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9
David Corn,
Showdown
(William Morrow, 2012), p. 218; Ryan Lizza, “The Consequentialist,”
New Yorker
, May 2, 2011, p. 55.
10
“‘We’ve Never Seen Such Horror’: Crimes Against Humanity by Syrian Security Forces,” Human Rights Watch, June 1, 2011; “In Syria, Accounts of Widening Torture,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 28, 2011,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303654804576341030013131512.html
.
11
The White House, “A Statement by President Obama on Syria,” April 22, 2011,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/22/statement-president-obama-syria
; Steven Lee Myers, “U. S. and Allies Say Syria Leader Must Step Down,”
New York Times
, August 19, 2011, p. 1; Charles Levinson and Gregory White, “America Exits Syria as Russia Makes Push,”
Wall Street Journal
, February 7, 2012, p. 1; AP, “Obama: Syria Military Intervention Premature,”
Huffington Post
, March 14, 2012,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/14/obama-syria-military-intervention_n_1345070.html
; Associated Press, “Officials: Obama ramps up aid to Syrian opposition,”
Townhall
, April 13, 2012,
http://www.townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2012/04/13/officials_obama_ramps_up_aid_to_sign_opposition
..
12
Max Boot, “Assad Must Go,”
Weekly Standard
, December 5, 2011, pp. 8–9; Lee Smith, “Free Syria,”
Weekly Standard
, March 5, 2012, pp. 8–9.
13
Helene Cooper, Mark Landler, and David Sanger, “In U. S. Signals to Egypt, Obama Straddled a Rift,”
New York Times
, February 12, 2001,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/world/middleeast/13diplomacy
. html?pagewanted=all.
14
David Kirkpatrick, “From U.S. and Tahrir Square, Pressures Converge on Egypt’s Military,”
New York Times
, November 26, 2011, p. A-9.
15
David Kirkpatrick, “Egypt Lifts a Border Blockage, Along with the Hopes of Gazans,”
New York Times
, May 29, 2011, p. A-1; David Kirkpatrick, “In Shift, Egypt Extends Hand to Israel’s Foes,”
New York Times
, April 29, 2011, p. A-1; Ethan Bronner and Isabel Kershner, “Fatah and Hamas Announce Outline of Deal,”
New York Times
, April 27, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/world/middleeast/28mideast.html?pagewanted=all
; Matt Bradley and Joshua Mitnick, “Egypt Cancels Israel Natural Gas Deal,”
Wall Street Journal
, April 28, 2012, p A-7.
16
Associated Press, “Obama administration warns Egypt’s military leaders to hand over power or risk losing US aid,”
Washington Post
, June 18, 2012,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pentagon-is-concerned-about-egyptian-militarys-latest-moves-but-hopeful-of-transition/2012/06/18/gJQAFAvZlV_story.html
.
17
Haleh Esfandiari, “Iran: The State of Fear,”
New York Review of Books
, April 7, 2011, p. 31; Lara Setrakian, “Iran President Tells Obama to Back Off,” ABC News, June 25, 2009,
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7932217#.T9ZZg-xn2uI
; Ryan Lizza, “The Consequentialist”; Charles Krauthammer, “Hope and Change—But Not for Iran,”
Townhall
, June 29, 2009,
http://townhall.com/columnists/charleskrauthammer/2009/06/19/hope_and_change_-_but_not_for_iran/page/full/
.
18
Jonathan Alter,
The Promise
, p. 355.
19
Middle East Media Research Institute, “Muslim Brotherhood Figure and Former Spokesman in the West: Establish a Global Islamic State,” June 24, 2011,
http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/38783.htm
.
CHAPTER 13
 
