I question the timing
Bill Kristol asks of McCain-Palin: "Can they catch up?"
It looks like the New York Times has decided they cannot since it's now safe to probe into Barack Obama's relationship with domestic terrorist and Chicago "neighbor" Bill Ayers. As you might expect from the Times, they're just two paths that crossed in the night - nothing to see here, move along. Hot Air and the Minuteman provide much needed context.
More - Roundup at Memorandum. Also, Vodkapundit notes that the Obama-Ayers story had another "timing" aspect: they saved it for the least-read Saturday edition. Natch.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20010724094124/www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/97/971104.juvenile.justice.shtml
University of Chicago News
November 4, 1997
"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." ....
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. ...
Ayers will be joined 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...
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."
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I also posted this at Jawa.
Hope they cared over there.
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