Did Obama Write "Dreams Of My Father"?

Conservatives will never tire of seeking to undermine the legitimacy of President Obama. In that regard, I am not sympathetic to Obama's own indignity but to African-Americans who have to suffer the witnessing of a...public lynching of the nation's first black president. In what other time has a pompous buffoon host of a game show ever boasted about forcing the US president to take a proscribed action? The birth certificate was simply a racist effort to delegitimize the president for resentful whites, having lost at the ballot box, sought to cling to a hope that Obama may be defeated by proving some asinine conspiracy.

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Now that the nation has moved on from the "birther" fanatics, Trump and his cohorts have other issues to fry. Yes, there's the questioning of Obama's academic record and allegation that he was a "lousy" student, as Trump said, and thus his transfer to Columbia and admission to Harvard Law are suspect. And did they ever question a known C student and legacy admission like Bush and his ability to get into Yale and Harvard, a man demonstrably less intelligent than Obama? No, of course not. But the black man always have to prove himself more.

Another one of their contentions is that Obama is not the author of his own celebrated "Dreams of My Father". Written years prior to Obama's foray into politics and certainly never intended to be a text which Obama could parlay into an ambitions public career (since he admits drug use, and has stated that he wrote the book before ever thinking about politics and likely would not have admitted cocaine usage otherwise), the book concerns Obama's self-searching journey to his father's native land of Kenyan after a telephone call that the father he hardly knew had just died. Obama went to Kenya and met his other half of the family for the first time and in the process of burying his father greatly learned from his experience and thus added a layer to his own character maturity. The book has been highly praised as a coming of age tale, of sorts. And conservatives cannot stomach it that Obama may be, what's the word whites always use in paying a compliment to blacks?...o yeah: "articulate". They contend that Obama had a ghost writer and that...it may have been far-left activist and admittedly former terrorist Bill Ayers (a man with no real connection to Obama, expect in the kooky word of right-wing fanatics). Their evidence? The book's tone differs from the tone in Obama's second book "The Audacity of Hope". That's it, really. That's their so-called evidence, that the tone and style differ between Book A and B. This is so stupid. The books were written years apart from one another, "Dreams" in 1995 and "Audacity" in 1996. One was written by a young man and its prose is meant to be emotional and lyric befitting that of a memoir, a despondent tale of growing up without a father, and trying to discover oneself through drug use, radical politics and eventually a continental journey. It is natural that one would be poetic in style when telling such a story. "Audacity", on the other hand, is a policy book, mostly. Obama wrote it as a sitting Senator for a mainstream audience, and the book had to be PC and tame in order not to offend. Obama discusses personal matters like faith, but does so within the framework of a lecture and political pontification meant to win an argument. The rest is even more mundane, like a chapter on the American Constitution or foreign policy. Is it to be expected that when speaking about his legal understanding of the federal constitution that Obama would adopt the same style and tone as when recapitulating his experience in meeting his paternal grandmother for the first time? Of course not. The first book was meant to convey personal experience in a story-telling prose and get the reader to be endeared and feel empathy, while the latter is meant simply to inform on policy matters. Any person knows how to change the feel, so to speak, of one's writing to suit the purpose. Does your letter to a beloved sound the same as a formal letter to your heating company? Obama adopted one tone because the book called for it, and 11 years later when writing a completely different book and now much older he adopted a different tone. What the fuck is the big deal?

It is all so stupid and silly, and just because conservative fanatics are oblivious to the obvious and they themselves do not know any other style expect the retard button.

For the record, I do not feel any sympathy for Obama and do not care for any humiliation he may suffer. In as much I care, it is not for Obama but the African Americans who suffer through Obama's own indignity. After all, Obama personally has much more a devastatingly consequential affect on the lives of others than Trump does on him (the Afghan civilians killed by American drones and the Palestinian civilian victims of Israeli war crimes and occupation whom Obama never notices and continues to finance, just for starters), and Obama seems to lose no sleep over that. So for a callous man who is indifferent to suffering committed/supported by himself, I do not care for his anguish when it comes to a far less affront thrown at him. Let Trump do as he please.