Friday, November 07, 2008

OSearing Sirhan Sirhan

In December 1997, Barack Obama gave William Ayers’ book on juvenile criminals a rave review.

Just a few weeks before this review was published in the Chicago Tribune, Obama
and Ayers appeared together on a panel about juvenile justice organized by
Michelle Obama on November 6, 1997:

Children who kill are called “super predators,” “people with no conscience,”
“feral pre-social beings” — and “adults.”

William Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of
Juvenile Court (Beacon Press, 1997), says “We should call a child a
child. A 13-year-old who picks up a gun isn’t suddenly an adult. We have to ask
other questions: How did he get the gun? Where did it come
from?”

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
I find it very hard — no, make that impossible — to
believe that Barack Obama had “no idea” who William Ayers really was
Let's give up on the Ayer's was just a guy in the neighborhood bit, OK? Even CNN has put the lie to that.

So why the title reference to Sirhan Sirhan?

Well, it turns out that one of the people Ayers' first book "Prairie Fire" is dedicated to is Sirhan Sirhan. That would be the assassin of Robert F Kennedy, Jr!

You can check it out at zombietime.
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