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Item DescriptionWe have to stop Obama’s radical agenda. Now. We must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda. Because after Obama has won his war on prosperity and canceled the war on terror, it will be too late to regain our liberty or our security. Here’s the truth about Obama and his radical policies :
And Obama is not working alone. Congress is complicit in the conspiracy. It’s a catastrophe. But as Dick Morris and Eileen McGann remind us, “This is no time for apathy or alienation or hopelessness. It’s a time for action.” And that action must begin now—before it’s too late. Item Reviews5 Responses to “Catastrophe”Leave a Reply |
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Dick Morris, of course, was the Republican political consultant who advised Bill Clinton on how to successfully move to the right, after the 1994 election, and who then guided Clinton to re-election in 1996. He and his wife, Eilenn McGann, have written a number of books. This one was written in 2009. It is dating rapidly, but it still has a good deal of power. Beyond all question, Dick Morris is one of the most intelligent and perceptive writers on politics in America today.
The book is oddly structured. It has 16 chapters, most of which are quite short. The first chapter, however, is 75 pages. Titiled “Obama’s War on Prosperity”, it is a full-tilt, nothing held back attack on Barack Obama. Morris argues that Obama is a socialist — he defends using that label in three pages of argument — who is seeking to once and for all destroy the America we know and replace it with a Western European social democracy, in which the vast majority of people pay no taxes but instead receive government hand outs and a small minority of those who work hard pay for the rest of society.
I do not know if Morris has any association with the Tea Party, but his basic take on Obama is very much in line with the Tea Party. The book is a polemic, in the sense that it very consistently argues one, quite extreme point of view. As polemic, though, it is very powerful. Morris assembles a large number of facts to document and to support his arguments. His argument, by and large, is insightful and high quality.
This book was written in 2009, just after Obama came to power. It is thus somewhat dated at this point. As I write this, we in September 2010, and it appears very likely that the Democrats are going to lose the upcoming election in a big way. This book obviously contributed to that; it was a best-seller, and it is very, very anti-Obama and ant-Democrat. But there are a number of predictions which Morris made which did not come true, and appear unlikely to come true. For example, Morris said that Obama was seeking amnesty for illegal immigrants, to add another 12-15 million Democrats to the voting rolls. That does not appear to be happening. He also said that Obama was aiming at nationalizing the banking system. That appears to have been off the mark as well.
I think Morris tended to see Obama as having more of a plan that Obama in fact had. As Morris saw him, Obama was a very cunning political strategist, who was aiming at nothing less than overthrowing the traditional American Republic and replacing it with something like the government of France. As Morris saw it, Obama knew the difficulties in front of this scheme, and had a fiendish plan for overcoming them. In retrospect, and thank goodness, this was a serious mis-reading of Obama. Yes, Obama is a big fan of Big Government, and would like to re-make American in a European direction. Obama, however, seems to have had no idea how wildly unpopular such an agenda would be. Having no clue of the hornet’s nest he was stirring up, Obama, in fact, did not have a very good plan for overcoming his opponents. Thus, it now appears likely that Obama will lose Congress in 2010, and while 2012 is still far off, Obama’s re-election prospects are not looking very good right now.
I have seen Dick Morris numerous times on MSNBC, and Fox News and alot of what people are feeling is expressed in this book. I encourage anyone who is not familiar with politics or the economic situations in our country over the past 10 years, read this book and then please register to vote! Many think that their vote is only one out of many in their district, but people can not complain about Congress or the Senate if you didn’t even vote.
I wanted a book to help me understand current political topics better so I could discuss them with other people. I was so eager to get started that instead of buying a book here at Amazon after studying reviews, I bought this one at an airport bookstore. I had never heard of Dick Morris & Eileen McGann but I assumed the book would help me; it listed an impressive array of topics on the back cover.
Instead, the main purpose of the book seems to be to make the reader feel good about what he or she already believes. Whether you are a Tea Party-er who believes the federal government should be much smaller or you are a main-stream Republican who doesn’t mind the massive expansion of the federal government and its debt under Reagan, Bush and Bush you will find nothing in this book to disturb you. Whatever your position is on the initial Wall Street bailout you will find nothing in this book to disagree with. As long as you are unhappy with President Barack Obama this book aims to make you feel good about your outrage, no matter what you believe on any particular issue.
The authors are not really trying to cover a broad range of political topics. Many of the topics listed on the back cover are discussed only briefly. Instead, much of the book is devoted to government waste, mistakes and corruption that readers of any persuasion would agree were bad. As for politics, the book covers mostly economic issues. Unfortunately, that coverage didn’t help me understand the issues better.
For example, it’s clear from chapter 2 that the authors dislike the idea of the government interfering with banks and other financial institutions. But in chapter 13 we learn that the authors hope the government (specifically, the courts) will take steps to discourage banks and investment firms from developing programs in line with Shariah law–something these businesses are doing now to better meet the needs of some of their wealthiest (and thus most important) clients. I am sure the authors understand how these two positions can be reconciled but it’s not explained to the reader. What sense did you five-star reviewers make of this? Or of chapter 15, a call for increased government regulation of the airline industry?
As I read this book I kept asking myself how I could explain what I had just read to someone else, for example a friend over lunch. When read in this way the logic of the book seems to fall apart. I could easily imagine my friend asking questions or making responses that would leave me with no answer. The book seems to be a random collection of chapters containing sentences that will sound comforting to any reader who is fairly conservative and not thinking very hard.
If you are a conservative you don’t need this book–just reread one of the books you already own. If you are a liberal looking for insight into conservative alternatives you won’t find any in this cotton candy.
I got the book way sooner than expected, AND it looked like a new book!
Every American needs to read this book—A real eye opener. Oh what a mistake we made!!!