Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s Books?
by Ian Mosley

According to Breitbart News, “President Barack Obama is one taxpayer who filed his returns on time. Tax returns released by the White House show Obama and his wife, Michelle, together made $2.7 million last year. While that’s far more than the U.S. median household income of about $50,000, it’s also far less than the Obamas made the previous year. In 2007, they made $4.2 million. Nearly all of their earnings last year came from the president’s two best-sellers. The nonfiction books—’Dreams From My Father’ and ‘The Audacity of Hope’brought the Obamas nearly $2.5 million in royalties.”
We will leave aside for the moment the irony of a couple of multi-millionaires presiding over the transformation of the United States into a Castro-like socialist police state, and we will concentrate on the allegation that these millions were “earned” by Obama thanks to his “brilliant” writings.
The throngs of adoring bleeding-heart White liberals, who bought Obama’s books, truly believe that Obama wrote those books himself. If he didn’t, then there’s a very serious issue of fraud. After all, Obama got most of his fortune from those books –having apparently no other useful skills, except for teleprompter reading.
An article by Jack Cashill from AmericanThinker.com notes “A 1990 New York Times profile on Obama’s election as the Harvard Law Review’s first black president in 1990 caught the eye of agent Jane Dystel. She persuaded Poseidon, a small imprint of Simon & Schuster, to authorize a roughly $125,000 advance for Obama’s proposed memoir. Obama repaired to Chicago with advance in hand and dithered. At one point, in order to finish the book without interruption, he and wife Michelle decamped to Bali. Obama was supposed to have finished the book within a year. Bali or not, advance or no, he could not. Simon & Schuster canceled the contract. His agent hustled him a new, smaller contract. Ayers published his book To Teach in 1993. Between 1993 and 1996, he had no other formal authorial assignment than to co-edit a collection of essays. This was an unusual hole in his very busy publishing career. Obama’s memoir was published in June 1995. Earlier that year, Ayers helped Obama, then a junior lawyer at a minor law firm, get appointed chairman of the multi-million dollar Chicago Annenberg Challenge grant. In the fall of that same year, 1995, Ayers and his wife, Weatherwoman Bernardine Dohrn, helped blaze Obama’s path to political power with a fundraiser in their Chicago home. In short, Ayers had the means, the motive, the time, the place and the literary ability to jumpstart Obama’s career. And, as Ayers had to know, a lovely memoir under Obama’s belt made for a much better resume than an unfulfilled contract over his head.” (more…)
















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