We interrupt the lack of posts and politics to bring you a short and sweet review for a book I received from Regnery Publishing. The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate by David Freddoso of NRO is a print distillation of the many criticisms and issues that conservatives have raised about the now-acclaimed Democrat presidental nominee.

It raises points made on NRO, The Corner and many columns about Obama’s inexperience, the persona that he presents versus his track record, and his background of radical ideological bedfellows. These are things that political junkies left and right have debated and studied for the past year; the timeline Freddoso places at end of the book terminates Obama’s reversal on his stance on public financing for his campaign. Freddoso unfolds his case carefully and meticulously. All the while, it maintains the running thesis on his duplicity and maintains just a slight tone of disdain. His work is replete with citations that back up anecdotal reports. It’s laid on thick in the chapter, The Accidental Candidate.

The book was published this month. Much of what is in the book is already known by most of us political junkies. But the true significance of this book was mentioned to my by a friend who bought himself a copy: “a lot of people are buying this book because they don’t know enough about him.” There is plenty of chatter among “regular folks” on how the media has had this weird love affair with the very junior senator from Illinois. Many of them do not take the time to go sifting through thousands upon thousands of blog posts with different opinions and conflicting evidence. What they might just take time for is to read this book: short but concise, damaging but not polemic.

Verdicts: Binary – 1. Rating – 4/5. Buy it.