Posted on 09/29/2009 2:34:39 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
President Obama’s “Dreams From My Father” is creating a nightmare for 1,099 Hingham High students cramming to wrap up their “required” summer read - a book, it turns out, they didn’t have to read in the first place.
With school opening Tuesday, the Herald has learned teens whose offended parents complained were allowed by Principal Paula Girouard McCann and Helaine Silva, head of the Hingham Public Schools English Department, to pick any other memoir - an option they never publicized.
“I had no idea,” sophomore Graham King, 15, who was only on page 120 of the 460-page autobiography yesterday, told the Herald with an astonished look. “My parents would like me to be done with it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
I’ve never heard of anything like this before.
Whats next - Mein Kampf ???
I thought ‘daddy’ abandoned him to his white parent and granparents to raise?
Given the kind of student I was, I would have handed in blank paper and said that it was primarily about his academic period.
Wonder if they might come across this:
September 29, 2009
Unmasking Obama
By Thomas Lifson
It is now abundantly clear that the image of Barack Obama sold to the American electorate was tightly edited, air-brushed, and exaggerated. He has worn a series of masks — eloquent orator, brilliant scholar, centrist, and literary sensation. All of these masks are coming off as he copes with a job for which image will not suffice. For instance, hiding behind the eloquent orator mask is a guy who says “uhh” a lot when he is winging it, and who makes lots of factual and grammatical mistakes.
Now, thanks to Jack Cashill, the literary mask has been removed. Obama is a literary pretender. Case closed. The evidence is overwhelming that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Dreams from my Father, the book which established Obama’s pose as a brilliant writer (and therefore a fine mind, in the estimation of many). The stylistic resemblance between the Dreams and Ayers’ work is stunning. Now we know, thanks to Chris Andersen’s new book,that Obama hit a brick wall trying to fulfill his contract to produce a book, and shipped off his notes and tapes to Ayers. That is the classic description of a ghost writer’s assignment. And it completely fits the theories Cashill had inferentially reasoned from the data of his literary studies.
The revelation that Chris Andersen had two separate sources means that this fact meets the journalistic standard of reliability, provided by a respected, established bestselling author. Obama’s dismissal of Ayers as “just a guy in the neighborhood” has been shown to be an outright lie.
That will certainly be the verdict of history, regardless of whether or not the issue of Obama’s ghost written book ever breaks through into the national discussion. My bet is that the media will not be able to suppress discussion. The image of Obama packing boxes full of tapes and notebooks and hauling them over to Ayers’ house a couple of blocks away, is simple and compelling evidence of a ghost writer being put to work. Jack’s literary detective work made the case, and Andersen’s two neighborhood sources confirm it.
Anyone who refuses to deal with this issue is willfully avoiding topics that make Obama look bad. The facts are in the public domain.
The New York Times has just appointed a new editor to monitor online conservative websites and talk radio, to make sure the paper doesn’t embarrass itself again, as it did on the Van Jones and ACORN stories. Unlike every other editor, the Times is keeping the name of this editor secret.
[Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news,] and Bill Keller, the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on bubbling controversies. Keller declined to identify the editor, saying he wanted to spare that person “a bombardment of e-mails and excoriation in the blogosphere.”
So, whoever you are at the New York Times, you’re probably reading American Thinker as an unpleasant duty. If I knew who you were, I’d bombard you with a polite note laying out the trail for you to follow on this important story. The President of The United States lied when he claimed that “I actually wrote them [his books] myself.”
I think that’s news that’s fit to be printed, even if uncongenial to the incumbent Democrat president. Don’t you?
Thomas Lifson is editor and publisher of American Thinker.
Page Printed from: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/09/unmasking_obama.html at September 29, 2009 - 05:42:17 PM EDT
When I was in school, I never read any of the “required” summer reading anyway...
Then they have the kids do this:
More Obama Indoctrination going on in schools
And then there's the books they might read...
Sept 8th: Here are two of the books on Obama your kids are expected to read [get your children OUT!]
No, no cult of personality there, no agenda there at all. /s
Here is everything the children need to know about “Dreams From My Father.” http://www.stentorian.com/Obama/#Dreams
That was the problem with people like Joyce [a college classmate of Italian, African-American, Native American, and French ethnicity]. They talked about the richness of their multicultural heritage and it sounced real good, until you noticed that they avoided black people. …The truth was that I understood [Joyce], her and all the other black kids who felt the way she did. In their mannerisms, their speech, their mixed-up hearts, I kept recognizing pieces of myself. And that’s exactly what scared me. Their confusion made me question my own racial credentials all over again. …To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.
“Dreams From My Father,” pages 99-100
But this strategy alone couldn’t provide the distance I wanted, from Joyce or my past. After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.
“Dreams From My Father,” page 101 (paperback, ISBN 978-1-4000-8277-3)
Tim was not a conscious brother. Tim wore argyle sweaters and pressed jeans and talked like Beaver Cleaver. …His white girlfriend was probably waiting for him up in his room, listening to country music.
“Dreams From My Father,” pp. 101-102
It contradicted the morality my mother had taught me, a morality of subtle distinctions–between individuals of goodwill and those who wished me ill, between active malice and ignorance or indifference. I had a personal stake in that moral framework; I’d discovered that I couldn’t escape it if I tried. And yet perhaps it was a framework that blacks in this country could no longer afford; perhaps it weakened black resolve, encouraged confusion within the ranks. Desperate times called for desperate measures, and for many blacks, times were chronically desperate. If nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.
If nationalism could deliver. As it turned out, questions of effectiveness, and not sentiment, caused most of my quarrels with Rafiq.
