Crimes Against Liberty

by David Limbaugh

  67 Dee Dee Myers, “Memo to Obama: Get Back in Touch,” Politico, March 12, 2010; available at: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34280.html [accessed June 28, 2010].

  68 Ibid.

  69 Robert A. George, “Obama’s Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting, A bad week for Democrats compounded by an awful moment for Barack Obama,” NBC News Chicago, January 20, 2010; available at: http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/A-Disconnected-President.html [accessed June 28, 2010].

  70 Toby Harnden, “Bloodless President Barack Obama Makes Americans Wistful for George W. Bush,” Telegraph.co.uk, November 7, 2009; available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6520286/Bloodless-President-Barack-Obama-makes-Americans-wistful-for-George-W-Bush.html [accessed June 28, 2010].

  71 Bill Sammon, “George W. Bush Secretly Visits Fort Hood Victims,” FOXNews.com, November 7, 2009; available at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/07/george-w-bush-secretly-visits-fort-hood-victims/ [accessed June 28, 2010]; see also, Andrew Malcolm, “George W. Bush Makes Secret Visit to Mourning Families at Fort Hood; Laura Bush goes too,” Los Angeles Times Blogs, November 7, 2009; available at: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/11/george-w-bush-laura-bush-fort-hood-nidal-malik-hasan.html [accessed June 28, 2010].

  72 Jim Hoft, “Sick. Obama Says Daniel Pearl’s Beheading ‘Captured the World’s Imagination,’” Gateway Pundit, May 18, 2010; available at: http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2010/05/sick-obama-says-daniel-pearls-beheading-captured-the-worlds-imagination-video/ [accessed June 28, 2010].

  73 Sarah Palin, “Mr. President: Please Try, ‘I’m Listening, People,’ Instead of ‘Listen Up, People!’” Facebook, January 25, 2010; available at: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=267042703434 [accessed June 28, 2010].

  74 Ernest Istook, “Obama Fails to Listen,” The Foundry, January 27, 2010; available at: http://blog.heritage.org/2010/01/27/sotu-a-view-from-inside-the-chamber/ [accessed June 28, 2010].

  75 Joseph Curl, “At Summit, Obama Mostly Hears Obama,” Washington Times, February 26, 2010; available at: http://www.washington-times.com/news/2010/feb/26/obama-listens-at-health-summit-but-mostly-hears-fr/ [accessed June 28, 2010].

  76 Ibid.

  77 Barack Obama, “President Obama on Health Care’s Passage,” Real Clear Politics, March 21, 2010; available at: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/03/21/barack_obama_transcript_health_ care_passage_104866.html [accessed June 28, 2010].

  78 Jennifer Rubin, “Trying to Reinvent Obama,” Commentary, Contentions Blog, March 12, 2010; available at: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/255411 [accessed June 28, 2010].

  79 Byron York, “Obama: ‘She insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt,’” Washington Examiner, February 2, 2010; available at: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-She-insisted-shes-going-to-be-buried-in-an-Obama-t-shirt-83645132.html [accessed June 28, 2010].

  80 Anne Reynolds, “Sobbing Kindergarteners Snubbed for Steelers?” NBC Washington, May 22, 2009; available at: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local-beat/Kindergarteners-Snubbed-for-Steelers. html [accessed June 28, 2010].

  81 Katarina Andersson, “Obama Snubs the King,” The Daily Beast, December 9, 2009; available at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-09/obamas-oslo-snub/full/ [accessed June 28, 2010].

  82 Eric Werner, “Senator Says Obama ‘Got Nerve’ to Push Lawmakers,” Breitbart.com, June 7, 2009; available at: http://topics.breitbart.com/Chuck+Grassley/ [accessed June 28, 2010].

  83 Glenn Thrust, “Dems Ducking Obama’s Reform Calls,” Politico, March 19, 2010; available at: http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0310/busy_signal_79e06a9d-554a-495b-9d4b-cbbf5f75160f.html [accessed June 28, 2010].

  84 John McCormick, “Obama’s Air Force One Flight to Chicago and back Monday to Cost $236,00,” Chicago Tribune, June 15, 2009; available at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-air-force-one-15-jun15,0,2483578.story [accessed June 28, 2010].

  85 Data available from the Encyclopedia Britannica Online.

  86 “Narcissism,” Healthline.com; available at: http://www.healthline.com/galecontent/narcissism [accessed June 28, 2010].

