Lots of well-known people use ghost-writers, including JFK.
Sure, but is it acceptable for a candidate for the POTUS to have one on books that he pretended were heart-felt memoirs that he wrote himself?
I think a lot of people would look at it differently than the average celebrity, especially since Obama has received so much renown and praise (possibly quite unjustified) for being the best politican-writer around (according to TIME).
If Ayers turns out to be invovled (don’t know how that would be proved, but it seems plausible on Cashill’s analysis) then that would blow the wheels off Obama’s campaign bus, no matter how much his cultists would try to rationalize..... suddenly the guy who Obama pretended to know only as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” turns out to have written either or both of Obambi’s books?? IF that comes out convincingly then Obama’s campaign melts down..... but I don’t know that there’s any prospect of getting convincing evidence in the next 2 weeks. Textual analysis will not be sufficient, no matter how well done. BUT it does give potential investigators some good direction to follow.
But JFK’s ghost-writer wasn’t part of a group that tried to kill cops and bomb the pentagon. JFK also didn’t lie about the extent of his relationship with his ghost-writer.