Claim: Bill Ayers admitted writing Obama’s “Dreams of My Father”

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Claim: Bill Ayers admitted writing Obama’s “Dreams of My Father”

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 | Politics |

I say claim because it’s a conservative blogger who can’t substantiate it.

Examiner - Bill Ayers admits writing ‘Dreams’ to conservative blogger:

Ayers was in Washington, he told her, for a conference on education. “That’s what I do, education,” he said. “You shouldn’t believe everything you hear about me… You know nothing about me.”

To which she responded, “I said, I know plenty–I’m from Chicago, a conservative blogger, and I’ll post this.” I bet his heart skipped a beat on that one.

But he didn’t scowl, and didn’t run off as he has been known to do. Instead, unprompted, he blurted out: “I wrote ‘Dreams From My Father… Michelle asked me to.” Then he added “And if you can prove it we can split the royalties.”

Anne responded, “Stop pulling my leg!”

But he repeated insistently, “I wrote it, the wording was similar [to Ayers’ other writing.]”

Anne responded, “I believe you probably heavily edited it.”

Ayers stated firmly, “I wrote it.”

We’ll see. If Ayers - the admitted terrorist bomber that Obama claimed was just “some guy in his neighborhood” - is the true author and is also the egomaniac the Examiner suggests I reckon he’ll make a public claim to being the author sooner or later.

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