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Anti-Obama book mirrors anti-Kerry tactics

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-08-14 10:03

WASHINGTON -- A new book aimed to discredit US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama was written by the same person who stirred sentiments against 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry in a book four years ago.

"The Obama Nation," by Jerome R. Corsi, a conservative writer, has shot up to the best-seller status soon after it was released early this month, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

Similarly, in the summer of 2004, Corsi achieved the same feat of publishing "Unfit for Command," and making it a best-seller.

That book attacking Kerry's record on a Vietnam War Swift boat that began the larger damaging campaign against Kerry's war credentials as he sought the presidency.

Four years later, Corsi used his new book to paint Obama, as a radical liberal.

Significant parts of the new 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 hard covers on Aug. 10 --at No. 1.

The publisher, Threshold Editions, says it has undertaken an extensive printing effort for anticipated demand, with 475,000 copies of "The Obama Nation" produced so far.

"The goal is to defeat Obama," Corsi said. "I don't want Obama to be in office of (the White House)."

But he is not supporting Senator John McCain, Obama's Republican opponent, either.

Corsi said he supported the Constitution Party presidential nominee, Chuck Baldwin, and had not been in touch with McCain aides.