Post-American Presidency
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First, we must vote them out. We must kick them out in 2010. We must do this overwhelmingly. We must get involved in local politics. Start with your school boards and city councils. Become a precinct captain. This is what the Left has done. They run Democrats on Republican tickets while we busy ourselves with work, family, hearth, and home. We must take their game plan and use it for the good.
We have been co-opted and conquered while we slept. We cannot take the greatest country in the history of the world for granted. Do we mean for our children and grandchildren to be held hostage to nuclear terrorists and live as slaves to a crushing debt that cannot be paid?
Is that who we are? Is that our legacy?
Our parents and grandparents are thought of as the “greatest generation.” They saved the free world. They destroyed the Third Reich. How will we fight this century’s Nazis? Will we continue to shun our responsibilities to protect and defend our political and economic freedom? If we do, we will go down in history as the “worst generation”—as cowards and degenerate spenders. Our children and our grandchildren will hate us unless we stand up and fight for our freedoms, and practice peaceful civil disobedience against laws that are coercive and unconstitutional.
Samuel Adams said it in the days of the Revolution: “The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors. They purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood. It will bring a mark of everlasting infamy on the present generation—enlightened as it is—if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of designing men.”
This does not have to happen. We must choose our candidates wisely and educate the people. You must teach. People need to know who Saul Alinsky was and why his teachings are so dangerous. People need to know exactly what is wrong with socialism and statism, and why the freedom of speech is so important. People need to know why Islamic supremacism is subversive, threatening the core principles upon which our freedoms are based.
We have to get behind politicians who understand political freedom, capitalism, and Sharia. We need rugged individualists like Sarah Palin, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), and Florida congressional candidate Lt. Col. Allen West. Find ideal men and women in your community and get behind them. Men and women as they ought to be in this low state of the world. They exist.
We must elect candidates in 2010 and 2012 who oppose Obama’s socialist and internationalist policies—candidates in sufficient numbers to enable us simply to refuse funding to the post-American president’s most destructive policies.
This will be an uphill battle with the mainstream media shilling for Obama. The media has abdicated its role as public servant. The mainstream media is a corrupt, activist arm of the Hard Left. They no longer cover the news. So you must fight in that arena also. You must choose who edits your news. Find reliable news sources you trust. Become acquainted with the alternative media, the new media, the free media.
Take nothing at face value. Many of our institutions are beyond infiltration—the enemy is in charge (the State Department is a perfect example). They must be rooted out, but this cannot happen until the treasonous clowns who allowed them this access in the first place are voted out. That is what must be done or America cannot be saved.
There is no doubt in my mind that we will win, that good will triumph over evil. But at what cost?
Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean made it explicit in an April 2009 speech:
There’s not so much of a debate on the left anymore about capitalism, whether we should have it or not. There’s a debate about how to have it. I think capitalism is always going to be with us because capitalism represents part of human nature, but the other part of human nature is communitarianism. There’s a natural tendency of human beings—in addition to wanting to do things for themselves, they feel a great responsibility in wanting to be part of the community. So I think the debate for the new generation, instead of capitalism or socialism, is we’re going to have both, and then which proportion of each should we have in order to make this all work. It’s a much more sensible debate.3
And a mixed economy is exactly what Obama has planned.
You cannot have both capitalism and socialism. It’s just that simple. To attempt this is to sign the death warrant of a free nation. And so now, if America ain’t dead yet, the patient is surely on life support. Think Obama’s health-care plan: the problem is the doctor who has vowed to nurse the patient back to health, but is choosing remedies that will only make the sickness worse.
“The fundamental principle of capitalism,” says Ayn Rand, “is the separation of State and Economics—that is: the liberation of men’s economic activities, of production and trade, from any form of intervention, coercion, compulsion, regulation, or control by the government.”4
Now Obama is doing all he can to discard that fundamental principle, while rendering us subject to international authorities that do not have America’s best interests at heart, and rolling back our defenses against enemies newly emboldened by his weakness.
