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Dreams From My Literary Agent (Some fishy things about that Obama memoir)
NRO Campaign Spot ^ | 7/31/2008 | Jim Geraghty & Robert Stacy McCain

Posted on 07/31/2008 2:22:44 PM PDT by mojito

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To: mojito

It’s beginning to sound like Obambi has been groomed by Ayers (Sr, I assume) and Soros since he was Obambino! Trojan horse, indeed!


21 posted on 07/31/2008 3:49:20 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Are you ready to pray for Teddy?)
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To: CivilWarguy
Here is an interesting post at the RSMcCain site:

“Here's another excerpt from the NYIMES piece:

“When his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention sent his memoir soaring out of obscurity and straight onto the best-seller list, he untethered himself from his longtime literary agent in favor of Robert B. Barnett, the Washington lawyer who had gotten Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton an $8 million book advance and then landed Mr. Obama a $1.9 million, three-book deal.”

Er um... “untethered himself from his longtime literary agent”... ?!?!?

THIS IS SO OFF THE MARK IT MIGHT AS WELL BE A LIE.

OBAMA SUMMARILY BROKE THE CONTRACT HE HAD WITH HIS AGENT JANE DYSTEL WHO PUT HIM ON THE MAP WHEN HE WAS A NOBODY.

HE DID THIS AS SOON AS A BIGGER AGENT CAME ALONG - RIGHT AFTER HIS KERRY CONVENTION SPEECH.

OBAMA AND HIS 1st AGENT SETTLED OUT OF COURT.

BUT THIS EPISODE REVEALS A PATTERN WHICH WE HAVE SINCE SEEN OVER AND POVER AGAIN:

Obama ditches friends as soon as it becomes advantageous to move on.

His mother. His agent. His pastor. Et al.

Obama is a low-life ingrate who doesn't know the meaning of the word LOYALTY.

VOTE ACCORDINGLY.”

22 posted on 07/31/2008 3:55:51 PM PDT by mojito
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To: CivilWarguy
The gushing NYT story on the story of the Obama memoir:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/us/politics/18memoirs.html?_r=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

23 posted on 07/31/2008 3:58:43 PM PDT by mojito
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"You The MSM cannot talk about Obama’s ears, wife, pastor, birth certificate, smoking habits, or book deals."

We...at least the non-cowards left in America, can talk about anything we want to about barraaaccckkkkkkkkkkkk.

Barrraaacccckkkkkkk.....sounds like a Don Martin (Mad Comics) sound effect of a fart, doesn't it?
24 posted on 07/31/2008 4:02:54 PM PDT by FrankR (Liberalism is Communism by the drink - P.J. O'Roarke)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama had a little mom who’s fleece was white as snow
And everywhere obama went, to her he said “no, no”.
You can’t be gettin’ in my face
I have to win by daddy’s race
I’m here to fake the change and hopes
To all those goofy liberal dopes


25 posted on 07/31/2008 4:15:27 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: RedWireNut
re: Jack Cashill checks in on the origin of this book in his latest blog.

Very interesting. Thanks for the link.

26 posted on 07/31/2008 4:16:21 PM PDT by Nevadan
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To: mojito

“The agent then signs this 28-year-old nobody — whose only credential as an author is student law journal stuff”

Did he even write anything for the Harvard Law Journal?


27 posted on 07/31/2008 4:19:02 PM PDT by keepitreal ("I'm Barack Obama and I approve this message. . . until I don't.")
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To: FrankR

Actually,it’s the exact sound my cat makes when she whoops up a hairball.


28 posted on 07/31/2008 4:40:40 PM PDT by Boston Tea Party
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To: Judges Gone Wild
$40K is pocket change for her.

And it's pocket change to Simon & Schuster. But, believe me, Simon & Schuster doesn't throw money at rookie talent unless they've been told to -- by somebody with clout.

Moreover, they don't throw a second advance and an "attaboy" to writers who miss their deadlines.

Further, my understanding is that, once he got the second advance, he left Harvard and was offered a professorship at the University of Chicago. The understanding was that he was there to "write his book", not teach, and an office and secretarial help was provided.

Still, Obama couldn't seem to come up with a book. He left Chicago...and went to Indonesia for six months. It was there that he "wrote" the book.

Leading to yet another question: Not only who funded the book? But who wrote it?

Plus, a third very important question: Why?

29 posted on 07/31/2008 4:42:58 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: SatinDoll
My primary suspect for the puppet master is George Soros.

Bankroller, yes. But "puppet master", no.

Somebody else is calling the tune. Somebody who might have access to Soros' money.

Obama is clearly somebody's creation, representing a long-term investment. They might lease him...but they wouldn't sell him.

30 posted on 07/31/2008 4:46:18 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: Ditto

You know what? That would make a good campaign poster for the O-fraud. Turtle on the fence post.


31 posted on 07/31/2008 4:55:17 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: okie01

Perhaps if one could discover who made a similar trip to Indonesia at the same time?


32 posted on 07/31/2008 5:01:17 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: freeangel

Bravo!


33 posted on 07/31/2008 5:12:10 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: WVNan
Perhaps if one could discover who made a similar trip to Indonesia at the same time?

That would be a good place to start.

Of course, that person wouldn't have necessarily come from the U.S. Could easily be an expatriate who now had residence overseas -- in, oh, say, Russia or China...

34 posted on 07/31/2008 5:24:39 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: mojito
send this one on to Rush and Ann--who know about book deals. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out who was behind the deals.

So, he was a at the U of Chicago to "write his book." How special.

35 posted on 07/31/2008 6:26:10 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: RedWireNut

Most interesting reading.


36 posted on 07/31/2008 7:04:58 PM PDT by visualops (artlife.us -nature photography desktop wallpapers)
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To: Vinnie; SatinDoll
Like the Wizard of Oz, who is behind the curtain??

The person behind the curtain is the same one who orchestrated Deval Patrick's rocket ride into the MA governor's office.

37 posted on 07/31/2008 7:09:19 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

Quick! Who is it? Dr. Dean at the DNC?


38 posted on 07/31/2008 7:15:08 PM PDT by SatinDoll (Desperately desiring a conservative government.)
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To: mojito

**The Messiah moves in mysterious ways.**

Yes, Jesus Christ does move in mysterious ways in our modern world.

Obamanation just THINKS he is the Messiah.


39 posted on 07/31/2008 7:36:58 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: SatinDoll

I don’t know who is behind it all. Clearly it’s not Dean. He’s not a big enough player.

Deval Patrick - Obama’s buddy - came out of nowhere to run for governor of Massachusetts. He (actually, they) pushed out loyal party members who were in line for the job. Any potential candidates had negative stories all of a sudden appear in the Boston Herald and Globe. It was not the local Irish/Italian/Black mafia or the Boston College big money guys who were behind it.

The Kennedys jumped right behind Deval, just as they have been pushing Obama. It seems to be more than just anger toward Hillary. It’s a finely orchestrated movement. Big players are involved.


40 posted on 07/31/2008 7:48:44 PM PDT by ladyjane
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