Catastrophe
by Dick Morris, Eileen Mcgann
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Author: Dick Morris, Eileen McgannEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
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Published: 2009-07-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Harper
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Book Review: A somewhat dated but still powerful anti-Obama polemic
Summary: 4 Stars
Dick Morris, of course, was the Republican political consultant who advised Bill Clinton on how to successfully move to the right, after the 1994 election, and who then guided Clinton to re-election in 1996. He and his wife, Eilenn McGann, have written a number of books. This one was written in 2009. It is dating rapidly, but it still has a good deal of power. Beyond all question, Dick Morris is one of the most intelligent and perceptive writers on politics in America today.
The book is oddly structured. It has 16 chapters, most of which are quite short. The first chapter, however, is 75 pages. Titiled "Obama's War on Prosperity", it is a full-tilt, nothing held back attack on Barack Obama. Morris argues that Obama is a socialist -- he defends using that label in three pages of argument -- who is seeking to once and for all destroy the America we know and replace it with a Western European social democracy, in which the vast majority of people pay no taxes but instead receive government hand outs and a small minority of those who work hard pay for the rest of society.
I do not know if Morris has any association with the Tea Party, but his basic take on Obama is very much in line with the Tea Party. The book is a polemic, in the sense that it very consistently argues one, quite extreme point of view. As polemic, though, it is very powerful. Morris assembles a large number of facts to document and to support his arguments. His argument, by and large, is insightful and high quality.
This book was written in 2009, just after Obama came to power. It is thus somewhat dated at this point. As I write this, we in September 2010, and it appears very likely that the Democrats are going to lose the upcoming election in a big way. This book obviously contributed to that; it was a best-seller, and it is very, very anti-Obama and ant-Democrat. But there are a number of predictions which Morris made which did not come true, and appear unlikely to come true. For example, Morris said that Obama was seeking amnesty for illegal immigrants, to add another 12-15 million Democrats to the voting rolls. That does not appear to be happening. He also said that Obama was aiming at nationalizing the banking system. That appears to have been off the mark as well.
I think Morris tended to see Obama as having more of a plan that Obama in fact had. As Morris saw him, Obama was a very cunning political strategist, who was aiming at nothing less than overthrowing the traditional American Republic and replacing it with something like the government of France. As Morris saw it, Obama knew the difficulties in front of this scheme, and had a fiendish plan for overcoming them. In retrospect, and thank goodness, this was a serious mis-reading of Obama. Yes, Obama is a big fan of Big Government, and would like to re-make American in a European direction. Obama, however, seems to have had no idea how wildly unpopular such an agenda would be. Having no clue of the hornet's nest he was stirring up, Obama, in fact, did not have a very good plan for overcoming his opponents. Thus, it now appears likely that Obama will lose Congress in 2010, and while 2012 is still far off, Obama's re-election prospects are not looking very good right now.
Summary of Catastrophe
We have to stop Obama's radical agenda. Now.
We must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda. Because after Obama has won his war on prosperity and canceled the war on terror, it will be too late to regain our liberty or our security.
Here's the truth about Obama and his radical policies:- He will destroy our health care system so that no one gets adequate care.
- He firmly believes in government control of our major industries?he's already commandeered the banks and the automobile industry.
- He plans to reshape the political landscape to keep the left in power for decades by cooking the census, enfranchising illegal immigrants, muzzling talk radio, and coercing workers into unions.
- He is attacking those who fight terrorism while letting the terrorists go free.
- He has repealed the Declaration of Independence and put us under a worldwide, European-dominated financial regulatory system.
And Obama is not working alone. Congress is complicit in the conspiracy.
It's a catastrophe. But as Dick Morris and Eileen McGann remind us, ?This is no time for apathy or alienation or hopelessness. It's a time for action.? And that action must begin now?before it's too late.
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