Divider-in-Chief: The Fraud of Hope and Change [Hardcover]

Kate Obenshain (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 4, 2012

[Read by Nicole Vilencia]

When Barack Obama ran on a platform of ''hope and change'' four years ago, he promised to unite the country. But as Kate Obenshain reveals in Divider-in Chief, Obama has done exactly the opposite. Rather than seeking common sense, pro-American solutions, he has pursued far-left policies, a radical leftist agenda, and an attitude that's both condescending and dismissive of Main Street America. As a result, America has become a nation of even greater polarization and disillusionment.

In Divider-in-Chief,Obenshain exposes -
*how Obama pushed for the HHS mandate, forcing people of faith to violate their conscience;
*how Obama has condoned the actions of Occupy Wall Street, saying, ''You are the reason I ran for office,'' while he vilifies free markets and businessmen across America;
*how Obama seizes on opportunities to highlight racial discord and then accuses any critic of being ''a racist'';
and
*that, although Obama ran as a champion for the downtrodden, the unemployment rate is disproportionately high among minorities and women

Obenshain paints a picture of a president who promotes class warfare, aggravating racial, gender, and economic differences in order to advance his ideological agenda. Searing and controversial, Divider-in-Chief makes the case that we must defeat Barack Obama before he tears our nation apart.

--This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Editorial Reviews

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''Kate Obenshain has written one of the best takedowns of Obama I've read. If you have friends still bedazzled by the fraudulent rhetoric of hope and change, give them this book, and wipe that smile right off their face. Divider-in-Chief reveals the radical presidency of Barack Obama for exactly what it is -- the most divisive, polarizing, and balkanizing in American history.'' --David Limbaugh, New York Times bestselling author

''Kate Obenshain has written a penetrating and astute book about the Obama political method. Highly recommended.'' --Peter Schweizer, New York Times bestselling author

''Here is the book to have handy as Obama pursues his re-election strategy of dividing Americans along lines of race, religion, sex, and economic class. As Obenshain notes, 'Whether Obama wins or loses, the country he promised to unite, the nation he pledged to heal, will be far more deeply divided than on the day he took office in 2009.''' --David Freddoso, New York Times bestselling author and editorial page editor of the Washington Examiner

''Kate Obenshain's new book Divider-in-Chief is an outstanding expose' of the hypocrisy, cynicism, and, extremism of the Obama administration. He claimed to be a uniter, but Kate's book identifies where and how he has been the ultimate divider of Americans. If Obama is shown the door after the 2012 election, Kate's book will be one of the reasons why everyone needs to read this before November!'' --Sean Hannity, host of Hannity's America

''Kate Obenshain's Divider-in-Chief is a devastating portrait of America's most polarizing president. She exposes his advertised politics of civility and unity as an utter sham -- a demagogic plot that not only divides Americans from each other but also divides them from the founding principles of the country.'' --George Neumayr, coauthor of No Higher Power: Obama's War on Religious Freedom --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

From the Inside Flap

Barack Obama was supposed to be a new kind of politician—one who stood aside from partisan politics, who would unite America and listen respectfully to opposition voices.

Well, that didn’t last very long. Instead, America has endured the most divisive—the most extremist—presidency ever, as Obama has pitted men against women, so-called rich against poor, young against old, blacks and Hispanics against whites, feminists against Catholics, secularists against people of faith, and on and on, hoping to slice and dice Americans to his own electoral advantage.

Instead of commander in chief, it would be more appropriate to call Obama the hypocrite in chief, or, as author Kate Obenshain dubs him, the Divider-in-Chief.

Obenshain pulls back the curtain on just how cynically President Obama has put his ideological and electoral interests ahead of the national interest.

