Posted on 11/19/2009 6:42:05 PM PST by Bob017
Now that every nut in America is equipped with a laptop computer, you're likely to run afoul of a nut on the loose almost anywhere.
I observed in this space earlier this week that Barack Obama's curious need to travel the world to make endless apologies for America might stem from his spending the most formative years of his childhood growing up in the Third World. I mentioned two observable facts, neither in any way accusatory or rude, that his father was a Kenyan (Marxist) and the mother who raised him was obviously attracted to men of the Third World, having married, twice, men of the Third World.
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What.
A.
Steaming.
Pantload.
Surely Wes Pruden has read Jack Cashill’s work, and realizes by now that Bill Ayers wrote “Dreams.”
Somehow, I don’t think he thinks that...:)
He also wasn’t a president when they were written.
Well, there aren’t many real autobiographies or memoirs by our presidents. And of these few have any literary reputation.
Obamas book is actually quite well-written as far as it goes - of course, it was probably not written by Obama for a substantial part if at all, but we may never get the specifics of this. Lets assume for a moment that he was the writer -
Grant was a better writer, Nixon was a workmanlike writer but more substantial and fundamentally interesting, Jefferson was often fascinating but not a great lterary writer in his long works, Reagan could write very well indeed, but never wrote a real memoir - but after them, who else wrote anything thats not just plain dull ?
I have read Theodore Roosevelt’s and Grant’s. What I should have said when I read “one of the best” was “Talk about damning with faint praise”. At least, that is what I felt.
I have read a few of Nixon’s books, and liked them. Interesting reading.
“but after them, who else wrote anything thats not just plain dull ?”
True, I actually started Bill Clinton’s book but only made it about halfway through.
JFK - “Profiles in Courage” but he apparently didn’t write it though it has largely been attributed to him.
I’ve always thought Slick Willie’s book (”My Life”) should have been recast as “My Lies”
Bwwwwwwaaaaahhhhhhaaaa!
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