that Barack Obama was writing fiction rather than a factual autobiography when he wrote Dreams For My Father -- and Steve Sailer suggests what we'll be getting for President is not the post-racial Presidency but Zelig in the White House.
I'll be posting "Greg's Guide to Barack Obama's Dreams For My Father" here on PrestoPundit in the next week or two. What I have found is the same thing Sailer has found -- Obama's book is largely a work of invention -- fiction -- in both the best and worse senses of the word. Much of the book and even the dialog seems borrowed from what Barack has watched on television or studied at college. Some of it is obvious fiction, impossible to be anything other than fiction. But I'll fill you in on the details when I post my "Greg's Guide."
UPDATE: Christopher Hitchens on Obama and his pastor:
And now, your Quote Of The Day:
I'll be posting "Greg's Guide to Barack Obama's Dreams For My Father" here on PrestoPundit in the next week or two. What I have found is the same thing Sailer has found -- Obama's book is largely a work of invention -- fiction -- in both the best and worse senses of the word. Much of the book and even the dialog seems borrowed from what Barack has watched on television or studied at college. Some of it is obvious fiction, impossible to be anything other than fiction. But I'll fill you in on the details when I post my "Greg's Guide."
UPDATE: Christopher Hitchens on Obama and his pastor:
To have accepted Obama's smooth apologetics is to have lowered one's own pre-existing standards for what might constitute a post-racial or a post-racist future. It is to have put that quite sober and realistic hope, meanwhile, into untrustworthy and unscrupulous hands. And it is to have done this, furthermore, in the service of blind faith. Mark my words: This disappointment is only the first of many that are still to come.Also -- more evidence that the theology of Obama's church -- a theology which condemns the idea of heaven -- is well outside the mainsteam of American Christianity, whatever Obama might claim. (But perhaps Obama can be excused by this: if we are to believe his autobiography, what Obama knows of Christianity comes almost entirely from the good Rev. Wright.)
And now, your Quote Of The Day:
One of the keys to Obama's strategy in getting himself off the hook is convincing whites that Wright's beliefs, however regrettable they may be, are thoroughly mainstream in black America and therefore inescapable .. Thus does the new great national conversation on race begin with a lie, smearing untold millions of blacks who don't follow people like Wright in order to excuse a guy who did for 20 years.
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