Sarah Palin used a ghost writer for Going Rogue, for instance, and few people bother with it, because it’s a non-issue.

And she was upfront and open about it and her ghostwriter never bombed anyone.

You are one confused, twisted guy, ed.

It’s not the ghost writing that is the issue, rather who the ghost is. If it’s Ayers then it means that the bio itself is suspect and that Obama was doing things totally divorced from that narrative. It also means that Obama was always a terrorist sympathizer and that he lied about it to get elected.

None of this matters?

Cashill’s work might make for a good academic-interest story, but politically, it’s rather meaningless.

Ridiculous. The lesson from Bush’s historic popularity plummeting to historic loathes is that the political facade needs to be chopped at with a relentless axe. This revelation will not fell the tree alone but it takes a chunk out of the Obamamessiah’s phony persona.

Who would have thought utter nobodies like Giles and O’Keefe could hurt him with a silly little pimp-ho pose and a cheap camera by exposing the corruptions of his allies at ACORN, formerly one of Obama’s best community organizing tools?

I think you mean unknowns, rather than nobodies. I doubt very much that either Hannah Giles or James O’Keefe could write the kind of pathetically putrid piece Morrissey offered up today.

I’m sure both of them understand the difference between a ghost writer and a co-author and I have no doubt, given the extent to which they went to expose the corruption of Acorn, that both of them would think it hugely important if the President is proved to be a consummate fraud and facile liar.

I doubt very much that you’d ever see from Giles and O’Keefe the kind of work product put on display here by Ed Morrissey.

Neither of these issues are relevant now that Obama is in office. Whatever relevance they had in exposing a relative unknown passed last November on Election Day.

I disagree, each thing that comes out on Obama turns some believers into a non-believers. That may matter come 2012. I work in academia, and every day the light bulb goes off for someone who voted for him. They didn’t do their homework on Obama before the election…but now little things like this make them realize the mistake they made in voting for him. The media really pushed against the “guilt by association” thing, and some believed it when Obama said that Ayers was just a guy in his neighborhood…this proves that he was much more and there will be eyes that it opens.

Plus, you can draw conclusions from it….like maybe he isn’t the scholar they thought he was….similar to the way the teleprompter showed that he really couldn’t give a speech. It can’t change 08, but it can change 2012.

Not a crony who shares a common ideological position and probably isn’t a very good writer.

The excerpts I’ve heard from Dreams sounds rather like Kerouac’s On The Road, that is, not original and steeped in more ancient Leftist writings. I have no problem with Kerouac, but I wouldn’t want him to be President nor advising the White House anymore than I would have wanted the late, great Sam Kinison advising Reagan.

I pre-ordered Palin’s book just to support her…I don’t expect anything great in the work itself nor care if she penned it herself.

Au contraire, Ed!…
profitsbeard on October 7, 2009 at 7:54 PM

Exactly. Sometimes, I have to doublecheck to make sure I’m still reading HotAir and haven’t accidently clicked a link to HuffingSomePaint/dKos- or haven’t otherwise gone over to the dark side site.

HotAir, Alice, Through the Looking Glass, much?

Even if Cashill and the advocates of this position prove their case or get an admission — a real admission — what does that change? It will show what we already know about Obama and Ayers, a relationship that got plenty of New Media coverage in the campaign, and also show that Obama hired a ghost writer. Neither of these issues are relevant now that Obama is in office.

Yes, Ed, “we” & “the New Media” already knew during the campaign. But what about those whose reading/watching preferences were “OLD MEDIA” (MSNBC, CNN, etc)? Not to mention the willfully ignorant who need something shoved in their faces before they recognize it (case in point: ACORN) This would be a revelation of epic proportions- a blatant lie, and another definitive & more intimate link between Obama & his terrorist-buddy, Ayers.

Obama will be President until at least January 2013, and his policies and record of governance is really all that’s relevant.

A bit overly optimistic, IMHO.

Every angle that can help undermine Obama’s power to push through disastrous policies and waffle on serious issues should be pursued by whatever dogged reporter/journalist/blogger has the impetus to track each angle down.

Who would have thought utter nobodies like Giles and O’Keefe could hurt him with a silly little pimp-ho pose and a cheap camera by exposing the corruptions of his allies at ACORN, formerly one of Obama’s best community organizing tools?

Hammer at every chink in his tinfoil armor until he is rendered less able to damage the nation with his feckless follies.

If the phrase does not appear, then Ayers still may have written it.

Pity this thread is way down. It seems like at the beginning peeps where blindly following what Ed and Allapundit (BOTH ARE WRONG!)said.

I think this issue is HUGE and not crazy.

To believe, as Ed says he does, that Ayer’s probably didn’t write the book, and I said that correctly — (Ayers WROTE that book, as the person who did the original inquiries pointed out with the allusions used (nautical references) were Ayer’s and NOT Obama’s)

Second, even now, if it were made known to the general public that Ayers helped write Obama’s book, it would be no less than HUGE!!! Democrats and the media have said over and over that Ayers and Obama hardly knew one another, and this would be a indisputable revelation to those who believed the media. And there’s presently a massive move from in print media to the internet, due to obvious coverups of ACORN recently, and people don’t like being kept in the dark. So a story that Ayers really did write Obama’s book would get out to virtually everyone; it is different now than before the election…

Anyhow… I disagree with both Ed and Allahpundit on this one. Even to the point of this even being a story… like somehow Ayers is going to admit to doing it. I mean, come on Ed and Allahpundit… get real.

Ed,

Palin did not use a “ghost writer” she used a co-author. They are not the same thing. One implies an attempt to hide the truth the other aknowledges that there was help in the writing of the book.

unseen on October 7, 2009 at 3:05 PM

Correct.

A ghost-writer writes it all with some input up front.

Obama’s book WAS ghost-written.

Palin’s book is NOT ghost-written. Ms. Vincent is a co-auther. She didn’t write the book for Palin like what Ayers did for Obama and then lie about it.

Ed,

You MISSED this one really bad.

In fact, just pull it and do some damage control.

That’s the difference.

Sarah Palin and others didn’t LIE about having a collaborator working with them on their books.

The problem is not just that Obama used an unacknowledged, radical, ghost writer, it’s that Obama passed off pieces of Ayer’s biography as his own. For a President who was elected on virtually nothing but his bio, this is huge.

Sometimes I seriously question this blog’s direction.

Oh, ok. Unrepentant terrorist actually wrote a book supposedly written by President Barack Hussein Obama. Turkmenbama has been known to openly brag that he ACTUALLY wrote his own book.

Maybe Osama bin Laden can ghostwrite his next one. It’ll be meaningless.

(Some peeps don’t want to wake up and see that everything about Turkmenbama is a bloody lie and that he is the enemy)

We know what he’s like as president now because he’s been president; we don’t have to guess based on his pre-president ties and performance.

Jens on October 7, 2009 at 3:35 PM

We’re not guessing. We’ve bought Obama now and what was advertised on the box, ain’t what the thing in the box can do. It’s like buying a blender that says it makes smoothies, you get it out of the box and it makes stuff, just not smoothies. It’s false advertising to say that Mr. Obama was an accomplished author, when he can’t do that. Should he get a pass on this? I certainly don’t think so.

Obama was such an awesome genius that he was a professor at Chicago University Law School. Such a political genius that he helmed his Senatorial and Presidential efforts. I once saw 0bama himself bragging that he was a genius at political campaigns

Of course he writes his own books and of course he is eligible to be President! You are a racist for doubting this young black genius that comes along once every hundred years and we are lucky to have him!