| The Summer Of 1981 |
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| Written by Paul R. Hollrah | |
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by Paul R. Hollrah On Page 118 of Barack Obama’s memoir, Dreams from My Father, he tells of ...
... his arrival in
While still in
When he arrived at the apartment just after
The only person he knew in
Obama was able to sublet another apartment, but when his utilities were turned off he learned that the people who held the lease had failed to pay the rent and had absconded with his deposit money. And since his friend, Sadik, had lost his lease as well, the two of them found an apartment and moved in together. Obama tells us that, in the weeks following his arrival, he was like a large “lab rat” exploring the byways of
Then his life took an unexpected turn. He writes, “It was in this humorless mood that my mother and sister (Maya Soetoro) found me when they came to visit during my first summer in New York,” and that, “They stayed with Sadik and me for a few nights, then moved to a condominium on Park Avenue that a friend of my mother’s had offered them while she was away.” Obama explains, “That summer I had found a job clearing a construction site on the
It sounds as if Obama was an absolute joy to be around. The “dog-eat-dog” environment of the streets of
But wait a minute. How can this be? Although Obama fails to mention it in either of his memoirs… not in Dreams from My Father and not in The Audacity of Hope… he traveled to
When questioned about that trip, Obama’s campaign press secretary, Bill Burton, confirmed to the New York Times, and others, that Obama had visited his mother and his sister in
So the question arises, which version are we to believe: the version contained in his memoir, Dreams from My Father, or the version his press secretary provided following his April 2008 speech in
The Los Angeles Times once referred to Obama as “the magic Negro.” Is it possible they were right, or is Obama simply challenging Bill Clinton for the title of “unusually good liar?” By his own admission, it is now well established that Obama did travel to
Jack Cashill, a recognized authority on intellectual fraud, is the author of numerous books, including Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture, in which he details the 20th century history of American intellectual fraud. In addition to his own exhaustive examination of Barack Obama’s memoirs, Dreams from My Father and The Audacity of Hope, which have led him to believe that Obama’s terrorist friend, Bill Ayers, is in fact the principal author of Dreams from My Father, Cashill reviews a new best-seller by Christopher Andersen, the author of 28 books, including best-sellers on the Clintons; Diana, Princess of Wales; and Caroline Kennedy. The latest Andersen book to caught Cashill’s eye is titled Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage. Writing in the
Cashill tells us, “In a lengthy and detailed section on the Obama’s financial struggles in the early 1990s, Andersen relates how at the urging of Michelle, a ‘hopelessly blocked’ Obama turned to ‘friend and neighbor’ Bill Ayers to help him with his much acclaimed 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father.” He continues, “Andersen’s details are specific. The Obamas were convinced of ‘Ayers’s proven abilities as a writer.’ Barack particularly liked the novelistic style of To Teach, a 1993 book by Ayers. Obama hoped to use a comparable style for his own family history. The problem was that although he had taped interviews with many of his relatives, he could not find it in himself to write the book.” According to Cashill, “The key sentence in Andersen’s account is the one that follows: ‘These oral histories, along with his partial manuscript and a trunk load of notes were given to Ayers,’ ” and, ‘Thanks to help from veteran writer Ayers, Barack would be able to submit a manuscript to his editors at Times Books.’ ” What does literary investigator Cashill conclude from all this? He says, “To a book reviewer or to a political editor, this revelation should matter hugely. Throughout the 2008 campaign, Obama insisted that he barely knew Ayers. He was just some guy in the neighborhood. Obama was lying.” If Andersen’s account is correct, that Obama experienced a bad case of writer’s block and was unable to complete his memoir… after having spent his advance money… and that he and Michelle dumped his notes, his taped interviews, and his own partially-completed manuscript on Bill Ayers, then it is all but certain that the Dreams from My Father account of Obama’s summer of 1981 in New York is pure fiction, a product of his Bill Ayers’ imagination, and that his own inadvertent admission of spending much of the summer of 1981 in Indonesia and Pakistan is the version that is “straight from the horse’s mouth.” Whatever the truth of the matter, Obama has an obligation to set the record straight. If his first memoir is not his own work, in spite of his many claims that it is, then the American people deserve to know. They deserve to know who it is that now occupies the Oval Office. And given the destructive nature of his plans for
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