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4.5
In this convincing book Super-Blogger (Atlas Shrugs) Pamela Geller and renowned Islamic scholar Robert Spencer join forces to argue that America, as a nation under President Obama, is now just another country in the alphabetical list of the world`s nations. It is no better than Afghanistan, Rwanda, Somalia, or any other hell-hole in the world, because as Obama says, "each nation thinks it is special." By his logic, no single nation can be "special," because they are all "special" in their own eyes.And not only is America's significance in the world being downgraded, it is being made over into a Socialist State.The "Post-American Presidency" at several points is not well written and the blame for this must fall on Geller. The blogger style does not translate well into book form. Nonetheless this work is worth five stars due to its momentous content. It is a compendium and summing up of the words and actions of Barack Hussein Obama that prove beyond doubt his allegiance is not to the interests of the citizens of America, but to the citizens of the "world."In both the national and the international realms, Obama is attempting dangerous and lasting damage to America; in the national realm the attempt is to redistribute wealth and in the international realm, to redistribute power. This work documents the negative results of Obama's agenda with 330 pages of text, thirty pages of footnotes, and an eleven page index. Crucial issues and events that have appeared piecemeal throughout Obama's life and tenure are related consecutively and discussed in detail.Some reviewers have compared "The Post-American Presidency' unfavorably to Michelle Malkin's "Culture of Corruption". This is not an apt comparison. Malkin's theme is political corruption, Geller's is anti-Americanism. There are a few instances where they cover the same ground, such as ACORN and the appointment of czars, but even in these cases, the point of emphasis remains different.Sometimes the blogger writing style is very effective and Pamela Geller's soaring rhetoric reaches a high pitch of polemic intensity, every sentence like the firing of a Gatling Gun. At these times ideas come thick and fast with an inner rhythm that is spellbinding. At other times Geller comes across ranting and raving with expressions such as "treasonous clowns" and "...America ain't dead yet" (pp. 328-29).Robert Spencer, the cool, collected, erudite scholar provides a good counterbalance to Geller's occasional hyperbole. Spencer's encyclopedic knowledge is especially notable in the first ten (of fourteen) Chapters, which contain the main argument of the book's subtitle; "The Obama Administration's War on America."I heartily recommend this book. It is a passionate, partisan, and decisive critique of the life and times of The forty-fourth President of the U.S.A.
