In 2008, conservative publisher Regnery pumped out a quickie campaign book titled "The Case Against Barack Obama." Its author, the young political reporter David Freddoso, debunked several conspiracy theories about the Democratic nominee for president, including the latest birther drivel. Mr. Freddoso's sober case against Mr. Obama was grounded in his subject's actual experience in Illinois politics.
The Chicago pol could talk a good game, Mr. Freddoso argued, but the record showed he was no passionate liberal reformer. His career was funded by developers and made possible by the cooperation of corrupt Chicago fixers, and he wasn't above playing dirty. To wit, when Mr. Obama first ran for office, his handlers managed to kick all of his opponents off the ballot. Mr. Freddoso predicted that any reforms a President Obama enacted would not be real contributions toward more progressive politics but rather corporatist Frankenstein creations.
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