Comments on: Read These Articles — While You Still Can

By: Galileo Blogs

Galileo Blogs — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:25:25 +0000

Chuck,
As you know, to the limit of our abilities we can fight back. This is a time for action. I am thankful for the good work that Myrhaf, Bill Brown, and all of the contributors to New Clarion are doing. And yes, you will see more contributions from me!
-GB

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:32:39 +0000

We too can attain to some level of elequence. Theirs came from a deep study of history, philosophy, and rhetoric. If we wish to write as well, we must study as well; we must examine, not only the principles of rhetoric, but the styles of the most effective English writers: Johnson, Burke, Addison, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, et al.

“’Tis not in mortals to command success, But we’ll do more, Sempronius; we’ll deserve it.”

-Cato by Joseph Addison

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:26:42 +0000

“Thomas Paine, where are you?

Look in the mirror, Chuck.”

Yes. If not us, who? I only wish we had half of Paine’s eloquence. Or Jefferson’s, or Patrick Henry’s.

By: EdMcGon

EdMcGon — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:56:14 +0000

We can only hope that the courts will respect 1st Amendment rights against our current dictatorship.

By: madmax

madmax — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:25:27 +0000

I’ll be interested in the conclusion you reach Myrhaf. I would not be surprised if Ayers did ghostwrite Obama’s book. Obama seems to me the kind of person who borrows many things about himself from others, a total Peter Keating.

During the elections there were videos going around that showed how he was copying Denzel Washington’s style and *exact wording* from Spike lee’s ‘Malcolm X’ movie. He imitated Denzel down to diction, emphasis, phrasing – everything. And his leftist audience ate it up. Its important not to advance conspiracy theories as NS suggests, especially those popular with conservatives. But, really, at this point would any right thinking person put any act of deception past Obama? The man is a monster in the making.

By: Myrhaf

Myrhaf — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:04:25 +0000

NS, Cashill has written a series of pieces that show so many repeats of phrases in Obama’s autobiography and Ayers’s writing that it seems too much for coincidence. The birth certificate controversy is a conspiracy theory, but cashill argument is plausible — and not much of a conspiracy, since it would involve only Obama and Ayers. It’s not unusual that a politician might use a ghostwriter.

I’ll have to reread the articles, then either defend the case or concede your point. Tuesday and Wednesday are busy for me, so I might not get to it until Thursday.

By: Jim May

Jim May — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:58:22 +0000

Thre is an Ayn Rand quote about democracy as merely “multiplying the numbers of despots.”

I doubt she’d be too enthusiastic about this multiplying the numbers of czars we’ve been engaged in.

By: NS

NS — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:33:42 +0000

There is not one jot of evidence in that article that Ayers ghostwrote Obama’s book. There’s just a series of literary parallels–parallels likely to be found in any cheesy political autobiography. Please don’t push poorly evidenced conspiracy theories.

By: Myrhaf

Myrhaf — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:38:12 +0000

Thomas Paine, where are you?

Look in the mirror, Chuck.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:34:55 +0000

Good God. Obama appoints a Science Czar who co-authored a book that contemplates forced abortions and mass involuntary sterilization, a Pay Czar who wants to control “excessive” pay, and now a Speech Czar who wants to abrogate free speech. These are truly horrifying times we live in. Thomas Paine, where are you?