The Obama Overreach: Refuting A Few of Corsi’s Smears By Re-Writing History

I saw the preface ("Why I Wrote This Book") to Corsi's book on the web. Editing out the words in the middle this is how it reads.

...abortion...extreme left...extreme left...Obama and Hillary Clinton...Clinton’s and Obama’s...African-American...racial discrimination...racial relations...ending welfare...teenage pregnancies...racial politics...Detroit race riots...A Time To Burn?...race riots...a riot flared in Glenville...burning and looting...race riots...Black Militants...racial violence...student protests...antiwar movement...civil rights and protest literature...Black Muslims...African-American radicals...burning and looting...race riots...Vietnam Veterans Against the War...race riots...student demonstrations...antiwar protests...convicted felons...bank robbers...rapists...terrorists...terrorism and Islamic extremism...Atomic Iran...Nuclear Iran...radical terrorists...war with Iran...Obama’s extensive connections with Islam and with radical racial politics...extremists...Malcolm X and Louis Farrakhan...radical socialist...Obama’s home tribe...radical community organizing...socialist redistribution of wealth...Radical Islamic terrorist...African-American poverty...teenage pregnancies and abortions...welfare-state programs...far-leftist...extremist politics...his middle name, which happens to be Hussein...

Separately, which party will do a better job of cleaning up the mess after GWB leaves office? Rs or Ds?
Sounds like a campaign theme to me.

This is so dumb. "Sure, the book is 99% lies, but to be fair, these four thigs are true." Are you kidding me?

"Certainly it’s not “baseless” to question why Obama was using Patrick’s words as his own without crediting him, as we wondered about HERE. "

So Corsi's attack is valid because this isn't the *first* time you've launched and absurd and dishonest attack on
Obama? Regardless of what you
"wondered", the charge of plagiarism was *baseless*, and such wondering was clueless or flat-out dishonest.

And so it goes. After all, the Republicans determined that their best chance to win is to make this a referendum on Obama, and the corporate media happily obliges, whether it's these bogus criticisms of his response to a vicious attack from the Republican noise machine or painting him as "exotic" for vacationing with his sister and grandmother.

I am a fan of Tapper, and I have been finding his column a must read..

Thank You.

"Much of Corsi's truths"

One of those words does not belong in that sentence, Rand Bowerman.

Either jettison 'truth' or 'Corsi', because there is no plane of existence on which those two words can appear together.

The Obama campaign "label" on the front of the response does not suggest that the book is courtesy of President Bush or Vice President Cheney. It claims it is courtesy of the Bush/Cheney attack machine. Matalin was clearly part of the group that did the administration's bidding, much like any campaign surrogate would do.

Why do you not draw this distinction?

Rand Bowerman thinks Corsi's smear job on Obama is about 75% true because of another work of fiction Corsi published on Kerry? I wonder what sort of fellow veteran of Kerry Bowerman is to accept the words of a draft dodger like Corsi over the words of a decorated veteran like Kerry. While Bowerman claims to have been "Army Intelligence" that night Kerry was out - assuming Bowerman knew then actually that Kerry was out that night, Kerry's own team - every one of them has vouched for Kerry over and over again. This shows how low political affiliations can drag one down as in the case of Bowerman. Simply because Bowerman has bought, unseeingly, into the republican litany of lies, he has no compunctions about smearing a veteran like Kerry and his entire team. This is chicanery at its worst. It is the likes of Bowerman who have kept quiet as a fraud like Ann Coulter has trashed the reputation of Max Cleland - a peerless man of honour. And in 2006 when Tammy Duckworth - an decorated veteran and amputee from Iraq - was in the running for the Congress against Pete Roskam, her opponent lacking a sense of irony accused her of wanting to cut and run. To heap insult on injury the VFW endorsed a country club conservative (and a one time flack of Tom DeLay) over a fellow veteran. Kerry had the courage to to bring to light atrocities that were perpetrated by rougue soldiers. Bowerman may be in denial or sold over to the republican smear machine. but this is no excuse for tolerating falsehood. Above everything else the fact that an alleged veteran like Bowerman chooses to follow the dictates of a frat-boy like Bush who used his dad's connections to put in paper servie in the ANG over a man of honour who answered the call of duty regardless of his personal opinion, shows that for Bowerman and the many who joined that chorus of lies in 2004, their uniform is just another suit in the closet.

Kerry came within a few 1000 votes of winning in 2004 and is today cruising to victory in his re-election bid in Massachusets. Bowerman's fellow deceiver in arms and fancy suit wearer John O'Neill boasted in 2004 that he was going to take up residence in Masachusets and defeat Kerry for the Senate in 2008. Looks like there are words and then empty words! Republicans will balance the budget and speak the truth before they can ever defeat a Senator of sterling credentials like Kerry - ever. After all what would Bowerman's Red State rabble be worth without the scientific and cultural resources of the East Coast and West Coast that power the US economy?

How amusing that Obama should be smeared as a "far-left" candidate! This is exactly what racists liked to say those days about Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Even today racist bigots accuse Dr.King of communist sympathies! For the likes of Bowerman calling Obama names is a thin veneer for their own prejudices.

Because of 352 superdelegates and Al Gore Obama came threw the primaries and was decleared the presumptive nominee of the Dems party. He is no longer someone you may critizise, stories like this does not stick. Obama is untouchable, no matter how true. How sad for the Dems their party leadership sucks, having been unable to pick a winner for more than 20 years. I blame Kennedy, but the hatchetmen was Pelosi, Reed, Kerry, Clayburn and unfortunately a man I like and who himself felt their lack of political savy in the 2004 primaries, Howard Dean.

