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CHAPTER 8
 
1
Barack Obama Sr., “Problems Facing Our Socialism,”
East Africa Journal
, July 1965.
2
Ibid.
3
Editorial, “The Buffett Alternative Tax,”
Wall Street Journal
, September 20, 2011,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904194604576580800735800830.html
; Editorial, “Mr. Obama and the Buffett Rule,”
New York Times
, April 11, 2012, p. A-20.
4
Scott A. Hodge, “White House’s Own Data Contradicts Claims on Buffett Rule,” Tax Foundation, April 12, 2012,
http://taxfoundation. org/blog/white-houses-own-data-contradicts-claims-buffett-rule
.
5
Eduardo Porter, “The Case for Raising Top Tax Rates,”
New York Times
, March 28, 2012, p. B-1, B-6.
6
Transcript: Obama and Clinton Debate, ABC News, April 16, 2008,
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/DemocraticDebate/story?id=4670271&page=1#.T9YDh-xn2uI
.
7
“Too Big Not to Fail,”
Economist
, February 18, 2012, pp. 22–24; Paul Sperry, “1,000 Small Banks May be Shut Down Due to Dodd-Frank,”
Investor’s Business Daily
, May 23, 2011, p. 1.
8
“Now What?”
Economist
, March 27, 2010, p. 13.
CHAPTER 9
 
1
“Obama Camp Spies Endgame in Oregon,”AFP, May 16, 2008.
2
“Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address,”
Salon
, January 20, 2009, salon. com; Carl Lavin, “Obama’s Oil Spill Speech: Full Text,”
Forbes,
June 15, 2010,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/energysource/2010/06/15/obamas-oil-spill-speech-full-text/
.
3
John Broder, “Obama Oil Drilling Plan Draws Critics,”
New York Times
, March 31, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/science/earth/01energy.html?pagewanted=all
; John Broder and Clifford Krauss, “U.S. Taking Step to Open Drilling in Arctic Ocean,”
New York Times
, August 5, 2011, p. A-1.
4
John Broder and Dan Frosch, “U.S. Delays Decision on Pipeline Until After Election,”
New York Times
, November 10, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/11/us/politics/administration-to-delay-pipeline-decision-past-12-election.html
; Deborah Solomon and Laura Meckler, “Obama Says No, for Now, to Canada Pipeline,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 10, 2012, p. A-2; Theophilos Argitis and Jeremy Van Loon, “Obama’s Keystone Denial Prompts China to Look to China Sales,” Bloomberg, January 19, 2012,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-19/canada-pledges-to-sell-oil-to-asia-after-obama-rejects-keystone-pipeline. html
.
5
Adam White, “Powering Down,”
Weekly Standard
, November 21, 2011, p. 15; Joe Nocera, “Poisoned Politics of Keystone XL,”
New York Times
, February 7, 2012, p. A-31.
6
“Obama’s Speech on Climate Change,”
New York Times
, September 23, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/23/us/politics/23obama. text.html?pagewanted=all
; “He Who Pays the Paupers,”
Economist
, November 5, 2011, p. 90; Walter Russell Mead, “The Politics of Cli-mategate,”
American Interest
, January-February 2010, p. 125; The White House, “Remarks by the President at the Summit of the Americas Opening Ceremony,” April 17, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-the-Summit-of-the-Americas-Opening-Ceremony
.
7
“Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling,”
Wall Street Journal
, August 18, 2009,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html
.
8
“Lawmakers, Executives Slam Obama for Boosting Brazil’s Offshore Drilling,” Fox News, March 23, 2011,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/03/23/lawmakers-execs-slam-obama-boosting-brazils-offshore-drilling/
; Kelly Hearn, “China gets jump on U.S. for Brazil’s oil,”
Washington Times
, January 19, 2012,
http://www.washingtontimes. com/news/2012/jan/19/china-gets-jump-on-us-for-brazils-oil/
.
9
“U. S. Backs $1 B Loan to Mexico for Oil Drilling Despite Obama Moratorium,” Fox News, September 11, 2010,
http://www.foxnews. com/politics/2010/09/11/backs-b-loan-mexico-oil-drilling-despite-obama-moratorium /
; Terence Jeffrey, “U.S. Gov’t Agency Plans $2.84 Billion Loan for Oil Refinery in Colombia,” CNS News, April 18, 2011,
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-govt-agency-plans-284-billion-loan-oil-refinery-colombia
; Export-Import Bank of the United States, “Ex-Im Board Approves $2.84 Billion Export Financing for Colombian Refinery Project,” May 19, 2011,
http://www.exim.gov/pressrelease.cfm/0BF22A51-A985-1648-515C22E229E893C6/
.
10
Steve Forbes, “News Flash! Positive Change Coming,”
Forbes
, September 12, 2011, p. 14; Daniel Halper, “Obama Warned that His Policies Would Bankrupt Coal Power Plant Owners,”
Weekly Standard
, May 11, 2012,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-warned-his-policies-would-bankrupt-coal-power-plant-owners_644384.html
.
CHAPTER 10
 
