Quote of the day
posted at 10:55 pm on September 24, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Obama had not as yet written anything. But he had taped interviews with family members. Andersen writes: ‘These oral histories, along with a partial manuscript and a truckload of notes, were given to Ayers.’ Look over those words. A man Obama said before the campaign — after conservative pundits continually raised the issue that he was friends with an ‘unrepentent terrorist’ — that he knew only in passing as someone in the neighborhood. He was simply an acquaintance — not someone he had any real friendship or relationship with. Yet Obama evidently gave Ayers his notes, tapes, and the small amount that he had already written…
Finally, Christopher Andersen concludes: ‘In the end, Ayers’s contribution to Barack’s Dreams From My Father would be significant — so much so that the book’s language, oddly specific references, literary devices, and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayers’s own writing.’…
Now Andersen gives no sources or names; the Obamas did not cooperate with him. Skeptics will argue that we have no way of knowing whether his claims can be verified, and we have no way of knowing the veracity of those he interviewed. Who, for example, was the Hyde Park neighbor he spoke with? Some might even argue that he reached his conclusion after reading Cashill’s original blog, without citing it. Andersen faces the same credibility problem Bob Woodward faces, since he is often charged with making outrageous charges in some of his books without offering any proof that conversations he could not have been privy to took place. But Woodward’s use of such a technique never has hurt his reputation. After all, he is Bob Woodward. Reviewers of Andersen’s book have had no compunction in labeling much of what he writes as pure ‘gossip.’”
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No surprise.
Vashta.Nerada on September 24, 2009 at 10:56 PM
He lies, ask Joe Wilson
BuckNutty on September 24, 2009 at 10:58 PM
What a coincidence that Obama’s writing style matched that of his neighbor that he hardly knew though.
USCitizen on September 24, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Does this make Allah a “Dreamer”
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 10:59 PM
At Columbia, this would be considered “plagiarism”
but for Obama, it’s all good..!
ted c on September 24, 2009 at 10:59 PM
If Obama wrote his own book, why the hell does Jack Cashill make a strong case that it looks so much like Ayers’?
ted c on September 24, 2009 at 11:01 PM
I was watching one of those forensics shows and there was someone on there who could identify people through their use of language..through what they wrote. She said that there is a unique voice for everyone and it can be identified, just like hand writing.
I wonder if someone like that could look at something Obama actually wrote {assuming something exists} and compare it to the book…the same with Ayers.
Terrye on September 24, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Finally, Christopher Andersen concludes: “In the end, Ayers’s contribution to Barack’s Dreams From My Father would be significant — so much so that the book’s language, oddly specific references, literary devices, and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayers’s own writing.”
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Ya don’t say,simply stunning eh!!!
Well,now we know a bit more about Hopey/Ayers/Changey!!
canopfor on September 24, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Of course, there was one more interesting quote:
“Everyone knew they were friends and that they worked on various projects together. It was no secret. ”
What projects exactly?
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Has O ever done an honest thing in his life?
bbz123 on September 24, 2009 at 11:02 PM
whoomp there it is …whoompp there it is…
Hey, y’know something… I just had an urge to dump my whole hard drive onto this guy down the street tonight… Good idea, y’think he’d write me a book/??
ted c on September 24, 2009 at 11:03 PM
I’m convinced he was born in Hawai’i, that part of Hawai’i located in Kenya.
Kini on September 24, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Just as amazing is the fact that Obama’s writing everywhere else is crap.
Daggett on September 24, 2009 at 11:03 PM
the ones we’re seeing foisted upon us right now.
Education control
Cap and Trade
Health takeover
Apologizing for US
those “projects…”
ted c on September 24, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Would it surprise me? No.
Is there definitive evidence? No.
We don’t need more conspiracy theories.
jhffmn on September 24, 2009 at 11:04 PM
though i am not tired of being an American or being a patriot or planning to work tirelessly to defeat my congressman (Dem Perriello, 5th CD Va), i am weary of people coming up with all this info about bambi & acting surprised.
Like DUH!
kelley in virginia on September 24, 2009 at 11:04 PM
not to mention his speaking as well…
ted c on September 24, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Many already suspected this; no surprise. Once again, the MSM is years late to a story.
yogi41 on September 24, 2009 at 11:05 PM
kelley in virginia on September 24, 2009 at 11:04 PM
HEY! NEIGHBOR
ted c on September 24, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Ghostwritergate or ghosterism?
Free Constitution on September 24, 2009 at 11:06 PM
If you read Cashill’s work carefully, you can only come to one conclusion.
Ayers wrote “Dreams”.
aquaviva on September 24, 2009 at 11:06 PM
and yeah, you would just give your life history (& maybe some inner thoughts/secrets) to someone you barely knew.
right.
kelley in virginia on September 24, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Theme music com’n up!
