On Apr 28, 7:47 am, "leonard7...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Obama's Academia Nuts
>
> By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
> Friday, April 25, 2008 4:20 PM PT
>
> Education: How exactly do former terrorists get to teach at America's
> universities? Unfortunately, Obama's friends William Ayers and
> Bernadine Dohrn are just a few of the inmates running those asylums.
>
> Obama associates William Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, are more
> than former members of the Weather Underground, terrorists who engaged
> in bombings of American government buildings during the Vietnam War.
>
> They are academics.
>
> Ayers and the Weather Underground bombed New York City police
> headquarters in June 1970, the U.S. Capitol Building in March 1971 and
> the Pentagon in May 1972.
>
> His memoirs appeared in the New York Times, oddly enough, on Sept. 11,
> 2001. In them, he wrote: "I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we
> didn't do enough."
>
> Today Ayers, the man who found "a certain eloquence in bombs," is a
> distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois,
> Chicago, a "respected figure in liberal education circles" according
> to Politico.com.
>
> His wife is an associate professor of law at Northwestern University
> School of Law the director of Northwestern University's Children and
> Family Justice Center. Go figure.
>
> The irony of terrorists teaching law and justice and educating our
> children is mind-boggling, but it does not surprise us since academia
> had been a hotbed of liberal activism since even before the Vietnam
> War. The search for truth is obviously no longer a qualification for
> tenure.
>
> In 2005, Robert Lichter, a communications professor at George Mason
> University, and fellow political science professors Stanley Rothman of
> Smith College and Neil Nevitte of the University of Toronto authored a
> study that showed that 72% of those teaching at American colleges are
> liberal and 15% are conservative.
>
> The disparity is even higher at the so-called elite schools, where,
> according to the study, 87% of the faculty are liberal vs. 13% who are
> conservative.
>
> Religion, which Harvard Law School graduate Obama says small-town
> America clings to, is not a high priority for many faculty members,
> with 51% saying they rarely or never attend church or synagogue.
> American academia is clearly dominated by liberal secularists.
>
> The most famous nutty professor of recent years was Ward Churchill,
> who came to public attention for a piece he wrote shortly after 9/11
> that said those killed in the World Trade Center were a "technocratic
> corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire," calling
> them "little Eichmanns."
>
> Churchill, then chairman of the Ethnic Studies Department at the
> University of Colorado, titled his essay, "Some People Push Back: On
> the Justice of Roosting Chickens," a tome as off the wall as its title
> suggests.
>
> It echoed the theme embraced by many on the loony left that America
> invited the 9-11 attacks through a long history of violent domination
> of other cultures. In other words, we had it coming. If that sounds
> familiar, it's what Barack Obama's pastor of two decades, Jeremiah
> Wright, once shouted from the pulpit.
>
> Churchill is only the most prominent campus clown indoctrinating
> future generations in colleges and universities, including state-
> funded ones, that are essentially little more than liberal re-
> education camps.
>
> In March 2003, assistant professor Nicholas DeGenova provoked national
> outrage when he called on U.S. soldiers in Iraq to "frag" (or murder)
> their officers and said he wished "for a million Mogadishus,"
> referring to the 1993 ambush in Somalia that left 18 American troops
> dead and 84 wounded.
>
> DeGenova told students at an anti-war teach-in on the Columbia campus
> that "U.S. patriotism is inseparable from imperial warfare and white
> supremacy," and that "the only true heroes are those who find ways
> that help defeat the U.S. military."
>
> Barack Obama graduated in 1983 from Columbia University, whence his
> hard-core fondness for anti-U.S. thugs and opposition to liberating
> Iraq may have been derived.
>
> He and wife Michelle are both Ivy League graduates. These days it's
> poisoned ivy.
It could be worse...He could be Jewish.
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