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Review: The Bridge "copious details of Obama's Life"
Houston Chronicle - book blog ^ | April 04, 2010 | Steve Weinberg

Posted on 04/06/2010 7:39:01 AM PDT by urtax$@work

Reviewed by Steve Weinberg

Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th President of the United States because he:

A. Has exhibited overweening ambition since his college years

B. Possesses an impressive intellect

C. Exudes charisma in person and on television

D. Chose Chicago as the place to try out his seemingly delusional career plan

E. Married a remarkable woman who hoped he would not enter electoral politics but supported him anyway

F. Benefitted from a series of circumstances beyond his control, including the demise or retirement of politicians who would have blocked his way to the White House

G. Discovered a path in a racist, xenophobic society to benefit from his bi-racial heritage and his youthful experiences in other societies

H. All of the above

The correct answer is "H," as David Remnick's stupendous biography -- The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama -- makes abundantly clear.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.chron.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Conspiracy; History; Society
KEYWORDS: davidremnick; obamabiography; weinberg
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To: urtax$@work

Sounds like a ponderous fairytale with a million gaps and overcompensated minutia to cover it.

(The “Bridge” is the morphing/transformation from Free Republic to socialist state)


21 posted on 04/06/2010 8:15:46 AM PDT by cycle of discernment
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To: penelopesire; BP2; LucyT; hoosiermama
Dont buy it, ck it out of your public library and comment here. Lets all write Jack Cashill for a review of this book.

Really, i am looking forward to all the holes to appear about this "copious detailed" book, and you never know what useful information we can glean (mine) from this work.

22 posted on 04/06/2010 8:22:28 AM PDT by urtax$@work (The best kind of memorial is a Burning Memorial.........)
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To: urtax$@work
The correct answer is "H," as David Remnick's stupendous biography...

Stupendous? This is a professional review that describes the book as stupendous?

23 posted on 04/06/2010 8:28:32 AM PDT by Plutarch
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To: urtax$@work

No thanks.

I’ll wait for the “Rise and Fall of Barack Obama”.

It should be a quick read, true to history and have a happy ending.


24 posted on 04/06/2010 8:29:32 AM PDT by Gator113 (I do not want Obama just IMPEACHED... I want him IMPRISONED. Are we there yet? 2010-2012)
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To: TigerBait

“America is racist and xenophobic...”

Yea, I loved that line, too. How can a nation comprised largely of immigrants be xenophobic?!


25 posted on 04/06/2010 8:31:57 AM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: Plutarch

“Stupendous? This is a professional review that describes the book as stupendous?”

They were confused with ‘stuporous’.


26 posted on 04/06/2010 8:45:45 AM PDT by Psalm 144 (What is a slave, but someone robbed of his labor to sustain the idle?)
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To: Psalm 144; urtax$@work; onyx; penelopesire; seekthetruth; television is just wrong; jcsjcm; BP2; ...

Talk about sugar-coating the truth, I watched
an interview with the author last night on
Charlie Rose.

It’s a bunch of tripe, and with some notable
mischaracterizations, serious ommissions,
even outright lies.

Remnick’s definitely secured his future facetime
with the tyrant in writing this glossy fantasy.

Charlie Rose is a worthy accomplice in the fantasy.


27 posted on 04/06/2010 8:50:21 AM PDT by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: Plutarch

“This is a professional review that describes the book as stupendous?”

Yes, the reviewer was signaling that he’d thoroughly assessed the book using rigorous criteria and in no way let his emotions cloud his judgment.


28 posted on 04/06/2010 9:03:22 AM PDT by DrC
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To: woweeitsme
Ok---JUST WOW!

Think anyone would EVER have the balls to directly ask that arrogant prissy snot such a question?


29 posted on 04/06/2010 10:03:53 AM PDT by Republic (Stop the horrific liberals from spending ONE MRE DIME before they destroy our nation.)
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To: STARWISE

I suffered it until almost to the end, that was a performance, not an interview.


30 posted on 04/06/2010 1:55:18 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: urtax$@work
Somebody needs to write a serious book refuting the lies and showing forth how slanted and created out of wool cloth what is written in the book is.
Remember how they made an ugly book about Sarah Palin with trying to get people to buy it by mistake while endeavoring to buy hers. Turn about is fair play. This book though would be truthful and immensely interesting unlike their flash in pan book.
31 posted on 04/06/2010 2:18:27 PM PDT by Bellflower (If you are left DO NOT take the mark of the beast and be damned forever.)
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To: woweeitsme; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...

/bingo


32 posted on 04/06/2010 6:26:38 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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