Three Cheers for Jack Cashill ("instances in which Ayers acknowledges his authorship of Dreams.")

American Thinker ^ | March 10, 2011 | Herbert E. Meyer

[neverdem]

Would you believe me if I told you that while in Milan last weekend, I'd been to La Scala for the world premiere of a new opera by George W. Bush?  And would you ever again take me seriously if I published a review of Bush's new opera in which I wrote that "...through this work, so infused with the passion of Carmen, the musicality of La Boheme and the drama of Tosca, our forty-third president takes his place as the most gifted composer in the history of American politics"?

Of course not.  No one, not even that former-Bush-White-House-press-secretary blonde who keeps showing up on Fox News, would believe this because it's utterly preposterous.  A man who has displayed not the slightest musical talent simply cannot sit down one day and produce an operatic masterpiece.

And as Jack Cashill proves in Deconstructing Obama, it is just as preposterous to believe that President Obama actually wrote his lyrical, extravagantly praised autobiography, Dreams from My Father.  On page after page, chapter after chapter, Cashill shows why it simply isn't possible for Obama to have produced such a high-quality autobiography.  For instance, Obama wrote nearly nothing before Dreams from My Father, despite being president of the Harvard Law Review, and what little he wrote in the years after Harvard is clunky and sophomoric. And yet Dreams from My Father contains some of the most elegant, evocative sentences ever penned by a politician:

I heard all our voices begin to run together, the sound of three generations tumbling over each other like the currents of a slow-moving stream, my questions like rocks roiling the water, the breaks in memory separating the currents....

Huh?  Obama has been our president for more than two years, and hardly a day goes by without him blathering on about some issue.  Jokes about his dependence on the teleprompter are a staple of the late-night television comics.  The president's inaugural address -- which he surely didn't dash off casually, because he must have understood that this is the speech that one day will be carved into the marble wall of his monument -- contains not one memorable phrase or sentence.  So how did he write the kinds of poetic, elegiac passages that make Dreams from My Father a literary near-masterpiece?

As Cashill shows, he didn't.  And he demonstrates, with as much precision as you can get short of a DNA sample, that Dreams was actually written by Obama's Hyde Park colleague, friend and neighbor, the terrorist Bill Ayers.  (There's even more evidence of Ayers' authorship in Cashill's book than in the articles about this he's written for American Thinker.)  Oh, and Cashill reports two specific instances in which Ayers acknowledges his authorship of Dreams.  That's interesting, to say the least.

Moving beyond the text of Dreams, Cashill does a masterful job walking readers through the details of Obama's complicated life, and showing why people who question every facet of Obama's bio are right to do so.  How did such a mediocre student get into Columbia University, and then Harvard Law?  If the "birthers" are nuts -- as Establishment pooh-bahs like George Will profess to believe -- how come the so-called "certificate of live birth" released online by the Obama team in 2008 doesn't list the name of the Honolulu hospital at which the future president is said to have been born.  (My birth certificate lists the hospital.  Doesn't yours?  Have you ever seen a birth certificate that doesn't include the hospital's name?)  And when lawyers in Kenya trying to track down anyone who might have a claim on the estate of Barack Obama Sr. contacted Obama's mother for the usual birth-certificate information about her son, how come she couldn't provide it?  (By the way, Cashill pulls this troubling, but little-noticed incident, right out of Dreams.  Also interesting -- or is "explosive" the better word.)

And it's even more interesting to read Cashill's riveting account of his mostly-futile efforts to get leading members of our country's mainstream media to take notice that something -- sorry, everything -- about Dreams and its purported author is seriously askew.  And this is what makes Deconstructing Obama a seriously important book.  Obama wouldn't be the first ambitious politician to have used a ghostwriter without giving credit to the wordsmith who made the rising star look good in print.  But uniquely in Obama's case, his entire credibility during the 2008 campaign rested on his image as a brilliant man; a man who'd lived the multicultural life we'd been told could finally take our country beyond its racist, militaristic past and safely into the future.

