Dear Jack (I hope that’s OK)

I am part of the largest conservative, right of centre blog here in Australia and I did my own posting on the Crowley-Obama setup.

I did another on Australia’s equivalent of National Review Online, our Quadrant Online.

I have been pleased to see that you also saw this set up for what it was, an immense scandal of beyond Watergate proportions because it is not just evidence of corruption by underlings and then a cover up at the top, but involved corruption in which Obama was himself necessarily complicit. And this really is an attempt to steal the election.

I also saw that James Taranto and John Yoo had approached this issue but then they both backed off. But because Romney – who is as shrewd as any man I have ever seen in public life – would have understood exactly what had happened, my conclusion is that it was the Romney election team, in fact Romney himself, that made the decision to lay off this issue since it would be a distraction from the main event this late in the campaign. From the way both articles are written, where they head for the jugular but then at the last moment both back off and think up some way to pull Crowley off the hook, I think both Taranto and Yoo had contacted Romney’s campaign team and were told not to make an issue of it. Or so I think, because I can find no other serious explanation for their both to have pulled their punches in the way they did.

Anyway, down here in Australia it doesn’t matter what we write and say so I will have put this up and nothing further will have come of it. But I did want you to know how much I enjoyed your post and thought you would be interested in mine.

I will also mention that I have been consciously following you on American Thinker ever since 2008 and your revelations about Dreams from My Father which also ought to have been a scandal but on that occasion I believe it was McCain’s inept and ridiculously gentlemanly approach to the election that meant this did not become an issue, although to some extent whether a book had been ghost written is not necessarily the strongest reason to vote against someone even if it was by Bill Ayers. For what it’s worth, your Deconstructing Obama was the only book I ever read on Kindle which cured me for life since you cannot go back to find annotated passages the way you can with a book. I also wrote that one up for Quadrant but that time for the magazine. It’s unfortunately not online but this is the abstract and as it was done by some librarian obscures the final point since the aim was to create that very lack of clarity that was so admirably achieved:

The article offers the author’s views on the political memoirs of U.S. politicians such as George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Barack Obama. He says that the style of “Decision Points,” by Bush shows Bush’s keenness of observation. He adds that the “Known and Unknown,” by Rumsfeld highlights the nature of uncertainty and decision-making process. He discusses Obama’s “Dreams From My Father” in light of Jack Cashill’s “Deconstructing Obama,” which doubts the memoir as ghost-written by Bill Ayers.

Anyway, this is just in the way of being a bit of fan mail but if what I have written can assist you, that would be a true bonus. I wish you well in your efforts.

With kindest best wishes

Steve Kates