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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (20123)	9/30/2009 3:46:36 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

New Obama biography confirms Bill Ayers ghostwrote “Dreams of My Father” Friday, September 25th, 2009 \| Politics \| ShareThis I’ve blogged about Jack Cashill’s suggestion that Barrack Obama didn’t write his autobiography, Dreams of My Father. That it was instead written by admitted terrorist bomber Bill Ayers, a man Obama claims was just some guy in his neighborhood he barely knew. Cashill based his theory on similarities between Dreams and Ayers’ own biography, Fugitive Days. Now an Obama biographer says Ayers ghostwrote Dreams. Ron Radosh - An Old Claim Arises Once More: Did Barack Obama Write ‘Dreams From My Father’?: 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.” Obama had not as yet written anything. But he had taped interviews with family members. Andersen writes: “These oral histories, along with a partial manuscript and a truckload of notes, were given to Ayers.” Look over those words. A man Obama said before the campaign — after conservative pundits continually raised the issue that he was friends with an “unrepentent terrorist” — that he knew only in passing as someone in the neighborhood. He was simply an acquaintance — not someone he had any real friendship or relationship with. Yet Obama evidently gave Ayers his notes, tapes, and the small amount that he had already written. Finally, Christopher Andersen concludes: “In the end, Ayers’s 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.” Hat tip to Ace of Spades.