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Anti-Kerry Author Writes Against Obama (Corsi & His Book Being Subjected To Ad Hominem Attacks
UPI ^ | 8/13/2008 | Staff

Posted on 08/13/2008 4:30:03 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist

... Conservative Jerome Corsi has published "The Obama Nation: Leftists Politics and the cult of Personality," which - despite parts having been challenged as misleading or downright false - will make its debut on the New York Times best-seller list for non-fiction hardbacks Sunday at No. 1, the Times reported Wednesday...

(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; barackobama; bookreview; corsi; democrats; election; electionpresident; jeromecorsi; obama; obamanation; obamatruthfile
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In attacking this book, liberals have used sweeping generalizations, saying that the whole book is worthless. They have said that since the book quotes World Net Daily that it can't be credible. Problem is, is that the book also quotes from many, many liberal sources such as the New York Times. If libs attack WND's credibility, then they must attack the credibility of the NYT as well.

And liberals have attacked Jerome Corsi personally, engaging in baseless Ad Hominem attacks. More than once They have tried to make him the subject of attack, not the book.

Libs are using the same old tactics they always use.

Rather than deal with the issues the book raises, they try to smear it and Corsi, too.

Libs are losing credibility fast...

The book pegs Obama, and libs know it, hence, the tactics they are presently using against Corsi and his book.

You know now how to counter them.

1 posted on 08/13/2008 4:30:03 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist
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What say you?


2 posted on 08/13/2008 4:31:19 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

They failed! The Book is the Number One Best Seller, Meanwhile Pelosi’s book bombed.


3 posted on 08/13/2008 4:31:43 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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The online WaPo article “Kerry’s Cambodia Whopper,” shows that Kerry was not lied about, or as libs say “Swift-Boated.”

Kerry lied and got caught.


4 posted on 08/13/2008 4:32:38 PM PDT by Laissez-faire capitalist (Keep working! Welfare cases and their liberal enablers are counting on you!)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Did you know that cockroaches squeal when you shine a very bright light on them?


5 posted on 08/13/2008 4:33:00 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Alan Colmes tried to neutralize Corsi last night.

Corsi stood his ground and Colmes came off as the fool that he is.


6 posted on 08/13/2008 4:35:49 PM PDT by vietvet67
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Like a popular talk show host says:

‘To anger a conservative, tell a lie;
To anger a liberal, tell the truth.’

Those liberals are really angry, aren’t they?


7 posted on 08/13/2008 4:36:01 PM PDT by Ben Reyes (Creative Polling...yeah, that's the ticket)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist
Personal attacks usually come when one has run out of facts and is losing the argument. When personal attacks come first in the artument, it means one started with nothing with which to fight.
8 posted on 08/13/2008 4:40:48 PM PDT by tbpiper (NObama '08 - Unfit in any color)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Kerry’s Cambodia Whopper

http://tinyurl.com/6rqef


9 posted on 08/13/2008 4:40:54 PM PDT by preacher (A government which robs from Peter to pay Paul will always have the support of Paul.)
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****despite parts having been challenged as misleading or downright false****

You gotta love that tact. Excuse me Mr. UPI writer. Could it be that the people doing the "challenging" are wrong?

10 posted on 08/13/2008 4:42:12 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule (I support the death penalty for people who go to baseball games and talk on their cell phones.)
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Well here is some truth that is about Michelle Obama..

According to Snopes.Com, Princeton was requested to put a ‘restriction’ on distribution of any copies of the thesis of Michelle Obama (a/k/a/ Michelle LaVaughn Robinson) saying it could not be made available until November 5, 2008, but when it was published on a political website they decided they would lift the restriction.
Http://WWW.snopes.Com/politics/obama/thesis.asp
Subj: Thesis - Michele Obama (aka Michelle LaVaughn Robinson).
OBAMA’S MILITANT RACISM REVEALED

In her senior thesis at Princeton , Michele Obama, the wife of Barack Obama
Stated that America was a nation founded on ‘crime and hatred’.
Moreover, she stated that whites in America were ‘ineradicably racist’. The
1985 thesis, titled ‘Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community’ was
Written under her maiden name, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson.
Michelle Obama stated in her thesis that to ‘Whites at Princeton , it often
Seems as if, to them, she will always be Black first.. .’ However, it was reported
By a fellow black classmate, ‘If those ‘Whites at Princeton ‘ really saw Michelle
As one who always would ‘be Black first,’ it seems that she gave them that
Impression.
Most alarming is Michele Obama’s use of the terms ‘separationist’ and
‘integrationi st’ when describing the views of black people.
Mrs. Obama clearly identifies herself with a ‘separationist’ view of race.
‘By actually working with the Black lower class or within their communities as
A result of their ideologies, a separationist may better understand the desperation
Of their situation and feel more hopeless about a resolution as opposed to an
Integrationist who is ignorant to their plight.’
Obama writes that the path she chose by attending Princeton would likely lead to
Her ‘further integration and/or assimilation into a white cultural and social structure
That will only allow me to remain on the periphery of society; never becoming a full
Participant.’
Michele Obama clearly has a chip on her shoulder. Not only does she see separate black and white societies in America , but she elevates black over white in her world.
Here is another passage that is uncomfortable and ominous in meaning:
‘There was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the black
Community, I am obligated to this community and will utilize
All of my present and future resources to benefit the black
Community first and foremost.’
What is Michelle Obama planning to do with her future resources if she’s first
Lady that will elevate black over white in America?
The following passage appears to be a call to arms for affirmative action
Policies that could be the hallmark of an Obama administration.
‘Predominately white universities like Princeton are socially and academically
Designed to cater to the needs of the white students comprising the bulk of

