Obama and Ayers, 1997 Panel

U of Chicago ^ | Nov. 4 1997 | Unknown

[WatchYourself]

Decided to use Googles' 2001 index to see what would come up with Ayers and Obama pre-2000. Just a random symposium involving Barack and Michelle and hosted by Ayers...

Should a child ever be called a “super predator?” A panel at the University of Chicago debates the merits of the juvenile justice system

Ayers will be joined by Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama, Senior Lecturer in the University of Chicago Law School, who is working to block proposed legislation that would throw more juvenile offenders into the adult system; Randolph Stone, Director of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic at the University of Chicago; Alex Correa, a reformed juvenile offender who spent 7 years in Cook County Temporary Detention Center; Frank Tobin, a former priest and teacher in the Detention Center who helped Correa; and Willy Baldwin, who grew up in public housing and is currently a teacher in the Detention Center.

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 of Chicago Community Service Center, hopes bringing issues like this to campus will open a dialogue between members of the University community and the broader community.

[library user]

I found this too, using Google 2001. The reason I didn’t post it is because it was posted a few days ago, under a different headline.

[StACase]

Get a life! Ayers is just a neighbor of Obama's. That you attach some sort of significance to it is just a symptom of your over-the-top right wing political neurosis.

[repinwi]

I would hope your reply was in sarcasm.

[dayglored]

> I would hope your reply was in sarcasm.

StACase - on FR since 1999.

Yep, sarcasm.

Or the longest-lived troll in history.... (nope).

[repinwi]

Thank you. I figured it was such, but had to make sure.

[StACase]

Often people put ‹/sarcasm› after such a post, and I did too, but, just for grins, I put it in HTML for white text. BUT! IT DIDN'T SHOW UP! I mean that when you highlight the post it's not there. Go figure!

And on further investigation I find that in order to get ‹/sarcasm› to show up, I needed to use [ALT]139 & [ALT]155 as the lessthan morethan symbols get edited out if they don't enclose recognized HTML. Hmmmmmm, ‹/sarcasm› Got it to work (-: