Flim and flam of the world
Whoever is responsible for the text of Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father is a gifted writer. For an informed appreciation of the literary qualities of Dreams, see Andrew Ferguson’s “The literary Obama.” Ferguson denies that “anyone who reads it could doubt that Dreams from My Father is the work of a real [...]
Troubled Dreams
According to Rusty Humphries, writing at Big Government, Bill Ayers’s claim that he wrote Dreams from My Father is a “blockbuster story.” I say it’s an interesting story, but a mistake to take Ayers’s claim at face value, as Humphries appears to do.
Incidentally, Humphries calls Obama’s memoir Dreams of My Father; he [...]
Whose Dreams?
In the run-up to the election, Jack Cashill framed a speculative argument that Bill Ayers wrote Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father. Cashill first ventured his thesis in “Who wrote Dreams From My Father?” Cashill cited Obama’s sophomoric stabs at poetry from his days at Occidental. Obama’s sophomoric poetry doesn’t provide much [...]
Obama’s ‘Lack of a’ Work Ethic
Oh, how well we are gradually getting to know “Him”:
[...] Barack Obama has displayed a disturbing pattern of work ethics: shirking work; claiming success when he was not entitled to do so; hiding his failures; and claiming the work of others as his own — when it was successful. These are not character traits that [...]
A Can of Worms Reopened
Is Obama a literary fraud? A new book supports the right-wing theory that the president needed help to produce ‘Dreams From My Father.’ And surely to no one’s surprise - the finger of suspicion points directly to Obama’s controversial Chicago neighbour, Bill Ayers.
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The Audacity of Refusing to Be Stampeded Into Obamacare
The poet Gerald Manley Hopkins disposed of a rival by saying that
he spoke with “the air and spirit of a man bouncing up from a
table with his mouth full of bread and cheese” — saying that he
will stand no more “blasted nonsense.”
In the same spirit, [...]
