Liars (43 page)

“were chief aims of government”
Lisa Schiffren, “Confiscatory Tax Rate Dreams from my Father,”
The Corner
(blog),
National Review
, August 19, 2008,
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/167359/confiscatory-tax-rate-dreams-my-father-lisa-schiffren
.

“with whom he spent his youth”
Paul Kengor, “Our First ‘Red Diaper Baby' President?”
The American Spectator
, October 22, 2012,
http://spectator.org/34558_our-first-red-diaper-baby-president/
.

“ ‘resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints' ”
Gene Koprowski, “Obama Becomes Agitator in Chief,”
The Detroit News
, February 11, 2010,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/02/11/obama_becomes_agitator-in-chief_229256.html
.

“ ‘concerned with issues of social justice' ”
Serge F. Kovaleski, “Old Friends Say Drugs Played Bit Part in Obama's Young Life,”
The New York Times
, February 9, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/09/us/politics/09obama.html?_r=1
.

“ ‘a more practical road to socialism' ”
John Drew, “Meeting Young Obama,”
American Thinker
, February 24, 2011,
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/02/meeting_young_obama.html
.

“outright ‘redistribution of income' ”
Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, “The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty,”
The Nation
, March 8, 2010,
http://www.thenation.com/article/weight-poor-strategy-end-poverty/
.

“necessitate radical change”
James Simpson, “Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis,”
American Thinker
, September 28, 2008,
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html
.

“over the next two decades”
James Simpson, “Barack Obama and the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis,”
American Thinker
, September 28, 2008,
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html
.

“ ‘socialist conferences' ”
John McCormack, “Why Did Obama Attend Socialist Conferences?”
Weekly Standard
, July 18, 2008,
http://www.weeklystandard.com/why-did-obama-attend-socialist-conferences/article/25175
.

“centenary of Karl Marx's death”
Stanley Kurtz,
Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010).

“Carol Mosely Braun to the U.S. Senate”
Aaron Klein, “Radicals Key to Career of Chicago Mayoral Candidate,”
WND.com
, January 4, 2011,
http://www.wnd.com/2011/01/247365/
.

“goal of a nuclear-free world”
Barack Obama, “Obama's 1983 College Magazine Article,”
The New York Times
, accessed May 28, 2016,
http://documents.nytimes.com/obama-s-1983-college-magazine-article
.

“a world without nuclear weapons”
Barack Obama, “Remarks by President Barack Obama in Prague as Delivered,” (remarks, Prague, Czech Republic, April 5, 2009), The White House, Office of the Press Secretary,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-barack-obama-prague-delivered
.

“his progressive principles”
Byron York, “What Did Obama Do as a Community Organizer,”
National Review
, September 8, 2008,
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/225564/what-did-obama-do-community-organizer-byron-york
.

“ ‘problem-solving' ”
“Obama's Socialist Roots and Worldview,”
DiscoverTheNetworks.org
, accessed May 28, 2016,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=2374
.

“variety of leftist policies”
“Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF),”
DiscoverTheNetworks.org
, accessed May 28, 2016,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7493
.

“ ‘a comparative handful' ”
“Obama's Socialist Roots and Worldview,”
DiscoverTheNetworks.org
, accessed May 28, 2016,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=2374
.

“Obama's political rise”
Jim Geraghty, “The Alinsky Administration: Today, Reading ‘Rules for Radicals' Is Illuminating and Worrisome,”
National Review
, May 14, 2009,
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/227500/alinsky-administration-jim-geraghty
.

“ ‘Obama learned his lesson well' ”
L. David Alinsky, “Son Sees Father's Handiwork in Convention,”
The Boston Globe
, August 31, 2008,
http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/08/31/son_sees_fathers_handiwork_in_convention/
.

“community organizers such as ACORN”
Mike Robinson, “Obama Got Start in Civil Rights Practice,”
The Washington Post
, February 20, 2007,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/20/AR2007022000045.html
.

“Reverend Jeremiah Wright”
Charles C. Johnson, “The Gospel According to Wright,”
The American Spectator
, December 9, 2011,
http://spectator.org/36529_gospel-according-wright/
.

“endemically racist”
Brian Ross and Rehab El-Buri, “Obama's Pastor: God Damn America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11,”
ABCNews.com
, March 13, 2008,
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/DemocraticDebate/story?id=4443788&page=1
.

“the progressivism Obama had imbibed”
Spengler, “The Peculiar Theology of Black Liberation,”
Asia Times
, March 18, 2008,
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JC18Aa01.html
.

“make a progressive vision a reality”
Barack Obama, “Obama's 2006 Speech on Faith and Politics at the Call to Renewal's Building a Covenant for a New America Conference,” (speech, Washington, D.C., June 28, 2006),
The New York Times
,
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/us/politics/2006obamaspeech.html?pagewanted=all
.

“whose famous book
Orientalism”
Efraim Karsh and Rory Miller, “Did Edward Said Really Speak Truth to Power,”
The Middle East Quarterly
15, no. 1, Winter 2008,
http://www.meforum.org/1811/did-edward-said-really-speak-truth-to-power
.

“colonialist oppressor of the Islamic world”
Joshua Muravchik, “Enough Said: The False Scholarship of Edward Said,”
World Affairs
, March/April 2013,
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/enough-said-false-scholarship-edward-said
.

