Shuster Freaked Out by 'Dishonest' Swift Boaters Attacking Obama

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On Wednesday's "Hardball," substitute host David Shuster previewed a new book targeting Barack Obama by issuing the following warning to viewers at the top of the show:

DAVID SHUSTER: It was right around this time four years ago that the dishonest and highly effective Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry began. Now the man who started it all, with a book about Kerry, has one out attacking Obama. Can the Swift Boaters repeat their success, or does Obama know how to fight back?

In an ensuing segment with Republican consultant Mike Paul and Democratic consultant Rich Masters about the new book, The Obama Nation, Shuster derided the author, and by extension, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and demanded that John McCain condemn the anti-Obama book. The following are the relevant excerpts from the August 13, "Hardball,":

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SHUSTER: Welcome back to "Hardball." The man responsible for launching the dishonest Swift Boat attacks against John Kerry four years ago, Jerome Corsi, is now taking aim at Obama in a new book called The Obama Nation. Corsi told The New York Times, "The goal is to defeat Obama. I don't want Obama in office." And he says he's planning to aid conservative groups that will run ads against the Democratic nominee in the fall. Will Corsi's book be the Swift Boating of Obama? How should Obama fight back? And why hasn't John McCain condemned this book? Rich Masters is a Democratic consultant and joins us in Washington, and Mike Paul is a Republican consultant and former adviser to Rudy Giuliani and joins us in New York. Hey, Mike-

MIKE PAUL, REPUBLICAN CONSULTANT: Yes?

SHUSTER: Do you condemn, do you condemn this book, and should John McCain?

PAUL: I don't condemn, condemn the book. One of the things that it's important to have in this country is a number of different voices, and this is certainly a voice. I do think, though, if there are some areas here within the book that are inaccurate, and quite frankly, just all-out lies, then they should be condemned. But if there's one thing within this book that is true, it could be very damaging to this campaign overall and the campaign I'm talking about is Obama.

SHUSTER: Well, Mike, if I wrote a book about you and there were 99 percent of the things in that book were absolutely false, but I got one thing right, say your birthday, would that be fine?

...

SHUSTER: Hey, Mike, were you out there condemning John McCain four years ago when John McCain had the audacity to condemn the Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry? John McCain was wrong in your book, then, right?

...

SHUSTER: But Charlie Back said that the McCain campaign would make a different choice. Here's what Charlie Black said a month ago. He said, quote, "We don't want to talk about his patriotism and character," referring to Barack Obama. "We concede that he's a patriot and a person of good character." That flies in the face of this book.

 

—Geoffrey Dickens is the senior news analyst at the Media Research Center.


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"And the Shuster man cried, but there was no one to hear him".

"And the Shuster man cried, but there was no one to hear him".

The answer to terrorism IS war. Next Please!

What is Dishonest?

The Mediacrats keep saying that Corsi's books about Kerry and now Obama are dishonest. Maybe the MSM should elaborate on that since to date no one has proven that anything Corsi has said was dishonest.  

Truth hurts.

Dishonest Books

"since to date no one has proven that anything Corsi has said was dishonest" 

That depends on where you get your news.

Just an Indy-Thinker

Hi IT... No matter where

Hi IT...

No matter where you get your news...they still haven't disproved anything, nor will they be able to.

The talking heads can say...some people say, this expert says til the cows come home....but not prove a thing, just infer with the obvious propagana/agenda.

The people that will believe their obvious tripe, are the ones who want to in the first place. 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Nah -- you seem more like

Nah -- you seem more like just a Windy-thinker, actually.

And I bet I know where you get your what passes for "news."

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

Jack, are you suggesting IT here is an airhead?

LMAO!

-Dave.

IT, Suppose you enlighten all of us ignorant types and kindly

Suppose you enlighten all of us ignorant types and kindly tell us exactly which portion(s) of the Swift Boat assertions pertaining to the Poodle's "service" in Viet Nam were untrue.

Believe me, this topic has been discussed ad-nauseum on the pages of this blog, and no one has ever been able to come up with even one.

Hey, this is your big chance to make history by doing something that, to date, no one else has been able to.

-Dave.

For your edification...

