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Bookworm on Oct 07 2008 at 7:53 am | Filed under: Uncategorized

I’m finding prescient my first post about Obama, back in December 2006.

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10 Responses to “Looking back”

1. on 07 Oct 2008 at 8:00 am 1suek

   http://www.americasright.com/2008/10/does-this-tin-foil-hat-match-my-pants.html

   Weird.

   And even weirder…go to the main page and read the latest on the Berg/Obama case. The DNC is asking Berg to postpone his request for discover…

   Now why in heck? All this legal action - why don’t they just produce the birth certificate and make the whole thing go away????

   By the way…read on, and you’ll discover the possibility that Obama may be discovered to be an illegal immigrant! I don’t think that’s going to happen, but it would be _too_ rich!

2. on 07 Oct 2008 at 8:33 am 2suek

   Copied and pasted from another blog…in case anyone is interested…!

   Quick-before they scrub everything.

   “Google is doing a celebration of its 10th birthday by restoring indexes from 2001… before BO was well-known and before BO’s thugs got to it and spammed / censored it. So, all these pages etc are really from 2001.

   http://www.google.com/search2001.html

   ——————–
   (I need help. Things should be copied if it’s important, click on old version link)

   –2001 Honorary Celebration Committee
   Harvard Alumni:

   Barack Obama, Franklin Raines, et al….
   http://web.archive.org/web/20011218011828/www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/celebration/committee.shtml

   –John Ayers and Obama:

   http://web.archive.org/web/20011207043716/www.cpef.org/cgi-bin/leadership.asp

   –Here’s that juvenile reform Obama and Ayers worked on:

   http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/97/971104.juvenile.justice.shtml

3. on 07 Oct 2008 at 11:07 am 3Mike Devx

   I found this article in the Google way-back archive. It is most interesting to me for the TWO PEOPLE that are actually quoted in the article. (See in bold below)

   Apologies for the length. I think it’s interesting enough to include in entirety.
   ~mike

   http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/97/971104.juvenile.justice.shtml

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   The University Of Chicago News Office
   November 4, 1997 Press Contact: Julia Morse
   (773) 702-8359
   morse@uchicago.edu

   Should a child ever be called a “super predator?”

   A panel at the University of Chicago debates the merits of the juvenile justice system

   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, who spent a year observing the Cook County Temporary Juvenile Detention Center in Chicago, is one of four panelists who will speak on juvenile justice at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20, in the C-Shop of the Reynolds Club, 5706 S. University Ave.

   The panel, which marks the 100th anniversary of the juvenile justice system in the United States, is part of the Community Service Center’s monthly discussion series on issues affecting the city of Chicago.

   The event is free and open to the public.

   Ayers will be joined [on the panel] 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.

   “We know that issues like juvenile justice impact each of us who live in the city of Chicago. This panel gives community members and students a chance to hear about the juvenile justice system not only on a theoretical level, but from the people who have experienced it.”

   http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/97/971104.juvenile.justice.shtml
   Last modified at 03:50 PM CST on Wednesday, June 14, 2000.
   University of Chicago News Office
   5801 South Ellis Avenue - Room 200
   Chicago, Illinois 60637-1473 (773) 702-8360
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4. on 07 Oct 2008 at 11:10 am 4Mike Devx

   Shoot, I just noticed that this was one of suek’s links she’d found above.

5. on 07 Oct 2008 at 1:29 pm 5suek

   Hey…Better twice than missed!

6. on 07 Oct 2008 at 3:05 pm 6suek

   More on the Ayers connection:

   http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/1981-new-york-city-just-a-bizarre-coincidence/

7. on 07 Oct 2008 at 3:27 pm 7BrianE

   Here’s a sympathetic article written by someone who met Barack in 1996 at the home of a mutual friend when he was beginning his political career, written in 2004.

