Did Bill Ayers Write Obama's "Dreams"? Good God, not another lie by Barack Hussein Obama? Why not, he lies about everything else!
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stirred from the chilly spring night by cold glimmers of sunlight angling
through the city." Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days.
"Night now fell in midafternoon, especially when the snowstorms rolled in,
boundless prairie storms that set the sky close to the ground, the city
lights reflected against the clouds." Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father.
Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My
Father, he had written very close to nothing.
As an undergraduate, Obama had written what he justifiably calls some
"very bad poetry." He published nothing under his own name in The Harvard
Law Review, where he served as an editor and as president. And after leaving
Harvard, he published nothing in its review or in any law journal.
Then, in 1995, this untested 33 year-old produced what Time Magazine has
called--with a straight face-- "the best-written memoir ever produced by an
American politician."
The public is asked to believe Obama wrote this on his own. I do not buy
this canard for a minute, not at all. In writing a book on intellectual
fraud, Hoodwinked, I developed an eye for literary humbug, and Dreams serves
up an eyeful.
In writing an earlier article about Dreams' dubious authorship, I had
questioned whether the influential Muslim crackpot who paved Obama's way
into Harvard, Khalid al Mansour, might have greased his way into the world
of publishing as well. If so, he remains well behind the scenes.
On closer examination, the path to publication appears more
straightforward than I anticipated. There are two sources here to consider.
One, a surprising 2006 article by liberal publisher Peter Osnos for the
American Century Foundation, offers some hard evidence on what Osnos
describes as the "ruthlessness" of Obama's literary ascent.
The second, more speculative source--Bill Ayers' 2001 memoir Fugitive
Days-may very well answer the questions that Osnos cannot.
As Osnos relates, a 1990 New York Times profile on Harvard's first black
editor caught the eye of a hustling young literary agent named Jane Dystel.
Dystel persuaded Obama to put a book proposal together, and she submitted
it. Poseidon, a small imprint of Simon & Schuster, signed on and authorized
a roughly $125,000 advance for Obama's proposed memoir.
With advance in hand, Obama repaired to Chicago where the University of
Chicago offered him an office and stipend to help him write. Obama dithered.
At one point, in order to finish without interruption, he and wife
Michelle decamped to Bali. Obama was supposed to have finished the book
within a year. Bali or not, advance or no, he could not. He was surely in
way over his head.
more at:
http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/did_bill_ayers_write_1.htm
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BARACK H. OBAMA!"
(Live with it, Daffi Dumb Shit-o-Philes!)
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"The Pollster"
Snap Polls: Obama Wins and Two-Thirds Want No More Debates
By Jon Cohen
Barack Obama completed a three-debate sweep on Wednesday night, at
least according to snap polls by CBS News and CNN.
CBS's poll of previously uncommitted voters showed Obama the overall
winner, and the one who was more convincing on health care. Obama also
came out on top on "sharing your values."
Obama also beat John McCain in CNN's poll of debate watchers -- more
Democrats than Republicans tuned in -- by a large, nearly 2 to 1
margin.
Most striking in the CNN data is the progress Obama has made from
debate to debate.
Fifty-one percent of debate watchers thought he won the first
showdown, that ticked up to 54 percent last time and to 58 percent in
the final contest. The senator from Illinois also had increasingly
strong ratings as the more likable of the two presidential hopefuls,
the one who expressed his views more clearly and as the "stronger
leader." McCain only progressed on the question of who spent more time
on the attack -- not necessarily a positive development for the GOP
nominee.
The CBS poll did, however, contain some bright spots for McCain:
Before and after the debate he held the advantage as the one better
suited to handle a crisis, and as the one less apt to raise taxes.
As for more debates, two-thirds of debate watchers told CNN that three
was enough.
Posted at 11:53 PM ET on Oct 15, 2008 | Category: The Pollster
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/10/15/snap_polls_obama_wins_and_two-.html
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