An Old Claim Arises Once More: Did Barack Obama Write ‘Dreams From My Father’?
Those who were skeptical of Barack Obama’s bona fides before the campaign, particularly the nature of his apparent relationship (or non-relationship, if you believe Obama) with Bill Ayers, will be stunned by Jack Cashill’s new revelation. Remember Cashill? He is a Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue University and a blogger at American Thinker, one of the multitudes of conservative websites.
In October 2008, Cashill penned a much discussed blog, in which he suggested the possibility that Bill Ayers actually was the ghost writer for Barack Obama’s powerful memoir, Dreams From My Father. His claim was so reminiscent of the discussion before Bill Clinton’s first campaign about who wrote the novel Primary Colors, which bore only the name “Anonymous.” Some suspected Joe Klein, the political journalist. Klein vehmently denied the allegation. Then, he was forced to admit authorship when a literary detective compared phrases in Klein’s writings and those in the novel for New York magazine, and Klein was forced to hold a press conference admitting that he indeed was the author.
In this case, Barack Obama did not pull a Klein, especially since, as Cashill wrote, “no reviewer of note has so much as questioned Obama’s role in the writing.” That left him, a rather unknown figure, isolated in trying to make the case. And as he also acknowledged, his arguments, although many found them compelling, could not be proved to everyone’s satisfaction. As he put it: “Shy of a confession by those involved, I will not be able to prove conclusively that Obama did not write this book. As shall be seen, however, there are only two real possibilities: one is that Obama experienced a near miraculous turnaround in his literary abilities; the second is that he had major editorial help, up to and including a ghostwriter.”
And so his effort became just another one of those apparent conspiracy theories so prevalent in the ranks of both the left and the right. Then at the end of June 2009, Cashill returned to his original article. This time, he wrote yet another blog, reporting about many who sent him more material that they thought would corroborate his original suspicions about authorship of Obama’s first memoir. Two contributors whom Cashill does not name, he writes, made a contribution that “should dispel the doubts of all but the willfully blind that Ayers played a substantial role, likely the primary role, in the writing of Dreams.” Again, the two contributors and Cashill played literary detective, offering more examples of strange similarities in the metaphors used in both Ayers’ Fugitive Days and in Obama’s Dreams. One of them found 759 striking similarities. Cashill found one of his contributor’s analysis to be “systematic, comprehensive, and utterly, totally, damning.” You can read his article and judge for yourself.
And now, Cashill picked up the new bestseller about Obama and his wife, Christopher Andersen’s Barack and Michelle:Portrait of an American Marriage. What he found simply threw him for a loop because, I suspect, it was the last thing Cashill expected to find. Andersen writes in his book that after Obama finally got a new contract to write a book, Michelle Obama suggested that her husband get advice “from his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers.”
When I read this on American Thinker earlier this year I was genuinely compelled by the author’s reasoning behind his beliefs that Ayers was indeed the ghost-writer behind DFMF.
Is there anything genuine about 0? ANYTHING? I’m beginning to think that beneath his empty suit’s shiny albeit thin veneer there is an even cheaper impostor wearing nothing but a frighteningly insane smile pulled by puppet strings.
I simply lack the ability to offer an authoritative opinion on this matter. It’s not something that I’ve spent much time on. Nonetheless, I do respect the work of Jack Cashill. His 2005 book Hoodwinked is particularly a must read. If someone like Cashill is making the argument that Bill Ayer’s may have been the ghostwriter of Dreams From My Father—then he has earned the right to be taken seriously! This is especially true if Ron Radosh also entertains the possibility that the theory seems at least somewhat plausible. I might also add that I have long contended that Obama is poorly read, intellectually shallow, and fundamentally lazy. It is very difficult for me to imagine him focusing on a book project. Such an activity would likely bore him to tears.
Contrary to rumor, the material Obama passed onto Ayers was not written in crayon. However as access to the material is not allowed no one can actually refute this ..
So it is, “The Mysteries of Barry” .. persist.
I do believe that as time goes on it becomes more apparent that the one is a not what he and the media made him out to be.
(not really breaking news is it…)
He is in fact nothing more than a cheap opportunist. A B.S. artist at best and a compulsive lair to boot.
Busted!
I do recall that statistical methods were used to determine authorship of some of the Federalist Papers. Surely by now some young enterprising statistician took a look at the writings of Ayers and compared these to the Obamas’s “Dreams From My Father.” If not, what a challenge? Of course, if statistically significant correlation is found, only few would accept the finding.
You racist hatemongers just won’t give up, will you?
Of course President Obama could not have written the book. After all, he’s black. It’s a good, literate book, so of course it was written by a white man.
Another right wing-fringe nutjob conspiracy amounting to absolutly nothing except more laugheter mockery of the right wing and another drop in the big-foot, alien Republican fringe basketcases. have fun little minds because NO ONE care because you have NO power.
Not only do I believe Ayers wrote his book, I also believe that somewhere there is a warehouse filled with cartons of copies so that royalty money could be funded to Obama without anyone being able to trace it. I thought George Soros was the man behind the book sales but someone else quipped that it was ACORN. Regardless, this is an issue which should be investigated. I still question why Obama was chosen to write a book that sold so many copies. He was NOT the first black member of Congress nor was he know for any important legislation. What was his claim to fame? Only that he came from Chicago politics – (great article in the New Yorker) and that he was selected by George Soros.
I saw a recent interview with Andersen and he came across as someone who had done a fair amount of research in support of his book. Even the few tidbits he shared were shocking yet believable. Michelle is the Rev. Wright devotee, I believe he either said she idolizes him or worships him. Ayers most certainly played a big role in writing BHO’s books, they were close friends and have been for a long time and remained so during the campaign.
Either Chicago is a very different place or we have reached a new low by electing a mystery man for President. I’m not sure whether I’m more troubled by those who help concoct this fable or those who won’t be the least bit concerned by these revelations. Are Breitbart & Co. available to look into this?
Well, it’s obvious that Obama does not spend much time formulating WH policy. He’s simply an orator, a salesman. As one understands these things, a president’s speech writers work off notes or a guideline provided by the president himself.
Not necessarily with Obama. The whole teleprompter thing speaks to the notion. Certain rhetorical Caunte-like florishes may be his, but on the whole, he’s just reciting boiler plate.
Just where his ideas come from is something of a mystery also. But maybe not so much, now.
Dreams of My Father is compelling reading — clearly done by a skilled writer. It is obvious on the face of it that OHB had at the least significant help.
Hopefully, the MSM will one day tip toward covering the audacities of this man, and it is key to have the work of digging out every possible detail already done. Cashill, Andersen, and now Radosh are doing very important work in documenting the unfolding of this and other frauds that have elevated a dangerous knave to the WH.
Lies from our fathers? Who wudda’ thunk? All of this is an exercise in futility. Yes, Obama probably had input from or had the book “ghost written”. So what? He was a desciple of Saul Alinsky, covorted with radicals like Bill Ayers, Rev. Wrong, and anti-Semites such as Rashid Khalidi.
Obama was educated in our elite universities and subjected to the mind numbing anti-western, anti-American, and anti-Semitic rabble rousers. He worked for the likes of ACORN too. The bum can’t speak unless he has a magical glass in front of his face and he’s even a closet smoker.
SO #*$&ING WHAT? We know all of this and more. But the fact is that idiotic Americans (and the press) voted for and still support this narcissitic, anti-American, idiot.
Regardless of the degree to which Bill Ayers “influenced” Obama’s first book, one thing seems certain: Obama is not nearly as talented a writer — or a speaker, either, for that matter — as first thought.
The soaring rhetoric of which he is so fond is often the original work of others (usually borrowed without attribution), and he is nearly helpless without his famous Teleprompters. Sans electronic assistance, he’s all “ums” and “ahs.”
Moreover, when it suits his purpose, Obama insists that words are sacrosanct. At other times, however, he moans that we “make too much” of his ill-conceived utterances.
See: Word Games http://emmeffemm.com/id123.html
“O” is a liar…………….there are so many examples it isn’t even necessary to prove it any more…………..the question is “why do so many people believe in him?”
Words just words. Mr.Obfuscation,can claim it is all part of a right wing conspiracy to re- enslave people of color.
Where has rational discourse gone? I feel like we are living in a Dickens dream where Scrooge says F..K you Christmas future.
Obama doesn’t write his own speeches as president, so why should we believe that practice has just begun? Obama is the puppet. Is Ayres or Soros pulling the strings?
“American Thinker” has never been more than another right wing relay for stupid & malicious rumors — the more stupid and the more malicious the better — and Jack Cashill is no more than just another feces tossing tool.
All this is just another example of how no matter how deteriorated the mainstream corporate media has become (and *not* for the usual MSM-bashing reasons given by right wingers), blog sites are less than worthless for being any sort of substitute as genuine news sources.
I never doubted that Obama and Ayers were close when the facts of their relationship started coming out. Denying the relationship was one of the first big lies that Obama foisted on the nation during the campaign.
3. David Thomson:
I might also add that I have long contended that Obama is poorly read, intellectually shallow, and fundamentally lazy. It is very difficult for me to imagine him focusing on a book project. Such an activity would likely bore him to tears.
David, I agree 100% with you on this. One of the reasons Obama can’t sell health care is that he doesn’t know what he is talking about.
I’ve been calling this whole saga Dreams From My Bomber for a while now. Thanks, Jack!
More like “Dreams of the Father who Abandoned Me and who I’ve Seen only Twice in my Entire Life.”
Prepare for the vicious, spittle spewing, kicking and screaming from the “true believers”. The behavior is predictable when a hero worshiped phony icon is revealed to be a complete fraud. Humans hate being wrong. More than that they hate being betrayed by themselves, and will deny that self-betrayal with vitriolic attacks on anyone person or persons perceived as bursting their bubble.
Old stuff…
1. The One is a vapid empty shell, a sock puppet for more powerful, less attractive people. He is what his handlers want him to be. His appearance, rise to power, and installation as “Dear Leader” have been orchestrated and controlled since he was thrust into the political mainstream by his appointment as Keynote speaker at the 2004 Democrat Convention.
2. His regime will begin to evaporate in power and the chimera of prestige will dissolve beginning with the 2009 Gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey. If there is a four office sweep (Virginia’s Lieutenant Governorship is independent of the Governorship, and frankly a more influential post. The Attorney Generalship is also independently elected, and very powerful.) the beginning of the end of the Obamessiah’s reign will be signaled.
