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Evidence Mounts: Ayers Co-Wrote Obama's Dreams
The American Thinker ^ | October 17, 2008 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 10/16/2008 10:55:24 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative

Evidence continues to mount that Barack Obama had substantial help from Bill Ayers in the creation of his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, a book that Time Magazine has called "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician." The evidence falls into five general categories, here summarized.

The discovery of new matching nautical metaphors from both Ayers and Obama that almost assuredly came from the same source: Ayers, a former merchant seaman. The discovery of a Bill Ayers' essay on memoir writing, whose postmodern themes and phrases are echoed throughout Dreams. A newly discovered book chapter from 1990 that shows clearly and painfully the limits of Obama's prose style the year he received a contract to write Dreams. The revelation by radical Islamicist Rashid Khalidi that Ayers made his "dining room table" available for neighborhood writers who needed help. A refined timeline that shows Ayers had the means, the motive and the time to help Obama when he needed it most.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antichrist; ayers; cashill; obama; yobama
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To: St. Louis Conservative

THIS IS THE DEVASTATOR, BAR NONE!!!

It shows like nothing else, what a complete fraud and liar the Empty Suit is. Spread this far and wide.


21 posted on 10/17/2008 12:34:11 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: LucyT
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 an intriguing story 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.

This one anecdote holds a host of problems for Obama. For one, the East River would be hugely out of his way no matter where he lived in New York and especially if he lived anywhere near the Columbia campus on the upper West Side.

More troubling, his serendipitous journey to the river enables him to tell a story that is transparently fabricated and almost assuredly hatched in the weathered brain of Bill Ayers.

Not bad. Last time Ayres cased the Whitehouse (paraphrasing his own words) he was planning to blow it up. Now, if obama wins the election, he'll be part of the administration. Like slime-mould the marxist scumbag is crawling in under the door.

22 posted on 10/17/2008 12:46:14 AM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: AmericaUnited

We have no proof. But we can still ask Obama if Ayers was his ghost writer. Let him deny it. If not Ayers, then whom? Who ghost wrote his second book, “Audacity,,,” with its totally different style?


23 posted on 10/17/2008 12:49:53 AM PDT by Poincare
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To: Poincare

Also listen to Obama read in the Audio Book version of “Dreams..” and then listen to Ayers speak or read. I recognized Ayers’ voice in Obama’s mouth when Hugh Hewitt played sections of th Audio Book months ago.


24 posted on 10/17/2008 12:54:49 AM PDT by Poincare
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To: St. Louis Conservative

Interesting article. Cashill ends by recognizing that the question to be asked is not why Obama sought out Ayers, but what Ayers saw in Obama.

Tony Rezko, too, sought out Obama at about the same time, when, seemingly, Obama had nothing to offer. In fact, Rezko bragged about finding new talent when he befriended and started to mentor Obama. It would be very interesting to find a point of connection between Ayers and Rezko dating from the mid-1990s.


25 posted on 10/17/2008 4:21:26 AM PDT by Piranha
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To: MeekOneGOP; TigersEye; floriduh voter

Jack Cashill strikes again.


26 posted on 10/17/2008 5:13:08 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (Han Solo -- "It just wont matter? Turn that droid off. Never tell me the odds!")
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To: St. Louis Conservative
Obama's mentor on politics, Bill Ayers.

Obama is a communist mole, and Ayers "owns" him now. If Obama's policies as POTUS displease Ayers, Ayers can "out" him as a liar and a fool by revealing their long term collaboration. God help us.

27 posted on 10/17/2008 5:18:08 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: All

If this turns out to be true, it will cost Obama the election in a landslide.


28 posted on 10/17/2008 6:03:44 AM PDT by Maverick68 (w)
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To: pissant

I have no way of knowing if this is related- but it just flashed in my mind that this may be connected:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/275813.php

The tip, and this is just a tip, but it’s coming from someone reliable:

The problem in this story is twofold. Without wanting to provide details, the story really needs a second source.

Tom Maguire? Buddy? Please answer my emails.

The second problem is that anonymity — no names, no pictures— is requested. He fears retaliation and harassment. And who knows — perhaps more.

Media may get away with going single-source on this, or anonymous sources, but not both single-source and anonymous.

So here’s the day’s twist: Believe it or don’t.

The source was considering dropping his demand for anonymity. Thus likely moving the story forward. (He wasn’t considering going forward with the Politico, by the way: but with the other, more important organization.)

And now, today? After witnessing Politico, among others, savage Joe Wurtzelbacher?

Cold feet.

The Politico has this story. They’ve had it for a while. They don’t want to run it with the guy’s anonymity kept intact.

Gee, I wonder why he wanted to keep that?

They’re willing to endlessly vet anyone who even asks Barack Obama a question, but not Barack Obama himself.

I can pretty much understand the media’s reluctance to allow anonymity — except for the fact that the media so gleefully engages in the witness intimidation that prompts the request for anonymity in the first place.

As of now, the story appears dead.

Again, second source crucial. If anyone has the guts to go up against Obama’s cultists and his state media.

The Other Party on the Story: I should say the Politico’s reasoning is not obviously biased, because the other party, whom I respect, has the same damn problems.

I am picking on the Politico, however, because let’s face it, they are a bit loose with the rules when it suits them, and because they took part in this “vetting,” as they call it, of a citizen who dared to ask a question.

They’re part of the same smear campaign and creepy threats of retaliation — a home address? Why does that need to be known to a charged, angry electorate? — against a guy who asked a question.

No, the Politico didn’t do that part, but they dug an awful lot. And encouraged digging, because any leftie who hit upon something would get his tip published.

I cannot even imagine what would happen to a guy who called Obama a straight-up liar on his supposed “flimsy” relationship with The Terrorist William Ayers.

