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by Spencer, Robert; Geller, Pamela


  impotence of, 163–64

  inauguration of, xiv, 107, 110, 138, 179–80, 182–83, 198, 211, 305, 323

  internationalism of, xvi, xix, 1–6, 12–16, 20, 22–24, 26, 28, 31, 33, 41, 65, 83, 156–57, 171–76, 198, 220, 226, 317, 321, 328–29

  Joker poster of, 238–39, 242

  leftist associates and policies of, 59–62, 67, 181, 242, 301

  media takeover of, 237–38

  middle name of, 47–49

  myopia of, 168–69

  Nobel Peace Prize of, 11, 22, 174–75, 200, 288, 293, 322

  personality cult of, 279–81, 287–88

  physical appearance of, xvi, 55, 60

  popularity of, xviii, 73–76, 79, 97, 104–7, 208–9

  presidential campaign of, xviii, 1, 14, 35, 39–42, 47–48, 50–52, 54–56, 60, 66–68, 72, 75–77, 79, 81, 84–92, 96, 102–3, 105–7, 115–16, 161, 167, 176, 183, 221, 236–37, 246–49, 266, 278, 282–84, 287, 290, 304, 306, 309

  on race and racism, 24, 41, 59–60, 66–68, 216, 232, 238–39, 241–42

  radicalism of, xvii–xviii

  secrecy of, 265–66

  Obama, Barack Hussein, Sr., xiii, 36, 38, 49, 51–52, 55, 57, 69, 195, 265, 281

  Obama, Michelle, 55, 77, 249

  Obama, Sarah Hussein, 55–56

  Obama, Syed, 55

  Odinga, Raila, xiii, 68–72

  Office of the United States Special Representative to Muslim Communities, 9

  oil, 19, 39, 69, 162–63, 312–13, 318

  On Rumors (Sunstein), 253

  Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), 33, 129, 132

  and free speech, 3, 7–11, 44–46, 260–61

  and Obama’s Islamic policy, 125, 185–86, 190

  Organizing for America (OFA), 96–98, 282–83

  Ornament of the World, The (Menocal), 188

  Pakistan, Pakistanis, 3, 30, 42, 46–47, 55, 101, 169–71, 212

  free speech and, 7

  Muslim population of, 207

  Obama on, xi, 57–58, 169, 180, 198, 220

  Taliban in, 170–71, 182

  terrorism and, 218

  Palestine, Palestinians, 80–92, 107, 125–31, 152, 215, 222

  anti-Semitism and, 76–78, 82, 114

  and comparisons between Israel and Nazis, 97–98

  Hamas television and, 120

  image of U.S. among, 120–21

  Israeli Gazan operations and, 94, 100

  Israeli roadblocks and, 128

  military training for, 114–15

  Obama’s Israeli policy and, 74–75, 81, 84–85, 89–91, 99–106, 112–18, 121, 126–27, 130–31, 198–99, 209

