http://www.harrisschool.uchicago.edu/current/programs/2000mentors.html
Link of Michelle and Bernadette mentors in now gone. Photo of the page perhaps?
Obama’s Ties to William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn - Part III
http://thinkaboutit.typepad.com/think_about_it/2008/09/obamas-ties-to-william-ayers-and-bernardine-dohrn-—part-iii.html
Barack Obama began his career in the home of William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. In 1995, Obama saw an opportunity to run for the Illinois Senate seat that was held by Alice Palmer; Palmer planned to run for the Congressional seat that had been vacated by Mel Reynolds. Reynolds had been convicted in a state court of sexual misconduct with a 16 year-old volunteer. Alice Palmer was also the editor of the Black Press Review in 1986, and as such, she was the only African-American to attend the 27th Congress of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. In 1986, the Soviet Union was still fighting in Afghanistan and the Berlin Wall had not yet fallen.
Jerome Corsi, in his well documented book Obama Nation makes the case that Alice Palmer was a well known leftist in Chicago’s liberal community. She handpicked Obama to be her successor and she invited her influential liberal friends to the home William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn to gain support for Obama’s campaign. Corsi also makes the point that Alice Palmer would never have invited Obama to the Ayers-Dohrn home if she thought Obama was politically incompatible with them. We should bear in mind that in 1995 Obama had been attending Rev. Wright’s church for several years, and he considered Wright to be his mentor.
Obama’s standard comeback to questions about his relationship to Ayers and Dohrn is, “I was only eight years old when they were involved in terrorist activities.” His answer is meant to convey the erroneous perception that the Ayers-Dohrn team’s terrorist activities were only youthful indiscretions. What the inattentive listeners fail to understand is the fact that Ayers and Dohrn remain committed radicals to this day. Corsi points to some audio clips that Chicago radio station WYLL obtained clips of speeches that William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn made at a 2007 reunion of SDS members. Ayers can be heard praising and quoting Communist revolutionaries heroes, including Chou En Lai who was a confident of Chairman Mao. At this same reunion, Dohrn referred to the U.S. Government as, “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world,” and living in America is like “living in the belly of the beast.”
Michelle Obama – Bernardine Dohrn - Corsi found an interesting connection between Dohrn and Michelle Obama. Although Dohrn was ineligible to take the Illinois bar exam, she was hired as a paralegal by the Chicago law firm Sidney Austin – the same firm where Michelle Obama worked. It’s no small wonder that Michelle Obama made her infamous statement, “For the first time in my adult life, I’m proud of my country.”
Ayers was instrumental is getting Barack Obama, in 1999, to serve on the board of Woods Fund, a board that he served on with Ayers for three years. One can make the argument in the absence of hard evidence that the Obamas’ relationship with Ayers and Dohrn is guilt by association. At the very least, Barack Obama’s relationships with Ayers, Dohrn, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and Father Pfleger and con-man Tony Rezco show an appalling lack of judgment on Obama’s part. There was a lot of caterwauling from the mainstream press about McCain’s alleged failure to thoroughly vet Sarah Palin, yet the press has given a shameful pass to Obama.