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Bill Ayers: “I wrote Dreams From My Father”
Chicago Daily Observer ^ | October 6, 2009 | Anne Leary

Posted on 10/06/2009 8:22:46 AM PDT by PBRCat

There I was, sitting in Reagan National Monday morning, sipping a Starbucks by the United counter before going through security. I had a little time, so I was browsing through the news. That's when I saw Bill Ayers, an instant blight. Scruffy, thinning beard, dippy earring, and the wirerims, heading to order. I gathered my things, got my camera ready, and snapped a shot right when he got his coffee.

He gave me an uneasy cheesy smile when he realized I was taking his picture.

I asked--what are you doing in D.C. Mr. Ayers?

[He said] he was giving a lecture in Arlington to a Renaissance group on education--that's what I do, education--you shouldn't believe everything you hear about me, you know nothing about me.

Then, unprompted he said--I wrote Dreams From My Father. I said, oh, so you admit it. He said--Michelle asked me to. I looked at him. He seemed eager. He's about my height, short. He went on to say--and if you can prove it, we can split the royalties. So I said, stop pulling my leg. Horrible thought. But he came again--I really wrote it, the wording was similar. I said I believe you probably heavily edited it. He said--I wrote it.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: autobiography; ayers; ayersobamaconnection; billayers; dreamsofmyfather; drjackcashill; fraud; ghostwriter; jackcashill; obama; obamaayersconnection; obamaisafraud; williamayers
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To: PBRCat; cgk

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posted by cgk, Oct. 21, 2008


141 posted on 10/06/2009 10:48:13 AM PDT by BARLF
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To: a fool in paradise

why would this guy admit that he wrote the book? what royalties?


142 posted on 10/06/2009 10:48:23 AM PDT by nikos1121 (Praying for -16 today.)
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To: OafOfOffice; Loud Mime
Poor Mutt: squeezed between the increasingly impatient Hard Left and the increasingly fed-up American citizenry.

Something's gotta give, and my nickel's on the Won.

143 posted on 10/06/2009 10:49:32 AM PDT by Tenniel2 (Memo to politicians: Don't worry about "shovel-ready." Worry about "pitchfork-ready.")
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To: PBRCat

If the story is true, the writer writes so poorly that it doesn’t even sound true. And why would he admit it to HER, a nobody? (At least, I’VE never heard of her.)


144 posted on 10/06/2009 10:50:11 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (The Libs play dirty. When all else fails, call the Conservatives "racist".)
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To: john mirse

OK, I can envision bouncing this off any current 0bama supporters.

They’ll excuse it, say it doesn’t matter, etc.

Anyone talk to a Clinton supporter after he admitted lying to us about the affair? Excuses, saying his private character doesn’t matter, etc.

With a leftist, it’s all about the goals, not about following the rules and having good character. In fact, it REQUIRES people of low character to “get the job done” in most cases.


145 posted on 10/06/2009 10:50:12 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: jacknhoo

“Sounds like possibly Obama is not praising Ayers as much as he should”
***

He had to distance himself from him during the campaign-”he’s just a guy who lives in the neighborhood”. Obozo isnt about to come out of the closet just yet.


146 posted on 10/06/2009 10:50:46 AM PDT by Canedawg (FUBO)
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To: F15Eagle
There is a recent biography of Barack and Michelle Obama. The author claims that neighbors and others say that Ayers was a friend and that he helped onbook at Michelle's suggestion.

Author Defends Claim That Ayers Helped With Obama’s Memoir (CNN video interview) (CNN/Breitbart Sept. 27, 2009)

147 posted on 10/06/2009 10:52:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Don’t leave home without a recording device. It’s priceless.

As the ACORN tapers are realizing, even if you are aware you are taping a conversation being held with you in a public place, some activist judge could call it an invasion of privacy. At least in DC.

