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Obama camp responds to Corsi book

Posted: Thursday, August 14, 2008 5:57 PM by Mark Murray

From NBC's Mark Murray
The Obama campaign has released a 40-page rebuttal to Jerome Corsi's new attack book on the Illinois senator -- "Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality -- which will be No. 1 on the New York Times' best-seller list for non-fiction hardcovers.

The Obama camp rebuttal is entitled "Unfit for Publication," a play on Corsi's "Unfit for Command" book that launched the Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry in 2004. And the rebuttal comes as Democrats wondered how aggressively the Obama campaign would respond to the book's charges.

"Jerome Corsi is a discredited liar who is peddling another piece of garbage in order to continue the Bush-Cheney politics he helped perpetuate four years ago," said Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor. "His is one of what will likely be many lie-filled books rushed to print this election cycle that are cobbled together from debunked internet sources to make money and advance a partisan agenda. We will forcefully respond to these smears with all means at our disposal."

The rebuttal is currently an Adobe Acrobat attachment, but it will soon be posted on this campaign Web site.

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McLame: Unfit To Lead:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEmPZoRVRII
Link for 40 page rebuttal:
http://markhalperin.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/unfit_for_publication.pdf
McLame and his henchmen are going down Nov 4
Seriuosly, this book is for the idiots that were'nt going to vote for Senator Obama anyway.  The sad part is that the media has sold this idiot's book for him and he is laughing all the way to the bank because of their appetite.  

What they don't realize is that people are fed up with bush, cheney and McSenile and refuse to be tricked again with scare tactics.  

Like McSenile is a viable option. Really!  The audacity...
Republicans always fight dirty, always take the low road, always fling smears and lies, because they have nothing positive to run on and are on the wrong side of every issue.
A lawsuit would be the best response.

Now if only Hillary would respond to those two deluded idiots David Schuster just interviewed.
Corsi and his right-wing minions getting wood over lie, lies and more lies. As he lines his pockets, simpletons will say to themselves "I knew it" and use this as an excuse to further close their little minds.
Its as if these guys take pride in their ignorance.
Unfortunately you should read it for yourself.  I have read both Obama books written by him and this one you are commenting on.  Read the book several months ago.  The book has footnotes and you can gather all the information you want on the net.  Unfortunately you have tunnel vision.  An open-minded person who trusts their own judgment is not fearful of reading books or doing research about a subject that is both pro and con.  I have wondered why I was seeing such a mob mentality amongst the Obama supporters.  In 2004 when he gave his speech I started keeping an eye on him out of interest because his speech resonated with me.  Because of his speech in 2004 I started keeping track of him via the internet so allot of the references that are in the book I already have on file.  To say that this author should be sued for defamation of character is foolish because then we would have to do the same for Michel Moore and many others.  And to call the author a bigot and a racist is also foolish.  What you also fail to see is the political profiter tag could also be applied to Obomas two books.  There are two side to every coin trust I wonder if you trust your own judgment when as a mob you fail to look at both sides.    
I say sue the whole lot of them. In the meantime let's all write a book about all the wonderful things that have happened to us since Bush Brain was elected..$4 gas, inflation, recession, endless war, trillion dollar deficiets...endless wonderful list.  And the old fart McSame says the elect me and we will have more.  
What happened to the layout of this newsite? i used to be able to get in and watch updated news clips by the hour...of every MSNBC show...and was able to watch hardball, countdown and all my shows from the online player...and now they've changed so...that they;re not even updating it they way they were doing...this majorly sucks...who do we need to talk to so that this gets changed back?
Memo to Jerome Corsi:

Failure to provide facts is NOT nit-picking!  Wann see some fun?  Watch Corsi back-pedal on Larry King Live!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/14/iobama-nationi-author-ass_n_118919.html

If Corsi wants credibility, it is not achieved by agreeing to appear on a white supremicist's radio program...

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2008/08/13/bestselling-anti-obama-fabulist-appears-on-white-supremacist-radio-show/

Jerome Corsi belives that oil is "abiotic" meaning that there is a limitless supply because the planet naturally regenerates the supply and believed that President Bush sought to create a "North American Union" by merging with Mexico and Canada.

I suspect he also believes in the following:

- The Tooth Fairy
- Unicorns
- Bigfoot
- UFOs
- Mermaids
- Elvis Lives
- The Loch Ness Monster
- Leprechauns
Mr Corsi is a PHd, no dummy, but God will take as words and use them accordingly:

1Co 1:27
But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
Corsi has been exposed as a shameful, disgusting liar. Where's the news? Where's the list of all the lies that this man published past about Kerry, which we now acknowledge now  -- too bad, so sad -- to be bold-faced lies, now termed as "swift-boating" which led to another Bush term?
I've read and welcomed credible debates and skeptical analysis of Obama's proposals. But really, when will we reject the output of unmitigated idiots such as Corsi?
wow. I wanted to see Obama respond, and has he ever! This is a great response! Glad to see they're not sitting back and letting this guy get away with what he's trying to do. He won't let this clown ruin his chances at the Presidency like Kerry did.
The only chance McCain has of getting elected is to run an anti-Obama campaign, through his own lie-filled ads or through this kind of garbage put out by the likes of Corsi.  It's a shame that trash like this can even get published.  The really scary thing is that there are enough gullible people in this country that this tactic might work again.
Isn't he another one of those mouthy, flag waving obnoxious texans? I'll bet he never served a day in his life, like the other texas two stepping chickenhawks that yap here...
any cheese with all your whine, or should i say sour grapes ... having a dream and having a plan 2 different courses.  you will be whining when your taxes go up and your services go down. clinton gave nukes to the north koreans and soon the nukes will be in a city near you. you whine bush was in office 8 years, but wasn't olde nancy p and harry r in the majority the last 2 years and they accomplish WHAT ? NO NEW OIL , NO PLAN FOR IRAQ , NO PLAN FOR THE AFGANS !!!  oh yea what's up now Obama doesn't want the Detriot mayor to take away his spotlight in Denver, what a crook,  rev wright to africa to hide ??
I am not agreeing with everything Mr. Cori's book says by any means, but I understand one of the things Mr. Corsi had the nerve to claim is that Mr. Obama belonged to "a radical, black church".

Can you imagine, how inaccurate......
Here we go, Clinton and her mess, and McCain and his mess, the Republican's and the Clintons, will do all they can to keep from Obama, becoming President.

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

Obama 08
Had the swift boat guys been wrong Kerry or any real person that got smeared would have sued, but he did not, thus the facts must have been true enough. Obama if all he does is talk and does not sue is in the same boat. The facts are true, but lets smear the messanger so to distract from the facts. All Obama has to do is sue and that would end it. A 40 page reply is fanning the flames as it just attacks Corsi and not the facts.

To sue or not to sue that is the question and if the answer is not to; the facts must be correct no matter how bad you O people want them not to be.

This will likely benefit Obama ultimately, as it is sure to turn off any independant with a brain cell. My disappointment is with ANY AND ALL media dignifying this clown by covering him, or this story - Larry King, Fox, etc... First Read??

Let Limbaugh and Hannity continue to drag the low road even lower - but you MSM guys need to remember why you entered journalism. Don't give this lying hack a platform to spread more cancer across this nation.

There is an old axiom in the military about the need to prepare for the next war instead of fighting the last one. McCain is clearly running the playbook from the 2004 campaign.
do publishers have a conscience? apparently not.


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