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Why Ghostwriting Isn't The Problem With Political Books

First Posted: 05/24/10 04:14 PM ET Updated: 05/25/11 05:35 PM ET

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Los Angeles Times:

even politicians who write their own books don't write them alone, and we'd be better off looking past ghostwriting to the real problems behind political books.

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Pandaforum
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08:49 PM on 05/24/2010
obama's ghost written books prove the point. obama barely articulate on his own; he needs teleprompters and ghost writers to make himself intelligible to his acolytes.
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09:45 PM on 05/24/2010
You obviously did not watch his appearance before the GOP caucus and took questions from them on their own issues, which he was able to explain in detail back to them. And you apparently do not understand the purpose of a teleprompter.
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07:06 AM on 05/25/2010
You should try to get a ghostwriter for your post.
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08:37 PM on 05/24/2010
Seems to me the problem with ghost writing in politics is the people like Palin and countless others who couldn't write a professional piece to save their lives... Yet, they pass themselves off as what they are not by paying someone else to write the books!
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