After just one year of the post-American presidency, on January 29, 2010, Solidarity hero and former Polish president Lech Walesa spoke of the new post-American world: “The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about it—militarily. They also lead economically, but they’re getting weak. They don’t lead morally and politically anymore. The world has no leadership. The United States was always the last resort and hope for all other nations. There was the hope, whenever something was going wrong, one could count on the United States. Today, we lost that hope.”5
Our enemies could never have defeated us; we can only defeat ourselves.
Whether Barack Hussein Obama succeeds in destroying America or not, those words could be the epitaph of his post-American presidency.
NOTES
PREFACE
1. Nicholas Kristof, “Obama: Man of the World,” New York Times, March 6, 2007.
2. Ayn Rand, The Ayn Rand Letter 1971–1976 (New Milford, Conn.: Second Renaissance Press, 1990), pp. i, 5, 24.
3. “Could US elect a Luo before Kenya?” BBC News, January 3, 2008.
4. Kirsten Scharnberg and Kim Barker, “The Not-So-Simple Story of Barack Obama’s Youth,” Chicago Tribune, March 25, 2007.
5. “President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address,” WhiteHouse.gov, January 21, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/inaugural-address.
6. Mark Silva, “Cheney: Obama ‘More Radical’ Than Seen,” Chicago Tribune, December 8, 2009, available at http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/
blog/2009/12/cheney_obama_radical.html.
7. “The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria,” FareedZakaria.com, http://www.fareedzakaria.com/books/index.html.
8. Silva, “Cheney: Obama ‘More Radical’ Than Seen.”
9. “Interview of the President by Laura Haim, Canal Plus,” WhiteHouse.gov, June 1, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/
Transcript-of-the-Interview-of-the-
President-by-Laura-Haim-Canal-
Plus-6-1-09; “Remarks by President Obama to the Turkish Parliament,” WhiteHouse.gov, April 6, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/
Remarks-By-President-Obama-To-The-
Turkish-Parliament.
ONE: OBAMA AND AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
1. Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President to the United Nations General Assembly,” WhiteHouse.gov, September 23, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office
/Remarks-by-the-President-to-the-
United-Nations-General-Assembly.
2. Jamil Dakwar, “Protecting the Constitution, At Home and Abroad,” ACLU.org, September 17, 2008, http://www.aclu.org/blog/human-rights/protecting
-constitution-home-and-abroad.
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br /> 3. “Bolder Bolton,” National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, May 7, 2009, http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?id=355&issue=015.
4. John Bolton, Surrender is Not an Option (New York: Threshold Editions, 2007), p. 89.
5. “US wins first seat on UN rights council,” Associated Press, May 12, 2009.
6. Harvey Morris, “Obama to Seal US-UN Relationship,” Financial Times, September 8, 2009.
7. Randall Mikkelsen, “U.S. drops ‘enemy combatant’ as basis for detention,” Reuters, March 13, 2009.
8. Daniel Schwammenthal, “Prosecuting American ‘War Crimes,’” Wall Street Journal, November 26, 2009.
9. Gerald Warner, “Barack Obama May Subject US Troops to International Criminal Court,” Telegraph, March 6, 2009.
10. Schwammenthal, “Prosecuting American ‘War Crimes.’”
11. Ibid.
12. Warner, “Barack Obama May Subject US Troops to International Criminal Court.”
13. Phillip Barea, “Obama to Promote International Law and Diplomacy: Future American President has Progressive World View,” Suite101.com, November 6, 2008, http://international-politics.suite101.com/article.cfm/
obama_to_promote_international_law_and_diplomacy.
14. John B. Bellinger III, “A Global Court Quandary for the President,” Washington Post, August 10, 2009.
15. Warner, “Barack Obama May Subject US Troops to International Criminal Court.”
16. Frank Jordans, “UN body OKs call to curb religious criticism,” Associated Press, March 26, 2009.
17. “Outcome Document of the Durban Review Conference,” Durban Review Conference, http://www.un.org/durbanreview2009.
