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Someone Save me from myself - PLEASE!

When I first heard the "psst- Obama didnt write his own book" conspiracy, I found it a little hard to accept. Then I read the Jack Cashill post that started it all and it got me thinking, but I still didn't think it was reasonable.

So, quite by accident I happened to hear Michael Medved interview the man himself.

This is most unfortunate because its going to screw my free time all to hell and I have precious little of it at the moment. Now, because of Jacks initial post and what I heard on the interview today, I am now going to devote the next three days to reading 4 books.

Fugitive Days - By Bill Ayers
Sing a Battle Song - Bernadine Dohrn
Dreams from My Father - Barack Obama
The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama

I'm looking for more examples, but those are a good start for the first 72 hours.

The "Cashill Postulate" is this:

That the most famous writing of Barack Obama, 'Dreams from My Father' does not follow the same literary language and style as any of his earlier writings. How does he determine this? Literary Forensics. Imagine reading a book that someone said was by Hemmingway, only every sentence was a run on sentence. Hemmingway is recognizeable by his crisp and economical use of words. Hemmingway writes sentences like "The night was hot" not "It was a sultry Jamaican evening on the evening tide as the sun dropped below the palms". By itself, this would say that Barack Obama used a ghostwriter, which is not really that big of a deal. What is a big deal is that Mr. Cashill proposes that the ghostwriter is none other than William Ayers himself. This is a problem for a candidate who once described Bill Ayers as "an old guy who lives down the street" and committed his crimes when he was only 8 years old.

This is a quick 72 hour exercise in "Literary Forensics" which will most likely do nothing but make me want to gouge my eyes out. I do not expect to do anything with this except satisfy my own curiosity. If it pans out, if my first level exam passes the 'smell test" then we shall proceed, I have already set aside some software to confirm my findings and let me assure you, it does work.

I will liveblog the experience just so we can share the pain. Yes, come here to varifrank for all your leftist literature needs.

Blech....

It should be no secret that I've learned to loathe politics this season. This exercise will probably cement that feeling in my mind. Fundamentally I find this whole election to be far less interesting than the 2004 contest because I think that the differences between the two are so incredibly stark that it simply could not be more clear. If you have a contest between a leftist and anyone else, to me, anyone else who is running who doesn't a felony on their record or a brain tumor in their head is probably a better choice than the leftist that's running.

To me, socialism has always been a game that is too expensive for anyone but the truly rich to be able to afford to play.

Posted @ October 13, 2008 04:06 PM | Current Affairs

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Posted by: Paul_In_Houston at October 13, 2008 05:20 PM

Posted by: Bob at October 13, 2008 06:27 PM