Post-American Presidency (57 page)

Afghanistan and,
168
,
171

Ayers and,
62
–64,
236

Fort Hood massacre and,
215

at Guantánamo,
4
–5

Hamas and,
88
,
94
,
107
,
109
,
115
–16,
146
,
209
,
214
,
264

Islam and,
11
,
54
,
57
,
91
,
108
–9,
123
,
136
,
182
–84,
186
,
191
,
195
,
198
–200,
206
–7,
209
–12,
214
–19,
223
–24,
227
,
230
,
232
,
239
,
256

Israel and,
81
,
83
–85,
88
,
90
–91,
94
–95,
99
,
102
–5,
107
,
112
,
115
–16,
118
,
158
,
187
–88,
196
,
230

Kenyan politics and,
69

nuclear weapons and,
158
,
327

Palestine and,
67
,
83
–85,
88
,
90
,
95
,
99
,
105
,
116
,
118
,
131
,
187
–88,
196

Syria and,
107
–10

torture and,
200
,
223
–24

see also
9/11 terrorist attacks

Thomas, Evan,
viii
–ix

Thurmond, Strom,
240

Timmerman, Kenneth,
151

Tocqueville, Alexis de,
vii

tort reform,
277
–78

torture,
148

Guantánamo and,
199
–200,
221
–23,
225
,
230
–31

Obama on,
175
,
199
–200,
221
–26,
230
–31

successes with,
225
,
230

Treasury Department, U.S.,
39
,
152
,
315

Trinity United Church of Christ,
65
–66,
68
,
77

Tripoli, Treaty of,
203

Troy, Gil,
121

Troy, Tevi,
211

Tucker, Chris,
317

Umar, Warith-Deen,
119

United Arab Emirates,
160

United Church of Christ,
52
,
55
,
65
–66,
68
,
77

United Nations,
viii
–ix,
6
–9,
14
–20,
121
,
134
–35,
137
,
171
–73

Afghanistan and,
172
–73

climate change and,
16
–20,
296

free speech and,
7
–9,
44
–45,
183

gun control and,
31
–33

Human Rights Council of,
2
–3,
7
,
9

Iranian nuclear weapons program and,
145
,
156
–58,
160
,
163
–64,
325

Israel and,
73
,
80
,
100
,
102
,
104
,
126
–29,
132

Obama’s czars and,
295
–96

Obama’s internationalism and,
15
–16,
33

Security Council of,
3
–4,
102
,
156
,
158
,
160
–61,
172

United States:

exceptionalism of,
vii
–ix,
xi
–xvi,
xviii
,
xx
,
2
,
4
,
24
–26,
36
,
234
–35,
311
,
326
–27

sovereignty of,
xi
,
xiv
,
1
–2,
4
–5,
11
,
14
–16,
18
,
20
–21,
24
,
26
,
33
,
296
,
319
,
324
,
329

welfare system in,
18
–19

United We Serve,
283
–85

UN Watch,
3

Van Rompuy, Herman,
21

Vietnam era,
178

Volokh, Eugene,
10
–11,
257

Wade, Abdoulaye,
8

Walden, Andrew,
38
,
62

Walesa, Lech,
329
–30

Wallsten, Peter,
84
–85

Wall Street Journal, The,
5
,
23
,
88
,
275
–76

on cap and trade,
314
,
316

Warner, Gerald,
6

“War on Iraq IQ Test” (Wright),
79
–80

Waxman-Markey Cap-and-Trade bill,
314
–19

Weather Underground,
62
–63,
76

Weisman, Ben,
262

West Point, Obama’s speech at,
166
–68,
171
–75,
182

Whelan, M. Edward, III,
27
–28

When Black Men Stand Up for God
(Wright and Birchett),
79

White House Correspondents’ Association dinner,
248
–50

Wilders, Geert,
10
,
45
,
264

Williams, Rowan,
29
–30

Wilson, Joe,
240

Winthrop, John,
vii

women,
143
–44

health care and,
276
–77

in Islam,
8
,
29
,
31
,
46
,
108
,
170
–71,
177
,
186
–87,
192
–95,
212
–13,
231
,
263

Sotomayor and,
22
–23

World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance,
7
–8,
121

World War II,
58
,
174
,
205
,
228
,
291
,
293

Wretched of the Earth, The
(Fanon),
60

Wright, Jeremiah,
77
–81,
214

anti-Semitism of,
75
,
77
,
79
–81,
93
,
98

on Farrakhan,
77
–79,
81

on Iraqi war,
79
–80

Obama’s relationship with,
65
–68,
72
,
75
,
77
,
79
–81

race-baiting of,
66
–68,
72

White House visits of,
64
,
68

Yabroudi, Sami,
262

Yoo, John,
225

Zakaria, Fareed,
xvi
–xvii

zakat,
213
–14

Zaki, Abbas,
113

Zazi, Najibullah,
219

Zelaya, Manuel,
134
–36

Zogby, John,
270
–71

Zorthian, Robin Reeves,
29