Apparently they want people to think it's scary that she worked at Sidley & Austin in Chicago where Bernadine Dohrn worked for a few years. Bernadine Dohrn is married to William Ayers.

I went to Northwestern Law School where Bernadine teaches. I met with her there. She was one of very few female faculty when I was at school there. You know who else teaches there? Stephen Calabrese, co-founder of the Federalist Society, speechwriter to Dan Quayle and worker for Judge Robert Bork. I met with him too. He was smart and nice too. In fact I met him more often than Bernadine Dohrn because she was much busier and he advised my senior research project A More Perfect Union: The Constitutional Right to Sexual Pleasure. I quote Salt ' N Pepa in the paper. He gave me an A. I'm not making this up. (And you can see why I'm now a comedian).

Prof. Calabrese has a lot of political influence in the conservative world. The Federalist Society has been the filter for judicial nominees for the Bush administration. 

The McCain campaign logic that ties Bernadine Dohrn to Michelle Obama, ties her to Prof. Calabrese (and other Federalist Society co-founder

I had no idea Bernadine Dohrn she'd done work for Sidley & Austin. On the one hand it shouldn't surprise me because so many faculty at Northwestern do work for Sidley & Austin. It's the big deal, heavy-hitter, borg-like firm whose name was all over Northwestern Law School.

Sometimes I felt like they should just have re-named the school. It was the inspiration for the "S&M law firm" I had litter it's name all over my law school cartoon Paté & Joan.

I only met Prof. Dohrn once. She was really smart and incredibly nice. that's all I remember. It was memorable because there were only 2 tenured women on the faculty and very few women on the faculty at all.

Prof. Dohrn is a Clinic professor. When I was there, the Clinic area was where all of Northwestern's "diversity" hires (a/k/a non-white men, almost non-administrative law profs) were so that the school didn't look too bad in US&World Report. It was like the ghetto of the law school. It was the 'old" building. The faculty weren't tenured. They were focussed on helping people. And...lowest status of all at a 'top' school like Northwestern was, many of them had actually practiced law.

Other than my "where can I get a joke out of this" take on Sidley, the only other thing I knew was that you had to be on law review and have pretty great grades to work there. It was as establishment as it gets. The few people I knew who worked there worked so hard, I'd be amazed they had time to do anything together, except bluebook.

I bet they're surprised to find out today that the Republican Presidential campaign thinks they're a "terrorist cell."