The World is in chaos and we’re stuck with a Milli-Vanili President…

Obama addresses question about the importance of Writing at Rally in Fairfax, July 10, 2008. Question posed by Kristin of Northern Virginia Writing Project.

Although the audio of this video leaves much to be desired, we have a transcript making it easier to follow.
TRANSCRIPT:

Kristin’s Question: Senator Obama, I am Kristin Larsen. I am a school teacher and here with me are my teacher colleagues and Fellows from the Northern Virginia Writing Project. We were wondering what kind of positive impact writing has had on your life, and what words of inspiration you have for young writers.

Senator Obama’s Answer:

That’s a good one. As you probably know, I’ve written two books. I actually wrote them myself. I can’t claim that I now write all my speeches, but the important ones like the… speech in 2004 and my announcement speech, those were the speeches that I wrote. I learned how to write first of all by reading…and so that is why it is so important to make sure we’re reading to our children and sparking their imagination.

Senator Obama’s Response (cont.):
Over the course of last four years, I’ve made time to read all the Harry Potter books out loud to my daughters…even after I started to run for president. You have to make time to read to your kids…. Then I started keeping a journal when I got to college.

Senator Obama’s Response (cont.):
That was important not just in terms of teaching me how to write, but in teaching me how to think, because it forced me to figure out how reconcile different attitudes, how to process different experiences, how to express my opinions in a coherent way, how to develop voice, and so by the time I wrote the book, I had a better sense of where I had been, why I was doing what I was doing….

Senator Obama’s Response (cont.):
As a practical matter, knowing how to write is a good thing. When you are applying for a job, you will not be asked to text message, but to write.

NOW HERE IS THE PROBLEM:
Through the FOIA, it has been discovered, Obama didn’t write his books himself. ACORN and Weatherman, Bill Ayers did!

Literary Lion Obama Will Roar No More

(ht/American Thinker)

The major media will not likely tackle the emerging evidence of Obama’s stunning literary fraud, but the days of Obama’s boasting about his writing skills are just as likely over.

The immediate cause of concern at the White House is Christopher Andersen’s largely benign new book, “Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage.”

Andersen contends that the ambitious Obama, unaware of JFK’s own literary fraud, hoped to launch his own political career with a book as did John Kennedy with the discreetly ghost-written Profiles In Courage.

Despite a large advance, Obama found himself “hopelessly blocked.” After four futile years of trying to finish, Obama “sought advice from his friend and Hyde Park neighbor Bill Ayers.” This he did “at Michelle’s urging,” she being the more pragmatic half of the couple.

What attracted the Obamas were “Ayers’s proven abilities as a writer.” Barack particularly liked the fluid novelistic style of To Teach, a 1993 book by Ayers. This he hoped to emulate for his own family history. In fact, he had already taped interviews with many of his relatives, both African and American. The key sentence in Andersen’s account is the one that follows:

“These oral histories, along with his partial manuscript and a trunkload of notes were given to Ayers.” Adds Andersen, “Thanks to help from veteran writer Ayers, Barack would be able to submit a manuscript to his editors at Times Book.” The manuscript in question would become Obama’s 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, what Joe Klein of Time Magazine called “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.”

From textual sleuthing, I had come to a comparable conclusion more than a year ago, namely that Obama had “turned the framework of his life over to terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers who roughed it in with his own darker sentiments and experiences.” Embedded here is a visual summary of this research, produced by Chris Kusnell.

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