“I don’t see what your deal is. Many politicians have used ghostwriters throughout history.”
He was a nobody when it was decided by somebody that not one, but two books would be written under the name of this nobody and that a ghostwriter would do it. That’s just plain weird.
It's not weird at all. Obama was groomed from childhood to play the destructive role in American history he is playing today. His education, his career (such as it was), and his books were all part of a coordinated effort to make us poorer at home and weaker abroad.
I have very little doubt that Ayers wrote his first book just as one of the Communist professors at Harvard Law wrote his law review writing competition note when he was a 2L. Obama didn't just happen, he was manufactured. The man is a moron. Somebody crafted the image of a great intellectual for him. Jack Cashill has given us some interesting insight into how part of that crafting was done.
That said, it doesn't really matter how Obama came to be. The icon has been created and there is no way to debunk it now. The Obama that millions voted for doesn't exist and never did, but his supporters will never acknowledge that any more than the Iranian Mullahs will ever repudiate the idea that Mohamed was Allah's prophet.
It is interesting to look at the tracks that Obama’s creators left behind. In the end, however, they don't matter. We have to focus on fighting the monster not on exposing how he came to be. If Bill Clinton taught us anything it should be this: There is no political gain to be gotten from laying bare the ugly truths behind leftist mythology.