly becoming a serious problem in the medical community. As to whether the program she administers has been successful, or has encountered road bumps along the way, I can understand why it would be difficult to affect change in this realm. However, I'm glad someone is trying to change the present ER culture. University of Chicago Hospital consistently receives among the highest rankings in the nation. I believe it's an important mission to use their services to the greatest effect, while directing more rapid and effective treatment to more appropriate providers.
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Wolfie20072 months, 3 weeks ago
nostalgia
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It must be the "do unto the lest of them" at work here. lol -
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HOUSEMD2 months, 3 weeks ago
What is the change we can believe in? I would love to read his ideas, see more on his record.
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arionly1 week, 2 days ago
This is not real news or relevant and just a waste of time. If you are a real reporter go directly to the source.
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