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The Obama Nation (2008)

by Jerome R. Corsi(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1416598065 (ISBN13: 9781416598060)

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English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Threshold Editions

review 1: The book is very slow starting. Corsi talks of Obama's childhood and Kenyan tribal politics. It seems it will go on forever until he starts tying everything in to the unrest in Kenya and Obama's support of Odinga. Then it all becomes fascinating.It investigates a lot of claims from Obama's autobiography, Dreams From My Father, and found that it's lack of cohesion and chronology muddies the waters about Obama's past. But it is obvious that Obama has daddy issues, mommy issues and abandonment issues. He takes Obama's feelings about his abandonment by his African father, shame about his white mother, guilt at racist feelings towards his white grandmother, and his perceived inadequacies of his white grandfather, as well as being called fat and funny looking by his Indones... moreian schoolmates and the obvious racial rage he felt through high school and college, and ties it all into his adult worldview. He tells of Obama's immersion in drugs and alcohol and how he seemed to find himself in the poems and books of Frank Marshall Davis and Frantz Fanon. He makes clear the reasons that in spite of the sacrifice his grandparents made to take care of him and educate him in Ivy League schools, he more closely identified with his Kenyan father, absent from his life since he was a baby.He also brings out the many less-than-desirable ties Obama has to figures such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Tony Rezko and Father Michael Pfleger. He goes into great detail in each relationship, including the complexity of the Rezko case, and gives us a glimpse into the way each affected his campaign and how he distanced himself from them.He touches on Obama's voting record on still relevant key controversial issues while an Illinois State and U.S. Senator.Corsi also detailed the 2008 race and the impact Hillary Clinton and John McCain each had on his campaign.Interestingly, there is only a mere page about healthcare, which of course is Obama's signature legislation.The author failed to predict Obama's win, being very confident of the opposite outcome. But he did accurately predict a number of other things he believed would happen in an Obama presidency, particularly about relations with Iran and Israel.Anyone who wants to knows about Obama's past, from his childhood and college years, through the Illinois State and U.S. Senate to the 2008 campaign, should read this book. The content is well-documented and footnoted without a lot of emotion injected into it, so liberals as well as conservatives may enjoy it just for the history.
review 2: This is the most disturbing book I've ever read. I've read my share of political hack jobs, but this is not one of those. It's well written and documented with speeches, interviews and Obamas books he has written. It's hard to accept the truth if you an Obama supporter [unless of course your politics are radical:] but unfortunately this author doesn't judge as much as present these facts. I could write pages and pages of what I think about this book, but instead I am going to spend my time praying for this nation and that our new President will do the correct thing to help this country. less

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