SuperTramp,”Dreamer”!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWoRCtFCkwA
canopfor on September 24, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Obama and his relations to writings and ghost writers…
Speaking of ghost writers…
Is it true that Frank Marshall Davis wrote a certain genre of novels that was and is illegal?
mjbrooks3 on September 24, 2009 at 11:06 PM
I agree, Cashill’s work is going to come to the forefront. Today, this Anderson book came out and there was the pajamasmedia piece as well. Now, good ol’ AP links it up and let’s the rest of us tear this baby apart. I be too tired tonight to do this issue justice though..
ted c on September 24, 2009 at 11:07 PM
ted c., are you a neighbor within my district? or in a neighboring district?
’cause i hear that we’ve got a good candidate getting ready to announce, maybe this weekend.
kelley in virginia on September 24, 2009 at 11:07 PM
the Manchurian Candidate meets Dave meets Seven Days in May
WhoTF is this POTUS?
Janos Hunyadi on September 24, 2009 at 11:08 PM
TOTUS wrote the book.
Dhuka on September 24, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Cashill has a whole storehouse of info and, a la the mastermind Breitbart, he may be holding back the money shot for the right time.
He indicated today that there is “more”
and we here at HotAir sure love “more”… don’t we.
ted c on September 24, 2009 at 11:08 PM
kelley in virginia on September 24, 2009 at 11:07 PM
in your district.
woohoo
ted c on September 24, 2009 at 11:09 PM
More fresh spins of Bill Ayers
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Terrye, that’s exactly what Jack Cashill at American Thinker did. It’s a surprisingly exhaustive examination.
aquaviva on September 24, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Political hack propagandist…
… what’s so good about that?
Seven Percent Solution on September 24, 2009 at 11:09 PM
Cashill did a helluva job on the book issue
ted c on September 24, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Does this make Christopher Andersen a ghost-buster?
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 11:10 PM
gotsta go, night folks!
ted c on September 24, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Does this make Christopher Andersen a ghost-buster?
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 11:10 PM
nawwwh, he’s engaging in racial profiling… the literary type.
ted c on September 24, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Barry has had ghost writer’s for every word he’s alleged to have ever written and for every word he’s ever spoken.
I’m quite certain his handlers actually choreograph and practice blocking with him before he moves from room to room at the WH.
anXdem on September 24, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Ruling the world! bwaaahahahahahahahaaaa
/not sarc unfortunately
Monica on September 24, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Has anyone ever asked Obama about this, or does being Barack Hussein Obama mean never having to answer any basic question about his past?
Buddahpundit on September 24, 2009 at 11:12 PM
Ayers and Bammy have a lot in common. O is trying to get the affection of his father who abandoned him, and Ayers is trying to get the attention of his rich daddy. Ayers gets a hero/father figure vicariously and Barry gets a narrative that justifies all his rage.
Rationalization expertise has worn thin. Ask Hollywood.
Carolina Kat on September 24, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Does Bill Ayers believe that a black man can’t write a book about himself?
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 11:13 PM
I raised this point prior to the election and was dismissed by my liberal friends as a truther.
John the Libertarian on September 24, 2009 at 11:16 PM
I would like to know who fills in the teleprompter.
Vashta.Nerada on September 24, 2009 at 11:16 PM
I wouldn’t put much stock in this “celebrity” biographer… I bet he took info off the internet and pieced hearsay together… I know Obama is lying about how deep the Ayers relationship goes… it goes into the 80s and didn’t begin with that party in Ayers house… I doubt Ayers wrote the book, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he helped… Ayers would have been a friend with publishing experience and Ayers might have helped get him a publishing deal…
ninjapirate on September 24, 2009 at 11:17 PM
Joe Wilson was right. There are some nifty anti-plagiarism tools available. Too bad we can’t get any samples of writing Obama truly produced…oh…and about those college records…yet another reason why they are sealed.
indypat on September 24, 2009 at 11:18 PM
I’m convinced he was born in Hawai’i, that part of Hawai’i located in Kenya.
Kini on September 24, 2009 at 11:03 PM
Kini: You might be right Kini,I was thinking more of
Krakatoa!!!!!:)
canopfor on September 24, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Does Sarah Palin write her Facebook entries?
hottieinthehouse on September 24, 2009 at 11:19 PM
are you dahlia?
blatantblue on September 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Jack Cashill interviewed on the B-Cast:
http://www.breitbart.tv/the-b-cast-new-claims-confirmation-that-ayers-helped-write-obamas-book/
mad saint jack on September 24, 2009 at 11:21 PM
The bigger question is: Why would an unaccomplished Chicago thug write not one but two autobiographies?
