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9
Frantz Fanon,
Black Skin, White Masks
(Grove Press, 2008), p. 193; Albert Memmi,
The Colonizer and the Colonized
(Beacon Press, 1991), pp. 127, 147, 151; Chinweizu,
The West and the Rest of Us
, p. 137.
CHAPTER 2
 
1
Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
(Three Rivers Press, 2006), p. 11.
2
Charles Krauthammer, “The perfect stranger,”
Washington Post
, August 29, 2008,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/28/AR2008082802852.html
.
3
“Charlie Rose Show: A Conversation with Tom Brokaw,” October 30, 2008,
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9330
.
4
James Fallows, “First Families,”
New York Times Book Review
, June 17, 2012, p. 10; Jonathan Alter,
The Promise
(Simon & Schuster, 2010), p. viii; Richard Cohen, “Who is Barack Obama?”
RealClearPolitics
, July 20, 2010,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/20/barack_obama_introduce_yourself_106374.html
; Bill Keller, “Fill in the Blanks,”
New York Times
, September 18, 2011,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/19/opinion/filling-in-the-blanks. html?pagewanted=all
; David Maraniss,
Barack Obama: The Story
(Simon & Schuster, 2012), p. xxi.
5
Barack Obama,
Dreams from My Father
(Three Rivers Press, 2004), pp. 3, 210; Sasha Abramsky,
Inside Obama’s Brain
(Portfolio Press, 2009), p. 33; Janny Scott, “Obama’s Account of New York Years Often Differs from What Others Say,”
New York Times
, October 30, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/30/us/politics/30obama.html?pagewanted=all
; David Maraniss, “Becoming Obama,”
Vanity Fair
, June 2012, p. 145.
6
Peter Firstbrook,
The Obamas
(Crown Publishers, 2010), p. 169; Sally Jacobs,
The Other Barack
(Public Affairs, 2011), p. 25.
7
Nick Pisa, “Barack Obama’s ‘lost’ brother found in Kenya,” London
Telegraph
, August 20, 2008,
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/2590614/Barack-Obamas-lost-brother-found-in-Kenya.html
; David McKenzie, “Behind the Scenes: Meet George Obama,” CNN, August 22, 2008,
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-08-22/politics/bts.obama.brother_1_half-brother-kenyan-father-barackobama?_s=PM
:POLITICS.
8
David Cohen, “Barack Obama’s Broken Promise to African Village,” London
Evening Standard
, July 25, 2008.
9
See, e.g., Jesse Washington, “Many Insisting That Obama Is Not Black,”
Huffington Post
, July 29, 2010,
http://www.huffingtonpost. com/2008/12/14/ap-many-insisting-that-ob_n_150846.html
.
10
Ishmael Reed, cited in David Remnick,
The Bridge
(Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), p. 534; Amy Goodman, Cornel West interview, November 19, 2010,
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/19/cornel_west_on_charles_rangel_bush
; Rick Cohen, “Cornel West Says Obama Policies Have Racist Effects,”
NPQ
, November 23, 2010,
http://www.nonprofitquarterly.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7481
:cornel-west-says-obama-policies-have-racist-effects&catid= 155:nonprofit-newswire&Itemid=986.
11
Isabel Wilkerson, “Race to the Bottom,”
New Republic
, March 1, 2012, pp. 10–11; Brian Montopoli, “Maxine Waters: Why Isn’t Obama in Black Communities?” CBS News, August 17, 2011,
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20093711-503544.html
; Scott Wilson, “Obama, the loner president,”
Washington Post
, October 7, 2011,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obama-the-loner-president/2011/10/03/gIQAHFcSTL_story.html
.
12
Maureen Dowd, “Spock at the Bridge,”
New York Times
, March 1, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/opinion/01dowd.html
; Jacob Weisberg, “Only Connect!”
Slate
, January 23, 2010,
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_big_idea/2010/01/only_connect.html
; James Kloppenberg,
Reading Obama
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011).
