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The Obama Diaries
The Obama Diaries
Author: Laura Ingraham
ISBN-13: 9781439197516
ISBN-10: 1439197512
Publication Date: 7/13/2010
Pages: 272
Rating:
  • Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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2.8 stars, based on 24 ratings
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Book Type: Hardcover
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SGTBob avatar reviewed The Obama Diaries on + 156 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
Treated as a piece of FICTION, this book is a fun and intertaining read. If you begin to take the information as NONFICTION, then you are missing the point entirely. Laura is a Right Wing Commentator and NOT a jouralist. Keep your perspectives in order when reading this book and you will enjoy a pleasant and entertaing read.
Minehava avatar reviewed The Obama Diaries on + 829 more book reviews
What Laura Ingraham attempts to do in "The Obama Diaries" falls apart in my opinion. It turns out to be a somewhat surreal rant. By way of comparison, I later thought of the 70's parody: "Energy Crisis '74" by Dickie Goodman (which reached #33 on the Billboard chart at the time). That song was a mock interview of the President (although President Nixon was never mentioned by name) and other world leaders. Each interview question was followed by a single line or two from a popular current song. It was hilarious! However, it would have been much less hilarious if it had been 3 hours long rather than 3 minutes long.

When we put words in someone else's mouth, to be funny, (and sometimes it can be funny!) we should be brief and the statement should have some basis in reality. Otherwise it resembles something more like a schoolyard taunting--that is, lacking in humor, and hinting of a smug echo of "nyah, nyah...nyah, nyah, nyah" --behind the back of a person you hold up as the object of scorn and derision.