Background: The first two messianic Mad Libs and the third.
Barack Obama issued a statement Wednesday responding after the former 1. fund on whose board he served, 2. the Woods Fund, 3. was shown to have included domestic terrorist William Ayers and to have donated to Obama’s church, been connected with Obama’s “very generous” mortgage company, given to several far-left causes, and even invested in (egad!) Wal-Mart in 4. Chicago. …
Obama: ?I?m saddened by today?s 5. uncomfortable news. This isn?t the 6. Woods Fund I knew, but now it has been 7. revealed to show my connections with the Ayers terrorist, the virulent racism of Trinity Church, and the scratch-my-back corruption of Chicago politics that once again shine a spotlight on the need for 8. federal job security.
Reference: American Thinker, “Obama and the Woods Fund of Chicago“:
Barack Obama served on the board of directors of Woods Fund of Chicago from 1993 to 2001. During that time, the tax exempt foundation made some interesting grants, including one to Obama’s church, Trinity United Church of Christ, headed by Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the time. Grants were also made to ACORN, a left wing voter registration group and to a partnership for constructing low income housing. The fund also used Northern Trust for financial services, which is the same company that provided Obama his 2005 mortgage.
In 2001 the board of directors included Obama, William Ayers, the former Weather Underground radical terrorist, and serving as chairman was Howard J. Stanback who headed New Kenwood LLC, a limited liability company founded by now-convicted felon Tony Rezko and Allison Davis, Obama’s former boss at the law firm of Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland. …