“in the Left's historical reading”
Max Eden, “Book Review: ‘Making David Into Goliath,' ” review of
Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel
, by Joshua Muravchik,
The Washington Times
, July 21, 2014,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/21/book-review-tracing-the-changed-perception-of-isra/
.

“Obama's unsuccessful 2000 congressional bid”
“Rashid Khalidi,”
DiscoverTheNetworks.org
, accessed May 28, 2016,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1347
.

“during the 1990s”
Andrew C. McCarty, “The Obama/Ayers/Khalidi Connection,”
National Review
, October 25, 2008,
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/172641/obamaayerskhalidi-connection-andrew-c-mccarthy
.

“we must still be better”
Ron Radosh, “The Influence of Howard Zinn on the Loss of Patriotism, and the Antidote to Zinn, Dinesh D'Souza's America,” PJ Media, July 4, 2014,
https://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/7/4/the-influence-of-howard-zinn-on-the-loss-of-patriotism-and-the-antidote-to-zinn-dinesh-dsouzas-movie-america/
.

“people have earned ‘enough' ”
Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
(New York: Crown, 2006), Kindle edition, p. 193.

“while protecting the environment”
Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
(New York: Crown, 2006), Kindle edition, p. 119.

“legitimate grievances”
Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
(New York: Crown, 2006), Kindle edition, p. 233.

“we're all in it together”
Barack Obama, “Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Ceremony & Commemoration of Robert F. Kennedy's 80th Birthday,” (speech, Washington, D.C., November 16, 2005),
ObamaSpeeches.com
,
http://obamaspeeches.com/039-Robert-F-Kennedy-Human-Rights-Award-Ceremony-Obama-Speech.htm
.

“ ‘a progressive income tax' ”
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas,” (remarks, Osawatomie, KS, December 6, 2011, The White House, Office of the Press Secretary,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/06/remarks-president-economy-osawatomie-kansas
.

“ ‘that makes this country work' ”
Barack Obama, “Keynote Address at the Democratic National Convention,” (speech, Boston, MA, July 27, 2004),
The Washington Post
,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19751-2004Jul27.html
.

“ ‘collective salvation' ”
Barack Obama, “Pritzker School of Medicine Commencement,” (speech, Chicago, June 10, 2005),
ObamaSpeeches.com
,
http://obamaspeeches.com/022-Pritzker-School-of-Medicine-Commencement-Obama-Speech.htm
.

“by government intervention”
Rebecca Kaplan, “Obama: Income Inequality ‘The Defining Challenge of Our Time,' ”
CBSNews.com
, December 4, 2013,
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-income-inequality-the-defining-challenge-of-our-time/
.

“ ‘an ever-changing world' ”
Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
(New York: Crown, 2006), Kindle edition, p. 90.

“ ‘social equality and social justice' ”
Charles Kesler,
I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism
(New York: Broadside Books, 2012), pp. 190–91.

“ ‘openness to change' ”
Charles Kesler,
I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism
(New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. 192.

“Franklin Delano Roosevelt”
Charles Kesler,
I Am the Change: Barack Obama and the Future of Liberalism
(New York: Broadside Books, 2012), p. 11.

“ ‘run our factories' ”
Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address,” (speech, Washington, D.C., January 20, 2009), The White House,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/01/21/president-barack-obamas-inaugural-address
.

“a retirement that is dignified' ”
Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address,” (speech, Washington, D.C., January 20, 2009), The White House,
https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/01/21/president-barack-obamas-inaugural-address
.

“ ‘save the free market system' ”
“ ‘I've Abandoned Free Market Principles to Save the Free Market System'—George W. Bush,” YouTube video, 1:05, from “Exit Interview with President Bush,” by CNN, December 16, 2008, posted by “argusfest,” January 14, 2013,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmi8cJG0BJo
.

“abrogating the property rights of creditors”
James Sherk and Todd Zywicki, “Auto Bailout or UAW Bailout? Taxpayer Losses Came from Subsidizing Union Compensation,” The Heritage Foundation, June 13, 2012,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/06/auto-bailout-or-uaw-bailout-taxpayer-losses-came-from-subsidizing-union-compensation
.

“seize them”
Norbert J. Michael, “Repealing Dodd-Frank and Ending ‘Too Big to Fail,' ” The Heritage Foundation, November 3, 2014,
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/11/repealing-doddfrank-and-ending-too-big-to-fail
.

“with the Department of Justice”
Sean Higgins, “Obama's Big Bank ‘Slush Fund,' ”
Washington Examiner
, January 18, 2016,
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-big-bank-slush-fund/article/2580431
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“big banks have only grown even bigger
”
Carrie Sheffield, “Dodd-Frank Is Killing Community Banks,”
Forbes
, February 9, 2015,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/carriesheffield/2015/02/09/dodd-frank-is-killing-community-banks/#23336d245ca4
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“unless one was politically connected”
Tad DeHaven, “Obama's Stimulus: A Bit of Pork, a Lot of Opportunism,” CATO Institute, January 10, 2013,
http://www.cato.org/blog/obamas-stimulus-bit-pork-lot-opportunism
.

“an average of $260.6 million”
“Harvard Economist Says Stimulus Was Designed to Reward Democrat Constituencies,”
WinteryKnight.com
, November 2, 2010,
https://winteryknight.com/2010/11/02/harvard-economist-says-stimulus-was-designed-to-reward-democrat-constituencies/
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