[pissant]

The marxist fraud has been NAILED!!!

[rodguy911]

Great job guys this guy will get away with nothing when we are through with him.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

If we dig deeper we will find that there is nothing genuine about this, this fellow.

[Munz]

it won’t matter now unfortunately. Still a great find and fantastic piece of work.
Wish the MSM would jump on it, but that would bruise the love affair.

So I guess, Obama has known Ayers longer than he said eh?

Shocking that he would lie /s

[Jack Bull]

This article is what the New Media was made for. It will not be covered by the State Run Media and it is a BLOCKBUSTER story. My question is, why aren’t more sites like Hot Air, Gateway Pundit, Powerline and the others talking about this?

This is a stained blue dress. If all of Cashill’s writings on this are taken as a whole, it is proof beyond a reasonable doubt. I’m surprised Hannity hasn’t run with this the way he did with Jeremiah Wright. I haven’t seen Cashill on Fox News. Why? Has Beck had him on? Laura?

[Peter Libra]

I am glad to have this post. I have bookmarked American Thinker, but could have missed it otherwise. On a pleasant and cooler Sunday morning, one can take or leave what is offered on FR. What impells me to opine here is the coincidence of a little bed time read last night. This coupled with a trumpeting voice on the spouse's T/V. The McClaughlan Group. There is the now President on his triumph and his word "change" which is a replay.

This coupled with my bed time read.

Hoodwinked.
How Intellectual Hucksters Have Highjacked American Culture.
Jack Cashill.
Nelson Current Books. 2005.

I try to drown out Eleanor Clift, squeaking and shouting here. The very real possibility of one William Ayres writing the books "Dreams" has far greater implications that just a hit job for the then Senator Obama. This is that the whole plethora of much of what liberals are able to do, is this. 50% percent pure lies, 25% percent the varnished truth and the remaining 25% the actual structure - which is probably true.

Ayres is them. The tragedy is that it usually works. Cashill indicates much of this in his book. MLK, Ward Churchill, Alex Haley, and that pervert Kinsey, are exposed.

[AuH2ORepublican]

BTTT

[Matchett-PI]

Here are two comments on this article at American Thinker that some of you might find interesting. :)

Breakthrough on the Authorship of Obama’s ‘Dreams’ !!!!!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/breakthrough_on_the_authorship_1.html

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Comments section:

Posted by: Matchett-PI (Comment #34)
Jun 28, 08:04 AM

Let us also not forget that Obama plagiarized these words from the final pages of Jim (“God’s Democrat”) Wallis’ book:

“We are the ones we have been waiting for.”

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/005/441oqlsg.asp?pg=1

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Posted by: Kyle-Anne Shiver (Comment #26)
Jun 28, 07:25 AM

I’ve read Dreams 4 times. I haven’t read Ayers’ Fugitive Days or any others of his books. And I have much more of a big-picture mind than the attention-to-detail mind that Mr. Cashill displays in this tedious and concentrated research. But Mr. Cashill’s (and his cohorts’) research gives much additional credence to my own observations on Dreams.

I’ve read a pretty vast number of autobiographies, memoirs and autobiographical novels.

From my first reading of Dreams, I knew that it was far more fiction than actual memory. For one thing, the author is fixated on race from toddlerhood and obsessed with putting race into the framework of political theory. Dreams smacks from page one of a carefully constructed “story” made to fit an adult’s worldview. This is very much in evidence by the extraordinary detail given to early life experiences (as Mr. Cashill notes, even down to the eyes and eyebrows of characters). And the only references to other children come from school acquaintances. The author of Dreams portrays an unrealistic view of childhood, wherein the ONLY surviving memories of a grown man are with adults and classmates. No other children appear in this book. No children in a large multi-level apartment building, where Obama lived with his grandparents before his move to Indonesia.

The author of Dreams contends that he had prodigious insight from an early age, and suspiciously omits any reference to adult help with forming these extraordinary perceptions. Here’s Dreams, when Obama is 11, on the trips to a bar with his grandfather (the failed salesman, who bears an uncanny resemblance throughout to Willy Loman, from Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman):

Dreams; p. 78

“Yet even then, as young as I was, I had already begun to sense that most of the people in the bar weren’t there out of choice, that what my grandfather sought there was the company of people who could help him forget his own troubles, people who he believed would not judge him. Maybe the bar really did help him forget, but I knew with the unerring instincts of a child that he was wrong about not being judged.”

