150 Reasons Why Barack Obama Is the Worst President in History (21 page)

245
David Efune, “Ed Koch on Chuck Hagel Nomination: Obama’s Reneging on His Conveyed Support for Israel Has Come Earlier Than I Thought,”
Algemeiner
, 01/07/2013, (http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/01/07/ed-koch-on-chuck-hagel-nomination-obamas-reneging-on-his-conveyed-support-for-israel-has-come-earlier-than-i-thought/)

246
Matt Cover, “Obama Unsure, But State Department Says Egypt Is an Ally,”
CNS News
, 9/13/2012, (http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-unsure-state-department-says-egypt-ally)

247
Rowan Scarborough, “Bush Policies he Reviled are Crux of Obama’s Arsenal,”
Washington Times,
05/15/2012, (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/15/bush-policies-he-reviled-part-of-obamas-arsenal/)

248
“Administration Reportedly Works Against Resolution to Recognize Deaths,”
Politifact
, 03/05/2010, (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/511/recognize-armenian-genocide/)

249
Nile Gardiner, “The U-Turn President: Barack Obama’s Top Ten Flip Flops,”
Telegraph
, 04/11/2011, (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100083104/the-u-turn-president-barack-obama-top-ten-flip-flops/)

250
“Flashback: Obama Calls Mubarak’s Egypt ‘Stallwart ally,’ ‘Force for Good,”
Breitbart
, 09/13/2012, (http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/09/13/Flashback-Obama-Calls-Mubaraks-Egypt-Stallwart-Ally-Force-For-Good)

251
CNN Wire Staff, “Obama Says Egypt’s Transition ‘Must Begin Now’,”
CNN
, 02/02/2011, (http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/02/01/us.egypt.obama/index.html)

252
Glenn Greenwald, “Obama, the US and the Muslim World: the Animosity Deepens,”
Guardian
, 02/15/2013, (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/15/us-obama-muslims-animosity-deepens)

253
Stephen Brown, “Obama’s Disappearance on Darfur,”
Frontpage
, 08/03/2012, (http://frontpagemag.com/2012/stephenbrown/obama%E2%80%99s-disappearance-on-darfur/)

254
Jennifer Rubin, “Obama to Israel: Never Mind,”
Washington Post
, 03/06/2012, (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/obama-to-israel-never-mind/2012/03/06/gIQA1T3BvR_blog.html)

255
“Ex-CIA Chief Petraeus Testifies Benghazi Attack was al Qaeda-linked Terrorism,”
CNN
, 11/16/2012, (http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/16/politics/benghazi-hearings/index.html)

256
“Libyan President to NBC: Anti-Islam Film Had ‘Nothing to do with’ US Consulate Attack,”
NBC News
, 09/26/2012, (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/26/14105135-libyan-president-to-nbc-anti-islam-film-had-nothing-to-do-with-us-consulate-attack)

257
Jake Tapper, “Documents Back up Claims of Requests Requests for Greater Security in Benghazi,”
ABC
, 10/19/2012, (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/documents-back-up-claims-of-requests-for-greater-security-in-benghazi/)

258
Brad Knickerbocker, “Benghazi Attack: Urgent Call for Military Help ‘Was Denied by Chain of Command’,”
Christian Science Monitor,
10/27/2012, (http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2012/1027/Benghazi-attack-Urgent-call-for-military-help-was-denied-by-chain-of-command)

259
Awr Hawkins, “Panetta’s Testimony Calls Obama’s Benghazi Explanations in to Question,”
Breitbart
, 02/09/2013; (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/02/08/Panetta-s-Testimony-Calls-Obama-s-Benghazi-Explanations-Into-Question)

260
Arshad Mohammed and Tabassum Zakaria, “Clinton Forcefully Defends Handling of Benghazi Attack,”
Reuters
, 01/23/2013, (http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/23/us-usa-libya-clinton-idUSBRE90M0SM20130123)

261
Kerry Picket, “Benghazi Survivors Remain Gagged by Federal Law,”
Breitbart
, 02/20/2013, (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/02/20/Benghazi-Survivors-Remained-Gagged-By-Federal-Law
)

