More Palling
Barack reviewed Bill’s book, sat on a juvenile justice panel with him, organized by Michele. Sounds cosy. Zombie goes analog, pre-Internet to excavate Obama’s Ayers zombie from the S.F. public library stacks. Here’s a quote from the Obama Ayers book review:
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?”
Wow. From the mouths of adults. “People with no conscience,” “super predators,” “feral pre-social beings.” ”How did he get the gun? Where did it come from?”
Almost sounds like one unrepentant ex-terrorist, in 1997, hadn’t entirely resolved the parental/societal issues that got him mixed up with murder. Either that or he was just making excuses for the acting-out man-child he once was.
Also sounds a lot like a “Why do they kill us?” argument. It’d be great to get a transcript of that panel, for greater insight into the presidential candidate’s views on public safety.
Malkin with more on Mr. Obama’s neighborhood.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:32 am on Sunday, October 19, 2008
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October 19th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Thank heavens for the lonely sloggers still out there doing what we thought the press was supposed to do.
October 19th, 2008 at 10:21 am
And the plumbers!
October 19th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I read the introduction to the book, and got a kick out of it. Ayers writes a paragraph in the intro about how his first encounter with the juvenile justice system was a field trip in high school. The next paragraph begins, “I later became a school teacher…”
Say, Bill, anything interesting happen with you between those two events?