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“It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma;
but perhaps there is a key…”
What Winston Churchill once said of Russia might be applied to Barack Hussein Obama.
If you have read Obama’s autobiography Dreams From My Father, you know only what the author wants you to know about his life.
When you read Jack Cashill’s Deconstructing Obama, The Life, Loves, and Letters of America’s First Postmodern President, you will learn more about Obama than Obama himself intended.
Using Obama’s literary output, Cashill carefully peels away a diaphanous veil that reveals data points throughout the murkiness of Obama’s past.
Cashill discovers literary clues that cause him to suspect that Obama did not write his own biography. Who did? The literary path Cashill follows leads to “just some guy in the neighborhood”.
Cashill noticed that Obama’s work was similar to the classic maritime epic The Odyssey by Homer, and he puzzled why Obama sprinkled nautical terms throughout his writings.
Cashill knew that 1960′s Weather Underground domestic terrorist Bill Ayers had spent considerable time at sea as a merchant mariner, and on a hunch picked up a copy of Ayers’ Fugitive Days. Cashill noticed that words and phrases in Ayers’ book bore striking similarities to those in Obama’s Dreams, leading him to conclude that it could not be just coincidence. In doing so, Cashill uncovers more questions than answers about the enigmatic Obama.
In Deconstructing Obama, Cashill explores Obama’s childhood from infancy; his white socialist mother, absent Kenyan father, and communist sympathizing grandparents; the people who mentored and influenced him; dates, times and places; and those with whom he surrounds himself today, giving the reader more insight into the man elected to the Presidency than Obama himself divulged in Dreams.
Cashill’s investigation follows the literary breadcrumbs that lead back to Chicago’s Hyde Park, compeling the reader to take a closer look at the man who occupies the White house.
Cashill couldn’t find the key to Obama’s past, so he picked the lock.
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I enjoyed your show last night. Especially, when the caller asked Greg Lakin how come Terry didn’t get a long form BC from Hawaii for his own daughter. That caller made a good point IMO. What disappointed me is that on the Podcast of the show, this caller was edited out and his comments taken out of context. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen a movie by the title of “The Running Man” with Arnold Schwartznegger. The editing done to your show was a lot like what they did to Arnold’s character.
Fortunately, I was able to find the original recording of the show so I could play it back for some friends I wanted to hear it.
What a stupid post. In your introductory blurb, you say that there’s doubt Obama write the book — but then you say it reveals so much about him. If he didn’t write it, then it would tell more about the real writer than about him, don’t you think? So much for your highfallutin BS.
Ok “winston” lets take our thinking up to the second grade level. If Obama passes off a book written by someone else as his own work then that in fact tells us quite a bit about Obama. If he passes the detailed stories of the book off as his own, that tells us quite a bit about him, his fantasies and his integrity. I could go on but we would have to jump up to the third grade level and I don’t think you’re ready for that.
spike
Great post and great reply Spike. Libs are essentially narcissists who typically use first grade logic and then complement each other on their brilliance. If we take reasoning to the third grade level we will lose them for sure.