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...Jerome Corsi has jousted lucratively with Barack Obama, tackling the presidential candidate's reputation with a best-selling if factually challenged book that accuses the Senator of, among other things, ties to militant Islam. But Corsi may have gone a little too far into enemy territory when he flew into Kenya, the birthplace of Obama's father. Kenyan immigration officials deported Corsi, they said, over problems with his visa. They made their move before Corsi was scheduled to give a press conference at which he promised to expose secret ties between Obama and Kenyan leaders, as well as a mysterious...
...Corsi, author of The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, was in Kenya writing dispatches for the website WorldNetDaily at the invitation of Christian missionaries who fear the rise of Islam in Kenya. According to WorldNetDaily, he wanted to answer "lingering questions" about Obama's ties to Prime Minister Raila Odinga...
...Corsi was detained for about 4 1/2 hours before he was expelled. Immigration officials said the author did not have a proper permit to work in Kenya. But Corsi's publicist, Tim Bueler, told TIME that they were assured their visas and passports were in order. Corsi said he had been upfront about his intentions when he arrived. According to Corsi and Bueler, the author was told that the government had misplaced their immigration cards, which visitors fill out upon arrival at the Nairobi airport. "Dr. Corsi can return to Kenya anytime," said Bueler. "They said our passports were...
...Jerome R. Corsi Threshold Editions; 364 pages...
...sees into the soul of Barack Obama, that measures the strength of his convictions and explains why he seems to be so good at telling people what they long to hear. The Obama Nation is not that book. It reads like the worst kind of blog: slapdash, lazy, narcissistic. Corsi, who weirdly refers to himself as "we" throughout, is clearly gunning to repeat the success of the 2004 hit job Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry, which he co-authored. Early sales of Obama Nation have been strong, but readers looking for new information...