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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 733812" data-attributes="member: 12952">Re: Obamanation here todayThat’s not all they never wrote&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; By Cornelius Chapman&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Monday, May 24, 2010So who wrote Barack Obama’s 1995 “Dreams From My Father?”A literary prosecutor would build the following case: While in&nbsp; college Obama published nothing but poems (Sample: “Under water&nbsp; grottos/Caverns filled with apes/That eat figs.”) and a student&nbsp; newspaper article. As a member of the Harvard Law Review he published&nbsp; only one unsigned article, an indication that while recognized as a&nbsp; leader, his writing didn’t impress editors.At the University of Chicago Law School, Obama wrote nothing in 12&nbsp; years - a firing offense in “publish or perish” academia. Obama had a&nbsp; $125,000 publishing contract to write his life story, however - he was,&nbsp; after all, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law&nbsp; Review. Obama burned through his advance without producing a manuscript.&nbsp; New Yorker editor David Remnick reports in his recent biography of the&nbsp; president that Obama told a fellow community organizer he “had trouble&nbsp; writing.”Jack Cashill, author of a study of bogus biographies such that of Nobel&nbsp; Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, and Christopher Andersen, author of&nbsp; “Barack and Michelle: Portrait of a Marriage,” believe that “Dreams” is&nbsp; Ayers’ work, not Obama’s.To write, one needs a quality known by a Yiddish term Obama probably&nbsp; heard during his years in Chicago’s predominantly Jewish Hyde Park&nbsp; neighborhood - “sitzfleisch.” The ability to sit one’s flesh down is&nbsp; essential to the writer’s trade, but incompatible with the glad-handing&nbsp; nature of politics.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 733812, member: 12952"] [B]Re: Obamanation here today[/B] [B]That’s not all they never wrote[/B] By Cornelius Chapman Monday, May 24, 2010 So who wrote Barack Obama’s 1995 “Dreams From My Father?” A literary prosecutor would build the following case: While in college Obama published nothing but poems (Sample: “Under water grottos/Caverns filled with apes/That eat figs.”) and a student newspaper article. As a member of the Harvard Law Review he published only one unsigned article, an indication that while recognized as a leader, his writing didn’t impress editors. At the University of Chicago Law School, Obama wrote nothing in 12 years - a firing offense in “publish or perish” academia. Obama had a $125,000 publishing contract to write his life story, however - he was, after all, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. Obama burned through his advance without producing a manuscript. New Yorker editor David Remnick reports in his recent biography of the president that Obama told a fellow community organizer he “had trouble writing.” Jack Cashill, author of a study of bogus biographies such that of Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, and Christopher Andersen, author of “Barack and Michelle: Portrait of a Marriage,” believe that “Dreams” is Ayers’ work, not Obama’s. To write, one needs a quality known by a Yiddish term Obama probably heard during his years in Chicago’s predominantly Jewish Hyde Park neighborhood - “sitzfleisch.” The ability to sit one’s flesh down is essential to the writer’s trade, but incompatible with the glad-handing nature of politics. [/QUOTE]

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