While you can't fault everything in the book, and while the author does criticize both major political parties to some extent, the clear purpose of the book, put out during the Presidential primary campaign season, was to swing voters to the authors conservative views. Like many in talk radio, he's got strong opinions as seen through his conservative perspective, and you'll hear his side of the argument as to how the NY Times is too liberal, how Iraq will become a terrorist haven and how the economy will collapse if Obama is elected, etc. Morris is a political consultant, who's worked for both parties as well as on foreign election campaigns, and he's currently is involved in conservative media activities. With the 2008 election concluded, there's not much purpose in telling the readers how the Country will suffer if Obama gets elected. It's over. The best use of this book now might be to re-read it four (or eight) years from now, and see how good (or bad) a prognosticator Morris was in his doom and gloom view of a possible Democratic Party victory. ( )

Generally I hate these kind of books and have to read one once in awhile to remind myself. I keep waiting for him to explain how the 2008 election of a possible democrat also caused the tsunami in 2011. Yeah it's one of those books. It even starts with a lost of vague "facts" at the start which almost made me wretch because most people probably believe them word for word. ( )

Most of this was out of date before I read it but most of what Morris writes about and regrets that Obama would do, he did. Its a breezy account of the rampant anti-American attitude expressed by the elites in Washington but Morris at least has some credibility as a former top Clinton aid. He does offers suggestions and plans to act which based on the awareness of the American people has thankfully in the meantime begun to emerge. His series of books are written for the fairly aware person who wants to know more about how D.C. is selling the American people down the drain.

I suspect the reason this book has not been reviewed or owned by many other LibraryThing folks, is that it is viewed to be partisan in its presentation. Except for a one or two sections, I found that not to be the case. In fact I found it to be very even handed in pointing out issues, blame, and what can be done to fix it. I especially enjoyed the section regarding our sub-prime mortgage debauch. It explains very clearly how we built a house of cards. ( )