Posted on 07/31/2008 2:22:44 PM PDT by mojito
It's an old point about Obama's early life experience, but when I read about the formation of the book Dreams From My Father, a thought or two similar to Robert Stacy McCain's ran across my mind:
"A 28-year-old law student gets written up in the newspapers, then gets a call from a literary agent? She calls him?
The agent then signs this 28-year-old nobody — whose only credential as an author is student law journal stuff — with Simon & Schuster. Hello? In what alternative universe does this happen?
He misses his deadline, but that's OK, because he then gets another big contract with a $40,000 advance. At this point, Obama's story is reminding me of another popular book, The Peter Principle.
But the real killer is how, having gotten a contract based on a proposal for a book about race relations, Obama pulls a bait-and-switch, and instead delivers ... a memoir.
A memoir! Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?? Unless you led the league in RBIs and helped the Yankees win the Series, how the hell does a 28-year-old get away with selling a memoir to a major publisher for $40,000?"
(Excerpt) Read more at campaignspot.nationalreview.com ...
It’s beginning to sound like Obambi has been groomed by Ayers (Sr, I assume) and Soros since he was Obambino! Trojan horse, indeed!
“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.”
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
Very interesting. Thanks for the link.
“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?
Actually,it’s the exact sound my cat makes when she whoops up a hairball.
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?
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.
You know what? That would make a good campaign poster for the O-fraud. Turtle on the fence post.
Perhaps if one could discover who made a similar trip to Indonesia at the same time?
Bravo!
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...
So, he was a at the U of Chicago to "write his book." How special.
Most interesting reading.
The person behind the curtain is the same one who orchestrated Deval Patrick's rocket ride into the MA governor's office.
Quick! Who is it? Dr. Dean at the DNC?
**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.
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.
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