Republicans try to use Oxford don to smear Barack Obama(Tie Obama Bio to Ayers)

Source: Times Online

The Republicans have made a last-minute attempt to prevent Barack Obama’s ascent to the White House by trying to recruit an Oxford academic to “prove” that his autobiography was ghostwritten by a former terrorist.

With two days before the election, Obama is poised to become America’s first black president, according to polls showing he has an average six-point lead over John McCain, his Republican opponent.

Dr Peter Millican, a philosophy don at Hertford College, Oxford, has devised a computer software program that can detect when works are by the same author by comparing favourite words and phrases.

He was contacted last weekend and offered $10,000 (£6,200) to assess alleged similarities between Obama’s bestseller, Dreams from My Father, and Fugitive Days, a memoir by William Ayers.

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The offer to Millican to prove that Ayers wrote Obama’s book was made by Robert Fox, a California businessman and brother-in-law of Chris Cannon, a Republican congressman from Utah. He hoped to corroborate a theory advanced by Jack Cashill, an American writer.

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Millican took a preliminary look and found the charges “very implausible”. A deal was agreed for more detailed research but when Millican said the results had to be made public, even if no link to Ayers was proved, interest waned.



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F*cking desparate b*stards!

With two days to go: One a Sunday ... There is simply NOT enough clock to develop a plausible narrative that ties the two men together, beyond what has ALREADY FAILED ...

I would say: PLEASE do this .... PLEASE try to frame Obama again as an associate of Ayers ...

It worked so wonderfully up til now .... right ?

KA-CHING !

Someone needs to tell the Republicans it is not October anymore.

Someone needs to tell the Republicans it is over, Obama will be the next President.

they still want to try and scare people into not voting for Obama but it actually makes people vote for Obama more because they see their desperate attempts!

:eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

How otherwise could a BLACK MAN have written such an eloquent and inspiring book?

Just in case...:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

The winning answer to the rightwingnut insanity.

I think it has gone beyond the stage of desperation.

Colleges use the same stuff here now. Besides who cares who wrote the book not me, its not going to change anyones mind. The real question is how would they know, unless these idiots reads his other books which I highly doubt.

THEY CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

FDR: All we have to fear is fear itself.

GOP: All we have to sell is fear itself.

what a bunch of assholes!! i hope ayers wrote it...jerkoffs!

These nuts have floated around in their Laissez Fairyland for so long that they've got no clue to what reality is. Don't worry, on Tuesday, 65 million victims are gonna pop their bubble and bring these freaks back to earth!

"very implausible"

:rofl:

The repug party's new theme song.

With money you can pay anybody to say anything.