–Dreams From My Father, pp. 199-200
…I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of twelve or thirteen, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites… (page xv)
I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though… (page 93) [http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/streetterms/ByAlpha.asp?strTerm=B, “Blow” = “Cocaine; to inhale cocaine; to smoke marijuana; to inject heroin”]
I would occasionally pick up the paper [Louis Farrakhan’s “The Final Call”] from these unfailingly polite men, in part out of sympathy to their heavy suits in the summer, their thin coats in winter; or sometimes because my attention was caught by the sensational, tabloid-style headlines (CAUCASIAN WOMAN ADMITS: WHITES ARE THE DEVIL). Inside the front cover, one found reprints of the minister’s [Farrakhan’s] speeches, as well as stories that could have been picked straight off the AP news wire were it not for certain editorial embelleshments (”Jewish Senator Metzenbaum announced today…”). Dreams From My Father, p. 201
Gooberment skools are child abuse.
I didn’t know a blank sheet of paper can be handed in as an assignement and get an A for it. Wow if I only knew!!!
I was born a poor, black child. But almost immediately I became a rich, white child when my daddy ran out and my mom gave me up to my grandmother. Later on in my youth I again became a poor, black child. But only when I needed to be.
But daddy was a man of color and a communist, and can be forgiven anything.
We have absolutely no idea at this time the scope of indoctrination of our children for the glorification of this anti-American communist freak!
This really worries me with Congess passing the commie kids camps and Americorps bills where O’bozo fully intends to bring together his own Brown Shirt youth militia.
We need to be looking into these kinds of activities more and more.
This IS “Mein Kampf” for all intents and purposes. These teachers intend to make little Obozo disciples under the guise of “education”.
Their agenda is obvious.
I went to prep school. One dozen of the “Classics” every summer! Man! If you didn’t read them, you were screwed! Required book reports, tests, etc.. I’m a bookworm, so I didn’t mind. Liked Dickens, but sheesh! I struggled with “Paradise Lost!” For the 10th grade? And, we had to write a senior thesis! Only ten pages though.........
This could backfire on the commies. These kids are all getting a lesson in the Democrat Party’s disrespect for freedom and democracy.
They are going to see that their parents don’t like them being used as a political tool by the government Left. They will learn the meaning of the words “poitical indoctrination.” This lesson will ring bells in college, too. Wait until they learn Obama did not write the biography rather a communist terrorist wrote it!
It not like there is any freaking info about the PRes_ent out there. So the first kid who turns in a blank sheet of paper should get an A+
thanks...amazing.....I’m off to read the full account on this 0bama/Ayers fraud
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I’m sure you’ll be hearing more like it though.
Another day, another reason.....
Paula and Helaine should have to stay after school and clean erasers for a week.
Even my young grandchildren know that you wear the heavy suits in the winter and the thin coats in the summer!
I have been meaning to read these books, but I am so tired of BHO that I want to avoid him at all costs!
OK, so they throw out Obama, then they assign Rigoberta Manchu. To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, a liar is a liar is a liar.
For any Hingham students reading this, here are the FR Cliff Notes.
Name: Barack Hussein Obama II
Place of Birth: uncertain
Mother: Stanley Ann Dunham
Father: uncertain
Religion: Black liberation theology
First Job: Fanning the flames of jealousy and poverty in order to extort money and special favors out of the pockets of those who worked for it and put it in the pockets of those who did not(also referred to as ‘community organizing’)
Second Job: Fanning the flames of jealousy and poverty in order to confiscate money and special favors out of the pockets of those who worked for it and put in in the pockets of those who did not (also known as being a ‘democrat senator’)
Third Job: same as the second, but nationwide for about a year and a half although his attendance was quite poor
Current Job: President of the U.S. (’leader of the free world’ title has been assumed by Bebe Netanyahu)
Experience for any of the above: Nada, zippo, zilch
Ideology: Red-eyed, screaming marxism
Wife: ‘Aunt Esther’ from Sanford and Son
Fan Club President: Chris Matthews
Here is an idea. When a public institution selects a political book for curriculum, the royalties of the purchased books must go to the coffers of the opposition party.
My High School son was given an English assignment to analyze lyrics to a Kanye West song. He wrote one sentence: “The lyrics are racist”.
Dreams from my Father...Did he dream or did he have dreams his father gave him?...Or is that a hint that this book is based on half fact, half fictionalized dreams amd the dreamer is not even sure what is real or unreal?...
Interesting subject matter but it’s like trying to hit a moving target-—with so many lies, distortions, and half-truths from this obviously deranged President who flits from one idea to the next, how can anyone write a good book report?...
Besides this is a political hot potato and the teacher should have had better sense than to assign it...I’d hand in a blank paper and tell the teacher—if schools insist on freedom of religion-meaning God is not in the classroom- then students can demand freedom from political coercion amd freedom of speech—yes, a blank paper is freedom of speech...
Post of the Day!
I wonder how many kids will choose that work and comment on its parallels to Obama's objectives.
I wonder how many kids will choose that work and comment on its parallels to Obama's objectives.
This didn’t only happen in that town.
This fraudulent autobiography written by unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers was paid for by parents during a recession and rising unemployment or by the taxpayers.
This scandal might get legs. The teacher unions better watch out.
For fiction, I’d prefer The Wizard of Oz. At least someone gets a brain in that one.
Unmasking Obama
American Thinker | September 29, 2009 | Thomas Lifson
Posted on 09/29/2009 3:28:04 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2351117/posts
Every month or so you hear about another school with forced Pro-bamism in some form or another.
How anyone could stand reading even a single page from such an insipid, puerile mind like Obama's is beyond comprehension...
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