"In 1995, Bill Ayers was part of a team that helped create the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an education reform project that worked with half of Chicago's public schools. Barack Obama, then working as an attorney and law school professor, was elected chairman of the eight-member board of the CAC.

We also now know how much money the Annebergs pumped into the CAC:

..the CAC was funded by a foundation belonging to Walter Annenberg, the billionaire Republican philanthropist who served as Richard M. Nixon's ambassador to the U.K. Annenberg and his wife, Leonore, gave the CAC $50 million in the 90's.

If it's acceptable to play the "guilt by association" card, then Anneberg funded a terrorist with $50,000,000. Other recipients of Anneberg money includes:

But Walter and Leonore weren't just giving money to educational foundations started by William Ayers. They were also giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican National Committee and various other Republican groups, as well as to a whole host of Republican candidates, including the following:

   * George W. Bush       $4000
   * Mitt Romney       $5000
   * Strom Thurmond       $1000
   * Fred Thompson       $500
   * Rick Santorum       $3000

Now here comes the "off message" blunder by the McCain campaign. Check the Press Release they released last Thursday. The title is as follows:

100 U.S. Ambassadors Endorse McCain-Palin   

Further in the Press Release, note the former Ambassador the McCain camp is trumpeting:

">..they have in the historic McCain-Palin ticket."

FORMER U.S. AMBASSADORS FOR MCCAIN-PALIN

Lenore Annenberg, Chief of Protocol -- Radnor, Penn."

That's right folks, that Leonore/Lenore Annenberg, she of the Annenberg Foundation, the funders of the CAC and financial backer to a known terrorist.

How does that "guilt by association" argument look now?..."

(DailyKOS)