Post-American Presidency

by Spencer, Robert; Geller, Pamela

  Remarks-by-the-President-at-

  Cairo-University-6-04-09.

  35. “Obama’s Verbal Slip Fuels His Critics,” Washington Times, September 7, 2008.

  36. “Obama asked about connection to Islam,” MSNBC First Read, December 22, 2007, http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/

  archive/2007/12/22/531492.aspx.

  37. Tapper and Miller, “The Emergence of President Obama’s Muslim Roots.”

  38. Ibid.

  39. “Obama asked about connection to Islam.”

  40. Aaron Klein, “Obama anti-smear site: ‘He was never a Muslim,’” WorldNetDaily, June 12, 2008.

  41. Nicholas D. Kristof, “Obama: Man of the World,” New York Times, March 6, 2007.

  42. Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 154.

  43. Kim Barker, “Obama Madrassa Myth Debunked,” Chicago Tribune, March 25, 2007.

  44. Kim Barker, “History of Schooling Distorted,” Chicago Tribune, March 25, 2007.

  45. “Tracking Down Obama in Indonesia—Part 5,” An American Expat in Southeast Asia, January 28, 2007, http://laotze.blogspot.com/2007/01/

  tracking-down-obama-in-indonesia-part-5.html.

  46. “Obama and the Inconvenient Truth,” An American Expat in Southeast Asia, January 10, 2008, http://laotze.blogspot.com/2008/01/

  obama-and-inconvenient-truth.html.

  47. “Tracking Down Obama in Indonesia—Part 3,” An American Expat in Southeast Asia, January 24, 2007, http://laotze.blogspot.com/2007/01/tracking

  -down-obama-in-indonesia-part-3.html; Nedra Pickler, “Obama Debunks Claim About Islamic School,” The Associated Press, January 24, 2007. Photo of registration card at http://www.daylife.com/photo/01u33pL9Ns06D.

  48. Paul Watson, “As a Child, Obama Crossed a Cultural Divide in Indonesia,” Los Angeles Times, March 15, 2007.

  49. Jodi Kantor, “A Candidate, His Minister and the Search for Faith,” New York Times, April 30, 2007.

  50. “Obama and the Inconvenient Truth.”

  51. David A. Patten, “Obama ‘Lying’ About Muslim Past, Expert Says,” Newsmax, October 9, 2008.

  52. “The Truth About Barack’s Faith,” FightTheSmears.com, http://fightthesmears.com/articles/3/baracksfaith.

  53. “Obama Has Never Been A Muslim, And Is a Committed Christian,” dated November 12, 2007, but containing numerous later revisions, http://www.barackobama.com/factcheck

  /2007/11/12/obama_has_never_been_a_muslim_1.php.

  54. Katharine Houreld, “Obama’s grandma slams ‘untruths,’” Associated Press, March 5, 2008.

  55. “Obama’s Grandmother to Perform Haj,” Daily Times (Pakistan), May 3, 2009.

  56. “Obama’s Church,” Investor’s Business Daily, January 15, 2008.

  57. “‘Meet the Press’ transcript for Oct. 19, 2008,” MSNBC, October 19, 2008, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27266223.

  58. Obama, The Audacity of Hope, p. 261.

  59. That Muslims recite the Fatihah seventeen times daily: Abdullah Rahman, “Surat al-Fatihah,” Quran-Tafsir.org, http://www.quran-tafsir.org/; that it refers to Jews and Christians: Ibn Kathir, Tafsir Ibn Kathir (abridged), vol. 1 (Houston: Dar-us-Salam Publications, 2000), p. 87. This is the view of Tabari, Zamakhshari, the Tafsir al-Jalalayn, the Tanwir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn Abbas, and Ibn Arabi, as well as Ibn Kathir.

