Buchanan also cites author David Freddoso, who in his book “The Case Against Barack Obama” says “I could find no instance in his entire career in which he voted for any regulation or restriction on the practice of abortion."
Speaking in a Tuesday phone interview with Catholic News Agency, David Freddoso described his book as an attempt to start a conversation on the “middle ground” between the people who “are smearing him on the internet for supposedly being a secret Muslim or supposedly not saluting the flag,” and those who “think he’s the messiah.”
Saying he hopes to begin a discussion that is “neither obeisant nor defamatory” about Sen. Obama, Freddoso said his book is “A look at Sen. Obama’s political and adult life just to try and see if he is the man that his multi-million dollar media campaign portrays him as,” and to see if he is the “reformer and the flexible reasonable man that the mainstream media has accepted him as.”
“I think even a cursory examination of his career puts the lie to both these ideas,” Freddoso said, arguing Obama has never been a “true reformer” or an “agent of positive change” and the idea that Obama is a reformer is a “great lie.”
“His attempt to appear ideologically flexible and moderate is deceptive and untrue, and his judgment is very poor” in his choice of personal associations, Freddoso continued.
He called Obama a “rigid and doctrinaire liberal” on many issues, for Catholics in particular because of his support for partial-birth abortion.
Freddoso claimed the Freedom of Choice Act Obama pledged to support is one that “among other things, re-legalizes partial-birth abortion.”
“People tell pro-lifers a lot that when you bring this issue up, you’re being divisive, and yet here he is promising to open that can of worms as his first act of office,” he commented.
Freddoso credited the success of “The Case Against Barack Obama,” which is currently at #5 on the New York Times bestseller list, to a “hunger” for information about the candidate because they’re “not getting the real story.”
He cited people’s surprise at discovering Obama’s support for BAIPA, but also noted their surprise at learning of Obama’s hardball tactics in his first electoral victory, in which the aspirant to political office had all of his opponents thrown off the ballot in a legal challenge.