Ayers admits a few gay experiences. One earing wasn't good enough for him
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Posted on 09/19/2008 10:41:20 PM PDT by freespirited
Bill Ayers and Barack Obama have a good deal in common. Indeed, their respective memoirs, Fugitive Days and Dreams From My Father, read like they could have been written by the same person—and, in fact, they may very well have been.
All the cited quotes that follow come from these two books. On the subject of content I will refer to the author of Dreams as “Obama.” On the subject of style, I will refer to him as the “Dreams’ author.”
Dreams melds two styles: one, a long-winded accounting of conversations and events, polished just well enough to pass muster; the second, a fierce, succinct and tightly coiled analysis of the events that have been related.
Fugitive Days is fierce, succinct and tightly coiled throughout. It lacks the sometimes tedious fluff of Dreams and is the better book.
In the way of background, Ayers and Obama both grew up in comfortable white households and have struggled to find an identity as righteous black men ever since.
Just as Obama resisted “the pure and heady breeze of privilege” to which he was exposed as a child, Ayers too resisted “white skin privilege” or at least tried to.
“I also thought I was black,” says Ayers only half-jokingly. He read all the books Obama did—James Baldwin, Leroi Jones, Richard Wright, The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
As proof of his righteousness, Ayers named his first son “Malik” after the newly Islamic Malcolm X and the second son “Zayd” after Zayd Shakur, a Black Panther killed in a shootout that claimed the life of a New Jersey State Trooper.
Tellingly, Ayers, like Obama, began his careers as a self-described “community organizer,” Ayers in inner-city Cleveland, Obama in inner-city Chicago.
“They talked into the night about children, welfare, schools, crime, rent, gangs, the problems and the life of a neighborhood,” Ayers tells us of the poor black folks he tried to organize. Dreams is filled with such encounters.
In short, Ayers was fully capable of crawling inside Obama’s head and relating in superior prose what the Dreams’ author calls a “rage at the white world [that] needed no object.”
Indeed, in Dreams, it is on the subject of black rage that the author writes most eloquently. Phrases like "full of inarticulate resentments," "knotted, howling assertion of self," "unruly maleness," "unadorned insistence on respect" and "withdrawal into a smaller and smaller coil of rage" lace the book.
In Fugitive Days, “rage” rules and in high style as well. Ayers tells of how his “rage got started” and how it evolved into an “uncontrollable rage—fierce frenzy of fire and lava.”
Indeed, the Weathermen’s inaugural act of mass violence was the “Days of Rage” in 1969 Chicago.
As in Chicago, that rage led Ayers to a sentiment with which Obama was altogether familiar. Ah, yes, “audacity!”
Ayers writes, “I felt the warrior rising up inside of me—audacity and courage, righteousness, of course, and more audacity.” This is one of several references.
The combination of audacity and rage has produced two memoirs that follow oddly similar rules. Ayers describes his as “a memory book,” one that deliberately blurs facts and changes identities and makes no claims at history.
Obama says much the same. In Dreams, some characters are composites. Some appear out of precise chronology. Names have been changed.
“ Is this then the truth?” writes Ayers of Fugitive Days. “Not exactly. Although it feels entirely honest to me.”
“What I’ve tried to do,” says Obama in the same spirit, “is write an honest account of a particular province of my life.”
The reader knows that Ayers—with some justification—has much to hide. He senses that Obama does too, but he is never quite sure why.
This presumed poetic license leads to the frequent manipulation of dates to make a political point.
“I saw a dead body once, as I said, when I was ten, during the Korean War,” writes Ayers. This correlation is important enough that Ayers mentions it twice. The only problem is that Ayers was eight when the Korean War ended.
Obama tells us that when he was ten, he and his family visited the mainland. On the trip, back in their motel room, they watched the Watergate Hearings on TV. The problem, of course, is that those hearing started just before Obama turned twelve.
One could forgive a single missed date, but inconsistent dates and numbers appear frequently in both books and often reinforce some moment of lost innocence.
In the same spirit, both books abound in detail too closely remembered and conversations too well recorded. These moments in both books occasionally lead to an awareness of ugly and unrelenting racism.
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.
In a similar vein, Ayers tells of hitching a ride in Missouri with “Bud,” the driver of a “brand-new Peterbilt truck.” The man proceeds to regale Ayers with a string of dirty jokes—at least two of them retold word for word—before reaching under his seat and pulling out a large pistol, his “Nigger neutralizer.”
“White people can never quite remember the scope and scale of the slavocracy,” Ayers reminds the reader again and again. He writes as though he were not one of them.
In Obama, alas, Ayers may have found a much more a lethal weapon to use against the “marauding monster” called America than any pipe bomb he could have ever built.
Whether it was Ayers, I dont know, but at this point nothing about Bambi would surprise me.
Thanks for posting. Very interesting.
