There’s been a lot of talk lately about Jerome Corsi’s new book, “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality.” Problem is, Corsi is a nut.  He may make some valid arguments in the book, but I’m not buying a word that guy is selling, and neither should you.

On the other hand, David Freddoso’s new book, The Case Against Obama, is the real thing.  He’s a legitimate investigative reporter and contributor to National Review.

Freddoso has written today in the Wall Street Journal, giving us a little taste of the information unearthed in his book.  This is what a real reporter finds when he truthfully examines Barack Obama’s past:

Democrats don’t like it when you say that Barack Obama won his first election in 1996 by throwing all of his opponents off the ballot on technicalities.

By clearing out the incumbent and the others in his first Democratic primary for state Senate, Mr. Obama did something that was neither illegal nor even uncommon. But Mr. Obama claims to represent something different from old-style politics—especially old-style Chicago politics. And the senator is embarrassed enough by what he did that he misrepresents it in the prologue of his political memoir, “The Audacity of Hope.”

...In real life, it did not matter what Mr. Obama said on the stump or whether South Side voters were impressed. What mattered was that, beginning on Jan. 2, 1996, his campaigners began challenging thousands of petition signatures the other candidates in the race had submitted in order to appear on the ballot. Thus would Mr. Obama win his state Senate seat, months before a single vote was cast.

...Mayor Richard M. Daley—who would receive Mr. Obama’s endorsement in 2007 shortly after several of his top aides and appointees had received prison sentences for their corrupt operation of Chicago’s city government—was invested in the Stroger machine’s survival. So was every alderman and county commissioner who uses the county payroll to support political hangers-on. So was Mr. Obama’s friend and donor, Tony Rezko, who is now in federal prison awaiting sentencing after being convicted in June of 16 felony corruption charges. Rezko had served as John Stroger’s finance chairman and raised $150,000 for him (Stroger put Rezko’s wife on the county payroll).

Mr. Obama has never stood up against Chicago’s corruption problem because his donors and allies are Chicago’s corruption problem.

Mr. Obama is not the reformer he now claims to be. The real man is the one they know in Chicago—the one who won his first election by depriving voters of a choice.

I gotta get my hands on that book!  And if you want to knowledgeably whoop anyone in an argument this fall, I’d suggest you do the same.

UPDATE:  Writing this post reminded me of this phenomenal video: