Thursday, April 24, 2008

BARACK OBAMA

Behind the Ayers Door

The Chicago Tribune offers a picture of the door to Bill Ayers' office at the University of Illinois, describing it as "covered with pictures, cartoons, graphics and various political paraphernalia."

I would describe the image as a Where's Waldo of lefty radicalism. There's at least three pictures of Malcolm X, a cartoon of a smiling police officer saying, "I'm going to kick your [tushie] and get away with it." A Red Star, an Amnesty International sticker, a Mumia Abu-Jamal picture, a picture of a bomb dropping on the Gaza Strip...

Does anyone know what the black and white card saying "ABU-ZAYD" is referring to?

To refresh, Obama's campaign declared after the last debate, "AYERS AND DOHRN BECAME RESPECTABLE FIXTURES OF THE MAINSTREAM IN CHICAGO." [Their caps, not mine.]

UPDATE: The mystery is solved.

A lot of readers are sending me information on Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, an Islamic theologan.  But the more likely answer is found on another photo in that Tribune collection, where the caption depicts a young couple with a child between them: "Bill Ayers walks with wife, Bernardine Dohrn, and their son, Zayd Dohrn, 4, outside a federal courtroom in New York circa 1982."

Abu is Arabic for "father of."

That poor kid.

04/24 12:35 PMShare