My 12 page, 4,000 world article, “Jack
Cashill’s Expose: Who wrote Obama’s Dreams from My Father?”
is available on the DESIP website.
The article is the first of a proposed two-
part essay under the heading: “Searching for Obama.”
Except for part of the first
paragraph, the selections copied below are from the final sections of the
article.
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“Jack Cashill’s Expose: Who
wrote Obama’s Dreams from My Father?”
by Ronald Bleier
In early 2011 on CSPAN’s Book TV program I watched author Jack Cashill present his controversial and startling theory regarding Obama’s memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995). Summarizing the findings he set out in his recently published Deconstructing Obama,[i] Cashill contended that Obama’s memoir was ghostwritten by Bill Ayers.
…
Authorship of Dreams-- A Matter of Importance?
The question of whether Dreams from My
Father was ghostwritten or not rose
above the trivial for me because by
early 2011 I had come to believe that President Obama had been relentlessly
pursuing an extremist right-wing Republican agenda. In foreign policy he continued and escalated
the destructive militarism of his predecessors revealing a lack of compassion
and ruthlessness that rivaled his bloody predecessors. I felt that Oliver Stone
was not exaggerating when he termed President Obama “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”
referencing his militarism and his efforts to scuttle Constitutional rights of
due process. Domestically Obama has promoted and continues to favor a damaging
program of austerity and tax cuts, including the more than a trillion in tax
cuts that he has already pushed through in 2009 and 2010[ii]; with apparently
more to come in 2012-2013.
The argument is that
if President Obama has pursued these policies with the full awareness of the
consequences for the economy and for his re-election (see below) it can be
deduced that counterintuitively he prefers a hobbled economy, a weakened
Democratic Party, an undermined and demoralized middle class—his base-- in order
to pursue a Republican agenda of attacks on labor, the middle class, Social
Security and Medicare.
Similarly his
escalation and continuation of the drone strike program in Pakistan and Yemen is
particularly egregious and telling. Critics of these attacks often point out
that that a chief consequence of the program which reportedly kills more
civilians than “militants” by a factor or 2 or 3 or 4 or more, is to radicalize
the local population and in the end, create more “terrorists.” In other words,
if the purpose of the drone program is counterterrorism, then the program is
counterproductive—not to speak of its appalling destruction and the perilous
precedent it sets for the future security of all nations.
Since these effects
must be as plain to the White House as they are to critics, the implication is
that Obama’s “anti-terrorism” rhetoric masks a more sinister program. The drone
program seems designed to allow free rein to the most militaristic and
aggressive elements of the U.S.’s national security state, embodied in Obama’s
hawkish national security advisor, John Brennan. The evident intention of the
deadly drone attacks—not to mention other regular and special forces U.S.
military operations-- is to wreak havoc and destabilize vulnerable areas of the
world as part of an endless war agenda favored by extremist hawks,
neoconservatives and others.
Does Obama really wish to be re-elected?
If President Obama is
a faux Democrat, a serial traitor to his party and to his core supporters, then
it would be understandable if he were not wholly comfortable in his high profile
leadership role. A second term would, among other things, only widen his
exposure as a fraud, as the great deceiver,[iii] as the more
effective evil[iv] as some are
beginning to see. Developments in a post
2013 Obama administration would continue to peel away at the veils of his
deception. If he leaves office after
only one term, he would be leaving, relatively speaking, at the top of his
game.
If he left the White
House in January 2013 he need have no fear as to the continuation of his
political program since he has already made giant strides in institutionalizing
an extremist right wing and totalitarian agenda. Due to the terrible and
groundbreaking precedents of the past decade and more, a real Republican like
Mitt Romney should have little trouble persevering on the road to heightened
national and international instability, global unsustainability and more
rigorous control everywhere from the top.
One sign that Obama is
not deeply committed to a second term would be if his re-election campaign
machine turns out to be not as smoothly run as it was in 2008. Could his June
2012 political faux pas, when he allowed that “the private sector is doing fine”
be a sign of a lack of focus or interest?
More such blunders, as well as a campaign lacking in direction, could be
signs of Obama’s inner intentions.
***
Read
more:
[i] Jack Cashill,
Deconstructing
Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America’s First Postmodern President
(2011).
CSPAN
Book TV aired Jack Cashill’s book talk regarding his newly published,
Deconstructing Obama in March 2011. The Book TV website offers the
following summary of the Cashill presentation.
Jack Cashill
questions whether President Obama wrote his memoir, Dreams from My
Father. Mr. Cashill argues that
Barack Obama was assisted in the writing of his 1995 memoir by Bill Ayers and
contends that the President's life story is different than the one presented in
his biography. Jack Cashill presents his
argument at the Kansas City Public Library in Kansas City,
Missouri.
[ii] Jack Rasmus,
“Obama’s Economy,” Z Magazine, April 2012.
[iv] Glenn Ford: Why
Barack Obama is the More Effective Evil, 3.21.12, http://blackagendareport.com/content/why-barack-obama-more-effective-evil
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