In Divider-in-Chief she reveals:

• How Obama’s anti-“rich” policies have hurt the middle class, women, recent graduates, and minorities most of all
  
• How Obamacare serves the interests of Washington bureaucrats—but heaps extra burdens on small businesses, women, and young people
  
• How Obama absurdly spun the Obamacare power grab into an alleged Republican “war on women”
  
• Why Obama continues to threaten religious freedom and the First Amendment—hint: it’s all about power
  
• Obama’s conning of the young—how he capitalized on their optimism but left them unemployed and buried by college debt
  
• The Racial Divider: how Obama has pitted Americans against each other on the basis of race
  

Divider-in-Chief is shocking in its detail and stunning in its depiction of Obama’s unbridled lust for power. To be fully informed for the 2012 election and beyond, you have to read Divider-in-Chief.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Regnery Publishing; First Edition/ First Printing edition (September 4, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1621570118
• ISBN-13: 978-1621570110
• Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 5.9 x 8.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,666 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #81 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > United States > Executive Branch

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77 of 94 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The Obama Agenda: Divide, Conquer, and Silence September 4, 2012

By A.C. Lagarde

Format:Hardcover

Before reading Kate Obenshain's Divider-in-Chief, I had a dim perception that there was something fundamentally different about the Obama presidency, a sense that there was "something rotten in the state of Denmark". Still, I was unable to put my finger on exactly what was causing this sense of foreboding, this grim acceptance of the "new normal". However, in Divider-in Chief , Obenshain highlights with laser clarity specific incidents in which Obama, through cold calculation, (not to mention legislative circumnavigation) attempted to divide Americans along the lines of race, class, sex, generation, and perhaps most glaringly: religion, all in an effort to produce the alienation that would enable him to divide and conquer.

Although this book is not a biography, Obenshain does give some background information on Obama's time at Harvard Law and his early days as a "community organizer" under the tutelage of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, in order to illustrate his character. In the early chapters of her book, she zeros in on Obama's fatal flaw, his "defining characteristic (which) is also his greatest liability: ego". She also points out his failure to connect with Americans, highlighting his "contempt for middle -class mores, culture, and aspirations". She illustrates the "out-of-touch" president with a humorous anecdote from the campaign trail ."But Obama was unable to speak the language of working or middle class voters. Whereas Hillary would throw back a shot of whiskey at a bar in rural Indiana, Obama would ask perplexed Iowans, `Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?'" Let them eat cake!

With great courage, (Dare we call it "audacity"?) Obenshain pulls no punches in analyzing Obama's faith, calling it "overtly political".... "Obama's faith background is too deeply rooted in race, which makes even raising the issue of Obama's faith complicated....This leaves Obama free to invoke his faith whenever he wants with little chance that he will be criticized or challenged for it. To Obama, talking about God and faith is a way to shut down debate of controversial issues."

But perhaps the book's greatest strength lies in its thorough examination of the history of Obama's presidency: namely, what he did (and failed to do) and how he did it. Here, Obenshain gives us the play-by-play from the executive orders of his first days in office, (closing Gitmo, restoring taxpayer funding of overseas abortion groups, and lifting the ban on taxpayer funding of human embryo stem cell research) to the recent HHR mandate: his personal war on religious freedom. As a busy person who doesn't have the time or inclination to sift through the various media, I am profoundly grateful for Obenshain's concise presentation of the facts. Divider-in-Chief is well-written, organized into short chapters with sub-headings, enabling one to read in snippets of borrowed time and facilitating later reference, which the reader is sure to want to do! Although the subject of the Obama presidency is a serious one, there is still much that is entertaining about this book. The reader may even be inspired to read aloud certain passages: I did! I was particularly impressed by the amount of meat-and-potatoes information presented in this book, all within 218 pages, thus giving the reader plenty of time to digest it before the election.

And finally, Obenshain's strength lies in her ability to show, not tell. Thus, while her presentation is thorough and complete in itself, it also serves as a springboard for further reflection, allowing the reader to draw his own conclusions. Therefore, Divider-in-Chief is a book for liberal-minded readers all along the political spectrum and is sure to excite much thought and discussion. As Obenshain herself puts it, "The system falls apart not when differing ideas exist and are debated vigorously, but rather when the debate is shut down". Here's to that, and here's to Obenshain for reminding us! Read more ›

36 of 47 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for election September 6, 2012

By Frank Birckhead

Format:Hardcover

This book is a complete and authoritative review of all that Obama has done to divide the country. One of the things I liked best about the book is that it can be read as separate chapters based on your interest. I suggest that people who are interested in helping Romney win the election buy this book, read it entirely, and then give it to your friends who might be on the fence and ask them to read specific chapters that will interest them. You then might entice them read the entire book as they get their eyes opened.

