Kass refers to the Obama movement as "Hopium," and he calls Freddoso' best-selling book "the pin of reason to the Obama balloon."
The Cult of Change has spent a lot of time debunking Jerome Corsi's The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality.
But they haven't put forth the same effort against Freddoso's entry.From Kass' column. Free registration may be required for the link.
"It tells us that in contrast with the image that his campaign is spending millions of dollars to put forth, that the idea of Sen. Obama as a reformer, as an agent of positive change, is a great lie," Freddoso told me of his book. "And the veneer of ideological reasonableness about him is misleading because he is reflexively a liberal."
It examines Obama's tacit acceptance of the corrupt politics of Chicago and Illinois, his endorsements of unqualified Democratic machine creatures to secure the machine's blessing, his use of technicalities in state ethics legislation to bury potential conflicts of interest, and his dealings with Tony Rezko, now convicted, and with City Hall-friendly developer Allison Davis.
There's also a chapter on Obama's Ping-Pong fiasco that was originally reported in the Los Angeles Times but ignored by most other media. I won't spoil it. Let's just say it is table tennis, the Chicago Way.
(My note: It's a shameful episode, but business as usual in Illinois.)
The book discusses what many in the national media have stubbornly and willfully declined to consider as they led cheers for Obama: His silence about political sleaze in Illinois, even as he puts on the halo and demands change in Washington. In this silence, Obama offers a profound truth. You can't hear it. But it sure is loud.
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