From Time Magazine's The Page:
The former Weather Underground member -- who has been used against Obama throughout the campaign -- arrives at the Beluah Shoesmith Elementary School just before Obama to cast his ballot.
A reporter shouts out: "Mr. Ayers, who did you vote for?" He turned around but didn't answer.
Read pool report below:As your pooler waited for Barack Obama to arrive at the Beluah Shoesmith Elementary School, Bill Ayers showed up with his wife to cast his vote. Newsweek's Richard Wolffe first noticed Ayers. Your pooler confirmed his identity after yelling out "Mr. Ayers, who did you vote for?" He turned around but did not answer. An official from the Chicago elections board told your pooler sternly not to yell at the polling station.
More later....
Ayers and Dohrn live on the same block as the polling place. I wonder if the Obamas rode past the Ayers' graystone on their way to vote? That's where Obama began his political career in 1995. It's the circle of life....
Another well-known Hyde Park resident, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, also voted at Shoesmith School.
I'm going to vote now, and it will hopefully be a terrorist free, and anti-Semite free zone.
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Now that is a neighborhood of some real Champs.
ReplyDeleteI drank coffee with Cops and firemen being deployed to serve and protect and as I far as I could tell all voted McCain/Palin.
I would not drink coffee much less vote in the company of Ayers and Calypso Louis . . . but . . .whatever floats your boat Senator.
Hey, I was there too. I am a teacher and my son was there. He teaches public school kids from poor neighborhoods to use film to make stories. There were plumbers there and cops, a corporate leader or two or three, plenty of lawyers, and musicians, students, and carpenters. Why don't you good journalists meet more of us and do a column based on real research rather than cherry picking the characters you love to villify for stories that have been written before the day unfolded. Come on, real news can find new stories with new people and you and your readers will learn new things rather than going round and round with the same old stories, filled wwith the same old emotions and attitudes- things can never change, let's hate those that challenge us and fear what we haven't the courage to face---same old same. Come on guys.....do like my students do...struggle to think and learn and grow up!
ReplyDeleteMichael...I do plenty of my own reporting, as does Hickey.
ReplyDeleteIf you really want better schools, how 'bout school vouchers. That would help poor kids the most.
Obama opposes them.