Most people on the fence are just plain uninformed. While the old saying "You can take a horse to the trough, but you can't make him drink the water" is true as it pertains to getting people to think about politics, this does book makes it as easy as possible to get them to drink the water.

Great book. Very informative and well researched

31 of 42 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars An insightful framework to view the President's destructive tactics of dividing Americans against each other August 24, 2012

By Chip Muir

Format:Hardcover

Political books proliferate during Presidential election years. With so many appearing during this particularly heated and fundamentally important election, the politically astute reader has to ask oneself why he or she should purchase any one of the books over another. Fortunately, Kate Obenshain's "Divider-in-Chief" provides no shortage of answers to that question.

When I read non-fiction, I like to read with a pen. I read them as educational texts. If they are particularly well written, they should shape how I think about issues or events going forward. I think Ms. Obenshain's book will have that affect on me.

I have spent eight years as a criminal prosecutor, and the first note I wrote in the margin is that this book reads like an indictment for the crimes of failing to run an effective American government and conduct unbecoming of a President. I think Ms. Obenshain understood that her tone and language came across that way, because at the top of the following page she writes, "This book is not an indictment of division in political discourse," but in the next paragraph explains what is implicitly under indictment is Mr. Obama's seeming goal of the subjugation of differing points of view to his personal ideology. And therein lies the simple beauty of this book.

The book is simple because it is only 219 pages long and does not go into an in depth discussion of policy details. However, it is beautiful because despite that brevity, the book has a central message and every example fits perfectly into that message, which is this President puts politics over policy through a systematic attempt to pit group against group, while demonizing any group against him with insincere appeals and meaningless rhetorical language.... The rest of the book categorically examines the matchups of who is being pitted against whom, while also taking the additional step of examining the strategy behind playing these people off each other.

From Reagan's inauguration through the end of George W. Bush's second term, American citizens largely had the sense that the President made the choices he thought were best for the nation as a whole. Though individual citizens may have disagreed with the policy, most people never really questioned the underlying motives of the President. This Presidency has been unique when set against his predecessors. No one has had the sense that there is a plan in place. There has been no budget to set spending priorities reflective of our national priorities for instance. The result has been that each act is viewed in isolation, and has left many Americans wondering, "What is the President thinking?" or "Why would the President do this?" Ms. Obenshain's book is the first attempt I have seen to take all of those isolated actions and put them into one analytical framework in which to view this President's first term.

Taking the thesis that the President has a leftist political agenda that does not fit within the constraints imposed by the Constitution, Ms. Obenshain examines the way segments of the American population are affected by this divide and conquer strategy and is able to prove her hypothesis rather conclusively. The book begins with Mr. Obama's political background as a community organizer, and how the training he received to approach politics then is informing his tactics now that he is in charge of the federal government. Voting blocs are appealed to in a way that stokes resentment for the another group and are pandered to with false promises that their lives will be made better by following the organizer's lead against that group. The organizers then search for an enemy upon whom blame can be placed for each and every wrong in their segment's lives. They stoke the anger of the group and focus it on one issue. This focus conveniently helps that group ignore all of the other ways in which the organizers will eventually hurt them, or where the organizers are actually at odds with their beliefs.

When this Presidency is viewed through the lens of the constant search for straw men to serve as enemies, it does, for the first time, begin to make sense. For the first time it seems as if they have had a plan all along, and for obvious reasons have chosen not to articulate it to the American public.

Ms. Obenshain then demonstrates, frequently using the President's own words, the specific divisions are a political strategy. She cites the way in which the President has accused the Republican Party of waging a "war" against women, which is really just objection to abortion, while pointing out the ways in which the President has tacitly ordained the actual war on women being waged by Wahabbi Islamists in the Middle East. She discusses his pandering to Muslim nations, even using NASA as a tool of Muslim outreach, and its purpose of courting social liberals. Thereafter she discusses more social liberal outreach to the Jewish Hollywood community. While none of those examples may surprise the reader, the interesting connections drawn by Ms. Obenshain is that the groups should have a dislike for each other. Social liberals, especially the ones accusing the GOP of waging a war on women, should utterly abhor the honor killings in the Middle East, while his appeals to Iran and Palestine should cause the Jewish community deep concern about the future viability of Israel. However, following the rules he learned as a community organizer, he is able to focus the outrage of each group on their big issue against an enemy of his propping, while discouraging any contrary views or investigation into the motivations of his own views.

