Liar and terrorist and Barry, Oh my
Is Gallmann's Memoir the Source for Obama's?
Not only was Dreams ghost written, terrorist Bill Ayers took the information from another book.
"Sometime in 1994, as I have argued on these pages and in my book, Deconstructing Obama, one-time terrorist Bill Ayers took over the memoir that his struggling protégé, Barack Obama, proved unable to complete. Although my evidence was textual or circumstantial, celebrity biographer Christopher Andersen had sources within the Chicago community that confirmed the collaboration."
"What Ayers did not know was Kenya, the setting for the last third of Dreams. There was no Google in 1994 and little else of use on the still embryonic Internet. Obama did not know Kenya much better. He visited for a few weeks in 1987 or 1988 -- he can never get the date quite straight -- and again briefly with Michelle in 1992.
Lacking an authoritative source, Ayers may well have turned for useful local color to the memoirs of longtime Kenya resident Kuki Gallmannn. So theorizes Shawn Glasco, the tireless researcher that I refer to in Deconstructing Obama as 'Mr. Southwest.'
In June 2010, while searching for nonfiction books about Kenya at the public library, Glasco spotted Gallmann's 1991 memoir, I Dreamed of Africa, which was later made into a film of the same name starring Kim Basinger. The similarity between Gallmann's title and Obama's caught his eye."
"Karl Rove tells of running into 'the best writer to occupy the White House since Lincoln' soon after the latter's second book, Audacity of Hope, was published. 'Hey, I understand you got me in your book,' said Rove. 'I don't think so,' Obama replied. Rove continued, 'I think you got me in your book saying, 'we're a Christian nation.'' Said Obama, 'Where'd I say that?' Rove showed him.
I suspect if someone asked Obama what a shamba was or a shuka [mentioned in his book], the inquirer would get an equally dumb answer."
Not only was Dreams ghost written, terrorist Bill Ayers took the information from another book.
"Sometime in 1994, as I have argued on these pages and in my book, Deconstructing Obama, one-time terrorist Bill Ayers took over the memoir that his struggling protégé, Barack Obama, proved unable to complete. Although my evidence was textual or circumstantial, celebrity biographer Christopher Andersen had sources within the Chicago community that confirmed the collaboration."
"What Ayers did not know was Kenya, the setting for the last third of Dreams. There was no Google in 1994 and little else of use on the still embryonic Internet. Obama did not know Kenya much better. He visited for a few weeks in 1987 or 1988 -- he can never get the date quite straight -- and again briefly with Michelle in 1992.
Lacking an authoritative source, Ayers may well have turned for useful local color to the memoirs of longtime Kenya resident Kuki Gallmannn. So theorizes Shawn Glasco, the tireless researcher that I refer to in Deconstructing Obama as 'Mr. Southwest.'
In June 2010, while searching for nonfiction books about Kenya at the public library, Glasco spotted Gallmann's 1991 memoir, I Dreamed of Africa, which was later made into a film of the same name starring Kim Basinger. The similarity between Gallmann's title and Obama's caught his eye."
"Karl Rove tells of running into 'the best writer to occupy the White House since Lincoln' soon after the latter's second book, Audacity of Hope, was published. 'Hey, I understand you got me in your book,' said Rove. 'I don't think so,' Obama replied. Rove continued, 'I think you got me in your book saying, 'we're a Christian nation.'' Said Obama, 'Where'd I say that?' Rove showed him.
I suspect if someone asked Obama what a shamba was or a shuka [mentioned in his book], the inquirer would get an equally dumb answer."