13
Frank Rich, “Obama’s Original Sin,”
New York Times Magazine
, July 3, 2011,
http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/obama-economy/presidents-failure/
; Robert Kuttner, “What Now for the Democrats?”
Huffington Post
, December 5, 2010,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/what-now-for-the-democrat_b_792301.html
;AP, “Obama, Democrats Losing Labor Union Support,”
Huffington Post,
September 4, 2011,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/04/obama-democrats-labor-unions_n_948319.html
; Ron Suskind,
Confidence Men
(New York: HarperCollins, 2011).
14
Jonah Goldberg, “What Kind of a Socialist is Barack Obama?”
Commentary
, May 2010, p. 9.
15
Stanley Kurtz, “Romney, Obama, and Socialism,”
National Review
, September 23, 2011,
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/278158/romney-obama-and-socialism-stanley-kurtz#
.
16
“The Candidates and Repeal,”
Weekly Standard
, January 2-January 9, 2012, p. 10.
17
Noemie Emery, “Over-Rated,”
Weekly Standard
, October 10, 2011, p. 24; Fred Barnes, “Obama’s Learning Curve,”
Weekly Standard
, December 27, 2010, p. 11; Edward Klein,
The Amateur
(Regnery, 2012), p. 71; Brett Stephens, “Is Obama Smart?”
Wall Street Journal
, August 9, 2011.
18
Kevin Hassett, “Manchurian Candidate Starts War on Business,” Bloomberg, March 9, 2009,
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=amhpOT5rlR1Y
.
19
Dorothy Rabinowitz, “The Alien in the White House,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 9, 2010,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703302604575294231631318728.html
.
20
Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
, pp. 8–9; Sean Wilentz, “The Mirage,”
New Republic
, November 17, 2011, p. 25.
21
Stephen Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong,
The End of Influence
(Basic Books, 2010), pp. 6, 14, 143; Erica Werner, “Obama Promotes Modest American Dream,” Seattle PI, February 21, 2012,
http://www.seattlepi. com/news/article/Obama-promotes-modest-American-dream-3345306. php
.
22
Export-Import Bank of the United States, “Ex-Im Bank Board Approves $2.84 Billion Export Financing for Colombian Refinery Project,” May 19, 2011,
http://www.exim.gov/pressrelease_print. cfm/0BF22A51-A985-1648-515C22E229E893C6/
.
23
Zach Carter, “Trans-Pacific Partnership: Key Senate Democrat Joins Bipartisan Trade Revolt Against Obama,”
Huffington Post
, May 23, 2012,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/trans-pacific-partnership-ron-wyden_n_1540984.html
; Zach Carter, “Congress Revolts On Obama Plan That Would Ban ‘Buy American,’”
Huffington Post
, May 3, 2012,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/obama-trade-congress-buy-american_n_1475277.html
; Zach Carter, “Obama Trade Document Leaked, Revealing New Corporate Powers and Broken Campaign Promises,”
Huffington Post,
June 13, 2012,
http://www.huffingtonpost. com/2012/06/13/obama-trade-document-leak_n_1592593.html
.
24
Dan Voorhis, “Hawker Beechcraft Loses Out on Big Air Force Contract,”
Wichita Eagle
, November 18, 2011,
http://www.kansas. com/2011/11/18/2108059/hawker-beechcraft-said-air-force.html
; Zachary Goldfarb, “Obama’s support for export industry leads to clash of U.S. interests,”
Washington Post
, February 19, 2012,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obamas-support-for-export-industry-leads-to-clash-of-us-interests/2012/02/16/gIQAle2YJR_story
. html.
25
Eyder Peralta, “WikiLeaks: Japan Rebuffed Idea of U.S. Apology for Hiroshima,” National Public Radio, October 12, 2011,
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/10/12/141276162/wikileaks-japan-rebuffed-idea-of-u-s-apology-for-hiroshima
; Richard Halloran, “Will Obama Apologize for Hiroshima & Nagasaki?”
