Posted on 01/18/2009 6:31:42 PM PST by STARWISE
The sea metaphors
A newly discovered anecdote from Bill Ayers' 1993 book, To Teach, solidifies the case that he is indeed the muse behind Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father.
In the book, Ayers tells the story of an adventurous teacher who would take her students out to the streets of New York to learn interesting life lessons about the culture and history of the city. As Ayers tells it, the students were fascinated by the Hudson River nearby and asked to see it. When they got to the river's edge, one student said, " Look, the river is flowing up." A second student said, "No, it has to flow south-down."
Not knowing which was right, the teacher and the students did their research. What they discovered, writes Ayers, was "that the Hudson River is a tidal river, that it flows both north and south, and they had visited the exact spot where the tide stops its northward push."
In his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama shares a stunningly comparable anecdote about tidal rivers from his own brief New York sojourn. He tells of meeting with "Marty Kauffman" at a Lexington Avenue diner, the man from Chicago who was trying to recruit him as a community organizer.
After the meeting, Obama "took the long way home, along the East River promenade." As "a long brown barge rolled through the gray waters toward the sea," Obama sat down on a bench to consider his options. While sitting, he noticed a black woman and her young son against the railing. Overly fond of the too well remembered detail, Obama observes that "they stood side by side, his arm wrapped around her leg, a single silhouette against the twilight."
The boy appeared to ask his mother a question that she could not answer and then approached Obama: "Excuse me, mister," he shouted. "You know why sometimes the river runs that way and then sometimes it goes this way?"
"The woman smiled and shook her head, and I said it probably had to do with the tides." Obama uses the seeming indecisiveness of this tidal river as a metaphor for his own. Immediately afterwards, he shakes the indecision and heads for Chicago.
Even were there no other clues, Obama's frequent and sophisticated use of nautical metaphors like this one makes a powerful case for Ayers' involvement in the writing of Dreams. Despite growing up in Hawaii, Obama gives no indication than he has had any real experience with the sea or ships.
Ayers, however, knew a great deal about the sea. After dropping out of college, he took up the life of a merchant seaman.
Why the double post?
obama 2008 is a manufactured product.
no shirt, shylock
My response was intended for the meaningful post, not yours.
Apologies.
Does anyone really give a damm?
Now the sapper that got within the perimeter has gotten complete control of the HQ...and all the staff.
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN HIS OWN WORDS
NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES
OBAMA, THE STOCK MARKET, AND ENERGY
THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S UPBRINGING
Dude. Nobody cares.
The fact that Obama is a fraud, that his closest associates are terrorists, communists, anarchists, crooks, con-men, and fake priests is of absolutely no interest to anyone other than a few right-wingers.
Let it go.
Read later, thanks.
that was the “captian obvious” remark... I really didn’t think I needed the /sarc after it.
Amazing, isnt it?
that’s what you get for not being clear enough. /s <—
THEY DO NOT CARE, he is their “One” and their “Moment is coming.
Is that Elton John at 2 o’clock?
FReepers already concluded that Ayers was the author. This part isn’t news. That others are finally picking up on it, however, is news.
Now, if they’ll just get ahold of paperwork from Occidental or Columbia or Harvard that lists Barry Obama as a foreign student, we can all heave a sigh of relief as we lock and load.
I just wish SCOTUS Roberts would hesitate before giving the oath of office and say “but first, PE Obama has something to say to the public about his birth certificate.”
It won’t happen so I won’t be watching. Wasn’t going to watch anyway.
Happy Robert E Lee Birthday (Monday) y’all.
Trying to figure that one out myself.
I think I read that he has to write two more ‘non-fictions’ according to his last big contract. It will be interesting to compare their style with Dreams and Audacity.
If only the major media would pick this up and run with it. The more people who question this fraud instead of going out of their way with this love fest the sooner we can get rid of him.
Lucifer himself could have co-authored Obama’s books and the dems and the media would commend the Messiah for his open-mindedness and inclusivity!! The next four years are gong to be more nauseating than chemotherapy!
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