The Republican Mental Meltdown Continues: Desperately Trying to Prove Obama Book Ghostwritten

[Frank Booth]

by Bill Ayers.

The Republicans have made a last-minute attempt to prevent Barack Obama’s ascent to the White House by trying to recruit an Oxford academic to “prove” that his autobiography was ghostwritten by a former terrorist.

With two days to go before the election, Obama is poised to become America’s first black president, according to polls showing he has an average six-point lead over John McCain, his Republican opponent.

Dr Peter Millican, a philosophy don at Hertford College, Oxford, has devised a computer software program that can detect when works are by the same author by comparing favourite words and phrases.

He was contacted last weekend and offered $10,000 (£6,200) to assess alleged similarities between Obama’s best-seller, Dreams from My Father, and Fugitive Days, a memoir by William Ayers.

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The offer to Millican to prove that Ayers wrote Obama’s book was made by Robert Fox, a California businessman and brother-in-law of Chris Cannon, a Republican congressman from Utah. He hoped to corroborate a theory advanced by Jack Cashill, an American writer.

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Millican took a preliminary look and found the charges “laughably unsubstantiated”. A deal was agreed for more detailed research but when Millican said the results had to be made public, even if no link to Ayers was proved, interest waned.

Millican said: “I thought it was extremely unlikely that we would get a positive result. It is the sort of thing where people make claims after seeing a few crude similarities and go overboard on them.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5063279.ece

[treestar]

1. Of all the stupid things the Republicans say in this election

This one is the most batshit insane.

[Frank Booth]

5. I'm surprised they haven't accused Khalidi, Rezko, Wright and ACORN

of collaborating in the ghostwriting. Why stop at just Ayers?

[EFerrari]

2. The Republicans used to have a party they could be proud of.

What a pile they've become.

[BlooInBloo]

3. Oh? When was that?

[JeffR]

6. 1959, though there was that unfortunate VP choice of Ike's n/t

[EFerrari]

10. This morning I caught an interview with Studs Terkel from last year.

"Me and Nixon, neo Cartesians! I think, therefore I tape!"

[JeffR]

17. LOL!

[EFerrari]

21. You can stream the interview on BookTV,.org

He was little and shrunken and huge and tremendous.

:loveya:

[EFerrari]

8. Wasn't the party formed in opposition of allowing slavery in Kansas?

I may be a lot older than you, Bloo, but I don't personally remember that. lol

[BlooInBloo]

12. Oh - ok. A brazillion years ago.

[EFerrari]

15. I'm not very familiar with their stuff until they decided it was a good idea

to inflame racists with the so called "Southern Strategy".

My dad is one of those Republicans that joined the party before they decided to do that. I think he's been sort of in shock ever since.

That wasn't so long ago, when you think about it. We're still trying to figure out the 60s, you young whippersnapper.

But, seriously, the Republican party used to be a respectable organization. Not like the cartoon it is now. If we have to have only two parties in this country, it's sort of unbelievable to people like me that remember a different time that people like that Nazi cow, Sarah Palin, can be speaking for one of them. :wow:

[BlooInBloo]

16. If it's before 75% of the population was alive, then it's a long time ago...

:P

[EFerrari]

19. Just you wait.

:evilgrin:

:loveya:

[BlooInBloo]

20. heeheehee!

[DerekJ]

4. Now that redefines the term "grasping at straws". Unbelievable.

[Kdillard]

7. Serves them right. They are so desperate to find anything to smear

Obama with they are willing to make fools of themselves and their party.

[Enrique]

9. they were going to spend 10,000 bucks on that

man, someone really could make a bunch of money off their desperation. I wish I had the imagination to do it.

[CoffeeCat]

11. You guys missed this one???

Oh geez, I saw that allegation over at Freeperland about a month ago.

When I saw this story, they were (and I kid you not) dividing up into "research groups"
and they were all "investigating" and trying to help this Cashill person verify
his claims.

I went to Cashill's site, and I nearly peed my pants laughing. He's a writer who asserts
that the Obama and Ayers books have "similar language" and that they are written by the
same person.

One of his nuggets of wisdom included that Ayers used many references to the sea and to the
ocean in his writings. Cashill noticed that Obama used a few as well. Oh noez! It can't
be! Cashill asserted that Obama never knew anything about the ocean! How could he talk
about the ocean when he didn't work in it or have any extensive experience with the ocean--as Ayers did?

I literally LOL several times before I left that site. You guys should check it out.

At this point, the freepers on that site are like a bunch of caged rats, feeding off of each other's
droppings.

[Frank Booth]

13. Apparently they don't want to dig too deep though, since they were unwilling

to pay the guy if he published the results showing their theory was wrong.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

18. Obama and Ayers books have "similar language" - they're correct on that one

They're both written in English.

Stupid fucking morans!

[GoesTo11]

22. Maybe Richard Bach ghostwrote both Ayers and Obama's books

with all the references to the sea.

(Jonathan Livingston Seagull author)

[The Wielding Truth]

14. “laughably unsubstantiated”. McC's hallmarks!

:rofl:

[liberalmuse]

23. Christ, the 'pubs back when did the same to Kennedy.

They never change from their assholish selves, do they?

[kestrel91316]

24. I have it on good authority that Karl Marx actually ghost-wrote that book.