Obama campaign hushes Ayers issue

First they came for AM radio (Fairness Doctrine), but I didn't listen to AM radio. Then they came for the blogs, but I didn't read blogs. Next they came for Network News, but I watched cable. Finally, they came for Fox and CNN, but by then, there was no way to get my message out.

Yes, it can happen here. The First Amendment - freedom of speech - can be trashed:

The Obama Campaign, through fear and lawyers, has attempted to silence a WGN radio broadcast, and a political ad, both showing Barack Obama's longtime relationship with William Ayers, the Weather Underground revolutionary.

In truth, Obama served for five years with Ayers on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation to improve Chicago Public Schools. Yet Stanley Kurtz, respected researcher (Ph.D. from Harvard) with National Review on line, is currently sifting through some 900 files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge at the UIC. Why?

Obama was chairman of the board from 1995 to almost 2000, and Ayers was the founder and a co-chair. At least $110 million, donated to improve Chicago Public Schools, failed to produce "change", and Kurtz wants to know where the money went and to what organizations.

When Kurtz was invited to give a "progress report" on Milt Rosenberg's WGN radio program, the Obama campaign nearly shut the show down. They were invited to send a representative, but instead, flooded the station with hundreds of protesting and insulting E-mails and phone calls. Kurtz found the tactic frightening.

Even more intimidating, the Obama campaign used lawyers to silence an ad on the Obama-Ayers relationship slated for Fox and CNN.

Candidate Obama, just answer questions about your relationship with William Ayers.

Eleanor Hesse

Buffalo Grove