Was Barack Obama the author of his book, Dreams from My Father?
Did he write it or did someone else?
Could that someone else have been Obama's friend and colleague Bill Ayers?
That's what Jack Cashill claims, writing on WorldNetDaily.
Cashill lays out his case.
Are his accusations valid? Is there something to what he's saying?
That's debatable.
In a response to Jonathan Adler, Andy McCarthy considers the possibility that Cashill is on to something.
McCarthy writes:
Cashill has written a very thorough analysis... As I said, I resisted reading Cashill's analysis for a long time — and he's not the first to advance the idea that Obama did not write his book — because I didn't want to be accused of wading into what could be taken as nutter stuff. I was then persuaded that I should at least look at it with an open mind. I'm convinced it raises major questions. I tried to treat them in a serious way.
...The next time someone complains that we really don't know enough about Obama — that he won't talk about Columbia, release his records or anything he wrote there; that he won't produce anything from his Harvard days; that there seems to have been a concerted effort to purge documentation of his connections to socialist associations; that he has misrepresented the fact and depth of his relationships with some troublesome people — do make sure to repeat your thoughtful response that you've seen no evidence that evidence is relevant. We're about to elect to the presidency a blank slate of the Left who comes to us with a neon sign that says "SLATE NOT ACTUALLY BLANK IF YOU LOOK HARD ENOUGH."
I think there's a great deal of validity to McCarthy's assertion, "SLATE NOT ACTUALLY BLANK IF YOU LOOK HARD ENOUGH," when it comes to Barack Obama.
The media have failed the American public. In addition to not looking hard enough at Obama's not actually blank slate; what they have seen, they've tried to erase.
Instead of fulfilling their role as watchdogs, they've been trying to bury the bones found in Obama's closet.
3 comments:
clearly he wrote the book. have you ever read the book? anyone who asserts otherwise is just being a cultist right wing moron who hates the idea of a black man with intelligence. sad.
Gosh, I am so sick of everyone jumping on the race bandwagon! I hope that if Obama wins people stop using the race thing - or maybe white people can use it for anything they see as negative.... Get. over. it.
Good grief, "anonymous."
I haven't read Obama's book, but I've read and heard excerpts.
Notice in my post I do not say that I believe Bill Ayers wrote Obama's book.
I simply address the topic, mainly by asking questions.
I think it's fair for individuals to ask questions without being slandered as a "cultist" or a "right wing moron who hates the idea of a black man with intelligence."
I don't know Jack Cashill. Do you?
If you don't know him, I think it's wrong for you to label him the way you have.
Put that race card away.
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