Obama/Ayers - The Smoking Gun?

Let's go back to 1997, to learn about an exciting panel discussion taking place at the University of Chicago:

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....

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....

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

So this is a guy you know strictly "from the neighborhood"? Looks to me like Ayers and the Obamas were all in agreement on this issue (letting violent teenagers offenders remain free in order to become violent adult offenders), and it's hard for Obama to profess no relationship with Ayers when they sat shoulder-to-shoulder (I wish I had a picture - imagine Ayers sandwiched between Barack and Michelle?) on panels like this together, arguing the same side of an issue.

Yeah, it's a smoking gun, but the media doesn't care - if Barack Obama walked into a press conference peeling off bloody gloves, reporters would fawn over his manicured fingernails...

The brilliant Mark Levin gives voice to some of the helpless rage I am feeling here:

Obama is not merely associated with domestic terrorists, Palestinian radicals, Marxists, and black liberation ideologues — he was their favorite candidate. They groomed him. They befriended him. He befriended them. He socialized with them. In other words, these people saw Obama as representing their views and aspirations and he saw them the same way. I am not among those who raise Obama's associations but add "of course, it doesn't mean Obama shares their views."
Oh really? These miscreants include Obama's former pastor, political mentors and allies, and friends. Obama attempts to downplay and distance himself from his own circle of allies now that he is running for president. But he is one of them. Obama is getting a pass that no other candidate in my memory has ever received....

Yup. And it looks as if the moose-hunter from Alaska is the only one with the guts to call him on it...