Book Bashing Obama

@worldwise1 (14885)
United States
August 14, 2008 9:38pm CST
I read with interest on Yahoo News the article stating that the Obama camp has condemned the book by Jerome Corsi, Obama Nation. Is Corsi merely a muckraker who is out to simply cast aspersion upon the name of any left-wing seeker of the office of President of the United States? Perhaps this just might be the case when you consider how he played a huge part in bringing down John Kerry through all of the swift boat mess. Corsi is a frequent guest on a couple of radio talk shows that I listen to regularly, and he never has anything good to say about anyone in the Democratic Party. Are you familiar with Jerome Corsi? What is your opinion of him?
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• United States
15 Aug 08
He is absolute trash. The first swift boat stuff that he wrote about has been exposed as lies by every major news organization. Don't listen to him.
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@piasabird (1737)
• United States
15 Aug 08
Wow, the liberal media exposed him! Ooh .....
• United States
15 Aug 08
Dan, So you say that 250 veterans are all liars and Kerry is telling the truth? Then why would he not release the documents that supposedly would have proven what he said. Is it because he expects us to believe him just because he said it? The people that fit that template are called LIBERALS. The MSM will "disprove" Anything that doesn't fit their model of "truth". Yet they refuse to objectively investigate these stories themselves. Just think, If they were telling the unbiased, Unvarnished WHOLE Truth And nothing but, then The likes of Rush and Hannity wouldn't have such HUGE audiences. They hate RUSH because he tells us tells the truth that the MSM doesn't want you to know. You can stay in your ignorance if you want, I just wish you would stay home on election day.
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• United States
15 Aug 08
This page contains the tip of the iceberg of the nonsense in Corsi's book, and it contains a link to a .pdf containing FORTY PAGES of debunking. http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/corsi
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@ClarusVisum (2163)
• United States
15 Aug 08
He's a lying scumbag. Dozens upon dozens of lies were found in the book, which is nothing more than a desperately-thrown-together hit job on Obama. http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/08/14/larry-king-media-matters-confronts-and-destroys-obama-smearer-jerome-corsi/
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@piasabird (1737)
• United States
15 Aug 08
"one of his sources is a widely discredited anti-semitic right-wing blogger." OK, your link is kind of funny since it's a left wing blogger complaining that Corsi used a quip by another blogger and gave him credit for it. Seems like a little bit of irony in there.
@piasabird (1737)
• United States
15 Aug 08
Hmm, and I wasn't even sure they were ever legally married at all. I thought he hadn't even divorced his first wife. I'll have to go check out this web site and see what is being said. I'm wondering if they cover the rumor that Obama's birth certificate might be a forgery. I'm also wondering how much of an influence his wacky Marxist mother had on him. Maybe not much since he wasn't even at her deathbed when she passed away from cancer. I think he was too busy that day.
• United States
15 Aug 08
I didn't research the 'nature of the blogger', but the point is that the blog post doesn't have any citations or source, and he quotes it as if it's a reliable source. If that's his level of quality control, then it's truly meaningless to have X number of footnotes: "Corsi baselessly suggests that Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., may have divorced his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, "following the prescripts of Islamic sharia law." Corsi's sole source for this statement is a blogger who made the claim in a March 20 post, which featured the false headline, "BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WAS MUSLIM FOR 31 YEARS" and misstated Obama's mother's name as "Shirley Ann." The blogger Corsi cited, "Majalah Bulanan Kumunitas Indonesia Di Edmonton," provided no substantiation for the claim that "the senior Obama divorced Dunham according to Sharia law."" --http://mediamatters.org/items/200808040005 (links to the post in question and other relevant links are on the page itself) Corsi can't even get the year Obama got married right (he says 1995, it was in 1992), and there is a whole slew of other nonsense debunked on the fight the smears website: http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/corsi
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@piasabird (1737)
• United States
15 Aug 08
I'm not familiar with him but I can't think of anything good about the Democratic party either. As far as John Kerry, I'm glad someone exposed him. Just looked him up on Wikipedia and he wrote a book that heavily criticized President Bush on border issues. So I guess he doesn't only bash Dems.
