IAP Political Forum

Election season is upon us, so that means harsh partisan politics will come into play........

Is EVERYTHING known about the media darling this election season?

You decide.
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You Don’t Know Barack Obama Until You Read This Book.

This new book — "The Case Against Barack Obama" is published by the same group that brought you "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" — the book that defeated John Kerry in 2004.

Already the liberal media has condemned "The Case Against Barack Obama" because it could change the outcome of the election.

Make no doubt about it, Barack Obama is the media's darling, the fresh face of the Democratic ticket. But what does Barack Obama really stand for — and will his extreme liberal agenda and complete inexperience in global affairs endanger the country?

That's what David Freddoso, investigative reporter and National Review Online columnist, examines in "The Case Against Barack Obama."

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 Obama’s friendship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright was no accident, but a carefully thought-out personal and political decision
    * The inside story of Obama's association with terrorist Bill Ayers wouldn’t matter — an exposé of the insular radical chic of Chicago's Hyde Park politics
    * The real story of Obama as a puppet of Mayor Daley's corrupt Chicago political machine
    * What Obama really did for convicted developer Tony Rezko
    * Debunking the myth of Obama’s "new" politics: how Obama won his first election by throwing all of his competitors off the ballot
    * The new 'Dirty Politics': how underhanded politics sabotaged Obama's opponents in his 2004 Senate race
    * 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 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.)
    * Why the National Abortion Rights Action League says Obama is the most pro-abortion candidate they have ever backed
    * How Obama has repeatedly steered taxpayer money to campaign donors
    * And much, much more.

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.

Find out why electing this man as our Commander-in-Chief could be the most dangerous decision in American history.

David Freddoso covers Capitol Hill for National Review Online, and was previously a political reporter for the Evans-Novak Political Report and Human Events. A graduate of Notre Dame and the Columbia School of Journalism, he lives in Washington, D.C.
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Partisan?

Sure.......

But so are all the attacks against J.Sydney McCain.

Where else will you hear information about B. Hussein Obama that may not confirm his "messiah" status?

The MSM?

Democrats?

Maybe there is more about this guy that is being actively kept from the mainstream.

You decide.

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I always hear this "messiah status" thing. Is it that one must elevate him that far before one can find something to bring him down to earth? I mean seriously:

lol. Yes. Removes the halo of a man less qualified than...God. Good work :) Oh and look out! He's "radical". That sort of wording compared to the last 8 years begs a definition of the word.


Oh c'mon. More dangerous than a retired actor or a failed businessman? Those guys did well enough to be called "Americas greatest president' over and over again. (Spartans did the same thing btw: whenever a King died they'd always claim he was their best yet). "Fair and thoroughly researched". I'll bet.

Sorry Patton...reacting to the article more than your post.

AHk

You know I didn't write that, right?

Yep. I was reacting to the article more than you.

No problem....just wanted to avoid a misunderstanding.

Swift boat veterans against Kerry was a shameless smear attack, and I view this no differently.


After the decidedly poor leadership of the Bush administration, perhaps radical change is desirable.

No one expected anything different.

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What would you prefer? A leader without self-confidence? 

What are you saying here?

Cmon......You really need it spelled out?

I'm about 3/4 through the audio book.

Fredoso's treatment is a bit one-sided, but he's very upfront about his bias from the beginning.

Ultimately, I don't think dwelling on the 'celebrity' (non)issue is going to swing people to McCain. Freddoso isn't making references to Paris and Britney, but he is dwelling on it. 

He repeatedly rejects the notion that Obama's patriotism should be brought into question. While I do feel that its good to know the background on a potential candidate, I get a strong sense that calling patriotism into question is exactly where Freddoso is attempting to lead the reader.

But hey, it's partisan politics, I expected no less.

Virtually anyone who comes out of Chicago with Daley's blessing has some corruption...Its how Chicago runs.  THis is the city that has thousands of dead voters every year.  The city who has had a more active organized crime presence than any other city in the US (even more than Miami and NY).

By organized crime, you mean the White Sox?

In the same vein, it's impossible to get into the senate without someone providing campaign funding, which means that to some extent anyone there is beholden to someone.

There is much truth to Fredoso's point that Obama isn't the 'new type of politician' that some seem to think he his. I feel that's one of his more compelling points, and it speaks more to some of Obama's supporters than to Obama himself. Obama himself, is IMO not as bad as many, but the idea that electing him will change the nature of politics, or that he himself is not a politician is absurd.

On the other hand, I wouldn't really consider those ideas to be serious political commentary in the first place (even though they may be passed off as such), which makes Fredoso's point something of a moot one.

I don't like him because he's all QQ and no pewpew^*. Also, he supports FISA and the PATRIOT^** act. Change you'll have no choice but to believe in!

_{* Trans: All talk, no action. Lit. "he cries too much and doesn't shoot enough".
** Allows US intelligence agencies to film enemy troops drilling and practicing, or something.}

That said, I like McCain even less.