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That’s the question asked by author Jack Cashill. I happened to catch an interview of Mr. Cashill on the Rusty Humphries radio show a couple of nights ago, and from what I’ve heard and read since then, he raises a good question. While I haven’t read Obama’s memoir, nor do I have any desire to read it, it’s said to be very well written, and it’s not just leftist Obama cheerleaders who say so.

The issue leading up to that one is this; how could someone like Barack Obama — who had not published anything prior to that book, and by his own admission had written only “bad poetry” — write something as prosaic as the book that carries his name? According to Cashill, “The style is above his pay grade, way above.”

Interestingly, Cashill goes a step further than asking whether Obama used a ghost writer for his book; he says it was Obama’s good friend and Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers. Check out his reasoning here, and here.

I guess the question I’d ask is how someone with as undistinguished a past as Obama’s could have an agent cut a deal to publish his memoirs in the first place. Ok, he went to Columbia and Hahvahd, and was the president of the Harvard Law Review, although he never published a single work while in that position. It just seems his life is too unremarkable to be writing memoirs at 35 years old. It’s like he’s trying to live his life backwards; writing the memoirs first, hoping that the interesting stuff will come later.

Some might ask whether it makes any difference at all if Obama’s memoirs were written by someone else; ghost writers are used all the time. The trouble is that Obama has claimed the work is entirely his own. Even more troublesome — if Cashill is right — is who did the writing. Obama’s association with Ayers was well known before, but this would tie them even tighter. Like Cashill says, “That Obama had anything to do with this man should disqualify him for the presidency.” Amen. But don’t hold your breath waiting for the mainstream media to look into the relationship, or “Dreams” authorship.

Update: Well, whaddyaknow. The media is actually picking up on this story, if only a little. Governor Sarah Palin is hammering away at the Obama/Ayers connection, and finally getting some traction with media elites who are still glassy-eyed about Obama. Jack Cashill wrote an excellent piece on American Thinker last week that strengthens the case even more. This and the unearthing of some real proof of Obama’s ties to the Socialist “New Party”… Plenty of ammunition for McCain to drive this guy into the exile he deserves. But first we’ve got to convince McCain to take off the gloves and hammer Obama like there’s no tomorrow.

This afternoon, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) announced that he planned to suspend his campaign for a time so he can return to Washington to do what he can to deal with the ongoing national financial crisis, and has suggested to his opponent, Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) that he do the same, and that they agree to postpone the debate scheduled for Friday. After all, dealing with the potential $700 billion encumbrance is what the voters of their respective states have hired them to do.

Obama has decided to take the low road, essentially saying that he can deal with this issue while campaigning and preparing for the debate, which he’s not willing to postpone. Sounds like something an ornery, self-centered teenager would do; like he’s saying, “No problem. I can do it all. What’s the matter, Old Man? Can’t handle it?” All the while missing the point that it’s not about him, it’s about the country. My guess to the real reason he isn’t eager to go back to DC? He figures he hasn’t done much of anything there in his two years as Senator; why start now?

It’s not that McCain can’t campaign and do the debate and deal with the bailout legislation, it’s that he recognizes there are higher priorities than who will get the upper hand in the campaign this week. Obama’s attitude in regard to the debate is that “people need to hear from the person who in approximately 40 days will be responsible for dealing with this mess.” Note to Sentator Obama; the election is in 40-some days. If you win, you don’t get the keys until January 20.

I have high hopes that come November voters will see past Obama’s bluster and recognize his immaturity and narcissistic tendencies, and will overwhelmingly reject him as President.

All that said, I hope that this legislation goes down in flames. The last thing we need is another $700 billion in debt, going to fund an ever larger bureaucracy with too few restrictions on how that money is to be spent. Little more than “financial socialism”, as Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) so aptly put it. Let the market make it’s own corrections; it’ll be tough in the short term, but the long-term results will be worth it.