Truth hurts? Why don't you see just how much by perusing this lengthy list of errors in Corsi's latest book:

http://mediamatters....

I know, I know. You have no respect for Media Matters. But good fact checking is good fact checking, no matter who does it. Speaking as a former editor, I'd resign in protest if I discovered that an employer had published something as truth-challenged as Corsi's latest offering.

Blah

Many of those things don't "disprove" what's said in the book. For example, the only defense given to Obama's non-support for the bill that would extend the right to life to fetus's who are already born was that "well, Obama abstained with 12 other senators, even though over 60 voted for it" when Corsi claims Obama was the only one to abstain. So was what Corsi said technically inaccurate? Sure. Does his point still stand? Obviously.

 Another quick example right after was on the raising of Capital Gains Tax. Instead of arguing that Obama and Democrats don't plan on raising taxes, they simply play it off by saying "some sources say that lowering the Tax will reduce revenue over 10 years", totally ignoring long term impact, and totally missing the point of the statement.

 The point of the book was to display Obama as an ultra-left winger who will do whatever he needs to do to rise politically, and to showcase the fact that his campaign is based on a cult of personality, and nothing more. He accomplishes this goal. Nitpicking sentances (considering the book was obviously rushed to print before the election) while not bothering to challenge the themes that the evidence presents and Media Matters doesn't even say is necessarly false just proves this.

We are all better then

We are all better then this, Corsi is a self proclaimed racist conspiracy driven liar. I may disagree with Obama's political views but that doesn't mean I'll blindly believe the lies of the disgusting pill of puck that is Jerome Corsi. This nut-case is so vile that even the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have disavowed him. He thinks Bush is responsible for 9-11 and on and on.

As for refuting what is in the "book", its all right here

LINK

 

Oh please you leftist

Oh please you leftist wussified talking heads....keep up your incessant whining about a NYTs number one book...

Every bit helps....and believe me, you are...the more attention, the more readers.

...that's leftists for you...not a brain cell that works.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Calling the kettle black . . .

I would've asked Shuster if he condemned Dan Rather's Memo-gate report, which his (Rather's) own network's investigation found to be totally devoid of evidence, and having recklessly violated 10 major principals of journalism. And CBS never did explain why the show's producer -- Maples --- contacted the DNC with a tip three days prior to airing, but never asked the subject of the attack (namely, the President of the US) for comment on the accusations.

If Shuster never condemned Rather and/or the report, no one should feel compelled to condemn anything to Shuster's satisfaction.

I Have Been Readimg The Book

Yeah. Great book.

I know you all remember how embararssing it was for Hillary to have to confess to "being human", the irony being that she was the one (not we observers of Hillary) who had to learn the lesson about her "humanity" by realizing, with the unmasking of her false-memory tale of arriving in Serbia  under fire, the degree of self-deception she was capable of.

Obama's selective memory is much more consciously deceptive, aimed, honed for a salesman's selling of himself.

He has "forgotten" his lessons on the Koran in his Indonesian public school, the degree of damage done, not by white people in America, but by his alcoholic father and step-father who obviously wounded the young Obama by abandoning him.

Obama has understated his involvement with Rezko. 

  In fact, he never even publically criticized Rezko when the very people Obama represented in his state senatorial district were left in the Chicago winter without heat in buildings that Rezko had "rennovated".

The book proves Obama's myth about the Kennedy family and his own father to be wholly false. The attempt to create rays of light to Obama's life from the stars of the American political pantheon.

And then there is Obama's involvement with Kenyan politics with his support of the Marxist-oriented and pro-Islamic faction.

Maybe I will add some more to this list later when I get through the second half!

Rex

 

 

If all of the stuff Corsi said is.....

slanderous lies......then why didn't Kerry sue?????????????  He didn't because it was ALL true, and he knew it.  Where's your military records you promised to release John????????  Obama and his minions are scared to death because this shines the light of truth that they sought to keep under wraps.  Wheels comin off da bus!!! 

"If a man does his best, what else is there"?

General George S. Patton Jr.

They make me spend money

First they made me buy "unfit for command" now MSM is making me stop in Green Bay sat. and look for this book. If it makes these weiners cry it must strike close to the truth.

"Shuster demanded that John McCain condemn the anti-Obama

book"

I thought that was the job of a campaign representative?

