150 Reasons Why Barack Obama Is the Worst President in History (18 page)

61
Jeffrey Klein, “Obama Leaves Cities on Hook for Expensive Fundraiser Security Costs,”
Examiner
, 08/22/2012, (http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-leaves-cities-on-hook-for-expensive-fundraiser-security-costs)

62
Elizabeth Dinan, “Obama refuses to pay Portsmouth $30K for campaign visit costs,”
Seacost Online
, 12/20/2012, (http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20121220-NEWS-212200416)

63
“City Demands Obama Team Pay Police Tab,”
Wall Street Journal
, 8/2/2012, (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443545504577563152319884314.htm)

64
Ronn Torossian, “Millions Paid to Liberal Public Relations Firms,”
Frontpage
Magazine
, 10/30/2012, (http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ronn-torossian/millions-paid-to-liberal-public-relations-firms/)

65
Christopher Bean, “The TMI Presidency: How Much Transparency do we Really Want From Obama?”
Slate
, 11/12/2008, (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2008/11/the_tmi_presidency.html)

66
Daniel Greenfield, “Obama Donors Got $21,000 in Government Money for Every $1 They Gave,”
Frontpage Magazine,
11/25/2012, (http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/obama-donors-got-21000-in-government-money-for-every-1-they-gave/)

67
Ronnie Green and Matthew Mosk, “Green Bundler With the Golden Touch,” The Center for Public Integrity, 03/30/2011, (http://www.publicintegrity.org/2011/03/30/3845/green-bundler-golden-touch/)

68
Devin Dwyer, “Watchdogs Question Obama Donor Influence in ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Meetings,”
ABC News
, 11/28/2012, (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/11/watchdogs-question-donor-influence-in-obama-fiscal-cliff-meetings/)

69
Dave Levinthal, “Obama Inauguration Sponsors Spent Millions Influencing Government,” Center for Public Integrity,
TruthOut
, 01/21/2013, (
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14037-obama-inauguration-sponsors-spent-millions-influencing-government
)

70
Ashley Portero, “Obama’s Organizing for Action Could Lead to Government Corruption, Watchdogs Fear,”
International Business Times
, 02/20/2013; http://www.ibtimes.com/obamas-organizing-action-could-lead-government-corruption-watchdogs-fear-1095592)

71
T.W. Farnam, “The Influence Industry: Obama gives administration jobs to some big fundraisers,”
Washington Post
, 3/7/2012, (http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-03-07/politics/35447935_1_bundlers-obama-administration-steve-spinner)

72
Lachlan Markar, “Report: 80% of DOE Green Energy Loans Went to Obama Backers,”
The Foundry
, 11/14/2011, (http://blog.heritage.org/2011/11/14/report-80-of-doe-green-energy-loans-went-to-obama-backers/)

73
The White House, Office of the Press Secretary. (2012). Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address [Press release]. Retrieved from http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/24/remarks-president-state-union-address

74
Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, Jessica C. Smith, “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011,” US Census Bureau, accessed 12/04/2012, (http://www.census.gov/prod/2012pubs/p60-243.pdf)

75
Ben Shapiro, “Obamanomics: Almost 500,000 Federal Workers Make Over $100,000,”
Breitbart
, 08/20/2012, (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/20/Federal-workers-earn-twice-as-much-as-private-workers)

76
Nick Wing, “Obama Orders Pay Raise For Congress, Federal Workers, Joe Biden,” Huffington Post, 12/28/2012, (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/28/obama-pay-raise-congress_n_2377714.html)

77
“WHITE HOUSE INSIDER: Obama Hesitated – Panetta Issued Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden,”
The Ulsterman Report
, 4/30/2012, (http://theulstermanreport.com/2012/04/30/white-house-insider-obama-hesitated-panetta-issued-order-to-kill-osama-bin-laden/)

78
Luis Martinez, “Panetta Regrets Cost of His Weekend Trips to California as Defense Secretary,”
ABC News
, 04/16/2012, (
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/panetta-regrets-cost-of-his-weekend-trips-to-california-as-defense-secretary/
)

79
Susan Crabtree, “Panetta leaves big bill as he flies away,”
Washington Times
, 2/5/2013, (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/5/jet-setting-panetta-remained-bi-coastal-end-taxpay/)