  Obama’s presidential campaign and, 86–87

  self-hating Jews and, 122–23

  terrorism and, 67, 83–85, 88, 90, 95, 99, 105, 116, 118, 131, 187–88, 196

  and war-crimes charges against Israel, 128–29

  Palin, Sarah, 243, 248, 273–78, 328

  energy policy and, 312, 317, 323–24

  on health care, 274–78

  Obama’s socialism and, 274–77

  trying 9/11 masterminds and, 230

  Palmer, Alice, 61–62, 266

  Parsi, Trita, 151

  Pelosi, Nancy, 64, 235–36, 243, 254, 256, 271, 278, 288

  personality cults, 279–81, 287–88

  Petraeus, David, 169

  Phillips, Melanie, 177

  Phillips, Richard, 226

  Poland, 13, 133–34, 294, 329

  population control, 294–95

  Post-American World, The (Zakaria), xvi–xvii

  Powell, Colin, 57

  Power, Samantha, 89–91, 93

  Prague, Obama’s speech in, 162–63

  Prairie Fire (Ayers), 76

  Prelutsky, Burt, 191

  Press, Bill, 243–44

  Price, Hugh, 125

  Princeton University, 24, 97, 261–62

  Priyono, Hardi, 53

  Project Vote, 304–6, 309

  public schools, 279–83

  Obama’s personality cult in, 279–81

  Obama’s recruiting in, 282–83

  Pugwash Conferences, 293–96

  Qassem, Sheikh Naim, 145–46

  Rafah, 85–87

  Ramadan, 131, 189–90, 209–11

  Rand, Ayn, 33–34, 174, 178

  on economics, 289, 329

  on free speech, 235

  on U.S. exceptionalism, xii–xiii

  Reagan, Ronald, vii–ix, 3, 145, 274

  D-Day remarks of, viii–ix

  on U.S. exceptionalism, vii, xiv–xv, 24

  Redman, Renee, 148

  Reid, Harry, 124, 243, 271

  Republicans, 57, 81, 94, 196, 228, 240, 250, 273, 327–28

  ACORN and, 306–8, 311

  energy policy and, 316

  Obama’s czars and, 291

  Obama’s middle name and, 47–48

  Obama’s socialism and, 286–87

  Revkin, Andrew, 322

  Reynolds, Morgan, 39

  Rice, Susan, 6

  Robinson, Mary, 121

  Rockefeller, John, 252

  Roeh, Avi, 127–28

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 287–88

  Rosenbaum, Lee, 285

  Rosenberg, Milt, 236

  Rosenthal, Hannah, 124–25

  Rotblat, Joseph, 293–96

  Rove, Karl, 316

  Rubin, Michael, 90

  Rumsfeld, Donald, 172, 228

  Russia, 3, 61–62, 97, 191, 260, 288, 317

  Afghani policy and, 182

  Iranian nuclear weapons program and, 133, 155–58

  nuclear disarmament and, 293–94

  U.S. missile defense system and, xviii, 133–34

  Sanchez, Linda T., 257–58

  Saudi Arabia, 3, 56, 69, 82–83, 122, 161, 184, 214, 218, 222, 317

  Obama’s Israeli policy and, 100

  Taliban and, 182

  Scales, Robert, 217

  Schanzer, Jonathan, 152–53

  Senate, Illinois, 61–63

  Obama’s campaign for, 62–63, 268–69, 297

  Obama’s career in, 61, 63, 68, 269

  Senate, U.S., 27, 242, 326

  energy policy and, 315

  health care and, 244, 255, 270, 276

  Internet free speech and, 252

  Islamic policy and, 197

  on Israel, 95

  Obama’s campaign for, 75

  Obama’s career in, 14–15, 55, 102–3

  Obama’s czars and, 291–92

  see also Congress, U.S.

  Service Employees International Union (SEIU), 245–47, 302

  Sex Rebel (Davis), 40–41

  Shapiro, Tony, 298

  Shora, Kareem, 211

  Silver, Stephen A., 94

  Silverman, Sarah, 74, 106

  Sinaga, Fermina Katarina, xiii–xiv

  Skolnik, Michael, 284

  slavery, 205

  Smadi, Hosam Maher Husein, 219

  Smith, Kyle, 253

  socialism, xix, 12–20, 174–76, 265–89, 328–29

  of ACORN, 303

  and causes of 9/11, 232

  climate change and, 16–20, 322

  energy policy and, 316, 319

  free speech and, 238–39

  health care and, 268, 270–79, 288

  and Joker poster of Obama, 238

  in Kenya, 69

  nationalizing auto industry and, 269–70

  NEA and, 283–85

  net neutrality and, 259

  Obama as hero of, 286–88

  Obama’s Afghani policy and, 175–76

  and Obama’s family and friends, xiii, 38, 41, 66, 72

  Obama’s internationalism and, 12–16

  Obama’s political appointees and, 285–86, 292–300

  personality cults and, 279–81, 287–88

  wealth redistribution in, xvi, 15, 232, 267–69, 294–99

  Soetoro, Lolo, 36–39, 54, 57, 195, 265

  Soetoro, St
anley Ann Dunham Obama, 37–39, 52–54, 265

  Soetoro-Ng, Maya, 40, 54

  Solomon, Haym, 202

  Somalia, 97, 218, 220, 226–27

  Soros, George, 90, 95, 125, 149, 196

  Sotomayor, Sonia, 22–24

  Sowell, Thomas, 61, 164, 274

  Spain, Islam in, 188, 203

  Spencer, Robert, 263–64

  Stalin, Joseph, 62, 265, 270, 279, 285, 287–88

  State Department, U.S., 90–91, 328

  gun control and, 32–33

  Iranian policy and, 148–49

  Islamic policy and, 9, 120, 125, 189–90, 210

  Israeli policy and, 90, 120, 130

  Koh’s appointment to, 25–28

  terrorism and, 109–10

  Stephanopoulos, George, 51

  Stern, Andy, 247

  Steyn, Mark, 186–87

  Sudan, 3, 5, 70, 97, 109, 222

  Sultan, Sohaib, 262–63

  Sunstein, Cass, 253–54, 260, 298–99

  Supreme Court, U.S., 22–27, 135

  free speech and, 26, 32, 252, 254, 260–61

  gun control and, 32

  Koh and, 25–27

  Obama’s socialism and, 267, 294–95

  Sotomayor’s appointment to, 22–24

  trying 9/11 masterminds and, 228–29

  Surrender Is Not an Option (Bolton), 2

  Sutton, Percy, 81–82

  Syria, 97, 107–11, 146

  human rights in, 222–23

  Obama’s policy on, 91, 100, 107, 109–11

  terrorism and, 107–10

  Tabarook, Alex, 301

  Taliban, 168–73, 176–78

  moderate, 169–71, 173, 177, 199

  Obama on, 168–70, 172–73, 176–77, 182, 199

  Tapscott, Mark, 286

  Tea Party, tea parties, 239, 244, 246–47, 326

  terrorism, terrorists, x, 2, 28, 45, 76, 145–46, 152, 171–72

  Afghanistan and, 168, 171

  Ayers and, 62–64, 236

  Fort Hood massacre and, 215

  at Guantánamo, 4–5

  Hamas and, 88, 94, 107, 109, 115–16, 146, 209, 214, 264

  Islam and, 11, 54, 57, 91, 108–9, 123, 136, 182–84, 186, 191, 195, 198–200, 206–7, 209–12, 214–19, 223–24, 227, 230, 232, 239, 256