  60. Obama, Dreams from My Father, p. 100.

  61. Ibid., pp. 100–01.

  62. Adam Schatz, “Frantz Fanon: The Doctor Prescribed Violence,” New York Times, September 2, 2001.

  63. Deborah Lambert, “Obama, A College Marxist?” Accuracy in Academia, February 22, 2010, http://www.academia.org/obama-a-college-marxist-2/.

  64. “Barack Hussein Obama,” Discover the Networks, http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/

  individualProfile.asp?indid=1511.

  65. Ibid.

  66. David Moberg, “Obama’s Community Roots,” Nation, April 3, 2007, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070416/moberg.

  67. Ryan Lizza, “The Agitator: Barack Obama’s Unlikely Political Education,” New Republic, March 19, 2007.

  68. Andrew Walden, “What Barack Obama Learned from the Communist Party,” American Thinker, July 8, 2008.

  69. Michael Dobbs, “Obama’s ‘Weatherman’ Connection,” Washington Post, February 19, 2008.

  70. Stanley Kurtz, “Chicago Annenberg Challenge Shutdown?” National Review, August 18, 2008.

  71. George Neumayr, “Guilt by Agreement,” American Spectator, October 9, 2008.

  72. Aaron Klein, “Obama worked closely with terrorist Bill Ayers,” WorldNetDaily, September 23, 2008; Aaron Klein, “Meet Obama’s new Bill Ayers associate,” WorldNetDaily, September 14, 2008.

  73. Chris Fusco and Abdon M. Pallasch, “Who is Bill Ayers?” Chicago Sun-Times, April 18, 2008.

  74. Sammy Benoit, “White House Releases Visitors List. Soros, ACORN/SEIU and Others,” The Lid, October 30, 2009, http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/

  10/white-house-releases-visitors-listayers.html.

  75. Norm Eisen, “75,000 White House Visitor Records Posted Online,” The White House Blog, January 29, 2010, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/01/29/75000-white-house-visitor-records-posted-online.

  76. Bill Dedman, “Obama blocks list of visitors to White House,” MSNBC, June 16, 2009, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31373407.

  77. Bill Dedman, “Group sues for Obama White House visitor list,” MSNBC, December 9, 2009, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34347510.

  78 Lizza, “The Agitator: Barack Obama’s Unlikely Political Education.”

  79. Ashahed M. Muhammad, “Farrakhan: America’s Time Is Up,” The Final Call, December 2, 2009.

  80. Thomas Lipscomb, “Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s Book?” Accuracy In Media, November 27, 2009, http://www.aim.org/aim-report/

  did-bill-ayers-write-obamas-book.

  81. Klein, “Obama anti-smear site: ‘He was never a Muslim.’”

  82. Jodi Kantor, “Barack Obama’s Search for Faith,” New York Times, April 30, 2007.

  83. Lisa Miller and Richard Wolffe, “Finding His Faith,” Newsweek, July 12, 2008.

  84. “Obama’s Church.”

  85. Michael Tomasky, “Wright and Wrong,” Guardian, March 14, 2008.

  86. Pamela Geller, “Obama Refuses to Say Bombing Hiroshima Was the ‘Right Decision,’” AtlasShrugs.com, November 14, 2009, http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs

  /2009/11/obama-refuses-to-say-bombing-hiroshima

  -was-the-right-decision.html.

  87. Sammy Benoit, “White House Releases Visitors List. Soros, ACORN/SEIU and Others.”

  88. Lynn Sweet, “Senator Rebukes Kenya’s Corruption,” Chicago Sun-Times, August 29, 2006.

  89. Mark Hyman, “Obama’s Kenya Ghosts,” Washington Times, October 12, 2008.

  90. Sweet, “Senator Rebukes Kenya’s Corruption.”

  91. “Obama’s Kenya ‘honeymoon’ ends abruptly after graft rebuke,” Agence France-Presse, August 29, 2006.

  92. Thomas Mukoya and Leon Malherbe, “Some Kenyans forget crisis to root for Obama,” Reuters, January 8, 2008.

  93. Xan Rice, “Loud and Populist, but No Political Outsider,” Guardian, December 29, 2007; “About Raila,” Raila2007.com, http://www.raila07.com/about.html.

