Friends in high places
Senator Barack H. Obama’s good pals, that dynamite duo of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, in addition to being urban terrorists are also hot air hypocrites, proving that old adage “It’s not what you know but whom you know.” Chicago Tribune reporter Ron Grossman researched how a couple of notorious self confessed bomb throwers, who cowardly went into hiding (romantically—and erroneously—labelled underground, like the rats they were) instead of facing the consequences of their actions managed to continue and graduate from universities and then obtain jobs at universities—he a professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago, she on the faculty of Northwestern University’s School of Law. She teaches a course titled Children in Trouble with the Law.
How did that happen? Apparently crime pays when you have connections; even for obtaining jobs at those bastions of knowledge and truth—universities.
You know, justice for people who destroy, bomb, injure, maim.
Ayers’ father moved in philanthropic circles with Howard Trienens, an attorney with the powerhouse firm of Sidley Austin. The two served together on Northwestern University’s Board of Trustees. Ayers was chairman of that group, then handed the post off to Trienens in 1986.
Surprise! Surprise! After slithering above ground Dohrn was hired by …”the powerhouse firm of Sidley Austin.” The very same law firm where Barack Obama was hured as a summer associate after his first year at Harvard Law School. Where he met Michelle, his future wife. And just how did that coincidence happen?
Trienens headed Sidley Austin when the firm hired Dohrn in 1984. She had never practiced law and had been out of law school for 17 years.
When I asked Trienens if he had hired Dohrn, he replied: “Yes.”
Wasn’t that a bit of nepotism, considering his relationship to her father-in-law? A lot of lawyers would love a first job with such a prestigious firm.
“We often hire friends,” replied Trienens, 84.