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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: STARWISE

He wrote the book. Cashill’s analysis was 100% on the money


101 posted on 10/06/2009 9:58:54 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Poincare
Idiots....
 
"Simply, because, you see the useful idiots; the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of Soviet or Communist or Socialist or whatever system; when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies.   That's why my KGB instructors specifically made the point, "never bother with leftists, forget about these political prostitutes - aim higher"  this was my instruction."
--Yuri Bezmenov, KGB Defector
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095202/posts

102 posted on 10/06/2009 9:59:09 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: NeverEVERKerry

If that’s the case he just came clean in public. There’s a witness to his confession, who made it public.


103 posted on 10/06/2009 9:59:35 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: PBRCat; pissant

Wonder if any of the Wingnuts here that were attacking Dr. Cashill for his Patriotic Findings of Obama’s Fraudulent Literary Assertions will be big nough to now offer their APOLOGIES to Dr. Cashill for their obnoxious comments and allegations?
Congratulations to DR. JACK CASHILL for His Extrodinary Investigative Work in Ferretting Out OBAMA HUSSEIN’S FRAUDULENT Literary Claims that He was in fact the Author of “DREAMS FROM MY FATHER!”
It appears that William Ayers, The Unrepentant Terrorist, is getting quite ANGRY with His former Protege’, OBOZO HUSSEIN!!!!!!...:-)


104 posted on 10/06/2009 10:02:24 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: Humbug

But lifelong seekers of fame and recognition never have enough. Look at how Newt Gingrich keeps re-inventing himself to get in the headlines! Now he’s running around with Al Sharpton.

No, I think that Ayers has always wanted fame & recognition. Obviously he didn’t have the smarts and the perserverence to make it in the business world like his dad, so he chose another path.


105 posted on 10/06/2009 10:03:21 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: NeverEVERKerry
What if he is legally bound to keep it a secret? He wouldn’t be able to come clean in public. Maybe this little private meeting is his way of saying “I can’t say anything. Prove it for me”?

That's a good point, except if that were the case then he blew it by not telling her to keep quiet about their chance meeting. I mean, the only way she could prove it would be to use his own words. IE, this is what Ayers told me. He told me he wrote the book. How else would she prove it beyond what is already out there (the comparisons between Ayers' writing style and that of Dreams, plus the new book out about the Obamas)?

106 posted on 10/06/2009 10:03:24 AM PDT by Humbug (hmm mmm mmmm)
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To: PBRCat

But..but.. Bill Ayers was just a guy in the neighborhood! Obama would not associate with a domestic terrorist who committed those crimes when Obama was 8 years old.

I cannot believe he admitted this......


107 posted on 10/06/2009 10:04:17 AM PDT by CommieCutter (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/programs/ht/qt/3013_08.html)
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To: PBRCat

Bill Ayers, “Guilty as sin, free as a bird.”


108 posted on 10/06/2009 10:06:02 AM PDT by JPG (Obama...a 24/7 nightmare.)
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To: NeverEVERKerry
Honor among thieves?

I see "The One" we have been waiting for ,nothing more than a tool for those intending to distroy our country. Tools are dispensable when not adequate for the job at hand.

109 posted on 10/06/2009 10:06:15 AM PDT by BARLF
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To: PBRCat

The fact that Ayers admits he wrote the book actually makes me less likely to believe he wrote the book.


110 posted on 10/06/2009 10:07:00 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: PBRCat

She didn’t track him down, she said she recognized him and approached him on her own. It could have been a chance encounter, it could have been planned, for all I know he handed her the copy he wanted her to write and posed for a pic.

I believe that most if not all news is not random. Someone had to decide to tell you something through the news. This was Edward Bernay’s take on publicity, that each news item you see is someone’s decision.

A reporter, an editor, and several other people had to say OK to this release. Ayers himself could have said, Don’t publish this.

As I mentioned above, this could be an effort to discredit some “facts” in Barry’s books.


111 posted on 10/06/2009 10:07:21 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: cripplecreek
Rathke made a comment about being lucky there were so many poor people in the world.

In an earlier century he would have called them "canon fodder."

Sociopath.

112 posted on 10/06/2009 10:08:23 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs)
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To: PBRCat
And Lefty groups like the Apollo Alliance and Podesta's group are writing legislation Congress won't read.

R2/CW2 anyone??

113 posted on 10/06/2009 10:08:42 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: PBRCat
A two-part, ten-minute video summary of Jack Cashill's investigation on the Ayers' authorship issue:

YouTube: Who Wrote "Dreams from My Father"? (Part 1)

YouTube: Who Wrote "Dreams from My Father"? (Part 2)

114 posted on 10/06/2009 10:09:00 AM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: neverdem; narses; patton; PBRCat

Weird interview, even stranger admission.

Of course, that allows the Zero’s White House to deny everything that was said. (Wasn’t scripted. Off the cuff answer. Miss-stated his reply. Caught by surprise. Not official interview. Didn’t mean what he said. ....)


115 posted on 10/06/2009 10:09:13 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: True Republican Patriot

BUMP. Don’t count on any apologies. Most of those critical of Cashill are also virulent after-Birthers. In other words, Obama kneepadders.


116 posted on 10/06/2009 10:09:34 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: BertWheeler

The writer You refer to at WND is DR. JACK CASHILL! Dr. Cashill first disclosed his Earth Shaking Discovery last July before the Election! If the damn Media was doing their jobs, and NOT COVERING UP for OBOZO HUSSEIN, Dr. Cashill’s findings would have shown Obama to be the Fraudulent Author that he is, and most probably prevented this Travesty of a President from being Elected!
May GOD BLESS DR.CASHILL, A GREAT AMERICAN PATRIOT!


117 posted on 10/06/2009 10:10:10 AM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

I just don’t think that fame and recognition drives him that much. Perhaps i’m wrong there, but even if it does i think he would have better ways to get the story out. I’m sure he has plenty of contacts, both in and outside of academia. He isn’t isolated and probably isn’t in need of turning to a no-name reporter to help him out.


118 posted on 10/06/2009 10:11:05 AM PDT by Humbug (hmm mmm mmmm)
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To: True Republican Patriot

I had forgotten Cashill, someone who likes publicity as well.


119 posted on 10/06/2009 10:13:39 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Here’s my take on it: Ayers knew instantly that the reporter was not his friend. Most lefties don’t even know what he looks like. We’re the ones who have been reading about him and looking at his picture. His comment about writing the book was to show her that he knew what the Right was saying about him, and that he knew she wasn’t his friend.


120 posted on 10/06/2009 10:14:43 AM PDT by firebrand
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