Post-American Presidency (50 page)

18
. Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller, “President Obama Addresses Sarah Palin ‘Death Panels,’ ‘Wild Representations,’” ABC News, August 11, 2009.

19
. Sarah Palin, “Concerning the ‘Death Panels,’” Sarah Palin’s Notes, Facebook.com, August 12, 2009.

20
. “Obama’s Senior Moment,”
Wall Street Journal,
August 14, 2009.

21
. “Morning Bell: The Obamacare Rationing Threat To Your Mammograms,” The Heritage Foundation, November 24, 2009,
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/24/
morning-bell-the-obamacare-rationing
-threat-to-your-mammograms/
.

22
. Pamela Geller, “Palin Rules: No Health Care Reform Without Legal Reform,” AtlasShrugs.com, August 22, 2009,
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs
/2009/08/palin-rules-.html
.

23
. “Video: Pelosi Says Jail ‘Very Fair’ Punishment For Not Buying Health Insurance,” Heritage Foundation, November 13, 2009,
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/11/13/
video-pelosi-says-jail-very-fair-
punishment-for-not-buying-health-insurance
.

24
. Sunlen Miller, “Interview with the President: Jail Time for Those without Health Care Insurance?” ABC News, November 9, 2009.

25
. “Video: Pelosi Says Jail ‘Very Fair’ Punishment For Not Buying Health Insur-ance.”

26
. “Lyrics: Songs About President Obama,” FOXNews.com, September 24, 2009.

27
. Ibid.

28
. John Nolte, “Elementary Epidemic: 11 Uncovered Videos Show School Children Performing Praises to Obama,” Big Hollywood, November 4, 2009,
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/
2009/11/04/elementary-epidemic-11
-uncovered-videos-show-school-children
-performing-praises-to-obama
/#more-251738
.

29
. Pamela Geller, “Obama Recruiting Radicals in High Schools,” Big Government, January 31, 2010,
http://biggovernment.com/pgeller/2010/01/31
/obama-recruiting-radicals-in-high-schools/
.

30
. Patrick Courrielche, “The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?” Big Hollywood, August 25, 2009.
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/2009/08
/25/the-national-endowment-for-the-art
-of-persuasion-patrick-courrielche
.

31
. Ibid.

32
. John Nolte, “Propaganda, Health Care and ACORN: Full Context of NEA Conference Call Reveals Disturbing Pattern,” Big Hollywood, September 21, 2009,
http://bighollywood.breibart.com/jjmnolte/2009
/09/21/propaganda-health
-care-and-acorn-full-context-of-nea-conference
-call-reveals-disturbing-pattern
.

33
. Lee Rosenbaum, “‘United We Serve’: Should the Arts be Politically Exploited?”
CultureGrrl, September 2, 2009,
http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2009/09u
/nited_we_serve.html
.

34
. John Berry, “Memorandum For Heads Of Executive Departments and Agencies,” United States Office of Personnel Management, November 5, 2009,
http://www.chcoc.gov/Transmittals
/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalId=2588
.

35
. Mark Tapscott, “Obama to weed out Bush political appointees who careered in; Establishes new political test for career jobs UPDATED!,”
Examiner
(Washington), November 12, 2009,
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/
blogs/beltway-confidential/Obama-to
-weed-out-Bush-political-appointees-who
-careered-in-Establishes-new-political-test
-for-career-jobs-69858442.html
.

36
. Erick Erickson, “Obama Administration Intends to Purge Republicans From the Civil Service,” RedState.com, November 12, 2009,
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2009/11/12
/obama-administration-intends-to
-purge-republicans-from-the
-civil-service/
.

37
. Ibid.

38
. P. J. Gladnick, “Will MSM Report on Louis Farrakhan Declaration of Obama as the Messiah?” Newsbusters, October 9, 2008,
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2008/10/09/will-msm-report-louis-farrakhan-declaration-obama-messiah
.

39
. Ayn Rand,
The Ayn Rand Column,
ed. Peter Schwartz (New Miford, Conn.: Second Renaissance Books, 1998), p. 18.

TWELVE: THE RED CZARS

1
. Eric Cantor, “Obama and His 32 Czars: President is Skirting Legislative Branch,”
Washington Post,
August 1, 2009.