  94. Hyman, “Obama’s Kenya Ghosts.”

  95. “The Golden Chain,” Wikipedia, accessed November 23, 2009, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Chain.

  96. “How rich is Raila, the ODM-Kenya Presidential aspirant,” African Press International, April 26, 2007.

  97. Stephen Mbogo, “Outcome of Kenyan Election Could Impact Anti-Terror Cooperation,” CNSNews.com, October 17, 2007.

  98. Joshua Hammer, “The African Front,” New York Times, December 23, 2007.

  99. Daniel Blake, “Concerns Raised Over Alleged Vow to Enforce Islamic Law in Kenya,” Christian Post, December 18, 2007.

  100. Ibid.

  101. Hyman, “Obama’s Kenya Ghosts.”

 
102. Blake, “Concerns Raised Over Alleged Vow to Enforce Islamic Law in Kenya.”

  103. Bernard Namunane, “Kenya: Revealed—Raila’s Real MoU With Muslims,” Daily Nation, November 28, 2007.

  104. Ibid.

  105. Blake, “Concerns Raised Over Alleged Vow to Enforce Islamic Law in Kenya.”

  106. Ibid.

  107. David Lewis, “Violence we fled was planned, say Kenyan refugees,” Reuters, January 26, 2008.

  108. Hyman, “Obama’s Kenya Ghosts.”

  109. “Mob burns Kenyans seeking refuge in church,” CNN, January 1, 2008.

  110. Sam Kiplagat, “Kenya: Violence Planned Before Poll, Says Report,” Daily Nation, March 18, 2008.

  111. David Lewis, “Violence we fled was planned, say Kenyan refugees,” Reuters, January 26, 2008.

  112. Mike Pflanz, “I’m Barack Obama’s Cousin, Says Raila Odinga,” Telegraph, January 8, 2008.

  113. “Odinga says Obama is his cousin,” BBC News, January 8, 2008.

  114. Laura Blue, “The Demons That Still Haunt Africa,” Time, January 10, 2008.

  115. “Change and Hope: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Meets With Obama’s Cousin in Kenya,” Audacity of Hypocrisy, February 25, 2009, http://www.audacityofhypocrisy.com/2009/02/25/

  change-and-hope-iranian-president-mahmoud

  -ahmadinejad-meets-with

  -obamas-cousin-in-kenya/.

  THREE: OBAMA AND THE JEWS

  1. Caroline B. Glick, “Obama’s Failure, Netanyahu’s Opportunity,” Jewish World Review, November 13, 2009.

  2. Ali Abunimah, “How Barack Obama learned to love Israel,” The Electronic Intifada, March 4, 2007.

  3. Pamela Geller, “Obama’s Anti-Semitic Perspective… Show me your friends and I’ll show you who and what you are,” AtlasShrugs.com, October 7, 2009, http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs

  /2009/10/obamas-antisemitic-

  perspective.html.

  4. Peggy Shapiro, “Reverend Wright: The Bible and No Jews,” American Thinker, March 19, 2008.

  5. Ryan Lizza, “The Agitator: Barack Obama’s Unlikely Political Education,” The New Republic, March 19, 2007.

  6. Tony Vega, “Barack Obama’s Church Honors Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan,” Associated Content, January 8, 2008.

  7. Richard Cohen, “Obama’s Farrakhan Test,” Washington Post, January 15, 2008.

  8. Robert Wistrich, Hitler’s Apocalypse: Jews and the Nazi Legacy (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986), pp. 189–90.

  9. “Farrakhan In His Own Words,” Anti-Defamation League, May 5, 2009, http://www.adl.org/special_reports/farrakhan_own

  _words2/farrakhan_own_words.asp.

