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Chapter 3
 
1
Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006), 192. See also, The Scrapbook, “The Thinness of His Skin,”
The Weekly Standard
, May 24, 2010; available at:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/thinness-his-skin
, p. 2 [accessed August 3, 2010].
2
Barack Obama,
Dreams from My Father
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 2004), 136. See also, Dan Armstrong, “Barack Obama Embellishes His Resume,” July 9, 2005; available at:
http://www.analyzethis.net/2005/07/09/barack-obama-embellishes-his-resume/
[accessed August 3, 2010].
3
Bob Young, “Obama’s Big Time Fumble,”
The Arizona Republic
, May 17, 2009; available at:
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/heatindex/articles/2009/05/17/20090517spt-p2mainyoung.html
[accessed August 3, 2010].
4
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, 301.
5
Charles Bremner, “Barack and Michelle Obama Decline Dinner with the Sarkozys,”
Times
, June 5, 2009; available at:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6434141.ece
[accessed August 3, 2010]. See also, Tom Diemer, “Obama, Struggling on Homefront, Still a Global Pop Star, Poll Finds,”
Politics Daily
, June 17, 2010; available at:
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/06/17/obama-struggling-on-homefront-still-a-global-pop-star-poll-fi/
[accessed August 3, 2010].
6
Remarks by President Obama at Strasbourg Town Hall, April 3, 2009; available at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-President-Obama-at-Strasbourg-Town-Hall/
[accessed August 3, 2010].
7
Jimmy Orr, “Obama Gives the Queen of England an iPod,”
Christian Science Monitor
, April 1, 2009; available at:
http://www.csmonitor
. com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2009/0401/obama-gives-the-queen-of-england-an-ipod [accessed August 3, 2010]. See also, Jim Shipman, “Barack Obama Sends Bust of Winston Churchill on Its Way Back to Britain,”
Telegraph
, February 14, 2009; available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html
[accessed August 3, 2010].
8
Winston Churchill, “The End of the Beginning,” November 10, 1942, Churchill Society, London; available at:
http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/EndoBegn.html
[accessed August 3, 2010]. See also, Tom Schachtman,
Airlift to America
(New York : St. Martin’s Press, 2009), 30–31.
9
Associated Press, “Obama Stops Wearing American Flag Pin,” April 10, 2007; available at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21138728/
[accessed August 3, 2010].
10
Severin Carrell, “Barack Obama faces rising pressure to publish Lockerbie bomber release letter,” London
Guardian
, July 25, 2010; available at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jul/25/barack-obama-megrahi-release-lockerbie
[accessed August 9, 2010]. See also, CNN, “Obama, Cameron blast release of Lockerbie bomber,” CNN, July 20, 2010; available at:
http://politicalticker.blogscnn.com/2010/07/20/obama-cameron-blast-release-of-lockerbie-bomber/
. [accessed August 9, 2010]. “White House Reportedly Preferred Scotland to Libya for Released Lockerbie Bomber,” FOX News, July 25, 2010; available at:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/07/25/obama-administration-reportedly-backed-lockerbie-release-transfer-libyan-prison/
[accessed August 9, 2010].
11
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
(New York: Vintage, 1990), Volume I, 394, 427, Volume II, 22, 38.
12
Seymour Martin Lipset,
American Exceptionalism
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1997), 51, 63, 66, 77.
13
Edward Wyatt and David Herszenhorn, “In Deal, New Authority Over Wall Street,”
New York Times
, June 28, 2010; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/us/politics/26regulate.html
[accessed August 9, 2010].
14
Stephanie Condon, “James Carville Slams Obama on Oil Spill Response,” CBS News May 26, 2010; available at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20006016-503544.html
[accessed August 3, 2010]. See also, James Taranto, “Keith Olbermann’s Wisdom,”
Wall Street Journal
, June 21, 2010; available at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748704895204575320670422192984.html
[accessed August 3, 2010].
15
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President to the Nation on the BP Oil Spill,” June 15, 2010; available at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-nation-bp-oil-spill
[accessed August 3, 2010].
16
“Obama Decries Political Posturing on Immigration,” My Fox Phoenix, July 1, 2010; available at:
http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/news/immigration/apx-obama-speech-immigration-overhaul-07012010
.
17
Edward Said,
Culture and Imperialism
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991), xx, 17.
18
Michael Hastings, “The Runaway General,”
Rolling Stone
, June 22, 2010; available at:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236
[accessed August 3, 2010].
19
Thomas Friedman, “What’s Second Prize?”
New York Times
, June 22, 2010; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/opinion/23friedman.html
[accessed August 3, 2010].
20
Helene Cooper, “Obama Says a Way Out of Afghanistan Is Needed,”
New York Times
, March 23, 2009; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/us/politics/23obama.html
[accessed August 3, 2010].
21
“More Than a One-Man Problem,”
The Economist
, June 24, 2010, p. 30; available at:
http://www.economist.com/node/16425992
.
22
“Obama, Netanyahu Agree to Focus on Peace Talks,”
Washington Post
, July 6, 2010; video available at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2010/07/06/VI2010070602814.html
[accessed August 3, 2010]. See also, Dan Ephron, “Israel Holds the Line on East Jerusalem,”
Newsweek
, July 26, 2010, p. 6.
23
AP, “Obama Under Fire for Comment on Palestinians,” March 15, 2007; video and transcript available at:
http://www.msnbcmsn.com/id/17631015/
. [accessed August 3, 2010]. See also, Ali Abunimah, “How Barack Obama Learned to Love Israel,”
The Guardian
, March 5, 2007; available at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/mar/05/howbarackobamalearnedtolo
[accessed August 3, 2010].
24
“Old worry, new ideas,”
The Economist
, April 15, 2010, p. 67; available at:
http://www.economist.com/node/15915393
. See also, “An Awkward Guest List,”
The Economist
, April 29, 2010, p. 60; available at:
http://www.economist.com/node/16010410
.
25
Mark Steyn, “Obama’s Nuke Summit Dangerously Delusional,” April 18, 2010; available at:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0410/steyn041810.php3
[accessed August 3, 2010]; and Charles Krauthammer, “Obama’s Nuclear Strutting and Fretting,”
Washington Post
, April 16, 2010; available at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/15/AR2010041504663.html
[accessed August 3, 2010]. See also, Charles Krauthammer, “Plumage—But at A Price,”
Washington Post
, July 9, 2009; available at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/09/AR2009070902363.html
[accessed August 3, 2010].
Chapter 4
 