By Deconstructing Obama page by page -- and piece by piece -- Cashill brings the reader to understand that in 2008 "Barak Obama" wasn't a candidate but a carefully created myth.  The leftist mainstream media bought that myth, which is why they blew off Cashill and his overwhelming amount of evidence that so much about Obama was fraudulent.  That's why Obama's close relationships with Ayers and with the vicious America-hater Jeremiah Wright were ignored by the mainstream media during the campaign, and also that telling comment by Michelle about her husband's candidacy being the first time she'd ever been proud of our country.  After all, if any part of the myth turned out to be false, Obama's candidacy would have collapsed.  That didn't happen, of course, and it's depressing to realize that when given the choice between a myth and a genuine war hero -- American voters chose the myth.

In the long run, reality always wins.  Tomorrow, or next year, or sometime later this century the truth about Barack Obama will trickle out.  And when that happens, "Barak Obama" will be exposed as a myth.  And Jack Cashill will get the recognition he deserves as the best investigative journalist of our time.

Herbert E. Meyer served during the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and Vice Chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council.  He is author of two new eBooks, How to Analyze Information and The Cure for Poverty

[Harley]

Obama isn’t a myth, which is not dangerous, but a hoax which can cause a lot of damage. I think is middle name is Hoax not Hussein.

This book is on my to read list.

[griswold3]

Still waiting for any evidence that Obama is as intelligent or brilliant as they say while he’s POTUS.

[One Name]

Hear, hear.

Deception is at least partially willful. We all have tendencies to ignore the truth about ourselves, our families and others.

That so many willfully ignored any objection to the Obama myth, as an exercise in white guilt among other dynamics is a damning indictment.

Perhaps God will use this.

[DaxtonBrown]

I wrote HARRY: Money Mob and Influence, which deconstructs Reid’s bizarre and corrupt past. If Cashill has me beat exposing the bizarre (and I think he does), then we are being lead by some of the strangest politicians ever.

[drubyfive]

Why do they want to make it out that Ayers is such a great writer?

[rockinqsranch]

Don’t bother. No sense in wasting your time. He isn’t. He’s a fake. He’s a marionette attached by strings to his Leftist, Marxist Master’s will.

[True Republican Patriot]

What is the full title of your book on DINGHY HARRY and is it available on AMAZON? or where can we get it?

[okie01]

Why do they want to make it out that Ayers is such a great writer?

Because he really is a pretty good writer.

He's a despicable human being, but he writes well.

[True Republican Patriot]

Because Jack Cashill is a great Author and Writer and he states Ayers is a Great Writer! You are stupid because You dont read or study or You are a leftest Plant, or You are just plane Brain Dead!

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Tomorrow, or next year, or sometime later this century the truth about Barack Obama will trickle out

I've been wondering this about this very timetable. Reagan was excoriated as an idiot when he was in office, but the left has suddenly rehabilitated him so they put O next to him on the pedestal. I suspect that the truth about O won't come out until long after he passes. I wish I could live to be 200 years old just to hear the final unvarnished truth about him and to witness how he is treated by history.

[Minn]

You are stupid because You dont read or study or You are a leftest Plant, or You are just plane Brain Dead!

Wow! Either you are way over the top with the sarcasm, or you are a big jerk. Sort of hard to tell which it is. Either way, the irony of the calling somebody else "plane Brain Dead" is hilarious.

[DaxtonBrown]

[What is the full title of your book on DINGHY HARRY ]

It is HARRY: Money Mob & Influence In Harry Reid's Nevada, by Daxton Brown. Yes, it is on Amazon, just search my name. There are 11 bios of Nancy Pelosi, but I am the only one brave enough (=stupid enough) to write a bio of Harry Reid - lots of unanswered mob questions. If you click on my name just below I think I have a link on my Freep bio page.

Thanks for the interest. The book really should have canned his reelection bid but it got blackballed by the press, go figure.

The curious thing is I either A) wrote the most scurrilous slander of Harry Reid imaginable (which should have been news because of who I quoted), or B) I wrote a knee-breaker expose of Reid. The journalists seemed uninterested either way, which in of itself is a scandal.

[Noob1999]

...................... I wish I could live to be 200 years old just to hear the final unvarnished truth about him and to witness how he is treated by history......................

Unfortunately, the way Zer0, Pelosi, Waxman, Frank, Reid, and their ilk, have taken this once great country sweeping toward the sewer; in 200 years you will have to be able to read both Mandarin and Arabic to understand the deconstruction of the United States of America.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Any connection between Reid and the late, aerated Alan Dorfman, he of stuffed in a car trunk fame (Chicago)?

[bgill]

Now, why would an up and coming politician ask just some random guy in the neighborhood he barely knew to write his autobiography....

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

The first paragraph of this article is great!

(The rest is good, too)

[DaxtonBrown]

[Any connection between Reid and the late, aerated Alan Dorfman, he of stuffed in a car trunk fame (Chicago)?]

My main breaking source (call him DW for now) was the No. 2 man under Jay Sarno at Circus Circus about the time Tony “the Ant “ Spilotro was getting his start running the gift shop there (that would be Joe Pesci in Casino). Of course, Sarno was funded by Dorfman and the Teamsters. DW was even offered his own Casino by Dorfman, but is glad he turned it down so he also didn’t get whacked. So Reid isn’t directly connected to Dorfman, but where he does go sour is his connections to pimp Joe Conforte (and as we fast forward to the present to the dark side of Kerkorian).

It turns out DW was also Harry Reid’s original campaign manager from about 1965 through 1974 when Reid lost to Laxalt, so DW knows the dirt on Reid. I worked with DW later in the 90s, but I come across connected people just in the course of norml business here in Vegas, so I know how the stories all connect.

So, when I start writing the book on Reid, the first guy I called was DW. I had a lot of “insurance” dirt on the connected here in Vegas from another media deal I’d done, so I knew there would be substance if I scratched a little on eid’s history. So I asked DW if he had any dirt and he says he hates Reid and the killer story was that DW picked up bags of cash from pimp Joe Conforte up at the Mustang Ranch for Reid on two campaigns. Now don’t get DW wrong, he never went hood, he was just on the edge of it, as in some ways so am I (DW is a lot closer to the dark side and more powerful than me though - but he is quite believable and has been polygraphed).

In later research in connection with a guy writing a book on Conforte, I find Conforte was more mob connected than most know. It looks like Conforte was trying to juice a mega casino up near Sparks in 1978 and squeezed Reid onto the Nevada Gaming Commission (Dicky Smothers in Casino).

There’s a whole lot more in my book, it gets even dirtier as you go. It is like watching Casino and the Godfather, a real slime fest.

[okie01]

Now, why would an up and coming politician ask just some random guy in the neighborhood he barely knew to write his autobiography....

Actually, it's a little more complicated than that.

Obama actually got the book contract -- and a healthy advance -- when he was still at Harvard. And without any writing experience whatsoever. And it wasn't to be an autobiography; it was to be about his Harvard experience, culminating in his election as Editor of the Law Review.

The whole thing is already questionable, is it not?

Then, he went to the University of Chicago -- as a lecturer. They gave him an office and a post and a secretary so he could write his book.

Nothing happened. Months went by. No words were set to paper.

He fired his agent. His new agent got him yet another -- and even larger -- advance. Also a quite curious event, wouldn't you think?

Still nothing.

Then, he up and took Michelle to Bali for six months. So he could "concentrate on writing in remote, but familiar, surroundings".

When he came back from Bali, there was a manuscript -- which had probably kept Ayers busy back in Chicago for the entire six months. And it wasn't the book which had been promised, it was something else -- an autobiography.

Altogether, the provenance of the book is very curious. Young writers with no experience and no writing product usually don't get advances. They most especially don't get an even bigger advance when they haven't produced squat after a year-and-a-half.

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