I know- they barely know each other...
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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
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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.