Fever Dreams

by digby

Apparently, Obama wasn’t only palling around with William Ayers, Ayres wrote his autobiography for him:

If my suspicions are correct, the ghost on this book shared many of Obama’s sentiments, spoke his language and spent considerable time reworking the text.

I bought Bill Ayers’ 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, for reasons unrelated to this project. As I discovered, he writes surprisingly well and very much like “Obama.” In fact, my first thought was that the two may have shared the same ghostwriter. Unlike Dreams, however, where the high style is intermittent, Fugitive Days is infused with the authorial voice in every sentence. What is more, when Ayers speaks, even off the cuff, he uses a cadence and vocabulary consistent with his memoir. One does not hear any of Dreams in Obama’s casual speech.

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.

The paranoid strain is alive and well. if you add up all the latest “evidence,” Obama was programmed to be a member of a Muslim sleeper cell when he was six years old and then joined up with his fellow terrorist Bill Ayers (who is also in cahoots with Muslim extremists, which is a bit odd for a leftist, but whatever.) Ayers then wrote Obama’s biography, with the idea that he would someday run for president, thus allowing Muslims to force Sharia law on Americans. (Oh, and in case you didn’t notice, the man is black.)

As I mentioned below, I’m not bringing any of this up because I take it as a serious threat to the election. Events are in the driver’s seat and I don’t think any of this is going to stick with a majority of voters right now. But that’s what makes it so insidious: it’s being done more with an eye toward an Obama administration than a McCain victory.