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Tempelsman, Maurice
 
Thomas, Charles
 
Thomas, Evan
 
Tillman, Micah
 
Tobin, Jonathan
 
Tonelson, Alan
 
Townsend, Kathleen Kennedy
 
Trinity United Church of Christ
 
Truman Doctrine
 
Truman, Harry
 
Twenty-second Amendment
 
U
 
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
 
United Nations
 
United States of America
 
Israel and
 
Jeremiah Wright and
 
responsibility of
 
Triple-A credit rating of
 
as welfare state
 
world standing of
 
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
 
United States Department of Agriculture
 
V
 
Vance, Cyrus
 
W
 
Wall Street bailouts
 
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
 
Washington Post
 
Watergate
 
Waters, Maxine
 
Wehner, Peter
 
Welsh, Kelly R.
 
Werner, Erica
 
Westly, Steve
 
Whitaker, Eric
 
White House Historical Society
 
Whitney Young Magnet High School
 
Wiesel, Elie
 
Wills, Gary
 
Wilson, Scott
 
Wilson, Woodrow
 
Winfrey, Oprah
 
see also
Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN)
 
2008 election and
 
2012 election and
 
endorsement of Obama
 
Michelle Obama and
 
relationship with Obamas
 
Woodward, Bob
 
World America Made, The
 
World Trade Center
 
World War II
 
Wright, Jeremiah
 
America’s economic mal-distribution
 
“God damn America” speech of
 
Wright, Jeri
 
Y
 
Young, E. Michael
 
Z
 
Zinni, Anthony
 
1
Until their falling out, Father Pfleger had been extremely close to Obama, and had encouraged Obama’s belief in his God-given destiny. “When Barack was thinking of running for president,” Pfleger told me in an interview for this book, “I said to him: ‘If you really believe that God is calling you to do this, forget all the norms. But don’t forget that the only way this can happen is through God. If you believe God is calling you, do it. But don’t forget, if you get it, don’t forget it was God first, not people, who got you there.’ And Barack said to me, ‘Yes, Father, I really believe that my plan in life is to go and become president, and that God has called me to go now.’”
2
When Obama overruled Emanuel on healthcare, he told him: “I wasn’t sent here to do school uniforms.”
3
Michelle’s actual annual salary, between the university and serving on six boards of directors, including Walmart, approached $500,000.
4
Aware of Michelle’s expensive tastes, Oprah made a point of wearing her $117,000 Cartier Diabolo watch to the White House meeting with the first lady.
5
According to CNN, the White House’s efforts to ingratiate itself with the Arab world not have worked. Opinion polls indicate that the favorability rating of the United States in much of the Arab world is lower under President Obama than it was during the Bush administration.
6
Obama likes to boast that he has created more than 2 million jobs. But if he had matched Ronald Reagan’s record, 15.7 million Americans would have been put to work.
Copyright © 2012 by Edward Klein
 
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Portions of chapter 15 first appeared in the
Huffington Post
in October 2010 as a five-part series written in collaboration with Richard Z. Chesnoff.
 
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