  10. Ibid.

  11. Stanley Kurtz, “History of Wright and Farrakhan,” National Review’s The Corner, April 29, 2008.

  12. Dana Milbank, “Could Rev. Spell Doom for Obama?” Washington Post, April 28, 2008.

  13. Nathan Guttman, “Farrakhan Casts Long Shadow on Campaign Trail,” Jewish Daily Forward, March 7, 2008.

  14. Rev. Jeremiah Wright, “War On Iraq IQ Test,” Mindfully.org, 2003. Quoted in Ed Lasky, “Barack Obama and Israel,” American Thinker, January 16, 2008.

  15. David Squires, “Rev. Jeremiah Wright Says ‘Jews’ Are Keeping Him from President Obama,” Newport News (VA) Daily Press, June 10, 2009.

  16. “Obama: Israeli Settlement Construction Could be ‘Dangerous,’” VOA News, November 18, 2009.

  17. Cohen, “Obama’s Farrakhan Test.”

  18. Kenneth R. Timmerman, “Obama Had Close Ties to Top Saudi Adviser at Early Age,” Newsmax, September 3, 2008.

  19. Jacob Gershman, “Saudis Funded Columbia Program At Institute That Trained Teachers,” New York Sun, March 10, 2005.

  20. Adam Daifallah, “Said Chair At Columbia Also Backed By Saudis,” New York Sun, July 23, 2003.

  21. Gershman, “Saudis Funded Columbia Program At Institute That Trained Teachers.”

  22. Aaron Klein, “Obama worked with terrorist: Senator helped fund organization that rejects ‘racist’ Israel’s existence,” WorldNetDaily, February 24, 2008.

  23. Ed Lasky, “The Said-Khalidi-Obama Connection,” American Thinker, October 22, 2008.

  24. Klein, “Obama worked with terrorist: Senator helped fund organization that rejects ‘racist’ Israel’s existence.”

  25. “McCain Campaign Accuses L.A. Times of ‘Suppressing’ Obama Video,” Los Angeles Times, October 29, 2008.

  26. Peter Wallsten, “Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Obama,” Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2008.

  27. Wallsten, “Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Obama.”

  28. Federal Election Commission, “Foreign Nationals,” July 2003, http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/foreign.shtml.

  29. “Obama’s Gazan Contributions,” AtlasShrugs.com, July 31, 2008; Pamela Geller, “Obama’s Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes,” American Thinker, August 14, 2008.

  30. Video at http://www.youtube.com

  /watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g.

  31. http://watchdog.net/p/barack_obama.

  32. 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, pp. 7–8 (21–22).

  33. Ibid.

  34. Glenn R. Simpson, “Tangled Paths: A Sprawling Probe Of Terror Funding Centers in Virginia,” Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2004.

  35. “Muslims in fed terror probe making donations to Obama,” WorldNetDaily, August 29, 2008.

  36. “Gaza’s Obama campaign,” Al-Jazeera English, March 31, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21YF7ggCG6g.

  37. “Obama advisor calls for a military invasion of Israel,” YouTube, September 7, 2008, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oFkmcZT4OO.

  38. Shmuel Rosner, “Obama’s Top Adviser Says Does not Believe in Imposing a Peace Settlement,” Haaretz, August 27, 2008.

  39. Michael Rubin, “Obama Adviser Samantha Power on Israel, ‘Jenin Massacre,’” National Review’s The Corner, February 11, 2008.

  40. Sholto Byrnes, “Interview: Samantha Power,” New Statesman, March 6, 2008.

  41. “Statement by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on the Appointment of Two Senior Officials Responsible for Iraqi Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons,” White House press release, August 14, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/

  Statement-by-Press-Secretary-Robert

  -Gibbs-on-the-Appointment-of-Two-Senior-

  Officials-Responsible-for-Iraqi-

  Refugees-and-Internally-Displaced-Persons/.

  42. Aaron Klein, “Obama Policy Adviser Raises Israeli Concerns,” Jewish Week, January 30, 2008.

  43. Tom Baldwin, “Barack Obama Sacks Adviser Over Talks with Hamas,” Times (London), May 10, 2008.

  44. “Obama Promises Improved Ties With Egypt, Syria,” Middle East Newsline, November 5, 2008.

