By Matthew Vadum ——Bio and Archives--October 6, 2008
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Instead, it was suggested by Deborah Leff, then president of the Joyce Foundation, a Chicago-based group whose board Mr. Obama, a young lawyer, had joined the previous year. At a lunch with two other foundation heads, Patricia A. Graham of the Spencer Foundation and Adele Simmons of the MacArthur Foundation, Ms. Leff suggested that Mr. Obama would make a good board chairman, she said in an interview. Mr. Ayers was not present and had not suggested Mr. Obama, she said.The Joyce and MacArthur foundations are both reliably liberal funders. (For more on MacArthur, see CRC Senior Fellow Martin Morse Wooster’s profile of the foundation in Foundation Watch, September 2005.) Stanley Kurtz has also done excellent research on Obama’s ties to Ayers, as has David Freddoso, author of The Case Against Barack Obama. (We interviewed Freddoso. Partial transcript here, audio file here) It remains to be seen if voters will care about all this, but we think it’s interesting.
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