These were daytime visits to a bar, frequented by black men, who showered attention on a young Barack Obama, but instead of reveling in the attention and loving the goodies provided (cokes and snacks), this eleven year-old is sizing up the men, their crushed ambitions, their inner needs and putting political meaning in their situation.

What a heap of balderdash. Not once in the entire book does this always-serious, always perfectly attuned “child” have any genuinely childish thoughts or experiences or misunderstandings of adult behavior that rectify themselves with age. We, the readers, are asked to believe that Barack Obama was always — from day one — a sort of otherworldly, superior being.

This might be a tad believable, at least in a less-exaggerated fashion, if the man, Barack Obama, displayed even an ounce of this superiority off the teleprompter. But he doesn’t. He talks around in circles and invents people from whole cloth to a sycophantic press in fairy-tale fashion.

In Dreams, the only psychological evolution that takes place in the book are Obama’s thoughts on his race and its political implications. Every event, every supposed thought and action revolves around the theme of an oppressed minority and the deviousness of all white people. Obama exempts from his racial condemnation 2 white people: his mother and his grandfather. And throughout the book, Obama judges them all with an adult’s mind, never admitting to any genuine failings of his own, with the single exception of the schoolyard incident recounted by Mr. Cashill as being identical to one of Ayers’ own concoctions.

I see I’m going on too long, so I’ll close this with the one passage in Dreams that stuck in my mind from the first reading, as being incongruous and totally weird. It deals with Obama’s mention of “Frank” (who is Frank Marshall Davis, communist, self-told pedophile, formerly of Chicago, then residing in Hawaii). The author sums up all of his grandfather’s black poker buddies and bar pals as a group, pretty much all the same, with “one exception”: “Frank.” Frank is described as a poet of “modest notoriety,” whose anthology Gramps was said to have shown the young Barack. Squeezed into mundane accounts of meetings with this Frank, appears this strange appraisal from young Barack:

“The visits to his (Frank Davis’) house always left me feeling vaguely uncomfortable, though, as if I were witnessing some complicated, unspoken transaction between the two men, a transaction I couldn’t fully understand.”

Now that I’ve read extensively on Chicago politics and Hyde Park history, as well as reading more about Obama’s early political career, Jeremiah Wright and all the rest, I have come to conclude that the author of Dreams inserted this incongruous “memory” to fulfill the Chicago-pol requirement: “Who sent you?” If one is not thoroughly “connected” to the proper machine bosses in Chicago Democrat politics, one gets absolutely NOWHERE. But if Frank Marshall Davis sent you, and your coming there was a result of a “transaction” made in your own childhood, then who were the leftist Chicagoans who would boot you? Not many, I would dare say, most especially if you were also a close friend and protege of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a powerful figure in black Chicago politics and a man with many friends in very high local places.

This whole “story” was contrived from start to finish, in my personal opinion, done after the fact to specifically form the narrative upon which Barack Obama’s political career would be made.

Now, where in the heck is that long-form, valid birth certificate? The stakes grow with each passing day that proof be provided as to the Constitutional qualifications of our current president. No childhood “transactions” should be allowed to substitute. No narrative ought to be capable of upending the Constitution without a fight.

That’s my 2 cents’ worth on the matter.

Kyle-Anne

[Dan Middleton]

I have more than enough grounds to oppose Obama based on known facts in plain sight. I don’t need any conspiracy theories about his books or, for that matter, his birth certificate, apparent peculiarities regarding both notwithstanding. If we want to beat this guy, we need to make people understand the damage he’s doing with his policies, not obsess over stuff that we can’t do anything about and which make us look like wackos.

[stylecouncilor]

ping

[3D-JOY]

Need time to read more ...later.

Looks like more of the facts that I had already accepted...but good!

