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BIOGRAPHICAL B.S. TIMELINE 
NOW BEING TRACKED BY POWERLINE


It's not their first exercise in pointing out the nakedness of the emperor, but coinciding with the publication of David Maraniss's Barack Obama: The Story they are in high gear and attention must be paid.

Portrait of the President as a Young BS Artist

Who is Barack Obama and Why Has He Been Saying All Those Untrue Things About Himself?

Who is Barack Obama, Etc.?

The Long Shadow of Barack Obama's Identity Crisis

Vetting Then and Now

Yes, Obama Bio Lies Constitute a Pattern  [linked from Commentary]

Self-made Man  [linked from Weekly Standard]


This Powerline exposé is based on a careful fact-checking dissection of the text of Obama's first, more literary autobiography, Dreams From My Father, drawing the conclusion that much of its content is fantastical -- fabricated -- simply never happened.

The book has previously been examined less for the truth or falsity of its content than for the truth or falsity of the claim that Mr. Obama is responsible in any substantial way for writing it at all.

The case against that claim has best been made by Jack Cashill of American Thinker.  In his initial analyses, Cashill did not deny that the events of the story line of Dreams were provided by Mr. Obama from the notes he toiled over for more than a year, attempting, without success, to produce a book himself.  Cashill's linguistic, stylistic analysis concluded that the most likely author of the book is Obama's long-time associate, domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.

Who Wrote Dreams From My Father, and Why It Matters
and all the many related articles found here.

Cashill's case for the likelihood that Obama's autobiography was constructed by a ghost-writer makes all the more plausible the claim that he is a man too comfortable with self-serving fabrication -- so much so that even the bare facts of the book he didn't write have themselves been fabricated, as carefully dissected by David Maraniss.  In his own book, Obama admits to being pretty much addicted to smoking the weed.  It now appears that he also developed an addiction to lying.

Cashill, who has also done his homework on the birth certificate/draft registration controversy, now turns his hand to the bogus bio-facts scandal, joined by other American Thinker contributors.

One More Dubious Story in the Obama Family Saga

What Maraniss Obviously Missed

Maraniss comes clean on Obama's Seattle Hegira



9 Lies About Obama's Life

Obama the Reactionary
 

In case you're getting dizzy....

OBAMA GAY MARRIAGE OPINION TIMELINE

Can't tell the players without a program.


WE ARE NO LONGER GOVERNED.  WE ARE RULED.

Take a deep breath and a long look at what kind of kookie civil rights violations the Drug Enforcement Agency gets up to in its copious free time.  As the Instapundit so often says, "The country's in the very best of hands."

SEVEN-LETTERS, STARTS WITH "V"....

Everybody whisper "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" 

-- but do NOT cue that d#&*!ed banner

It doesn't take much effort -- just 'nads of steel -- for Andrew Malcolm at Investors Business Daily to sum up the lay of the land that occasioned yesterday's gigantic Presidential head-fake -- the one where Obama packed up his teleprompter and sneaked into Afghanistan for a campaign photo-op and self-congratulatory marking of the 1-year anniversary of Osama Bin Laden assuming room temperature.

Everybody's calling it the Victory Lap that seems to have turned into a marathon -- except the President seems to have an allergy to the word "victory" when it comes to war efforts involving American boots on the ground or hardware in the air.  

Maybe if he'd just kept this in his office?...  Nah, probably not.

New campaign slogan:

OBAMA OR BUST!  [uh, I'll take the bust, thank you]

"I'M SORRY, THE PRESIDENT'S ON THE LINE WITH SANDRA FLUKE.

WOULD YOU LIKE TO HOLD?"

People the White House might want to call with an encouraging word:

1) SGT TRAVIS MILLS, QUADRUPLE AMPUTEE

Look for more info, and what you can do to help, at www.travismills.org -- if you can get through. The site traffic is so heavy it seems to have crashed. [link fixed]

2) And then there's BOWE BERGDAHL, PRISONER OF WAR, held in Afghanistan by the Taliban (did I say that right, Mr. President -- "Tah-lee-bahn"?) since 2009.

I'm sure if you could blame Bush you would, Mr. Obama, but YOU OWN THIS ONE since it happened on your watch.

"Yes We CAN negotiate with terrorists."

"Still watching the line....."

DUH.

"Canada has oil; the U.S. needs oil.
You'd think it would be easy from there."

But no.

And more "smart diplomacy" at work at the meeting of the Three Amigos (U.S., Canada, and Mexico). Apparently the two bi-lingual leaders came away a bit frosted with their uni-lingual American "partner". I know you're supposed to keep your friends close and your enemies closer (especially if you're into the gangsterism of the Chicago Way) but it helps to know the difference between the two.

HEADS UP -- SNOWBALL COMIN'

OBAMA CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISING FRAUD
VERSION 2.0

We're at it again, we troublemaking, jammie-wearing blog-jockeys who keep inventing new identities and making teeny little fraudulent contributions to the Obama [re]election coffers. Efforts to draw attention to the problem in 2008 fizzled, but over the past week the evidence has begun to accumulate that we're having another go at it, and more attention will be paid.

Stories here, here, here [2008].
And it gets juicier here.
Update: yet another.

And if you've got the time, 57 posts over the past four years at Atlas Shrugs, where Pamela Geller has tracked this ongoing criminal boondoggle since its inception.

RE-SET BUTTON

I'm a blogger elsewhere, but have decided to split my interests, in the interest of putting my Deep Thoughts in the saucepan on the burner over there, and my Politics in the frying pan on the burner over here -- and possibly keeping what's here out of eye-shot of my fans and family over there who prefer not to read the red meat. To be as blunt as blunt can be, there's a man in the military who would prefer not to be confronted with the pointed daily reminder of how completely his Commander-in-Chief SUCKS. So I'll spout about that here, and hope he is none the wiser when he checks in over there -- especially while he's OVER THERE.

That's it for today, until I spin the dial, and figure out which floodgate of fury I'm in the mood to open up. Then, everybody duck.