What would Obama's academic footnotes look like, if he provided them for a speech or statement? Probably like this:
1. As I have always said.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Let me be clear: I'm tellin' ya, man.
5. Op cit.
6. Some professor I knew at Columbia said this to me during a fondue-and-blow party hosted by one of Bernie's old friends from the German Red Army Brigade. At least I think he said it. I was pretty wired and also tripping a little on laced pot so most of the time I was concentrating on his second, evil head, which was trying to hypnotize me with its spider-eyes. But I'm pretty sure.
7. Dreams of My Father, pg. 72, by Bill Ayers.
8. As I have always said.
9. Ibid.
16. To even discuss the evidence for this statement would be a distraction from the important issues facing us.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. The CBO is full of crap. As I have always said.
20. Shut up, that's why.