"Is Barack Obama really the somewhat interesting guy who wrote Dreams From My Father? I doubt it. I don’t say Bill Ayers necessarily wrote the book, but I doubt that it was Obama. He has yet to formulate a political thought in an even slightly original way. Hackneyed phrases and deadening cliches make up the essential medium of his expression. His speeches are like New York Times editorials. They ought to be accompanied by a warning: Reading may kill brain cells.
There is no premium on originality in political rhetoric, but Obama tests the limits of the formulaic. He extends the concept of recycling into previously uncharted territory. Unlike waste recycling, however, Obama’s rhetorical recycling actually saves energy. He’s saving "...
The defense I heard to the idea that Bill Ayers wrote Obama's books is that Ayers is a horrible, professorial writer. So someone ghost wrote Barack's book, but it wasn't that college educator.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
