 2008-11-12 - Great Read
This book is well written. It is something all those who voted should have read. It shows how little we know about the now President Elect. I think all all voters should read books on all candidates to be better informed.
 2008-11-11 - Right- wing propagnda
All I can say is, give me a break! This author wrote this book in the hopes of making money. As P.T. Barnum once said - "There's a sucker born every minute." W. has just gained the dubious distinction of being THE most unpopular (WORST) President of the U.S. We now have an incredibly intelligent and capable President who will try and dig us out of the fiscal mess that W. and his henchmen created. It took a long time for our country to sink to these depths and it will take a long time to recover from the fall.
2008-11-10 - Compelling Case From A Conservative Perspective
This book is a hard-hitting, fact-packed, critical study of Barack Obama, the man and the politician. The book is packed with careful analysis and many logical questions. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about the votes, actions, and political experiences of our new president-elect that have not gotten much attention in the public news media.
Overall, Freddoso was fair and honest, and he gave Obama credit where credit was due. He also did a great job of exposing and exploring Obama's many relationships with people of questionable character and radical social and political ideologies. Freddoso made a very compelling case that showed Obama is the prototypical liberal partisan politician, and not the reformer or change agent that he has claimed and his supporters have worked so hard to make the public believe.
Throughout the book, Freddoso was very consistent with his introduction, where he accurately described the book and his intentions: "I believed that by writing this book I could fill in the picture - to shine a spotlight on some relatively unexplored and some completely new aspects of Obama's career. In this I believe I have succeeded. This book contains some new and many buried stories that the media has mostly ignored. They puncture the image Obama has created for himself...This book obviously takes a conservative presumption against the candidate - just look at the title - but I hope that you also find it to be respectful and realistic, even if it is unavoidably shaped and shaded by my own views...I hope that readers of this book will move beyond both the rhetoric and the smears, and learn more about the man whose "audacious hope" sweeps America."
 2008-11-10 - Vacuous
In an attempt to study "both sides" prior to the election, I read this book. In it, the author attacks Obama for being a politician. This is a revelation? He attacks Obama for knowing someone who knew someone that once knew someone that both rode the same bus at different times. This is significant? He attacks Obama for playing the game by using the rules of the game. This is noteworthy?
After reading the book, I thought "If this is the worst someone's got to say about Obama, I'd better vote for the guy."
2008-11-09 - Eye-opener
Great book. This is NOT some cheap-conservative hatchet job. The author (and you can see him interviewed on youtube) is an intelligent reporter who lays out the facts for all of us to see.
Let's just say that the Obama that emerges from the pages is a cynical opportunist (sound familiar ? Well, it should, because most politicians are that way). He is a mix of 1960s far-left radical, and a Chicago Machine politician of the standard corrupt sort. The amazing thing is that so many people have not seen through him. He has been involved in various scandals (Toni Rezko, etc.). His wife's income apparently shot up from $ 120,000 to $ 350,000 as soon as Obama was in position to help out the hospital his wife worked at, as a U.S. Senator. And yes, Obama "pals around" with the far-left and some extremist thinkers (some of who want reparations for U.S. blacks).
Obama did almost nothing in Chicago or Washington to "change" the system. In fact, he has defended it. He voted for ethanol subsidies, even though they are a huge waste of taxmoney.
Oh, and by the way:
There is evidence (source: Financial Times, Nov. 8, 2008) that Latinos put Obama over the top in states like Virginia, Florida, Nevada, Colorado. This was enough to put Obama over the top. Welcome to the new U.S.A., and the new blueprint for Democratic power: allow open-borders and then flood the country with people from abroad. Then promise them "goodies" like sub-prime mortgages (backed by the Justice Department and ACORN and various other "community organizations). They then vote you into office and you repay them. When the sub-prime thing blows up on the various government agencies (Fannie Mae) who were pumping the bubble up, you then step in with "more government" as the solution (!).
I also can't wait for "free universal health care", an expanding welfare state, and open borders.
BTW, it also recently came out that Obama disabled the feature on his website that would identify where and who the donors are, sending him money. Thus, there is no way of knowing where the money came from that "elected" our new Leader.
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