  Israel and, 81, 83–85, 88, 90–91, 94–95, 99, 102–5, 107, 112, 115–16, 118, 158, 187–88, 196, 230

  Kenyan politics and, 69

  nuclear weapons and, 158, 327

  Palestine and, 67, 83–85, 88, 90, 95, 99, 105, 116, 118, 131, 187–88, 196

  Syria and, 107–10

  torture and, 200, 223–24

  see also 9/11 terrorist attacks

  Thomas, Evan, viii–ix

  Thurmond, Strom, 240

  Timmerman, Kenneth, 151

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, vii

  tort reform, 277–78

  torture, 148

  Guantánamo and, 199–200, 221–23, 225, 230–31

  Obama on, 175, 199–200, 221–26, 230–31

  successes with, 225, 230

  Treasury Department, U.S., 39, 152, 315

  Trinity United Church of Christ, 65–66, 68, 77

  Tripoli, Treaty of, 203

  Troy, Gil, 121

  Troy, Tevi, 211

  Tucker, Chris, 317

  Umar, Warith-Deen, 119

  United Arab Emirates, 160

  United Church of Christ, 52, 55, 65–66, 68, 77

  United Nations, viii–ix, 6–9, 14–20, 121, 134–35, 137, 171–73

  Afghanistan and, 172–73

  climate change and, 16–20, 296

  free speech and, 7–9, 44–45, 183

  gun control and, 31–33

  Human Rights Council of, 2–3, 7, 9

  Iranian nuclear weapons program and, 145, 156–58, 160, 163–64, 325

  Israel and, 73, 80, 100, 102, 104, 126–29, 132

  Obama’s czars and, 295–96

  Obama’s internationalism and, 15–16, 33

  Security Council of, 3–4, 102, 156, 158, 160–61, 172

  United States:

  exceptionalism of, vii–ix, xi–xvi, xviii, xx, 2, 4, 24–26, 36, 234–35, 311, 326–27

  sovereignty of, xi, xiv, 1–2, 4–5, 11, 14–16, 18, 20–21, 24, 26, 33, 296, 319, 324, 329

  welfare system in, 18–19

  United We Serve, 283–85

  UN Watch, 3

  Van Rompuy, Herman, 21

  Vietnam era, 178

  Volokh, Eugene, 10–11, 257

  Wade, Abdoulaye, 8

  Walden, Andrew, 38, 62

  Walesa, Lech, 329–30

  Wallsten, Peter, 84–85

  Wall Street Journal, The, 5, 23, 88, 275–76

  on cap and trade, 314, 316

  Warner, Gerald, 6

  “War on Iraq IQ Test” (Wright), 79–80

  Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade bill, 314–19

  Weather Underground, 62–63, 76

  Weisman, Ben, 262

  West Point, Obama’s speech at, 166–68, 171–75, 182

  Whelan, M. Edward, III, 27–28

  When Black Men Stand Up for God (Wright and Birchett), 79

  White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, 248–50

  Wilders, Geert, 10, 45, 264

  Williams, Rowan, 29–30

  Wilson, Joe, 240

  Winthrop, John, vii

  women, 143–44

  health care and, 276–77

  in Islam, 8, 29, 31, 46, 108, 170–71, 177, 186–87, 192–95, 212–13, 231, 263

  Sotomayor and, 22–23

  World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, 7–8, 121

  World War II, 58, 174, 205, 228, 291, 293

  Wretched of the Earth, The (Fanon), 60

  Wright, Jeremiah, 77–81, 214

  anti-Semitism of, 75, 77, 79–81, 93, 98

  on Farrakhan, 77–79, 81

  on Iraqi war, 79–80

  Obama’s relationship with, 65–68, 72, 75, 77, 79–81

  race-baiting of, 66–68, 72

  White House visits of, 64, 68

  Yabroudi, Sami, 262

  Yoo, John, 225

  Zakaria, Fareed, xvi–xvii

  zakat, 213–14

  Zaki, Abbas, 113

  Zazi, Najibullah, 219

  Zelaya, Manuel, 134–36

  Zogby, John, 270–71

  Zorthian, Robin Reeves, 29

 

 

 


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