Despite its relatively few pages, the book is filled with example after example demonstrating the political tactics (and conversely, lack of governing skill) that Americans have endured since Mr. Obama's inauguration. The theme is repeated through Mr. Obama's actions against the middle class, African-Americans, the Catholic Church, the business community, and any other voting bloc in the country.

The book is written in a direct way in which the points come out cleanly, making the book eminently readable. But as said at the beginning of this review, despite its seemingly simplicity, the end result of reading this book is that you will not only be more informed on what this President has done during his term, but you will also be given a point of view that will allow you to place the rationale for all of his future, seemingly random decisions and campaign points that do nothing to benefit the average American citizen. If the book is, as I've suggested, an indictment on the failed leadership of this administration, Ms. Obenshain provides more than enough evidence for the reader to hand down a verdict on Election Day. Read more ›

20 of 28 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Puts A Light on the Real Barack Obama September 2, 2012

By John J. Fox

Format:Hardcover

This book should be mandatory reading for every American voter prior to the November 2012 Presidential election. Using facts backed up by endnotes, Kate Obenshain has provided a cogent and daunting indictment of four years under Obama rule. And Obama rule is the correct description as the author outlines the congressional and constitutional end-runs this president has utilized when he wants his way. Sadly, his way always seems to be the issuance of some type of policy or edict that benefits one of his voting coalitions which is usually to the detriment of Main Street America.

The optimism of a new fresh face seems to have helped garner votes for Barack Obama in 2008. Obama promised to bridge the "divide" in America and bring all of us together again. Of course, if the media had done its job of vetting candidate Obama's resume in 2008 then this book might not have been necessary. In the chapter "Obama Bullies the Media", Obenshain reveals how Obama enjoyed an 8 to 1 advantage over McCain amongst mainstream journalists. Scary! Yet, she traces the problem to the academic world, where Obama still enjoys an absurd percentage of support. Guess who's teaching those young journalism students?

One chapter titled "Obama's Generational Theft" should be of special interest to those voters who are 18-30 years-old. The boomerang generation has been especially decimated after recent college graduation, faced with enormous student loans while being unable in this economy to find decent jobs in their chosen fields. Obenshain highlights the Huffington Post article [May 13, 2011] that notes the huge percentage of recent college grads who have had to move back home thanks to the current economic realities of America under Obama.... If that's not reality smack dab in the nose then look at Obama's budget deficit in 2010 of $1.29 Trillion; 2011 of $1.3 Trillion; 2012 of $1.3 Trillion; and 2013 of projected $901 Billion! Who is going to pay for this? She shows how this president is robbing their future to pay for his spending now.

The author goes into some detail about the nonsensical media-driven war on women blamed on the Republicans when it actually is the camouflaged agenda of the divisive Obama. The abortion obsessed left will stand up for women - as long as the women are not conservative. The reader is left wondering why Planned Parenthood receives a penny of taxpayer money when the group endorses Obama's campaign and launches a $1.4 million ad campaign attacking Romney?

The author also delves into the work of the Obama State Department under Hillary Clinton. Again the reader is left wondering why U. S. tax dollars are used to promote gay rights worldwide, yet when discrimination of Christians, usually in Muslim countries, is brought to the attention of administration officials, the only sound is silence.

Whether it is race-baiting, playing the Hispanic card or reach outs to Muslims, President Obama's transparent administration does it all. Thankfully, Kate Obenshain's Divider-In-Chief is right there to do the job that the complicit mainstream media will not do - shine the light of truth on Barack Obama and his liberal dangerous cronies.

John J. Fox III
author, The Confederate Alamo: Bloodbath at Petersburg's Fort Gregg on April 2, 1865 Read more ›