 

"I need more cowbell!" SN

Shuster DEMANDS? Who the hell is he?

It IS the job of a campaign representative to condemn it... Obama's campaign representative, not McCain's.

McCain apologizes every time it rains and he's gotta knock it off. "Senator Obama is a fine blah blah blah and I fully respect and honor him for it." 

Anybody: name one thing Obama personally apologized for. Plenty of topics top to select from.

his grandmother

.

Heck I don't remember the

Heck I don't remember the real apology...I thought he just threw her under the bus...

...another one bites the dust...

...or better yet asphalt.

 "America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Exactly, SoL....if McCain

Exactly, SoL....if McCain is asked to condemn this book, I hope for once he has the stones to say it's not his job to condemn a book; Jerome Corsi is a big boy and not answerable to him. They should take it up with him if they have a beef.

But no, they just love putting McCain on the spot for everything as if he has to take on the guilt of every Republican in the country. And idiot that he is, he plays their game, thinking, (God alone knows why) that if he does they will like him.

Dishonest you say?

Did they ever get into the dishonesty of that fraudulent Rather  hitpiece on the president?   It's all relative. 

Shuster really is a girly

Shuster really is a girly "maun"...

That look on Shu-thzu's face

...is that the look on Shuster's face would give should President Bush or Bill O'Reilly showed up all of a sudden.

Shu-thzu is Olbermann's little pet.

Drill ANWAR

That look on Shuster's face

That look on Shuster's face comes just before he throws his skirt up over his head and runs away.

   Ok, if telling the

   Ok, if telling the truth about obama is the standard then I would like to see all these star struck obamacons, like shuster,  provide facts for all the high praise and over the top compliments they give to the 'One America has been waiting for'. 

Can the Swift Boaters repeat their success...

The Swiftboat Veterans have nothing to do with this new book. Can these asshats get that fact through their tiny heads?

Why are all conservatives and anti-lefties (not necessarily the same folks) always lumped together?

The Swiftboat Veterans were merely trying to set the record straight about Lurch. This is a different book about a different jerk. So how do the vets get attached to it? Is there any wonder the sheeple are confused?

wizard... Perfect example

wizard...

Perfect example of desperation by the leftist isn't it?

They only have about two months left and their new messiah is supposed to be blowing anyone with an 'R' behind their name away.

Just not happening.

I do love it....lol. 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

The Swifties Closed Up Shop

In fact the Swifties officially shut down at the end of May of 2008. Their website is still up for archival purposes, but they are not active in this political cycle.

Which proves all along that they had no problem with Jean-Claude Kerri being a lowly Senator, but had a real problem with him becoming Commander in Chief.

Speaking of "reporting for duty", he's for the first time in my memory running prime-time political ads on the major Boston teevee stations-especially during their 6 PM news, which ain't cheap. I am starting to wonder if his internal polling isn't that great-for the first time ever he has a serious primary opponent from his own party, as well as a Rethuglican challenger who's not doing so well.

Money where my mouth is.

Obama doesn't need to fight back.  He's got the DNC media in his pocket. 

 In fact, I'll give $100 to my most hated liberal cause if one major DNC/MSM media outlet, within the next week,  demands that Obama produce a hardcopy of his Certificate of Live Birth that we've been waiting for lo these many months.

 My money is safe.

Which one?  The fake

Which one?  The fake Hawaiian one he gave to the Daily Kos?  The Hawaiian one that says Barry Soetoro?  Or the foreign one with Barack H. Obama?

Given all the misrepresentations by Obama, why is he being coy about his birth certificate????  Could it be he is a pretend American like Clark Rockefeller????  A German national who has been here over 20 years, used fraudulent documents, got married, had a child, got divorced, bought houses, bought boats, got driver's license ... all of it using assumed identities.

If Barry Soetoro changed his name back to Barack H. Obama because he wanted to honor his father's name (a laudable choice), where's the court order?  Show us the chain of documents to prove you are who you say you are.  Filing any government document under false pretenses or knowingly using false/inaccurate information is a crime, Barry, Barack or whoever you are.  We the People are entitled to know all of your aliases, pseudonyms, a.k.a., nom de plumes, stage names or however you choose to characterize your representation of yourself.