Th e conclusion of her thesis is alarming.
Michelle Obama’s poll of black alumni concludes that other black students
At Princeton do not share her obsession with blackness. But rather than
Celebrate, she is horrified that black alumni identify with our common
American culture more than they value the color of their skin. ‘I hoped that
These findings would help me conclude that despite the high degree of
Identification with whites as a result of the educational and occupational
Path that black Princeton alumni follow, the alumni would still maintain a
Certain level of identification with the black community. However, these
Findings do not support this possibility.’
Is it no wonder that most black alumni ignored her racist questionnaire?
Only 89 students responded out of 400 who were asked for input.
Michelle Obama does not look into a crowd of Obama supporters and see
Americans. She sees black people and white people eternally conflicted
With one another.
The thesis provides a trove of Mrs. Obama’s thoughts and
World view seen through a race-based prism. This is a very
Divisive view for a potential first lady that would do untold
Damage to race relations in this country in a Barack Obama
Administration.
Michelle Obama’s intellectually refined racism should give all
Americans pause for deep concern.
Now maybe she’s changed, but she sure sounds like someone with an axe to
Grind with America . Will the press let Michelle get a free pass over her obviously
Racist comment about American whites? I am sure that it will.
PS: We paid for her scholarship.


11 posted on 08/13/2008 4:45:29 PM PDT by PLD
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LOL! Corsi, You Da’Man! You have all the liberals doing what they do best: CRYING LIKE LITTLE LOW SELF-ESTEEM BABIES!!!


12 posted on 08/13/2008 4:46:36 PM PDT by avacado
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This is how they do it. By next Monday when the subject of the book is brought up on a news show it will be parts are misleading and downright false
13 posted on 08/13/2008 4:49:25 PM PDT by rocksblues (Folks we are in trouble, "Mark Levin" 03/26/08)
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

Definition of Swift-Boating - Telling the truth.


14 posted on 08/13/2008 4:50:48 PM PDT by aquila48
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Is this information about Obama supposed to scare me? Am I supposed to feel threatened about the real information about Obama? Presented information about Obama using primary sources from both the left and right wing supposed to make me quake? No...but I am informed and the truth is disconcerting to say the least.
15 posted on 08/13/2008 4:52:37 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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...Conservative Jerome Corsi...

Why the need for the word "conservative"? Does the UPI put "liberal" before those of the lefty persuasion?

16 posted on 08/13/2008 4:55:33 PM PDT by jeffc (They're coming to take me away! Ha-ha, he-he, ho-ho!)
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I bought the book and it is an excellent read. Corsi cautiously footnotes every assertion. Intellectually, you can’t attack the book without attacking his sources, which include Obama (he dissects Obama’s autobiography) and Obama’s friends, relatives and associates, such as Obama’s first grade teacher. The lib’s have to make personal attacks on Corsi and broad, nonspecific criticisms of the book; if they got too specific, the facts would devour them.


17 posted on 08/13/2008 4:58:10 PM PDT by Spok (Whatever you say about McCain, it must be admitted that he's no B. Hussein Obama.)
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Go over to Politico and you will see this first hand. The libs SCREAM that Corsi is a liar and yet, cannot come up with any evidence to support it. The strongest argument they give is that there is a link to the Media Matters website (Soros) which disputes some stuff from the Swiftboat book. Even Kerry has a PAC trying to “track” the “smears” from the latest Corsi offering. Politico specifically says the PAC is not set up to “rebutt” but to “track.” Hard to rebut the truth, wouldn’t you say? Corsi has hit a soft underbelly to Obama and the Dems are shaking in their boots!


18 posted on 08/13/2008 5:02:25 PM PDT by austinaero
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I, for one, hope this book gets nit-picked page by page and the sooner the better. Corsi does his homework. He is not about to subject himself to legal action. I hope this book stays in the national conversation for MONTHS! I think that John McCain owes Dr. Corsi a huge “thank-you.” Again, the Dems are so beside themselves that even their usual multiple personalities have multiple personalities! I love it. I told them so and well, they weren’t too appreciative. Such is life.


19 posted on 08/13/2008 5:05:26 PM PDT by austinaero
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To: Laissez-faire capitalist

When you can’t debate the merits of an argument then by necessity you attack the person.

Of course when that happens the attacker looses their argument/rebuttle.


20 posted on 08/13/2008 5:10:28 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("What Our Enemies Couldn't Do To Us Our Politicians Will")
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