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More Obama Fraud: Magical Kenyan Mystery Trip; Cashill Connects Dots

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In his 2012 biography, “Barack Obama: The Story,” David Maraniss, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editor with the Washington Post, exposed many of the minor fictions on which Obama built his career.

What Maraniss shied from doing, however, was pursuing those leads that would unravel the major fictions.

Maraniss has been particularly protective of the myth of Obama’s literary genius, a myth built entirely upon Obama’s claimed sole authorship of his 1995 memoir, “Dreams from My Father.”

To test this claim, it pays to review the book’s timeline. To this end, a 2006 article by publisher Peter Osnos has proved very useful. More recent sources have helped flesh out this account.

As Osnos relates, a 1990 New York Times profile on the Harvard Law Review’s first black president caught the eye of hustling young literary agent Jane Dystel.

Dystel persuaded Obama to put a book proposal together, and she submitted it. Poseidon, a small imprint of Simon & Schuster, signed on and authorized a roughly $125,000 advance in November 1990 for Obama’s proposed book on race and voting rights.

In the spring of 1992, on top of his existing obligations, Obama was offered the opportunity to head up Project Vote. If Obama accepted the offer, he would have still another excuse for not being able to meet his June 15, 1992, manuscript deadline despite the generous 18 months he had been allotted.

He took the job and missed the deadline. Simon & Schuster extended it. In the summer of 1992, he and Michelle visited Kenya and married in October of that year.

After the couple’s West Coast honeymoon, Obama decamped to Bali for a month to finish the book without interruption. Nothing happened.

Simon & Schuster lost patience. In the summer of 1993, the publishing house canceled the contract. According to Osnos, the publisher asked that Obama return at least some of the advance.

Celebrity biographer Christopher Andersen reports that Obama had spent $75,000 of the advance and could not pay it back. [...] Continued @ WND. Previous article here.





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