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@piasabird (1737)
• United States
15 Aug 08
So you can't name anything good about the Democrats either. You can only run down the other party! 1. Clinton was lucky enough to get his butt out of office before the bubble burst. Bush also had to rebound after 9-11. Plus we are in a war against terror which costs money to wage. 2. Hopefully we'll soon be withdrawing troops from Iraq and sending them to Afghanistan. The surge has worked in Iraq and the Iraqi military will be taking over more and more of the responsibilities of keeping their country secure. 3. I might remind you that there were an awful lot of Democrats who voted for the Iraqi resolution, Kerry and Edwards being just two amongst many others. How selective their memory has become now. We had faulty information and many thought that there were WMDs there. Hindsight is great now, isn't it? Under the Democrats we would have just continued letting them strike against us and done nothing. They hit the Cole, and there were several other bombings leading up to 9-11. Clinton had done nothing. 4. Who did we lose as friends and allies abroad? And let me tell you, if a disaster happens in one of those countries don't tell me that they'd turn down humanitarian relief from us. No, they'll be there with their hands out like always. Oh wait, there's the French. Those ungrateful surrender monkeys whom we saved from Hitler. I don't know if China is going to try anything since we buy so much of their junk at Walmart. 5. Abu-Graib was a disaster for us. I'll give you that one, but I don't know how you can blame that all on Bush and the Republicans. That could have happened with anyone in charge. 6. Geesh, I hear the libs complaining about that all the time. I personally haven't lost any rights. We live in a different and dangerous time and things have changed drastically from when the founding fathers wrote the constitution. Whatever they're doing we haven't had another attack on US soil. So something must ne working and keeping us safe. 7. And how is that Bush's fault or the Republicans for that matter? We are too dependent on foreign oil and the tree hugging Democrats like Pelosi won't let us drill for oil on our land. She has stated that she is "trying to save the earth"! What a loon! That rich lib isn't worried about the little people and their struggle to exist because she's got hers and screw everyone else. As far as housing, people bought houses that they knew they couldn't afford. Hello. I have an FHA house and I could have gotten a house much more expensive than the one I bought. But I knew I couldn't afford it on my salary so I didn't. Hey, do these people need to assume any personal responsibility for their actions? Plus the people selling these houses were getting rich. Unemployment is, I think, linked to the rising energy costs. Companies have to cut back and do so by letting workers go. If you think it's bad now, just wait for a Democrat to get in there and start raising taxes on companies. More and more of them are going to run to other countries to escape higher taxes and expenses from the Dems. I doubt they'll be able to change corporate greed and the CEOs will still be paid exorbitant amounts of money. Oh and Clinton did no harm? He didn't embarrass this country with his sexcapades while in office? He didn't look directly into the faces of the American people and lie about his affair? He didn't get impeached? Oh and didn't he sign NAFTA? NAFTA has cost us lots of jobs as far as I'm concerned. Didn't he have a chance to get Bin Laden and didn't do it? I just love it when the Dems do revisionist history.
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• United States
15 Aug 08
Nice job piasabird. These libs are blind to anything that doesn't fit their Paradigm. They will ignore that fact that Bob Geldoff of all people, Has said that Bush has done more to help AFRICA than any other Prez in history. ( what was Clinton's contribution to Africa? Oh That's right, the slaughter of The Hutus by the Tutsi's. Bush has allotted Federal funds for Stem Cell Research (which the Libs call a "Ban") and Hydrogen research. Clinton, On the other hand, Vetoed a ban on Partial Birth Barbarianism, THREE TIMES, despite record setting outcries from "WE The Peeps" in favor of the ban. He also gave China "PERMANENT Most favored Nation" trade status. Making the influx of junk into Walmart and other American stores. It's amazing that there are any jobs left to be had in this country. And let's not forget his trading American secrets to China for Campaign funding. When one of our planes landed in China In 2001 and the Chinese held it for several weeks, We can't really blame them, they thought it was a gift from the Clinton Camp!!!! NO HARM INDEED
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