I heard Corsi on Saturday night on the radio and was impressed. Then it was pointed out to me that a defeated Republican State Rep had written the following letter to the editor on Sunday — he says he doesn’t support Obama but this letter makes one wonder:
I’m glad to see prominent conservatives like former Bush White House aide Peter Wehner denounce Jerome Corsi’s latest work of fiction, a book titled “The Obama Nation. While I’m not a Barack Obama supporter, I believe people like Corsi do conservatives a disservice when they resort to half-truths and make believe to beat down Obama. Instead of pointing out Obama’s abysmal record on pro-life issues, national security and his inexperience, Corsi has chosen to play in the gutter of smutty politics.
Corsi is a smear artist who’s unfairly maligned people’s reputations on the political right and left alike. He’s advocated various deceptive and frankly delirious “North American Union and 9/11 conspiracy theories and has associated with white supremacists. But voters in Oklahoma should know better than to buy Corsi’s piffle; just last year Corsi attempted to undermine the 100 Ideas Initiative by claiming that a meeting the initiative sponsored together with TRUST was really a ruse to promote the North American Union and a superhighway bringing thousands of illegal Mexicans across the border.
Corsi may make a few bucks off of unsuspecting Americans, but I hope Oklahomans won’t be duped to give this snake oil salesman any of their hard-earned money!
Thad Balkman, Ontario, Calif.
Balkman is a former state representative and the former executive director of the Oklahoma 100 Ideas Initiative.
http://newsok.com/letters-to-the-editor-sunday-august-24-2008/article/3287536
He gave a moving speech about his father and mother, JFK and Selma. The factual dates of his birth do not coincide with the picture he painted in his speech. It never happened.....if you are going to tell tall tales you may just get called out on it. I am fascinated. I am still not even half way through, but so far Corsi is saying things I want to read.
It goes without saying that I am against his policies, but his whole campaign centers on some mystical call for change....he wants us to follow HIM. To realize he is dishonest about his personal history counts. Character counts.