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Showing posts with label Bill Ayers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Ayers. Show all posts

05 October 2009

Evidence that Dreams from My Father was ghostwritten?

Jack Cashill recently wrote an article at American Thinker that reviews some evidence that Obama did not write the supposed 1995 autobiography Dreams from My Father.  It is not a big deal if a politician receives help in writing his autobiography, if he does not pretend he wrote it by himself and if the story is true.  There is reason to believe Obama fails the truth test on both issues.  This is hardly surprising, since his general relationship with reality is one in which he recreates it in the nature of his wishes.  Or is it in the nature of his dreams from his father?

Obama told students and teachers in Virginia last year:  "I've written two books.  I actually wrote them myself."

Christopher Andersen's generally favorable book Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage says that Obama struggled for four years to write his book and then upon Michelle's advice sought help from that guy he barely knows, his neighbor Bill Ayers.  Ayers, our violent Weatherman radical turned benign education specialist, had written a book called To Teach, which Barack and Michelle both liked.  Obama turned his partial manuscript, many taped interviews of his family, and notes over to Bill Ayers, who produced the manuscript he turned in to Times Book.

Jack Cashill says he had already concluded that the book was ghostwritten by Bill Ayers through a study of the text.  He claims that Ayers added his own "darker sentiments and experiences."  He also created a story about Obama having a one-year relationship with a rich, green-eyed lovely that seemed to be based upon Ayer's relationship with the late terrorist Weatherwoman Diana Oughton.  Andersen says that Obama's closest friend and roommate at the time, Siddiqi, had no knowledge of such an affair or such a person.  How interesting that Obama even borrows love affairs from the man he barely knows, Bill Ayers.

From the standpoint of those who love the freedom to exercise their own choices that the free markets of the capitalist system provide us, it is interesting to note that both Obama and Ayers have used the phrase "behind enemy lines" to describe their relationship with capitalist America.

29 October 2008

The Weathermen Take Over

Over and over, Barack Obama has chosen to ally himself with socialists who hate the principles upon which the United States of America was founded. He and Sen. Biden are pure enemies of individual sovereignty and the idea that each person has an inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Obama got his first big break when William Ayers, a founder of the 1960s terrorist and socialist organization The Weather Underground, selected him as the grant dispensing director of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge with a $49.2 million budget over five years, whose purpose was substantially to introduce teaching curricula which would radicalize students in support of socialism. This was Obama's only management experience. William Ayers, who teaches education courses at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the College of Education, continues to radicalize students to the cause of socialism to this day. In 2001, he stated that he only regretted not doing more to stop the war in Vietnam as a Weatherman. In 2006, he reiterated his belief in the Marxist and socialist principles of The Weathermen. He was never convicted of participation in bombings due to a technicality, but his wife Bernadine Dohrn was found guilty of a felony due to her Weathermen work. Obama wrote a supporting blurb for a book written by Ayers and Ayers helped him gather campaign contributions for his first political race.

Obama has consistently allied himself with people who hate America, which I equate with hating the principles upon which America stands. The Rev. Wright is another clear example of such a long-standing ally anti-American ally as William Ayers. Still another is Rashid Khalidi, a former spokesman for the PLO, who now is a professor at Columbia University who uses his endowed professorship to denounce Israel and the Jews constantly. Previously, he was at the University of Chicago and a friend of William Ayers and Barack Obama.

A very chilling tape of an undercover police officer who participated in the Weatherman activities is available on You Tube here. This is chilling stuff. There is something seriously disturbed in those who were a part of the Weathermen. This is not the kind of disturbance that mellows out with age, it simply evolves into more subtle and dangerous techniques for mastery over others.

The strong-arm tactics used in the Democratic caucuses in which Obama had out-of-staters bused in for caucus votes, had people vote in the Texas caucus who had not voted in the Texas primary as required, intimidated elderly people and women, removed voting papers from sites just after large numbers of Obama supporters were brought in in large groups so others could not vote, told people they could leave since their votes were already counted, when they were not, and stuffed ballot boxes with ballots whose numbers greatly exceeded the number of people present, all serve to underline just how committed Obama is to the traditional Black Shirt tactics of socialists, whether Marxist or Fascist. There is a reason why he easily won caucas votes in states in which he was way behind Hillary Clinton in the polls. He is ruthless, though suave. He is a leader among socialist wolves, though he covers himself with a sheep hide. Beware.