Phonies are eventually found out. The general hope is that they are detected by enough people to prevent their ascending to anything more powerful than a Soil and Water Board Commissioner. This time it took us far to long to “see” because “we” (Not I – I saw through this guy way back when) wanted so much to see a new JFK or better yet FDR. What we got was Jimmy the C, without the peanuts.
By the way, I suffered through some of the UN speech just to see how far The One is going to sell us down the river to despots, bullies, and thugs…
I noticed something that far two few people have noticed. His speech cadence and delivery is “blocked” each phrase metered and delivered at the same pace as every other speech that he has delivered. Emotions and expressions are inserted into the cadence, but the cadence is never broken. His UN speech sounded exactly like his drone in front of Congress. The famous “YOU LIE!!” speech.
I finally realized what that was when I remembered learning about teleprompters and how they worked. (This during a television production class my junior year.)
The One’s speech pace and blocked cadence matches what phrases can be printed on the teleprompter screen, and the measured pauses are the time it takes the operator to jump scroll from one screen of words to the next. His “looking” at the audience body language is easy enough to understand. He is merely using the prompter stations to facilitate the concept of audience connection. If he had one prompter dead center in front of him, most of his time would be spent in wooden face on presentation.
Even his vaunted abilities at oratory are phony.
2010 and 2012 are going to be wild years. The Republican Congress of 2010 won’t be able to do much more than staunch the bleeding, and one only hopes that the new Republican President of 2013 will be able to fix what has been so brutalized.
r/The Mighty Fahvaag
That’s “far too few” – please pardon the finger foop.
r/John – TMF
I saw some file footage of George W. this morning on Morning Joe, backgrounding a story and suddenly and strangely missed him.
I read this piece awhile back and was chilled to the bone. The patent ease with which our president spews lies is astonishing on so many levels, well, it’s a sign of so many bad things i just shudder to think what is really going on in his head. The obvious friendship of Ayers, Wright, et al, lies the MSM willingly foisted upon the masses, and the refusal to release ANYTHING concerned with academic bona fides, I mean…what else does any thinking person need to know. The most troubling of these matters is how very deep and long the friendship has been with Ayers, and his ilk…it seems to me that Obama was “handed off” to these people for safe keeping and education. They lived near each other, worked with each other, as if someone was keeping a eye on Obama, a grooming process. I look at the cast of characters in Obama’s life and I come to the conclusion that except for parentage, everything after that was no accident. We will never know what kind of person Obama really is, he doesn’t even know, he wasn’t allowed to know. This political facade of forces behind the scene must stop. We must out the puppetmasters. They must be revealed in any way possible and placed in front of the American people, all of America, liberal, moderate, conservative. At the end of the day i believe true Americans of all stripes will stop this madness, The forces behind the scenes are truly evil, bad people who in the end will enslave ALL of us no matter what our politics. This is a true fight of good and evil, Obama is just a puppet. In a small way i feel some pain for him.
Another eerie thing is that nuke-disarmament article obama wrote for an SDS newspaper while he was at Columbia also sounded ghostwritten to me. It was linked by FreeRepublic last week I think. I’ve been reading too much about KGB active measures lately to completely trust my reactions to something like this, but… I thought it was pretty eerie… and now let’s all turn to Channel 3 where, 20 years later, the same Barack Oabama is now chairing “an historic UN Security Council Meeting” where he will commit the USA to possibly unilateral nuclear disarmament.
Gee, I wish my life worked like that.
Some think because he speaks so well, he must be able to write. One has nothing to do with the other.
As Harvard Law review big shot there’s no record of Barack every writing anything.
Of course, Ayers wrote Obama’s book. Everyone who knows Obama knows he can’t write his way out of a paper bag.
Your President not only is an empty suit, he’s got a head with more echo than the Grand Canyon.
He said he went to see a prison ministry program, noting that ‘everyone was black, of course.”
As shall be seen, however, there are only two real possibilities: one is that Obama experienced a near miraculous turnaround in his literary abilities; the second is that he had major editorial help, up to and including a ghostwriter.”
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Occam’s razor does not admit miracles (not even of the literary variety) – therefore it would demand it be accepted the won had *major* help, up to and including a ghostwriter.
Gee, I guess the Birther Conspiracy is getting a little stale.
Writers of the caliber of the prose in Dreams tend to be compulsive about expressing themselves. Thus one would expect to see both examples of earlier, less polished works and a multitude of articles and essays, etc., flowing from Obama’s pen after the critical success of Dreams. Instead the entire Obama oeuvre outside of Dreams consists of one embarrassingly sophomoric article in the student newspaper from Obama’s days at Columbia, a very short law review note, the pedestrian campaign kick off book The Audacity of Hope and a couple of mediocre op eds.
A quality writer pressed for time may hire an assistant to do the research and knock out a rough draft, but he or she makes time to polish the final product. Those op eds suggest that not only can’t Obama write very well, he can’t even distinguish between good writing and the work of hacks well enough to hire a top notch ghoster.
The Manchurian Candidate Unraveling Goes On – Obama’s Secret Scriptwriter Revealed As Vicious Anti-American Bomb Murderer – Handlers Alarmed By Development, Racism New KeyWord (More later)
Obama’s bio is like playing minesweeper – all vulnerable points are hidden and it takes a while to hit a target. Anderson’s revelations are one of the few successful hits, so far – we’re still groping for the Obama’s BC, kindergarten, Occidental, Columbia & Harvard academic & financial records, for Obama’s employment history, Illinois state Bar Association application (see: “ever conducted business under a different name?” question), list of law clients & court cases, history of confederates (see Reverend Wright), etc, etc…
Lots of information whose release is opposed by mystery forces…
Cahill did a great job before in this authorship work, and Andersen confirms his earlier revelations -
Pseudepigrapha, the literary term, for writing that is fraudulently ascribed to an author who is not the actual author.
If you study Jack Cashill’s intellectual study into this particular pseudepigrapha, (refer to American Thinker) his painstaking analysis and premise will be enlightening. Dr Cashill has exposed the fraud in the White House with clarity and precision that makes a mockery of the investigative journalism of the rest of the country. Despite the duplicitous nature of media to participate in this fraudulent scheme, the corrupt underbelly of the Obama Cult has been exposed for the world to view.
Although t is obvious that a fraud has been committed, it is greater than a simple literary fraud or the typical Chicago Political Fraud, it is a fraud against the American People and their Constitution, but it has also become an international fraud that forever tarnishes the image of Freedom in the world, especially to those who looked to the US as a beacon of Freedom and Integrity.
You have the option of examining the evidence, that is in abundance, or denying it with a cult follower’s blind obeisance and submission. Once you have examined the work with an objective analysis your opinion of Obama will be forever altered.
However, the most humorous part of this episode of the continuing drama of Obama’s Fraud on the world is that at this point, beause of him denying access to all his academic achievements, we have absolutely no evidence that Obama is actually literate: other than some shallow and insipid comments he wrote him while he was a token editor of the Harvard Law Review, and his uncanny ability to read a teleprompter.
This is the man, who is supposedly leading the free world, the man who insults and ignores our allies, while embracing our enemies. The man who ignores our troops and Generals in the field.
Aided in his election by Acorn voter fraud, he brings to our country a new era of fraud and corruption, tempered with racial strife. A manufactured fraudulent man, who is a staged personality conceived by the writing of a self-avowed and unrepentant domestic terrorist.
The story is only now being revealed, it is a pathetic reflection on the part of the so called Fourth Estate to have been complicit in perpetrating this blatant and epic fraud on the United States.
#15 JJKRN – You’re not alone in your assessment! I have been thinking for some time that Obama has been purposely groomed and programmed and that nothing, absolutely nothing about him is an accident. I believe that even his wife, Michelle, was hand-picked for him. Michelle Obama worked at Sidley Austin with Bernadine Dohrn. Then, (coincidentally?), Obama was assigned to work with Michelle. If everything about Obama has been “handled”, then they would also have to “handle” the wife situation and make sure Obama married someone in sync with their views, too.
All of this is pretty frightening.
Obviously right-wing racism at work here. I mean, what are you going to suggest next–that JFK didn’t write all or even most of “Profiles in Courage?”
Obama’s intelligence is undoubted; a brief glance at the history of the last century will obviate any idea that intelligence per se is a good guide to policy. But yes,he does not strike me as having read widely.
Curiously enough, Natan Sharansky met with that dunce, George Bush, and said that Bush had understood his book well, asked informed questions, and seemed to be reasonably well-read.
Of course, who cares what Sharansky (in my opinion the greatest living Jew) thinks when the msm falls over itself to tell us about Obama’s brilliance?
I did read “Dreams of My Father” and it wasn’t at all bad, whoever wrote it. I was struck by the fact that Obama seemed to identify more with the father who abandoned him and a lot less with the two white women, his mother and grandmother, who actually stuck with him and raised him, sacrificing to see that he got a good start in the world.
I should suggest to Dr. Sanity (whose invaluable website is http://drsanity.blogspot.com/
that she look into this.
I broke with the habit of a lifetime and voted Republican for president last year, hoping desperately that in four years I’d chuckle at myself and happily vote Democratic again. Well, it could happen…but only in the same sense that it could happen that Lucy Lawless is about to ring my doorbell and ask if she can come in and get out of these wet clothes. Possible, but highly unlikely.
obama is a poser ..a fraud a charlatan. a NARCISSIST.
..why is he hiding his school records …his birth certificate ..and lying about his associations with terrorists ??? THAT PEOPLE MADE THIS FRAUD OF A POLITICIAN THE PRESIDENT.
THIS IS ONE BIG WHOPPER OF A STORY THE MSM DOESN’T WANT TO TOUCH.
the real issues are that the administration and the democrat party are not doing their jobs which is upholding the constitution of the USA
below are links which go a long way in explaining where we are and how we got here
I thought obama was juat a marxist ..he does follow the marxist rule book and he has surrounded himself with marxists (do the trolls know he is marxist and by default they are supporting marxism)
..any way after seeing this blog I now see that the marxist part is small potatoes …he is a mental defect …a retard. well at least a narcissist. …and that is bad news for everyone.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html
An all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration or adulation and lack of empathy, usually beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts. Five (or more) of the following criteria must be met:
•Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents to the point of lying, demands to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
•Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, power or omnipotence, unequalled brilliance (the cerebral narcissist), bodily beauty or sexual performance (the somatic narcissist), or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering love or passion
•Is firmly convinced that he is unique and, being special, can only be understood by, should only be treated by, or associate with, other special, unique, or high-status people (or institutions)
•Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation, or failing that, wishes to be feared and notorious (narcissistic supply)
•Feels entitled. Expects unreasonable or special and favorable priority treatment. Demands automatic and full compliance with his expectations
•Is “interpersonally exploitative” i.e., uses others to achieve his or her own ends
•Is devoid of empathy. Is unable or unwilling to identify with or acknowledge the feelings and needs of others
•Is constantly envious of others or believes that they feel the same about him or her
•Is arrogant, has haughty behaviors or attitudes coupled with rage when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted
…so from that stand point he is doing well for a retard.
here is a link for the people who think they can engage a troll with a positive result.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIFcnctnHsE&feature=related
basically that means the trolls are ideological retards.
RE #9/BC: [...] “American Thinker” has never been more than another right wing relay for stupid & malicious rumors — the more stupid and the more malicious the better — and Jack Cashill is no more than just another feces tossing tool. [...]
BC fool, you sure have reasons to be alarmed – Cashill’s and Andersen’s revelations not only confirm some existing suspicions existing in the public’s mind about Obama’s overall abilities, but they also give a deeper sense of the acrid anti-Americanism that animates the Manchurian cadidate, currently dba USA president.
it is painfully obvious given that he needs the telepromter to come off like he speaks english.
RE 19/biblio44: [...] Gee, I guess the Birther Conspiracy is getting a little stale. [...]
Shirhan Shirhan … dear vivblio44, nothing stale here, contrary, things are getting hotter:
So “Dreams From My Father” autobiographical book credited to one who claims that his name is Barrack Hussein Obama, is actually written by Bill Ayres, whose previous work “Prairie Fire” was/is dedicated to Shirhan Shirhan, the one who gunned down Robert Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles -
Shirhan Shirhan, Hussein Obama – PJM should insert here a gallery of iconic photos: Robert Kennedy lieying down in that hallway, then Bill Ayres, then Hussein Obama, then Shirhan Shirhan, then Jane Fonda in Vietnam, then Obama instructing ACORN activists, etc…
Vivblio, you sure will be busy the days ahead…
RETARD ALERT …sorry meant to say troll alert !
here is a link for the people who think they can engage a troll with a positive result.
the evidence is overwhelming ..yet they will not acept it …WILL NOT EVEN CONSIDER IT …WHY ??? watch the clip below …you will probably want to watch the whole interview. the trolls are part of the brainwashed masses that the progressive education system has been turning out for decades. THE TROLLS CAN WATCH THE VIDEO TOO …BUT THEY WILL BE UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATIONS. they are a lost group …they are the definition of sheep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIFcnctnHsE&feature=related
basically that means the trolls are ideological retards.
“David, I agree 100% with you on this. One of the reasons Obama can’t sell health care is that he doesn’t know what he is talking about.”
It’s actually worse than that. Obama is a narcissist and doesn’t give a damn about what you have to say. The discussion is over if he has embraced a particular point of view. His ego will not allow him to concede error. The very idea that Obama should do some serious studying on the issues is not even considered. He is supposedly wonderful and above it all. Obama may not perceive himself to be divine—but he does believe that he is something of an Anointed One.
I also predict that the current president will have a mental breakdown. He will gracefully have to be removed from the White House. Joe Biden will finish out his term.
Radosh: “[Cashill] is a Ph.D. in American Studies from Purdue University and a blogger at American Thinker”
He’s also a loon. I watched Cashill for an hour on C-SPAN a few years ago give a talk about his book “Ron Brown’s Body,” in which he goes to great conspiratorial lengths to “prove” that Bill Clinton had his Commerce Secretary murdered via the 1996 plane crash that killed him. It was typical conspiracy theory gibberish, attempting to weave all sorts of webby intrigue into a semi-coherent case, which in the end was just a bunch of speculative nonsense. The kicker? When he insisted that nutbag comedian-turned-lefty-activist Dick Gregory was “on board” with his theory — now THERE’S an endorsement.
Look, I’m as anti-Obama as the next ideological conservative — but I take anything Cahill cooks up with a huge grain of salt. Besides, even were it the case that Ayers DID ghostwrite the Obama tome — umm, so what? Many believe Jack Kennedy never wrote “Profiles In Courage,” either (attributing it to Arthur Schlesinger). Is this somehow supposed to be Obama’s great undoing, the “scandal” that will bring him down? Come on. The best method we have to relieve ourselves of his administration is the time-honored one: at the ballot box. These kind of ridiculous accusations of pseudo-scandal make us look desperately silly.
Dear Alex Bensky: It is generally well known that JFK used ghost writers for “Profiles in Courage”, paid for by Joe Kennedy Sr.
I find it curious that Obama refuses to release his academic transcripts. If he is so bright why hide the fact. I notice that Clinton loved to let everybody know he was first in his class at Georgetown.
Oh, another BTW…
Is anyone the slightest bit interested in the mental workings of a man of absolutely no personal or professional accomplishment writing two (radically different in style) autobiographies?
I am 50… Had an interesting life… met some interesting people and saw some interesting things. I work a cool job, for which I am well compensated… I was present in organizations participating the dawn of the PC age, the digital video age… and even had relatives participate in famous operations in various wars.
Nothing in all of that compelled me to write two tomes about it all, and nothing about me (Obama being no more accomplished than I in the year 2000.) by then. Perhaps there is “something” else?
The whole thing is pathetic, and the pop culture worship has become disabling.
The Mighty Fahvaag
so if it wasn’t enough that obama and the terroist ayers are friends …think alike …have similar goals.
…it is obvious now that obama OWES ayers. so far the payment schedule is bankrupting america.
I get the impression that obama is actually the stupidest one in the whole administration.
if nothing else this proves there is no GOD.
9. BC:“American Thinker” has never been more than another right wing relay for stupid & malicious rumors — the more stupid and the more malicious the better — and Jack Cashill is no more than just another feces tossing tool.
Show us this is the case by doing a Fisking of the AT article. If you cannot, your comment is at the intellectual level of a five year old: “You’re a doodoohead.” If you can make a plausible argument to us that Cashill is speaking nonsense,we are willing to listen.
David T, Obama’s benefactor, George Soros has written of his own personal revelations of divine stature and being.
Soros, if not directly in charge of the Obama persona, definitely has a formidable influence on this witless fraud.
@9. BC: – “American Thinker” has never been more than another right wing relay for stupid & malicious rumors — the more stupid and the more malicious the better…
Surely you have objective evidence and proof of this, since your unfounded assertion doesn’t necessarily make it so.
As usual.
Really Bill Ayers? You people will make up anything.
Paul-
Way to break the news that presidents have speech writers. I dare you to listen to this fresh air piece with on of Bush’s speech writers. http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13&prgDate=09-22-2009
Maybe then we can have a real discussion about who is intellectually shallow and lazy David Thompson I am sure you unsurpassed in your educational endeavors.
I fully agree with David Thomson that Obama is ‘poorly read, intellectually shallow and fundamentally lazy’.
There is no evidence that Obama has ever researched or written a research or even a literary work. He did no work as ‘editor’ of the Harvard Law Review, leaving it to others. He has no serious articles written by himself. His first book was supposed to be about race in America..that was what he was being paid to do. Instead, he wrote about himself! It is quite plausible that he did not write that book himself because there is no evidence of him as a researcher or a writer.
Obama is a pathological narcissist. He requires constant supportive adoration. He cannot sit by himself, research, analyze and write. That’s why he doesn’t come up with ‘his’ policies or programs. He has no capacity to ‘think through’ a situation, devise a plan, or even read through and analyze another’s plan.
He is like a puppet, a machine; he requires constant ‘gassing up’, a constant input of energy, which he obtains from feeling that he controls other people..and that they worship him.
To achieve this need, Obama must be constantly ‘in public’, constantly charming, manipulating, controlling people. He has no ability to differentiate between fact and fiction. He is a pathological liar; he will say whatever he needs..to put you in his control. Even if his words change from one minute to the next- it is meaningless to him. He’ll ‘talk’..what works to enthrall you.
He is anti-American..because of the influence of those around him (his wife, Ayers, Soros, etc)..and because his narcissism means that nothing can be greater than Him. His need to denigrate and destroy America is psychological; the hard left socialist radicals in the Democratic Party who ‘run’ him..are ideologically anti-American, anti-democratic, anti-capitalist.
Obama can’t talk about health care, the economy etc..in an open question session because he is intellectully ignorant and incapable of focus on and analysis of any issue. He acts only because he is psychologically driven to dominate and rule.
Notice how he can’t handle dissent, questions, criticism. How he wants to shut up debate. How he rejects the right and duty of Congress to read and pass bills. He insists they do it only on Trust-Obama.
Where David Thomson and I differ is that he feels that Obama will collapse and be unable to finish his term. I see his point but I’m not sure this will happen. The BackRoom Gang who run Obama can’t allow that to happen. Their agenda is to destroy American democracy and capitalism and insert socialism. If Obama collapses and they lose that Voice (which is all he now is)…can they continue? Won’t it be seen as a failure?
The problem is that Obama requires more and more and more ‘feeding’ for that narcissism. More public speeches, more latenight shows. But ALL with screened,adoring crowds. No questions, no criticism. Can the Democrats keep up the Feed Obama Tactic?
Can they continue to assure him that any and all dissent is due, as Obama informs us..to problems with Us, the American people? We are racist. Or unable to accept change. Or unable to accept government. Or politically biased. It isn’t anything wrong with the policies or Obama. It’s us. Can they keep this up?
Can they continue to deny reality? Obama certainly can; he doesn’t know the difference between fact and fiction. But..can the Democratic Party?
What do they do if Obama becomes too ‘costly’ to nurture, to keep ‘fed-with-adoration’? What do they do with him then?
David Thomson suggests Obama will himself collapse. Certainly, Obama has never, in his life, exposed himself to any situation where dissent and criticism of him could exist; he’s kept himself isolate from accountability.
My question is not so much what will Obama do. I think he’ll isolate himself more and more from reality, move more into selected crowds, ignore reality, ignore the people. But, what will the Democratic Party who run him do? They require him as the Salesman. What if he no longer functions as the Salesman?
BTW – right-click and select “View Image” for the J.Crew ad over on the right there.