2
. Robert Byrd, Letter to Barack Obama, February 23, 2009, available at
http://www.eenews.net//files/12/58/23/f125823/public/25/9865/
features/documents/2009/02/25
/document_gw_02.pdf
.

3
. Cantor, “Obama and His 32 Czars.”

4
. Byrd, Letter to Barack Obama.

5
. Eric Cantor, “Obama and His 32 Czars.”

6
. David Rochelson, “The search for knowledge, truth and a greater understanding of the world around us,” Change.gov, December 20, 2008,
http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/
the_search_for_knowledge_truth_and_a_
greater_understanding_of_the_world_aro
.

7
.
http://www.pugwash.org/
.

8
. Paul Ehrlich, Anne Ehrlich, and John Holdren,
Ecoscience: Population, Resources, and Environment,
(New York: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1977), p. 954. Quoted in Ben Johnson, “Obama’s Biggest Radical,” FrontPageMagazine.com, February 27, 2009,
http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.
aspx?ARTID=34198
.

9
. Ibid.

10
. Ibid.

11
. “Obama Bombshell Redistribution of Wealth Audio Uncovered,” Barack Obama interview, WBEZ-FM, 2001, YouTube, October 26, 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
&feature=player_embedded
.

12
. Ehrlich, Ehrlich, and Holdren,
Ecoscience: Population, Resources, and Environment,
pp. 837–38. Quoted in Johnson, “Obama’s Biggest Radical.”

13
. Ibid., p. 943. Quoted in Johnson.

14
. Ibid., p. 917. Quoted in Johnson.

15
. John P. Holdren, “Arms Limitation and Peace Building in the Post-Cold-War World,” Pugwash Online, December 10, 1995,
http://www.pugwash.org/award/Holdrennobel.htm
. Quoted in Ben Johnson, “Obama’s Biggest Radical,” FrontPageMagazine.com, February 27, 2009,
http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.
aspx?ARTID=34198
.

16
. John P. Holdren, “Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being,”
Science
25, January 2008: Vol. 319, no. 5862, pp. 424–34. Quoted in Ben Johnson, “Obama’s Biggest Radical,” FrontPageMagazine.com, February 27, 2009,
http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.
aspx?ARTID=34198
.

17
. Ben Johnson, “Obama’s Biggest Radical,” FrontPageMagazine.com, February 27, 2009,
http://97.74.65.51/readArticle
.aspx?ARTID=34198
.

18
. Bob Roman, “A Town Meeting on Economic Insecurity: Employment and Survival in Urban America,”
New Ground
45, March-April 1996,
http://www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng45.html
.

19
. “Browner is an Environmental Radical—and a Socialist (Seriously),”
Examiner
(Washington), January 8, 2009,
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion
/Browner_is_an_environmental_radical_
_and_a_socialist_seriously_010809.html
.

20
. Stephen Dinan, “Obama Climate Czar has Socialist Ties,”
Washington Times,
January 12, 2009.

21
. John Griffing, “Watermelon Marxists,”
American Thinker,
December 8, 2009.

22
. Eliza Strickland, “The New Face of Environmentalism,”
The East Bay Express,
November 2, 2005.

23
. Aaron Klein, “Will a ‘Red’ Help Blacks Go Green?” WorldNetDaily, November 5, 2009.

24
. Deborah Solomon, “Pay Czar Gets Broad Authority Over Executive Compensation,”
Wall Street Journal,
June 11, 2009.

25
. David Harsanyi, “The Rise of the Mob Economy,” Townhall.com, October 23, 2009,
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidHarsanyi
/2009/10/23/the_rise_of_the_mob_
economy?page=full&comments=true
.

26
. Eamon Javers, “‘Pay czar’ Kenneth Feinberg caps pay of midlevel executives,” Politico, December 11, 2009,
http://www.politico.com/news/stories
/1209/30480.html
.

27
. Harsanyi, “The Rise of the Mob Economy.”

THIRTEEN: ACORN: FEDERALLY FUNDED FRAUD

1
. James O’Keefe, “Complete ACORN Baltimore Child Prostitution Investigation Transcript,” Big Government, September 10, 2009,
http://biggovernment.com/2009/09/10/complete-acorn
-baltimore-prostitution
-investigation-transcript/
.

