You Know Who Wrote "Dreams From My Father"? Bill Ayers.

The public is asked to believe Obama wrote Dreams From My Father on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant. I do not buy this canard for a minute, not at all. Writing is as much a craft as, say, golf. To put this in perspective, imagine if a friend played a few rounds in the high 90s and then a few years later, without further practice, made the PGA Tour. It doesn't happen.

And yet, given the biases of the literary establishment, no reviewer of note has so much as questioned Obama's role in the writing, then or now. As the New York Times gushed, Obama was "that rare politician who can write . . . and write movingly and genuinely about himself." These accolades matter all the more because Obama has built his political persona around his presumably superior intellect, Dreams being exhibit A.

Shy of a confession by those involved, I will not be able to prove conclusively that Obama did not write this book. As shall be seen, however, there are only two real possibilities: one is that Obama experienced a near miraculous turnaround in his literary abilities; the second is that he had major editorial help, up to and including a ghostwriter.

Subrosa said:
Oh, goddammit, I screwed up the quotation marks in the thread title. Mother fucker.

RudieCantFail said:

If it's any consolation, book titles should be italicized, not quoted, anyway.

Coyotemike said:

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Subrosa said:
Regardless, did you know that Bill Ayers' book has 23.13 words per sentence and "Obama's" book has 23.36!?! WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?

Subrosa said:
Yes, yes, but you can't italicize things in thread titles, dammit.

Regardless, did you know that Bill Ayers' book has 23.13 words per sentence and "Obama's" book has 23.36!?! WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?

Obviously, they're written by the same person! And since Obama CAN'T have written Dreams from My Father on account of the fact that no person has ever written a good book the first time out ever in the history of ever.

THEREFORE: ipso facto, res ipsa loquitur, quid pro quo... it MUST have been Ayers. Q.E.D.

MrProzac said:
This is a joke, right? I mean, you aren't serious with any of this, are you?

Many authors have written good books the first time out. And, on top of that, whether a book is "good" or not is a mostly subjective evaluation of its content and style.

MrProzac said:

Nothing. It tells me nothing. This is unbelievably straw grasping. Simply hilarious.

This is a joke, right? I mean, you aren't serious with any of this, are you?

Many authors have written good books the first time out. And, on top of that, whether a book is "good" or not is a mostly subjective evaluation of its content and style.

MrProzac said:

Nothing. It tells me nothing. This is unbelievably straw grasping. Simply hilarious.

This is a joke, right? I mean, you aren't serious with any of this, are you?

Many authors have written good books the first time out. And, on top of that, whether a book is "good" or not is a mostly subjective evaluation of its content and style.

Subrosa said:

Of course I'm serious! That's why in the second post I linked to a bunch of other UNIVERSALLY TERRIBLE first-time books written by otherwise good writers. I mean, Catcher in the Rye!? IT'S NOT EVEN ABOUT BASEBALL!!!! WTF!?

Subrosa said:

Of course I'm serious! That's why in the second post I linked to a bunch of other UNIVERSALLY TERRIBLE first-time books written by otherwise good writers. I mean, Catcher in the Rye!? IT'S NOT EVEN ABOUT BASEBALL!!!! WTF!?

Subrosa said:
Oh, goddammit, I screwed up the quotation marks in the thread title. Mother fucker.

Subrosa said:
Oh, goddammit, I screwed up the quotation marks in the thread title. Mother fucker.

Subrosa said:
Yes, yes, but you can't italicize things in thread titles, dammit.

Regardless, did you know that Bill Ayers' book has 23.13 words per sentence and "Obama's" book has 23.36!?! WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?

Trevallion said:
The idea that a law professor at the University of Chicago Law School and former editor of the Harvard Law Review would be incapable of writing a book is completely fucking absurd.