80
Susan Crabtree, “Panetta leaves big bill as he flies away,”
Washington Times
, 2/5/2013, (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/5/jet-setting-panetta-remained-bi-coastal-end-
taxpay/)

81
Stephen Dinan, “Tax Cheats got $1.4 Billion in Stimulus Loans,”
Washington Times
, 06/27/2012, (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jun/27/gao-1-billion-in-tax-credits-went-to-cheats/)

82
Ed Morrissey, “Friday night news dump: Obama bypasses Congress, funds Palestinian Authority,”
Hot Air
, 04/28/2012 (http://hotair.com/archives/2012/04/28/friday-night-news-dump-obama-bypasses-congress-funds-palestinian-authority/)

83
Steven Lee Meyers, “U.S. Move to Give Egypt $450 Million in Aid Meets Resistance,”
The New York Times
, 09/28/2012, (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/29/world/middleeast/white-house-move-to-give-egypt-450-million-in-aid-meets-resistance.html)

84
Erick Stackelbeck, “Muslim Brotherhood: A Global Terrorist Influence,”
CBN News
, February 1, 2011, (http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2011/february/muslim-brotherhood-a-global-terrorist-influence/)

85
Angie Drobnic Holan, “The Obameter: Allow Five Days of Public Comment Before Signing Bills,”
Politifact
, 05/26/2009, (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/234/allow-five-days-of-public-comment-before-signing-b/)

86
“Tuition Costs of Colleges and Universities,”
National Center for Education Statistics
, accessed 12/08/2012

87
Kathleen Kingsbury, “College Costs Stall As Borrowing Falls, Study Says,”
Reuters
, 10/24/12, (http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/24/us-education-college-costs-idUSBRE89N06R20121024)

88
Mary Beth Marklein, “College Costs Going Up At Slower Rate,”
USA Today
, 10/24/12, (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/23/college-tuition-costs/1643921/)

89
“Obama Promises to Limit No-Bid Contracts,”
Boston Globe
, 03/05/2009, (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/03/05/obama_promises_to_limit_no_bid_contracts/)

90
Devin Dwyer, “Senate Democrat Seeks Investigation of Obama’s No-Bid Contract for Smallpox Drug,”
ABC News
, 11/25/2011, (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/senate-democrat-seeks-investigation-of-obamas-no-bid-contract-for-smallpox-drug/)

91
Kathy Hopkins, “Student Loan Debt Rises as Most Other Debt Falls,”
US News and World Report
, 8/20/2012, (http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/2012/08/30/student-loan-debt-rises-as-most-other-debt-falls)

92
David Weinberger, “Raising Minimum Wage Hurst Low-Income Workers,”
The Foundry
, 04/25/2012, (http://blog.heritage.org/2012/04/25/raising-the-minimum-wage-hurts-low-income-workers/)

93
“The Obama-Biden Plan: Make Work Pay for All Americans,”
Change.gov
, (http://change.gov/agenda/poverty_agenda/)

94
Pete Kasperowicz, “Dozens of House Dems propose boosting minimum wage to $9.80 an hour,”
The Hill
, 07/27/2012, (http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/240715-dozens-of-house-dems-propose-boosting-minimum-wage-to-980-an-hour)

95
Chris Isidore, “Home Prices Rebound,”
CNN Money
, 9/25/2012 (http://money.cnn.com/2012/09/25/real_estate/home-prices/index.html)

96
Edward J. Pinto, “The Next Housing Bailout? Big Trouble Brewing at the FHA,”
The Atlantic
, 11/16/2012, (http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/11/the-next-housing-bailout-big-trouble-brewing-at-the-fha/265359/)

97
Ibid.

98
Lynn Adler, “U.S. 2009 Foreclosures Shatter Record Despite Aid,”
Reuters
, 01/14/2010, (http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/01/14/us-usa-housing-foreclosures-idUSTRE60D0LZ20100114)

99
“1.8 Million U.S. Properties With Foreclosure Filings in 2012”
RealtyTrac
, 01/14/2013

100
“2012 Foreclosure Activity Up in 57 Percent of Metro Areas...,”
RealtyTrac
, 01/28/2013

