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The Obama Nation | 
enlarge | Creator: Jerome R Corsi Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Category: Book
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Format: Abridged, Audiobook Media: Audio CD Edition: Abridged Number Of Items: 6 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4 Dimensions (in): 5.8 x 5.2 x 1
ISBN: 0743580591 Dewey Decimal Number: 328.73092 EAN: 9780743580595
Publication Date: August 1, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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. 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 nave, 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 58 out of 88 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.
food for thought September 1, 2008 7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have thoroughly appreciated having this book to learn more about the Presidential candidate. It is well-written, and much attention is paid to showing where he got his facts. Therefore I believe it presents a truth that you aren't getting many other places.
Who is this man Obama? September 1, 2008 7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I am writing this review as an older WWII Navy veteran. I was attached to the third and fourth Marine divisions in the Pacific Theater of war and experienced the tragedies of a brutal war. With all of us who have defended the United States of America against agressors past and present, the need to protect our freedom through the choice of a president that is a strong believer in National Defense is important to me. This brings me to this book and why I purchased it.
During the last six months I have followed the presidential candidates as each cast their political skills on Americans. Two candidates emerged, Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain. Ok, what is the background of each.
I am familiar with the background of Senator McCain, since I served in the Pacific at the same time his father and great grandfather served in the Pacific. John McCain III was a little known Navy aviator until his plane was shot down over Hanoi in 1967, thereby becoming a famous prisoner of war son of the commander of the Pacific during the Vietnam war. McCain's early childhood through his graduation from the US Naval academy is documented. Turning to Obama what do I know about him. very little. Media commentaries and campaign speeches did not help me.
To get a better insight into Senator Obama's rapid rise in politics I turned to an outside source. I had an opportunity to speak with Dr. Jerome Corsi before his book "OBAMA NATION" became available to the public. His candor about Obama impressed me to seek out the information I needed to make an informed decision.
Review of this book allowed me to make that decision.
Important to read September 14, 2008 7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I have read this book to find out a bit more about Senator Obama. I am an independent and noticed a great deal of slanted media attention toward S. Obama. After reading this I can see why the media has not gone into his past. He is a concerning man with extreme views. I also can't help but think that his "identity" issue will negatively effect his leadership. His associations and background should have been exposed by media. In light of how negative they are it leaves you with the impression that the media understood that this would be highly unpopular and provided us with their select view of his background. This book levels that bias. Excellent book. Well written and truly shows you that the media has a favorite in this race. Well done!
Well written, objective September 2, 2008 16 out of 25 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.
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