Note the interesting URL/filename.
Or, just follow the link and note the URL.
Apparently BHO’s media shills aren’t just for the news cycle anymore.
Where’s the factual biography of Ayers? That would be a good project.
Likewise for Soros. America needs a comprehensive picture of its enemies.
Ok, this may sound dumb… but, I would like to see Obama’s school records and his writings from his university days.
Personally, I think that Obama has been groomed for a long time for his role in the political arena. Anyone remember Neil Postman and his thoughts on the role of TV in politics? His book, Amusing Ourselves To Death, is still being taught in colleges and the students say it is more relevant today than when he wrote it (they apply it’s lessons to all the new technology).
Anywho, Obama is the queen of using technology and setting up his entrance into the TV venue via interviews on his book and his friendship with Oprah through their Rev Wright church days is interesting.
I think there are a lot of unsavory ties in Chicago (the U.S. political crime haven) that could be explored besides Ayers. If I was rich, I’d hire a private investigator(s) and nail the bum.
This autobiography thing is just another issue in a long list that grates on conservatives and stirs them up . . . and they just can’t understand why the left can’t see this man for the player he is. I mean really! Do they need to go to the list?
However, it will never be an issue with liberals because the waters have been muddied up by the constant attacks on, and defenses of, Obama. They got overwhelmed and at some point reverted to their faith in the one, or their gut feelings. They voted for this guy and must have had a good reason to do so in the first place. They’ll just ride this out and give the man the benefit of a doubt. And by they, I mean the people who voted for him as well as liberal Main Stream Media.
The issue of who wrote Obama’s stupid book will never affect the Great Liberal Overmind. So stay on this story, it’s an important one and should be perused, but don’t expect any great awakening on the left. You could provide the original manuscript with Ayers’ DNA all over it and you would not shake them one wit. They are locked into a contrived belief system. They believe in this man and will forgive or rationalize anything that comes down the pike like the good little emo demos they are.
#27; politics for dummies:Some think because he speaks so well, he must be able to write. One has nothing to do with the other.
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I agree, except I would replace ‘speaks’ with ‘reads’. He is a poor speaker w/o his teleprompter. It’s proof that the words are not his own.
Sorry, I meant #28
As we all know, this presidents I.Q. is double that of George Bush’s …however, that does not help him when it comes down the many difficulties he is have to deal with. His presidency will be littered with failures and missteps because he is on un-travelled ground. No president has ever had to deal with so many past failures, plus maintain the status quo and push the country forward all at the same time in our nations history on such a massive scale. I wonder if he will succeed. I guess the next 7 and half years will tell us eh?
@54. Ding: – The issue of who wrote Obama’s stupid book will never affect the Great Liberal Overmind.
It’s not the Great Liberal Overmind that needs enlightenment, at least not in the immediate future.
It’s the Great Squishy Middle that needs access to this type of information. They’re the ones who elected BHO in response to The Left Wing Media’s overt and wildly successful efforts to hand him 15 points last November.
1) Shirhan Shirhan, the man who gunned down Robert Kennedy…
2) Bill Ayres, the left-wing murderer who dedicated his “Prairie Fire” to Shirhan Shirhan….
3) Bill Ayres, the left-wing murderer who dedicated his “Prairie Fire” to Shirhan Shirhan, now proved to be the true author of dba Hussein Obama’s “Dreams From My Father”…
4) Hussein Obama, currently serving a shaky term as USA president…
Developments in progress, stay tuned…
“Where David Thomson and I differ is that he feels that Obama will collapse and be unable to finish his term. I see his point but I’m not sure this will happen. The BackRoom Gang who run Obama can’t allow that to happen.”
Edith Wilson was able to pull off this stunt some ninety ago. It ain’t gonna happen today. You can’t forevermore hide a president today who is either mentally and/or physically ill. That scam would not survive more than a few weeks. On top of that, Obama will insist that he continues to make public appearances. It’s like a crack addiction to him. He demands to be the center of attention.
“I get the impression that obama is actually the stupidest one in the whole administration.”
And that is an administration that includes Joe Biden for crying out loud!
42. David: “He will gracefully have to be removed from the White House.”
How exactly is that going to happen with Rahm ‘dead fish’ Emanual as the gatekeeper?
….Emanuel….
William Ayers is speaking at Purdue tonight (Thurs, Sept 24th). He has been invited by the Sociology Department to speak on race, class, and gender issues as part of an annual, endowed lecture. The lecture is by invitation and ticket only. The general public has been de-invited.
About 68% of the students, faculty, staff, and townsfolk polled said that they don’t think he should have been invited. There will be protests outside of the lecture (hopefully), despite the rain.
Shame on Purdue and on academia for consistently supporting these pseudo-”scholars” and criminals in the name of intellectual freedom.
He wrote it, he didn’t write it, why does it matter?
Truth is stranger than fiction, but ‘Yes we did’ and ‘Jack’ are stranger still
You guys need to lighten up on Obama. Who else has risen from state senator to president of the world in five years? Scary stuff.
This wont effect the personality cult.
Again, I fear that is yet another dead end. Why do we follow this when Obama’s servitude to the Federally Indicted Criminal Slumlord TONY REZKO is well documented?
As a writer, I have to raise my hand and say that there’s nothing wrong with using a ghostwriter. It’s common practice in almost every aspect of government and business. It’s sometimes referred to as a “write for hire” contract and sometimes the author retains copyright, sometimes not. Ghostwriting is not lying, authorship is not always as black and white as print on the page.
I have read Obama’s book and there can be little doubt that he did not write it. Parts of it, especially the Africa section, are almost novelistic and practically scream, professional writer. If Obama could really write like this, he wouldn’t have been a low-level state politician, or toiling away as a junior attorney and adjunct, non-publishing, law professor. Now it appears that Bill Ayers really was the author. All I can say is, I hope Ayers was well-compensated (or perhaps, in an ironic twist, I should hope he was not, since he hates the profiteering capitalist system so much).
David Thomson: you are half right I believe.
O is Caligula re-incarnated. Watch what happens when the adoration fades.
Nothing graceful.
I agree, David Thomson, that Obama’s requirement for public adoration is an addiction; and one that is increasingly consuming him..as he has never before been in a situation where he was accountable and where he could not control everyone around him. He’s kept himself insulated and isolate from both work and diversity of people all his life.
Insulated from work? Yes,he’s kept himself in positions where he, himself, was not working, was not producing anything, was therefore, not subject to accountability. This was true as editor of the Harvard Law Review where others did the work; where he was ‘community organizer’..where others did the street activism, as Senator where all he had to do was vote ‘present’.
This is the first time he’s exposed to feedback. And he doesn’t accept it. So, as he’s told us, any problems with His policies are due to our own faults: we can’t accept change; or govt;or are racist; or partisan.
But, how will the Democrat Party keep up with this overwhelming addiction to submissive messianic adoration? And I agree, Obama will insist on more and more public appearances. And how do they keep him insulated from others?
The radical socialists who have taken over the Democratic Party have to deal with Obama> And he is a pathological narcissist, with dictatorial requirements for control, anti-American (and his anti-Americanism will increase); a pathological liar..a heavily biased and angry individual influenced by others because he, himself, is intellectually empty.
How does the radical element who run Obama deal with his failures to get Their Socialist Policies in place? They began with the Pork-Stimulus, a strategy to grab and hold the mainstream Democrats. When some Democrats tried to refuse the pork, they were not allowed to do so.
They then, with this entrapped set of mainstream Democrats under control, moved into their socialist agenda. But, it’s not working out. There’s dissent, critism, questions. They’ve tried to deal with this by constant Obama exposure. Hasn’t worked. They’ve tried to pretend the dissent isn’t there. They’ve smeared it as unAmerican, radical, nazi, racist. It continues.
So- this radical Gang in the Democratic Party is in trouble. I still question how they will deal with Obama when his role as the Saleman proves ineffective..while his massive need for adoration increases. What will they do?
Note that Obama is internationally, harming the US..with his ‘cultural relativism’ that equates the US nation with dictatorships. The democracies are turning away, and the dictatorships are delighted and increasing in power (Iran, N. Korea, Venezuala).
Will they create a crisis, and fling Obama in,in one of his favorite roles, The Saviour?
That’s what I’m puzzled about. How do they deal with his problems as The Salesman?
“Dreams of My Father?” The One’s father left him when he was two.
Obama lies? I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
Not to worry, though . . . he’s headed for a rubber room. Count down to the melt down: Oh, six months, tops.
When I heard this, my jaw dropped. All these months of Cashill’s work, all the jeers and finger pointing at the loonies who were so paranoid. Somebody needs to call Hannity and get Jack on NOW!!
What cracks me up the most, and literally lost me long time friendships, is the fact that people who fell in LOVE with Obama did so on the basis of ‘his’ writings! So, in essesnce, they elected BILL AYERS to the White House! Love it. Just hate that Jack ‘broke’ this story a LONG time ago.
57. Poor Citizen:
No president has ever had to deal with so many past failures, plus maintain the status quo and push the country forward all at the same time in our nations history on such a massive scale.
If you ignore the history of the United States, you would be correct. Here are two dates for you to ponder: 1861 and 1933. Poor Citizen, poor knowledge.
#8 Yes We Did:
“You racist hatemongers just won’t give up, will you?
Of course President Obama could not have written the book. After all, he’s black. It’s a good, literate book, so of course it was written by a white man.”
I honestly can’t tell if this is a sarcastic caricature of a typical liberal response, or if you’re actually being serious.
#58 Goy…And a poll just released today reveals that 89% of americans agree that the MSM were very instrumental in handing Obama the election. Americans are slow, but they eventually catch on.
currently chocking my way through saul alinsky…now i gotta read barak obama and bill ayers?
the HORROR.
What about the Taqiyya coefficient?
What makes us so suspiscious? We are reduced to speculations and recourse to statistical arguments because we don’t have a smoking gun that would be obvious enough for anyone to deny. So the question is: “why are we so suspiscious?”
I don’t like conspiracy theories, nor does Mr. Radosh, nor do many of the commenter on this thread. What’s intriguing about the personal history of this president is the perfect absence of solid evidence. For instance, we knew that Hillary Rodham (not Clinton, yet) had written a thesis on Saul Alinsky in her Wellesey college days. Nothing extraordinary about this, a young person of this period was quite likely to take interest of such an impulse of such a missionary character. Intense peer pressure is often enough to nudge young individuals with a rebelious streak to distinguish themselves by professing this sort of thing. We can reasonably expect that such individuals will eventually mature, and take the positive aspects of the society they wish to subvert into consideration.
