“The Case Against Barack Obama” Is Good Prose.

“His words are a very fantastical banquet” as Shakespeare’s line in “Much Ado About Nothing”

David Freddoso’s book The Case Against Barack Obama is well researched and not nearly as ideologically biased nor acerbic as others on either side of the debate. His descriptive conclusion can perhaps be summed by Shakespeare’s King Lear speech “I want that glib and oily art to speak and purpose not.”

As Professor James Humes points out in his review “ His (Obama’s) words are a very fantastical banquet” as Shakespeare’s line in “Much Ado About Nothing” may describe the grandiloquent Democratic presidential candidate.

Obama is glib and has mastered a preacher like art and tricks of speech craft that I frankly admire having consulted at one of the great preacher’s places - ASBURY THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL in Wilmore, Kentucky. While 7% say they like him for his glibness that does not manifest any specific objectives for his Presidency except for the abstractions of hope and “change.”

Freddoso does not claim as some have that Obama is a Marxists albeit his Senate voting record is to the left of Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders. He does carefully catalogue a record of enthusiastically endorsing and supporting the notorious Chicago political machine in all its venality, kickbacks and corruption.

He does link Obama henchman Axelrod with the corruption of the Chicago machine.

Freddoso does ask why the usually pathological careful Obama would associate and takes favors and participate with the likes of convicted felon Tony Rezko who maneuvered him into a deeply discounted million dollar Chicago area mansion.

He does not produce images of an Obama stroll across the Sea of Galilee nor his birth in a manger.

He does sarcastically equate Obama’s purple rhetoric with “cotton-candy” - sweet tasting, full or air with no specific nutrients.

I’ll not here cite more lest I convince you not to read this book - it is worth the price if only for the colorful prose, and new perspectives.