Dems only presidential winner came from Arkansa and he won despite these fat, rich and old white men. Bill Clinton got away with it because he won a year Dems were not suppose to win, and they hated Clinton for it. Now they will ram Obama down our throat at the convention, leaving the grasroot alone to correct their mistake with a hopeless shortage of 800 superdelegate votes.

Don't knee-jerk kill the messenger. Corsi's book would be much stronger if he focussed on the (my opinion) 70% that is true and 86'd the garbage. Much of Corsi's truths would not have been a shock upon publication if the MSM had been doing its due diligence on Obama and his backround.

Corsi's book on Kerry in 2004 was mostly a compilation of data from those officers and sailors who served with "JFK" in Vietnam. Some of it was sour grapes, to be sure, but a lot of it was true. Examples: Kerry was allowed to leave Vietnam before the completion of his combat tour by virtue of earning three (3) Purple Hearts (PH).
His first PH was during training up country and has been refuted by his Commanding Officer and the Medical Doctor present. If this PH is bogus, then he should not have left Vietnam early. Second, his declaration that he and his boat were in Cambodia on Christmas Eve 1968 (to discredit U.S. involvement in Cambodia) was a lie. I personnally know this because I was on duty in the Mekong Delta that night for Army intelligence. We had real-time locations of all U.S./allied personnel and boats in case we had to call in artillery or air strikes based on our intelligence. Kerry and his boat were never closer than 10km from Cambodia that night.
Finally, Kerry forfeited all credibility with fellow Vietnam vets when he tried to pass off bogus atrocity claims in testimony to the Senate. The testimony from "vets" of the Winter Soldier cause have been mostly debunked. Kerry, painting us all with a dirty, broad brush, caused great harm to his fellow vets. But id did establish his bona fides to the far-left for his losing race for Congress in 1972.

Jake, how about pointng out some of the lies in Corsi's book? I've been to Amazon and read all the negative one star reviews, but strangely, few, if any, of those posting negative reviews cite any lies they found. (Do you suppose they didn't read the book?)

I can't believe some of the comments I'm reading on this blog. It shows the reason why the U.S. is in the current mess we are in since so many people are showing no sign of intelligence. If you bothered to find out the truth, you would see that Coris is a lair who has stated that John McCain is being funded by groups tied to Al Qaeda. No wonder the U.S. is crumbling around us since way too many people aren't using their God given brains to actually think. One can only wonder where this country will be in 4 years if John McCain actually wins.

JDP:
"Why hasn't the mainstream dug into Obama's background?"

Most people in America would like to know the answer to that.

Sleepless in Seattle:
"Just on issues and brass tacks positions alone - Obama should be rejected. When you combine that with his dubious associations - he should be passed on out of hand."

Judging from the interview's tonight on TV with McCain and Obama, he will be. McCain showed better judgement and intelligence 10 to 1.

I have not yet read Mr. Corsi's book so I have no opinion about the book, itself.

But to be fair, I don't need his book to know that I can never support Obama. Despite the MSM's fawning over Obama or maybe because the MSM has been so negligent in vetting Obama, I no longer watch or pay attention to that which "passes for political coverage" on television. I read articles on-line and of course have to be careful there too but I have at my fingertips many sources rather than a "few".

I do want to read Mr. Corsi's book, not because I need more information to not support Obama, but because I want to be able to have an "informed opinion" about the book itself.

Thanks Jake for your article and your opinion.

Regarding Justice Clarence Thomas, Barak Obama stated, "I don't think he was a strong enough jurist or a legal thinker at the time for that. I profoundly disagree with his interpretation [of the Constitution]." Is this statement not the height of irony?

The one thing that stands out above all the rest is , I have noticed that anytime we have an article like this maybe not showing Obama in a great white light the left starts the name calling and stuff that belongs in a road house somewhere in Texas .

Sorry, the quote I pulled below was from Elon, not Bob44.

"Jerome Corsi writes a scandalous and untrue book about Senator Obama. Obama defends himself by issuing a statement which demonstrates that Corsi's book is false. Jake Tapper then attacks Obama for defending himself. Ridiculous."
Bob44
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What's ridiculous is that you appear to accept the premise that everything in Corsi's book is 'untrue' and that everything Obama says is 'demonstrated' - which Tapper plainly shows is not the case.

The truth surely is found somewhere between those extremes. But good luck with your blind faith in The One.

Senator Obama has burst on the scene and now his bubble is bursting. What matters is not if Corsi is 100% truth and light, but Mr. Obama's own record, or lack thereof. Mr. Obama is asking for our vote, not Corsi. As others have said, even if 75 or 85% only is true in Corsi's book, it tells us way more than the MSM outlets have been carping - that Obama is The One.

Just on issues and brass tacks positions alone - Obama should be rejected. When you combine that with his dubious associations - he should be passed on out of hand.

All the best to a more moderate African American candidate to win the US Presidency in the future.

McCain '08!

Corsi writes a book filled with lies. Publishers smell both money and a way to undermine the democratic candidate that sides with the people. Book is published. Journalists refuse to refute the book seeing both ratings and scared of republican attack machine. In fact journalist, smelling money rush to promote Corsi. Obama's left having to defend himself against lies. He's then attacked for defending himself. Loser is the american people as our democratic discourse gets trampled.

Journalists need to stop publishing lies and need to stop give airtime to people peddling lies.