  87 Joy Tiz, “America’s Crash Course in Narcissism 101,” Joy Tiz.com; available at: http://joytiz.com/2010/americas-crash-course-innarcissim-101/ [accessed June 28, 2010].

  88 Robin of Berkeley, “Is Obama a Narcissist?” American Thinker, September 16, 2009; available at: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/obamas_malignant_narcissism.html [accessed June 28, 2010].

  89 Ibid.

  90 M. Scott Peck, People of the Lie (New York: First Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, 1985), 66, 76, 77.

  91 James Lewis, “Obama’s Malignant Narcissism,” American Thinker, March 4, 2010; available at: http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/obamas_malignant_narcissism.html [accessed June 28, 2010].

  92 Noel Sheppard, “CNN Shows Faces Obama Was Making During Healthcare Summit,” NewsBusters, February 28, 2010; available at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/02/28/cnn-shows-faces-obama-was-making-during-healthcare-summit [accessed June 28, 2010].

  93 Lamar Alexander, “Alexander: ObamaCare the Most Brazen Act of Political Arrogance Since Watergate,” Breitbart TV, March 15, 2010; available at: http://www.breitbart.tv/alexander-obamacare-the-most-brazen-act-of-political-arrogance-since-watergate/ [accessed June 28, 2010].

  94 Mark Knoller, “Obama’s $3M Chicago Olympics Pitch Falls Short of the Gold,” CBS News, Political Hotsheet, October 2, 2009; available at: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5359359-503544.html [accessed June 28, 2010].

  95 Ibid.

  Chapter 2

  1 Brian Friel, Richard E. Cohen, and Kirk Victor, “Obama: Most Liberal Senator in 2007,” National Journal, January 31, 2008; available at: http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/voteratings/.

  2 Peter Wehner, “Why Republicans Like Obama,” The Washington Post, February 3, 2008; available at: http://www.washingtonpostcom/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/01/AR2008020102663.html

  3 Tony Campbel, “Why Some Conservatives will Vote for Barack Obama,” Republicans for Obama, July 14, 2008; available at: http://www.republicansforobama.org/?q=node/1513.

  4 Jitendra Joshi, “Obama’s Strange Appeal to High Priests of US Conservatism,” Agence France-Presse, June 21, 2008; available at: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hTmPa3TKWcnYhN5dNGmP7AWgtmIA.

  5 Christopher Buckley, “Sorry, Dad, I’m Voting for Obama,” The Daily Beast, October 10, 2008; available at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama.

  6 Doug Kmiec, “Endorsing Obama,” Slate, Convictions, March 23, 2008; available at: http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/convictions/archive/2008/03/23/endorsing-obama.aspx.

  7 Danny Shea, “David Brooks: Sarah Palin ‘Represents A Fatal Cancer to the Republican Party” The Huffington Post, October 8, 2008; available at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/08/david-brooks-sarah-palin_n_133001.html.

  8 “Fukuyama Backs Obama for US Presidency,” ABC News, May 27, 2008; transcript available at: http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2008/s2257118.htm.

  9 Mary Lu Carnevale, “Obamacons: Prominent Republicans Line Up Behind Obama,” Washington Wire, Wall Street Journal Blogs, October 24, 2008; available at: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/24/obamacans-prominent-republicans-line-up-behind-obama/.

  10 George Packer, “First Colin Powell, Now . . .” The New Yorker, October 20, 2008; available at: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/10/not-quite-colin.html.

  11 Ibid.

  12 Adam Levy, “Former Reagan Adviser Endorses Obama,” CNN’s Political Ticker, October 31, 2008; available at: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/31/former-reagan-adviser-endorses-obama/?fbid=dTM8OJzYU_J.

  13 “Eisenhower Appointees for Obama,” Republicans for Obama Blog, November 3, 2008; avail
able at: http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/GOP/gGg8zW.

  14 Editorial, “It’s Time,” The Economist, October 30, 2008.

  15 “How He Did It,” Newsweek, November 5, 2008.

  16 Ibid.

  17 Ben Domenech, “Conservatives to Obamacons; A rose is not always a rose,” The Washington Times, June 13, 2008.

  18 Robert Novak, “Two Big Obamacons?” Mississippi Press, June 26, 2008.

  19 Bruce Bartlett, “Mr. Right?” The New Republic, June 25, 2008; available at: http://www.tnr.com/article/technology/mr-right.

  20 Christine Allison, “Why this Republican is Voting for Obama,” Dallas Morning News, February 23, 2008; available at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-allison_23edi.ART.State.Edition1.45e0862.html.

