Can I give this a zero-star rating without having read all (or much) of it? Not even I could be so masochistic! I was interested in checking it out (literally; it's a library copy) only because of the complaints about its classification as nonfiction. Its Library of Congress number actually puts it on the same shelf as the other, genuine, works on and by Obama. The "diaries" themselves are, of course, fiction (especially if you define fiction as "made-up crap"). But since the bulk of the book is Ingraham's rambling rant, which could conceivably be read as satirical editorializing or polemic, it is "nonfiction." I should say here that my distaste for this book isn't just out of political prejudice; I'd be happy to read P.J. O'Rourke trashing the Democrats and their leader. O'Rourke's writing is always smart and funny, Ingraham's the exact opposite. It's the sort of hypocritical stuff you can hear any day from a Fox News opinionator: "The fight for freedom never ends; it just changes form. In the Revolutionary War, our citizens took up muskets against the British. In the civil rights struggle, Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus." And so on. As if Laura Ingraham, if she'd been writing in 1955 instead of 2010, wouldn't have attacked the civil rights agitators every bit as contemptuously as she goes after Obama now...