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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:09 PM
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The latest garbage from the right - Ayres wrote Obama's book
Edited on Tue Oct-28-08 04:09 PM by proud2Blib
Evidence Mounts: Ayers Co-Wrote Obama's Dreams
By Jack Cashill

Evidence continues to mount that Barack Obama had substantial help from Bill Ayers in the creation of his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, a book that Time Magazine has called "the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician." The evidence falls into five general categories, here summarized.

* The discovery of new matching nautical metaphors from both Ayers and Obama that almost assuredly came from the same source: Ayers, a former merchant seaman.

* The discovery of a Bill Ayers' essay on memoir writing, whose postmodern themes and phrases are echoed throughout Dreams.

* A newly discovered book chapter from 1990 that shows clearly and painfully the limits of Obama's prose style the year he received a contract to write Dreams.

* The revelation by radical Islamicist Rashid Khalidi that Ayers made his "dining room table" available for neighborhood writers who needed help.

* A refined timeline that shows Ayers had the means, the motive and the time to help Obama when he needed it most.

more garbage here: http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/evidence_mounts_ayers_cowrote.html
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kwolf68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:09 PM
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1. MINUTIA
Edited on Tue Oct-28-08 04:11 PM by kwolf68
Hey American"Thinker"...People don't give a shit about this crap.

They don't let up though do they, no matter how much they sag in the polls. Hell, another Ayers rant by McCain may give Obama another point or two and could flip another 2 or 3 formerly red states. Buwahahaha.
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olkaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:09 PM
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2. This isn't the latest. They've been talking about that for at least two weeks.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:15 PM
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11. Well excuse me for just finding this today
I will try to keep up better next election.
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olkaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-29-08 11:00 AM
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26. You're excused.
It appears you're not the only one.
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olkaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:10 PM
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3. -
Edited on Tue Oct-28-08 04:10 PM by olkaz
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:10 PM
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4. "American thinker"?
boy, have they got THAT wrong! :rofl:

Truly, these people are beyond desperate.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:10 PM
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5. The maritime metaphor was probably what, "ship of state?"
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musette_sf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 07:24 PM
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21. i think it was
"up sh!t creek without a paddle"
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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:11 PM
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6. And so what if he edited his book? This is lameO.
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:26 PM
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13. He did NOT. nt
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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:39 PM
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16. I didn't say he did - I said so what if he had?
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DevonRex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 07:11 PM
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17. I'm sorry. I took it the wrong way. I think it's because my head is
killing me today so I'm a grouch.

In any case, I sincerely apologize. :pals:
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CLANG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 08:10 PM
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24. Hope your head feels better!
:pals:
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:11 PM
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7. Right. The President of the Harvard Law Review
needed a ghost writer. yeah....right! :eyes:
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abbiehoff Donating Member (356 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:11 PM
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8. Does this mean they think Ayers should be running
instead of Obama?
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:14 PM
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10. I guess so
:rofl:
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:11 PM
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9. It looks like Jerome Corsi's butthole is available for writers who need help. n/t
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FLyellowdog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:23 PM
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12. Cashill has done a pretty good job of comparing/contrasting Obama's work
with that of Ayers. I'd be interested in seeing him do the same with Obama/Kennedy, Obama/Churchill...just about anyone who's published historic and political essays.

This is a too academic attempt to smear Obama but falls so short of anything of substance it's pathetic. I'd have been more impressed if he had cited quote vs. quote duplicates in his rhetoric, but he cannot.

This article would make a great college debate, but is nothing more than one man's opinion and as he so states, it's merely what he "believes" to be true. Freedom of the press...ain't it wonderful?

It took way too much time to read...go do something fun.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:27 PM
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14. That's just stupid. EVERYBODY knows Karl Marx wrote it.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 08:45 PM
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25. lol
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 04:29 PM
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15. Obama was the fricking editor of the Harvard Law Review
Believe me, this guy can write. And speak.

To suggest otherwise is simply idiotic.
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BlueIdaho Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 07:21 PM
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18. Beyond dumb... nm.
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 07:23 PM
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19. There they go again!
LOL!

This kind of desperate bullshit is just plain funny! Well, and sad. But funny! Much better than the race-baiting bullshit they spew.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 07:23 PM
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20. That's been floating in the right wingnut sewers for weeks now
Nothing at all new about that one.
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 07:34 PM
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22. "radical Islamicist Rashid Khalidi" The "radical Islamicist" John McCain
gave half a million dollars to through the International Republican Institute?

JOHN MCCAIN SUPPORTS RADICAL ISLAMICISTS!

The INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN INSTITUTE SUPPORTS RADICAL ISLAMICISTS!

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casus belli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-28-08 07:52 PM
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23. Do they realize they're the only ones who care?
Everyone else realizes they're full of shit. So, who are they talking to?
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