Barack Obama Alleged to Have Committed Literary Fraud

One of the appeals that President Barack Obama has for his supporters is his pretensions as an intellectual. Obama did, after all, actually author a couple of books, including the autobiographical Dreams From My Father.

But in a recent article in the American Thinker, Jack Cashill suggests that Barack Obama is not the actual author of Dreams From My Father. That is not exactly without precedence. Most politicians have ghostwriters. It is not even unprecedented that Barack Obama could commit literary fraud. John F. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage, for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, was actually written by Kennedy speech writer Ted Sorenson.

According to Cashill, an analysis of the textual styles of Dreams From My Father and known works of the real author suggest that his identity is none other than William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist and Obama crony.

The evidence that William Ayers is the actual author of Dreams From My Father seems to have been confirmed by Christopher Anderson, the author of a sympathetic Obama book Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage.

Ayers, in allegedly ghostwriting the Obama memoir, seems to have resorted to fiction on at least one occasion. There is mention in Dreams From My Father of a "rich green-eyed lovely" with whom Obama is alleged to have had a year-long affair while in college. The problem is, the woman likely never existed and seems to have been based upon a former lover of William Ayers.

Besides the odor of literary fraud, the most interesting thing about this is the that Cashill says it was William Ayers who had been the actual author of Dreams From My Father. During the campaign, Barack Obama downplayed his relationship with William Ayers, a former terrorist with the Weather Underground who would have been in jail for a long time had it not been for FBI bungling. Barack Obama presented his friendship with William Ayers as casual.

Obviously Barack Obama's friendship with William Ayers was much more than just casual. William Ayers was entrusted with the production of a book that launched Barack Obama as a intellectual/politician, someone who not only read books, but wrote them. William Ayers was also trusted enough to conceal his authorship of Dreams From My Father and hence the literary fraud that had been committed by Barack Obama.

Mind, the revelation, denied of course by Obama's supporters, is not likely to hurt him too much. The actual authorship of Profiles in Courage did not hurt John Kennedy's political career or legacy in any degree whatsoever.

However, it is ironic that the revelation that Barack Obama is not the author of his own autobiography comes at a time when Sarah Palin, most mentioned as a rival for Barack Obama in 2012, is coming out with her own autobiography. Going Rogue is being written by a ghostwriter, sneer Palin's enemies.

Just like Dreams from My Father, her supporters can now reply.

Source: Literary Lion Obama Will Roar No More, Jack Cashill, American Thinker, September 28th, 2009