Many eventually do, and of course some don’t, so again, if only on statistical grounds, we can reasonably be justified for giving the benefit of the doubt to individuals professing subversive concepts in their early years. This generosity was in fact enough to elect a young senator of no particular legislative accomplishment to the presidency!
Where is the academic production of young Mr. Obama? We can’t find it! Where are the minutes of the great many meetings he led, or at least participated in, in various board capacities within organizations benefiting from public funding? We can’t find them! The university of Chicago invokes all kinds of dubious excuses to block access to them.
If our president is blessed with literary talent, he would already possessed at least part of it as young man. Why is whatever he wrote as a young man so perfectly out of sight? Why should a young man claim authorship of *TWO* autobiographical books without having demonstrated any literary disposition before? How many examples of this can you cite?
In the absence of hard evidence, we are left with trying to assess the plausibility of various potential explanations. One element rarely discussed is the formative years he spent in a traditional islamic society, in Indonesia. Do you know a young child who does not internalize the accepted standards and common practices of the society he grew up in the midst of?
If we enquire about the tenets of Islam (from the many scholarly websites available today), we learn about the doctrine of taqiyya, the codified method of deception sanctionned by the most respected amd authoritative muslim documents, to the service of islam, as the ultimate wisdom! What happens to the mind of a child surrounded by the banality of legitimized lying? Would he discover the benefits of lying for whatever purpose he has in mind. It does not have to be the ultimate hegemony of islam, it can be any other subversive entreprise, with similar benefits.
Of course politicians lie, it’s virtually a required skill to get anywhere in this business, but Obama is often credited for being a “most natural and talented politician”. Is it unreasonable to hypothesize that our president is either a pathological lier or merely one with superbly honed skills?
Would he not have gotten more mileage out of his persistent efforts to sell the current healthcare proposal if he had not led us to doubt his sincerity, or at the very minimum the solidity of his arguments? So many questions, so few answers!
I am a scientist by trade. Nothing is more intriguing to a scientist than a topic about which no hard proof has been obtained, but so many observable artifacts prompt so many theories, until some of them, or all of them, are proven to be incorrect, by the arbitration of hard facts.
In the meantime, I submit the taqiyya hypothesis, for whatever it is worth. I hope and pray that this hypothesis will prove to be incorrect, some day. In the meantime, I purport that my worries are reasonable.
We should recall Rudy Giuliani’s dissection of Obama at the 2008 Republican Convention:
http://www.clipsandcomment.com/2008/09/03/transcript-rudy-giuliani-speech-republican-national-convention-2008/
Come on now people, we are UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT, one that believes in PAYOFFS, LIES, SPIN, WITH-HOLD TRUTH, COERSION, THREATS, NAME CALLING…the old communist axiom: THE END JUSTIFIES THE MEANS! The reason MSNBC and NBC IGNORE all the lies and spin of OBAMATOWN is, they are OWNED by GE which is promised BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR GREEN “WHATEVER THEY CAN COME UP WITH!). PAYOFF TIME! Just like the BILLIONS OBAMA sent to GM…went to the UNIONS which donated to him!!!! If OBAMACARE is so great, WHY ONE PLAN FOR “THEM” and one plan for the rest of us?! HUH? And it aint FREE you liberal clowns! You work now and don’t have health ins.? HA! End of that…you WILL have INSURANCE and you WILL PAY FOR IT or be TAXED through IRS! The HC BILL also destroys the constitution and there will be never again PRIVACY as the govt will know EVERYTHING about you. The main objective of the Health Care bill? Unionize the entire health care industry and that will make the US govt one of the largest EMPLOYERS in the world…AND THE SOCIALISTS WILL HAVE A STRANGLEHOLD ON OUR COUNTRY! Watch out for GUN CONTROL…a sure sign the INSANE left is on the march.
Some think because he speaks so well, he must be able to write.
Who in the world thinks Obama is a good speaker? I mean, I know the media keeps telling us how great an orator he is, but have any of you actually listened to him? He’s awful. And I mean objectively awful. He combines short barks with monotonous sermonizing that would put any thinking person right to sleep. (I assume the short barks are to wake up the ones he put to sleep.) We haven’t had a really good speaker as President since Reagan, although Clinton wasn’t entirely dreadful.
Obama is a lousy speaker, and I’m not convinced he could write even a passable book report.
RE #72/ Professor Guvinoff: [...] What makes us so suspiscious? We are reduced to speculations [... Where is the academic production of young Mr. Obama? [...] Where are [...] Why is whatever he wrote [...] How many examples of this can you cite? [...]
… and enigmatic Columbia U achievements…
Professor Guvinoff, you may want to enlarge here upon the two outstanding graduation thesis dba Obama wrote at Columbia U, “North-South Relationships In The Post Colonial Age” and “US-Soviet Nuclear Disarmament Issues In The [????]” – outstanding works which were accomplished at a time Columbia U had no thesis requirements for graduation in the field aparently dba Obama was “immersed in studies” for a mysterious period of time.
And apopos those Columbia U achievements, were they mentioned at Notre Dame when dba Obama received his honorary PhD? Hey, in an age like ours when crooks and liars jump at credits everywhere, students need uplifting role models like the modest Obama!
Many believe Jack Kennedy never wrote “Profiles In Courage,” either (attributing it to Arthur Schlesinger).
Actually, it was Ted Sorensen.
RE #61/Miked: [...] And that is an administration that includes Joe Biden for crying out loud [...]
Frankly Miked, if I had a choice I’d go full blast for good ol’ Joe -
Not only do I believe Ayers wrote his book, I also believe that somewhere there is a warehouse filled with cartons of copies so that royalty money could be funded to Obama without anyone being able to trace it.
Bullseye. Note that this would also explain why Obama, despite not being a wild-in-the-streets risk-taker, IIRC took out a toxic mortgage to buy his house – almost as if he knew he would shortly be coming into money, which he did. Hmmm.
With all the lies and deceptions that surround The One . . . what do you suppose will happen in 2012 when he’s down by 20 points in the polls, then “wins” 80% of the popular vote?
Will it be like present day Iran?
One thing I worry about is that, right now, as we speak, a top-secret task force is scouring America, looking for a bi-racial, nice-looking young man, who can be groomed to slip into the Boy President’s place at an appropriate time (perhaps after a brief bout of illness). Such a body double would at least (presumably) be devoid of the over-weening narcicissm and arrogance of the “real” thing, and not be a threat to come apart in public, and suffer the fate of Woodrow Wilson. I imagine it wouldn’t be difficult to persuade Michelle to slip into the role of Edith Galt Wilson if it would mean preserving The One’s place in history.
I read about this in the original blog and never doubted it. Considering all the blanks in his history, including college transcripts and Harvard Law Review writings, what else are we to believe?
The author is obviously still upset because the ayers side of the argument was right and his idol, Nixon wrong. Ayers told the truth about the war and predicted its outcome while Nixon sold us out on “peace with honor” and ended up, like Bush, with about half his administration in prison for obstruction of justice, racketeering and corruption. So once again, tell the truth and read up on history 101 for futher information.
“Frankly Miked, if I had a choice I’d go full blast for good ol’ Joe -”
So would I misanthropicus but that sure isn’t raising the bar much higher.
Ron Radosh has again done a yeomans job with common sense journalism regarding what (for now) is an obtuse debate among like-minded folks.
I’ve seen Jack Cahill on C-Span and found him interesting, but not interesting enough to run out to the book store. He seems a first rate conspiracy detective; dedicated in his OWN EXAUSTIVE RESEARCH. His missives are reminesant of Jack Anderson’s reporting in the 70′s & 80′s – except he doesn’t have forty plus years of accumulated journalistic sources to draw on when weaving a narrative to prove a thesis. And to date he’s lacked any definative successe in his spectualtive genre.
Scarfe & the American Spectator proved with Clinton during the Whitewater & Vince Foster ‘scandals’ that just combining a lot of money with a politcal axe to grind – no matter how satisfying to supporters – risks unleasing a lot more self-inflicted damage (and lasting at that)via shoddy journalism.
Hillary’s ‘right-wing conspiracy’ defense of her husband during Monica & the subsequent impeachment hearings resonnated with the American public specifically due to these clowns – who made Bill Clinton – a serial philanderer and blatant perjuror – a sympathetic figure.
To date how many people honestly believe that Gingrich or congress was more responsible than the Clinton Administration for the prosperous 90′s? The fact it is debatable proves how lousy conservatives are at selling their accomplishments.
And how dangerous bad press is – not the negative sort – but the demagogic sort.
There are good reasons why the left in this country loves to invoke Glen Beck and Rush when aiming to convince the vast independents in this country to lurch leftward.
Like Walter Winchell before them, they have the power to influence tens of millions because they have established the news network to substantiate what they choose to ‘talk about.’
As evidenced by the commentary here (trolls aside) – Jack Cahill doesn’t inspire a whole lot of credibility. But I suspect he has to be a hot topic among Glen Becks eager assistants looking for the next target once ACORN has been milked for it’s last gasp.
This reach is what is at the heart of liberals true hatred of Fox News. A mainstay of their brilliant success is that they can set the news agenda as far as political debate. Yes the blatant liberal bias of the MSM is what gave them their opening – but – there ability to constantly totally best the competition 2 to 1 month to month is the best evidence on just how massive their influence to set the adgenda.
So, why is the authorship of DFMF even remotely relevant?
Well, how many times has some tool like Chuckie Todd constantly reminded everyone that Obama – despite mistakes and tribulations – ‘still polls at 80% popular’.
This book was far more relevant to Obama launching not only his political career but his personal persona than Profiles In Courage was for JFK (JFK had actually done somehting to write about). Obama did not have the Kennedey fortune to rely on. He had to forge alliances the old fashioned way – with a hand out and future promises.
The opening he has handed to conservatives is rife with a single theme – HE WAS NEVER PROPERLY VETTED BY A SKEPTICAL PRESS DOING THEIR JOB PROPERLY.
Instead an adoring media fell in love with his ‘intellect’; grafted onto a narrative that elevated America (first Black POTUS – Harvard, ect,ect,ect) and now there is a very large nightly newscast covering buyers remorse.
