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Professor works to kill a literary controversy
Michigan State University Department of Mathematics Newsletter ^ | Summer 2014 | unattributed

Posted on 08/31/2014 4:01:12 PM PDT by The people have spoken

But one of Wang’s recent projects explored author attribution, specifically, who really wrote President Obama’s autobiography, Dreams from My Father. Prolific author William Charles “Bill” Ayers, an American elementary education theorist, claimed he wrote Obama’s book. Wang and MSU graduate student Janice Hu wanted to find out using mathematics.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: authorship; ayers; obama
He does not rule out the possibility that Ayers wrote both books.
1 posted on 08/31/2014 4:01:12 PM PDT by The people have spoken
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To: The people have spoken

Jack Cashill convinced me Ayers wrote Dreams.


2 posted on 08/31/2014 4:06:57 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: The people have spoken

He says that there are strong stylistic inconsistencies between known Ayers books and the two books.


3 posted on 08/31/2014 4:10:47 PM PDT by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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At worst, all that may mean is that Ayers studied Obama’s style and stuck close to it.


4 posted on 08/31/2014 4:19:12 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: The people have spoken

Kill it? Hell, he made it worse; that’s what professors do.


5 posted on 08/31/2014 4:24:24 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: The people have spoken

The thing that gets me is that no one took Obama to task for the contents of his books. They tell us just who and what he is but we largely ignored it or more precisely, the GOP ignored it. Just like Obama’s speeches told us what his plans for the middle class were. Oh he always spoke to what he calls the middle class but his looks more like the entitlement class. If we keep treating progressives with kit gloves they will use their race and entitlement cards to once again run all over us.


6 posted on 08/31/2014 4:28:06 PM PDT by JimSEA
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Exactly! Everyone treated him with kid gloves, Just note the feckless campaign by Romney. He was afraid to call him for what he was—a socialist. Now we are reaping the result of gutless Republicans. Even now they will not challenge him because of the fear of being called racists. I don't care if he is green and a Martian! His policies are wrong so call them out for what they are. Gutless pansies.
7 posted on 08/31/2014 4:32:52 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: The people have spoken
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8 posted on 08/31/2014 4:41:02 PM PDT by MtnMan101
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To: The people have spoken
William Charles “Bill” Ayers, an American elementary education theorist

Shouldn't that read 'a terrorist and murderer'?

9 posted on 08/31/2014 4:57:35 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

“The rest of the story.”


10 posted on 08/31/2014 5:06:48 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: The people have spoken

Well, he pretty much does. He says that there were strong inconsistencies between Ayers’ books and DFMF.


11 posted on 08/31/2014 5:09:40 PM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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Ummmmm not really

“With the Obama project, Wang and Hu compared Dreams from My Father to known Bill Ayers books and Obama’s other book, Audacity of Hope.
The result?
“We were able to demonstrate strong stylistic inconsistencies, showing—again with almost irrefutable evidence from a mathematical point of view—that Ayers did not write Obama’s autobiography,” Wang said. “In fact, Obama almost certainly wrote it himself because there is a great deal of stylistic similarity with Audacity of Hope, which has no authorship controversy.”


12 posted on 08/31/2014 5:19:15 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: marktwain; LS; Nifster

Oops, you’re right. Sorry, I didn’t read carefully.


13 posted on 08/31/2014 5:31:30 PM PDT by The people have spoken
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To: The people have spoken
I read Cashill's book carefully, and I am convinced Ayers wrote it.

Nothing that can be attributed to Obama comes close to the style of his "autobiography"; Obama's writing is clunky, foggy, and he has repeated problems of getting his verbs to agree with his subjects.

"Audacity" is largely a compilation of speeches.

Writers love words. They use them carefully. Obama does not even seem to have a large vocabulary.
14 posted on 08/31/2014 5:57:21 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: .45 Long Colt
Smoking Gun:

Barack Hussein Obama Jr. (or II) was asked to permanently surrender his Illinois Law License with records sealed, or face disciplinary proceedings. It had become known that information submitted on his Illinois Bar Application (now no longer on line) was at significant variance with data presented in "Dreams," and apparently, an opposing attorney on the ONLY case BHO, Jr. (or II) ever handled, noticed the discrepancies.

Logically, whoever wrote "Dreams," becomes somewhat irrelevant. It's just obvious that Barack Hussein Obama Jr, (or II) never read it. The MSU number cruncher is also full of baloney. The structure of "Dreams" seems modeled very closely on Ayers' own autobiography. I too, will go with Jack on that.

BTW, Anyone whoever had the bad luck to suffer a Chinese teaching assistant in a technical course ought to know that they are notoriously inept at anything like English and see their main duty as (a) stealing American know-how, and (b) preventing anything they might know from falling into the wrong hands.

In regard to the Law Licenses of Mr. and Mrs. Obama: they are now carefully trying to claim that they surrendered their licenses completely voluntarily to avoid the costs of continuing education and malpractice insurance fees. Not true: Michelle (actually the somewhat more experienced lawyer of the two) was ordered from the Bar by the courts when a client committed fraud during a trial. Oddly enough, she would be allowed to re-apply. Barack, OTOH, is permanently suspended, the quid pro quo being as usual, sealed records. What both these ornaments of the bar have in common is that neither was ever entrusted with a serious case to handle on their own, except upon the singular occasions noted, when both lost their licenses to practice. Michelle Robinson is a cousin of Jesse Jackson, the illegitimate son of her Uncle Noah and has always operated under his aegis in Chicago.

Palin had it right when she called the past decade the "Obama Error."

15 posted on 08/31/2014 6:13:37 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Only a specific GOP Program, Plan, and Leadership will end the chaos of dysfunctional government.)
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Do you have any links? Thanks.


16 posted on 08/31/2014 6:44:14 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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Back in 2006-8 there were links a-plenty.

Now, the Illinois Bar has removed the Bar apps of Michelle and Barry from public record. The Circuit Court has also sealed records. This is the process of Obama Record Sanitization!

FYI, here's what was found when the Bar records were public: Barry failed to mention on his Bar Application that he had ever used an alias; he failed to mention traffic violations, and he failed to mention drug use. Most of these matters are covered in "Dreams." That's what led me to believe that not only had Barry not written "Dreams" himself, but that in all probability he had never read it!

Then of course, Bill Ayers also has publicly claimed ghost authorship, done he says, at Michelle's insistence to save Barry from having to return the advance payment from the publisher when he was unable to come up with anything.

Links? There is no link between this strange creature and reality.

17 posted on 08/31/2014 7:02:44 PM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Only a specific GOP Program, Plan, and Leadership will end the chaos of dysfunctional government.)
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To: Kenny Bunk

True. If only there was a Patriot in the intelligence community that would release the info.


18 posted on 08/31/2014 7:46:17 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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