‘The Obama Nation’

Below is an excerpt from the soon to be New York Times Bestseller called The Obama Nation which is written by the same man who attacked 2004 Presidential Candidate John Kerry with swift boat ads. Nonetheless it is mixed emotions on the book with some on the left saying it is yet another smear tactic while those on the right are praising the book for really investigating Obama. The truth of the matter is that the book reveals several mysterious factors about Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama that many in the news media and the public will not take the time to properly investigate. Regardless of the motives of the author, he does back many of his findings up with first and secondary sources. He not only gives an insight to a possible Obama administration in regards to Obama's policy makings in the State Senate in Illinois but he also gives insight into Obama's vision of Change and Hope based off of Massachusetts Governor Duvel Patrick campaign and administrative policies as Governor of Massachusetts. You judge for yourself but for me, this is a must read book that is enticing and intriguing. It's not just a smear book but it is a reality check, just like the Youtube video below:

Preface

Who I Am and Why I Wrote This Book

In 2004, I coauthored Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, with Swift Boat veteran John O’Neill, a highly successful attorney in Houston, Texas, and a longtime friend I first met more than forty years ago, in college. In the 1960s, John O’Neill attended the U.S. Naval Academy while I was attending Case Western Reserve University and we competed in intercollegiate debate.

Unfit for Command was a critical analysis of John Kerry’s military service during the Vietnam War and his radical antiwar protest activities as a lead spokesperson for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War when he returned from Vietnam. Any implication that this book is a “Swift Boat” book is not accurate in that John O’Neill and the other members of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have had nothing to do with this book, its analysis and arguments, or my opposition to Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.

My intent in writing this book, as was the case in coauthoring Unfit for Command, is to fully document all arguments and contentions I make, extensively footnoting all references, so readers can determine for themselves the truth and validity of the factual claims. My fundamental opposition to Obama’s presidential candidacy involves public policy differences. While Obama’s three complete years in the Senate have given him remarkably little time on the national political stage, we still have enough information from his slim Senate record, as well as his years in the Illinois state legislature, to see a pattern of voting on the far left on a wide range of
policy issues, including abortion, taxes, illegal immigration, international
trade, and national security.

In this book, I intend to argue that an Obama presidency would lead us into an “Obama Nation.” The play on words is fully intended, because Obama’s radical leftist politics, driven by the cult of personality he has intentionally manufactured, would be an abomination in that the result of those policies would be to lead the United States in a costly and self-destructive direction, both at home and abroad. After an Obama presidency, we would be a militarily weakened and economically diminished nation. Instead of being more united, our internal conflicts could well become more sharpened and more abrasive from four years of Obama leadership.

Obama has so doggedly positioned himself on the extreme left that it is doubtful he can credibly move to the political center without alienating his Democratic Party supporters on that extreme left as well as his youthful base. This, in many ways, was the liability Senator George McGovern faced in running against President Richard Nixon in 1972. After McGovern won the nomination on a radical antiwar platform, Nixon was able to show the vast majority of center-right voters that McGovern’s policies spelled defeat in Vietnam, even though Nixon himself withdrew from the war less than two years later.

In the race against Barack Obama in the general election, the Republican Party will have a decided advantage because of the prolonged, acrimonious primary campaign Obama and Hillary Clinton waged against each other in 2008. The Republican Party now has hours of video ready to be played back to American voters in campaign advertisements, repeating Clinton’s and Obama’s abrasive comments about the other.

Obama first drew my attention in 2004, when he stepped onto the national political stage by addressing the Democratic National Convention that nominated Kerry for the presidency. My preliminary decision to write this book was made in 2005, immediately after Obama was sworn in to the U.S. Senate. Since he was a child, Obama has been making statements that he intended to be president, and in 2005 I suspected he would attempt to use the U.S. Senate as a stepping-stone for the presidency.

So I began researching Obama and following him in the Senate; I’d frequently sit in the Senate gallery to observe him on the Senate floor, and watched him on C-SPAN as he debated and voted on legislation. I finalized the decision to write this book in March 2008, as Hillary Clinton continued her presidential campaign despite delegate numbers that made it likely Obama would win the 2008 presidential nomination in the Democratic Party. I calculated that publishing the book before the Democratic National Convention would likely have an impact, even if Hillary beat the odds and ultimately won the nomination. Yet, I did not write the book to promote Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, nor did I publish it before the national nominating convention in the Democratic Party to assist her in getting the nomination on the convention floor. If Hillary Clinton were the nominee, I would oppose her too.

References:

OBAMA: WHEN BOOKS ATTACK AND MISLEAD http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/08/13/1263120.aspx

Book on Obama Hopes to Repeat Anti-Kerry Feat http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/us/politics/13book.html?bl&ex=1218772800&en=bf042c4d96f94d9e&ei=5087%0A


Kerry launches stie to fight Obama rumors http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/13/kerry-launches-site-to-fight-obama-rumors/


Kerry: Let's Push Back Against The "Smear Machine" http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/08/13/politics/horserace/entry4347853.shtml


Anti-Obama tome surges to top of bestseller lists http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ilVlKIMPNV4F0LiDSYae33UHYRFw