Cross-posted from: http://malignantlibiocy.blogivists.com

Apparently William Ayers past is immaterial, even though as recently as last year he expressed no remorse for his participation in the infamous Weather Underground bombings. If our nation is ready to hand the presidency to a radical leftist, why not take the logical step of at least expecting Barack Obama to consider his former Chicago Annenberg Challenge mate William Ayers for the post of Secretary of Education? While we are suggesting cabinet members, let’s also consider:

* Secretary Of Treasury - William “Cold Cash” Jefferson

* HUD Secretary - Tony Rezko (following presidential pardon)

* Health and Human Services - Kathleen Sebelius (Under Secretary - Michael Moore)

* Secretary of Peace (replacement for Defense) - Dennis Kucinich

* Secretary of State - George Clooney

* Homeland Security - Susan Sarandon

**Updated thanks to George’s reminder of a couple of Obammunist departments I missed (From Let Them Eat Cake):

* Department Of Climate Change - Al Gore (Under Sec. Sheryl “One Square” Crow)

* Department Of Service - Rod Blagojevich?

Back to education, which in addition to plotting and executing bombings, is Bill Ayers area of expertise. Of course we are not talking about the type of boring traditional education one might expect for his or her child. Ayers is an education reformer… or radical as Sol Stern wrote in The City Journal:

Chicago’s liberals have chosen to define deviancy down in Ayers’s case, and Obama can’t be blamed for that. What he can be blamed for is not acknowledging that his neighbor has a political agenda that, if successful, would make it impossible to lift academic achievement for disadvantaged children. As I have shown elsewhere in City Journal, Ayers’s politics have hardly changed since his Weatherman days. He still boasts about working full-time to bring down American capitalism and imperialism. This time, however, he does it from his tenured perch as Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Instead of planting bombs in public buildings, Ayers now works to indoctrinate America’s future teachers in the revolutionary cause, urging them to pass on the lessons to their public school students. wrote:

“Teaching For Social Justice” sounds like a noble title for a book edited by a terrorist and his “education reforming” colleagues. It leads me to wonder if a Secretary of Education Ayers would work to remake the bulk of the nations public schools in the mold of Social Justice High School, an institution in Chicago on whose “About Us” web page includes:

Critical Knowledge: To Our Students * We will use math, science, english and history classes to equip our students with the analytical tools to investigate the injustices around us. * Culture, ethnic identity and language will be valued and used for relevant learning. * Social justice issues of race, equity, peace, gender, and the environment will help us address the real life needs that impact our kids and of our communities. * We must also understand our youth, their struggles, their identity, the way they learn and their pain if we want them to be come powerful change agents of our society. wrote:

Barack Obama must share some of these teaching for social justice ideals, otherwise his being the former head of the board of Chicago Annenberg Challenge would not make sense. That is, unless a cynical aspiring politician simply thought this was the path of least resistance or expedience.

It is almost funny the way Barack Obama complains about “divisiveness.” This indoctrination in the name of “social justice” is divisive. In fact, like Obama’s healthcare plan (which will be reviewed in the coming days) this type of “education” appears focused on creating a victim mindset and highlighting perceived race, gender, and ethnic disparities.

I suppose if Barack Obama is the candidate of choice for noted “Team America: World Police” character, “Matt Damon,” he should be accepted by all… our future be damned.

Tags: Obama Ayers Radical Indoctrination