Book review: We've Been Had: How Obama and the Radicals Conned Middle Class America by James R. Keena Full disclosure/confession: I was not eager to read We've Been Had.  That was simply because I had grown very weary of its subject matter, one Barack Obama.  I am so glad that I overcame my initial resistance and read this excellent book.  It is comprehensively researched, masterfully organized, fluently written, and pleasantly free of shrillness.  I had feared a rant, but on the whole, the book is written in a comfortable, almost conversational tone.  Only in the last chapter, the call to action entitled "Meet Your Future," do the gloves come off and the tone becomes combative rather than professorial.    We've Been Had is an amazingly breezy read for an encyclopedic study (76 pages of endnotes in support of about 270 pages of text) of the President of the United States and the various influences that have shaped his character...(Read Full Post)