Thursday, October 09, 2008

La educacion es revolucion!

According to Pravda-on-the-Hudson, Mr. Obama was introduced to the couple in 1995 at a meet-and-greet they held for him at their home, aides said. Ah, but, We know precious little about Obama’s Columbia years, but the Los Angeles Times has reported that he studied under Said. ... Said had a wide circle of radical acquaintances. That circle clearly included Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. When they came out of hiding in the early 1980s (while Obama was attending Columbia), Ayers took education courses at Bank Street College, adjacent to Columbia in Morningside Heights — before earning his doctorate at Columbia’s Teachers College in 1987. After they left Columbia, both Obama and Ayers went to Chicago: Obama to become a “community organizer”; Ayers, two years later, to teach at the University of Illinois. It's a small world, on Planet Pepe.

8 comments:

Tecumseh said...

Another hypothesis.

Mr roT said...

AI, I thought you were a big admirer of Edw Said.

Tecumseh said...

Me? Are you kiddin'? At any rate, Mr. Straman, what do you think, did Ayers and Obama meet at Said's knee while at Columbia?

Mr roT said...

Talk about an FCP GUT!

Tecumseh said...

Columbia, Harvard, U. Chicago. There is something FCP-esque in Obama's trajectory that. But I don't see any Bezerkeley, or Nawlins, or Dakotas in that. We need a better GUT.

Mr roT said...

Working...

Arelcao Akleos said...

Bezerkeley shouldn't be too hard. The Weatherman had a cult following there. But the Dakotas and Nawlins might be a hard fit. For the Dakotas, most of the would be Marxistos were drawn to Minneapolis-St. Paul like magpies to geegaws. For Nawlins, liquor, food, beads, music, Kayla, killers, killer hurricanes, and the slimiest sex this side of Sin City, kept the Revolutionay Ranks rather preoccupied. We may never get a true GUT for FCP.

Arelcao Akleos said...

Their lives sure are intertwined in nifty and upclose ways.
As Obamacles lied, "just a guy in the neighborhood"