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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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Avg. Customer Rating: 1155 reviews Sales Rank: 30
Media: Hardcover Edition: 1st Threshold Editions Hardcover Ed Number Of Items: 1 Pages: 384 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2 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 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Condition: Brand New! - Excellent Condition.
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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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Wow! This book sure us hated! September 7, 2008 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Over 1,000 reviews? Over 600 negatives? You'd think people would wait to review books until after they read them. All the Obamabots must now know that surges really do work ;) Please, there is no reason to read any book to know that Obama is an extreme Leftist who intends to turn our country into the Leader of the Communist New World Order. Anyone who believes that ordinary rural working-class Americans are just "Bitter folks who cling to guns and religion" doesn't deserve to have his vulgar rhetoric on our airwaves. The job of the President is to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Obama's comment proves that he does not even respect the Constitution himself, and obviously he does not represent Americans who do believe in their Constitutional Rights.
Obama's radical affiliations coming home to roost September 7, 2008 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book, with about 700 documented references, clearly articulates the three very troubling Obama themes below. Moreover, dozens of other sources corroborate these findings. I would challenge anybody who has read the book to refute any of these themes:
1) Leftist Chicago Affiliations. Obama's radical affiliations, needed to break into and fund his career in leftist Chicago politics, are irrefutable - Ayers, Rezko, Trinity, Wright, Pfleger... These established relationships are very telling in their own right, however, the orchestrated "cover up" and intentional "truth shading" - to now move to the center - is even more egregious and telling of his chameleon character.
2) Non-Chicago background. His non-Chicago background and associated "truth shading" is equally troubling - promoting Odinga (Kenyan candidate promoting violence through militant/muslim factions), Keith Kakugawa (aka "Ray" who disproves - not supports - his high school racism charges), muslim affiliation as a child (not an issue to me except for the cover-up), Frank Marshall Davis (aka "Frank", his communist influence), advocating Saul Alinski teachings...
3) Just another career Politician selling "Change". Obama's entire "career", from day 1, has been political and has been built on the same strategy - gain power through lower/middle class buy-in by promoting "change" (perfectly fits Alinsky's strategy). He uses "change" to promote his career without doing anything - marginal legislative accomplishments, hasn't run a city, state, military unit, or business, didn't hold a hearing on Afghanistan although his committee oversaw it... [the list goes on].
The bottom line: The Dems fell in love with Obama's charisma and speeches - they want to beat the Republicans at any cost. Neither the Dems nor the liberal media has vetted his background. However, America is now tuning in and the chickens are coming home to roost. The only remaining strategy is to call all of this a "pack of lies" and throw mud at anyone who brings it up. (another Alinsky strategy).
Very Interesting September 6, 2008 2 out of 4 found this review helpful
It is truly amazing as I do my own research into some of the issues raised, that Mr. Obama seems to be getting a pass on some of these issues. His entire judgmeent of character is called into question based on his associations alone but we are barely hearing a peep about it in the media.
Trash. How do these people live with themselves? September 6, 2008 7 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is such a piece of garbage, from the same publisher and author that distorted John Kerry's war record in 2004, which should tell you all you need to know. People partisan and ignorant enough to give this kind of tripe five stars should read "Blinded by the Right," by David Brock, who admitted his Anita Hill book was a total fabrication paid for by the same cabal. Our politics have descended to such an abysmal level, it's heartbreaking. There's plenty of hypocrisy on both sides of the aisle, and mistakes to go around, but when an industry based on blatant partisanship and total falsehood is allowed to continue and even rewarded, this has gone to far. The b.s. is no deep to bother with, but today I'm steaming about the new ad claiming Obama "got his start" due to acquaintance and one-time radical Ayers.
Harrold Simmons was the biggest funder of the manipulative smear group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. In 2008, Simmons is the sole donor funding a vicious attack ad in some battleground states that uses tortured logic and clumsy innuendo to invent a tie between Obama and terrorism.
The ad goes completely beyond the pale by cynically exploiting the tragedy of 9/11 in an unfounded connection with that Chicago academic, William Ayers. Then it claims that Ayers somehow "launched" Barack Obama's career -- an assertion so outlandish that not even Simmons' fellow discredited Swift Boater Jerome Corsi included it in this smear book.
Don't waste your money, or your vote. Open your mind and check out facts instead of living in a right--OR left wing--echo chamber. The future is too important.
Great book! September 6, 2008 2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book shows the real Barack Obama. It is well annotated with many of the footnotes from Omama's own books (which should be read as well). I suspect those that call this book a "pack of lies" have not read the book. This book gives a different perspective than the liberal leaning media and even Snopes. You be the judge.
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