This might explain one of Obama's positions on illegal immigration given they usually use fake IDs to get jobs, driver's licenses, etc. to live here, they share a common interest.

 Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.  

The birth certificate is mute

I dont think this item about a certificate is valid.  I imagine that plenty of people are looking into this and have found appropiate documents, unless it is going to be a November surprise?  What is the threshold for vetting to see if you are an American natural born citizen?

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

When filings are made to

When filings are made to the States, for instance Illinois to campaign for a government office, the political party, the Democrat Party in this case "self certifies" the candidate and files the appropriate documents.  Up to this point, it is entirely possible for a non citizen to finesse the registration system using the self certification process.  You don't have to supply a copy of your birth certificate to register to vote.  All he need do is supply his driver's license and SS#, both of which as has been demonstrated by Clark Rockefeller, can be gotten under false pretense using a faked birth certificate.  Once you have the driver's license and SS#, there is viturally no document out there that continues to demand the original birth certificate in addition to these.  It all starts with the birth certificate, that Dan is the only certifiable means to verify one's national identity.

The birth certificate the Obama campaign supplied to the Daily Kos was exposed as a fake.  Now why would Obama do that????? Why would Obama put his most ardent supporters out on a limb only to have bloggers cut that limb off and destroy their credibility making them look like fools in the process????  There can be only one explaination for this, Obama has something to hide.  The reason why anyone lies is because they have something to hide.  So why did Obama lie????  Why did Obama supply a fake birth certificate to the Daily Kos??????????

 Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.  

To clarify

Perhaps I should clarify.  I'm asking for a DNC/MSM media outlet to demand a legally-binding, paper, signed, embossed Certificate of Live Birth from Obama.

So far, all we've got are some pixels with a noticable three-letter word nearly washed out, very near to the identical word in black.  Solvent, anyone?  FactCheck has a hi-res image. 

Just as in the Edwards

Just as in the Edwards scandal, the MSM will never ask or pursue such a question of Obama unless some else makes it painfully obvious that obfuscating the issue will no longer fly.  The MSM is in love with Obama, their legs tingle with excitment I hear.  And the MSM does not want the wrath of the ultra left either since the base viewership and readership of their organizations are financially dependent upon them.  It's Quid Pro Quo all the way.

 Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.  

In both cases the words and

In both cases the words and actions of the person in question are brought to light.  This is something the MSM has repeatedly failed to do and it is why they are losing their stature.  If the comments made in the book are false or invalid they should be easy to refute--without nuance.  If gravitas (or lack of it) was a concern in the past, it should be equally valid now.

The mere fact I have yet to hear any criticism of Obama from a MSM source is suspicious in its own right.  This side of Heaven there isn't perfection.

Whenever I hear the appelation "Swift Boat(er)" it makes we want to pay more attention to, rather than dismiss, the comment or point.  

"Fighters are fun but bombers make policy"

Great book

Corsi wrote a great book. Swiftboating -- Telling the truth about Democrats. Corsi fills in the parts about Obama the drive by media won't dare touch.

So how are the Obama-nauts going to refute with nothing, which is what Kerry did.

Recommend all buy the book, you will be surprised how good it is and complete it is referenced. 

I'd like to see Schuster

I'd like to see Schuster give us point by point all these "lies" in the book.....that will never happen.  

 

BTW debuting at number one on the best seller list means a lot dem's  purchased the book.

 

I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.

 

Lying Hanoi John Kerry

I served in Vietnam, same base, the great island bitch, er beach on the bay,  as Hanoi John and I didn't need Corsi's book to tell me Hanoi John's stories were not made of whole cloth. He accomplished too many 'impossible' feat's and then abandoned his crew. No hint of a man in him.

I have the book "Unfit for Command" right beside me and can't find one lie in it. Hanoi John hired (using his wife's money)  the most expensive lawyers in the country to sue Corsi. They dropped the case like a red hot horse shoe  when they figured out the damage it would to their rep's when they lost big time and a counter suit hit.

 The democrats may as well accept the facts. Hanoi John was and is a liar of gigantic porportions and he and Silky Edwards are cut from the same cloth. When the world knows for a fact your lover (Kerry/Edwards) is a sleeze bag and liar it's time to dump the lover.

