Well, This Is Interesting: CAC Dorhn/Obama

I'd guess Stanley Kurtz can just about give up on those CAC records after reading this:

She (Michelle Obama) met Barack Obama while at the firm (Sidley Austin), mentored him, then left the job after three years.

In 1991, Michelle Robinson was hired as a mayoral assistant by Valerie Jarrett, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's chief of staff. Jarrett is now Michelle Obama's close friend and a senior adviser to the Obama campaign.

It doesn't get much more connected than that. And a few more semi-interesting tidbits found while rummaging around. I don't know if the Obama's crossed paths with Bernadine Dohrn at Sidley Austin - but they were all there. This on Michelle - though it ties to Barack, CAC and Ayers below:

Michelle Obama's maiden name is Robinson. After she earned degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law School, Michelle took her first job at the Chicago office of Sidley Austin

So, who was at Sidley Austin, possibly when she got there - also likely when / she if interned - Bernadine Dohrn - admittedly on her way out. But there's a quote from the fellow that hired her in next link below:

1984 - 1988: Sidley & Austin, Litigation.
Work included oversight responsibility for the environmental clean-up and
dismantlement of one of the largest bankrupt oil refineries in the U.S.; participation in
negotiating and drafting numerous contracts and documents in connection with that
clean-up; research, negotiation and drafting concerning environment consent decree in
connection with sale of refinery property in another bankruptcy proceeding; research and preparation of memoranda in anti-trust case; extensive client contact, research, brief writing and coordination in a group of eleven cases in Connecticut state court involving a charitable health care facility.

From the ChiTribune: 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.

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.

Not sure what to make of this by Elizabeth Wurtzel, must have missed it in the WSJ:

Apparently, back when he was running for state senate, Barack Obama had fund-raising events at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and there's been some press about the senator's friendship with this controversial Weathercouple. Many reporters are well aware, even though Mr. Obama has described his connection to Ayers and Dohrn as "flimsy," that the senator's relationship with his radical Hyde Park neighbors is actually quite warm, even close.

In her tepid, wobbling way, Hillary Clinton has attempted to use this well-known fact to portray her opponent as a secret subversive. But mostly, the press doesn't want to touch this story – and no one else does either, as if it actually were TNT. Perhaps right-wing evildoers are holding onto this story to exploit in the general election.

Ya think? ; )

Comments

[chris]

Wow. Woodward, Bernstein and the Enigma code breakers all rolled into one!

[Gabriel Sutherland]

Ms. Dohrn is presently on the faculty at the Northwestern University School of Law. She's an associate law professor and the director of the Child and Family Justice Center.
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/profiles/bernardinedohrn

Ms. Dohrn's friends in high places have provided immense assistance in whitewashing her public record to restore her path to higher education.

[syn]

Lawyers. The Democrat Party is overwhelmed with Laywers which explains why the party is so screwed up.

[Gabriel Sutherland]

June 23, 1995, in the Chicago Tribune, they report this.

[Barack Obama, a Chicago lawyer and chairman of the Annenberg Challenge board, added, "If we're really going to change things in this city, it's going to start at the grass-roots level and with our children."]

The Chicago Tribune editorialized these comments on July 17, 1995. At this time, Chicago Tribune President and Publisher Scott C. Smith was on the board of directors for the Chicago Annenberg Challenge.

[For example, no school can apply for grant money on its own. Each school has to hook up with at least one other and with an "external partner"--a community group or local company--to assure that the proposed program is linked to the neighborhood and has community support. Furthermore, the external partner must commit to work with the schools for at least five years, forging a long-term partnership that ideally would outlive the original grant money.]

And closed with this.

[The Annenberg Challenge aims to improve education and "significantly enhance student learning." It's a tall order, but one that Chicago's schools and business community should embrace with zeal.]

[Persily & Associates]

Apparently, back when he was running for state senate, Barack Obama had fund-raising events at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and there's been some press about the senator's friendship with this controversial Weathercouple. Many reporters are well aware, even though Mr. Obama has described his connection to Ayers and Dohrn as "flimsy," that the senator's relationship with his radical Hyde Park neighbors is actually quite warm, even close.