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Product Details Binding Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number 328.73092 EAN 9781596985667 ISBN 1596985666 Manufacturer Regnery Publishing Number Of Items 1 Number Of Pages 298 Publication Date August 04, 2008 Publisher Regnery Publishing Release Date August 04, 2008 Availability Usually ships in 24 hours Product Description He's the media's darling, an inspiration to many, and the answer to everything from health care to taxes. He, of course, is Barack Obama - the silver-tongued senator with a phrase for everything and a promise for everyone. Sound too good to be true? That's because he is, as David Freddoso, investigative reporter and NRO columnist, shows to devastating effect in 'The Case Against Barack Obama'. In this shocking expose, Freddoso examines the reality behind the rhetoric, the plans behind the promises, and the faults behind the facade, revealing: why Obama's inexperience and extreme left-wing voting record is more dangerous than any threat we face today; why the Rev. Wright debacle reveals Obama's poor judgment of character and deceitful nature; and, why it won't be politics of change with President Obama - it will be liberal politics as usual.Freddoso exposes the real Barack Obama: a typical big-government politician, the Number 1 most liberal U.S. senator, - and - if he were commander-in-chief - a serious threat to our national security. David Freddoso puts together Obama's voting record, established personal and political ties, and recorded words to paint the Democrat as a tool of the liberal Chicago political machine. He doesn't, however, offer much in the way of new material on the Democratic Party's presidential nominee. Nick Summers presents the text in a conversational tone more evocative of dinner table conversation than an O'Reilly rant. Never raising his voice, Summers persuades by inviting the listener into the story he tells. His calm, confident speech does more to convince than Freddoso's sometimes strident text. The title alone identifies this work as an extended political editorial, and the book will not disappoint listeners looking for exactly that. R.L.L. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine Obama a Lefty, Not a Reformer The first serious negative biography of Senator Barack Obama casts the Democratic nominee as a fake reformer and a real liberal. The Case Against Barack Obama by National Review's David Freddoso, blasts Obama for failing to take on the Chicago machine, for listening to 'radical advisors,' and for backing 'doctrinaire liberal' causes from teachers unions to abortion rights. It does not, however, compare him to Paris Hilton, or dwell at length on his religion or race - making the substance of The Case Against Barack Obama sound a bit unfamiliar amid a campaign cacophony of hyperbolic web ads, alleged race cards, and viral smears. Freddoso says John McCain's campaign and Republicans at large are making the wrong case against the Illinois senator. 'I don't think you beat Obama by saying that he's Paris Hilton,' said Freddoso, a reporter for the conservative magazine National Review, referring to McCain's latest advertising campaign. 'The more important thing is really to look at is he who he says he is? Is he really this great reformer?' Freddoso's book, released today by the conservative publishing house Regnery and provided exclusively to Politico by the publisher, occupies a small island in the often-shrill sea of criticism of Obama. As a range of conservatives suggest that Obama is a closet radical, and as McCain's campaign aims to disqualify him from the White House on the grounds of his international fame, Freddoso makes a case that conservatives should look at the presumptive Democratic nominee's record. His thesis: 'It's not that Obama is a bad person. It's just that he's like all the rest of them. Not a reformer. Not a Messiah. Just like all the rest of them in Washington. And just like all the other liberals too.' Freddoso's is one of two new books harshly attacking Obama. The other, by Jerome Corsi, reportedly covers some of the same territory as the viral emails that have plagued the Democratic candidate, making much of his slender connections to Islam and his teenage drug use. Freddoso opts largely for a fact-based critique, and writes that the viral and overt smears have allowed Obama to evade substantive criticism. 'Too many of those criticizing Obama have been content merely to slander him,' he writes. False rumors about Obama's religion and ancestry have produced, Freddoso writes, 'an intellectual laziness among the very people who should be carefully scrutinizing Obama.' His book comes with Republican popularity at a historic low, amid widespread disenchantment with Republican ideals of limited government and hawkish foreign policy. Many - including, apparently, McCain's strategists - doubt a Republican can win a policy face-off. But as the real campaign hones in on the character of the candidates, Freddoso's book attempts to build an alternate case against Obama. Freddoso's argument begins in Chicago....Though Obama's first political steps were in Hyde Park's reformist politics, Freddoso focuses on the smooth accommodation he made to the machine.... -- Politico, Ben Smith, August 4, 2008 Here's Looking at You, Kid If find yourself believing that 'we are the ones we've been waiting for', or that 'this is the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow' or even, tout court, that 'yes we can', the chances are that you are suffering from a severe case of Obamamania. Tens of millions of Americans and an even larger number of Europeans have fallen victim to the syndrome, which involves a belief that a young black senator from Chicago can cure the world's ills, in part because of his race, in part because of his obvious intelligence and rhetorical skill; but in no part because of any record of achievement in the past. Fortunately, an inexpensive remedy is at hand. It comes in the form of a new book by David Freddoso, The Case Against Barack Obama. Unlike the authors of some of the cruder attacks on Mr. Obama, Mr. Freddoso works for a well-respected organization, the online version of the National Review. Although it is a conservative publication and the author makes no secret of where his political sympathies lie, this is a well-researched, extensively footnoted work. It aims not so much to attack Mr. Obama as to puncture the belief that he is in some way an extraordinary, mould-breaking politician. The Obama that emerges from its pages is not, Mr. Freddoso says, 'a bad person. It's just that he's like all the rest of them. Not a reformer. Not a Messiah. Just like all the rest of them in Washington.' And the author makes a fairly compelling case that this is so. The best part of the book concentrates on Mr. Obama's record in Chicago, his home town and the place from which he was elected to the Illinois state Senate in 1996, before moving to the United States Senate in 2004. The book lays out in detail how this period began in a way that should shock some of Mr. Obama's supporters: he won the