The only "evidence" I can find on the internet that Obama's books were written by ghost writers are allegations on conservative web-sites and white-supremacist blogs. The initial allegations were made by—TA-DAH!!—Rush Limbaugh. Why am I not surprised?

A number of reviewers have remarked that, although many political figures use uncredited ghost writers, they doubt very seriously that this is the case with Obama's books in that, as one of them stated, "He writes in his own voice. He writes just like he speaks." Also, Christopher Buckley, the son of the late William F. Buckley of The National Review and the television discussion program "Firing Line," a genuinely intellectual conservative (can't hardly find that kind anymore)and a writer himself, states the same thing: that Obama is intelligent, articulate, and eloquent, and he writes just like he speaks. This is not an easy feat for even the most accomplished ghost writer.

And a tribute to Obama's eloquence is the fact that he rarely if ever uses a teleprompter, even when it's there. Watch his speeches. It's obvious that he's not simply reading.

George W. Bush, on the other hand—whenever he departed from a prepared speech ot tried to talk "off-the-cuff," he got his tongue so tangled around his eye-teeth, he couldn't see what he was saying. His gaffs and malapropisms are the thing of legend and great fodder for stand-up comics. This is one of the reasons he hated press conferences and avoided them like the plague.

Don Firth