The Odd Story of Romance in Dreams from my Father

The guy is all “exterior”; he even admitted it at the DNC. “My nomination has nothing to do with me; it’s all about YOU!” he declared to the huge crowd at the stadium. Bho is not just a blank catridge but a blank slate on which people have projected themselves...that’s the key to his success in politics. I’m convinced that this “flatness” to his personality — what has been described as a certain remoteness or “disconnectedness” to his whole persona — is studied. It’s not natural to children unless they are traumatized. He’s like a kind of “Babbitt” out of Sinclair Lewis’s novel — literally a zero, a fog — no school records, no medical records, no birth certificate, no publications, no close connection to his mother or grandmother, no especially close connection (that I can see) to his wife, or even to his children, nothing — nothing either offensive or impressive — but a vacuum that others then proceed to fill with their own selves.

Your reply was beautifully thought out - insightful & well reasoned. I've noticed something else "creepy" about people who relate to Obama - especially men. They emotionally "father" him - something Oprah also did. Yep, Oprah "fathered" him. Don't know how that's done - but it's how it came across. Anyhow, thanks for the insights.

“commonly referred to as the “pooper-scooper law,” and to remind New Yorkers to clean up after their dogs. The legislation, first introduced by then-Assembly Member Lehner and former Senator Franz Leichter, went into effect in August 1978.”

Big O was born in 1961, so he is 17 in 1978 when poop began being scoop. So, at least that part of the story checks out.

“Your reply was beautifully thought out - insightful & well reasoned. I’ve noticed something else “creepy” about people who relate to Obama - especially men. They emotionally “father” him - something Oprah also did. Yep, Oprah “fathered” him. Don’t know how that’s done - but it’s how it came across. Anyhow, thanks for the insights”

Michelle does the same thing....

At the climax of Dreams' opening sequence, Obama receives a phone call. It comes from his Aunt Jane. "Listen, Barry, your father is dead," she tells him. Obama has a hard time understanding. "Can you hear me?" she repeats. "I say, your father is dead." The line is cut, and the conversation ends abruptly.

The opening sequence of Fugitive Days climaxes in nearly identical fashion. This phone call comes from Bernadine Dohrn. "Diana is dead," says Dohrn. Ayers has a hard time understanding. "Diana is dead," she "repeats slowly." Ayers drops the line, and the conversation ends abruptly.

This is one of the most revealing parallels that Cashill finds in the two books.

It would be interesting to expand on these similarities in book form, and in the same book, compare Obama's book with several randomly selected memoirs by authors who are not well known enough to have been on an assigned reading list in college. In other words, books that Obama was unlikely to have read and unconsciously plagiarized. I would be very surprised to find even a few such similarities in the random books.

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