While most on this site are content that Obama is a fraud -the vast majority of Americans need overwhelming evidence -and in copious amounts.
This is why no evidence of his birth certificate or academic records matters, and who if anyone provided editorial help, either writing or marketing the single project – DFMF – a bestseller that constituted in it’s first printing and subsequent re-printing once a national political figure running for the presidency, his biggest single source of income.
After all, until this book Michelle was the family breadwinner. Until this book, besides most people never hearing of Barry whoever, he was a community organizer, a part-time Law instructor, and an Illinois senator – not exactly the kind of money makers that gets you into Hyde Park.
It matters because this guy has another three plus years to do damage.
It also matters that conservatives deconstruct the Obama myths in all their tenticles in a way that is both understandable to the average 14 year-old – and – in a constructive way. Not as a way of scoring ‘civil discourse’ bonus points – but to reassure the American public they deserve to rule again.
Thanks again Ron. Who if any did write Dreams may not be important today, but I’m hoping a year or two from now, or after the Republicans have punched this administration’s gut with the upcoming mid-terms – it’s Ram Rom who is limping onto the reality TV sideshow ‘Dancing with the Stars’ 2011 – instead of an embarassing ‘Hammer’.
But of utmost importance? It’s time to ACORN the big O.
80. Phoenix48:
“an obtuse debate among like-minded folks”
AKA PJM
@ 57 Poor Citizen:
No president has ever had to deal with so many past failures, plus maintain the status quo and push the country forward all at the same time in our nations history on such a massive scale.
That would be news to those who are aware of what faced the Presidents who took the oath of office in 1861 and 1933, for starters.
I agree with David Thomson that President Obama is too shallow & lazy to write any book in the first place; he does not write, but someone else writes his own speeches so he can be the voice for them. Likewise, he used the books as a springboard for his political career. President Obama looks bored to tears when he campaigns since this is all he does; he has no charisma or charm, but it is all pretense. Once one sees through the illusion, Obama, the man, is a small little thing not even worth noting because he has not accomplished anything of value. He rises in office, but has no experience to back up the elevation. President Obama is in the middle of his meltdown as we speak.
Poor Citizen, do you have any proof that Obama’s IQ is high? How would you know given ALL of Obama’s college records have still not been released? From what I have seen of Obama, he is a mediocre man without a teleprompter. The teleprompter is Obama’s cheat sheet & has become a crutch. Without his telepromter, Obama rambles on & easily loses his focus. This tells me Obama does not have much of any intellectual IQ to start with, but is an Affirmative Action brat of the worst order.
81. Now and Then:
Now – Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Then – Dec 1st 2010. Smug troll now – common back after the mid-terms and try selling Now & Then – when some issues get settled.
Typical liberal gibbrish – quote off context and avoid the entire relevant content. Have anything to contribute? if not, take your ball and bat & walmart gift card earned trolling for Huffpo and bug off.
No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen
By DINITIA SMITH
NY Times Magazine
Published: Tuesday, September 11, 2001
“I don’t regret setting bombs,” Bill Ayers said. “I feel we didn’t do enough.” Mr. Ayers, who spent the 1970′s as a fugitive in the Weather Underground, was sitting in the kitchen of his big turn-of-the-19th-century stone house in the Hyde Park district of Chicago.
Diana Oughton’s severed finger could not be reached for comment.
I hate to be the naysayer in the bunch, but SO WHAT? Obama wrote the book in 1990 or so, and it covers a time before he’d gone to Harvard Law or married his wife. If Bill Ayers did help him write the book in any substantial way, why wasn’t it acknowledged in the forward or whatever? Back when the book was written, associating with Ayers wasn’t going to hurt Obama’s career in any substantial way. What you guys are saying is that Ayers ghost-wrote the book, and is so modest that he agreed that his name appear nowhere in it, just so Obama can claim all of the credit for himself. That sound like the Bill Ayers we have all come to know and love?
If the two books sound somewhat like one another, that could be because Obama *read* Ayers’ book, and borrowed some of his writing style. Writers do this all the time, though they strive to deny it, usually aiming to be regarded as innovative. Obama’s book, however, came out to minimal publicity and fanfare, and didn’t sell very well the first time around. After he gave that speech at the Convention, the publisher reprinted, and then the book sold much better.
What’s interesting is what’s *not* being discussed, while everyone chases the chimera of the supposed authorship. Obama is an interesting enigma, a man who’s managed to run for office while (for the most part) being allowed to tell everyone everything about himself he wants people to know. When Bill Clinton ran for president, there was a full-length biography by David Maraniss for anyone who was interested in looking into Bill’s background. Maraniss found a couple of half-brothers of Clinton’s that Bill didn’t even know existed. George W. Bush received the same treatment, but the Barack Obama book of the 2008 campaign was written by Barack Obama. Never mind the birth certificate fiasco (again, people almost 50 years ago would have had to decide to conceal these things, knowing that one day little Barack would be President); the man’s never released his college transcripts. His life is, to a great extent, nebulous, and he obviously doesn’t want the public or reporters rooting around in it, digging up old girlfriends or guys he cut class with. *THAT* should be everyone’s focus, not whether he wrote this book or not.
For those who are curious, I disbelieved the story upon reading it for the first time. The reason is simple: when I read the story, Ayers was already a notorious associate of Obama’s, and his inclusion in the story seemed gratuitous. I’m sure if Obama wanted a ghost-writer, he could have found half a dozen people better-qualified, but not as well-known or notorious, to help him write a book. Why would he go to Ayers, and why would Ayers agree to help (as I said, without acknowledgment)? Of course, if it turned out that Obama’s book were ghost-written by an obscure English professor no one ever heard of, with no radical background or anything beyond showing up at a demonstration or two…it wouldn’t have quite the same traction, would it?
RON RADOSH:Actually Mr. Radosh, Obama originally wrote :”I was a wet dream from my father”,but this was before Rahm Emmanuel sent him to Oprah to improve his self esteem enough to change the title,but not the reality.His entire failed presidency is one giant liberal wetdream,and as effective at producing anything viable.
“That sound like the Bill Ayers we have all come to know and love?”
Yup, it most assuredly does! Bill Ayers and other radical activists realized that Barack Obama is master manipulator of white guilt. He was very useful as a Trojan horse. They simply had to hitch their wagons to Obama and he could lead them into the Promised Land. Ghost writing a book would be considered a cheap price to pay. Bill Ayers is independently wealthy. He did not need to worry about paying bills in the here and now. Obama was likely perceived as a major investment—which has paid off very handsomely. Ayers has definitely been paid in full.
“poor citizen”=”poor historian”!!!
Just which members of Bush’s Administration did you have in mind as being imprisoned for “obstruction of justice, racketeering corruption”? Oh that’s right—you were confusing Bush with Clinton!!! Silly me.
As for “peace with honor” if you read and understood anything about the last days of the Viet Nam war, you would have referenced the fact that the South was more than holding its own against the North until your idol Teddy kennedy, the great traitor, sold out our ally by securing the votes in a Democratic Congress, to suspend all further aid to the South, ensuring their defeat at the hands of Giap and triggering the Killing Fields of Cambodia and the like. So easy to gloss over those little errors, isn’t it?
Back to Cashill’s coup, its critical because so many found their raison for an Obama vote, based upon the “brilliance” he displayed a an author—really the ONLY and SINGULAR accomplishment he publically claimed. There is no “there” there, in his work as “president” of the HLR, as a community organizer, as a school reformer ala Annenberg, and as a state or US senator….Zip, Zero, NADA! His book was key to many, should the book fail as a falsehood, the crack in the facade widens evermore and those who’s support was based upon that, must begin to at least question their own judgement, if they harbor any self-respect!
You? You have no sel-respect!
#9 JACK(ASS) SEE ABOVE COMMENT,CHANGE YOUR SHEETS,AND HIDE MICHELLE’S PICTURE BEFORE THE WIFE CATCHES YOU!
#8YES WE DID! Indeed you did!You elected a reincarnation of Neville Chamberlain in blackface,minus the manliness.No, he didn’t write the book,affirmative action can get a ghetto thug out of the gutter and into the Ivy League,BUT IT CAN’T MAKE HIM WRITE!
#85PHOENIX 48 You are wrong, NOW&THEN is returning from his midterms;he’s coming back from a NAMBLA-sponsored visit to Thailand. He’s upset that he caught something.Remember patronizing smugness is one of the first symptoms of VD in a liberal.
#85PHOENIX 48 You are wrong, NOW&THEN is not returning from his midterms;he’s coming back from a NAMBLA-sponsored visit to Thailand. He’s upset that he caught something.Remember patronizing smugness is one of the first symptoms of VD in a liberal.
to misanthropicus: What, pray tell, was “comfirmed” other than Jack Cashill truly being a malicious idiot?
Poor misinformed citizen,per post 57,prove it.Here’s something for Obama’s personality cult to chew on.It’s a fact that Bush’s college history is public knowledge.Obama’s is not.I wonder why?Bush piloted a Delta Dart,a fighter aircraft notoriously known as the “Lawn Dart” due to it’s dangerously unstable flight characteristics.So Bush not only has the intelligence to grasp advanced mathematics,but also the physical talent to fly a unstable aicraft.He also had to pass numerous psychological tests due to the fact that his aircraft was armed with nuclear air to air missiles designed to wipe out Soviet bombers attacking CONUS.
So Bush is demonstrably more gifted mentally and physically than Obama, despite his grammar and syntax,but you and I as well.Care to refute?
I wonder what the typical psych evaluations for a biracial child who’s been abandoned by both parents and raised by their “typical white grandmother” read “racist” are?
88. David Thomson,
A cardboard cutout would have worked just as well. All they really needed was someone who was black, and wasn’t threatening. The reason why other black politicians wouldn’t work is that they couldn’t shut up about race, even temporarily. Look at Patterson. Complete meltdown. Obama was very circumspect about talking about race on the campaign trail. After election, that changed. Stupidly, if you know what I mean.
For those thinking the linguistic analysis of O’s book does not constitute “evidence,” well you are wrong. It is very valid evidence.
Here’s a little exercise for you. If you’ve ever written anything of at least reasonable length, try this. Take what you wrote and compare it to 100 other works on the same or a similar subject. Then see how many times identical or nearly-identical phrases appear. Of course, don’t count cliches and routine phrases — “dry as dust,” “cold as ice” — but pick a dozen or so unique phrases you wrote yourself (you ought to know you wrote them) and then try and find comparisons. Good luck with it, too.
