Seems to me I read, maybe on one of the threads about Ayers likely being a ghost write - that 0bama went to Bali to “write” but didn’t get much writing done there. I wonder what he was doing there? Brushing up on his Bahasa? Connecting up with Muslim roots? Of course, on Bali they’re mostly a type of Hindu. I wonder if he really stayed in Bali the whole time? It was quite a long time. Maybe Bali was just a port of call. Sure would be interesting to know what he did during that time, and if he traveled anywhere besides Bali.
http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/did_bill_ayers_write_1.htm
As Osnos relates, a 1990 New York Times profile on Harvards first black editor caught the eye of a hustling young literary agent named Jane Dystel.
Dystel persuaded Obama to put a book proposal together, and she submitted it. Poseidon, a small imprint of Simon & Schuster, signed on and authorized a roughly $125,000 advance for Obamas proposed memoir.
With advance in hand, Obama repaired to Chicago where the University of Chicago offered him an office and stipend to help him write. Obama dithered.
At one point, in order to finish without interruption, he and wife Michelle decamped to Bali. Obama was supposed to have finished the book within a year. Bali or not, advance or no, he could not. He was surely in way over his head.
According to Osnos, Simon & Schuster canceled the contract and likely asked that Obama return at least some of the advance.
Dystel did not give up. She solicited Times Book, the division of Random House at which Osnos was publisher. He met with Obama, took his word that he could finish the book, and authorized a new advance of $40,000.
Then suddenly, somehow, the muse descended on Obama and transformed him from a struggling, unschooled wannabe into a literary superstar.
Seems to me I read, maybe on one of the threads about Ayers likely being a ghost write - that 0bama went to Bali to write but didnt get much writing done there. I wonder what he was doing there? Brushing up on his Bahasa? Connecting up with Muslim roots? Of course, on Bali theyre mostly a type of Hindu. I wonder if he really stayed in Bali the whole time? It was quite a long time. Maybe Bali was just a port of call. Sure would be interesting to know what he did during that time, and if he traveled anywhere besides Bali.
Does anyone know where he stayed in Bali? That wasn’t all that long ago and if he was there for quite a while, there must be some who knew him(if he was really there)