Obama Recommended Ayers’ Book

by Francisco Gonzalez ~ October 20, 2008

Barack Obama has continued to deny that he had any relationship with domestic terrorist, William Ayers. And, since Obama’s campaign for the Presidency has advanced, William Ayers has refused to comment. But now, the truth in Obama’s past will not escape him much longer.

In 1997, then state senator Barack Obama praised Ayers’ book, A Kind and Just Parent: Children of the Juvenile Court. According to FOX News, featured next to a smiling photograph of himself in the Chicago Tribune, Obama was quoted as saying that Ayers’ book was a “searing and timely account of the juvenile court system, and the courageous individuals who rescue hope from despair.”

And, Obama himself is mentioned in the book. On page 82, when the book describes Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, Ayers says: “Our neighbors include Muhammad Ali, former mayor Eugene Sawyer, poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Elizabeth Alexander, and writer Barack Obama. Minister Louis Farrakhan lives a block from our home and adds, we think, a unique dimension to the idea of ’safe neighborhood watch’: the Fruit of Islam, his security force, has an eye on things twenty-four-hours a day.”

Great, so Obama’s neighbor doesn’t only include Ayers, but Louis Farrakhan as well. And, there’s still more.

A month before the item appeared, on Nov. 20, 1997, Michelle Obama, then dean of student services and director of the University Community Service Center, held a panel at the University of Chicago that featured both Barack Obama and Ayers. So, both Barack and Michelle had a relationship with Mr. Ayers. “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 University of Chicago Chronicle reported on Nov. 6, 1997.

No relationship between Barack Obama and domestic terrorist William Ayers? You be the judge. This man might be President.