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   From: traitor@barackobama.com   
      
   It is now abundantly clear that the image of Barack Obama sold   
   to the American electorate was tightly edited, air-brushed, and   
   exaggerated. He has worn a series of masks -- eloquent orator,   
   brilliant scholar, centrist, and literary sensation. All of   
   these masks are coming off as he copes with a job for which   
   image will not suffice.  For instance, hiding behind the   
   eloquent orator mask is a guy who says "uhh" a lot when he is   
   winging it, and who makes lots of factual and grammatical   
   mistakes.   
      
   Now, thanks to Jack Cashill, the literary mask has been removed.   
   Obama is a literary pretender. Case closed. The evidence is   
   overwhelming that Bill Ayers ghost-wrote Dreams from my Father,   
   the book which established Obama's pose as a brilliant writer   
   (and therefore a fine mind, in the estimation of many). The   
   stylistic resemblance between the Dreams and Ayers' work is   
   stunning. Now we know, thanks to Chris Andersen's new book,that   
   Obama hit a brick wall trying to fulfill his contract to produce   
   a book, and shipped off his notes and tapes to Ayers. That is   
   the classic description of a ghost writer's assignment. And it   
   completely fits the theories Cashill had inferentially reasoned   
   from the data of his literary studies.   
      
   The revelation that Chris Andersen had two separate sources   
   means that this fact meets the journalistic standard of   
   reliability, provided by a respected, established bestselling   
   author. Obama's dismissal of Ayers as "just a guy in the   
   neighborhood" has been shown to be an outright lie.   
      
   That will certainly be the verdict of history, regardless of   
   whether or not the issue of Obama's ghost written book ever   
   breaks through into the national discussion. My bet is that the   
   media will not be able to suppress discussion. The image of   
   Obama packing boxes full of tapes and notebooks and hauling them   
   over to Ayers' house a couple of blocks away, is simple and   
   compelling evidence of a ghost writer being put to work. Jack's   
   literary detective work made the case, and Andersen's two   
   neighborhood sources confirm it.   
      
   Anyone who refuses to deal with this issue is willfully avoiding   
   topics that make Obama look bad. The facts are in the public   
   domain.   
      
   The New York Times has just appointed a new editor to monitor   
   online conservative websites and talk radio, to make sure the   
   paper doesn't embarrass itself again, as it did on the Van Jones   
   and ACORN stories. Unlike every other editor, the Times is   
   keeping the name of this editor secret.   
      
   [Jill Abramson, the managing editor for news,] and Bill Keller,   
   the executive editor, said last week that they would now assign   
   an editor to monitor opinion media and brief them frequently on   
   bubbling controversies. Keller declined to identify the editor,   
   saying he wanted to spare that person "a bombardment of e-mails   
   and excoriation in the blogosphere."   
      
   So, whoever you are at the New York Times, you're probably   
   reading American Thinker as an unpleasant duty. If I knew who   
   you were, I'd bombard you with a polite note laying out the   
   trail for you to follow on this important story. The President   
   of The United States lied when he claimed that "I actually wrote   
   them [his books] myself."   
      
   I think that's news that's fit to be printed, even if   
   uncongenial to the incumbent Democrat president. Don't you?   
      
   Thomas Lifson is editor and publisher of American Thinker.   
   on "Unmasking Obama"   
      
       
      
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