101
“Bank Foreclosures Hit Nine-Month High in November: RealtyTrac,” Alex Veiga,
Huffington Post
, 12/13/2012, (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/13/bank-foreclosures-november_n_2292037.html)

102
Binyamin Appelbaum, “Cautious Moves on Foreclosures Haunting Obama,”
New York Times
, 08/19/2012, (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/business/economy/slow-response-to-housing-crisis-now-weighs-on-obama.html)

103
Abigail Field, “Robo-Signing: Documents Show Citi and Wells Also Committed Foreclosure Fraud,”
Daily Finance,
10/02/2010, (http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/10/02/robo-signing-scandal-spreads-documents-show-citi-and-wells-also/)

104
“Robo-Signing Backlog Hitting Judicial Foreclosure States,”
Inman News
, 10/10/2012, (http://www.inman.com/news/2012/10/10/robo-signing-backlog-hitting-judicial-foreclosure-states)

105
Huma Khan, “What Does One Get a Queen?”
ABC News
, 04/01/2009, (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/04/what-does-one-g/)

106
Toby Harnden, “Barack Obama’s gift for the Queen: an iPod, your Majesty,”
The Telegraph
, 04/01/2009, (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/9355453/Barack_Obamas_gift_for_the_Queen_an_iPod_your_Majesty/)

107
Mike Flynn, “To Honor Neil Armstrong, Obama Posts Photo of Himself,”
Breitbart
, 8/26/2012 (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/08/26/to-honor-neil-armstrong-obama-posts-a-picture-of-himself)

108
“President Obama Honors Rosa Parks Anniversary With Picture of...Himself,”
Fox Nation
, 12/02/2012, (http://nation.foxnews.com/obama/2012/12/02/president-obama-honors-rosa-parks-anniversary-picture-himself)

109
Emily Yoffe, “Today We Are Gathered … To Hear More About Me,”
Slate
, 12/21/2012, (http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2012/12/barack_obama_s_eulogy_to_daniel_inouye_told_us_more_about_the_president.html)

110
Seth Mandel, “Obama Drops His Name Into the Other Presidential Biographies,”
Commentary
, 05/15/2012, (http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/15/obama-drops-his-name-into-presidential-biographies/)

111
Bobby Jindal.
Leadership and Crisis
. Washington D.C.: Regnery Pub, 2010. Print.

112
Karl Rove, “Yes, the Gulf Spill is Obama’s Katrina,”
Wall Street Journal
, 5/27/2010, (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704717004575268752362770856.html)

113
John M. Broder, “Report Slams Administration for Underestimating Gulf Spill,”
New York Times,
10/6/2010, (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/07/science/earth/07spill.html)

114
“Matt Cover, “Backlog of Veterans’ Disability Claims Increases by 179% Under Obama,”
CNS News
, 10/04/2012, (http://cnsnews.com/news/article/backlog-veterans-disability-claims-increases-179-under-obama)

115
Robert Rector, “The Effects of Welfare Reform,”
Heritage Foundation
, 03/15/2001, (http://www.heritage.org/research/testimony/the-effects-of-welfare-reform)

116
John Nolte, “Media Fact Checkers Shill for Obama’s Gutting of Welfare Reform,”
Breitbart
, 8/21/2012, (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/08/21/Fact-Checkers-Flak-For-Obamas-Gutting-of-welfare)

117
Eric Pianin, “Why Obama’s Welfare Waivers Have Both Sides Seething,”
Fiscal Times
, 08/10/2012, (http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/08/10/Why-Obamas-Welfare-Waivers-Have-Both-Sides-Seething.aspx)

118
Rep. Dave Camp and Rep. John Kline, “Obama’s illegal scheme to end welfare work requirements,”
Washington Times
, 9/19/2012, (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/19/obamas-illegal-scheme-to-end-welfare-work-requirem/)

119
Eugene Robinson, “George W. Bush’s greatest legacy,”
Washington Post
, July 26, 2012 (http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-07-26/opinions/35487798_1_african-countries-pepfar-antiretroviral-treatment)

120
Jennifer Loven “Africa Crowds Greet Bush With Hugs, Chants of Thanks,”
Boston Globe
, 02/19/2008, (http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2008/02/19/africa_crowds_greet_bush_with_hugs_chants_of_thanks/)