Mick at 12:41 AM writes, with reference to Obama’s memoir, “whoever ghosted the thing,” as if it has been assumed all along that his first memoir (and possibly both) is not his own work. If he is passing off either book as his own work when it isn’t, shouldn’t this be an issue? I don’t see anyone else’s name listed as co-author in the Amazon listings, as there is for McCain’s books.

When I read the excerpts that Wretchard quoted I was struck by the disconnect between the literary quality of the latter and the difficulty that Obama has in coping with even the spoken word. If there is a large enough sample of authentic writing by Obama, there are statistical methods of textual analysis that can determine whether he is the author of the books that have been published with him represented as their sole author. If Biden’s presidential candidacy was ended in 1988 by the expropriation of material from Neil Kennock that he misrepresented as his own, why should Obama get a pass for something which, if he did it, seems much worse? Am I being naive?