Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s “Dreams”? (Part I)
Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s “Dreams”? (Part II: Deconstructing the Text)
Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s “Dreams”? (Part III: Why it Matters)
More Proof Ayers Ghosted Obama's "Dreams"
Posted on 10/03/2008 4:07:42 PM PDT by MichaelAsher54
Did Bill Ayers write Dreams From My Father?
Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing. As an undergraduate, Obama had written what he justifiably calls some “very bad poetry.” He published nothing under his own name in The Harvard Law Review, where he served as an editor and as president. And after leaving Harvard, he published nothing in its review or in any law journal.
Then, in 1995, this untested 33 year-old produced what Time Magazine has called--with a straight face-- “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.”
The public is asked to believe Obama wrote this on his own. I do not buy this canard for a minute, not at all.
Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s “Dreams”? (Part I)
Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s “Dreams”? (Part II: Deconstructing the Text)
Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s “Dreams”? (Part III: Why it Matters)
More Proof Ayers Ghosted Obama's "Dreams"
I always figured that Ayers wrote the book. Let’s hope someone can find proof.
Good grief! Cashill says he doesn’t have fully digitized versions of the books in question, nor does he have the technical skills to do a complete QSUM analysis or the like. Can’t some group like the Swift Boat vets raise a few million bucks to complete the necessary task? Time is short!
A syntactical analysis of the book with know Ayres writing should reveal a match.
JFK, as we found out, was a totally manufactured candidate. His dad, Joe, was responsible for the bling.
And, JFK, was not the hero on PT-109. That was a man named Johnson from Salisbury, MA who was paid handsomely to take a back seat.
I visited Mr. Johnson at his mansion by the sea when I was 13 with my uncle.
My uncle was envious because Johnson retired at 38 with more money than he could count.
This has been kicked around, but no action even from third party. I don’t think if this proven true that it will impact the race. Have you seen the video of the fraud voters in Ohio?....they can’t read
It’s funny looking at them and trying to figure out how they arrived at the same conclusion to vote BHO as Warren Buffett and his billionaire buddies.
It either comes out now or it comes out after he’s elected. I opt for the former.
He did say getting your boat rammed was sort of the ultimate embarrassment for a PT boat as they were small and the fastest thing on the water.
I agree with you, but I don’t have a national tv or talk show to lay it out. As far as I’m concerned those who do are not interested either or they would have already....they are waiting for the MSM to put their credibility on the line which they won’t.
A very sad state when even the champions of the conservative movement decide its better to remain quiet then investigate.
Jack Cashill has done Fantastic Investigative Journalism in all but proving beyond a shadow of doubt that William Ayers GHOSTWROTE Obama’s best seller “DREAMS OF MY FATHER!” hence proving Ayers and Obama are long term friends and partners!
GOD BLESS JACK CASHILL!!!
May all FREEPERS DEMAND THAT RUSH, HANNITY, SAVAGE, and McCAIN/PALIN FOLLOWUP ON THIS HUGE BOMB!!!!!
IT PROVES OBAMA HUSSEIN IS A LIAR AND CONSORTS WITH KNOWN, WICKED, ANTIAMERICAN TERRORISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome to FREEPERLAND!!! Is there a reason that you think that Bill Ayers being Obama’s GHOSTWRITER is a trivial thing to be ignored? That sounds more like a ridiculous clown statement that David Axelrod would make knowing his vested interest in preserving whatever is possible of the steaming heap of cow poop known as Barack Hussein Obama!
Man, I cannot stand the title of that book - ‘’from’’ my father? How contrived is that?
Dreams my father left to me. Dreams inspired by my father. Whatever. But ‘’from’’? Just silly.
How did obama get pres of law review and never publish anything? That is truly odd. Surely that would have meant that he was considered one of the best writers in his class of law students, right?
Weird.
A little about Ayers. His old man was very wealthy. He sat on the board of directors of large companies like Searle which became part of Monsanto’s pharamaceutical business if I remember correctly. You do not get on the board of big companies like this unless you are an Ex-Ceo, very large shareholder, etc. Ayers old man also probably paid for very good lawyers to insure Ayers got a light jail sentence.
Obama is not that bright and I doubt he wrote the book.
Volunteer and donate to McCain-PALIN 2008. Get to work helping now. Ignore the polls.
Dream of his father? His father split and his mother also split. It was his “typical white woman” grandmother who brought him up with his grand dad. A book praising his white relatives would not sell. Ayers wrote the book - you can bank on it.
Ayers old man was very wealthy and I am sure Ayers went to good schools and got a good education. Typical spoiled brat terrorist/vermin.
Actually, Cashill has merely offered a completely unsupported speculation. He has supplied no proof and no real evidence.
Your challenge, Interesting Times:
1) Provide point-by-point arguments against Cashill’s case
2) Explain how an utterly unaccomplished writer came up with Dreams From My Father, a memoir with copious similarities to Ayers’ book.
What case? Where is the evidence? Did Cashill bother to get the results of an author attribution software comparison between the books? Did he consult experts in the field? No, he just offered an opinion.
2) Explain how an utterly unaccomplished writer came up with Dreams From My Father, a memoir with copious similarities to Ayers’ book.
I don't have to explain it, because that's not my position. It's quite likely that Dreams was ghost-written. However, to publicly claim you know who wrote it without providing any sort of technical analysis is weak, weak stuff.
Just what I thought. You have no explanation for the similarities.
Certainly, it’s circumstantial and pretty damning at that. Cashill is himself something of an expert in the field.
At the very least, he’s provided an incredibly strong argument that it’s something that needs to be investigated before a man about whom there are so many unanswered questions is elected president.
Ayers is not just some guy from his neighborhood.
Let’s just say that your notion of “an incredibly strong argument” and mine vary significantly.
If you’re interested in doing more than just typing stuff on a discussion forum, here’s my challenge to you: come up with a decent authorship attribution software package. I’ll scan a chapter each from “Dreams” and from “Fugitive Days” and we’ll see if there’s any verifiable correlation.
I will do some research into QSUM software, etc. In the meantime, at least accept my initial challenge and tell me why you are so dubious.
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