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Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

OCT 13, 2008 07:08 AM

It's true. Incontrovertable evidence, my friends.

^^^
(No, seriously. Someone actually wrote that article. It's awesome. Check it out.)

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

OCT 13, 2008 07:16 AM

This is my favorite bit:

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.


Yep. No one has ever, in the history of man, EVER written a good book the first time out. Ever. Can't happen.

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

OCT 13, 2008 07:17 AM

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

Coyotemike

Coyotemike

USA
May 2006

OCT 13, 2008 07:38 AM

They always seem to miss that whole "Law Review" and the fact that most lawyers spend almost as much of their undergrad work in English classes as English majors. (it helps with reading comp., which I am told is important in legal work tongue )

RudieCantFail

RudieCantFail

Baton Rouge, LA
January 2006

OCT 13, 2008 07:40 AM

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



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

Quella

Quella

USA
July 2008

OCT 13, 2008 07:41 AM

Let me slap some academic and regional snobbery on here, and say I guess a guy from PURDUE U (the author of this shite) can't fathom the intellect of a scrappy and smart young man educated at Columbia and Harvard.

I guess a guy educated at Purdue also can't fathom how long it takes for a final manucript to make it into print. If Dreams from my father came out in 1995 and Obama met Ayers in 1995... um, no. FAIL.

Coyotemike

Coyotemike

USA
May 2006

OCT 13, 2008 07:44 AM

RudieCantFail said:

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



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



Newest Rules tongue

RudieCantFail

RudieCantFail

Baton Rouge, LA
January 2006

OCT 13, 2008 07:46 AM

Coyotemike said:

RudieCantFail said:

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



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



Newest Rules tongue



You win this round, Coyotemike, but I'll be back...

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

OCT 13, 2008 07:56 AM

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.

gdarklighter

gdarklighter

San Diego, CA
August 2005

OCT 13, 2008 08:21 AM

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?


NUMBERS DON'T LIE!

d20

d20

San Francisco, CA
September 2003

OCT 13, 2008 08:44 AM

well, at least the dude gets irony points for writing for a rag called American Thinker.

SeanTPoindexter

SeanTPoindexter

Joplin, MO
February 2008

OCT 13, 2008 08:57 AM

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?

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



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.



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

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

OCT 13, 2008 09:02 AM

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.



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!?

Coyotemike

Coyotemike

USA
May 2006

OCT 13, 2008 09:07 AM

MrProzac said:

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?

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



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.



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.



You're new here, aren't you.

Accuser

Accuser

Scottsdale, AZ
October 2006

OCT 13, 2008 10:18 AM

MrProzac said:

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?

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



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.



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.



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FearTheReaper

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

OCT 13, 2008 11:11 AM

Obviously black people can't write books without help from white people.

slayn001

slayn001

United Kingdom
February 2005

OCT 13, 2008 01:21 PM

how long before this revelation is on fix news ?

MessyJesse

MessyJesse

Roanoke, VA
February 2008

OCT 13, 2008 01:36 PM

That is the fucking dumbest thing I have ever read...

MessyJesse

MessyJesse

Roanoke, VA
February 2008

OCT 13, 2008 01:38 PM

Subrosa said:

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.



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!?



bahahahahahaha

TheFuckOffKid

TheFuckOffKid

NEWSWIRE

Australia

OCT 13, 2008 01:42 PM

Subrosa said:

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.



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!?



Thank God that "Catch-22" is, otherwise we'd be screwed!!!

FellOnEarth

FellOnEarth

Temecula, CA
April 2006

OCT 13, 2008 02:00 PM

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

Don't fret, your title could have been rife with "typos" in it. wink

DevilsReject

DevilsReject

Cleveland, OH
February 2007

OCT 13, 2008 02:04 PM

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



Bill Ayers wouldn't have screwed that up.

FellOnEarth

FellOnEarth

Temecula, CA
April 2006

OCT 13, 2008 02:05 PM

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?

The number 23! The ruin of mankind is upon us, Cthulu is calling!

Trevallion

Trevallion

Murfreesboro, TN
February 2004

OCT 13, 2008 02:11 PM

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.

Hooraydiation

Hooraydiation

Boston, MA
October 2005

OCT 13, 2008 02:12 PM

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.



Hrmm, he must not be either of those things either, then.

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