Book on Obama Hopes to Repeat Anti-Kerry Feat

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http://www.truthout.org/article/obama-swift-boat-sets-sail

Wednesday 13 August 2008


by: Jim Rutenberg and Julie Bosman, The New York Time

A new book by Jerome Corsi - co-author of the Swift Boat Veterans book that plagued John Kerry's 2004 campaign - is now targeting Obama with a variety of accusations that many claim are misleading or untrue.

In the summer of 2004 the conservative gadfly Jerome R. Corsi shot to the top of the best-seller lists as co-author of "Unfit for Command," the book attacking Senator John Kerry's record on a Vietnam War swiftboat that began the larger damaging campaign against Mr. Kerry's war credentials as he sought the presidency.

Almost exactly four years after that campaign began, Mr. Corsi has released a new attack book painting Senator Barack Obama, the Democrats' presumed presidential nominee, as a stealth radical liberal who has tried to cover up "extensive connections to Islam" - Mr. Obama is Christian - and questioning whether his admitted experimentation with drugs in high school and college ever ceased.

Significant parts of the book, whose subtitle is "Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality," have already been challenged as misleading or false in the days since its debut on Aug. 1. Nonetheless, it is to make its first appearance on The New York Times best-seller list for nonfiction hardcovers this Sunday - at No. 1.