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- - - They believe this deeply enough to have built Obamas foundational myth around his presumed genius. I was astonished by his ability to write, to think, to reflect, to learn and turn a good phrase, said Nobel prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison. I was very impressed. This was not a normal political biography.'' Given Obamas presumed gifts, observers have struggled to make sense of an inaugural address that, even Raban admits, suffered from moth-eaten metaphors, faux-antique dialect, and jarring semantic errors like Obamas use of the word forbearers when he meant forebears. It was so rhetorically flat, so lacking in rhythm and cadence, one almost has to believe he did it on purpose, opined Charles Krauthammer, adding, with just a touch of irony, Best not to dazzle on Opening Day. Otherwise, theyll expect magic all the time. Obamas supporters were at least as perplexed. It is simply mysterious how such tired language could sound appropriate to the ear of Obama the writer, said Michael Gerson in The Washington Post. Not one of his greatest, conceded terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers. But I think he intended it that way. I think he was lowering expectations. You know hes not Superman. To find a rationale for the speechs lameness, Raban waxed downright Jesuitical. What needed to be said had to be phrased in language as well-worn and conventional as possible, he concluded, to give the illusion of smooth continuity between Obama's speech and those of past presidents. There is, of course, a much more plausible expectation for the speechs failure, but no one in the major media, friend or foe, has dared to suggest it: namely, that after lip-synching texts for his entire public career, Obama decided to voice this one largely on his own. Although a disconcerted Raban grudgingly concedes that 27 year-old video gamer Jon Favreau has served as Obamas chief ghost since 2004, he and other true believers refuse to probe any further. To even consider the possibility that Obama needed help with Dreams From My Father, the sacred text of the Obama canon, is fully taboo. The evidence suggests, however, that Obama needed lots of help. Before Dreams was published, only three of Obamas essays had found their way into print. None of these showed the least potential. As I have documented in these pages, in March 1983, Obama wrote an 1800-word article, Breaking the War Mentality, for Columbia Universitys weekly news magazine, Sundial. If the article had an editor, it is not obvious. Consider the following representative sentence: The belief that moribund institutions, rather than individuals are at the root of the problem, keep SAMs energies alive. This sentence is unworthy of a state college freshman let alone an Ivy League senior. The noun, belief, and the verb, keep, do not agreeone of an embarrassing five such noun-verb disagreements in the essay--and the punctuation is fully improvisational. Worse still, the word choice is haphazard enough to unsettle even the most willfully dense of Obamas literary acolytes. It would be another five years before Obama had anything else in print and this an essay titled Why Organize, reprinted in a 1990 book called After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois. The following two excerpts show how little Obama had developed as a writer: Moreover, such approaches can and have become thinly veiled excuses for cutting back on social programs, which are anathema to a conservative agenda. But organizing the black community faces enormous problems as well . . . and the urban landscape is littered with the skeletons of previous efforts. These cliché-choked sentences go beyond the merely unpromising to the borderline ungrammatical. Organizing does not face. Efforts do not leave skeletons. Agendas do not have anathemas. More revealing is that in neither of these essays does Obama turn a single phrase that is punchy or poetic, let alone memorable. - - - Cashill's work will one day be recognized for what it is: one of the most impressive examples of literary forensic work in modern times. But when you consider the facts it almost seems like something that should be obvious to anybody, not just a word sleuth. He has the Ayers-Obama literary fraud completely ratted out. This seems to be Obama's MO. He didn't even write "his" stimulus bill -- Pelosi did. See also: http://tinyurl.com/d2z5lh - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
