The brother of a Republican congressman and a Republican businessman attempted to pay an professor in Oxford to use software he designed to "prove" that 1960s radical William Ayers helped write Sen. Barack Obama's biography.
The professor, Dr. Peter Millican, teaches philosophy at Hertford College, Oxford. His software is designed to detect when works are by the same authors by comparing the use of similar words and phrases.
The offer was revealed Sunday in a British newspaper.“He was entirely upfront about this," the professor said of the Republican businessman who made the offer. "He offered me $10,000 and sent me electronic versions of the text from both books.” Millican said he took a preliminary look and found the charges that Ayers had had a hand in ghostwriting Obama's book “very implausible.”
A deal was agreed for "more detailed research," the paper said, but when Millican "said the results had to be made public, even if no link to Ayers was proved, interest waned."The Republicans sought to allege similarities between Obama's Dreams of My Father and Ayers' Fugitive Days.
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How much more has the RNC done to help McCain. I still think it's strange that the RNC just found Obama's Aunt. Somethings is wrong with that story. I would bet the lady isn't his Aunt but they made it headlines to help McCain. To bad Dick Cheney endorsed McCain that just gave Obama/Biden more votes.
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