1
Council on Foreign Relations, “Obama’s Speech at the Nuclear Security Summit, April 2010,” April 13, 2010,
http://www.cfr.org/proliferation/obamas-speech-nuclear-security-summit-april-2010/p21889
.
2
Mary Beth Sheridan and Scott Wilson, “In Nuclear Summit, Obama Seeks Global Help in Sanctioning Iran,”
Washington Post
, April 13, 2010,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/12/AR2010041201495.html
.
3
Jonathan Alter,
The Promise
(Simon & Schuster, 2010), p. 425; Charles Krauthammer, “Obama’s nuclear strutting and fretting,”
Washington Post
, April 6, 2010,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/15/AR2010041504663.html
.
4
David Sanger and William Broad, “U. N. Agency Says Iran Data Points to A-Bomb Work,”
New York Times
, November 9, 2011, p. A-1.
5
Michael Winter, “A.P.: Pentagon drafts plans for cuts in U.S. nuclear arsenal,”
USA Today
, February 14, 2012,
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/02/ap-obama-weighing-deep-cuts-in-us-nuclear-arsenal/1#.T9Y1zuxn2uI
.
6
“Obama Prague Speech on Nuclear Weapons: Full Text,”
Huffington Post
, May 6, 2009,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/05/obama-prague-speech-on-nu_n_183219.html
.
7
Thomas Donnelly and Gary Schmitt, “A Path to Security,”
Weekly Standard
, April 2, 2012, p. 9.
CHAPTER 11
 
