Obama is even more pro-abortion than Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., which is hard to be. In the Illinois Senate, he voted against the law to ban partial-birth abortion, and against the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act.

Later, he said, if his daughters "make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby." When the Rev. Rick Warren asked Obama when life begins, he said he couldn't reply because that "is above my pay grade."

In that same televised interview, Warren asked Obama whom he would call on for advice. His response was his wife Michelle, whose Princeton thesis showed she shares Barack's bitterness about race, and his aging grandmother in Hawaii.

When Obama ran for the Illinois Senate, he had four primary opponents including the black female incumbent. In a remarkable and probably unique display of political chicanery, Obama managed to get the Chicago political machine to throw all the other four off the ballot by challenging the names on their petitions, so that Obama ran unopposed.

Axelrod and Obama have decided to run a presidential campaign on the cult of personality and character. If that's the battleground of the 2008 race, Corsi's book provides all the information needed to defeat him.

Maybe Hillary Clinton's top strategist and pollster, Mark Penn, had it right when he wrote this in a secret memo on May 19, 2007, recently unearthed by Atlantic magazine. Obama lacks "American roots" and "is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values."