Yes Barack Obama wants to restore the top marginal tax bracket to the 39% it was under Clinton from the current 35%. (It was 70% in the 1960s)
But, “Leftist Politics”?
‘Obama has done everything he can to reassure the nation’s ruling bipartisan political class that he is fully on board with the American Empire Project, but it doesn’t matter: “conservatives” continue to score points with the “patriotism” and military cards, absurdly tarring him as a “far left” opponent of American interests and security. That preposterous allegation is the central theme in the far-right crackpot Jerome Corsi’s current best-selling book “The Obama Nation” – a monument to neo-McCarthyist smear tactics in the post 9/11 era.
Corsi was the co-author of the ridiculous but important and widely read 2004 volume “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.” His latest bestselling hatchet-job is loaded with lurid innuendos and guilt-by-association narratives claiming to link the deeply conservative Obama to African radicalism, “black rage,” drugs, Reverend Wright (of course), the Communist Party, the Weathermen, Islamic “anti-Americanism” and the plot to open up Israel and the United States to nuclear attack.’
Consider since securing the Democratic nomination, Obama has abandoned his Liberal base and run to the Right by:
* embracing the Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a Washington D.C ban on personal handguns and claimed that the Second Constitutional Amendment pertains to private citizens, not just organized state “militias.”
* declaring his belief in the state’s right to kill certain criminals, including child rapists.
* becoming the first major party presidential candidate to bypass the public presidential financing system and to reject accompanying spending limits (violating his earlier pledge to work through the public system and accept those limits).
* supporting a refurbished spy bill that grants retroactive immunity to telephone corporations who collaborated with the White House in electronic surveillance of American citizens (violating Obama’s earlier pledge to filibuster any surveillance legislation containing such immunity).
* appointing the corporate-friendly Wal-Mart apologist and Hamilton Project [3] economist Jason Furman as his economic policy director – something that stood in curious relation to his criticism (”I won’t shop there”) of Wal-Mart’s low-wage anti-union practices when speaking to labor audiences.
* increasing his declared support of “free trade,” contradicting his campaign-trail criticism of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
* “tweaking” his claim that he would meet with Iran’s president (he added new and more restrictive conditions).
* embracing (in a speech to the powerful pro-Israel lobby American Israel Public Affairs Committee – AIPAC) Bush-McCain rhetoric on the supposed Iranian nuclear threat and promising to do “anything” to protect the nuclear occupation and apartheid state of Israel from Iran (a nation previously attacked by Israel).
* calling (in his AIPAC speech) for an “undivided” Israel-run Jerusalem despite the fact that no government on the planet (and not even the Bush administration) supports Israeli’s right to annex that UN-designated international city.
* making bolder Iraq “withdrawal” statements indicating that an Obama administration would not leave Iraq.
* vocally supporting a major part of the Republican agenda: the granting of public money to private religious organizations to provide social services.
* endorsing the conservative white male Blue Dog Democratic Congressman John Barrow (D-GA) over the progressive black female challenger Regina Thomas in a July 15 primary [4].
* flip-flopping on energy policy by calling for increased domestic and offshore oil drilling after it became clear that McCain was getting traction with voters by calling for such environmentally insensitive drilling.http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/view…
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Corsi knows that the American people have attention spans that are too short for details. He knows that all he has to do is *write* the book and make the claims. He knows that it doesn’t matter whether the claims are actually true, because just the act of making the claims gets the American people to *assume* that there is something going on. People reason to themselves “well, if someone wrote a book with all these accusation, and the media talks about it all the time, then there must be something to them. And thus the media is complicit in destroying whatever “democracy” there might be in this country. People wouldn’t recognize their facts from a hole in the ground.
Fiction. It’s a smear campaign. It’s all using rhetoric and propaganda to feed off people’s fears and manipulate them into a certain way of thinking.
The only reason its a bestseller is that people with a lotta money bought them in quantities and stored them in a warehouse,it should be sold as Fiction
Fiction. And old, used, tired fiction at that.
It was written by the same nutcase who wrote the swiftboat book about John Kerry.
corsi uses foot note and sources in his ,all is documented.. lets see u do that with your rant..getting harder all the time to tell a rant from a whine
obama rocks, i sure hope he wins over mccain.. everyone who likes him should vote for him on this page (and get a free gift card!!).
Corsi writes fiction.
Fiction
Fiction.
Corsi’s writings have been repeatedly promoted recently by Sean Hannity on Fox News; Corsi’s publisher, Mary Matalin, has praised her author’s “scholarship.” If Republican warriors like Hannity and Matalin think so highly of Corsi’s research into Obama, then perhaps we should take seriously Corsi’s scholarship about McCain. In recent articles at worldnetdaily.com, Corsi has claimed (among other charges) that the McCain campaign received “strong” financial support from a “group tied to Al Qaeda” and that “McCain’s personal fortune traces back to organized crime in Arizona.”
So if we’re going to believe everything Corsi writes about Obama, don’t we have to believe his writings on McCain as well?
Fiction disguised as non fiction.
Those who don’t like Obama will consider it fact
Those who like Obama will consider it fiction
Those who dig on their own rather than go to Obama fact check will be seeking the truth and they may find out that this guy is pretty much on target.
The book is well researched and well documented.
Apparently Corsi did get the date of a wedding incorrect, however the book is solid and is a wealth of information.
Honestly, we don’t know. Until someone aside from the idiot that wrote the book can verify or disprove the allegations we won’t know.