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Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s “Dreams”? (Part II: Deconstructing the Text)

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In 1970, for instance, the 9-year-old Obama alleges to be visiting the American embassy Indonesia. While waiting, he chances upon "a collection of Life magazines neatly displayed in clear plastic binders."

In one magazine, he reads a story about a black man with an "uneven, ghostly hue," who has been rendered grotesque by a chemical treatment.

"There were thousands of people like him," Obama learned, "black men and women back in America who'd undergone the same treatment in response to advertisements that promised happiness as a white person."

Obama's attention to detail is a ruse. Life never ran such an article. When challenged, Obama claimed it was Ebony. Ebony ran no such article either. Besides, black was beautiful in 1970.

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Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s “Dreams”? (Part III: Why it Matters )

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That Obama had anything to do with this man should disqualify him for the presidency. At the end of the day, the only difference between Bill Ayers and Tim McVeigh is competence.

Obama dissembles lethally when he describes Ayers as “just some guy in my neighborhood.” He is much more than that and quite possibly, as I have argued, the real author of Dreams From My Father.

The publisher of Dreams, the openly liberal Peter Osnos, tells how Obama dumped his devoted long time agent after Dreams took off and then signed a seven-figure deal with Crown, using only a by-the-hour attorney.

Obama pulled off the deal after his election but before being sworn in as Senator, this way to avoid the disclosure and reporting requirements applicable to members of Congress.

To his credit, Osnos publicly scolds Obama for his “ruthlessness” and “his questionable judgment about using public service as a personal payday.”

Our best hope, if Obama is elected, is that he will throw Ayers under the proverbial bus as he threw his agents and numerous others.

Our worst fear, however, is that a President Obama will prove to be the “Mansourian Candidate” and that he will continue to play the useful dummy to evil ventriloquists like Bill Ayers and Khalid Al-Mansour.

Fasten your seatbelts.

1 posted on 01/18/2009 6:22:50 PM PST by STARWISE
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2 posted on 01/18/2009 6:23:29 PM PST by STARWISE ((They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: STARWISE

Of course did. But the correct question is, Does anyone care?


3 posted on 01/18/2009 6:25:32 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: STARWISE

of course he is the OWNED candidate.


8 posted on 01/18/2009 6:34:37 PM PST by television is just wrong
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Cashill's argument rests on proving that Obama really can't write well himself. On McLaughlin Group this week they read from an interview with the Obamas about their marriage that was done in the mid 90's, about the time the first book was finished. They read a long statement from Obama about his wife that was really very poetic. If he could write like he talked at that time he would not have needed any help.

Cashill has previously pointed to some textual comparison between Obama and Ayers. But he failed to make his point because the passages were not really very similar.

In 1970, for instance, the 9-year-old Obama alleges to be visiting the American embassy Indonesia. While waiting, he chances upon "a collection of Life magazines neatly displayed in clear plastic binders." ...

Obama's attention to detail is a ruse. Life never ran such an article. ... Besides, black was beautiful in 1970.

If the magazines were in binders, as well as being in Indonesia, they were likely at least several years old. If Obama made up the entire story, that would be bad. If he made a mistake on the name of a magazine he saw 25 years earlier, it's not such a big deal (although it would be nice if he had done better research). Evidently there were articles in American magazines like Look on the use of skin lighteners, beginning in the 1940's.

13 posted on 01/18/2009 7:46:33 PM PST by wideminded
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To: STARWISE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEnaAZrYqQI


15 posted on 01/19/2009 4:39:11 AM PST by danamco
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