This is only the first of what I suspect will be a voluminous literature on Chicago politics by November. There are some pretty odd characters here. William Ayers, for example, is another example of a 60s radical from a wealthy background who has somehow avoided prison. They seem to have been able to resume lives in society although a few are in prison where most of them belong.
Some of them, of course, blew themselves up. Diana Oughton was one whose family was prominent in Dwight, Illinois. Her father operated a restaurant for years that was adjacent to the family’s old patent medicine plant.
It will be interesting to see how this evidence of Obama’s radical background plays out.
UPDATE: Here is more on Obama and the women in his life. No, I don’t mean that kind of women. His mother and his wife are very revealing about a man who has almost no history. He is a blank page (or an empty vessel if you prefer that metaphor). Others see what they want to see.
Now they are even checking his facts.
Oh Oh. The honeymoon may be over.