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Radix, I don’t want to get into an argument over this — that is DEFINITELY NOT my intention. It’s even possible that I’ve misunderstood your comment, and if that is the case, please accept my apologies... (Patriot08, I’m just pinging you on this post because it’s a reply to Radix’s reply to your post...)

However, there is something to be said for “knowing your enemy”. If someone wants to REALLY be effective in countering propaganda, it helps to understand where the other side is coming from — especially in how they turn phrases, or what methods of persuasion they are using.

Granted, I personally have not read all of Barack’s books - I don’t know if I could stomach them. But, I wouldn’t accuse someone of not being a “Real Freeper” if they had more intestinal fortitude than I and actually read these books. Just reading them doesn’t mean that you agree with what is in them!

After all, do you think everyone who’s read Mein Kampf is a NAZI? Or, everyone who’s read The Communist Manifesto is a Marxist? I think not.

We have to be careful to not make judgments about people based on the books they’ve read!

Also, it is possible to quote something from Barack’s books, or know some of the things in them without having read the entire thing as well. :)

Lib you are spot on.I have checked out library books all about communism. Also read about the 1953 Cambridge 3. After reading this I was stunned.Not until after 1991,the actual fall of the Berlin Wall,did the CIA re*lize how large this group was. To this day and after reading 20k pages of secret documents the government still doesn't. The code names these people had including Julius Rosenberg are reminiscent of today as in *Liberal* code name for Julius Rosenberg.also Kim Philby code name *Stanley* Sound frtamiliar? Anyway,I read and research everything I can so I am able understand how and what will happen next because this era 1951-1960’s and upward are identical as to how Obama deceives and how they operate. Thanks

"We have to be careful to not make judgments about people based on the books they’ve read!"

Oh gosh, I know that I sometimes take hostile positions out here a diverse matters because I enjoy the opportunity to engage.

I do tend to read a bit. In one of Ann Coulter's books (I think it was Slander, but maybe it was another) she makes the point that Liberals do not read. She wrote about the many "Surprise best sellers phrase" that the NY Times book reviewers have used so often when it comes to "conservative" books doing so well in the Market, especially when compared to "liberal" books.

I often do mix it up out here on different threads, and frequently I fret that I might just have gone over the top in some posts.

I gotta admit, that during the last several years, I have learned quite a bit more from FReepers defending their positions than I ever imagined possible.

Sometimes I disagree with certain posters being banned from FR.com, but I usually find that I really do not know a whole lot of the story.

Anyhow, reading is a good thing. It is one of the few real joys in life. It is right up there with sex and good food. Watching the kids raise their own kids is another great treat in life.

The Obama fraud is unlikely to do any better than his books did. I mean really, who the heck actually bought them? Were they best sellers? I doubt it.