http://bit.ly/FkfFF - - - While waiting for America's publishers to find their nerve, I had put my research into the authorship of Barack Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father on the back shelf. But then I heard Chris Matthews.
The Hardball host was weighing in on the subject of Sarah Palin's new book deal. "Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book," sneered Matthews. "Not just reading a book, writing a book." "Actually in the word of the publisher she's "collaborating" on a book," Matthews continued. "What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do. You know she's already declared, I mean, why they do it like this? 'She can't write, we got a collaborator for her.'" I dedicate what follows to Matthews and those willfully blind souls like him. It is a work in progress, a collective one at that, aided and abetted by nearly a score of volunteer co-conspirators from Hawaii to Ohio to Israel to Australia. The thesis is simple enough: Barack Obama needed substantial help to write his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father. Moreover, unlike Sarah Palin, Obama chose to conceal the identity of his collaborator and not without good reason. To admit that he needed a collaborator would have undercut his campaign for president and to reveal the name of that collaborator would have ended it. My involvement in this occasionally harrowing literary adventure began in July 2008, entirely innocently. A friend sent me some short excerpts from Dreams and asked if they were as radical as they sounded. I bought the book, located the excerpts, and reported back that, in context, the excerpts were not particularly troubling. But I did notice something else. The book was much too well written. I had seen enough of Obama's interviews to know that he did not speak with anywhere near the verbal sophistication on display in Dreams. About six weeks later, for entirely unrelated reasons, I picked up a copy of Bill Ayers 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days. Ayers, I discovered, writes very well and very much like "Obama." In mid-September, after considerable digging, I wrote a few speculative articles for American Thinker and other online journals and discovered that I was not alone in my suspicions. - - - The parallels between Dreams and Fugitive Days that Cashill carefully compares in this and several articles at www.cashill.com are amazing, and frankly, this is one of the aspects of Obama's fairy tale rise to power that most troubles me. I went ahead and bought both books and followed along. Cashill is not making any of this up, and the evidence is overpowering that Ayers at least helped Obama write Dreams. These kinds of literary coincidences don't happen, at *best* it's plagiarism on Obama's part. There is so much dishonesty around Obama, so much myth that is plainly false, that the idea he is our Commander in Chief and aspires to be our CEO-in-chief in all sectors of the private economy should be frightening, when you consider *to whom* he looks for help and inspiration when the chips are down. Mr. Good Decisions decided, of all people, to have Bill Ayers ghost write his book---and then keep their collaboration secret? - 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.
