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| '''The Case Against Barack Obama''' is a book examining the life and opinions of United States presidential candidate and Senator ] by David Freddoso, a political reporter for the website of the conservative magazine '']''. The subtitle of the book, published by ], is "The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate". | '''The Case Against Barack Obama''' is a non-fiction book examining the life and opinions of United States presidential candidate and Senator ] by David Freddoso, a political reporter for the website of the conservative magazine '']''. The subtitle of the book, published by ], is "The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate". | ||
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| Author | David Freddoso |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Biographical / Current affairs |
| Publisher | Regnery Publishing |
| Publication date | August 4, 2008 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 298 |
| ISBN | ISBN 978-1596985667 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character |
The Case Against Barack Obama is a non-fiction book examining the life and opinions of United States presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama by David Freddoso, a political reporter for the website of the conservative magazine National Review. The subtitle of the book, published by Regnery Publishing, is "The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate".
The book harshly criticizes Obama over policy matters, according to Ben Smith, a writer at The Politico. For the most part, the book is drawn from previously published sources, although Freddoso does do some original reporting.
The first press run of the book totaled nearly 300,000 copies. Publicity for the book is handled by the conservative public relations firm Creative Response Concepts, headed by former Republican political official Greg Mueller. Creative Response Concepts also organized publicity for Unfit for Command by John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi, and for the 527 group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth during the 2004 United States presidential election.
Freddoso, 31, took a leave from his job with National Review Online to write the book. The author previously was a writer for Human Events and a political reporter for Robert Novak's Evans-Novak Political Report.
The book was released within weeks of two other books critical of Obama written by conservative writers: Jerome Corsi’s The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, and Dick Morris’ Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us … and What to Do About It.
Content
Obama's political positions are reviewed in the book. "If you’re a liberal, reading the following might make you support Obama even more," Freddoso states at one point in the book. "But if you’re honest, I think you’ll agree he’s no centrist."
The book also discusses Obama's alleged "radical associations" with controversial people such as Bill Ayers, a former Weatherman organization leader, and Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Part of the book focuses on Obama's having made accommodations with the political machine headed by Chicago's mayor, Richard M. Daley, despite Obama's start in politics as a reformist candidate appealing to anti- machine voters in the Hyde Park neighborhood of the city.
Critical response
Barack Obama presidential campaign
A spokesman for Barack Obama's presidential campaign said the book, along with Jerome Corsi's biography, distorts the story of the candidate's life and his record. "These books are cut from the same cloth, made up of the same old debunked smears that have been floating around the Internet for months," said spokesman Tommy Vietor.
Other responses
Ben Smith, a writer at The Politico, called the book the "first serious negative biography of Senator Barack Obama". The book's official release date was August 4, 2008. According to Smith, the book "occupies a small island in the often-shrill sea of criticism of Obama Freddoso opts largely for a fact-based critique, and writes that the viral and overt smears have allowed Obama to evade substantive criticism." Smith wrote that the book "rehashes familiar complaints, though in more detail — and often with more nuance, if not much sympathy — than you’re likely to see in the conservative media."
Alleged inaccuracies
According to an Associated Press report, Freddoso's book "sometimes includes inaccurate or incomplete information." The report states that "Freddoso accuses Obama of voting to raise taxes on anyone with taxable income of more than $32,500. The independent watchdog group Factcheck.org notes that provision was part of a nonbinding budget resolution that had no actual impact on tax levels, and that Obama's tax proposals do not include any such increase."
See also
Notes
- ^ Smith, Ben, "New book: Obama a lefty, not a reformer", The Politico, August 4, 2008, retrieved August 15, 2008
- "Anti-Obama Books Are Best-Sellers: Three Releases Criticizing Obama In Amazon Top 20 Despite Little Media Coverage", Associated Press article, as published on the CBS News website, August 5, 2008, retrieved August 5, 2008
- ^ Martin, Jonathan, "First Obama attack book in the works", news article (Martin also has a blog), The Politico, June 23, 2008, retrieved August 15, 2008
- ^ Wills, Christopher, "Two books, two styles, one target: Obama", Associated Press article, as published on The Washington Times website, August 15, 2008, retrieved same day
External link
- Official web page at Regnery Publishing Co.