Obama’s review of Ayers’ book says, “A searing and timely account of the juvenile court system, and the courageous individuals who rescue hope from despair.”
Posted on 10/18/2008 8:21:55 PM PDT by Alouette
On December 21, 1997, Barack Obama wrote a short review of William Ayers’ book A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court, which had recently been published by Beacon Press. Here’s a photo of how the review appeared in the Chicago Tribune:
Obama’s review of Ayers’ book says, “A searing and timely account of the juvenile court system, and the courageous individuals who rescue hope from despair.”
I had seen mentions of the existence of this review in a very few media outlets, including CNN, National Review, American Spectator, and a handful of others. But because the review was published before the Chicago Tribune began digitizing and archiving its articles online, there was no direct Web link to the review itself — only citations of it. So, out of curiosity, I took it upon myself to visit a library in San Francisco, and using the library’s Lexis-Nexis access and its archive of microfilm versions of major newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, I finally tracked down a copy of the actual review itself.
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Good job tracking it down ...
Wow, great detective work! Thanks for your efforts to bring forth the truth.
More likely that the review was ghosted by Ayers himself. He just used Obama’s name. Obama owed him for “Dreams”.
Wow... Obama said he had “no idea” who Ayers was, and here is proof he gave a highly positive review of Ayer’s book in a major newspaper. Busted!
To be fair, Obama was only 8 years old when he wrote that review.
Nice find!
As I’ve said elsewhere on FR . . . there have to be documents from Obama’s past that he hasn’t been able to destroy or his thugs haven’t been able to locate.
Keep digging.
There HAS to be someone from the NYC neighborhood who recalls Obama living there and palling around with Ayers in 1981 and following.
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; Randolph Stone, Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic; Alex Correa, a reformed juvenile offender who spent seven years in Cook County Temporary Detention Center; Frank Tobin, a former priest and teacher at the Detention Center who helped Correa; and Willy Baldwin, who grew up in public housing and is currently a teacher at the Detention Center.
If there was a reporter out there who wasn't a stenographer for the DNC, the names of the other speakers would be a place to start to understand the real relationship between Obama and Ayers.
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; Randolph Stone, Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic; Alex Correa, a reformed juvenile offender who spent seven years in Cook County Temporary Detention Center; Frank Tobin, a former priest and teacher at the Detention Center who helped Correa; and Willy Baldwin, who grew up in public housing and is currently a teacher at the Detention Center.
If there was a reporter out there who wasn't a stenographer for the DNC, the names of the other speakers would be a place to start to understand the real relationship between Obama and Ayers.
This should be in the breaking news section.
Yep — my first reaction, too. Payback for Ayers’ ghosting Dreams. It would be interesting to compare the style of the review to Ayers’ books and to Obama’s writings (if you can find any besides “Apes”).
Hey . . . wait . . . I thought Bill Ayers was just someone who lived in the neighborhood. / sarc
“A searing and timely account of the juvenile court system, and the courageous individuals who rescue hope from despair.”
So the account of the juvenile court system was searing and timely ... and the account of the
courageous individuals who rescue hope from despair is also searing and timely?
Okay, I’m not a Harvard Law Review editor, but seems strange to me.
Great find!
Pissant, check this out!
This is now seared—seared in my memory.
Try Obama Ayers 1981
Obama got sponsored/groomed into Columbia in 1981. Bill Ayers was there too, and so to the Weatherman. Odd.
Just outside of New York, on Long Island, there was a Brinks robbery in October 1981. It was the idiots of the Black Liberation Army( all twenty or so) and the Weather Underground. Two police officers and a Brinks guard were ambushed and murdered. One of the BLA idiots, Nathan Burns, took the name Sekou Odinga. The muslim thug president of Kenya, and African travel partner of Obama and his supposedly first cousin is Raila Odinga. Odd.
Obama was a transfer student, a Junior. He was in the same major as Ayers. He would of been thinking of post graduate education, at other schools and Columbia. Ayers was getting his Doctorate. It is common for Doctorate candidates to teach underclassmen. So, you have Obama, soon to be a senior, and Ayers, founder of the Weathermen, and according to the FBI, still very active in bombing. So close was he that he adopted Brinks cop guard murdering Kathey Bodines two children( and raised them muslim). Maybe Columbia is a really really big school, with lots and lots of Black Nationalists and Weather Underground types there at the time.
Obama said he lived off campus, spent his time jogging or in the library. He’s not released any of his no doubt stellar academic records, or much of anything from his time at Columbia.
I’m sure the New York Times, but blocks from Columbia is right on this.
Bill Ayers, Weatherman, bomber..was Obama's teacher?
Bump.
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