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Book on Obama Hopes to Repeat Anti-Kerry Feat
Wednesday 13 August 2008

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by: Jim Rutenberg and Julie Bosman, The New York Times


A new book by Jerome Corsi - co-author of the Swift Boat Veterans book that plagued John Kerry's 2004 campaign - is now targeting Obama with a variety of accusations that many claim are misleading or untrue.
In the summer of 2004 the conservative gadfly Jerome R. Corsi shot to the top of the best-seller lists as co-author of "Unfit for Command," the book attacking Senator John Kerry's record on a Vietnam War swiftboat that began the larger damaging campaign against Mr. Kerry's war credentials as he sought the presidency.

Almost exactly four years after that campaign began, Mr. Corsi has released a new attack book painting Senator Barack Obama, the Democrats' presumed presidential nominee, as a stealth radical liberal who has tried to cover up "extensive connections to Islam" - Mr. Obama is Christian - and questioning whether his admitted experimentation with drugs in high school and college ever ceased.

Significant parts of the book, whose subtitle is "Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," have already been challenged as misleading or false in the days since its debut on Aug. 1. Nonetheless, it is to make its first appearance on The New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction hardcovers this Sunday - at No. 1.

The book is being pushed along by a large volume of bulk sales, intense voter interest in Mr. Obama and a broad marketing campaign that has already included 100 author interviews with talk radio hosts across the country, like Sean Hannity and G. Gordon Liddy, Mr. Corsi said on Tuesday.

The publisher is Threshold Editions, a division of Simon & Schuster whose chief editor is Mary Matalin, the former Republican operative turned publisher-pundit. And it is a significant, early success for Ms. Matalin's three-year-old imprint, which is also planning to publish the memoirs of Karl Rove, President Bush's longtime political guru. Threshold says it has undertaken an extensive printing effort for anticipated demand, with 475,000 copies of "The Obama Nation" produced so far.

"The goal is to defeat Obama," Mr. Corsi said in a telephone interview. "I don't want Obama to be in office."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/us/politics/13book.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

And sadly the hatefilled people of this country will make this their bible.

They ought to put books like this out on all the Republicrats, only the focus of the books should be about how they are bought and paid for by corporations. Maybe then, we'll have a great president, an Independent!

The problem is that only about half of the eligible voters vote and people "buy into" the garbage we are fed.

Lower taxes means less taxes for the corporations but people don't realize this.

Being patriotic does not mean you have to stick your head up the butt of the head guy and ride with him into hell. But people don't realize this.

It goes on and on.

I am going to vote for Obama because out of the two offered, he will be best for this country.

But I agree with you that we do not get offered very good choices because of the "corporate" hold on our government but only the people of this country can change this. As long as they believe that their vote does not count and they do not have a responsibility to help change the government we are stuck with who we get.