148 posted on 10/06/2009 10:53:35 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (There is no truth in the Pravda Media.)
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To: wiggen

No, you are wrong. That exactly the sort of thing an arrogant nut job like Ayers would say.


149 posted on 10/06/2009 10:58:08 AM PDT by mojitojoe (Socialism is just the last “feel good” step on the path to Communism and its slavery. Lenin)
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To: ExTxMarine; GOPJ
So we’re back at square one - who is Obama?

This really is the question, all this other stuff is interesting, but pertinent only to what it tells us about Bam. Americans usually have a pretty good sense by now of what their President is about and how he will react in a difficult situation. This is usually based upon extensive scrutiny during the campaign and his time in office by the media.

In my mind this is the biggest risk and failure of the media, we have no idea who this guy is, what he is about and what he will do when difficult decisions with no clear winning approach are placed in front of him (like Afghanistan).

We are learning, however. Van Jones, ACORN, the Olympics, teleprompters, etc (and there is a long list) are a pretty good indication that we have a serious problem, we are dealing with an empty suit narcissist with no philosophical/personal foundation who is not really that bright.

He is so vulnerable to being manipulated by so many people. It does not bode well for us, especially if things get nasty.

schu

150 posted on 10/06/2009 10:58:32 AM PDT by schu
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To: PBRCat

Ping


151 posted on 10/06/2009 11:02:44 AM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: mojitojoe

“No, It wouldn’t be easy. Probably, obongo gets them and pays Ayers. OR, he stopped paying him, or maybe he never did.”

A couple of those involve the reporting of income vs tax evasion...

Anyone ever dug up ayres tax records?


152 posted on 10/06/2009 11:03:02 AM PDT by Crim
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To: PBRCat

bkmk


153 posted on 10/06/2009 11:03:20 AM PDT by Raebie (~Never go down with a loaded gun~)
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To: nikos1121

“Why would Ayers admit he wrote the book?”

Barry is failing to do the job Ayers, Klonsky, and the others sent him to do.

The Ayers quote, if real, was a warning to the puppet to start dancing, or else.


154 posted on 10/06/2009 11:03:50 AM PDT by Jim Noble (I hope Sarah will start a 2nd party soon)
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To: Humbug

All of what you say is logical enough if the only possibility were that Ayers thought this out ahead of time and he planned to out himself.

It could have been a matter of exquisite happenstance. We have no idea what might have occurred in the hours and minutes just before their encounter. Some tipping point, some Obama snub that was eating him raw at that very moment. Having blurted it out, he reels it in with the taunt, “prove it.”

In such a scenario, a no-name reporter makes sense. He’d have been on guard with a known journalist. No worries, though. She’s just a blogger.


155 posted on 10/06/2009 11:04:11 AM PDT by Eroteme
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To: PBRCat
In a random meeting at an airport, Ayers spills the beans on Obama's claimed authorship of "Dreams From My Father."

Obama is a total fraud.


I imagine that after a short while knowing he was actually the author stopped being the giggly "Hee hee, I actually wrote it" fun, especially after the know-nothing he wrote it for started being praised for being the clean articulate intellectual powerhouse and especially after he started effortlessly leaping into the heights of political office after political office while the one who did all the work and actually got his hands dirty (in every sense of the word) remained behind as a teacher teacher.
156 posted on 10/06/2009 11:05:56 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: PBRCat

....ahhh, why is this not a bigger headline?


157 posted on 10/06/2009 11:06:56 AM PDT by americanophile (Sarcasm: satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language.)
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To: americanophile
....ahhh, why is this not a bigger headline?

BTTT

158 posted on 10/06/2009 11:08:33 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: DBrow

Thank you, your clarification is mosst enlightening...:-)


159 posted on 10/06/2009 11:08:40 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: a fool in paradise
some activist judge could call it an invasion of privacy

I'd take that chance.

160 posted on 10/06/2009 11:13:24 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( If you have kids, you have no right of privacy that the govt can't flick off your shoulder.)
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