   A couple of thinks jump out. He alludes to the two years spent at a Muslim school in Indonesia which his campaign had denied, and references a vote on gun control that Barack missed in the Illinois legislature for which he received much criticism- “the Chicago Tribune blasted him as “gutless”".
   He also talks at some length about the crime legislation which required all interrogation of suspects in capital crimes be videotaped.
   The charge of “empty suit” underestimates his abilities.

   http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/03/30/obama/index.html

8. on 07 Oct 2008 at 4:05 pm 8BrianE

   As to the defense that Obama didn’t know who Bill Ayers was, here’s another piece of the puzzle, and some good informtion:

   UPDATE: Want another piece of the puzzle? Kathy Boudin’s brother Michael was a lecturer at Harvard Law School when Obama was there (in fact, he was my antitrust professor). Did Obama take his class? Michael Boudin is, of course, an infinitely more respectable figure than his sister - he’d served in the Reagan Justice Department and in 1992, shortly after Obama graduated, Judge Boudin was appointed to the federal appellate bench by George H.W. Bush - but his family ties were the sort of thing one would routinely discuss about a member of the Law School faculty.

   http://baseballcrank.com/

9. on 07 Oct 2008 at 5:31 pm 9Mike Devx

   BrianE,

   You’ve uncovered Obama successes, if his supporter in that article is telling the truth:

   When Democrats took over the chamber in 2003, Obama won General Assembly approval of 26 bills, including legislation to expand healthcare benefits for uninsured children and adults, an earned income tax credit for low earners, and major criminal justice reforms.
   [...]
   …bringing prosecutors and the police to the table and passing a bill embodying one of the Capital Punishment Commission’s most pressing reform proposals: a requirement that police electronically record all phases of the interrogation of homicide suspects. The measure was likely to significantly reduce the number of coerced and false confessions in murder cases. Obama had worked hard and eventually persuaded the law-enforcement community that the change would also enhance the prosecution’s chances in the vast majority of cases where confessions are genuine.

   I’d like to find more on how he “won General Assembly approval of 26 bills”, with at least summary info on those 26 bills, but I’ll take this conditionally for now as proof of success. I’m surprised I couldn’t dig any of this up, but that’s apparently my failure.

10. on 07 Oct 2008 at 5:47 pm 10BrianE

    Mike,
    I had read that Emil Jones forced legislators to put Obama’s name on bills crafted by others, as he groomed him. Don’t know the total number, but in the end– it’s his name on the bill whether or not he did the work.

    Obama’s vaunted reputation for bipartisanship is less than meets the eye. The Illinois legislature has long been home to a number of moderate Republicans, less fiscally conservative than their colleagues, many from districts where the parties are closely balanced. It was easy enough to get a few of these Republicans to sign onto small, carefully tailored spending bills directed toward particularly sympathetic recipients. The trouble with Obama’s bipartisanship is that it was largely a one-way street. Overcoming initial opposition from Catholic groups, for instance, Obama cosponsored an incremental bill on abortion, requiring hospitals to inform rape victims of morning-after pills. Yet rejecting compromise with the other side, Obama voted against bills that would have curbed partial-birth abortions. In other words, Obama is bipartisan so long as that means asking Republicans to take incremental steps toward his own broader goals. When it comes to compromising with the other side, however, Obama says “take a hike.” Obama voted against a bill that would have allowed people in possession of a court order protecting them from some specific individual to carry a concealed weapon in self-defense. The bill failed on a 29-27 vote. Bipartisanship for thee, but not for me: That’s how Obama ended up with the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate.

    The real Obama? You see him in those charts. Fundamentally, he is a big-government redistributionist who wants above all to aid the poor, particularly the African-American poor. Obama is eager to do so both through race-specific programs and through broad-based social-welfare legislation. “Living wage” legislation may be economically counterproductive, and Obama-backed housing experiments may have ended disastrously, yet Obama is committed to large-scale government solutions to the problem of poverty. Obama’s early campaigns are filled with declarations of his sense of mission-a mission rooted in his community organizing days and manifest in his early legislative battles. Recent political back flips notwithstanding, Barack Obama does have an ideological core, and it’s no mystery at all to any faithful reader of the Chicago Defender or the Hyde Park Herald.

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/Utilities/printer_preview.asp?idArticle=15386&R=13C6D7921

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