[ETL]

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Obama Gave Bill Ayers' Book a Rave Review

Source: http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31617_Obama_Gave_Bill_Ayers_Book_a_Rave_Review/comments/#ctop
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From The Weekly Standard, 'Barack Obama's Lost Years', 08/11/2008:

"Ayers opposes trying even the most vicious juvenile murderers as adults. Beyond that, he'd like to see the prison system itself essentially abolished. Unsatisfied with mere reform, Ayers wants to address the deeper 'structural problems of the system.' Drawing explicitly on Michel Foucault, a French philosopher beloved of radical academics, Ayers argues that prisons artificially impose obedience and conformity on society, thereby creating a questionable distinction between the 'normal' and the 'deviant.' The unfortunate result, says Ayers, is to leave the bulk of us feeling smugly superior to society's prisoners. Home detention, Ayers believes, might someday be able to replace the prison. Ayers also makes a point of comparing America's prison system to the mass-detention of a generation of young blacks under South African Apartheid. Ayers's tone may be different, but the echoes of Jeremiah Wright's anti-prison rants are plain."

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/386abhgm.asp?pg=2
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'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/

[diji]

bookmark & BUMP!

[Arizona Carolyn]

Yeah, but who but those of us who already know he is a fraud are going to even care???

[supremedoctrine]

Cashill’s work in this area is nothing if not PERSUASIVE.
What did it for me was an “incident” I don’t believe reported this time, and here in this thread, but from Cashill’s original inquiry about the story of the two rivers meeting and what that signified, from DREAMS and one of Ayer’s works, probably Fugitive Days.
The MSM will NEVER look into this story, or report on it, unless it is to present it as a nutty right-wing conspiracy theory with no grounds at all. To do that they would have to ignore ALL the work Cashill has done in forging countless correspondences and coincidences that are simply too good to be true. But I think the birth cert issue and this “authorship” issue is all of a piece: this man we now are obligated to call “President” is a total fraud from head to toe. And he picked a penny-ante plaigarist as his VEEP. How perfect.

[Theodore R.]

You can’t nail him: the American people won’t let you. They actually like him better than Bill Clinton, and I never thought that would happen. The known now that Bill was just about a “good time”, but this Obama “cares about them.” As Walter Cronkite would say, “That’s the way it is.”

[vrwc54]

People who won't look at this objectively or dismiss it w/o reading all of Cashill make me mad.

New title for Dreams: Dreams From My Bomber

[Wild Irish Rogue]

One of Barry’s many, many, many flaws is that he is lazy.
No way would he expend the time and energy required to write a book.
He was originally given a book contract based solely on the fact
that he was the first black editor of the HLR.
However, Barry failed to meet deadlines imposed by the publishers and the deal fell through.
Another deal was negotiated with a deadline.
It is highly plausible that when lazy, self indulgent Barry came under pressure to meet another deadline
he desperately sought help.
And since he was unable to write anything more articulate than apes eating figs in caves
and old men with stained pants and brains like watermelon seeds,
he must have been really desperate.
Ayers is a logical fit on so many levels-the Columbia Univ, Chicago and ideology connections.
There must be a money trail from Obama to Ayers-either splitting part of the 40k advance or sharing some of the royalties down the line.
I hope Cashill makes millions of dollars from his exhaustive research and analysis.
He deserves it.
No one else in the MSM dares to go where Cashill does.

[AliVeritas]

ping

[HollyB]

ping

[rlmorel]

I have long maintained that it makes no difference if Bill Ayers wrote this book for Obama, lock stock and barrel. PEOPLE SIMPLY DO NOT CARE.

The timing of the book, when overlaid on Ayer’s busy schedule during that time shows Ayers was not working on anything else (from a major writing perspective) and that is fine.

The thing about this is, Obama was a worthless, steaming pantload before the book was published.

After it was published with a lot of help and paths that were extensively pre-greased (by whom?), Obama was no longer a worthless, steaming pantload.

He was then a rich, steaming pantload with a lot of money. He has never held a real job in his entire life, so his money had to come from somewhere.

He didn’t inherit it.

He didn’t earn it.

His wealth, much more than I will ever earn, came from his book, from a guy who wrote this sophomoric pap in 1983:
BREAKING THE WAR MENTALITY
By Barack Obama
March 10, 1983
The Sundial

Most students at Columbia do not have firsthand knowledge of war. Military violence has been a vicarious experience, channeled into our minds to television, film, and print.

