Posted on 09/20/2008 11:39:11 AM PDT by pissant
Editor's note: This is the final installment of a three-part analysis of Barack Obama's "Dreams From My Father." Read Part 1, "Bill Ayers' motive for penning memoir." Read Part 2, "Deconstructing the text."
On several occasions, I have gotten calls from a publisher to rescue a book. Last year, for instance, the publishers of Bill Cosby's book, "Come On People," written with Dr. Alvin Poussaint, needed some major help, and I was brought in to provide it.
Although the project was difficult and expensive, the publishers had a vested interest in seeing that this book came out on time and in good style. It was a projected best-seller, and it proved to be just that.
My job was to fuse the separate voices of Cosby and Poussaint into a "we" without sacrificing their content or their style. This was their book, not mine. These were their thoughts, not mine. They can rightly and proudly claim authorship.
Whoever rescued Barack Obama's "Dreams From My Father" went much further. He invested considerable time to invent a distinctive voice and style for an unknown author. In essence, he created the "Barack Obama" we know and did so for reasons that defy any marketing imperative.
Obama, who had nothing in print until "Dreams" save for some awful undergraduate poetry, could no more write a book like this than I could paint the Mona Lisa. He has done nothing since, either spoken or written, to even hint at the eloquence of the memoir's authorial voice.
Lacking digitized, full text versions of "Dreams" or Bill Ayers' "Fugitive Days," I have been reduced to close readings and yellow highlighters.
That said, a textual comparison of the two books and the additional circumstantial evidence of time, place, means and motive make Ayers a highly likely candidate for Obama's
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
PART 1:
Bill Ayers’ motive for penning memoir
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75528
PART 2: Deconstructing the text
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75606
If the American People are so stupid as to fall for this “Manchurian” candidate, then perhaps we have become to fat, lazy and stupid to survive as a nation. What comes after, perhaps, is where we begin to turn our attention to.
Great line!
I don’t know if Ayers wrote this book but there’s not one person in this country that could argue against his influence on, and relationship with the Messiah. Now that the Ayers/Osama relationship has come into full light, the loony left has resorted to saying “yeah, so what if he hung around Ayers?” Hell, most of these goofballs probably think Ayers and Wright are just misunderstood and the product of Republican policies.
Jack Cashill is a conspiracy nut from way back.
He is just selling conspiracy.
Our efforts are best placed elsewhere
By all means, place your efforts elsewhere.
Jack spins a good yarn and it might even be true. Unfortunately, he hasn’t made his case. Perhaps someone else can do better, but right now its pretty thin gruel.
I guess mylife believes that 9/11 was an inside job ordered by Bush himself?
Cashill is a conspiracy nut only to the extent he exposes the idiots who claim the US blew up the WTC.
Also google and read Cashill’s reports on TWA 800.
Cashill is not 100 % right 100 % of the time. But he’s good.
Other posts and replies on Parts I, II and III........
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cashill/index
Examples make the case, not ramblings.
This one says more succinctly than several of my own attempts what drives Obama:
“In the way of background, Ayers and Obama both grew up in comfortable white households and have struggled to find an identity as righteous black men ever since.”
Have you watched Megafix?
Its truly entertaining but its conspiracy stuff.
And where do you get the notion that because I call Cashill for promoting conspiracy’s that I believe in them?
Okey Doke. I will.
Agreed.
BTW I listened to Cashill being interviewed on this and even HE added a disclaimer that this was pure speculation on his part.
As an aside, I can’t stand the hypocrisy of people like Ayers. He grew up privileged, and wants to deny me the ability to use my own hard work to have a better life than my blue collar father. Hypocrisy personified.
I see two issues here. The first is whether Bambi wrote the book himself, and if not, who did.
I think it very likely that the book was ghosted. I would not call that entirely speculative. As for Ayers as the ghostwriter, I’d call that informed speculation.
I think there was almost certainly a ghost writer. But Cashill is about the last person I would trust to figure out who did it.
Bill Ayres? I doubt it. I imagine that whoever was behind this whole Obama project probably worked with the press to hire a professional ghost writer. And they worked in the usual way, having Obama sit down and record tales and dreams about his life, question him about hot topics for more details, and so forth.
Almost the entire publishing industry is now leftist and multicultural, so the only way to identify the writer would be to focus on stylistic tics and habits—which is very hard to do. Favoring black power and Marxism is hardly a distinguishing trait—almost all of them feel that way.
Bill Ayres? I doubt it. I imagine that whoever was behind this whole Obama project probably worked with the press to hire a professional ghost writer. And they worked in the usual way, having Obama sit down and record tales and dreams about his life, question him about hot topics for more details, and so forth.
Almost the entire publishing industry is now leftist and multicultural, so the only way to identify the writer would be to focus on stylistic tics and habits—which is very hard to do. Favoring black power and Marxism is hardly a distinguishing trait—almost all of them feel that way.
I agree. Similarities between the two books reflect a similar mindset of the authors', but not necessarily the same author.
Ayres goes a lot further than Obama in his views, and his writing reflects a harder, more dogmatic leftism.
If Ayres writes "unsentimentally" about his upbringing and Obama does too, they aren't necessarily writing from the same point of view, because their upbringings were different.
Ayres's criticism of his parents' world is one-dimensionally ideological. Ayres thinks he's left and they're wrong.
Obama's background was a very different one, so if he's unsentimental about his past, that includes a cynicism about his mother's leftism and Ayres-like Third World fantasies.
When Ayres fantasizes about being Black and Obama fantasizes about being Black it's not quite the same thing either. Ayres is indulging in a pure ideological fantasy, and Obama's reaching out to a part of his own background.
If Ayres wrote the Obama book, it would have had a harder ideological edge and pointedness. Whoever did write the book probably wasn't a bombthrower from the 1960s.
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