Following are excerpts from another claim that the association between Obama and Ayers began while Obama studied at Columbia during 1981-83.

http://www.contrariancommentary.com/community/Home/tabid/36/mid/363/newsid363/262/Default.aspx

…. why would Black Panther party revolutionary Khalid Al-Mansour start soliciting money for Obama’s legal education? The answer: Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, were close associates of the Black Panther Party and even unleashed a terrorist attack on a New York judge who heard a Panther case.

In the 1980′s, the Ayers/Dohrn revolutionary terror network was still working through individuals such as Al-Mansour, who had sufficiently laundered his radical past to assume respectability as a front for a Saudi Prince. …. Ayers vouched for Obama to Al-Mansour, who then began a law school fund-raising campaign among prominent African-Americans. ….

Why did Obama get hired as a “summer associate” in 1989 at the law firm which had hired Ayers’ wife, and where Ayers’ father was a prominent friend of the managing partner at Sidley & Austin? The answer is obvious. Ayers was grooming Obama as his future “front.” ….