[Vision2020] A Kind and Just Parent

[No Weatherman]

> it is hard to divine the joke when you wrote earlier that you wouldn't
> read Obama's books -- ghosted or otherwise -- unless someone held a
> gun to your head.

I have made such a big to do over "separating the merits of an
argument from the person making the argument" that I thought everyone
would catch the sarcasm.

Apparently I was wrong.

> I've read McCain's "Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir," and I
> recommend it as an accurate portrait of John McCain, ghosted or
> otherwise.  No one had to hold  gun to my head.  I find it essential
> to know both sides before embarking on a dialogue, especially when the
> subject is so serious.
>
> Were you joking about the gun?

Yes, I was joking. I used hyperbole to make the point that I have
serious problems with spending my time reading Obama's books.

The first problem I have with "Dreams" is that I don't believe Obama
wrote it and if you read Cashill's and Heiden's arguments, you'd have
to agree that my conclusion is reasonable, even if disagree with it.

The second problem I have with "Dreams" is the large number of
falsehoods in it. For example, Cashill wrote:

"In 1970, for instance, the 9-year-old Obama alleges to be visiting
the American embassy Indonesia. While waiting, he chances upon 'a
collection of Life magazines neatly displayed in clear plastic
binders.'

"In one magazine, he reads a story about a black man with an 'uneven,
ghostly hue,' who has been rendered grotesque by a chemical treatment.
'There were thousands of people like him," Obama learned, 'black men
and women back in America who'd undergone the same treatment in
response to advertisements that promised happiness as a white person.'

"Obama's attention to detail is a ruse. Life never ran such an
article. When challenged, Obama claimed it was Ebony. Ebony ran no
such article either. Besides, black was beautiful in 1970."

Cashill documents several other fabrications in addition to this.

Then there's this little fudge job:

http://www.analyzethis.net/blog/2005/07/09/barack-obama-embellishes-his-resume/

I don't appreciate it when others lie to me and I think very little of
the man who fabricates stories to make himself appear better than he
really is. It reminds me of Ms Mix's approach to writing. She always
looks better when she misrepresents me.

"Dreams" is a carefully constructed narrative that appears to me to be
the first step in creating the Obama personality cult, which is common
among Communists, and Obama and virtually all of his mentors are
Communists.

"Dreams" is a myth. I would much rather spend my time learning the
actual reality about the man that the myth covers up and I believe
there are a few investigative reporters who are very effectively
dismantling Obama the myth.