 

Old, Retired and glad of it.

I don't think the Swift boaters ruined a kerry election

I think the fauning media did it.    They did their best to destroy the efforts of the SwiftBoaters.  They covered and complimented and overplayed their hand.    After what the media did to the country with Clinton, America was not going to go for that again.  I'm wondering if the media has given the kiss of death to Obama also.  

"I'm wondering if the media

"I'm wondering if the media has given the kiss of death to Obama also."

They are certainly trying harder than ever before. They are acting like Britney Spears as she tries to recover her reputation…

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

I happened to have had the

I happened to have had the misfortune to be channel surfing last night and saw 5 minutes of the author on Larry King with Media Matters Waldman. The treatment that Corsi got from him, and the lack of spine from King on his own show was appalling! It made me want to buy the book, if it brought up such venom and outright hatred (while still not able to cite specifics, and dodging the question when asked specifics) then it must be nailing something right.

"And why hasn't John McCain

"And why hasn't John McCain condemned this book?"

Has John McCain even read the book, or should he just take Shuster's word for it and commence with the condemning?

By the way, when did reviewing books become a presidential candidate's responsibility?

Well Shuster and his ilk

Well Shuster and his ilk are hoping, no they will be demanding that McCain will throw Corsi under the bus like he did the Swift-Boaters before during the Presidential campaign...after all Corsi was a co-author back then.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

That Infidel Corsi Challenged Shuster's Faith

Does anyone remember how the radical Muslims reacted when the cartoon came out?  That is what I am reminded of when I see Shuster and his brethern vomiting their hatred for anyone who has the audacity to challenge the Annoited One.

"When government and religion are one, breaking the law is a sin and questioning the leader is herasy (not to mention being racist)."  Shuster is just another imam shouting from another MSM minaret.      

PSP... the bad thing

PSP...

the bad thing about all of this is Corsi is going to get it from the left because he is a 9-11 Truther...there were a couple of other things he believes that I can't recall at the moment that I disagreed totally with him about over the years.

Too lazy to look it up...

Nevertheless...all this attention is going to gain his book more attention...which makes me smile. 

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

BT, maybe that oil is not derived from fossils or...

BT, maybe that oil is not derived from fossils or the suitcase A-bomb issue?

Obama will have great difficulty "fighting back"...

Obama will have great difficulty "fighting back"--with what? Truth is hard to come by for the political class; it is foreign to them. Why didn't the Kerry people refute the statements about his military service? Again, with what? Both of these men are hollow men. There isn't anything there. 

Butter pecan or mint chocolate chip?

Mayhaps I am deluding myself (much like the time that I thought Suzie Morgan liked me in the third grade, until she shoved her butter pecan ice cream cone into my face, and called me "rotten"), but I get the feeling that inch by inch, anybody with half a brain (i.e., Democrats, who are notorious for having half a brain) and anybody else with a sliver more, is coming to accept the oh-so-obvious liberal slant of the MSM ("slant" as in the edge of the Grand Canyon).  Not just liberal, but a promulgation of whatever knee-jerk response the Democratic Party wants to offer in response to the latest Republican salvo.  If this item doesn't add fuel to fire, then NB is just screaming in outer space.

The liberal-leaning public will be slow and loath to admit it to anyone out loud, but one can ignore reality only so much before it beomes a lie.  Will it make a difference in how they vote (there's no "full-brain" requirement to vote, you know)?  That's probably a question for a bigger mind than mine, like say, Dear Abby.  But the MSM keeps it up at their own peril.  Their credibility meter is already red-lining, and every day they just drive themselves deeper into the ground.  The funny (sad?) thing is that they just don't seem to realize it.  I have no problem with someone expressing their political opinion, but to continually cloak it in some kind of objective journalism is a pill that eventually, most folks in this country won't be willing to swallow.  I think we've been seeing that for the last few years, and we'll see a lot more of in the future. 

We'll always have the diehards - on both sides, by the way - that believe they're on a mission to preserve us and protect us from ourselves.  But most folks have a much more rational approach to life, and these are the ones who will slowly but inevitably see that they are being manipulated on a daily basis, and will finally get fed up with it.   You can debate why it hasn't happened sooner, but I'll be charitable here and propose that a lot of people just don't follow politics - and the effects it has on their lives - as closely as do others.

