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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: 1148 reviews Sales Rank: 26
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
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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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"The Obama Nation" September 6, 2008 This is a "must read" for (1) anyone who has not decided for whom they will vote for President of the United States on November 4, and (2) anyone who has any doubts about whether Mr. Obama is fit, now or ever, to hold the most powerful position in the world. If you do have doubts about Mr. Obama, but can't quite pinpoint the source of those doubts, you have to read this book.
Very Informative September 6, 2008 This book provided many useful details which should prove valuable to one who wants to know the candidates background.
The Obama Nation September 6, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book interesting and worth reading. It gives a lot of information about Obama's life and relationships he has pursued through the years. The information is backed up with many footnotes. You will learn a lot of information the media has not reported. If you want to get information about his life, and you want to know what he is all about read this book.
Kathy B
Better than an opinion/editorial blurb September 6, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Okay, I'm not one to be guilty of contempt prior to investigation so I read the book to make up my own mind on the whole cult of personality issue surrounding this candidate for President of the United States and this controversial book. First of all the author does have a point with the candidate having a hidden agenda. But they all do. And I don't think the candidate is as sinister as the author would like one to think. Nevertheless, there is enough compelling evidence, though mostly circumstantial, which when added together leave a reasonable doubt that this candidate is not in the best interest of this country. There were only a few instances in the book where I thought, "Oh come on! You're [the author] coming across as having you're own agenda as well". But the book is presented as a source of the man and the author's agenda is clearly stated at the beginning of the book. And I think the candidate's opponent is on track that this candidate has written more about himself in the form of memoirs than he has in regard to actual legislation. The candidate's first book was written to convince people he was worthy of state government. The second was written to convince people that he is worthy of the federal Executive Branch. Obama Nation was simply written to dispel key elements of his memoirs. I think the author succeeded overall. Lives have been ruined with far less circumstantial evidence presented to the jury [the readers]. What more can one say about a man that stated in one of his speeches, " A light will shine down on you and tell you to vote for Obama".
Nevertheless, I gave the book 3 stars due to partisanship. I'm not forgetting that this author is the same person that published a book with enough compelling circumstantial evidence to be factored in to John Kerry losing the last general election. It's a tool with an end to the means and not a work that requires a lot of unbiased critical thinking by the reader to come to a logical conclusion. However, it is not, "The Winter of our Discontent" as the platform of the candidate would like us to believe. The book left me the feeling that following a cult of personality is not thinking. It is complying. Enough said.
A great purchase ! September 6, 2008 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book really opened my eyes. All of the blanks were filled in about the candidate.It was informative and enlightening. A must read for all voters regardless of your political viewpoint.
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