The Obama Nation [antikvár]

-PREFACE -Who I Am and Why I Wrote This BookIn 2004, I coauthored Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry,^ with Swift Boat veteran John O'Neill, a highly successful attorney in Houston, Texas, and a longtime friend I first met more than forty years ago, in college. In the 1960s, John O'Neill attended the U.S. Naval Academy while I was attending Case Western Reserve University and we competed in intercollegiate debate.Unfit for Command a critical analysis of John Kerry's military service during the Vietnam War and his radical antiwar protest activities as a lead spokesperson for the Vietnam Veterans Against the War when he returned from Vietnam. Any implication that this book is a "Swift Boat" book is not accurate in that John O'Neill and the other members of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have had nothing to do with this book, its analysis and arguments, or my opposition to Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.My intent in writing this book, as was the case in coauthoring Unfit for Command, is to fully document all arguments and contentions I make, extensively footnoting all references, so readers can determine for themselves the truth and validity of the factual claims. My fundamental opposition to Obama's presidential candidacy involves public policy differences. While Obama's three complete years in the Senate have given him remarkably little time on the national political stage, we still have enough information from his slim Senate record, as well as his years in the Illinois state legislature, to see a pattern of voting on the far left on a