18. Rukmini Callimachi, “Defame Islam, Get Sued?” Associated Press, March 14, 2008.
19. Ariel Rabkin, “Who Controls the Internet?” Weekly Standard, May 25, 2009.
20. “Obama says US can work with Muslims: OIC,” Agence France-Presse, February 1, 2009.
21. “The Secretary Announces the Office of the United States Special Representative to Muslim Countries (S/SRMC),” United States Department of State Department Notice, June 23, 2009; Patrick Goodenough, “Islamic Bloc Chief Urges Appointment of New US Envoy, But Is This It?” CNSNews.com, June 26, 2009.
22. “Biography: Farah Anwar Pandith, Special Representative to Muslim Communities,” U.S. Department of State, http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/125492.htm.
23. Stuart Taylor Jr., “Troubling Signals On Free Speech,” National Journal, October 31, 2009.
24. Eugene Volokh, “Is the Obama Administration Supporting Calls to Outlaw Supposed Hate Speech?” Huffington Post, October 1, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eugene-volokh/is-the-obama-administrati_b_307132.html.
25. Ibid.
26. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, “Speech of Secretary General at the thirty-fifth session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference,” June 18, 2008, http://www.oic-oci.org/topic_detail.asp?t_id=1144&x_key=.
27. “Obama: ‘Peace requires responsibility,’” CNN, December 10, 2009, http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12
/10/obama.transcript/index.html.
28. Sher Zieve, “Obama Begins Turnover of USA Sovereignty to International Body,” Canada Free Press, April 3, 2009, http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php
/article/9908.
29. Matthew Day, “President of Poland Signs Lisbon Treaty,” Telegraph, October 10, 2009.
30. “Barack Obama Praises EU’s Lisbon Treaty Agreement,” Telegraph, November 3, 2009.
31. Simon Johnson, “John Bolton: Lisbon Treaty Will Undermine Democracy,” Telegraph, June 8, 2008.
32. “AIM Says Media Cover-Up Obama’s Socialist-Oriented Global Tax Bill,” Accuracy In Media, February 13, 2008, http://www.aim.org/press-release/aim-says-media-cover-up-obamas-socialist-oriented-global-tax-bill.
33. David Adam, “Copenhagen Negotiating Text: 200 Pages to Save the World?” Guardian, September 28, 2009.
34. Lord Christopher Monckton, address at Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 14, 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMe5dOgbu40&feature=player_embedded.
35. Mark Steyn, “The ‘Science’ of Global Warming,” Maclean’s, December 3, 2009, http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/12/03/the-science-of-global-warming.
36. Daniel Terris, Cesare P.R. Romano, and Leigh Swigart, The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World’s Cases (Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2007), p. ix.
37. Collin Levy, “Sotomayor and International Law,” Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2009.
38. Nathan Figler, “Obama’s Supreme Pick,” American News Inc., May 26, 2009, available at http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/05/
sotomayor-gun-ownership
.html#ixzz0YVlcoSQC.
39. M. Edward Whelan III, “Harold Koh’s Transnationalism,” National Review Online’s Bench Memos, April 16, 2009, available at http://www.eppc.org/publications
/pubID.3793/pub_detail.asp#Part10.
40. Eric Lichtblau, “After Attacks, Supporters Rally Around Choice for Top Administration Legal Job,” New York Times, April 1, 2009.
41. Whelan III, “Harold Koh’s Transnationalism.”
42. Meghan Clyne, “Obama’s Most Perilous Legal Pick,” New York Post, March 30, 2009.
43. Ibid.
44. Robin Reeves Zorthian, letter to the New York Post, April 1, 2009.
45. “Sharia law in UK is ‘unavoidable,’” BBC News, February 7, 2008.
46. “The UN And International Treaties,” National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, November 25, 2009, http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=5224.
47. “Bolder Bolton,” National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action.
48. Ayn Rand, Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (New York: Signet, 1986), p. 148.
49. Andrew Bostom, “From Communism as ‘The 20th Century Islam,’ to ‘Islam as the 21st Century Communism’?” AndrewBostom.com, December 5, 2009, http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2009/
12/05/from-communism-as-%E2%80%9Cthe-20th
-century-islam%E2%80%9D-to-%E2%80%
9Cislam-as-the-21st-century-communism
%E2%80%9D/.
