Fleeced: How Barack Obama, Media Mockery of Terrorist Threats, Liberals Who Want to Kill Talk Radio, the Do-Nothing Congress, Companies That Help Iran, and Washington Lobbyists for Foreign Governments Are Scamming Us ... and What to Do About It

This book has some interesting information in it, but I don't think it is written especially well. I had trouble staying interested in the book. It is not the kind of book that you have trouble putting down! However, there is some interesting info. in it.

When you get right down to it, that's exactly what this is. Any excuse not to elect the best man for the job in years.

Very ionformative and non-partisan. Makes you wish that the American public would wake up and throw them all out of office!

This book sat on my desk for a month before I had a chance to read it, and I would have been better off skipping it all together. The sole purpose of this diatribe is to spread fear just before the election in November. The supposed "facts" are scatological, misleading, disingenuous and outright fabrications. "Fleeced" is a means to rip Obama by instilling fear in the electorate that he is essentially an evil man with an immoral agenda. This is how the far rightwing ideologues behaved in the last two presidential elections, and it worked so why change now and try to speak the truth instead. I could list dozens of outright misleading claims, but I'll mention one a an example. True that Americans are disappointed that Congress has not achieved much since the 2006 election, but the fault is not with the Democrats as Morris would have you believe. The House has passed a number of significant bills that were sent on to the Senate and then died. But there are 50 Dems, 1 independant and 49 Republicans in a body that requires three-quarters to approve a bill. The Republicans (As they did when they ruled during Clinton's last years) continually block every single bill resulting in no bills being passed. Morris simply ignores that fact because it doesn't support his claim. This book is filled with such bizarre "facts" that simply don't stand up to investigation. This book serves as nothing more than a political agenda to continue spreading fear in the belief it will work again - and it very well may.

This book is a lie from its front cover to the back - it is nothing more than a desperate neo-conservative effort to hold onto the free ride they have had on the backs of middle-class Americans since Reagan began his systematic destruction of protections that were put in place to avoid exactly the debacle we find ourselves in now. Big oil, deregulation of all markets, corporations defining themselves as individuals, banks getting into the buying and selling of mortgages as though they were chips in a casino instead of people's lives, bail-out of multi-billion dollar corporations by the taxpayer who gets no breaks at all, but must simply tighten his belt as he watches his income dwindle, jobs go overseas, cheap goods force small businesses out, etc., etc., etc.

He claims the Dems want to raise taxes - maybe they do - on the wealthiest individuals and corporations who up to now have been paying NOTHING and reaping huge rewards. And how do you think our infrastructure is supported? Emergency services, police, firemen, flood control, roads, bridges, the elderly, disabled, children, schools. That is part of what our tax dollars are supposed to support, not bail-outs, not corporate jets, not corrupt contractors and especially not illegal wars brought about by the indisputable lies of an administration bought and paid for by big oil and multi-billion dollar interests who have no agenda other than their own pocketbooks.

Yeah, go ahead, by this big red lie. It supports the raping of America.