Currently re-making the rounds on FB posts, resurrected after total discrediting in 2008, 2009-10, etc., and on social media, where there is no intelligence requirement for admission, Tea Party and "conservative" blaze-morons are posting a picture of President Obama getting on a plane, with the book THE POST AMERICAN WORLD in hand.
Naturally, none of these morons have read this book, none know who wrote it or what it is about. They are outraged over the title. This is the sum and substance of their paper thin knowledge base and credibility.
Actually, the book is a patriotic, exhaustively researched, scholarly work by one of the best writers and thinkers of our time, Fareed Zakariah, an American citizen...indeed, a PROUD American citizen.
In addition, the book is positive, realistic- clearly exploring politics, economics and world history-- especially recent geopolitical developments and changes which change the order of commerce and economic balance of power in the world. It is a fascinating, deeply reflective, historically accurate, well written, informative book. To know that there are politicians who think deeply enough to read and explore it is a GOOD thing.
Unlike my idiot second cousins in the party of the toothless, I have, in fact, read the book and the sequel.
To think there are people who know nothing about it, using a photo to suggest it is an anti American subversive work is to give yet another reason why we need the opportunity to erase the Tea Party from Congress in 2014. Every one of them.
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