  45. Klein, “Obama Policy Adviser Raises Israeli Concerns.”

  46. Alex Spillius, “Obama supporter accuses Jews of ‘McCarthyism,’” Independent.ie, May 27, 2008.

  47. Gerald Posner, “How Obama Flubbed His Missile Message,” The Daily Beast, September 18, 2009.

  48. Rosa Brooks, “Israel Can’t Bomb Its Way to Peace,” Los Angeles Times, January 1, 2009.

  49. Rosa Brooks, “Criticize Israel? You’re an Anti-Semite!,” Los Angeles Times, September 3, 2006.

  50. “Obama Names Israel Critic to Intelligence Board,” Jerusalem Post, October 29, 2009.

  51. “Indecisive Senator Hagel has Questionable Israel Record,” National Jewish Democratic Council, March 12, 2007, http://njdc.typepad.com/njdcs_blog/

  2007/03/indecisive_sena.html.

  52. “Obama Names Israel Critic to Intelligence Board.”

  53. Sammy Benoit, “Obama Appoints Another Israel-Hating Adviser: Chuck Hagel,” The Lid, October 28, 2009, http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-

  appoints-another-israel-ha
ting.html.

  54. “Terms of Service,” Organizing for America, http://www.barackobama.com/terms/.

  55. Tom Burnett, “Open discussion includes all points of view,” Organizing for America, June 23, 2008, http://my.barackobama.com/page/community

  /post/tcburnett/gG5hnt; Pamela Geller, “Obama Bans His Own Words But Sanctions Overthrow Of Congress & Jew Hate,” AtlasShrugs.com, July 1, 2008, http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs

  /2008/07/obama-deletes-h.html.

  56. Bill Levinson, “Obama’s Web Site Blows its Disclaimer, Now Responsible for All Hate Speech,” Israpundit, June 28, 2008, http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=1427.

  57. Bill Levinson, “Obama Blogger: ‘Jews owe Africa and Africans everything they have today,’” Israpundit, April 7, 2008, http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=687.

  58. Bill Levinson, “‘Nazi Israel:’ Obama’s Official Web Site Equates Israel to Nazi Germany,” Israpundit, October 4, 2009, http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=17346.

  59. “Israeli intel warns Netanyahu on Obama policy: ‘We have become an obstacle,’” World Tribune, April 21, 2009.

  FOUR: OBAMA AND ISRAEL

  1. Caroline Glick, “Our World: Obama’s New World Order and Israel,” Jerusalem Post, February 9, 2009.

  2. Helene Cooper, “U.S. to Give $900 Million in Gaza Aid, Officials Say,” New York Times, February 23, 2009.

  3. Josef Federman, “UN halts aid to Gaza, cites Hamas disruption,” Associated Press, February 6, 2009.

  4. Caroline Glick, “Column One: Obama’s Green Light to Attack Iran,” Jerusalem Post, May 7, 2009.

  5. Barak Ravid and Natasha Mozgovaya, “Obama Gets Tougher with Israel on Palestinians, Iran,” Haaretz, May 5, 2009.

  6. Glick, “Column One: Obama’s Green Light to Attack Iran.”

  7. Louis Charbonneau, “U.S. wants Israel, India in anti-nuclear arms treaty,” Reuters, May 5, 2009.

  8. “Sen. Obama’s Letter to U.N. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad,” Organizing for America, January 22, 2008, http://my.barackobama.com/page/community

  /post/adamweissmann/g G5hjN.

  9. “Obama under fire for comment on Palestinians,” Associated Press, March 15, 2007.

  10. Justin Elliott, “Obama’s Israel Shuffle,” Mother Jones, February 2008.

  11. Lynn Sweet, “Obama’s AIPAC speech: Text as prepared for delivery,” Chicago Sun-Times, March 2, 2007.