Posted on 08/15/2008 10:47:58 AM PDT by pissant
Senator Barack Obama has launched a full broadside against a best-selling book that attacks him as a Muslim-educated radical Leftist filled with "black rage".
In a 41-page document entitled "Unfit for Publication", the Obama campaign rebuts Jerome Corsi's Obama Nation (a play on "abomination") almost point by point. Its faux book cover carries quotations from Time magazine branding the book, which has shot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list, as "trash" and "poisonous crap".
The title of the Obama rebuttal is an allusion to Unfit for Command, the book co-written by Corsi that damaged the 2004 Democratic nominee and Vietnam veteran John Kerry by portraying him as a liar and a coward.
Branding Corsi as a "bigoted fringe author" who is peddling "rehashed lies", the Obama campaign lists the numerous factual inaccuracies in the book.
"His is just one of what will likely be many more lie-filled books rushed to print this election cycle, which are cobbled together from debunked Internet sources to make money and advance a partisan agenda," said Tommy Vietor, a campaign spokesman. "We will respond to these smears forcefully with all means at our disposal."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
OMG!! I’m so sorry! I’ve been referring to it as a 40 page book review! (Hanging head)
Barack is an empty suit who hasn’t got the brains to get in out of the rain unless his staff tells him to.
I also believe he is only one good enema away from having the green eyes he was born with too.
This is the best summation I've seen of Obambi yet!
“This clown will probably respond to every editorial cartoon and column written about him if he becomes president.
No, he will try to destroy them.....
obama takes everything personal....few would have known about the New Yorker cover if he hadn’t made an issue of it....
A president of the US cannot survive with such a ‘thin skin’
This is going to back fire on them, because the points Corsi raises are factual, not fiction. I welcome the debate and the opportunity for Obama to explain to us people like Saul Alinsky, Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, Rev Wright, Tony Rezko etc.
ALso to explain outright lies about his past e.g. Selma March and JFK being a strong part of his life when they were not.
This guy is toast... He’s the worst candidate that has ever run for office, eclipsing Dukakis and Kerry.
I have it and am not quite one hundred pages in. So far it is a comparison between items in the public record versus what Obama has written about himself in his autobiographies and said about himself in past interviews. There is some conjecture and innuendo but mostly it is public record versus public record with evidence that Obama has been playing fast and loose with the facts for a long time. He notes where what Obama says can’t be confirmed and it seems to me that he (Corsi) mostly gives Obama and others the benefit of the doubt on those items—i.e., faulty memory, changed landscape, etc. It is not, to this point, a screed against Obama so much as laying the groundwork for serious questions about Obama’s past and future proclivities.
Keep talking about it, Baraq. Keep talking about it.
Am reading the book; it is 'low key' compared to the Obamascreamers.
He ignored it before he didn't ignore it.
Buy the CD audio with the author reading it. You’ll enjoy it and make the ride to work enjoyable.
You will be shocked at what you hear...
“trash” and “poisonous crap”
No Obama, that’s how you should have referred to Wright, Pfleger, Ayers, Michelle, etc.
The only way Hussein could sell more of the books than by his denials would be to offer to autograph every book sold!
The “trash” and “poisonous crap” remarks aren’t from the Obama campaign, but rather from Joe Klein of Time.
Outselling Nance's book by 1000-1.
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