Deconstructing
Obama
by Jack Cashill
Did Obama write his own books and is the story they tell
true?
“I've written two books,” Barack Obama told a crowd of
teachers in July of 2008. “I actually wrote them myself.” The teachers exploded
in laughter. They got the joke: lesser politicians were not bright enough to do
the same. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama supporters pointed to the
first of those two books, the 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father, as proof
of Obama’s superior intellect. Time magazine
called Dreams “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American
politician.” The Obama campaign machine traded on the candidate’s literary
reputation, encouraging volunteers to “get out the vote and keep talking to
others about the genius of Barack Obama.”
There was just one small flaw, as writer and literary
detective Jack Cashill discovered months before the November 2008 election:
nothing in Obama’s history suggested he was capable of writing
either Dreams or his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope. In fact, as
Cashill continued his research, he came to the shocking conclusion that the real
craftsman behind Dreams was terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers.
“This was a charge,” David Remnick
admits in his definitive Obama biography, The Bridge, “that if ever proved
true, or believed to be true among enough voters, could have been the end of the
candidacy.
Deconstructing Obama tells the story of what happens
when a citizen journalist discovers a game-changing reality that the media
refuse to acknowledge. Despite their rejection, Cashill expanded his research
into Obama’s literary canon. As he came to see, if Dreams serves as
sacred text, the poem “Pop” is the Rosetta stone, the key to deciphering Obama’s
shrouded past, his fragile psyche, and his uniquely cryptic political life. In
unlocking that past, Cashill discovered that the story that Obama has been
telling all his life varies from the true story in ways big and small. In fact,
much of Obama’s life story appears to be a wholly constructed fabrication, one
that Jack Cashill “deconstructs” to show the world just who Barack Obama really
is.
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