More evidence William Ayers wrote ‘Dreams from My Father’

This is enough to send shivers up your spine.

Jack Cashill has been studying the writings of Barack Obama and William Ayers for months. Last fall he published a few articles noting the eerie similarity between Obama’s Dreams from my Father and the writings of Bill Ayers. He also found that there was no such similarity between Obama’s Audacity of Hope and Dreams from my Father or the writings of Bill Ayers. Cashill speculated that Dreams and Audacity were written by two different authors and that the author of Dreams was none other than Ayers.

Cashill inspired others to dig further and what they’ve found is pretty damning. And if true, it’s diabolical.

Mr. West independently came to the same conclusion that I did, namely that Ayers was not meaningfully involved in Audacity. These two Obama books almost assuredly had different primary authors. What should be transparent to any literary critic is that the author of Audacity lacked the style and skill of the author of Dreams. There are a few pockets in Audacity that evoke the spirit of Dreams but without the same grace.

A likely suspect for these imitative passages, perhaps the whole of Audacity, is Obama’s young speechwriter, Jon Favreau. Favreau joined the Obama team in 2005, time enough to play that role. The London Guardian reports that Favreau carries Dreams wherever he goes and can “conjure up his master’s voice as if an accomplished impersonator.” If so, in Audacity he played the classic role of the ghostwriter — one who absorbs his client’s thoughts and relates them in a refined version of his client’s voice.

Bill Ayers was no one’s ghostwriter. The now overwhelming evidence strongly suggests that he used the frame of Obama’s life and finished it off with his own ideas, his own biases, his own experiences, his own passions, his own friends, even his own romances, all of this toned down just enough to keep Obama viable as a potential candidate.

I would argue that Ayers played Cyrano to Obama’s Christian. His personal history was too ugly for him to woo Roxane/America himself. But Obama — “articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy,” as Joe Biden reminded us — could and did make America’s heart melt.

Wake up America!

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