262
Richard Miniter, “President Obama’s Greatest Foreign Policy Failure: Killing bin Laden,”
Forbes
, 09/13/2012, (http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardminiter/2012/09/13/president-obamas-greatest-foreign-policy-failure-killing-bin-laden/)

263
ibid

264
Robert Booth, “The Killing of Osama bin Laden: how the White House Changed its Story,”
Guardian
, 05/04/2011, (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/04/osama-bin-laden-killing-us-story-change)

265
Michael B. Mukasey, “Obama and the bin Laden Bragging Rights,”
Wall Street Journal
, 04/30/2012, (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303916904577374552546308474.html
)

266
Joe Newby, “Top General to Huckabee: Obama Knew Whereabouts of bin Laden in Summer 2010,”
Examiner
, 05/06/2012, (http://www.examiner.com/article/top-general-to-huckabee-obama-knew-whereabouts-of-bin-laden-summer-2010
)

267
Jess Bravin and Gary Fields, “Terror Trial Likely to Leave New York City,”
Wall Street Journal
, 01/30/2010, (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703389004575033000474040096.html
)

268
Jason Ryan and Huma Khan, “In Reversal, Obama Orders Guantanamo Military Trial for 9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’”
ABC
, 04/04/2011, (http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/911-mastermind-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-military-commission/story?id=13291750
)

269
The White House, “Executive Order: Review and Disposition of Individual’s Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities,” 01/22/2009, (http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/ClosureOfGuantanamoDetentionFacilities)

270
Matt Sledge and Ryan J. Reilly, “NDAA Signed Into Law By Obama Despite Guantanamo Veto Threat, Indefinite Detention Provisions,” Huffington Post, 1/3/2013 (
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/ndaa-obama-indefinite-detention_n_2402601.html
)

271
Dana Liebelson, “Obama Promised (Again) That He’d Close Gitmo: So Can He?”
Mother Jones
, 11/13/2012, (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/11/why-obama-still-wont-close-guantanamo-even-if-he-wants)

272
Edwin Mora, “Under Obama, U.S. Casualty Rate in Afghanistan Increased 5-Fold,”
CNS News
, 06/22/2011, (http://cnsnews.com/news/article/under-obama-us-casualty-rate-afghanistan-increased-5-fold)

273
Patrick Quinn, “U.S. Military Deaths in Afghanistan Hit 2,000 After 11 Years of War,”
Associated Press
, 09/30/2012, (http://news.yahoo.com/us-military-deaths-afghanistan-hit-2-000-11-131020733.html
)

274
Alissa J. Rubin, “Former Taliban Officials Say U.S. Talks Started,”
New York Times
, 01/28/2012, (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/world/asia/taliban-have-begun-talks-with-us-former-taliban-aides-say.html)

275
Judicial Watch Blog, “Obama Negotiates With Taliban Over Gitmo Prisoners,”
Judicial Watch
, 02/02/2012, (http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/02/obama-negotiates-with-taliban-over-gitmo-prisoners/)

276
Robert Tilford, “Clinton Evasive About Listing Taliban as Terrorist Organization,”
The Examiner
, 09/12/2012, (http://www.examiner.com/article/clinton-evasive-about-listing-taliban-as-terrorist-organization)

277
Awr Hawkins, “Obama Admin Gave Classified Info to Bin Laden Filmmakers,”
Breitbart
, 11/15/2012, (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/11/15/Obama-Admin-Discussed-Classifed-Information-With-Osama-bin-Laden-Filmmakers)

278
Richard Esposito and Brian Ross, “Investigators: Northwest Bomb Plot Planned by Al-Qaeda in Yemen,”
ABC
, 12/26/2009, (http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qaeda-yemen-planned-northwest-flight-253-bomb-plot/story?id=9426085)

279
Charlie Savage, “Holder Backs a Miranda Limit for Terror Suspects,”
The New York Times
, 05/09/2010, (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/us/politics/10holder.html)

