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The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality | 
 enlarge | Author: Jerome R. Corsi
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Category: Book
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Rating:  671 reviews
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 6.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 1416598065
Dewey Decimal Number: 328.73092
EAN: 9781416598060
ASIN: 1416598065
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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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 naive, 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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 Read, despite negative comments October 16, 2008
47 out of 68 found this review helpful
I'm glad I've finally purchased and read this book, negative comments notwithstanding.
Reviewer Jonathan Kern correctly notes that its opening chapters dragged. But like him I found completing Corsi's book illuminating. Thanks to Mr. Kern, I needn't expend much energy reviewing FactCheck.org's supposed fact checking. He's correct: they did a rotten job, and the errors they found were indeed minor.
Okay, so Barack Obama can't claim to be a Kenyan citizen (p. 103), since Kenya prohibits dual citizenship for anyone over 21. Big deal. Okay, so Obama's father was not a "Kenyan citizen" when he was born, as Kenya won independence only in December 1963, "when Obama was 2 years old." Ditto.
Yet, the book is sufficiently accurate to threaten Kenya's corrupt government, which arrested Corsi without charge when he traveled there recently to promote it. Naturally, Obama didn't care.
Corsi notes that Obama himself traveled to Kenya and lent critical support (inadvertently or not) to fellow Luo tribesman, Islamist ally and socialist Raila Odinga, who opposed the December 2007 election results. Yet Obama said little when Odinga's protests triggered riots by the Luo and his Muslim allies against Kenya's ruling Kikuyu people and 90% majority Christians, of whom hundreds were subsequently murdered in their homes and burned alive in churches. Odinga now shares power with Kikuyu President Kibaki in a government to which the former was not elected.
I might have wanted less on Obama's family background, and more on his deeds, but could care less about why Corsi included the content he did---so long as it is accurate. And Corsi very well documents Obama's personal historical associations, and comments made by his former friends and family. Significantly, these facts are not questioned.
In every past presidential election, the press has more or less carefully examined candidates' early life, associations, deeds, writings, statements and so on. Strangely, Obama has largely escaped this scrutiny from either broadcast or print media and periodicals---save those smeared as "conservative." In short, the major media have committed mass dereliction of professionalism and public duty. No doubt, Thomas Paine is churning in his grave.
That's why the public desperately needs this book, which I recommend, despite some faults, to all U.S. voters. Reports of Obama's past should be known, not dismissed as false rumor, when they're largely accurate.
I wish the book included details on Obama's relationship with Saudi businessman Khalid al-Mansour, who reportedly helped advance his application and acceptance at Harvard.
But it raises lots of other good questions, like those one "conservative" columnist rhetorically asked before the Oct. 16 presidential debate:
How old was Obama when he learned of the numerous bombings orchestrated by Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers when Barry was only eight and why, exactly, did he nevertheless associate with Ayers for many years on many projects---and pretend Ayers was "just a guy in my neighborhood"?
Didn't Ayers and his Charles Manson celebrating wife usher Obama into politics at a private home party for Chicago bigwigs?
Did Barack Obama attend "Black Value System" indoctrination courses required of all other congregants after joining Rev. Jeremiah Wright's racist Chicago Trinity church for 20 years?
How much did Obama receive from Antonin Rezko, his corporation and Nahdmi Auchi, his Iraqi best arms-dealing buddy?
Did Obama know Wright's sermons closely resembled those of bona fide anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan?
In 2006, what "fact finding" advantage fell to Illinois voters from Obama's visit to Kenya's Odinga, again?
Why did Barack Obama support learn, practice and teach agitating tactics of communist Saul Alinsky?
Too many voters dogmatically refuse to read (much less genuinely consider questions raised by) any publication labeled "conservative," despite the currently meaningless, destructive nature of the term.
Let's recall, the "conservative" appointees lost the U.S. Supreme Court case when the bench's "liberal" majority legitimized seizure of private property by eminent domain to benefit commercial corporate development. Surely, whatever else liberty and pursuit of happiness might be, they include the right to own personal property, barring criminal and moral decrepitude, and protect it from government seizure.
The election has not yet occurred, October 16 debate night polls not withstanding, and voters can still do themselves and the U.S. a favor by reading Obama Nation.
All the reasons NOT to vote for Obama. October 16, 2008
22 out of 33 found this review helpful
Based upon an in depth research basis of all of Obama's history and tracking his decision making from the beginning, the reader is allowed to understand the beginning and how he got to where he is.
This is a story of the evolution of Barrack Obama and the entire big picture.
The information is presented in such a way that an undecided voter can see what the man has done and is doing. It gives an idea of how this country would look after 4 years of the Obama regime. We need to ask ourselves - are we better off than we were?
The book does celebrate that we are finally evolved as a country to realize that the color of our skin does not determine the measure of the man.
Truly Worth a Read August 30, 2008
20 out of 30 found this review helpful
I think it's important to look at more than one angle for a candidate and I bought this book thinking it would really be slanted toward the Republican view, knowing Obama's own biography and campaign team would handle the view they wanted presented. Always good to look under the sheets, so to speak. But, it isn't at all the slanted version I expected. It's a factual presentation of what is, and whatever subjecture exists is easily understood. I would suggest it for anyone who's not afraid to learn. Today, too many people just follow the bouncing ball or their party blindly. Time to understand how the ball is made, how it bounces, and what direction it's really headed. Very important.
Well written, objective September 2, 2008
16 out of 24 found this review helpful
Corsi says on page 187, "None of us can look into his heart or read his soul. The best evidence we have to judge by is first, the record of what Obama has done, and second, what he has said about what he has done." And in this book's preceding and following pages, Corsi simply explores Obama's life and what Obama has said about his life.
With over 500 footnotes, this book is well documented. Footnoted sources include: CNN, Hillary Clinton's press releases, Obama's two autobiographies, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times - hardly Republican sources. In the book's preface, Corsi is very clear he has no allegiance to either political party.
I'm not sure how this book can be called a smear job. It seems clear that most people who say this is such a horrible book have not read it.
It's worth a read. You can't just get all your "objective" news from CNN.
Proof: The Messiah is really a left-wing ideologue October 17, 2008
16 out of 24 found this review helpful
The author's documentation of Obama's early life is impressive. And he does find clear indicators of how Obama might act as President. Most of the facts uncovered indicate that he would govern like a left-winger. Recent statements by Obama support this conclusion. The stock market has set various kinds of negative records crashing and Obama continues to talk about taxing small businesses to "spread the wealth around". He refuses to back off his planned capital-gains tax. It is crazy to increase taxes in a recession. A pragmatist would not do it. These policies are bound to deepen the recession. And all economists have not with certainty ruled out the possibility of a depression.
The latter part of the book you will already be familiar with if you watch cable news and listen to political talk shows on a regular basis.
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