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''The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate'', by author David Freddoso, is a bestselling book published in late 2008, providing a critical examination of the life and opinions of the then United States presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama. Freddoso was a political reporter for the website of the conservative magazine ''National Review'' when the book came out. He is now with the Washington Examiner. The book was published by Regnery Publishing. Freddoso said in an August 2008 interview that the book is an attempt to address what he sees as two wrong ways of considering Obama as a presidential candidate. The author wanted to counter those, including those in the news media, who look on Obama uncritically, and to do so in a way different from those who "are smearing him on the Internet for supposedly being a secret Muslim or supposedly not saluting the flag".〔No byline, ("Is Obama the 'man his multi-million dollar media campaign portrays him as?’" ), Catholic News Agency, August 21, 2008, retrieved same day〕 The book harshly criticizes Obama over policy matters, according to Ben Smith, a writer at ''The Politico''. For the most part, the book is drawn from previously published sources, although Freddoso does do some original reporting.〔Smith, Ben, ("New book: Obama a lefty, not a reformer" ), ''The Politico'', August 4, 2008, retrieved August 15, 2008〕 The first press run of the book totaled nearly 300,000 copies,〔("Anti-Obama Books Are Best-Sellers: Three Releases Criticizing Obama In Amazon Top 20 Despite Little Media Coverage" ), Associated Press article, as published on the CBS News website, August 5, 2008, retrieved August 5, 2008〕 and it appeared on the August 24, 2008 New York Times Bestseller List for hardcover nonfiction at No. 5.〔New York Times Bestseller list, ("Hardcover Nonfiction" ), August 24, 2008, accessed August 19, 2008〕 Publicity for the book is handled by the conservative public relations firm Creative Response Concepts.〔Martin, Jonathan, ("First Obama attack book in the works" ), news article (Martin also has a blog), ''The Politico'', June 23, 2008, retrieved August 15, 2008〕 The book was released within weeks of two other books critical of Obama written by conservative writers: Jerome Corsi’s ''The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality'', and Dick Morris’ ''Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It.'' ==Content== Obama's political positions are reviewed in the book. "If you’re a liberal, reading the following might make you support Obama even more," Freddoso states at one point in the book. "But if you’re honest, I think you’ll agree he’s no centrist."〔 The book discusses Obama's alleged "radical associations" with such controversial people as Bill Ayers, a former Weatherman organization leader, and Obama's former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.〔 Part of the book focuses on Obama's having made accommodations with the Cook County Democratic Party, despite Obama's start in politics as a candidate appealing to reform-minded voters in the Hyde Park neighborhood of the city.〔 The book dwells at length on Obama’s opposition to an Illinois bill that sought to protect infants “born alive,” but whose critics said it could have fundamentally undermined the right to abortion. A similar bill passed the United States Congress only after an explicit commitment to Roe v. Wade was added, which Freddoso dismisses as trivial, but which abortion rights advocates saw as crucial.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Case Against Barack Obama」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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