  21 Christopher Buckley, “Sorry, Dad, I’m Voting for Obama,” The Daily Beast, October 10, 2008; available at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama.

  22 George Packer, “First Colin Powell, Now . . .” The New Yorker, October 20, 2008; available at: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/georgepacker/2008/10/not-quite-colin.html.

  23 Kenneth P. Vogel, “Obama Had Greater Role on Liberal Survey,” Politico, March 31, 2008; available at: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9269.html; Ed Morrissey, “Politico: Obama Lied About Survey,” Hot Air.com, March 31, 2008; available at: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/03/31/politico-obama-lied-about-survey/.

  24 Kenneth P. Vogel, “Obama Had Greater Role on Liberal Survey,” op. cit.

  25 Peter S. Canellos, “Just Don’t Call Barack Obama Liberal, Okey Doke?” The Boston Globe, February 26, 2008; available at: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/02/26/just_dont_call_barack_obama_liberal_okey_doke/.

  26 Mark Schmitt, “The ‘Theory of Change’ Primary,” The American Prospect, December 21, 2007; available at: http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_theory_of_change_primary.

  27 Ibid.

  28 Jonathan Chait, “The Case For Bush Hatred, Mad About You,” The New Republic, September 23, 2003; available at: http://www.tnr.com/article/mad-about-you.

  29 Jonathan Chait, “The Obama Method And The Health Care Summit,” The New Republic, February 9, 2010; available at: http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/the-obama-method-and-the-health-care-summit

  30 Ibid.

  31 Bill Clinton, “Transcript: Remarks to the Democratic Leadership Council,” December 6, 1993; available at: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2889/is_n48_v29/ai_14891633/.

  32 Julie Mason, “He’s No Charmer: Obama’s Personal Appeal Not Delivering Results,” The Washington Examiner, February 28, 2010; available at: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/he_s-no-charmer_-Obama_s-personal-appeal-not-delivering-results-85569262.html [accessed July 7, 2010].

  Chapter 3

  1 Ernest S. Christian and Gary A. Robbins, “Denying Truth and Rewriting a Dictionary,” Investors.com, October 6, 2010; available at: http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/508150/200910061830/Denying-Truth-And-Rewriting-The-Dictionary.aspx.

  2 Macon Phillips, “Change Has Come to WhiteHouse.gov,” The White House Blog, January 20, 2009; available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/01/20/change-has-come-whitehousegov.

  3 Jim Harper “A Flagging Obama Transparency Effort,” The Cato Institute, April 9, 2009; available at: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/04/09/a-flagging-obama-transparency-effort/.

  4 Chelsea Schilling, “Obama Racks Up List Of Broken Promises,” WorldNetDaily.com, March 12, 2009; available at: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=91286.

  5 Jim Harper “A Flagging Obama Transparency Effort,” The Cato Institute, April 9, 2009; available at: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/04/09/a-flagging-obama-transparency-effort/.

  6 “The C-Span Lie? See Eight Clips of Obama Promising Televised Healthcare Negotiations,” Breitbart.tv, January 6, 2010; available at: http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/.

  7 President Barack Obama, “Interview of the President by YouTube,” White House Documents and Publications, February 1, 2010; available at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/interview-president-youtube.

  8 Angie Drobnic Holan, “Obama Said He’d Televise Health Reform Negotiations on C-SPAN,” PolitiFact.com, July 10, 2009; available at: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/517/health-care-reform-public-sessions-C-SPAN/.

  9 “Obama Asked About Broken Health Care Debate on C-SPAN Promise,” C-Span Video, February 3, 2010. [Can’t find video]

  10 Lynn Sweet, “Obama Finally Admits He Broke C-SPAN Transparency Promise,” Chicago Sun-Times, January 26, 2010; available at: http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/01/obama_finally_admits_he_broke.html.

  11 Joseph Ashby, “‘Death Panel’ is not in the bill . . . it already exists,” American Thinker, August 15, 2010; available at: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/08/death_panel_is_not_in_the_bill.html ; The Editors, “Ending Welfare Reform as We Knew It,” National Review Online, February 12, 2009; available at: http://article.nationalreview.com/385671/ending-welfare-reform-as-we-knew-it/the-editors.

  12 “Obama Admin. Withholds ‘Clunkers’ Data,” CBSNews, August 4, 2009; available at: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/04/politics/main5212863.shtml.

