Posted on 10/09/2008 5:26:16 AM PDT by Jack Bull
Even if Ayers did not have a hand in Obama’s book, it puts Obama on the spot. Was Obama that well versed with Ayers’ books that he borrowed the same phrases? Or did he pal around so much with Ayers that Ayers’ phraseology rubbed off on him.
And if indeed, Ayers was actually the ghostwriter of the book, then that reveals one (or both) of two things: Ayers and Obama spent a LOT of time together (you can’t ghostwrite a book without extensive interviews) and Obama did not credit Ayers with it because he knew Ayers’ past (which he has denied) and felt that acknowledgement of Ayers’ involvement in the book would discredit The One.
McCain debate question: “Mr. Obama, did you alone write your books?”
Must read!
We may be on the verge of electing a communist mole President, a glib front-man for terrorist and America-hater Bill Ayers.
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Is Cashill saying Ayers is of mixed race also? I’ll google it but perhaps it won’t say.
Thanks for posting this excellent article, Jack Bull. Wow.
“”In the way of background, both grew up in comfortable white households and have struggled to find an identity as righteous black men ever since.””
Wikipedia doesn’t speak to this....I wonder. Don’t know why it makes a difference but perhaps another reason Obama latched on to him as I believe he did.
No, Ayers was a white 60s radical very much influenced by Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” (and also, I suspect, by Frantz Fanon). Fanon was from Martinique and of mixed race, eventually developing an Obama-type black (and Muslim) identity. He wrote about race, colonialism, etc. and was behind many of the terrible things that happened in Algeria. He was also wildly popular during Ayers’ formative radical years, and I would suspect some of these things entered into Ayers’ “creation” of Obama in the image of the conception of “black identity” that Ayers had absorbed from Ellison and, possibly, from Fanon.
Obama probably would have known about these people from his Communist “mentor,” Frank Davis, but it doesn’t sound (by his own admission) like he was a great reader, and he probably just assumed the identity that Ayers had created for him. Obama’s obviously the sort of disturbed, unstable person who doesn’t really have a center of his own, and he made the perfect blank canvas for Ayers.
I don’t really think that Ayers is of mixed race. He grew up in the socially posh suburb of Glen Ellyn, IL, where those things were not accepted. His father was CEO, I think, of Commonwealth Edison.
But there is something else that pops out to someone who knows Chicago well (me for instance), and that is a project that has been around Chicago for some time now that encourages blacks to write their autobiographies. It’s some kind of therapy, I guess, and I know two people who wrote this way, and their books were terrible. Could Obama have been in this program? The heads of this program promised to publish the books, and now the authors are busy trying to give them away.
Does anyone know about this program?
Ooops, left off part of my post. I think Ayers was a “wannabe black.” There were many white radicals who regarded blacks, the more violent the better, as the only true revolutionaries, and wanted to emulate them or even be accepted as one of them. Don’t forget that the Weathermen and all the white radical groups were very involved with and supportive of the Black Panthers during their most violent days.
No, I think that Cashill is saying (based on Ayers' own admission) that Ayers WANTED to be black -- to take on the sufferings of a black man as an excuse (perhaps) or reparation for his privileged upbringing. There was a lot of that going around colleges in the 60s and 70s.
The Civil Rights movement was getting a lot of attention, followed by the Black Panthers. It was just hard for a wealthy, plain ol' white guy to garner any respect, attention, or chicks, from the radicals. Bill Ayers came along at the end of the "movement" so he had to be more outrageous that any of those who preceded him so that he wasn't just an "also-ran".
Ted Sorenson wrote Profiles in Courage for JFK
JFK got the Pulitzer
I know that everything referring to his family speaks about his father’s and his mother’s occupations, supposedly middle class etc., but I wonder why Cashill made that statement.
I think Obama has adopted every radical’s identity - I’ve long thought he doesn’t have his own. When he speaks, he talks about so and so’s beliefs and how much influence they had on him. He has spoken about his father and then finding that he was a drunk etc., but that didn’t stop him from adopting and promoting the “black” side of his father for himself. Why wouldn’t he run in the opposite direction? Except that wouldn’t be the way to “get ahead” and exploit his own race or at least half of it.
Does the man not HAVE A BRAIN? Has he never met any honorable people in his life?
“”No, I think that Cashill is saying (based on Ayers’ own admission) that Ayers WANTED to be black —””
OK - I’ll buy that. I remember the 60’s as being busy working for a living, seeing those nutjobs on the TV news and wondering/fearing where we were headed, living in Sacramento at that time and seeing it up close. NOW we can see for ourselves how it all played out. Great planning, liberals. The destruction of what was founded and nourished as the greatest nation in the world at one time.
It’s all pretty sick. I don’t think we have to wonder just WHO will follow Obama to DC IF!!!! Too horrible to even think about.
In the last few months there was a news report about someone testing software designed to determine the authorship of writings based on nuances of word selection, punctuation anomolies, sentence structure patterns, etc. Apparently it was created to determine/trace the author of otherwise anonymous Internet postings. Perhaps that could be applied to Barack’s alleged memoir.
(What thirty-something writes a memoir? Maybe someone who did something utterly outstanding, but otherwise no thirty-something has lived long enough to garner enough material.)
They need to produce this amazing person's third grade essay in which he predicted that he would be president, get our troops out of Iraq and solve the world's financial problems. Seems like I remember a story that his teacher kept that.
In the meantime we need to prepare for our own October surprise. I predict that the 30 investigators in Alaska will determine that Sarah Palin colored outside the lines in the third grade. If not in the third grade, at least in Kindergarten.
“”I predict that the 30 investigators in Alaska will determine that Sarah Palin colored outside the lines in the third grade. If not in the third grade, at least in Kindergarten.””
That’s not funny - our daughter’s kindergarten teacher called us in for a conference because she cut “jaggy” lines with scissors. We’ve never forgotten it in our family.
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