280
Catherine Herridge and Fox News Staff, “Lawmakers Blast Administration for Calling Fort Hood Massacre ‘Workplace Violence’,”
Fox News
, 12/07/2011, (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/06/military-growing-terrorist-target-lawmakers-warn/)

281
The White House, Office of the Press Secretary (2009). Remarks by the President at Memorial Service at Fort Hood [Press Release]. Retrieved from http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-memorial-service-fort-hood

282
“Authorities: Man Charged in Blast at Ariz. Social Security Office Researched Terrorist Bombs,”
The Associated Press
, 12/03/2012, (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/03/authorities-man-charged-in-blast-at-ariz-social-security-office-researched/)

283
Dave Gibson, “No Terrorism Charges for Iraqi Man Accused of Arizona Bomb Attack,”
The Examiner
, 12/04/2012, (http://www.examiner.com/article/no-terrorism-charges-for-iraqi-man-accused-of-arizona-bomb-attack)

284
Qassim Adbul-Zahra, “Al-Qaeda Making Comeback in Iraq, Officials Say,”
The Associated Press
, 10/09/2012, (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2012/10/09/al-qaeda-iraq/1623297/)

285
Jill Dougherty, “European Official: Al-Qaeda Threat in Northern Africa ‘Spreading’,”
CNN
, 10/03/2012, (http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/03/al-qaeda-threat-in-northern-africa-spreading/)

286
Frank Ahrens, “Treasury Pick Misfiled Using Off-the-Shelf Tax Software,”
The Washington Post
, 01/22/2009, (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/21/AR2009012103552.html)

287
Carrie Budoff Brown, “Sebelius Paid Over $7,000 in Back Taxes.”
Politico
, 03/31/2009, (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20728.html)

288
Matt Kelley, “Tax Snafus Add up for Obama Team,”
USA Today
, 02/05/2009, (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2009-02-05-solis-husband-taxes_N.htm)

289
Huma Khan, “Another Tax Problem for Obama Nominee,”
ABC News
, 02/03/2009, (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/02/another-tax-pro/)

290
Andrew Malcolm, “36 Obama Aids Owe $833,000 in Back Taxes,”
Investors Business Daily
, 01/26/2012, (http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/012612-599002-obama-white-house-staff-back-taxes.htm)

291
“Richardson Withdraws as Obama Nominee,”
CBS News
, 02/11/2009, (http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-4697508.html)

292
“AP: Bill Richardson Cleared in Fed’s Probe,”
CBS News
, 08/27/2009, (http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-5268490.html)

293
Mike Gallagher, “Shedding New Light on Old Scandal,”
Albuquerque Journal
, 06/30/2012, (http://www.abqjournal.com/main/2012/06/30/news/shedding-new-light-on-old-scandal.html)

294
Matthew Vadum, “National Endowment for the Arts is Trying to Create a Cult of Obama,”
The American Spectator
, 09/01/2009, (http://spectator.org/blog/2009/09/01/national-endowment-for-the-art)

295
Ibid

296
Ben Shapiro, “At Least 6 Federal Laws and Regulations Violated by the NEA Conference Call,”
Breitbart
, 09/22/2009, (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2009/09/22/At-Least-6-Federal-Laws-and-Regulations-Violated-By-the-NEA-Conference-Call)

297
Michael Medved, “The Great Political Migration,”
The Daily Beast
, 08/27/2011, (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/27/census-data-shows-people-are-moving-from-blue-to-red-states.html)

298
Bill Sammon, Shannon Beam and Fox News Staff, “GOP Sounds Alarm Over Obama Decision to Move Census to White House,”
Fox News
, 02/09/2009, (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/02/09/gop-sounds-alarm-obama-decision-census-white-house/)

299
Ibid

300
David Crary, “Census Counts Gay Marriages Even in States That Don’t Allow Them,”
The Huffington Post
, 04/05/2010, (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/05/census-counts-gay-marriag_n_526396.html)

301
Meredith Simons, “Census Launches Campaign to Hear More From Latinos,”
Houston Chronicle
, 10/01/2009, (http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Census-launches-campaign-to-hear-more-from-Latinos-1732032.php)