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MAJ USA RET
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Obama's Books
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11/28/2009 9:39:50 AM
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Obama did not write his books. He may have had the idea… provided an outline… maybe a few sentences, but he didn’t write his own books. Literary experts unanimously agree that Obama did not pen the style and prose which are set forth in “Dreams of My Father.” Actually, as unwittingly revealed to Christopher Andersen for his book "Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage,” Michelle Obama tells how Bill Ayers wrote the book when Obama couldn’t.
(See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=110781)
With respect to “Audacity of Hope,” “The New York Times assures its readers that ‘enough of the narrative voice in this volume is recognizably similar to the one in ‘Dreams From My Father.’ Without intending to, the Times likely captured the thinking behind the creation of Audacity.” The Washington Post addressed the central issue, and it did so facetiously: "The book [Dreams] is beautifully written and yet, in Cashill's opinion, Obama is - and always was - a crappy (his word, not mine) writer."
“In October 2006, Audacity debuted to kind reviews and huge sales. Despite Obama's "unforgiving Senate schedule and periodic bouts of writer's block," he had been able to write a 216-page book without any acknowledged writing help in what was likely an 18-month window. This was the same writer who blew a $125,000 advance because he was unable to produce a book during "several" much less hectic years, the same writer who between his 1995 masterpiece and Audacity had written nothing deeper than a column for a community newsletter.”
(See Jack Cashill, http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/who_wrote_audacity_of_hope_1.html)
Audacity was probably written by Jon Favreau, with phrases lifted directly from Dreams to provide continuity.
An example from text actually written by Obama: (1983 essay "Breaking The War Mentality," written in 1983 for ColumbiaUniversity’s “Sundial”)
“The belief that moribund institutions, rather than individuals are at the root of the problem, keep SAM's energies alive.”
Can you imagine you English 101 professor nailing you for subject–verb agreement?
This was one of five subject-verb errors in Obama’s submission. The entire essay was riddled with punctuation errors. My professor would have failed me for the first three errors. Was the “bar” at the same level for Obama as it was for me? How in the world did such a piece of disjointed logic and grammatical garbage get into a Columbia University weekly?
Note also that he used moribund (meaning “nearly dead”) to describe our military! I was in our military in 1983! It was not anywhere near dead.
I urge you to cut and paste (into your browser) any one of the two citations above. Read through the cases provided. Keep in mind that the opinions of the liberal papers New York Times and Washington Post are liberally referenced. Decide for yourself.
It is NOT Obama’s literary prowess, experience, credentials, intelligence, judgment, or ethics which are keeping his head above water. Upon whomever’s shoulders Obama is standing… that “person” is beginning to stumble under the burden of stupidity. Obama will soon struggle to keep his head above water as his straw underpinnings crumble from their own lack of structural (ethical) integrity. The world is watching.
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