Is it possible that Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, purloined a critical sentence from yours truly in her gushing review of Barack Obama's 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father. You be the judge. On December 28, 2008 I published an article in the American Thinker titled "The Improvised Odyssey of Barack Obama."  In the article, I argued that terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers not only wrote the better parts of Dreams, but that he also used Homer's Odyssey as the framework for describing Obama's "personal interior journey." Ayers knows his Homer.  In his 2001 memoir, Fugitive Days, for instance, he specifically identified the Odyssey's "Cyclops" as a metaphor for the "doomed and helpless" United States.  "Picture an oversized, somewhat dim-witted monster, greedy and capricious," Ayers wrote in his uniquely patriotic way, "its eyes put out by fiery stakes and now flailing in a...(Read Full Post)