Showing posts with label Dreams from My Father. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dreams from My Father. Show all posts

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The USSC rules against the GOP regarding Ohio:

The U.S. Supreme Court sided Friday with Ohio's top elections official in a dispute with the state Republican Party over voter registrations.

The justices overruled a federal appeals court that had ordered Ohio's top elections official to do more to help counties verify voter eligibility

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According to News from the Ass... Rep. Tim Mahoney admits he did it but claims he did nothing illegal.
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Jack Cashill has more evidence for his claim Barack Obama didn't write Dreams from My Father all by himself but had substantial help from Bill Ayers.

Conspiracy Corner

Who REALLY was the author of Dreams From My Father?

I bought Bill Ayers' 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, for reasons unrelated to this project. As I discovered, he writes surprisingly well and very much like "Obama." In fact, my first thought was that the two may have shared the same ghostwriter. Unlike Dreams, however, where the high style is intermittent, Fugitive Days is infused with the authorial voice in every sentence. What is more, when Ayers speaks, even off the cuff, he uses a cadence and vocabulary consistent with his memoir. One does not hear any of Dreams in Obama's casual speech.

Obama's memoir was published in June 1995. Earlier that year, Ayers helped Obama, then a junior lawyer at a minor law firm, get appointed chairman of the multi-million dollar Chicago Annenberg Challenge grant. In the fall of that same year, 1995, Ayers and his wife, Weatherwoman Bernardine Dohrn, helped blaze Obama's path to political power with a fundraiser in their Chicago home.

In short, Ayers had the means, the motive, the time, the place and the literary ability to jumpstart Obama's career. And, as Ayers had to know, a lovely memoir under Obama's belt made for a much better resume than an unfulfilled contract over his head.

For simplicity sake, I will refer to the author of Dreams as "Obama." Without question, he contributed much of the book's raw material, especially the long-winded accounting of events and conversations, polished just well enough to pass muster. The book's fierce, succinct and tightly coiled social analysis more closely matches the style of Fugitive Days, a much tighter book.

Campaign Notes.

So help me God, if Obama becomes the nominee, he will wish he had NEVER written those two best-selling books.

The Republicans will eat him alive over them.
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So if Hillary Clinton doesn't become the first female president of the United States, who will?

I don't think it will be any Democrat who is alive today.
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