If you find two or three, it will be impressive. If you found a dozen it would be shocking. Apparently, there are multiple hundreds of similar phrases between Obama and Ayers’ books. This is evidence, folks, pure and simple evidence.
The truth is that aside from stock phrases, the vast majority of sentences both written and spoken are entirely unique in human history. It seems shocking when you first hear this, but it’s true.
Just in this blog post alone, who has ever written these exact sentences? And this is certainly nothing special, no great literary work. I’m just knocking it out. Yet the bulk of this post is one of a kind. I sometimes use this knowledge as a joke, and when I say something especially bizarre I note, “Well THAT’S not something anyone’s ever said before.”
The comparative evidence is damning and absolute. Obama did not write that book. Our plasticene President is nothing more than a construct of the Leftist imagination.
Maybe this is why Obama refered to Ayers during the primaries as a “Professor of English”, ubstead of Education, which Ayers is.
I must say this is a great article i enjoyed reading it keep the good work.
Not to rain on McBride’s parade (his heart is in the right place…)
President Bush flew Texas ANG Convair F-102A Delta Daggers. The airplane was an early version of the F-106A/B Delta Dart. The “Duce” was underpowered, and had no midair refueling capability – which is why it passed so quickly to ANG units.
The airplane was a pure interceptor, and carried either a pod of some large number of rockets, or more usually 6 Hughes AIM-4B heat seeking missiles. All of this was housed in a weapons bay under and behind the cockpit.
The F-106 was capable of carrying the AIR-2 Genie air to air nuclear missile. It was also armed with four later versions of AIM-4 heat seekers. The Genie was designed to lob into bomber streams and destroy them with a small nuclear detonation. (over the poles mind you…) The F-101 Voodoo was also capable of carrying the missile.
This in no way degrades the difficulty and complexity of flying the F-102A. The old pilots that I grew up with and around swore that it had a “dirt sniffer” in the nose gear. Meaning that when fully loaded it took a long time to build up enough flying speed. It was often tricky to handle, and the early inertial navigation and radar fire-control systems could best be described as a complex nightmare to operate. It evidently took a pilot of reasonable skill to fly it and operate it successfully.
The evil and dastardly myth that George W. Bush wasn’t smart is just another Leftist tactic used to belittle and marginalize its more capable opponents.
George Bush did some things that I do not agree with. He also made some ill advised political moves, one of which was to trust that people would “see” the actions, and not get lost in words. He also made the serious strategic error of over estimating the cohesion of the center-right coalition.
Overall, he did his best, kept this nation safe after an evil mass attack, and drew our enemies into a war that if we conducted it right, they could not win.
He almost pulled it off. Iraq ended up being a reasonable success, Saddam Hussein burns in eternal fire with all the other dead despots, and Iraq has a chance at being a nation with a margin of freedom that is not to common in the Mideast. Afghanistan was left to The One to finish. It was always the more difficult and intractable situation. A 10th Century Feudal state with 20th Century weapons and 21st Century communications.
Back to the main point of Ron Radosh’s article, though. The reality is that one of Obama’s major “creds” was his supposed authorship of this particular book. His other major “cred” was being a “Community Organizer” for ACORN/ACORN affiliated organizations. Both of those “creds” have been seriously discredited.
Obama is rapidly being shown to be a phony. At least one thing that George W. Bush was not… and that was a phony. I find myself missing a good man like GWB at the helm, more each day.
Peace, Love, and Bobby Sherman….
The Mighty Fahvaag
I’m always amazed at the folks that think O is some kind of super-genius because he can speak well off of a teleprompter. When the guy speaks “off the cuff”, he sounds nearly as bad as Bush. He’s shown he has no idea how a free market works and instead of doing what needs to be done on wall street, he’s bailed most of them out and kicked the can down the road a little further. He does not have a transparent admin like he promised. He’s in bed with the pharma companies. He’s completely unprepared to be in charge. A great campaigner yes. A great president? History will eventually put him below Bush and that is scary.
#93BC standing for “beyond cretinism’ confirmed by your posts.
Blogs shouldn’t be pushing this old smear as the truth.
The book in reference is selling very well, but there are only a handful of reviews over at amazon.com, and none of them single out the Ayers issue. Consider writing a review over at the amazon web site and bring the issue to the fore.
“After all, he is Bob Woodward.”
It’s almost like we live in some kind of crazy mixed up world where breaking Watergate wins you a stronger presumption of credibility than penning “Ron Brown’s Body”. I can’t imagine why.
The trolls jumped on this one pretty quickly, so it must have struck a nerve. Obama wishes the public would just forget about Ayers an Wright. Fat chance.
88. David Thomson:
“That sound like the Bill Ayers we have all come to know and love?”
Yup, it most assuredly does! Bill Ayers and other radical activists realized that Barack Obama is master manipulator of white guilt. He was very useful as a Trojan horse. They simply had to hitch their wagons to Obama and he could lead them into the Promised Land. Ghost writing a book would be considered a cheap price to pay. Bill Ayers is independently wealthy. He did not need to worry about paying bills in the here and now. Obama was likely perceived as a major investment—which has paid off very handsomely. Ayers has definitely been paid in full.
This again plays into my point. You’re assuming that Ayers was smart enough to know, about 20 years ago, that this guy could become president. I defy you to find *anyone* in current American political analysis or anything like that who had *heard* of Barack Obama in 1990, let alone thought he could become a senator, never mind president. I know Ayers is independently wealthy; I wasn’t referring to his financial status. Mr. Radosh has said nothing about whether he thinks Ayers was paid. My point is that Ayers has a tiny little ego that he lets out every once in a while, and when it’s out it dwarfs the Sears Towers. If he *did* ghostwrite Obama’s book, he’d demand, insist, that his name be on the front cover, in a larger font than Obama’s. Not for the money, but because of his ego.
Twenty years ago, heck 20 months ago, nobody thought Barack Obama could get elected president. No one realized what a compliant news media, a mega-sized campaign war chest, a clumsily-timed self-destructive affair by one of his opponents, and an incompetent campaign by the other, would lead to. Now we know. Still doesn’t mean he didn’t write the book.
Othello, people! Classic Shakespeare plot. We will see Obama self-destruct before our eyes and it will not be pretty. He is in no way capable of dealing with the stresses of the position that his handlers and groomers have put him in. He is simply not a strong enough character.
#50. Of course presidents have speech writers. However, if the president had the same thoughts as what was put into his speeches, he would be much more fluent speaking w/o his teleprompter. It’s clear from his fumbling responses when not playing ‘teleprompter Barbie’ that he has little to no concept of the content of his speeches.
RE #93/BC: [...] What, pray tell, was “comfirmed” other than Jack Cashill truly being a malicious idiot? [...]
Shirhan Shirhan Adorer Found To Be Barack Obama’s Intimate Ghost Writer & Friend! (More later)
BC: “Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage,” by Christopher Andersen – in this book that Andersen researched & developed without Cashill’s assistance, he describes how Barack was unable to come with an acceptable publishing draft (no surprise) and, per Michelle’s suggestion, walked across the street to Ayres to help him, and the Shirhan Shirhan adorer & bomb thrower immediately obliged.
Then Andersen reviews the composition & style elements of “Dreams” and finds them pointing beyond doubt that “DREAMS” was written in a embarrassingly large extent by the “Pairies Fire” author – conclusion which Cashill had convincingly reached well before.
BC, since it looks that challenging Obama’s authorial prowess gives you opportunities aplenty to shine by defending it, here is a challenge – tell us which work by Obama (written when “immersed in studies” at Columbia U) is more representative for Obama, why so, why does one or another betray the Author’s phenomenal integrity, scholarship and talents, etc: “North-South Relationships in the Post-Colonial Period” or “US-Soviet Nuclear Disarmament Issues in the 80-s”?
So, in an age when imposters, crooks and fraudsters thrive, it is indeed a great moment to be reminded about mister Obama’s scholastic activity at Columbia U as an stellar example of integrity, scholarship and literary talent -
Anxiously awaiting your presentation of these great pieces of political thinking authored by mister Hussein Obama –
Yours truly –
has blown a huge hole in the
Obama genius myth without intending to do so. Relying on inside sources, quite possibly [an unwitting] Michelle Obama herself, Andersen describes how Dreams came to be published — just as I had envisioned it in my articles on the authorship of Dreams. With the deadline pressing, Michelle recommended that Barack seek advice from “his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers.”
Funny thing. Who was Anderson’s source for the Obama/Ayers material in his book? None other than Jack Cashill.
http://washingtonindependent.com/60692/the-ayers-wrote-obamas-book-theorist-gets-a-sympathizer
“This again plays into my point. You’re assuming that Ayers was smart enough to know, about 20 years ago, that this guy could become president.”
It was obvious twenty years ago that Barack Obama would likely become a serious player. This man of color possessing a Harvard University law degree clearly showed he knew how to manipulate guilt tripped whites. Obama could early on be compared to a highly talented minor league baseball player who could someday become a superstar. He was worthy of a huge investment by a dedicated radical like Bill Ayers. The fact that Obama eventually moved into the White House was frosting on the cake.
Nobody who comments on this blog has even read the book or knows anything about the subject. Your comments just prove how stupid you are.
RE #103/Seriously: [...] Nobody who comments on this blog has even read the book or knows anything about the subject. Your comments just prove how stupid you are. [...]
Seriously? What is that outlandish in this fully warranted progression:
1) Shirhan Shirhan, the man who gunned down Robert Kennedy…
2) Bill Ayres, the left-wing murderer who dedicated his “Prairie Fire” to Shirhan Shirhan….
3) Bill Ayres, the left-wing murderer who dedicated his “Prairie Fire” to Shirhan Shirhan, now proved to be the true author of dba Hussein Obama’s “Dreams From My Father”…
4) Hussein Obama, currently serving a shaky term as USA president…
The President happens to be a responsible adult and a public figure. Is he above scrutiny because of his ethnicities, his experience, his past and present associates, his “plan,” or his religious beliefs? He has been far more favorably treated by the controlled media than Newt Gingrich or Rod Blagojevich. Is that because the other two are more “white” than he? Whatever the reason there we owe it to our heritage and to those who will follow us to let examination of the President proceed, whether he be Barack Obama or Ronald Reagan or Lyndon Johnson or Franklin Roosevelt.
