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:''"People think we're radicals here, wild-eyed!...Bill Ayers--I know Bill Ayers very well. Bill Ayers is an aging, toothless radical. A pussycat. And his wife, too. I sat on a commission with his wife a few years ago. My god, she was more critical of the left than I was! The two of them, they're utterly conventional people. They had a violent streak at one time. But now--they're thoroughly conventional, just very nice, well-educated people from the neighborhood."'' | :''"People think we're radicals here, wild-eyed!...Bill Ayers--I know Bill Ayers very well. Bill Ayers is an aging, toothless radical. A pussycat. And his wife, too. I sat on a commission with his wife a few years ago. My god, she was more critical of the left than I was! The two of them, they're utterly conventional people. They had a violent streak at one time. But now--they're thoroughly conventional, just very nice, well-educated people from the neighborhood."'' | ||
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Revision as of 00:48, 24 December 2009
Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf...
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
In 1965 Arnold Wolf was a Vice-Chairmen of Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights[1]
Death
Long-time Democratic Socialists of America member[2]and supporter Rabbi Arnold Wolf died unexpectedly on Tuesday, December 23 2008 He was 84 years old.
Obama friend, neighbor and supporter
Rabbi Wolf was a member of Rabbis for Obama, he has held Obama fundraisers in his home and was a big fan of the then Senator from Illinois[3].
Wolf came to Hyde Park before urban renewal. For 25 years he led the congregation at KAM Isaiah Israel, a synagogue across the street from Obama's mansion[4].
- "Barack is perfect for the neighborhood!...You can't say Barack's a product of Hyde Park. He's not really from here. But everybody saw the potential early on. We had a party for him at our house when he was just starting, back in the Nineties. I said right away: 'Here's a guy who could sell our product, and sell it with splendor!' "
On "the product Obama could sell?[5]
"The thing is, it's not what you might think...It's not radical. It's not extreme. It's a rational, progressive philosophy based on experience. You see it here. This neighborhood is genuinely integrated. We did it here, we really did it! Not just talk about it. Look around. And Barack and his family fit right in. This is their neighborhood."
Knowing Ayers and Dohrn
Rabbi Wolf dismisses Hyde Park's radical reputation and defends two of its most well known citizens-Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn[6];
- "People think we're radicals here, wild-eyed!...Bill Ayers--I know Bill Ayers very well. Bill Ayers is an aging, toothless radical. A pussycat. And his wife, too. I sat on a commission with his wife a few years ago. My god, she was more critical of the left than I was! The two of them, they're utterly conventional people. They had a violent streak at one time. But now--they're thoroughly conventional, just very nice, well-educated people from the neighborhood."
Wolf's ralationship with Bill Ayers went back to the 1960s[7];
- Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf knew Ayers in the 1960s and re-met Ayers and Dohrn decades later. In the 1960s Wolf said he and Ayers were on opposite sides of the use of violence to effect social change. Then, Ayers thought it useful. Wolf came out of the school of nonviolence.
References
- ↑ Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights Letterhead Feb 1965
- ↑ http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng121.html
- ↑ http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1076922,CST-NWS-rabbi27.article
- ↑ http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/197wxqsf.asp?pg=2
- ↑ http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/197wxqsf.asp?pg=2
- ↑ http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/197wxqsf.asp?pg=2
- ↑ http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/901879,CST-NWS-sweet18.article