"...Then, there is the continuing mystery surrounding the authenticity of his birth certificate, something which should be easy enough to validate. Folks at National Review Online have noted that the Obama campaign also refuses to release his application for the state bar, public records from Obama’s state legislative office in Illinois, his client list from his days as a practicing attorney, records related to his work with convicted criminal Tony Rezko, and the list goes on and on.
Now news has broken that former Harvard Professor Stanley Kurtz was recently denied access to records held by the University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Kurtz has done some excellent research in the past on a host of issues – from extremist Saudi funding of American educational institutions to the cultural impact of homosexual “marriage” – research that I have relied upon and referred to in past reports. What was Dr. Kurtz researching at UIC?
As it turns out, the University of Illinois at Chicago houses documents pertaining to the Chicago Annenberg Challenge. Barack Obama once served as the foundation’s chairman. The foundation was started by former Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers, who to this day remains unrepentant about his role in bombing several government building in protest of the Vietnam War.
For whatever reason, Ayers and/or the Obama campaign do not want Stanley Kurtz or anyone else learning anything more about Obama’s relationship with Bill Ayers. Now, politically, I think this level of secrecy is a gross mistake by the Obama campaign. His resume is extraordinarily thin – a fact Obama relishes. In his book, “The Audacity of Hope,” Obama writes of himself, “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” I think many Americans looked past the “blank screen” in his performance at Saddleback Church this weekend and saw, at most, an empty suit.
But a thorough examination of the foundation’s records by an expert researcher like Dr. Kurtz could serve only to exonerate Senator Obama – unless he really does have something to hide.
Gary Bauer
Campaign for Working Families
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