Obama and Bill Ayers
Reporters are plumbing Barack Obama’s ties to 1960-1970’s era radical (or terrorist, according to some) Bill Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Obama strategist David Axelrod said this to Ben Smith over at Politico:
Bill Ayers lives in his neighborhood. Their kids attend the same school. They’re certainly friendly, they know eachother, as anyone whose kids go to school together.
Ayers’ son Malik is roughly my age (27), his son Zayd is three years older, and Rhodes Scholar Chesa Boudin, Ayers and wife Bernadine Dohrn’s foster son, is also roughly my age.
I know this because I went to summer camp with Malik and Chesa when we were little boys, at Ramapo Country Day Camp right across the Hudson from New York City. Ayers held a teaching post at Columbia that year.
Meanwhile, Obama’s daughters Sasha and Malia are 6 and 9, respectively.
Unless 63 year-old Ayers and Dohrn, who is three years older, have much younger kids that I’m not aware of, I think Axelrod is mistaken about their kids going to the same school.
Can anyone shed some light on this?
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“Unless 63 year-old Ayers and Dohrn, who is three years older, have much younger kids that I’m not aware of, I think Axelrod is mistaken about their kids going to the same school.”
Great point. As I recall Ayers and Dorhn have three grown children.
This is crazy. David Axelrod thought he could lie and after stating this fact (ha! ha!)he thought this issue would disappear. The way he said it is exactly the way he meant to say it. Of course they are putting a “SPIN” on it, because they got caught. This is unbelievable. Maybe Obama will invite the master over IRAN to join him in the White House. Maybe he will make him his Chief of Staff!
The politico link you have has this:
UPDATE: There’s been a bit of confusion about Axelrod’s line on the kids, who — as the Guardian’s Daniel Nasaw noted — aren’t the same age. Obama’s kids went go the the University of Chicago Lab Schools, where Ayers kids, who are much older, had gone. However, Bernardine Dohrn is still active at the school, and an Obama aide said that was the connection.