Should Obama remain as President of the United States?

"Writings and theories

Corsi has written about a variety of subjects, including Democratic politicians and conspiracy theories.[17] According to The Guardian, Corsi — who is Catholic — has been accused by the American press "of being anti-Islamic, anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic and homophobic, and of exploiting racial prejudices in an attempt to 'scare white America'."[18] In 2004, Corsi wrote a critical biography of then Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry called Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry. In 2005 he published Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians, which claimed Democratic politicians are corrupted by Iranian money and are helping the mullahs, who seek nuclear weapons, in Tehran.[19] That same year he co-authored Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil (2005) with Craig R. Smith.

In 2006, he co-authored Showdown with Nuclear Iran: Radical Islam's Messianic Mission to Destroy Israel and Cripple the United States with Michael D. Evans. In August 2006 he published Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America's Borders with Minutemen founder Jim Gilchrist. This book criticized President George W. Bush's border protection policies, accusing him of furthering plans to create a North American Union.[20] In May 2006, Corsi co-wrote the book Rebuilding America with Kenneth Blackwell, then Ohio secretary of state and a Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio.[21]

In March 2008 Corsi reported in WorldNetDaily that a "Muslim terrorist group with ties to criminal drug networks and al-Qaida" has given "strong support" to John McCain.[22] In 2007 Corsi wrote that he is not a Republican and complained that "the Republican Party is controlled by what used to be called the 'Rockefeller Wing'."[23] In addition, Corsi has called for the impeachment of George W. Bush."[24][25] On August 15th, 2008, Corsi endorsed Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin, who has campaigned to reopen the investigation into the September 11, 2001 attacks in support of the 9/11 Truth Movement.[26]

Corsi has also referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as a "shakedown artist".[27][28][29]"

Corsi writes for WorldNetDaily.com, a conservative-leaning news Web site. The site's headlines range from political stories to more tabloid fare such as "Astonishing photo claims: Dead Bigfoot stored on ice." Corsi also attacked John Kerry during the 2004 election with a book he co-authored, Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry.

We read Obama Nation with an eye toward checking its facts. Some of the book is a recitation of biographical information about Obama that is established and not particularly in dispute. For example, Corsi quotes extensively from Obama's memoir Dreams From My Father, and then comments disparagingly on it, which we consider legitimate political commentary.

But we also found several inaccuracies in the book. Among them:

• Though Corsi accurately quotes many times from Dreams From My Father, he makes several readily identified errors. He writes on page 48 that Obama didn't mention his sister Maya's birth in Indonesia — he did, though, on page 47 of the book. Corsi writes on pages 49 and 50 that Obama declined to dedicate the book to his relatives, but in the preface on page xvii Obama dedicates the book to "my mother, my grandparents, my siblings." Corsi writes on page 25 that Obama doesn't mention that he took his wife, Michelle, to Kenya, but Obama does mention it on page 439. Corsi also gets wrong the year that Barack and Michelle Obama married. Corsi says on page 145 it was 1995; it was actually 1992, according to Obama's marriage license. Corsi also says Obama rejected his mother and grandparents, though Obama had good relations with his mother and grandfather until their deaths and visits his grandmother regularly. Even in Obama's memoir, the senator makes it clear that he rejected the notion of separating himself from his white relatives. We rated this claim and found it Pants on Fire! Wrong.

• Corsi's description of Obama's role in Kenyan politics is filled with overt errors and errors of implication. Corsi writes incorrectly that Obama "openly supported" opposition leader Raila Odinga for office and implies that his purpose was to promote the religion of Islam. "We have to ask," Corsi writes, "whether Obama, by supporting Odinga openly in Kenya, lent his name also to endorse Odinga's leftist politics and Odinga's alliance with radical Muslims pushing Islam in Kenya." But Obama has remained neutral in Kenyan politics, stating publicly at the time of his trip that it was up to the people of Kenya to choose their own leadership. We examined the statement that Obama "openly supported" Raila Odinga for political office in Kenya and found the statement False.

• Corsi says that Obama has a "no nukes" policy and pledges to reduce the size of the military. The "no nukes" argument is a mischaracterization of Obama's approach to nuclear weapons, a claim we rated False previously. Obama also has proposed increasing the size of the military, so we found this claim False.

• To make his case, Corsi mixes references to objective news reports and the work of conservative opinion writers without differentiating between the two, referring to both items as the work of "reporters." This is confusing at best.