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September 2, 2010

Re: Obama's 'Unpresidential Plummet'

Kathryn Jean Lopez interviewed David Limbaugh about his bestselling book, Crimes against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama, and about what has been done and what can still be done to limit the damage. The book debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and according to the nation-wide reporting service BookScan, which tracks retail sales at a majority of the country's retail outlets, Limbaugh sold more than 28,000 copies in the week that ended August 29 -- more than any other non-fiction book in the country. If you haven't read David's book yet, do take the time to read it; then pass it around to your friends.

Here's an excerpt from Lopez's piece at NRO on her interview with David Limbaugh:

David Limbaugh has a solid track record of writing comprehensive, damning indictments. He's gone after Janet Reno's Justice Department. He's exposed domestic crimes against religious freedom. Now, he has written Crimes against Liberty: An Indictment of President Barack Obama. The full brief is still, of course, a work in progress, but Limbaugh's timely, hot-off-the-deadline book comes just in time for the final stretch to the November elections -- just in time to limit the damage. He talks to National Review Online's Kathryn Jean Lopez about what has been done and what can still be done.

KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ: Is Crimes against Liberty a little bit of an I-told-you-so?

DAVID LIMBAUGH: I suppose you could say that, though I don't derive any pleasure from having accurately discerned Mr. Obama's character and ideology during the campaign. Many of those who didn't were permitting themselves to be blinded by fantastic hopes of deliverance from times that, in retrospect, were not as terrible as many claimed. Moreover, as much as I and countless others predicted this national nightmare, Obama has actually been worse, both personally and in terms of his agenda, than most of us anticipated.

The greatest challenge in writing this book was finally putting it to bed, as our president was steadily committing new outrages. I was adding new material every day, but eventually the printer refused any further additions. Still, in the end, I trust readers will find the book remarkably up to date, as both my publisher -- Regnery -- and the printer were quite accommodating.

LOPEZ: You were calling him a threat to liberty before he was elected, never mind inaugurated. What accounts for his "popularity freefall" now? Did people have to see him in action to believe it?

LIMBAUGH: A couple of things account for his plummeting popularity. First, Obama's agenda has been far more extreme than naive well-wishers assumed it would be. Second, his policies have already had disastrous results, which he can no longer credibly pawn off on his predecessor. And third, he has flagrantly thwarted the will of the people in foisting his policies upon us through abuses of power, legislative trickery, unseemly, unethical deals, and worse. He has acted decidedly un-presidential in slandering and bullying his opponents, has repeatedly played the race card, and has misrepresented his signature legislation for all to see. Even some of the conservatives who decided to hitch their wagon to him admitted at the outset they simply hoped he wouldn't govern according to his leftist ideology. What gave them this hope is beyond rational comprehension, but surely most of them have now seen the light. In fact, it's remarkable that Obama has any significant support at all. I daresay that most of his remaining supporters are probably among those not "contributing" income taxes to our general revenues.

Posted by Abdul at September 2, 2010 12:55 PM

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