They know what this guy fears — because they just participated in it.

Any dink of a sub-bureaucrat who could whistle-blow against the Bush Administration would have his story told — with anonymity.

But it’s different for The One.


29 posted on 10/17/2008 6:32:29 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

I have a question that keeps running through my mind when i read these Obama ghostwriter threads: will this really get any traction? It just seems it would be too easily brushed aside by Obama supporters and too easily ignored by the media who will say the so-called evidence is awfully vague, that is if they feel the need to say anything at all. Unless Ayers comes right and admits to it (or if there is a paper trail, so to speak) then i don’t see it having any impact any time soon. But what do you guys think? Could this get somewhere?


30 posted on 10/17/2008 7:48:27 AM PDT by Humbug (ignore the media and the polls and keep fighting)
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To: FastCoyote
For a man who was but a short time before a dope smoking drunken teen to suddenly write the all American memoir strains credulity.

I'm certainly not an Obama fan, but I tend to disagree with you on that. The intervening years of Ivy League undergrad and law school education undoubtedly could have improved his writing skills considerably..

31 posted on 10/17/2008 8:52:59 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: LucyT; pissant; Fred Nerks; Grampa Dave; Jeff Head; Travis McGee; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; potlatch; ..

CLOSET COMRADES SMELLING VICTORY

Here is Jack Cashill setting out some of his extensive research to prove his title's thesis.

And why does this matter?

Ayers was in Caracas in 2006 kissing Hugo Chavez' ample Communist butt and screaming, "Viva la revolucion bolivariana! Hasta la victoria siempre!"

Ayers launched Hussein with the living room meet-and-greet and the tens of millions swindled for foundations underwriting radical socialism, what Ayers refers to as "small-c communism".

Behold the stealth Muslim, the closet commie, on the verge of victory.

Aided and abetted by ten thousand media whores who haven't fared too well under say Putin, Castro, Chavez, et al.

Dreams from My Father--oh really, Hussein's alleged father worked for Mau Mau Commie Kenyatta; his decade-long spiritual father was Davis the closet Commie and loud-and-proud pervert. Ayers brags of bisexuality--it's a marriage made in hell, coming soon to a polling place near you.


32 posted on 10/17/2008 8:59:50 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: St. Louis Conservative
So Time magazine called his book "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician"?

Why the heck is a "politician" who has never held public office yet, and who is all of 34 years old, writing a memoir in the first place? Something is really strange here.

Wonder what the Clintons thought when Time claimed that their (ghost-written) memoirs were inferior to Obama's.

33 posted on 10/17/2008 9:00:36 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: America_Right

[For a writer, your grammar is atrocious. I, for one, would NEVER try to read one of your books. I mean, seriously, proofread before you post. Ugh, that was painful. I wish I could correct your post with a red pen. Sorry to sound harsh, but I hate it when people brag about their skill in something, then turn around and immediately prove their total lack of said skill... ]

And you have published what exactly? And you are an expert in what field exactly? “I, for one, would NEVER try to read one of your books.” Well, may I suggest something from Reading Rainbow for you instead?

I write these posts in a hurry, it isn’t like they are the Great American Novel, so I certainly miss things. I am also rushed for time because I am finishing editing two 200,000 word books for publication. But, coming from someone who likely has never written a book, much less been published, and who knows not even one of my titles, I have this feeling you aren’t my most important literary critic.

“I hate it when people brag about their skill in something, then turn around and immediately prove their total lack of said skill... “

Your bragging about your great skills as an editor will be take seriously when you tell us how many books you have published. Finding fault in two sentences written on the fly is trivial, so when you have done it for twenty thousand, let us know so we can judge your skills.


34 posted on 10/17/2008 9:03:19 AM PDT by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: America_Right
There are published writers, like, say, Tom Clancy, whose writing skill are on the side of atrocious. As an employer of grammar correcting English grads Danielle Steel said to a meeting of San Franciso writers before storming out the door, "I've sold more books than all of you will sell in your lifetimes!"

(Sorry about my grammar.)

35 posted on 10/17/2008 9:15:39 AM PDT by Revolting cat! (Don't let me interrupt your prayers for a suffering celebrity!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Methinks they were butt buddies.


36 posted on 10/17/2008 9:22:04 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Humbug; SE Mom

I know both Medved and Rusty Humprhies has had Cashill on in the last week discussing this. American Thinker published Cashill’s piece. If Rush jumps on it now, Katie bar the doors.


37 posted on 10/17/2008 9:36:32 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: FastCoyote
That was a little better. Perhaps there is hope for you after all.

However, this sentence - But, coming from someone who likely has never written a book, much less been published, and who knows not even one of my titles, I have this feeling you aren’t my most important literary critic. - is very awkward.

May I suggest a remedial grade school English course?

Seriously, you shouldn't have tried to write so much at once. I was bound to find a mistake or three.

Bring on the attacks. I look forward to using my red pen on you! The more angry you get, the more fun this will be.

Published writer my butt... Enlighten me as to which classics you have written.

38 posted on 10/17/2008 9:38:52 AM PDT by America_Right (Palin 2012!)
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To: FastCoyote
My problem is that I write so much that I tend to do it by the mental sound, rather than actually looking at the letters on the page.

Why the comma?

LOL!!! u iz engrish mager!

39 posted on 10/17/2008 9:43:10 AM PDT by America_Right (Palin 2012!)
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To: pissant

Also- Last week Andy McCarthy (no intellectual lightweight) over at The Corner was very intrigued by Cashill’s assertions and found his arguments had merit. Mind you he’s not convinced- but he didn’t dismiss it out of hand.

The problem: how to PROVE it.


40 posted on 10/17/2008 9:43:28 AM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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