The Book of Obama From Hope and Change to the Age of Revolt

by RALL, TED

• ISBN13: 9781609804503
• ISBN10: 1609804503
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-05
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press

Summary

How did a charismatic young president elected in an atmosphere of optimism and expectation lead the United States to the brink of revolution? From a chance encounter in the early 1980s to the Democratic primaries of 2007-08, syndicated columnist and political cartoonist Ted Rall was one of the first to size up Barack Obama as we know him now: conservative, risk-averse and tonedeaf. In The Book of ObamaRall revisits the rapid rise and dizzying fall of Obama--and the emergence of the Tea Party and Occupy movements--and draws a startling conclusion: We the People weren't lied to. We lied to ourselves, both about Obama and the two-party system. We voted when we ought to have revolted.

Author Biography

Twice the winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and a Pulitzer Prize finalist, TED RALL is a political cartoonist, opinion columnist, graphic novelist and occasional war correspondent whose work has appeared in hundreds of publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Village Voice, and Los Angeles Times. He is the illustrator of the full-length comic in Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps, written by Greg Palast.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Hope, Change, and All Those Wiggly Jazz Fingers	p. 23
The American Fall: The Occupy Movement	p. 29
The Swindle Begins	p. 33
Hope	p. 40
In the Beginning, There Was a Former Community Organizer from Chicago	p. 41
The Wannabe Emperor's Hart Schaffiner Marx Suit Is Uninhabited	p. 49
An Unreasonable Man	p. 60
Don't Look Back	p. 62
Party Like It's 1929	p. 65
It's the Torture, Stupid	p. 73
Change You Can Bereave In	p. 79
Face It, Liberals: He's Just Not That Into You	p. 82
The Beginning of the End	p. 89
Fourth: What Obama Did	p. 97
What If They Gave the Presidency and No Protesters Came?	p. 98
George W. Bush, Jr.	p. 110
Keeping a Promise He Should Have Broken	p. 117
Obama Loses His Last Excuse for Inaction	p. 124
Money for Nothing	p. 129
Assassin-in-Chief	p. 135
The Great American Healthcare Swindle	p. 137
Too Deep to Fail	p. 141
The Cavalry Isn't Coming. Stop. Regrets. Stop.	p. 148
The Age of Revolt	p. 153
Revolt on die Right: The Tea Party	p. 155
Foreclosure for Fun and Profit	p. 159
Stage Left: Exit the Moderates	p. 168
Occupy before Occupy: The Obama Effect	p. 182
Democracy and Freedom: Good for Other Countries, Not Ours	p. 186
Libya: Another War We Can't Believe In	p. 190
Rise of the Left: Occupy Wall Street	p. 208
Better Late Than Never	p. 214
About the Author	p. 235
About Seven Stories Press	p. 237
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