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Who Wrote Dreams From My Father?
The American Thinker ^ | 10/09/08 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 10/09/2008 5:26:16 AM PDT by Jack Bull

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To: Jack Bull

Wow, that is one impressive article!


21 posted on 10/09/2008 7:21:56 AM PDT by norge
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To: ctdonath2

Well, a power-crazed nobody with dreams of grandeur, such as Obama, might have been tempted to write a self-aggrandizing “psychological autobiography” of himself at age 30, without a single accomplishment to his name. But Obama obviously didn’t have the ability to do it on his own: one of the many things he didn’t do was write, as is fairly obvious from his complete lack of written work prior to that date.

I think the style is overblown, but it’s a very 60s style and is a pastiche of Ellison, Fanon, and probably Lang and other left-wing writers and social theorists with whom Ayers would have been very familiar. I’d be very surprised if Obama had done much more than supply Ayers with his life story and let Ayers take it from there. And we know that Michelle O. had nothing to do with it - her thesis was a remarkable example of incoherent thought processes combined with a very shaky grasp of English grammar.


22 posted on 10/09/2008 8:06:08 AM PDT by livius
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To: Travis McGee

Yep, I caught this when it was posted on the “American Thinker” site....

Convincing, but will never make the 6:00 news...

I’m all but resigned to an Obamanation.....unless McCain lets loose the dogs of war and tears flesh off Obama’s skinny lying ass.


23 posted on 10/09/2008 9:18:19 AM PDT by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: Jack Bull
Rubbing my eyes, I wearily read the posted article, a feeling of detached dejection permeating my aging shell.

Many were the times I had hoped, pointlessly, that a revelation contained therein would rectify my cynicism, and catapult me from the listless dejection inherent in my mundane passing of days. Someday, I believed, the truth would blaze a bitter light upon the players whose tireless deceits seem to write the script for the maddening play of words which ruled the media and it's bovine audience.

Could this be it? Could this article, arriving from a little seen corner of the world of wires, be the sharpened point pressed against the overinflated gas-bag of the media manipulators and the blinkered electorate?

For a brief and fleeting moment, I felt the ballast that had weighed me down lessen with the hope that the truth could take flight ... that tired crusty propagandized eyes could be focused, and a pattern emerge, and suddenly the picture would be clear.

But it was only for a moment that grasped that hope, false as it was, falling thru my fingers like sand. Who am I to dare alter the trajectory of a king, whose path was planned by a million men in collusion and darkness, to rule the land I had called my home?

24 posted on 10/09/2008 9:21:11 AM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: StarFan

bookmark


25 posted on 10/09/2008 6:22:53 PM PDT by StarFan
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To: spodefly

Nicely played!


26 posted on 10/09/2008 8:07:30 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: Travis McGee

BUMP!


27 posted on 10/09/2008 8:28:33 PM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: randita

If Ayers did ghostwrite Obama’s book, imagine the leverage he has over Obama to keep this a secret. Or for that matter, the details of their relationship, which may have started in the early 1980s. William Ayers may have a controlling influence over the next President of the United States—a scary thought.


28 posted on 10/09/2008 8:36:07 PM PDT by kabar
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To: livius
Ayers was/is obsessed with race. He wrote chapter (12)"Racing in America" (William C. Ayers) in this book Off White: Readings on Race, Power, and Society, which was written in 1997.
29 posted on 10/09/2008 8:40:51 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Jack Bull; JennysCool; Petronski
WOW. Thanks for this post, Jack. Extremely interesting read. I've always been fond of turns of words, with injections of nature and sprinkles of intangibles, and am third generation of an intimate relationship on and IN the Great Lakes.

This piece and its charges are SO intriguing to me...and SO crystal clear in the correlations that are asserted.

Talk about getting the chills...and not of the pleasant type.

L and Ski, please come see. You HAVE to read this. I sure would like to see what a couple of experts think about it all, (if you haven't yet happened upon this.)

30 posted on 10/09/2008 9:05:04 PM PDT by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: spodefly

This IS it.


31 posted on 10/09/2008 9:50:29 PM PDT by Big Jake
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To: Miss Behave

I DID read that, and it’s a fine analysis ... and likely very close to the truth, I’m thinking!

And I speak from ghost-writing experience ...

Boo! (it’s the ghost in me!)


32 posted on 10/09/2008 9:52:10 PM PDT by JennysCool (There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and the polls.)
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To: JennysCool

Boo and kisses to you, L! :-)


33 posted on 10/09/2008 9:56:20 PM PDT by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: Jack Bull

This is an amazing article from The American Thinker.

Textual and computer analysis of writers syntax and similarities is very reliable.

FWIW. Bill Ayers has always been a rich white WASP. A wannabe black man.


34 posted on 10/09/2008 11:47:13 PM PDT by Cincinna (THERE IS STILL TIME!. CHANGE IS COMING! MCCAIN * PALIN '08)
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To: IncPen

The probable answer is “yes”. Do you think Buraq Obama would tell the truth?


35 posted on 10/10/2008 5:46:23 AM PDT by Tarpon (Barrack Obama will ban all the guns he has the votes for ...)
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To: Thank You Rush

When Obama speaks he talks about acorns not falling too far from the tree — Has anyone ever heard ‘an alleged American’ say such a thing before? I think it is these little acorns that tell the real tale of Buraq Hussein Obama, he is not American, and has no American life experiences on which to draw. Explains why he stutters the words when he tries to think — ‘now what would an American say’, often coming out badly, like 57 states and acorns.


36 posted on 10/10/2008 5:56:15 AM PDT by Tarpon (Barrack Obama will ban all the guns he has the votes for ...)
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To: spodefly

Outstanding!


37 posted on 10/10/2008 7:06:06 AM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: Jack Bull
Mr. Chashell was interviewed by one of our local talk show hosts today. He convinced me.

The thing that Obama doesn't realize is that these stories are NOT going away even if he wins the election. More and more journalists are going to be looking under all the rocks in Obama’s past, so to speak, and he will never be free from his shady past.

38 posted on 10/10/2008 5:44:00 PM PDT by Sparticus (Libs, they're so open minded that their brains leaked out.)
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To: spodefly

Wow.


39 posted on 10/11/2008 10:41:19 AM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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