#57 Poor Citizen: As we all know, this presidents I.Q. is double that of George Bush’s
Really? Prove it.
“SERIOUSLY”:Are you SERIOUS? Nobody except a Obama lickspittle NEEDS to read this worthless pastiche of new age sentimentality and brainless,left wing platitudes.Your comments prove only that libtards will take anything seriously as long as it comes from a patronized minority mediocrity.
Seriously,
Still in “polish the turd” mode, eh? Sorry, but its still a turd! And the potpourri is running low…
Robin (#123)
The comparison with Othello doesn’t work too well mainly because 1). Othello was a war hero at the start of the play (and his exalted position was what made his downfall tragic), and 2). Iago was able to play on Othello’s own doubts about himself and his place in society.
So far as I can see, 1). the One’s narcissism indicates he has few doubts about himself or the legitimacy of his claims to his place, and 2). he is not a war hero, nor does he appear to have any traits that make him heroic.
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!”
-The Wizard of Oz-
To misanthropicus: I have a better idea — why don’t you prove that you’re not a friggin idiot up to no good? Seriously — I see compelling evidence in your posts that supports this. Contrast this to the usual right wing “logic” where it’s perfectly reasonable and acceptable to parse out the most random stuff utterly out of meaningful context to create bogus data points to support whatever stupid rubbish that’s desired. No real evidence needed nor even wanted: oooo….Obama uses prepositional phrases, Dan Brown also uses prepositional phrases — that can’t be a coincidence. Let’s see the Big Zero try to wiggle out of this one….
“Did Barack Obama Write ‘Dreams From My Father’?”
Since I wouldn’t waste two seconds reading an “autobiography” of someone who is an ideological moron, and who never did anything of note, I reckon I don’t much care.
RE #137/BC: [...] To misanthropicus: [..] why don’t you prove that you’re not a friggin idiot up to no good? [...] Seriously — Obama uses prepositional phrases, Dan Brown also uses prepositional phrases — that can’t be a coincidence. [...]
Seriously? Let’s go further then for coincidences:
1) Shirhan Shirhan, the man who gunned down Robert Kennedy…
2) Bill Ayres, the left-wing murderer who dedicated his “Prairie Fire” to Shirhan Shirhan….
3) Bill Ayres, the left-wing murderer who dedicated his “Prairie Fire” to Shirhan Shirhan, now proved to be the true author of dba Hussein Obama’s “Dreams From My Father”…
4) Hussein Obama, currently serving a shaky term as USA president;
5) … then more additional evidence, nouns, pronouns, punctuation, question marks, dogs eating loads of personal archives, double Columbia U graduation papers when at that time there wasn’s such a graduation requirement there, more coincidences, more verbs, more adjectives, more voting present half of careeer in the Illinois legislature, more dogs eating Illinois Bar association application, more lawyers blocking the release of any record, from kindergarten to high school, to Occidental College, to Columbia U to Harvard U, more hope ‘n change, more participles, more “as I said before”, more “liar!”, more police foolishness, more whiteys, more “Barack will put you to work”, more bitter white guys, more guys in brooks suits, more typical white people, more…. crooks like Van Jones in the White House, more NEA calls for supporting the One, more charlatans and terrorists…
… more “the company that Barrack keeps”, more Bill Ayers, more Shirhan Shirhan, more Barrack Obama, more Amilcar Cabral, more “Prairie Fire”, more Mau-Mau, more “Dreams From My Father”, more Shirhan Shirhan, more Barrack Obama…
Coincidences?
17. Carl:
“O” is a liar…………….there are so many examples it isn’t even necessary to prove it any more…………..the question is “why do so many people believe in him?”
Sep 24, 2009 – 4:26 am
It’s purely racial; Like O.J.
. . . 20 months ago, nobody thought Barack Obama could get elected president.
I did. And I expected to vote for him. The last time I voted for a Democrat for President was 1984 (to my shame, okay. I was a college student and was told that a vote for Reagan was a vote for Nuclear War), but I was actually considering doing it again. Even in early 2008, I was still planning to throw my support his way. But as 2008 wore on and that empty suit of his got emptier and emptier . . . and then the troubling associations with the Hyde Park Socialists started hitting the news, I realized that this guy was not the Great Uniter I hoped he’d be.
So yes, I thought he might get elected, but by summer of 2008 I had audacious hope that he could be defeated.
Alas, alas . . .
What surprises me more than anything is how little anyone is surprised by the direction this administration (and Congress) are taking this country. Where is the watchdog media?
What is the source for the “common wisdom” that DFMF was a bestseller? The NYT? Most of our info about such things comes from the “NY Times Review of Books”, which is of course firmly in Sulzberger territory. The book may not have been a bestseller at all; the whole story may be cover for shoveling funny money to The Won. It’s not like that would be the first time such a thing has happened.
It must be nice to live in such a small world, where one man is responsible for everything you don’t like. If there was no Bill Ayers, you would have had to invent him…oh, well, it looks like you pretty much invented him anyway.
This made me laugh:
For more than a year, conservative journalist Jack Cashill has argued that a textual analysis of “Dreams From My Father” reveals that it was ghostwritten for Barack Obama by former Weatherman Bill Ayers. Because Cashill’s analyses depended on comparisons of similar cliches and reading grade levels, they never got far out of WorldNetDaily. But Cashill is back, arguing that anecdotes in a new book by quick-turnaround author Christopher Andersen prove the Ayers-as-Obama-mastermind case.
The punchline? Andersen, who has written dozens of tabloid-style books, cites someone else for the Ayers research. He cites Jack Cashill….Indeed, Andersen doesn’t even report that story out. He writes that “Ayers’ contribution to Barack’s ‘Dreams From My Father’ would be significant – so much so that the book’s language, oddly specific references, literary devices and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayers’s own writing.” For that analysis he cites Cashill…!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think it’s telling that when asked to expand on this in an interview with Sean Hannity, Andersen moved on. The most potentially explosive section of his book and he doesn’t want to talk about it? Would he do that if his research consisted of more than citing the obsessive Cashill?
I’ll quote David Freddoso, the author of the bestselling “The Case Against Barack Obama,” whom I asked about this theory.
Cashill’s stuff on this was a lot of crap, all conjecture and no concrete evidence.
http://washingtonindependent.com/60692/the-ayers-wrote-obamas-book-theorist-gets-a-sympathizer
This also from MediaMatters:
However, an Oxford professor who conducted a computerized analysis of Obama’s book and Ayers’ memoir Fugitive Days at the suggestion of former Rep. Chris Cannon (R-UT) reportedly found that it was “very implausible” that Ayers helped Obama write his autobiography.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200909230025
The most amazing thing about all this is that anyone can still take the writer of this article and this kind of stuff seriously. Hey, Pajamas readers: these guys are laughing at you. And who can blame them?
RE #143/Moho:
1) [...] It must be nice to live in such a small world, where one man is responsible for everything you don’t like. [...]
Moho, I remember you well embedded in the foamy-mouthed crowds blaming W for anything going wrong here and elsewhere in the world – how do you reconcile your recent years’ hollers with your present views regarding those who citicise Obama ? Come, do some tumbling, Moho –
2)[...] If there was no Bill Ayers, you would have had to invent him…oh, well, it looks like you pretty much invented him anyway. [...]
“If there WERE no Bill Ayres”, – mon pauvre Moho, WERE, WERE, WERE! But then, Ayres himself sports the title of “distinguished professor of special education” – looks like you spent some time among educationally challenged liberal voters.
Anyway, as far as I understand, Bill Ayers appeared in the world on a standard uterine route (not like Obama, whose apparition chute is still a mystery, date and place-wise), and as such he is quite real. And since the FBI’s interest in his activity hasn’t lessened since Ayres’ days of glory, I don’t think that we need any effort of imagination to actualize him.
And this sure applies to Ayres’ relationship with both Shirhan Shirhan and Obama -
Misanthropicus. Responding to only a few words in each sentence that I’ve written, only makes it look like you’re borderline illiterate.
@143
“If there was no Bill Ayers, you would have had to invent him…”
Fantasy–the preferable mode liberals choose to live in – “If there was no Bill Ayers …”
Reality–there IS a Bill Ayers and his history and views are well documented.
Fantasy–the preferable mode liberals choose to live in – “you pretty much invented him anyway.”
Reality–there IS a Bill Ayers and his history and views are well documented.
More proof that liberalism is a mental disorder.
RE #147/Moho: [...] Responding to only a few words in each sentence that I’ve written, only makes it look like you’re borderline illiterate. [...]
More on Moho (or the art of inserting one’s all seven legs at the same time in the mouth):
Moho, poor soul, you wanted to say “borderline literate” – as far as your other adventures in critical thinking…
Oh, heavens, and there still are people around wondering how Obama won the elections! With an electorate of Moho-s, what’s so strange about having Barry as president of the USA…
Moho @145
OMG, you are such a tool. Media Matters? LOL! The Oxford professor never conducted a computerized analysis of Obama’s and Ayers’ books.
misanthropicus: More evidence of your borderline illiteracy: (or the art of inserting one’s all seven legs at the same time in the mouth):
Also, a little help for you, a google link to the term “borderline illiteracy”. The first entry is from the Weekly Standard. I wish you wouldn’t make this so easy, it makes me feel bad for you.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=%22borderline+illiteracy%22&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=fceeb2705a2dd16
Well, the truth is out there. Either Ayers helped Obama write his first and better book, and not his second, or not. And either Anderson is right that Obama and perhaps Michelle gave Ayers Obama’s tapes and notes. Or not. Will they deny it? Will Ayers? If this is an issue in the next election, given Obama’s claim that he hardly knew Ayers as anything more than a neighbor, well, I know alot of Americans who would not vote for a President who let a unprosecuted terrorist and leftist communist help write a book that at the time was way above Obama’s pay scale. I think this story, unless it is disproven and I don’t see how it can be, limits Obama to one term.
Peterike # 112 and John TMF # 115 — Excellent Posts, the Best of the Bunch!
suggests it might have been NRO blogger Andy McCarthy or leftist-turned-conservative author Ronald Radosh, both big believers of Cashill. And I fully expect this story to break into the conservative TV
I believe that Obama administration has totally failed in fulfilling its promise that it had done with their voters.
Charles McCarry, former CIA covert ops officer, writes spy novels. In one, he developed the character of a KGB controlled candidate for president. Truth stranger than fiction?