Posted on 08/28/2008 5:29:16 PM PDT by pissant
A few weeks back, I wrote a column titled, "Who Wrote 'Dreams From My Father'?" My research led me to the conclusion that a literary neophyte like Obama could not have written the memoir on his own. It was simply too well crafted.
I was also suspicious about his claim that publishers had sought him out, while still unknown, contract in hand. I doubted, too, that the publisher would have paid him a hefty advance.
And I refused to believe that his publisher would have invested the hefty ghostwriting fee needed to rescue the project after four years of amateurish dithering, a dithering that included an extended stay for Barack and Michelle on Bali.
"The whole story smells of purposeful intervention," I wrote. "The whole book does. A political career holds more promise when launched with a lovely memoir under one's belt than with an unfulfilled contract over one's head. Much more."
"The question remains," I concluded, "who did the intervening and why?" I sensed and still do an affluent and unseen political godfather, someone with a grander vision than Bill Ayers or Tony Rezko. A recent televised interview with octogenarian entrepreneur and politico Percy Sutton, on a New York City show called "Inside City Hall," sheds light on the question of who this godfather might be.
A Manhattan borough president for 12 years and a credible candidate for mayor of New York City in 1977, Sutton spoke knowingly about the Obama candidacy. Although unspecified as to date, the interview likely took place within the last few months.
"I was introduced to [Obama] by a friend," Sutton told the interviewer. The friend's name was Dr. Khalid al-Mansour, and the introduction took place about 20 years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
My money’s on Neil Kinnock.
Obviously Obama knows this Dr. Khalid character.
The question is how and why
Obama is graduating from Harvard Law and he gets a book offer??? W.T.F.????? And an advance????
Let’s look at the sales of the book in the years AFTER he wrote it compared to the sales AFTER he spoke at the DNC convention in 2004. If there are virtually NONE in the first category and virtually ALL in the second category, then something obviously reaks of rotting fish heads.
And Obama sucks.....
I’m sure he’s just a mild mannered English professor from the neighborhood.
Wonder if he was friends with Obama’s gay, commie mentor, Frank Marshall Davis?
sorry al quaida, your plot ain’t gonna work the fella is gonna lose good one tho
Yep. Ain't that the way of things now.....
I will not rest until this marxist is drummed out of politics.
Atlas Shrugs is all over it.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/08/obamas-benefact.html
Tanks for the links! Ping for later.
bbttt
he’d make a great used car salesman..........or snake oil salesman
Considering the man cannot speak a single coherent sentence it’s unlikely he could have written a book.
bkmk
Pretty thin soup.
Uh huh. How many positions did a radical islamist recommend you for when you were in college?
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