1
Michael Dobbs, “Aide says Obama erred on Kennedy tie,”
Boston Globe
, March 30, 2008; available at:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/30/aide_says_obama_erred_on_kennedy_tie/
[accessed August 3, 2010].
2
Tom Schachtman,
Airlift to America
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2009), 6, 9; Elsa Dixler, “How Obama Sr. Came to Hawaii,”
New York Times
, May 7, 2010; available at:
http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/how-obama-sr-came-to-hawaii/
[accessed August 3, 2010].
3
Sally Jacobs, “A Father’s Charm, Absence,”
Boston Globe
, September 21, 2008; available at:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/09/21/a_fathers_charm_absence/
[accessed August 3, 2010]. See also, Tom Schachtman,
Airlift to America
, 10.
4
Gavan Daws,
Shoal of Time
(Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1968), 291.
5
Barack Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, 23.
6
Ibid., 52, 80; Constance Ramos,
Our Friend Barry: Classmates’ Recollections of Barack Obama and Punahou School
(Lulu, 2008),
www.lulu.com
; Kristen Scharnberg and Kim Barker, “The not-so-simple story of Barack Obama’s youth,”
Chicago Tribune
, March 25, 2007; available at:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/obama/chi-070325obama-youth-story-archive,0,3864722.story
[accessed August 3, 2010].
7
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, xv; W. E. B. Du Bois,
The Souls of Black Folk
(New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 2003), 9.
8
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, 9.
9
Ibid., 220; Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
, 205.
10
Ibid., 363–64.
11
Keith Richburg, “Obama’s Half Brother Steps Into Spotlight to Tell His Own Story,”
Washington Post
, November 5, 2009; available at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/04/AR2009110401214.html
[accessed August 3, 2010]. See also, William Foreman, “Obama’s Half-Brother Recalls Their Abusive Father in Novel,”
USA Today
, November 4, 2009; available at:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2009-11-03-obama-half-brother-novel_N.htm
[accessed August 3, 2010].
12
Sally Jacobs, “A Father’s Charm, Absence,”
op. cit
. See also, David Remnick,
The Bridge
, 54; Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, 76; Schachtman,
Airlift to America
, 187.
13
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, 63, 69.
14
Ibid., 70.
15
Liza Mundy, “When Michelle Met Barack,”
Washington Post
, October 5, 2008; available at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/10/03/ST2008100302144.html
[accessed August 3, 2010].
16
Jomo Kenyatta,
Suffering Without Bitterness
(Nairobi: East African Publishing, 1968), 161.
17
For an analysis of Mboya’s paper, see William Ochieng, “Structural and Political Changes,” in B. A. Ogot and W. R. Ochieng,
Decolonization and Independence in Kenya
(London: James Currey, 1995), 83–85.
18
Barak H. Obama, “Problems Facing Our Socialism,”
East Africa Journal
, July 1965; available at:
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM41_eastafrica.html
, p. 3.
19
Jon Meacham, “On His Own,”
Newsweek
, August 23, 2008; available at:
http://www.newsweek.com/2008/08/22/on-his-own.html
[accessed August 3, 2010]. See also, Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, 50.
20
Remnick,
The Bridge
, 60; Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, 51.
21
K. M. Panikkar,
Asia and Western Dominance
(New York: Collier Books, 1969), 92.
22
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, 37
23
Scharnberg and Barker, “The Not-So-Simple Story of Barack Obama’s Youth,”
Chicago Tribune
.
24
Obama,
Dreams from My Father
, 41–43.
25
Ibid., 46–47, 50.
26
Ibid., 129.
Chapter 5
 
1
Associated Press, “Obama’s Census Choice: Just African-American,” CBS News, April 2, 2010; available at:
http://www.cbsnews
. com/stories/2010/04/02/politics/main6357568.shtml [accessed August 4, 2010].
2
Marie Arana, “He’s Not Black,”
Washington Post
, November 30, 2008; available at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/1½8/AR2008112802219.html
[accessed August 4, 2010].
3
Jesse Washington, “Many Insisting that Obama Is Not Black,” AP Report,
Huffington Post
, December 14, 2008; available at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/14/ap-many-insisting-that-ob_n_150846.html
[accessed August 4, 2010]. See also, Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates, “Is Obama Black Enough?”
Time
, February 1, 2007; available at:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1584736,00.html
[accessed August 4, 2010].

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