1
Douglas Feith and Seth Cropsey, “The Obama Doctrine Defined,”
Commentary
, July 2011,
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-obama-doctrine-defined/
.
2
Pew Annual Religion and Public Life Survey, “Religion, Politics and the President: Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim,” August 19, 2010.
3
Conor Friedersdorf, email query to the author, May 2, 2011.
4
Cited in Bruce Lawrence, ed.,
Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden
(Verso, 2005), p. 59; “Full text: Bin Laden’s ‘letter to America,’”
The Guardian
(London) November 24, 2002,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/nov/24/theobserver
.
5
Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
, p. 304.
6
Transcript, “Obama announces the death of Osama Bin Laden,” CNN, May 2, 2011,
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-05-02/world/bin.laden. announcement_1_qaeda-bin-afghan-border?_s=PM:WORLD
.
7
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on a New Beginning,” Cairo Univeristy, June 4, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-cairo-university-6-04-09
.
8
V. I. Lenin,
Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
(Pluto Press, 1996),
http://www.pewforum.org/Politics-and-Elections/Growing-Number-of-Americans-Say-Obama-is-a-Muslim.aspx
.
9
Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
, p. 294; Associated Press, “Obama: U.S. Troops in Afghanistan Must Do More than Kill Civilians,” Fox News, August 14, 2007,
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933, 293187,00.html
.
10
“Sources: Obama Administration to Drop Troop Levels in Iraq to 3,000,” Fox News, September 6, 2011,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/06/sources-obama-administration-to-drop-troop-levels-in-iraq-to-3000/
; Max Boot, “Losing Iraq?”
Weekly Standard
, September 19, 2011, pp. 10–11.
11
Federick Kagan, Kimberly Kagan, and Marisa Cochrane Sullivan, “Defeat in Iraq,”
Weekly Standard
, November 7, 2011, pp. 25–32.
12
Bob Woodward,
Obama’s Wars
(Simon & Schuster, 2010), p. 247.
13
The White House, “Remarks by the President on the Way Forward in Afghanistan,” June 22, 2011,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/22/remarks-president-way-forward-afghanistan
.
14
Dexter Filkins and Mark Landler, “Afghan Leader is Seen to Flout Influence of U.S.,”
New York Times
, March 30, 2010, p. A-1; Ken Dilanian, “Karzai Remarks About Taliban Give White House Pause,”
USA Today
, April 7, 2010, p. 6-A; Ahmed Rashid, “How Obama Lost Karzai,”
Foreign Policy
, March–April 2011, pp. 71–76.
15
Julian Borger and Jon Boone, “Taliban leaders held at Guantanamo Bay to be released in peace talks deal,”
The Guardian
, January 3, 2012,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/03/taliban-leaders-guantanamo-bay-deal
; “The World This Week,”
Economist
, January 28, 2012, p. 6.
16
The White House, “Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” December 1, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-address-nation-way-forward-afghanistan-and-pakistan
.
17
“Seven killed in Kabul in bomb, grenade attack on heels of Obama’s Afghanistan visit,” CBS News, May 2, 2012,
http://www.cbsnews. com/8301-202_162-57425744/7-killed-in-kabul-in-bomb-grenade-attack-on-heels-of-obamas-afghanistan-visit /
.
18
Ryan Lizza, “The Second Term,”
The New Yorker
, June 18, 2012, p. 55; Bing West, “Groundhog War,”
Foreign Affairs
, SeptemberOctober 2011, p. 171.
19
Barack Obama, “A New Beginning”; Ian Buruma, “Is Israel a Normal Country?”
The Globe and Mail
, July 12, 2010,
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/is-israel-a-normal-country/article1386938/
; Edward Said,
The Question of Palestine
, p. 69.
20
“Ties between Israel and U.S. ‘worst in 35 years,’” BBC News, March 14, 2010,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8567706.stm
; The White House, “Remarks by the President on a New Beginning”; Mark Landler and Steven Lee Myers, “Obama Seeks End to the Stalemate on Mideast Talks,”
New York Times
, May 20, 2011, pp. A-1, A-9.
21
Thomas Friedman, “Israel’s Best Friend,”
New York Times
, March 7, 2012, p. A-27.
CHAPTER 12
 
1
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on a New Beginning lecture,” Cairo University, June 4, 2009.
2
Fawaz Gerges,
Obama and the Middle East
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), p. 152.
3
Walter Russell Mead, “The Dreamer Goes Down For The Count,”
American Interest
, May 25, 2011,
http://blogs.the-american-interest. com/wrm/2011/05/25/the-dreamer-goes-down-for-the-count/
.
4
Laura Kasinof and David Sanger, “U. S. Shifts to Seek Removal of Yemen’s Leader, an Ally,”
New York Times
, April 3, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/04/world/middleeast/04yemen.html?pagewanted=all
.
5
“Islamists and Secularists at One,”
Economist
, November 26, 2011, p. 58.
6
Fawaz Gerges,
The Far Enemy
(Cambridge University Press, 2005); Ayman al-Zawahiri, “The Way To Jerusalem Passes Through Cairo,”
Al Mujahideen
, April 1995.
7
Ayman al-Zawahiri, “Knights Under the Prophet’s Banner,”
Asharq al-Awsat
, December 2001.
8
Mona El-Naggar, “Banned Group Urges Egyptians to Vote on Sept. 7,”
New York Times
, August 22, 2005, p. A-7.
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