Yesterday, I received an e-mail from a Boston-area writer and
composer, Jay Spencer, who suggested some other parallels between
Obama's "Dreams" and Ayers' books that had evaded me. They smack even
the casual reader in the face.
Remember that the young Ayers served as a merchant seaman, and
although he has tried to put his ocean-going days behind him, the
language of the sea will not let him go.
"I realized that no one else could ever know this singular
experience," Ayers writes of his maritime adventures. Yet curiously,
much of this same nautical language flows through Obama's earth-bound
memoir.
Although there are no literal sea experiences in "Dreams," the
following words, incredibly enough, appear in both "Dreams" and in
Ayers' work: fog, mist, ships, seas, boats, oceans, calms, captains,
charts, first mates, storms, streams, wind, waves, barges, horizons,
ports, panoramas, moorings, tides, currents, and things howling,
fluttering, knotted, ragged, tangled and murky.
This is well beyond coincidence. By contrast, only the words
"current" and "tide" appear in my own semi-memoir on race, "Sucker
Punch."
Is anything real about this stealth candidate? The liar is a total fraud. As Bob says so often, WAKE UP.