Sort of a low-rent “Mein Kampf.”
I haven’t read this. But I’ll be watching this thread.
From what I understand ‘dad’ was not around enough to teach him anything.
Mom too...
Wasn’t he raised by his WHITE GRANDPARENTS???
Slowly step back, away from the desk .... easy ..... easy ...... now,
Turn around and face me .... that's right ...
Now repeat after me ...
I ... will ... never ... touch ... that ... stuff ... again.
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Failure
I haven’t read it. I likely won’t. I will get more out of the funnies on Sunday.
You should put the book down and immediately read Jack Cashill's columns on this very subject to find out who really wrote the book.
Follow the link to Cashill's recent columns page, and you will see his "Dreams" articles listed on the right. Start at the bottom and work your way up.
-PJ
I do not believe that an absent father who abandoned his child and family, who only saw his little boy once his entire life, should be someone to be modeled after or emulated. Who cares about the “dreams of his father”? Those dreams, in reality, turned out to be a nightmare for this little boy, regardless of how he has turned out currently. From all our W.J. Clinton days, we know how easy it is for a dysfunctional, emotionally damaged man to make it into the highest office of our country. Osama/Obama is no different.
Compare:
Yavelow Study Confirms Ayers Hand In Obama's "Dreams"
http://www.cashill.com/intellect_fraud/yavelow.htmURGENT: YOUR PRESIDENT ELECT IS ILLITERATE [Ayers probably wrote Dreams!]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2124993/posts
I assume you are familiar with the critical analysis that indicates very strongly that Ayers was the ghost writer, but that Obama supplied the basic anecdotal structure. I have taught literature for 17 years, and it is common knowledge that a writer has a long history of composition before attempting his most important work. There is no evidence that Obama wrote anything. And in studying the use of words and metaphors, they come right out of Ayers’ writings. He, by the way, does have a long history of writing. And his kitchen table was known to be a place for help to new writers.
So far, I am up to the time when he is about 18 yrs old. These are the formative years of a person’s identity. Some foundational elements of the self-identity necessary for a public servant in the USA are lacking in him:
1. Acquaintance with the symbols of the USA, e.g., the pledge of allegiance, 4th of July celebrations, Memorial Day, other national holidays. I know that they are not guarantees, and it may be that he joins in them when he is older, but the lack of them in his early years must necessarily distorted his sense of belonging to the American experiment.
2. Acquaintance with the people and stories of America’s wars; clearly, by age 18 he has not met any veterans who were proud of their service, who honor the dead, and who revere their nation. The only veteran he knows is his grandfather, and he comes across as a complete buffoon.
3. Acquaintance with the components of America’s “civil religion,” such as reverence for the flag, reverence for the ballot, reverence for the Bill of Rights.
4. Acquaintance with anyone involved in any religion. Or at least, he does not admit to it. At no time does he talk about being moved by the call to prayer by the minaret, or observing his mother or grandparents praying (not even before meals), or being curious about the Christmas story.
In sum, so far, his memoirs are the story of a Nobody. An autobiography (and I have read many dozens of them, from Josephus to Marcus Aurelius to Augustine to Eric Severeid), must necessarily involve choices of what to include and what to omit; and whether it is by choice or by accident, this book shows a person who is empty inside.
...and this is the book that the University of Washington (my alma mater) has chosen to have all incoming freshman read...
If you start losing IQ points, I would stop reading.
I hope you bought it used. I would not pay one dime that might go into the pocket of the publisher or supposed author.
I only skim it from time to time.
It’s almost torture to try and read it page to page because of the excruciatingly boring amount
of unimportant information Barry finds it necessary to include on every single page.
Definitely stream of unconsciousness.
There are gems to be found among the literary detritus.
Page 26 He discusses finding his birth certificate as a teenager..not his COLB.
Page 21 “ Bar “ ( yet another alias )
continues the pattern of running down Gramps as a typical lying , racist white person.
“ And yet I don’t entirely dismiss Gramp’s recollection of events as
a convenient bit of puffery,
another act of white revisionism.”
In 2004, Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun Times
wrote a column critiquing Bar’s memoir.
I can’t find the original column, but, this paragraph is still around.
After her column came out criticizing the book, Bar suddenly decided that his previous verbatim conversational recall was now just
an “ approximation. “
“Composite characters.
Changed names.
And reams of dialogue between Obama and other people that moves the narrative along but
is an ‘approximation’ of the actual conversation,” she wrote in the Sun-Times.
“Except for public figures and his family,
it is impossible to know who is real and who is not.”