Now about those friends of Obama...

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To me, the most curious and interesting thing about William Ayers is this: how does one parlay an adult life experience that can be summed up in twenty years hiding on a demonstrably criminal and murderous cause, then a few more getting a degree in education from a very minor New York City college - how does one parlay this into a full professorship in education at The University of Chicago - probably the most prestigious American university outside the Ivy League - and a permanent place among the great and the good of America's third city? I'd really like to know. Because, you know, I rather fancy an academic career, and I don't think that my CV is any worse than that of Professor Ayers when he set out on his.

Another point: how does one get away, like his consort Bernardine Dohrn did, with completely refusing to cooperate with a criminal trial into the violent death of two policemen and a guard, in spite of serious grounds for suspicion; and why should a judge then send her free even from a measly sentence for contempt of court?

These two things cannot be explained unless the Dohrn-Ayers couple had pretty serious friends somewhere in the very "Amerikkan" establishment that they as terrorists planned to destroy. And that certainly makes Obama's friends as interesting as Obama himself.

P.S.: Obama was also an admirer of the execrable Edward Said, who was a professor at Columbia at the same time as Obama was a student. There is a photograph, I gather, of the two of them together. To anyone who remembers what I think of Edward Said, this is another interesting friendshiop.

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As for your refusal to read the articles I linked you to, I guess this means you do not want to explain to me why Obama is apparently unknown to everyone in Columbia U, why he seems to have misrepresented some facts about his address, and why, if he did not know Ayers and Dohrn in NY when they were near neighbours and moving in very similar environments, he headed to Chicago as soon as he graduated from Harvard, rather than going home to Hawaii? Also, why he was inserted into Harvard by the gift of the notorious Prince Alwaleed - the one whose donation Mayor Giuliani rejected, remember? I have a lot of other questions, but no doubt you will dismiss them all as Republican tittle-tattle. I am not the first to notice that Obama has a number of interesting similarities with Richard Nixon. Let us hope that this does not include the ultimate result.