Posted on 12/30/2008 12:06:50 AM PST by neverdem
Thanks for the ping AND post. GRRREAT article by Jack Cashill. Fascinating.
Excellent.
The fall lurks behind every word.
Thanks for the ping!
While Ayers was writing Fugitive Days, he felt compelled to take a course in non-fiction writing at Bennington: a curious action for someone who'd already written several relatively successful non-fiction books (under his own name). Not curious, though, if he was having a problem trying to differentiate his memoir from Obama's. In the end, he didn't succeed at that very well. It's different in some ways -- mostly because it's tighter writing that eliminates the endless ruminations and dialogue of Dreams -- but as Cashill points out, the underlying theme is the same.
One small quibble with Cashill: according to the book, Obama, Sr. abandoned him when he was two, but in reality, Sr. left Hawaii in June of '62, when Jr. was less than a year old and living with his mother in Seattle, where she was attending the Spring term at Seattle U.
There's no evidence Dunham and Obama ever lived together; no marriage certificate either. Curious that.
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