Posted on 10/27/2009 10:55:22 PM PDT by Scanian
In 1994, while Barack Obama's memoir Dreams From My Father was being polished off, Bill Ayers co-authored an essay whose title befits a former merchant seaman: "Navigating a restless sea: The continuing struggle to achieve a decent education for African American youngsters in Chicago."
In "Navigating," Ayers and his nominal co-author, former New Communist Movement leader Michael Klonsky, offer a detailed analysis of the Chicago school system and a discussion of potential reforms. Curiously, so too does Obama in Dreams.
What makes Obama's educational digression notable is that he had spent only two months working on education issues as a community organizer -- and that seven years earlier, while his mind was admittedly "elsewhere."
Unlike Obama, Bill Ayers has a genuine, career-long interest in education. In the mid-1990s he was sufficiently serious about reform to invest considerable time and energy in his protégé. As shall be seen, the likely reason Ayers did so was because Obama had the ability to address problems that he and Klonsky could not.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
bbbut............Ayers was just a guy in the neighborhood, ya know.........Oh, and they served on two Boards together and launched oBama’s senate career in Ayer’s living room.........but, hey, hey Ayers was just a guy in neighborhood who had the audacity to take a photo standing on the American Flag.... .............but hey, one friend made it to the White House. What a sweet story.
One of the PowerLine bloggers doubts that Ayers wrote Dreams, but I find Cashill very persuasive.
Cashill has pursued the verification of his suspicions with great success. There is no longer any doubt that Ayers is to a significant degree an author of Dreams. That Ayers did so to create a player to eventually take on a Chicago Black bureaucracy, and ended up with a POTUS instead, is testament to an American electorate so dumbed down and beguiled as to elect Chauncey Gardiner.
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“Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.” —1984 [1949] George Orwell
Any one who doubts Cashill need only read the verifiable prose written by Hussein. It is so stilted and clunky that it is downright painful!
Dreams, on the other hand, is a smooth exercise by an experienced writer.
You have to want to believe in the Delusion to think otherwise.
Although their occupations are far different, Zer0 reminds me more of Ted Baxter: big voice, small brain. All show, no substance.
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