Democratic nomination for his Illinois seat by getting a team of lawyers to throw all the other candidates off the ballot on various technicalities. One of those he threw off was a veteran black politician, a woman who helped him get started in politics in the first place. If Mr. Obama really were the miracle-working, aisle-jumping, consensus-seeking new breed of politician his spin-doctors make him out to be, you would expect to see the evidence in these eight years. But there isn't very much. Instead, as Mr. Freddoso rather depressingly finds, Mr. Obama spent the whole period without any visible sign of rocking the Democratic boat. He was a staunch backer of Richard Daley, who as mayor failed to stem the corruption that has made Chicago one of America's most notorious cities. Nor did he lift a finger against John Stroger and his son Todd....Cook County, where Chicago is located, has been extensively criticized for corrupt practices by a federally appointed judge.... Take a break from the hugs, hopium with a good read If what you want from Sen. Barack Obama's historic Democratic convention speech on Thursday night is to give yourself up to profound emotion and to join others in common passion and release, then guzzle some hopium and enjoy. Or you can enrich the experience by reading The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate by David Freddoso. Freddoso's book, on the best-seller lists, is the anti hopium. It is the pin of reason to the Obama balloon. He's the media's darling, an inspiration to many, and the answer to everything from health care to taxes. He, of course, is Barack Obama - the silver-tongued senator with a phrase for everything and a promise for everyone. Sound too good to be true? That's because he is, as David Freddoso, investigative reporter and NRO columnist, shows to devastating effect in 'The Case Against Barack Obama'. In this shocking expose, Freddoso examines the reality behind the rhetoric, the plans behind the promises, and the faults behind the facade, revealing: why Obama's inexperience and extreme left-wing voting record is more dangerous than any threat we face today; why the Rev. Wright debacle reveals Obama's poor judgment of character and deceitful nature; and, why it won't be politics of change with President Obama - it will be liberal politics as usual.Freddoso exposes the real Barack Obama: a typical big-government politician, the Number 1 most liberal U.S. senator, - and - if he were commander-in-chief - a serious threat to our national security. You Don't Know Barack Obama Until You Read This Book Has any major candidate for president of the United States ever received less critical examination than Barack Obama? Who is this man, who was only elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004? How did someone with his meager record of accomplishment become the Democratic nominee for president? How did someone with the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate and long-standing relationships with a former terrorist, a racist minister, and the corrupt operators of Chicago Machine politics end up as a supposed beacon of a newer, cleaner, bipartisan politics? Investigative reporter David Freddoso has the answers. Doing the legwork that the mainstream media has neglected, applying a critical eye while the media swoons before the Obama-messiah, and posing the hard questions that Obama needs to answer, Freddoso reveals a politician as calculating as any other, a far-left Democrat who goes beyond 'abortion rights' to supporting de facto infanticide, whose 'new politics' amount to Chicago-style hardball overlain with lofty rhetoric, and who, from his positions of power, has helped his patrons. In The Case Against Barack Obama, you'll learn: * How Barack Obama opposed a bill banning infanticide-by-neglect--a stance too extreme even for Nancy Pelosi. (Freddoso has an exclusive interview with the nurse central to the case.) * How Obama's friendship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright was no accident, but a carefully thought-out personal and political decision * Why Obama thought his association with the Reverend Wright and the terrorist Bill Ayers wouldn't matter--an exposé of the insular radical chic of Chicago's Hyde Park politics * What Obama really did for convicted developer Tony Rezko * Debunking the myth of Obama's 'new' politics: the forgotten tale of how Obama won his first election by throwing all of his competitors off the ballot * A story Obama would like to stay buried in Chicago: how he used his clout as a U.S. senator to save the corrupt Cook County Political Machine when reformers of both parties tried to challenge the entrenched political bosses * How Obama has repeatedly steered taxpayer money to campaign donors Sober, fair, and thoroughly researched--and all the more powerful and provocative because of it--The Case Against Barack Obama removes the halo from a man less qualified, and more radical, than the mainstream media has let you know. David Freddoso has covered politics for six years and is a political reporter for National Review Online. He has a Masters in journalism from Columbia University and worked for the Evans and Novak Political Report as well as Human Events. 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This book is a one sided viewpoint written by political reporter for National Review Online, David Freddoso, The Case Against Barack Obama. This captivating chronology of Obama's career presents a history of the meteoric rise to fame of an obscure newcomer who now stands on the threshold of claiming the number ... Read More Rating - Good material, but no one listened This book gives all of the facts that were brought out during the presidential campaign and more; certainly not from Obama who remained successfully silent on his past and his associations. Unfortunately no one listened to those who tried to blow the whistle. The book shows just how unprepared Barack Hussein Obama is to lead this nation. He is a man with very little experience but the jobs he has held have all shown how far left and how mired in the ... Read More Rating - BO Review This book should be mandatory reading for all US citizens in order to better understand the background of the man we just elected President of our country. While the author has certain partisan biases, I still believe he takes the reader through an objective exploration of Obama's history in politics. His conclusions are generally well supported by facts. It is too bad that the mainstream media did not provide such an insightful and rigorous review of ... Read More Rating - Portrait of a charismatic leader This book is perhaps too little, too late, now that Obama has been elected our next president. His popularity at home and abroad seems to be somewhat illusory, based on rhetorical gifts of an unusual nature, promises of effective change (without any proof whatsoever of being capable of effecting such a paradigm shift in public policy), and a magnetic personality that connects well with the youth and idealistic segments of our population. 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