1
Branko Milanovic,
The Haves and the Have-Nots
(Basic Books, 2011), p. 117.
2
David Remnick,
The Bridge
, p. 265.
3
Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
, p. 188.
4
Mark Knoller, “National Debt Has Increased More Under Obama than Under Bush,” CBS News, March 19, 2012,
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57400369-503544/national-debt-has-increased-more-under-obama-than-under-bush/
; Terrence Jeffrey, “Obama on Pace to Borrow $6.2 Trillion in One Term—More Than All Presidents from Washington Through Clinton Combined,” CNS News, January 13, 2012,
cnsnews.com
; Bill Riedl, “Zero Hour,”
American Legion
, September 2011, pp. 26–32.
5
Dennis Cauchon, “Real Federal Deficit Dwarfs Official Tally,”
USA Today
, May 18, 2012,
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/story/2012-05-18/federal-deficit-accounting/55179748/1
.
6
The White House, “Remarks by President Obama and President Clinton at a Campaign Event,” New York, June 4, 2012,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/06/05/remarks-president-obama-and-president-clinton-campaign-event
; Jim Kuhnhenn, “Obama on the Defensive on Spending, Debt,” AP, May 26, 2012,
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-defensive-spending-debt-163810353. html
.
7
“Looking for Someone to Blame,”
Economist
, August 13, 2011, p. 25.
8
David Logan, “Warren Buffett’s Proposed Tax Hikes Would Provide Insignificant Revenue,” The Tax Foundation, August 21, 2011, tax
foundation.org
.
9
Ibid.
10
Nina Easton, “Add This to Obama’s List of Economic Woes: The Specter of Inflation,”
Fortune
, May 23, 2011, p. 77.
11
Barry Eichengreen, “The Once and Future Dollar,”
American Interest
, May/June 2012, p. 13; Arvind Subramanian, cited in Sebastian Mallaby and Olin Wethington, “The Future of the Yuan,”
Foreign Affairs
, January/February 2012, p. 135.
12
Nick Timiraos, “Foreigners Snap Up Properties in the U.S.,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 12, 2012, pp. A-1, A-4.
13
Charles Kenny, “We’re All the 1%,”
Foreign Policy
, March/April 2012, p. 24.
CHAPTER 14
 