The more sensitive among us struggle to extrapolate experiences of war from our everyday experience, discussing the latest mortality statistics from Guatemala, sensitizing ourselves to our parents war time memories, or incorporating into our framework of reality as depicted by a Mailer or a Coppola. But the taste of war-the sounds and chill, the dead bodies-are remote and far removed. We know that wars have occurred, will occur, are occurring, but bringing such experience down into our hearts, and taking continual, tangible steps to prevent war, becomes a difficult task. Two groups on campus, Arms Race Alternatives (ARA) and Students Against Militarism (SAM) work within these mental limits to foster awareness and practical action necessary to counter the growing threat of war. Through the emphasis of the two groups differ, they share an aversion to current government policy. These groups, visualizing the possibilities of destruction and grasping the tendencies of distorted national priorities, are throwing their weight into shifting America off the dead-end track.

“Most people my age remember well the air raid drills in school, under the desk with our heads tucked between our legs. Older people, they remember the Cuban missile crisis. I think those kinds of things left an indelible mark on our souls, so we are more apt to be concerned” says Don Kent, assistant director of programs and student activities at Earl Hall center. Along with the community Volunteer Service Center, ARA has been Don’s primary concern, coordinating various working groups of faculty, students, and staff members, while simultaneously seeking the ever elusive funding for programs.

“When I first came here two years ago, Earl Hall had been a holding tank for five years. Paul Martin (director of Earl Hall) and I discussed our interests, and decided that ARA would be one of the programs we pushed.” Initially, most of the work was done by non-student volunteers and staff. “Hot issues, particularly El Salvador, were occupying students at the time. Consequently, we cosponsored a lot of activities with community organizations like SANE (Students Against Nuclear Energy).”

With the flowering of the nuclear freeze movement, and particularly the June 12 rally in Central Park, however, student participation has expanded. One wonders whether this upsurge stems from young people’s penchant for the latest ‘happenings’ or from growing awareness of the consequences of nuclear holocaust. ARA Maintains a mailing list of 500 persons and Don Kent estimates that approximately half of the active members are students. Although he feels the continuity is provided by the faculty and staff members, student attendance at ARA sponsored events-in particular in November 11 convocation on the nuclear threat-reveals a deep reservoir of concern. “I think students on this campus like to think of themselves as sophisticated, and don’t appreciate small vision. So they tend to come out more for the events; they do not want to just fold leaflets.”

Mark Bigelow, a graduate intern from Union theological seminary who works with Don to keep ARA running smoothly, agrees. “It seems the students here are fairly aware of the nuclear problem, and it makes for an underlying frustration. We try to talk to that frustration.” Consequently, the thrust of ARA is towards generating dialogue which will give people a rational handle on this controversial subject. This includes bringing speakers like Daniel Ellsberg to campus, publishing fact sheets compiled by interested faculty, and investigating the possible development of an interdisciplinary program in the Columbia curriculum dealing with peace, disarmament, and world order.

Tied in with such a thrust is the absence of what Don calls “a party line.” By taking an almost apolitical approach to the problem, ARA hopes to get the university to take nuclear arms issues seriously. “People don’t like having their intelligence insulted,” says Don, “so we try to disseminate information and allow the individual to make his or her own decision.”

Generally, the narrow focus of the freeze movement as well as academic discussions of first versus second strike capabilities, suit the military industrial interests, as they continue adding to their billion dollar erector sets. When Peter Tosh sings that “everybody’s asking for peace, but nobody’s asking for justice,” one is forced to wonder whether disarmament or arms control issues, severed from economic and political issues, might be another instance of focusing on the symptoms of a problem instead of the disease itself. Mark Bigelow does not think so. “We do focus primarily on catastrophic weapons. Look, we say, here’s the worst part let’s work on that. You’re not going to get rid of the military in the near future, so lets at least work on this.”

Mark Bigelow does feel that the links are there, and points to fruitful work being done by other organizations involved with disarmament. “The freeze is one part of a whole disarmament movement. The lowest common denominator, so to speak. For instance, April 10-16 is Jobs for Peace week, With a bunch of things going on around the city. Also, the New York City Council may pass a resolution April calling for greater social as opposed to military spending. Things like this may dispel the idea that disarmament is a white issue, because how the government spends its revenue affects everyone.”

