More evidence Bill Ayers ghostwrote Obama’s “Dreams From My Father”

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More evidence Bill Ayers ghostwrote Obama’s “Dreams From My Father”

Sunday, June 28th, 2009 | Politics |

From American Thinker, more evidence that Bill Ayers wrote Obama’s autobiography, Dreams From My Father:

Ayers is fixated with faces, especially eyes. He writes of “sparkling” eyes, “shining” eyes, “laughing” eyes, “twinkling” eyes, eyes “like ice,” and people who are “wide-eyed” and “dark-eyed.”

As it happens, Obama is also fixated with faces, especially eyes. He also writes of “sparkling” eyes, “shining” eyes, “laughing” eyes, “twinkling” eyes, and uses the phrases “wide-eyed” and “dark-eyed.” Obama adds “smoldering eyes,” “smoldering” being a word that he and Ayers inject repeatedly. Obama also uses the highly distinctive phrase “like ice,” in his case to describe the glinting of the stars.

If Ayers is fixated on eyes, about eyebrows he is positively fetishistic. There are six references to “eyebrows” in Fugitive Days — bushy ones, flaring ones, arched ones, black ones and, stunningly, seven references in Dreams — heavy ones, bushy ones, wispy ones. It is the rare memoirist who talks about eyebrows at all.

Hat tip to Six Meat Buffet.

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6 Comments to More evidence Bill Ayers ghostwrote Obama’s “Dreams From My Father”

persimmon
June 29, 2009

I remember the good old days when Presidents got nitpicked for having been busted with dealer quantities of cocaine in Maine only to have the arrest vanish, or for having a sealed conviction in Texas that could conceivably contain a felony disqualifying him from eligibility, or for having gone AWOL after bailing on his flight training just as drug screening was instituted, records again mysteriously vanishing.

I’m glad our darkening eyes now gaze from beneath furrowed eyebrows at more weighty matters.

Les Jones
June 29, 2009

Rock solid evidence you’ve got there. Oh, right. You’ve got Dan Rather’s faxed memo made in Microsoft Word in the Seventies.

persimmon
June 29, 2009

Not only did you miss my point, you’re citing text analysis to support a who-cares hypothesis. You think you have some sort of quality-of-evidence upper hand?

You realize, of course, that it is Bush who lacks evidence showing that he completed his Air National Guard duties and that the story of him ducking out to Alabama and fudging his way to an early discharge existed long before 60 Minutes decided it needed more visual aids, and persists unchanged with that insignificant piece of garbage duly discarded.

The actual point, though, is that Bush’s service, his sealed conviction in Texas and the amazing vanishing cocaine arrest are all things of actual importance. Obama using a ghostwriter, that’s the sort of thing only someone who thinks the 60 Minutes thing is relevant might care about.

Les Jones
June 29, 2009

I actually prefer the evidence from Cahill’s earlier piece, which was based on software-driven evidence. I’ve read a book on that and it’s astonishing what rote analysis can accomplish regarding authorship.

But, really, the Bush thing is a red herring. Authorship of Obama’s book has nothing to do with Bush.

persimmon
June 29, 2009

Authorship of Obama’s book has nothing to do with anything. I think it’s quite instructive to compare the concerns once considered symptoms of “Bush Derangement Syndrome” with the nonsense the right now obsesses over. It makes it plain where the derangement lies.

Oooooh, Obama might have gotten help writing a book from a former radical turned professor, terrifying! What will he do next, hire a spokesman to make statements to the press?

Les Jones
June 29, 2009

“Oooooh, Obama might have gotten help writing a book from a former terrorist bomber“

Fixed it for ya.

As far as BDS. Dude. You inserted Bush into a discussion that had nothing to do with him. He’s out of office already. Get over it.