China’s New "Hong Kong Law"

[PJL]

It's said that his cabinet members and staff used to put their ears up to his and listen to the surf. It was one of his favorite things.

I read his book recently , "Dreams of my Father" . He has quite a way with words .....a pity his actions bare little resemblance to his rhetoric. Trump , on the other hand , sounds like a guy from a New York hot dog stand, or a used car salesman.

[Peter1469]

The only desperation I see is from the Epoch Times , and anyone silly enough to read their beat-up nonsense....(lol)

They are the media arm of the Falun Gong which is persecuted by the Chinese. That explains your disdain for them.

[Peter1469]

China's intent appears to be malicious.

That is because it is.

[Peter1469]

I read his book recently , "Dreams of my Father" . He has quite a way with words .....a pity his actions bare little resemblance to his rhetoric. Trump , on the other hand , sounds like a guy from a New York hot dog stand, or a used car salesman.

It is almost certain that Obama did not write his memoir.

The public is asked to believe Obama wrote Dreams From My Father on his own, almost as though he were some sort of literary idiot savant. I do not buy this canard for a minute, not at all. Writing is as much a craft as, say, golf. To put this in perspective, imagine if a friend played a few rounds in the high 90s and then a few years later, without further practice, made the PGA Tour. It doesn't happen.


And yet, given the biases of the literary establishment, no reviewer of note has so much as questioned Obama's role in the writing, then or now. As the New York Times gushed, Obama was "that rare politician who can write . . . and write movingly and genuinely about himself." These accolades matter all the more because Obama has built his political persona around his presumably superior intellect, Dreams being exhibit A.



Shy of a confession by those involved, I will not be able to prove conclusively that Obama did not write this book. As shall be seen, however, there are only two real possibilities: one is that Obama experienced a near miraculous turnaround in his literary abilities; the second is that he had major editorial help, up to and including a ghostwriter.



The weight of the evidence overwhelming favors the latter conclusion and strongly suggests who that ghostwriter is. In that this remains something of a work in progress, I am willing to test my hypothesis against any standard of proof and appreciate any and all good leads.



In my career in advertising and publishing, I have reviewed the portfolios of a thousand professional writers, all of them crowded with writing samples, but only a handful of these writers would have been capable of having a written a book as stylish as Dreams. I have also written a book on intellectual fraud, Hoodwinked, and examined any number of bogus biographies that excited the literary left to the point of complicity, Edward Said's and Rigoberta Menchu's prominent among them, Menchu winning a Nobel Prize for hers. Obama's ascent seems to follow a century-old pattern.

[PJL]

They are the media arm of the Falun Gong which is persecuted by the Chinese. That explains your disdain for them.

That a strange assumption . I have little knowledge of Falun Gong - I know that the chow government doesn't like them for whatever reason.

[bulletbob]

That a strange assumption . I have little knowledge of Falun Gong - I know that the chow government doesn't like them for whatever reason.

you have little knowledge of anything period PJL except how to suck up to communist dictatorships and terrorist to make your handlers happy like a little dog licking their hand

[PJL]

you have little knowledge of anything period PJL except how to suck up to communist dictatorships and terrorist to make your handlers happy like a little dog licking their hand

......and you have no lead in your pencil TB...(lol)

[bulletbob]

......and you have no lead in your pencil TB...(lol)

And you know that from personal experience ?


Again you have little knowledge of anything period PJL except how to suck up to communist dictatorships and terrorist to make your handlers happy like a little dog licking their hand .

Now all of a sudden you know about other men pencils , that is no surprise at all .

[PJL]

And you know that from personal experience ?

...everybody knows it from your idiotic online persona......(lol)

[bulletbob]

...everybody knows it from your idiotic online persona......(lol)

no I don't talk about my pencil or its lead but you do for some reason it appears to be a subject that is of interest to you.

its ok PLO if you prefer pencils , I wont judge you for it.
However if its a fetish of yours please leave mine out of it as I don't go that way I'm straight