Posted on 02/22/2008 3:54:12 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama once visited '60s 'terrorists' By: Ben Smith February 22, 2008 06:15 AM EST
In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district’s influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
While Ayers and Dohrn may be thought of in Hyde Park as local activists, they’re better known nationally as two of the most notorious – and unrepentant — figures from the violent fringe of the 1960s anti-war movement.
Now, as Obama runs for president, what two guests recall as an unremarkable gathering on the road to a minor elected office stands as a symbol of how swiftly he has risen from the Hyde Park left to a man closing in fast on the Democratic nomination for president.
“I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers’ house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,” said Dr. Quentin Young, a prominent Chicago physician and advocate for single-payer health care, of the informal gathering at the home of Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn. “[Palmer] identified him as her successor.”
Obama and Palmer “were both there,” he said.
Obama’s connections to Ayers and Dorhn have been noted in some fleeting news coverage in the past. But the visit by Obama to their home—part of a campaign courtship—reflects more extensive interaction than has previously reported.
Neither Ayers nor the Obama campaign would describe the relationship between the two men. Dr. Young described Obama and Ayers as “friends,”
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They once scheduled a speech by George Lincoln Rockwell. Got moved from one venue to another because of a bomb threat.
It was a freeze-Hillary's-mammary weather. I was among the many demonstrators frostbitten on that fair eve.
Re the Museum
Additional present-day attractions (most long-established):
The coal mine
The Burlington Zephyr
The 727 hung from the ceiling
The whispering gallery
1910 Main Street
Mercury capsule
Imax theatre
From days gone by:
The 50,000 watt light bulb
The original O-scale train layout
See your self on color TV!
Hear yourself recorded over the telephone!
How the phone network works
Sound over lightwaves
The WTTW studios
Both those bastards are profs.
The last time I was on the Univ Campus was for the final meeting on the 'new' George Mitchell Hospital. (I was a Project Manager for a Subcontractor)
Oh yes - I’ve seen these two leftist scum on TV and movies. They make one’s skin crawl with their smarmy self satisfied smugness. You get the usual “our intentions were right, but our tactics were a bit misguided” BS and then typically a “F Bush” thrown in for good measure.
I’m not surprised Osama is hanging around with these two.
The last time was like with the U of C, as a Project Manager. 'We' were building the Henry Crown Space Center, and the Imax Theater. I was all the way up to the top of that dome on scaffolding with our Super over a problem that came up. It is a looooong way down. But not too big of a deal after going up 56 Stories in one of those 'caged' outside the building Man Hoists.
[but the 1st time I went in one, and only for 19 stories was .. 'interesting' :-) ]
Sometime I’ll have to tell you the story about hanging over the edge of the Hancock Center roof to get a photograph down to the street.
Around 1997 or so I heard Bernadine Dohrn give a vehemently anti- (Bill) Clinton speech. From a left perspective, of course. Then came Monica.
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