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The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality by Jerome R. Corsi
Book Summary InformationAuthor: Jerome R. Corsi Edition: Hardcover Format: Bargain Price Published: 2008-08-01 ISBN: N/A Number of pages: 384 Publisher: Threshold Editions
Book Reviews of The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of PersonalityBook Review: Corsi has been thoroughly discredited as Tabloid Summary: 1 Stars
UPDATE: It's interesting to see what has happened in the last year, politically. Barack Obama is President and this book sells for less than $3.50. There is sure to be another Corsi book to hand out for free at the next Republican convention against Obama, bought up by racist Republican groups, but I'm glad to see America back on a track of actually progressing, instead of squandering our money, our livlihoods and sending more of our precious men and woman to Iraq. Instead of propaganda, I highly recommmend Ted Kennedy's recent inspirational memoir - "True Compass".
The Presidential election is just around the corner and now we are subjected to a "writer" who is most famous for writing falsehoods about politicians. This 'author' has already been discredited by previous writings of falsehoods and 'fiction', most notably his book on John Kerry. Problem is, this piece of work presents nothing interesting, factual or new. Its not even fun, freaky, fake facts! Actually, it is so full of falsehood; the Obama campaign has been able to simply disprove every single negative allegation very easily. However, some people will believe anything they read, and in America, we all know, that can be a problem for those who trust.
Obama's campaign says the book is full of factual inaccuracies that include: the wrong date for the Obamas' marriage, that Obama is currently using drugs like marijuana and cocaine, that Obama was raised with an Islamic education, that Obama wants to weaken the military and more easily disproven allegations. Corsi states that he doesn't need to prove anything. Well, I guess anyone can print fiction and call it non-fiction.
Publisher Mary Matalin of Simon & Schuster states, "It (the book) was not designed to be, and does not set out to be, a political book." Simon & Shuster also refused to validate any of the books sources and extensive footnotes, claiming there were 'just too many'. These footnotes almost exclusively are referenced to blogs and other fictional, unreliable sources. Why is this book selling so fast? Its an old conservative trick. Various conservative right-wing organizations hunt or push for these books and then buy them in quantity to get them on the best seller list immediately. The books are then distributed to members. No, its not illegal, but is it ethical?
"The Obama Nation" is actually a twist on the word abomination. Now is that very clever or juvenile? Not only that, but Corsi's book contains what most people would consider offensive language in regards to racial ancestry in Obama's family history. In fact, Corsi states this about his `facts': "I don't need more," he said. "I'm putting this question forward. I'm putting the evidence forward. Voters can make up their own minds." It should be duly noted that Corsi writes for World Net Daily, a conservative Web site whose lead headline Thursday, August 7th was "Astonishing photo claims: Dead Bigfoot stored on ice." That's laughable. I hope this review was able to save you some hard earned dollars.
However, if you want to read some positive, inspiration work, try, "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Almost always, an uplifting outlook far surpasses a negative, depressing divisive tome.
Summary of The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of PersonalityFrom the Publisher:
In this thoroughly researched and documented book, the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry explains why the extreme leftism of an Obama presidency would leave the United States weakened, diminished and divided, why Obama must be defeated?and how he can be. THE OBAMA NATION Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality Barack Obama stepped onto the national political stage when the then-Illinois State senator addressed the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Soon after Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, author Jerome Corsi began researching Obama's personal and political background. Scrupulously sourced with more than 600 footnotes, THE OBAMA NATION is the result of that research. By tracing Obama's career and influences from his early years in Hawaii and Indonesia, the beginnings of his political career in Chicago, his voting record in the Illinois legislature, his religious training and his adoption of Christianity through to his recent involvement in Kenyan politics, his political advisors and fundraising associates and his meteoric campaign for president, Jerome Corsi shows that an Obama presidency would, in his words, be ?a repeat of the failed extremist politics that have characterized and plagued Democratic Party politics since the late 1960s.? In this stunning and comprehensive new book, the reader will learn about: -Obama's extensive connections with Islam and radical politics, from his father and step-father's Islamic backgrounds, to his Communist and socialist mentors in Hawaii and Chicago, to his long-term and close associations with former Weather Underground heroes William Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn?associations much closer than heretofore revealed by the press -Barack and Michelle's 20-year-long religious affiliation with the black-liberation theology of former Trinity United Church of Christ Reverend Jeremiah Wright, whose sermons have always been steeped in a rage first expressed by Franz Fanon , Stokely Carmichael and Malcolm X, a rage that Corsi shows has deep meaning for Obama -Obama's continuing connections with Kenya, the homeland of his father, through his support for the candidacy of Raila Odinga, the radical socialist presidential contender who came to power amid Islamist violence and church burnings -Obama's involvement in the slum-landlord empire of the Chicago political fixer Tony Rezko, who helped to bankroll Obama's initial campaigns and to purchase of Barack and Michelle's dream-home property. -the background and techniques of the Obama campaign's cult of personality, including the derivation of the words ?hope? and change? -Obama's far-left domestic policy, his controversial votes on abortion, his history of opposition to the Second Amendment, his determination to raise capital-gains taxes, his impractical plan to achieve universal health care, and his radical plan to tax Americans to fund a global-poverty-reduction program -Obama's naïve, anti-war, anti-nuclear foreign-policy, predicated on the reduction of the military, the eradication of nuclear weapons and an overconfidence in the power of his personality, as if belief in change alone could somehow transform international politics, achieve nuclear-weapons disarmament and withdrawal from Iraq without adverse consequences, for us, for the Iraqis or for Israel. Meticulously researched and documented, THE OBAMA NATION is the definitive source for information on why and how Barack Obama must be defeated?not by invective and general attacks, but by detailed arguments that are well-researched and fact-based.
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