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Home Front: Politix
Bill Ayers claims he wrote Obama's "Dreams From My Father"
2009-10-07
In a chance meeting with conservative blogger Anne Leary, Bill Ayers makes a stunning claim that he wrote--not just edited--President Barack Obama's autobiography, Dreams from my Father." Wow. He makes this claim to a stranger who approaches him in Reagan National Airport. Can you believe anything this man says? Or, should I say, either man?
Posted by:Fred

#11  William Ayers' forgotten communist manifesto: Prairie Fire

Remembering a Sixties Terrorist
Posted by: anonymous5089   2009-10-07 17:51  

#10  The book "Dreams...father" was written in about Obama's life before his entry into Harvard. It is chock full of detailed bio stuff. Anecdotes about things that happened to him in elementary school, etc. These could not have been done by anyone unless Obama made them audiotapes to use as background. There are also some political musings which could have been written by any leftist of the era.
Posted by: mhw   2009-10-07 11:36  

#9  Shouldn't be hard to tell for an expert. There are plenty of Bill's words out there to compare with the style in Obama's bio.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2009-10-07 11:23  

#8  Google himself? That sounds nasty. Wouldn't be surprised at all if this self-styled terrorist authored Obama's book.
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-10-07 11:17  

#7  Eh, it might have been sarcastic. He can't have not noticed Cashill's claim last year, I don't think. What else does Bill Ayers have to do with his time but google himself?
Posted by: Mitch H.   2009-10-07 10:50  

#6  and another one's down, another one's down, another one under the bus..........

in 5,4,3.......
Posted by: AlanC   2009-10-07 08:15  

#5  Did anyone catch Barak Insein Obama at the National Counter Terrorism Center on SPAN yesterday? Virtually no extemporaneousness...rather reading from notes. He looked like Mao in a class taught by Adam Smith.
Posted by: HammerHead   2009-10-07 08:00  

#4  Obama = America's Gorbachev

Gorbochev was far more courageous and well-intentioned; don't insult him that way.
Posted by: Glenmore   2009-10-07 07:31  

#3  How can it be that a man so renowned for his mastery of language is utterly tongue-tied without his trusty TelePrompter?

His political speeches, examined closely, pile on fibs, fairytales and fatuousness. "A united world defeated communism." "No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation." "I can no more disown Rev Wright than I can disown my own grandmother"-- who, lemme tell ya, is a nasty old racist b*tch.

I have no idea how intelligent or graceful a writer is Bill Ayers, but I've known since his absurd "awesome God" speech of 2004 that this man is an absurd little charlatan. Nice to see that millions of others are figuring it out as well.

Obama = America's Gorbachev, a bumbling fool way out of his depth, leading his country down from superpower to second-tier status, cheered at every step by his nation's enemies who neither respect nor fear him.
Posted by: lex   2009-10-07 05:40  

#2  That was suggested last year, on basis of stylistic analysis.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-10-07 03:03  

#1  Dunno. Ask him who invented the internet.
Posted by: gorb   2009-10-07 02:54  

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