I doubt that guys like Shuster and several others I could mention get that fact.  As I deluded myself with Suzie for my own forgotten reasons, they're content to delude themselves into thinking they still have a monopoly on what is reportable truth and want to make sure you believe what they want you to believe, right up to the time they get an ice cream cone shoved into their face.  The difference between them and me is that the survival of a nation didn't matter as much in my case.

Suzie, for what it's worth - thank you.  You taught me never to delude myself again.  And I was only in third grade.

I love it!  The NYT is

I love it! 

The NYT is giving Corsi free advertising for his best seller! 

A friend of mine sent

A friend of mine sent me an e-mail with the link to the letter below: 

Letter from a Cuban


From Richmond Times-Dispatch, Monday, July 7, 2008 ~

 

Dear Editor, Times-Dispatch:

 

'Each year I get to celebrate Independence Day twice. On June 30 I celebrate my independence day, and on July 4 I celebrate America 's.  This year is special, because  it marks the 40th anniversary of my independence.

 

'On June 30, 1968, I escaped Communist Cuba, and a few months later, I was in the United States to stay. That  I happened to arrive in Richmond on Thanksgiving Day is  just part of the story, but I digress.

 

'I've thought a lot about the anniversary this year. The election-year rhetoric has made me think a lot  about Cuba and what transpired there.  In the late
1950s, most Cubans thought Cuba needed a change, so when a young leader came along, every Cuban was at least receptive.

 

'When the young leader spoke eloquently and passionately and denounced the old system, the press fell  in love with him.  They never questioned who his friends  were or what he really believed in.  When he said he would  help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical care  and education to all, everyone followed.  When he said he  would bring justice and equality to all, everyone said,  'Praise the Lord.'  And when the young leader said, 'I will be for change and I'll bring you change,' everyone yelled, 'Viva Fidel!'

 

'But nobody asked about the change, so by the time the executioner's guns went silent, the people's guns had been taken away.  By the time everyone was equal, they were equally poor, hungry, and oppressed.  By the time everyone received their free education, it was worth nothing.  By the time the press noticed, it was too late, because they were now working for him.  By the time the change was finally implemented, Cuba had been knocked down a couple of notches to Third-World status.  By the time the change was over, more than a million people had taken to boats, rafts, and inner tubes.  You can call those who made it ashore anywhere else in the world the most fortunate Cubans.  And now I'm back to the beginning of my story.

 

'Luckily, we in America would never fall for a young leader who promised change without asking, what change? How will you carry it out?  What will it cost America ?

 

'Would we?'

 


Manuel Alvarez, Jr. SEMPER FI !

 

Great minds think alike

Your letter you posted here reminded me of a book review (scroll up) I read on Amazon written by another Cuban expat. Aint the internet grand?

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

Now you've crossed the line buddy!

We will not elect a president based on his or her CHARACTER or their love of country!

Shuster and his lefty friends seem to have two huge problems; reporting the news & actually reading books they complain about. Hell, Amazon.com has more "reviewers" who've actually read the books they claim to have read than Shuster & Company, and that's not saying much.

Corsi's book is more of a documentation of crap that should be public knowledge; after all we are CHOOSING a president and we should know EVERYTHING there is to know about the CANDIDATES. Much like the media lets us know ALL ABOUT John McCain's past and his rich druggie wife. 

Corsi uses Obama's own words to hang him...

I am in the process of reading Obama Nation and from what I've read, Corsi basically goes over Obama's own books, and Obama's own statements and refutes them point by point.  Actually, the main point I've gotten from the book is that Obama is in dire need of some psychiatric help to overcome his abandonment issues from childhood.  He doesn't need to be President, he needs to grow the heck up!

As for those who are still questioning the veracity of the Swift Boat book about Kerry, notice that Kerry never refuted the Swift Boat vets' allegations and never released his own military records.  Gee, and now we hear that John Kerry found John Edwards too sleazy even for him... 

Shuster an Olbermann wanna-be

When your role model is psychotic you're in deep doo-doo.

(Why does this remind me of Reverend Wright and Obama?)