RealClearPolitics
, November 15, 2009,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/11/15/will_obama_apologize_for_hiroshima_nagazaki_99166.html
; Tim Edwards, “Falklands: Obama under fire for failing Britain,”
The Week,
February 26, 2010,
http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/16331/falklands-obama-under-fire-failing-britain
; Nile Gardiner, “Barack Obama’s unwelcome Jubilee president to Britain,” London
Telegraph
, June 5, 2012,
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100162290/barack-obamas-unwelcome-jubilee-present-to-britain-washington-reaffirms-oas-resolution-calling-for-falklands-negotiations-with-argentina/
.
CHAPTER 3
 
1
Barack Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 220.
2
Ibid., pp. xv, 430.
3
See, e.g., Howard Kurtz, “White House rips Forbes over Obama cover story,”
Washington Post
, September 17, 2010,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/16/AR2010091606921.html
; Michael Calderone, “Robert Gibbs Questions Accuracy of Forbes’ Obama Piece,” Yahoo! News, September 17, 2010,
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/robert-gibbs-questions-accuracy-forbes-obama-piece. html
; Maureen Dowd, “Who’s the Con Man?”
New York Times
, September 14, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/15/opinion/15dowd.html
; interview with Joe Biden,
Rachel Maddow Show
, MSNBC, September 15, 2010; Media Matters, “D’Souza’s The Roots of Obama’s Rage Rooted in Lies,” October 4, 2010,
http://media-matters.org/research/201010040030
; David Frum, “Gingrich: Obama Wants Whitey’s Money,”
FrumForum.com
, September 13, 2010,
http://www.frumforum.com/gingrich-obama-wants-whiteys-money/
; Alex Pareene, “Newt Gingrich on Obama the ‘Kenyan Anti-Colonial’ Con Man,”
Salon
, September 13, 2010,
http://www.salon.com/2010/09/13/newt_dsouza_obama_kenyan_con/
; Ryan Chittum, “Forbes’ Shameful Piece on Obama as the ‘Other,’”
Columbia Journalism Review
, September 13, 2010,
http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/forbes_shameful_obama_dinesh_dsouza.php?page=all
.
4
Jodi Kantor, “In Law School, Obama Found Political Voice,”
New York Times
, January 28, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/us/politics/28obama.html?pagewanted=all
.
5
Tom Shachtman,
Airlift to America
(St. Martin’s Press, 2009), p. 236; John Oywa, “My Life With Obama Senior,” Kenya
Standard
, November 11, 2008; Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, pp. 209, 348; Sally Jacobs,
The Other Barack
, pp. 148–49; Sally Jacobs, “A Father’s charm, absence,”
Boston Globe
, September 21, 2008,
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/09/21/a_fathers_charm_absence/
; Jon Meacham, “On His Own,”
Newsweek
, August 22, 2008.
6
Kevin Merida, “The ghost of a father,”
Washington Post
, December 14, 2007,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301784.html
; Meacham, “On His Own”; David Mendell,
Obama
(Harper, 2007), p. 40; Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 220; Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
, p. 205; Auma Obama,
And Then Life Happens
(St. Martin’s Press, 2012), p. 153.
7
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, p. 114.
8
Ibid., p. 129.
9
Ibid., pp. 216–17, 220.
10
Ibid., pp. 128–29.
11
David Remnick,
The Bridge
, pp. 51–52; Jacobs,
The Other Barack
, p. 167; Merida, “The Ghost of a Father”; Edmund Sanders, “So alike and yet so different,”
Los Angeles Times
, July 17, 2008,
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/17/world/fg-obamadad17
; Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, pp. 66–67.
12
Jacobs,
The Other Barack
, pp. 84–86, 148, 188.
13
Ibid., pp. 210, 246–47.
14
Ibid., pp. 200, 214, 231.
15
Ibid., pp. 108, 114–15; “First African Enrolled in Hawaii Studied two Years by Mail,”
Ka Leo O Hawaii
, October 8, 1959; Janny Scott,
A Singular Woman
(Riverhead Books, 2011), pp. 85–87.
16
Jacobs,
The Other Barack,
p. 206.
17
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, pp. 305, 310, 323, 372.

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