The bigger bigger question is: Why would anyone pay good money to buy such effluvium?
Bishop on September 24, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Hmmmmm. That does sound like some weather underground style racism, doesn’t it!
anXdem on September 24, 2009 at 11:23 PM
We haven’t been calling Bury ‘The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers’ for nothing.
thomasaur on September 24, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Just a reminder about who Bill Ayers is, co-founder of the Weather Underground.
POTUS – a base from which to attack
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Wouldn’t it be great or as the Brit’s say,bloody smashing
if there was a video,or audio of Ayers and Obama,with Dorhn
and Michelle OMama Obama,and their grand Utopian plans laid
out on their kitchen table,labelled,
how were gonna do it,The Radical TakeOver of America!!
(Snark).
canopfor on September 24, 2009 at 11:24 PM
Hmmmm, I think you are right. It is closer to Indonesia and Obama
was bornlived there.Kini on September 24, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Silly goose, does Ogabe write his own speeches? Don’t bother answering, you’re fu**ed no matter how you answer.
Bishop on September 24, 2009 at 11:26 PM
This would not shock me.
RedNewEnglander on September 24, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Prairie Fire text
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Good point…. but I like PUTZ better
Kini on September 24, 2009 at 11:27 PM
ditto
cmsinaz on September 24, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Yet another piece (of many!) in the puzzle that is Barack Obama.
By now would it surprise anyone if Ayers wrote the book?
VibrioCocci on September 24, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Is there any reason why Palin doesn’t write her own entries.
Like OMG!
Kini on September 24, 2009 at 11:28 PM
Don’t forget about his awesomely awesome poetry.
UNDERGROUND
Under water grottos, caverns
Filled with apes
That eat figs.
Stepping on the figs
That the apes
Eat, they crunch.
The apes howl, bare
Their fangs, dance,
Tumble in the
Rushing water,
Musty, wet pelts
Glistening in the blue.
Monica on September 24, 2009 at 11:29 PM
By 2012 we will probably know a few things about bo, but be quiet we don’t want to wake up the srm.
tim c on September 24, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Me thinks its a tip of the iceberg,but then,H/A knew all this crap,back before the MSM joined the Liberal Socialist
Party,and became the State Runned Media,embedded in the
White House!!
canopfor on September 24, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Silly goose, does Ogabe write his own speeches? Don’t bother answering, you’re fu**ed no matter how you answer.
Bishop on September 24, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Why yes he does.
hottieinthehouse on September 24, 2009 at 11:31 PM
So, who wrote his term papers?
OldEnglish on September 24, 2009 at 11:33 PM
There’s always that little tidbit he wrote when he was 21 (1983): “Breaking the War Mentality“
VibrioCocci on September 24, 2009 at 11:33 PM
So, you’re saying Obama writes his speeches while sitting on the toilet? And this impresses you?
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 11:35 PM
I don’t see this story having legs. I think the president’s “compelling life story” is only compelling to a very few people. Most of us are worried about him screwing up the country.
Cindy Munford on September 24, 2009 at 11:35 PM
If TIME magazine says it, AND they have a picture of Barry seated at a table writing something, then it must be true, Bishop.
She got ya.
/s
VibrioCocci on September 24, 2009 at 11:35 PM
She’s given no reason for anyone to think otherwise. And special bonus ….. when she does step up to the microphone she’s articulate without a teleprompter.
fogw on September 24, 2009 at 11:36 PM
Bury: I’m full of $#!t, man am I ever full of $#!t.
thomasaur on September 24, 2009 at 11:37 PM
Story of the year.
Once again, Obama’s most virulent critics have been fully vindicated. He is who we said he is: a fraud.
Jaibones on September 24, 2009 at 11:37 PM
I thought Cashill’s first piece on this was pretty weak, but then I read Dreams. It really, really does not ring true as the voice of Barack Obama. Now that we have seen and heard him every freaking day since January, it’s even more obvious that his real voice is pedestrian and not anywhere near as vivid and lyrical as that book.
rockmom on September 24, 2009 at 11:37 PM
1) Then why can’t he give them live without constantly uttering “uh”?
2) Absent the courage to give a speech live, why does he need a teleprompter even when the speech is a few minutes long?
Is Ogabe some sort of “Dumbest Man Ever Preznit Word Mangling Fool”?
Bishop on September 24, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Isn’t Biden a plagiarist also?