2
. Amanda Carpenter, “ACORN’s Rap Sheet,” Townhall.com, October 13, 2008,
http://townhall.com/columnists/AmandaCarpenter
/2008/10/13/acorns_rap_sheet?
page=full&comments=true
.

3
. Terrence Scanlon, “Is ACORN disenfranchising the process itself?”
Examiner
(Washington), November 6, 2006,
http://www.examiner.com/a-381567
~Terrence_Scanlon_Is_ACORN_disenfranchising
_the_process_itself_.html
.

4
. Carpenter, “ACORN’s Rap Sheet.”

5
. Ibid.

6
. Ronald Kessler, “Former ACORN Employee: More Than Half Voter Registrations Invalid,” Newsmax, March 19, 2009.

7
. Sol Stern, “ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities,”
City Journal,
Spring 2003,
http://www.city-journal.org/html/
13_2_acorns_nutty_regime.html
.

8
. Stanley Kurtz, “Inside Obama’s Acorn,”
National Review,
May 29, 2008.

9
. Adam Doster, “Growing the Pie: How Obama’s Voter-Registration Efforts Could Reshape the Electoral Map in November,”
Illinois Times,
August 6, 2008.

10
. Ibid.

11
. John Fund, “Acorn Who? Obama Heads for the High Grass,”
Wall Street Journal,
September 21, 2009.

12
. Ryan Lizza, “Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama,”
New Yorker,
July 21, 2008.

13
. “Obama Caught Saying ACORN and Friends Will Shape His Presidential Agenda,” YouTube.com, October 11, 2008,
http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=8vJcVgJhNaU&e
.

14
. Sam Graham-Felsen, “ACORN Political Action Committee Endorses Obama,” Organizing For America, February 21, 2008,
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community
/post/samgrahamfelsen/gGC7zm
.

15
. “Rep. Steve King Says any ACORN Investigation ‘Will Lead to the White House’ - Video 12/4/09,” Freedom’s Lighthouse, December 4, 2009,
http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/12
/rep-steve-king-says-any-acorn.html
.

16
. Pamela Geller, “ACORN Throws Out Republican Voter Registrations,” Big Government, October 7, 2009,
http://biggovernment.com/2009/10/07/acorn-throws-
out-republican-voter-registrations/
.

17
. Thomas Lifson, “Obama Campaign Now Publishing Lies on His Ties to Acorn,”
American Thinker,
October 10, 2008.

18
. Chad Groening, “Praise of Mao should be White House no-no,” One News Now, October 28, 2009,
http://onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=740592
.

19
. John Boehner, “Dems Vote to Allow Federal Funding for Corrupt ACORN,” Big Government, December 9, 2009,
http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/09/dems
-vote-to-allow-federal-funding-for
-corrupt-acorn/
.

20
. Scanlon, “Is ACORN disenfranchising the process itself?”

21
. Matthew Vadum, “ACORN’s Stimulus,”
American Spectator,
January 27, 2009.

22
. Bill Hemmer of FOX News stated on
America’s Newsroom,
February 3, 2010: “We’re learning the community organizing group ACORN may stand to benefit from this $3.8 trillion proposal.” See also Matthew Vadum, “Show ACORN the Money,”
American Spectator,
February 2, 2010.

23
. Boehner, “Dems Vote to Allow Federal Funding for Corrupt ACORN.”

24
. George Stephanopoulos, “Obama on ACORN: ‘Not Something I’ve Followed Closely’ Won’t Commit to Cut Federal Funds,” ABCNews.com, September 20, 2009,
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/09/
obama-on-acorn-not-something-ive-
followed-closely.html
.

25
. Boehner, “Dems Vote to Allow Federal Funding for Corrupt ACORN.”

FOURTEEN: THE ENERGY SHELL GAME

1
. John M. Broder, “U.S. Blocks Oil Drilling at 60 Sites in Utah,”
New York Times,
October 8, 2009.

2
. Sarah Palin, “Drill: Petroleum is a Major Part of America’s Energy Picture. Shall We Get It Here or Abroad?”
National Review,
October 16, 2009.