TWO: THE INDOCTRINATION OF BARACK OBAMA
1. Ryan Lizza, “Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama,” New Yorker, July 21, 2008.
2. Kirsten Scharnberg and Kim Barker, “The Not-So-Simple Story of Barack Obama’s Youth,” Chicago Tribune, March 25, 2007.
3. Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006), p. 274.
4. Ibid., pp. 278–279.
5. Ibid., pp. 274–275.
6. Andrew Walden, “What Barack Obama Learned from the Communist Party,” American Thinker, July 8, 2008.
7. Dan Boylan, “’08: Year of Obama,” MidWeek, January 2, 2008.
8. Walden, “What Barack Obama Learned from the Communist Party.”
9. Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father (New York: Crown Publishers, 1995), pp. 46–47.
10. Amanda Ripley, “The Story of Barack Obama’s Mother,” Time, April 9, 2008.
11. Tim Jones, “Obama’s Mom: Not Just a Girl from Kansas: Part 2,” Chicago Tribune, March 27, 2008.
12. Morgan Reynolds, “Timothy Geithner and the Ruling Class,” LewRockwell.com, February 12, 2009.
13. “Barack Hussein Obama,” Discover the Networks, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/
individualProfile.asp?indid=1511.
14. Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 98.
15. Unfit for Publication: An Investigative Report on the Lies in Jerome Corsi’s “Obama Nation,” pamphlet published by Obama for America, 2008, p. 9, available at http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&
source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAsQFjAA
&url=http%3A%2F%2Fobama.3cdn.net
%2Fa74586f9067028c40a_5km6vrqwa.pdf&
rct=j&q=%22Unfit+for
+Publication%22+Oba
ma&ei=7Zm
WS6XiIJGXtgeLjaXtDQ&usg=AFQjCNFrAQV7
ys8YYaLtgMIqIzpEiILXjw.
16. James A. Miller, “Frank Marshall Davis: Black Moods: Collected Poems,” African American Review, Summer-Fall, 2003.
17. Gerald Horne, “Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party,” Political Affairs, March 28, 2007, http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/
articleview/5047/1/32.
18. Ibid.
19. Toby Harnden, “Frank Marshall Davis, Alleged Communist, was Early Influence on Barack Obama,” Telegraph, August 22, 2008.
20. Ibid.
21. Horne, “Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party.”
22. Abul A’la Maududi, Jihad in Islam (Beirut: The Holy Koran Publishing House, n.d., originally published 1939), p. 10.
23. Art Moore, “Did CAIR founder say Islam to rule America?” WorldNetDaily, December 11, 2006.
24. Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America,” May 22, 1991, Government Exhibit 003-0085, U.S. vs. HLF, et al., p. 7(21).
25. Ahmed ibn Naqib al-Misri, Reliance of the Traveller (‘Umdat al-Salik): A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law, transl. Ha Mim Keller (Beltsville, MD: Amana Publications, 1999), o11.10.
26. Bat Yeor, “Geert Wilders and the Fight for Europe,” National Review, February 16, 2009.
27. ‘Umdat al-Salik, o4.9.
28. “McCain supporter plays up ‘Hussein,’” MSNBC First Read, February 26, 2008, http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/
archive/2008/02/26/702467.aspx.
29. Nathan Thornburgh, “Why Is Obama’s Middle Name Taboo?” Time, February 28, 2008.
30. Juan Cole, “Obama should be proud to be named Hussein,” Salon, February 28, 2008.
31. Lynn Sweet, “Obama at Florida Fund-raiser Says GOP Will Go After Him Because He is Black. Pool report,” Chicago Sun-Times, June 20, 2008.
32. Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller, “The Emergence of President Obama’s Muslim Roots,” ABC News, June 2, 2009.
33. Christi Parsons, John McCormick, and Peter Nicholas, “Barack Obama Plans to Reach Out to Muslim World,” Chicago Tribune, December 10, 2008.
34. Barack Obama, “Remarks By The President On A New Beginning,” June 4, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/