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Does Sarah Palin write her Facebook entries?
hottieinthehouse on September 24, 2009 at 11:19 PM
hottieinthehouse:
New technology,allows a Conservative women to multi-task,
having said that,SarahCuda is able to summon up her thoughts
and have then transferred at will,er typing at will,on to he
r computer,then to facebook,while perparing supper,cleaning
a moose,and writing up another Obama hit piece,all at the sa
me time,in real time!!(Snark)-:)
canopfor on September 24, 2009 at 11:39 PM
If he really wrote that election night speech, then he REALLY could not have written that book.
rockmom on September 24, 2009 at 11:40 PM
So, most of what we know about Obama was fabricated by a Communist?
Think about that.
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Obama isn’t a plagiarist, he’s a liar. He didn’t write the book and he has a far closer relationship to Bill Ayers than he said in the campaign.
rockmom on September 24, 2009 at 11:41 PM
You might be right Kini,I was thinking more of
Krakatoa!!!!!:)
canopfor on September 24, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Hmmmm, I think you are right. It is closer to Indonesia and Obama was born lived there.
Kini on September 24, 2009 at 11:25 PM
Kini: I was thinking of Java,tho!:)
canopfor on September 24, 2009 at 11:41 PM
I was a bit concerned that he used a link from the same magazine which darkened the face of a different black man to make him appear more sinister.
Bishop on September 24, 2009 at 11:42 PM
Really and Obama. Does not compute.
fogw on September 24, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Have you read the book? It’s full of angry 1970s leftist blather and academic BS. If he did write it himself, he was certainly heavily influenced by people with the same views as Ayers.
rockmom on September 24, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Bob Woodward has a “reputation”?
GarandFan on September 24, 2009 at 11:43 PM
Big time plagiarist. Neither he, nor Barry, has ever had an original thought. Evah.
anXdem on September 24, 2009 at 11:45 PM
During 1995, the year he wrote this book for Obama:
1. Ayers worked with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley in shaping the city’s school reform program, and was one of three co-authors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge grant proposal that in 1995 won $49.2 million over five years for public school reform
2. In an interview published in 1995, Ayers characterized his political beliefs at that time and in the 1960s and 1970s: “I am a radical, Leftist, small ‘c’ communist … [Laughs] Maybe I’m the last communist who is willing to admit it.
Their founding document called for the establishment of a “white fighting force” to be allied with the “Black Liberation Movement” and other “anti-colonial” movements to achieve “the destruction of US imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism.
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 11:46 PM
I see two major differences between AcornGate and WaterGate.
1) Obama’s connections to the ACORN crime syndicate run much wider and much deeper than Nixon’s did to the Watergate breakin. Plus he has got his corrupt sticky fingers in a lot of other mud pies too.
2) Back then there were Woodward and Bernstein and now there are Breitbart, O’Keefe and Giles, however the investigative reporters can not do it all by themselves. There need those in the MSM to be actually reporters doing a reporters job rather than worthless Presidential sock cuckers and lend their hands full force as they did back then. If they did Obama would probably be gone in a few months.
MB4 on September 24, 2009 at 11:46 PM
Yes to both. But even if he didn’t write the book, it still doesn’t change who he is.
Kini on September 24, 2009 at 11:47 PM
Biden is a plugarist
blatantblue on September 24, 2009 at 11:47 PM
The Weather Underground is alive and well.
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 11:50 PM
So you’re saying that we are plagued with a plugged plagiarist?
thomasaur on September 24, 2009 at 11:50 PM
in a sense, yes
blatantblue on September 24, 2009 at 11:51 PM
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. . ……. . . when it was time to vote.
ziggyville on September 24, 2009 at 11:53 PM
I don’t see this story having legs.
Cindy Munford on September 24,2009 at 11:35PM.
Cindy Munford: At least if any story that might have legs,
it would of been the real reason why HilRod
wasn’t going to get the VP Presidential tic
ket,as H/A surmised that Michelle OMama,wou
ld of went nuclear if Obama picked her,in-
stead,they went with GaffeBiden!!!:)
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All they seem to have noticed is the one quote from Michelle Obama to her husband when he was considering whether to put Hillary Clinton on the ticket: “Do you really want Bill and Hillary just down the hall from you in the White House?” And since the reviews of the book have not been particularly good, it might disappear from the public’s notice fairly soon.
canopfor on September 24, 2009 at 11:53 PM
whats the phrase Allah Poondit usually uses?
Noted Moron?
blatantblue on September 24, 2009 at 11:53 PM
Obama would find time to scribble thoughts, often sneaking off the State Senate floor to the men’s room to jot down ideas
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. . ……. . . when it was time to vote.
ziggyville on September 24, 2009 at 11:53 PM
ziggyville: Or he was tapping,ahem, in morse code!!!
canopfor on September 24, 2009 at 11:55 PM
The Weather Underground is alive and well.
faraway on September 24, 2009 at 11:50 PM
faraway: It appears,WU has moved above ground!!:)
canopfor on September 24, 2009 at 11:56 PM
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