136 Barack H. Obama: The Unauthorized Biographyhave to walk far to find real urban blight. In the ‘50s and ‘60s, as the South Side of Chicago was
getting poorer and blacker, the university administration grew increasingly concerned that parents
would refuse to send their children to such a place. There were rumors that the university was
considering moving its campus out of Hyde Park. Instead, it launched an aggressive policy of urban
renewal, relying heavily on draconian eminent domain laws that said that if a private developer
owned 60 percent of a block, it could claim the remaining 40 percent through eminent domain.
Those losing their houses were mostly black, while the university was mostly white. One
consequence of this was a feeling of bitterness and suspicion toward the university that has lingered
for decades. All of this was troubling....’ (Merrell Noden, “At home in two worlds,” Princeton
Alumni Weekly, March 5, 2008) So this is the area where Obama decided to pursue his political
career, obviously as a black-faced gatekeeper and protector of the University of Chicago’s interest
against the black poor.
As the veteran public servant Larry Johnson showed on his noquarterusa.net blog, the truth was
that Obama WAS an employee of a Bill Ayers enterprise for about eight years. In reality, the
terrorist Ayers had been Obama’s boss: “Barack also was essentially an employee of Bill Ayers for
eight years. In 1995, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was created to raise funds to help reform
the Chicago public schools. One of the architects of the Challenge was none other than Professor
Bill Ayers. Ayers co-wrote the initial grant proposal and proudly lists himself on his own website as
the co-founder of the Challenge. And who did William Ayers, co-creator of the Challenge, help
select as the new director of the board for this program? Barack Obama. Barack Obama was the
first Chairman of the Board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. This appointment came at a
crucial time in Barack’s life. He was on the verge of challenging longtime state Senator Alice
Palmer for her job. When Barack decided to run, it is no surprise that he turned to William Ayers
and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, for help in organizing the campaign and in hosting his first
fundraiser in the district. Obama served on the board for eight years until the Challenge ended in
- Bill Ayers was intimately involved in the Challenge over this same time period.”
(Noquarterusa.net, April 26, 2008) This was in addition to Ayers’ well-documented role in
organizing the fundraiser that kicked off Obama’s first run for elective office in 1995. The old
provocateurs of the left CIA were now serving as a support network for the next generation of
domestic counterinsurgency operatives.
THE WEATHERMEN’S LONG MARCH THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS
HAS PRODUCED OBAMA
The University of Chicago is of course the home of the Milton Friedman Chicago boys, the arch-
reactionary or quasi-fascist economists who dictated the fascist austerity program imposed by the
Pinochet dictatorship in Chile in the middle 1970s, and who have helped destroy or impoverish
many other countries around the world from Bolivia to Poland to Russia. One of them is the
infamous Skull and Bones member Austan Goolsbee, a top economic controller of the Obama
campaign. But the intelligence community also has a left wing face. Here we find the Black
liberation theologian and Ford Foundation operative Dwight Hopkins, who shuttles back and forth
to Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ. Here also we find the residue of many intelligence
community operations of previous decades, and in this context one group stands out above all
others: the veterans of the more extreme factions of Students for a Democratic Society, the most
important left wing organization of the 1960s and indeed the largest left-wing political formation in
all of American history. Here we find, in other words, a group of left-wing radicals who are well