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NYT: Anti-Obama book follows '04 script

Aug 13, 2008
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Author who launched Swift Boat attacks in '04 takes aim at '08 nominee Matthew Cavanaugh / Getty Images file Jerome Corsi, co-author of the anti-John Kerry book "Unfit For Command," claims that Barack Obama has covered up his ties to Islam — Obama is a Christian — and glossed over his drug use — Obama says he "stopped getting high" in the 1980s. By Jim Rutenberg and Julie Bosman WASHINGTON - In the summer of 2004 the conservative gadfly Jerome R. Corsi shot to the top of the best-seller lists as co-author of “Unfit for Command,” the book attacking Senator John Kerry’s record on a Vietnam War Swift boat that began the larger damaging campaign against Mr. Kerry’s war credentials as he sought the presidency. Almost exactly four years after that campaign began, Mr. Corsi has released a new attack book painting Senator Barack... [read full story]                    

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