The very real advantages of concentrating on a single issue is leading the national freeze movement to challenge individual missile systems, while continuing the broader campaign. This year, Mark Bigelow sees the checking of Pershing II and Cruise missile deployment as crucial. “Because of their small size and mobility, their deployment will make possible arms control verification far more difficult, and will cut down warning time for the Soviets to less than 10 minutes. That can only be a destabilizing factor.” Additionally, he sees the initiation by the US of the Test Ban Treaty as a powerful first step towards a nuclear free world.

ARA encourages members to join buses to Washington and participate in a March 7-8 rally intended to push through the Freeze resolution which is making its second trip through the house. ARA will also ask United Campuses to Prevent Nuclear War (UCAM), an information lobbying network-based and universities, nationwide, to serve as its advisory board in the near future. Because of its autonomy from Columbia (which does not fund political organizations) UCAM could conceivably become a more active arm of disarmament campaigns on campus, though the ARA will continue to function solely as a vehicle for information and discussion.

Also operating out of Earl Hall Center, Students Against Militarism was formed in response to the passage of registration laws in 1980. An entirely student run organization, SAM casts a wider net than ARA, although for the purposes of effectiveness, they have tried to lock in on one issue at a time.

“At the heart of our organization is an anti-war focus”, says junior Robert Kahn, one of SAM’s fifteen or so active members. “From there, a lot of issues shoot forth-nukes, racism, the draft, and South Africa. We’ve been better organized when taking one issue at a time, but we are always cognizant of other things going on and collaborate frequently with other campus organizations like CISPES and REELPOLITIK.”

At this time, the current major issue is the Solomon Bill, the latest legislation from Congress to obtain compliance to registration, the law requires that all male students applying for federal financial aid submit proof of registration, or else the government coffers will close. Yale, Wesleyan, and Swarthmore have refused to comply, and plan to offer non-registrants other forms of financial aid. SAM hopes to press Columbia into following suit, though so far President Sovern and company seem prepared to acquiesce to the bill.

Robert believes students tacitly support non-registrants, though the majority did not comply. “Several students have come up to our tables and said that had they known of the ineffectiveness of prosecution, they would not have registered.” A measure of such underlying support is the 400 signatures on a petition protesting the Solomon Bill, which SAM collected the first four hours it appeared. Robert also points out that prior to registration, there were four separate bills circulating in the House proposing a return to the draft, but none ever got out of committees, and there have not been renewed efforts. An estimated half million non-registrants can definitely be a powerful signal.

Prodding students into participating beyond name signing and attending events is tricky, but SAM members seem undaunted. “A lot of the problem comes not from people’s ignorance of the facts, but because the news and statistics are lifeless. That’s why we search for campus issues like the Solomon Bill that have a direct impact on the student body, and effectively link the campus to broader issues.” By organizing and educating the Columbia community, such activities lay the foundation for future mobilization against the relentless, often silent spread of militarism in the country. “The time is right to tie together social and military issues,” Robert continues, “and the more strident the Administration becomes, the more aware people are of their real interests.

The belief that moribund institutions, rather than individuals are at the root of the problem, keep SAM’s energies alive. “A prerequisite for members of an organization like ours is the faith that people are fundamentally good, but you need to show them. and when you look at the work people are doing across the country, it makes you optimistic.”

Perhaps the essential goodness of humanity is an arguable proposition, but by observing the SAM meeting last Thursday night, with its solid turnout and enthusiasm, one might be persuaded that manifestations of our better instincts can at least match the bad ones. Regarding Columbia’s possible compliance, one comment in particular hit upon an important point with the Solomon Bill, “The thing that we need to do is expose how Columbia is talking out of two sides of its mouth.”

Indeed, the most pervasive malady of the collegiate system specifically, and the American experience generally, is that elaborate patterns of knowledge and theory have been disembodied from individual choices and government policy. What the members of ARA and SAM try to do is infuse what they have learned about the current situation, bring the words of that formidable roster on the face of Butler Library, names like Thoreau, Jefferson, and Whitman, to bear on the twisted logic of which we are today a part. By adding their energy and effort in order to enhance the possibility of a decent world, they may help deprive us of a spectacular experience-that of war. But then, there are some things we shouldn’t have to live through in order to want to avoid the experience.