Let Me Be Clear: Barack Obama's War on Millennial, and One Woman's Case for Hope.

• Author: Fischer, Raymond L.
• Position: Book review

LET ME BE CLEAR

Barack Obama's War on Millennial, and One Woman's Case for Hope

by Katie Kieffer

Crown Forum, New York 2014, 298 pages, $24.00

Political commentator Katie Kieffer has appeared on CNBC, MSNBC, and Fox Business network and served as a "lauded" public speaker and weekly columnist at Townhall.com. As a student at the University of St. Thomas, Kieffer founded and edited the St. Thomas Standard, an independent journal of thought and opinion. She has earned numerous public speaking awards and held various state and national leadership roles, including chair of the Young Professionals Forum of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks. A member of the Ladies of Liberty Alliance Speakers Bureau, she considers herself a spokesperson for the Millennial Generation, people born between the late 1970s and early 2000s (although some put it at a more definitive 1981-98), a time frame that encompasses around 36% of the population.

Let Me Be Clear--titled after an expression frequently used by Pres. Barack Obama--opens with a five-page letter addressed to the President. Kieffer requests Obama be accountable for "victimizing the Millennial Generation [also known as Generation Y] for political gain." She accuses Obama of twice duping Millennial "into voting for [him] and [then] implementing unconstitutional decrees that robbed Millennial of the opportunities they deserve." Obama "killed the hopes, careers, and dreams of young Americans for [his] own political gain" and caused "such extensive damage" to the Millennial Generation that Kieffer felt compelled to expose Obama's duplicity. The author advises Obama "to read this book."

The first generation to grow up with the Internet, Millennial instinctively e-mail and text. For Millennials, who are "fiscally conservative and socially libertarian," the economy ranks as the No. 1 issue, and transparency is key. The Millennials mark the first generation To do worse economically, educationally, and culturally than their parents." Obama has "created an economic situation in which many Millennials find themselves jobless and their dreams out of reach."

Kieffer defines the reasons Obama appeared on late night TV shows favored by Millennials, associated with lounge celebrities, gave a "massive sales pitch" on MTV, and "baited" 600,000 supporters on Facebook with "false promises of hope, jobs, and change." As president, Obama not only "broke his promises, but ... destroyed systems that had...