  13 Phil Kerpen, “Obama’s Secret Slush Fund,” FOX News, February 2, 2010; available at: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/02/02/phil-kerpen-obama-budget-cap-trade-tax-deficit-black-box/.

  14 Bill Adair, Angie Drobnic Holan, “A Year Later, Lots of Partisanship,” PolitiFact.com, January 10, 2010; available at: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/522/bring-democrats-and-republicans-together-pass-agen/.

  15 Robert Pear and David M. Herszenhorn, “Obama Hails Vote on Health Care as Answering ‘the Call of History,’” The New York Times, March 21, 2010; available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/health/policy/22health.html?scp=1&sq=Obama%20Hails%20Vote%20on%20Health%20Care%20as%20Answering%20%E2%80%98the%20Call%20of%20History&st=cse.

  16 Darren Samuelsohn, “Sen. Rockefeller Criticizes Obama Over Coal Policy,” The New York Times, February 4, 2010; available at: http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/02/04/04greenwire-sen-rockefeller-criticizes-obama-over-coal-poli-5739.html

  17 Fred Lucas, “Rep. Issa: Was Obama ‘Just Lying to Congress’ on Tort Reform Pledge?” CNSNews.com, February 9, 2010; available at: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/61100.

  18 Ashby Jones, “On Tort Reform and the Health-Care Bill: Where’d We End Up?” Wall Street Journal Law Blog, March 23, 2010; available at: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/03/23/on-tort-reform-and-the-health-care-bill-whered-we-end-up/.

  19 “The Vast Majority of the Money I got was from Small Donors All Across the Country,” PolitiFact.com, April 21, 2010; available at: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/apr/22/barack-obama/obama-campaign-financed-large-donors-too/.

  20 Hank, “Obama: Commissions a ‘Stunt,’ Unless I Propose Them,” Federal Review, February 22, 2010; available at: http://federalreview. com/wp/?p=235.

  21 James Rosen, “Obama Administration Steers Lucrative No-Bid Contract for Afghan Work to Dem Donor,” FoxNews.com, January 25, 2010; available at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/25/obama-administration-steers-lucrative-bid-contract-afghan-workdem-donor/.

  22 James Rosen, “State Department Admits No-Bid Contract ‘Violates’ Obama Campaign Pledges,” FoxNews.com, January 31, 2010; available at: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/31/state-department-admits-bid-contract-violates-obama-campaign-pledges/.

  23 Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller, “President Obama to Sign Pork-Laden Omnibus Spending Bill,” Political Punch, March 2, 2009; available at: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/president-obama.html.

  24 “Barack Obama Campaign Promise No. 431: Reduce Earmarks to 1994 Levels,” PolitiFact.com, February 19, 2010; available at: http://www.po
litifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/promise/431/reduce-earmarks-to-1994-levels/.

  25 “Obama Says Lobbyists Have Been Excluded From Policy-Making Jobs,” PolitiFact.com, January 27, 2010; available at: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/jan/27/barack-obama/obama-says-lobbyists-have-been-excluded-policy-mak/.

  26 Jake Tapper, “Obama White House Discloses Two More Lobbyist Waivers Granted,” ABC News Political Punch, March 10, 2010; available at: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/03/obama-white-hou.html.

  27 Erick Erickson, “Breaking News: Obama Lies About Lobbyists.” Human Events, January 27, 2010; available at: http://www.human-events.com/article.php?id=35376.

  28 Peter Wehner, “An Agent of Cynicism,” Commentary, undated; available at: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/an-agent-of-cynicism-15097?search=1.

  29 David Brooks, “The Emotion of Reform,” The New York Times, March 8, 2010; available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/opinion/09brooks.html.

  30 Mike Dorning and Juliana Goldman, “Obama Says He’s ‘Fierce Free-Market Advocate,’ Rejects Critics,” Bloomberg.com, February 11, 2010; available at: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aDLk0lPYaSa0.

  31 President Barack Obama, “Transcript: Obama Wall Street Speech on Financial Reform,” ABCNews.com, April 22, 2010; available at: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-obama-wall-street-speech-financial-reform/story?id=10446690.

  32 Senator Barack Obama, “Sen. Barack Obama’s Remarks On Taxes As Prepared for Delivery at a Campaign Event,” CQ Transcriptions, September 12, 2008.

  33 Brad Schiller, “Obama’s Poor Tax,” The Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2009; available at: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123854056373275583.html [accessed June 28, 2010].