Posted on 10/05/2008 9:33:42 AM PDT by justlittleoleme
This article was from 1997 - pretty recent history. More recent than what Obama proposes.
For what? Stealing their thunder?
He was a State Senator.
The juvenile justice system was founded by Chicago reformer Jane Addams, who advocated the establishment of a separate court system for children which would act like a “kind and just parent” for children in crisis.
One hundred years later, the system is “overcrowded, under-funded, over-centralized and racist,” Ayers said.
Michelle Obama, Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University Community Service Center, hopes bringing issues like this to campus will open a dialogue between members of the University community and the broader community.
“Students and faculty explore these issues in the classroom, but it is an internal conversation,” Obama said. “We know that issues like juvenile justice impact the city of Chicago, this nation and — directly or indirectly — this campus. This panel gives students a chance to hear about the juvenile justice system not only on a theoretical level, but from the people who have experienced it.”
They should play video of Bernadine Dohrn blabbing on in admiration of Manson, and keep reminding people that this is who sponsored Obama’s entry into politics. Then play video or audio around the clock of Wright in full lather, and remind people that this is Obama’s religious mentor.
Michelle Obama organized a University of Chicago panel about Bill Ayers's crime book in November 1997,....
In effect, then, this public event was a joint Obama-Ayers effort to sink the juvenile justice bill.
Obama's decision to plug Ayers's book in the Chicago Tribune the following month was part of the same political effort.
Obama is a guy that freely admits that when younger and times got tough for him, he resorted to snorting cocaine. Life has been easy as an attorney, but he's pining for POTUS. I wonder if any days as President will be tough and what drugs he'll do then?
Were you aware that while Obama was at Columbia, Bill Ayers was studying less than a quarter mile down the road at Bank Street College? (what a coincidence!)
Ayers graduated in 84 and then went to Columbia where he graduated in 87.
Obama graduated from Columbia in 83 but stayed in New York an additional two years before moving to Ayers' stomping ground - Chicago (what a coincidence!)
Obama states he didn't live on campus, BSC doesn't have student housing. Could they have been living together?
I don't know New York but how likely is it that they knew each other given that Obama claims he sought out "Foreign students, Marxist Professors, and punk Poets" (his words from his book)?
Apparently he was friendly with (Prof) Edward Said at Columbia, it is claimed Ayers knew Said too. (what a coincidence!)
One would think that Ayers would be something of a celebrity in the radical community at that time as he had recently beaten the rap in his court case. I can't believe that Ayers and Obama spent several years in the close proximity in New York and didn't meet and then suddenly got introduced after Obama had moved to Chicago.
Ayers will be joined by Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the Law School, who is working to combat legislation that would put more juvenile offenders into the adult system...
Michelle Obama, Associate Dean of Student Services and Director of the University Community Service Center, hopes bringing issues like this to campus will open a dialogue between members of the University community and the broader community.
"Students and faculty explore these issues in the classroom, but it is an internal conversation," Obama said. "We know that issues like juvenile justice impact the city of Chicago, this nation and -- directly or indirectly -- this campus...."
Obama attended UIC conference with Bill Ayers & Bernadine Dohrn!
The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC) April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.
William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)
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my bad...;)
gnip...
Wow, what an article you linked to. There must be enough material in it for dozens of body blow TV spots. And silly little me always thought we didn’t hear about his Illinois record because he was a do nothing ticket puncher.
Hannity needs to get this.
Ransby is on the SAME panel as Ayers and Obama in 2002.
Barbara Ransby is Associate Professor, Gender and Women's Studies, African American Studies, and History Director, Gender and Women's Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Thanks!
Save it before they take it down!
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