1
Jodi Kantor,
The Obamas
(Little, Brown and Company, 2012), p. 18.
2
Jim Hoft, “Michelle Obama Takes Aspen Ski Vacation a Month After Hawaiian Beach Vacation,”
Human Events
, February 18, 2012,
http://www.humanevents.com/2012/02/18/michelle-obama-takes-aspen-ski-vacation-a-month-after-hawaiian-beach-vacation/
; Dave Boyer, “Obama Calls for Shared Sacrifice,”
Washington Times
, August 17, 2011,
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/17/prepping-debt-plan-obama-calls-shared-sacrifice/
.
3
“Michelle Obama Wears $540 Sneakers To Food Bank,”
Huffington Post
, May 30, 2009,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/29/michelle-obama-wears-silv_n_193138.html
; Kantor,
The Obamas
, pp. 240–42.
4
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community” (Princeton University, 1985), published under the heading “Michelle Obama Princeton Thesis,” obamaprincetonthesis.
wordpress.com
.
5
The White House, “Remarks by the President on Osama Bin Laden,” May 2, 2011,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/02/remarks-president-osama-bin-laden
; David Corn,
Showdown
(William Morrow, 2012), p. 49; Jonathan Last, “American Narcissus,”
Weekly Standard
, November 22, 2010, p. 25.
6
John Hinderaker, “Obama Places Himself on the Continuum of Greatness,” Powerline Blog, December 20, 2011,
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/12/obama-places-himself-on-the-continuum-of-greatness.php
; Andrew Malcolm, “Narcissism update,”
Investor’s Business Daily
, May 16, 2012,
http://news.investors.com/article/611592/201205160808/obama-inserts-his-own-name-into-online-presidential-biographies.htm?p=full
; M. J. Lee, “Blogs Bash Obama’s Historic Claim,”
Politico
, December 20, 2011,
http://www.politico. com/news/stories/1211/70684.html
.
7
“American Narcissus,”
Weekly Standard
, December 27, 2010, p. 2.
8
Wole Soyinka,
Art, Dialogue and Outrage
(Pantheon Books, 1993), p. 210.
9
David Gardner, “How Obamas’ romantic £120 trip to Broadway racked up a £45,000 bill,” London
Daily Mail
, June 1, 2009,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1189893/How-Obamas-romantic-120-trip-Broadway-racked-45-000-bill.html
; Andrew Malcolm, “As Americans struggle, the Obamas make do with 37 Christmas trees,”
Investor’s Business Daily
, December 12, 2011,
http://news.investors. com/article/594258/201112120812/obama-white-house-christmas-trees. htm?p=full
; “Obama gets into the swing of things on his Martha’s Vineyard vacation,” London
Daily Mail
, August 20, 2011,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2027541/Obama-golfs-Marthas-Vineyard-increasing-personal-debt-ceiling.html
; “Meet the White House personal trainer that the Obamas fly in from Chicago—and even share with their staff,” London
Daily Mail
, March 1, 2011,
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1361575/Meet-White-House-personal-trainer-Obamas-fly-Chicago
—share-staff.html.
10
Benedict Anderson,
Imagined Communities
(Verso, 2006), p. 160.
11
Richard Epstein, “Would We Ever Ground Air Force One?”
Defining Ideas,
a Hoover Institution Journal, July 5, 2011,
http://www.hoover. org/publications/defining-ideas/article/84536
.
12
David Brooks, “The Pragmatic Leviathan,”
New York Times
, January 19, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/opinion/19brooks.html
.
13
Julia Preston and Helene Cooper, “After Chorus of Protest, New Tune on Deportations,”
New York Times
, June 17, 2012,
http://www.nytimes. com/2012/06/18/us/politics/deportation-policy-change-came-after-protests. html?_r=1&ref=illegalimmigrants
; Marc Ambinder, “Obama Won’t Go to Court Over Defense of Marriage Act,”
National Journal
, February 24, 2011,
http://www.nationaljournal.com/obama-won-t-go-to-court-over-defense-of-marriage-act-20110223
.
14
Mark Landler and Helene Cooper, “Obama Seeks a Course of Pragmatism in the Middle East,”
New York Times
, March 10, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/11/world/africa/11policy.html
.
CHAPTER 15
 
1
Barack Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 437.
2
Hilaire Belloc,
The Modern Traveller
(London, 1898), p. vi.
3
Adam Hochschild,
King Leopold’s Ghost
(Houghton Mifflin, 1998), pp. 49–50.
4
Helene Cooper, “On the World Stage, Obama Issues an Overture,”
New York Times
, April 3, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/world/europe/03assess.html
; Richard Toye,
Churchill’s Empire
(Macmillan, 2010).
5
Kishore Mahbubani,
The New Asian Hemisphere
(Public Affairs, 2008), p. 17.
6
The term is Jefferson’s. Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, April 27, 1809.
7
James Morris,
Heaven’s Command
(Harvest Books, 1973), pp. 382–83.
8
Marian Burros, “Obamas to Plant Vegetable Garden at the White House,”
New York Times
, March 19, 2009,
http://www.nytimes. com/2009/03/20/dining/20garden.html
.
9
Binyamin Appelbaum, “For U. S. Families, Net Worth Falls to 1990s Levels,”
New York Times
, June 12, 2012, p. A-1; Reuters, “Americans Suffered Record Decline in Wealth During Recession,”
Huffington Post
, June 11, 2012,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/11/americans-suffered-record_n_1587387.html
.
INDEX
 
1 percent, the
9/11
see also
September
99 percent, the
A
 
Ababa, Addis
 
Abba
 
Abbottabad
 
ABC News
 
Abercrombie, Neil
 
Afghanistan
 
American occupation of
 
Bin Laden in
 
Obama’s view of
 
Soviet occupation of
 

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