What do Obama and Osama have in common?

These annoying journalists are at it again, trying to poke around into papers in the background of candidates' lives. This time it involves freshman Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, his friend and former radical activist William Ayers and the University of Illinois.

The university has refused to release records related to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's past service for a nonprofit educational project that put him in contact with activist Ayers, a 1960s-era radical who helped found an organization advWilliam Ayers former 60s radical activist and friend of Senator Barack Obama posed for this photo for Chicago Magazine in 2001 to promote his bookocating violence for political change.

Ayers is now an education professor at the school.

The university's Chicago campus maintains that the donor of the records that document the work of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge has not officially handed over ownership rights and, therefore, the school cannot open the documents to public inspection.

The university says it is "aggressively pursuing" an agreement with the donor, and as soon as an agreement is reached, the collection will be made accessible to the public.

TerryRC wrote:No birth certificate, no IL Senate records, no thesis, no Selective Service Registration record.

And no TV or internet Ads stating these facts so far.

Perhaps because there is no merit to them.

Bravo on the Obama-Osama thing. I've only seen similar things on every third church in McDowell county.

Why not just come out and say Obama is the AntiChrist predicted by St. John?