Take it from someone that knew Ayers well in the late 60’s (and a little bit in recent years), Cashill is close to the mark! He did some good research. I haven’t found the smoking gun yet, but it may be close. I haven’t read any of Obama’s books or all of Ayers’ but I have noticed speech similarities between the two men that I found significant but hard to explain.
There are computer programs that do word counts and analysis of vocabulary — I wonder if it would turn out that there is heavy overlap between Ayers’ “memoir” and either/both of Obama’s “memoirs” ...... all 3 books share the distinction (sic) of abandoning pretence of fidelity to actual events and persons for some claim of “higher” truths about the cause.
It would not surprise me if all the “audacity” and “rage” of both men shares more in common than the public has been allowed to know.
I would not be at all surprised if Ayers was heavily involved in writing either/both of Obama’s memoirs - at the very least he may have been heavily involved in “brainstorming” behind the scenes since he was clearly Obama’s mentor for the Annenberg Challenge and Obama’s launch of his political career. Despite Obama’s ostensible career as a legal scholar, he published abolutely nothing from his Harvard Law Review days to his 12 years as a lecturer at the prestigious U. of Chicago Law School (a “top 5” law school in the eyes of many). I wonder how many people have been editor of Harvard Law Review and taught more than a decade at such a prestigious law school without publishing even one note or article (in a legal context), ever. The set of people who meet both of those descriptors is vanishingly small — Obama may well be the only member of that set.
I don't want to make much of such a limited sample but it was freaky:
Word Count:
Ayers 28
Obama 28
Reading Ease Score
Ayers 54
Obama 54.5
Reading Level
Ayers 12
Obama 12
I could arrive at a decision about the connections between Ayers and Obama if I read all the books that the two wrote and listened to Obama read his books-on-tape, but I could not offer my decision, however strongly I felt, as “evidence”.
Computer programs are useful, and so is the human brain even if its program is hard to access.
I think so, too. The level of details is odd, and I have a fantastic memory compared to most people I know. Also, the way Bambi talks without a teleprompter and some of the things he says really makes me doubt his ability to write like that.
I have a theory, and it is only a theory, that Ayers and Obama met while he was at Columbia.
Obama graduated in 1983 from Columbia. Fox News can’t find any one in his class of 400 people who remembers him. He clearly wasn’t a big guy on campus.
Less than a quarter of a mile down Broadway from Columbia is Bank Street College.
In 1984 William Ayers Graduated from Bank Street College with a Masters in Education.
OBAMA AND AYERS WERE AT SCHOOL WITHIN A QUARTER MILE OF EACH OTHER IN NEW YORK FOR AT LEAST TWO YEARS.
Given their similar (Communist) politics, is it not likely they moved in the same circles and actually met during that time?
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I don’t think Obama can write a book; frankly I don’t think he can write an article. He is so inarticulate when not using a teleprompter that I don’t think he has the capability to put on paper what he wants to say.
I think he is a FRAUD from the word go and puppet for the Marxist/terrorist of this Country starting with Ayers. Ayers knew he never could get anywhere with his ideas personally so he latches on to this black/Arab/white guy as his protege and mentors him in the ways of the radicals while at the same time making sure he comes across as someone who people will vote for in an election. Of course, until this election, Obama managed to get people to quit the races he ran so he could get elected easily. Now faced with real opponents, he is losing it.
The sample of above of three items is very telling.
If Ayers didn’t write the Obama book then both used the same ghostwriter.
Does anyone remember him speaking about any bill on the floor of the Senate? All I remember is him cornering Lieberman on the Senate floor.
Two questions — Did Obama go through Harvard Law as part of affirmative action where professors were not allowed to flunk minorities? When he was at the Law School lecturing, it doesn’t seem he actually covered the law. Did he really pass the Illinois Bar or is this another example of affirmative action where lower scores equaled passing the bar exam? These are questions the MSM should ask but don’t as they become more and more irrelevant.
The program ranked Joe Klein as the most probable author, which turned out to be correct.
Sounds like a fairly simple job to check “Dreams” against Ayers’ published work.
“William Ayers? Oh, he’s just a guy from the neighborhood. Our kids went to the same school. I barely know him.”
-50 years from now, they’ll be running that quote on the history channel as the prelude dupe to when all hell broke loose.
I agree. Ayers was always on the lookout for blacks he could use. They might have spent time at the West End Cafe.
Too bad the police and FBI survelence records are gone as I bet they were still checking on Ayers looking for other Weatherpeople still sought.
“I don’t think Obama can write a book; frankly I don’t think he can write an article.”
explains why there are no articles from when he was editor of Law Review at Harvard
Did Obama go through Harvard Law as part of affirmative action where professors were not allowed to flunk minorities?
Would be likely why Obama is not releasing his transcripts from Harvard or Columbia
This must be one of the ways Caroline Kennedy says Obamassiah reminds her of her father.
I'm sure you meant either "not unlikely" or "lilely".
I'm sure you are 110% dead on the money!!!
How do you know this?
obumpa
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