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20
Jodi Kantor, “A Candidate, His Minister and the Search for Faith,”
New York Times
, April 30, 2007; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/us/politics/30obama.html
[accessed August 3, 2010].
21
“Barack Obama’s Speech on Race,”
New York Times
, March 18, 2008; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/us/politics/18text-obama.html
[accessed August 3, 2010].
22
Janny Scott, “Obama Chooses Reconciliation Over Rancor,”
New York Times
, March 19, 2008; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/us/politics/19assess.html
[accessed August 3, 2010]. See also, Editorial, “Mr. Obama’s Profile in Courage,”
New York Times
, March 19, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/19/opinion/19wed1.html
[accessed August 3, 2010]; and Chris Matthews, “Hardball,” MSNBC, March 18, 2008; video available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_J46peAVzw
.
23
Barack Obama’s Election Night Remarks,
Politico
, November 5, 2008; available at:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1108/15294.html
[accessed August 3, 2010].
Chapter 8
 
1
Amilcar Cabral,
Unity and Struggle
(New York: Monthly Review Press, 1979), 143; Frantz Fanon,
The Wretched of the Earth
(New York: Grove Press, 1963), 101–3.
2
“Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling,”
Wall Street Journal
, Review and Outlook, August 18, 2009; available at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html
[accessed August 6, 2010]. See also, Mario Loyola, “Rule by Decree,”
National Review
, July 26, 2010; available at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/243537/rule-by-decree-mario-loyola
.
3
See e.g., Jillian K. Melchior, “Ignoring Climategate,”
Commentary
, February 2010; available at:
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/ignoring—climategate—15339
[accessed August 6, 2010].
4
Roy Spencer,
The Great Global Warming Blunder
(New York: Encounter Books, 2010), xii, 2, 4, 6.
5
Elisabeth Rosenthal, “China Increases Lead as Biggest Carbon Dioxide Emitter,”
New York Times
, June 14, 2008; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/world/asia/14china.html
[accessed August 6, 2010].
6
Martin Feldstein, “Cap and Trade: All Cost, No Benefit,”
Washington Post
, June 1, 2009; available at:
http://www.washingtonpost
. com/wp-dyn/ content/ article/2009 /05/31/ AR20090531 02077. html [accessed August 6, 2010].
7
“Remarks by the President at United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s Climate Change Summit,” Office of the Press Secretary, the White House, September 22, 2009; text available at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-UN-Secretary-General-Ban-Ki-moons-Climate-Change-Summit/
[accessed August 6, 2010].
8
Walter Russell Mead, “The Politics of Climategate,”
The American Interest
, January–February 2010, pp. 125–26; available at:
http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=821
[accessed August 6, 2010].
9
Cliff Kincaid, “Obama’s Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote,”
AIM Report
, February 12, 2008; available at:
http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-global-tax-proposal-up-for-senate-vote/
[accessed August 9, 2010].
10
Obama interview with Steve Kroft,
60 Minutes
, CBS, November 16, 2008; available at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/16/60minutes/main4607893_page3.shtml
[accessed August 6, 2010].
11
David Leonhardt, “The Big Fix,”
New York Times
, January 27, 2009; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/magazine/01Economy-t.html
[accessed August 6, 2010].
12
Massimo Calabresi, “Obama vs. the Banks,”
Time
, December 13, 2009; available at:
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1947411,00.html
[accessed August 6, 2010]. See also, Michael Muskal, “Obama channels his inner populist and attacks bankers,”
Los Angeles Times
, January 14, 2010; available at:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/01/president-obama-channels-his-inner-populist-banks-bailout.html
[accessed August 6, 2010]; and “Obama Makes Case About Capitalism’s Drift,” AOL News, April 22, 2010; available at:
http://www.aol-news.com/nation/article/obama-makes-case-about-capitalisms-drift/19450218
[accessed August 6, 2010].
13
For a detailed presentation of this case, see Thomas Sowell,
The Housing Boom and Bust
(New York: Basic Books, 2009).
14
Robert Pozen,
Too Big to Save?
(New York: John Wiley, 2010), 211, 215.
15
Stuart Varney, “Obama Wants to Control the Banks,”
Wall Street Journal
, April 4, 2009; available at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB123879833094588163.html
[accessed August 6, 2010].
16
Deborah Solomon, “Geithner Weighs Bank Repayments,”
Wall Street Journal
, April 21, 2009; available at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB124027087650836931.html
[accessed August 6, 2010].
17
Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
, 119.
18
David Herszenhorn, “Democrats Corral Votes on Bank Bill,”
New York Times
, July 12, 2010, p. B-1; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/business/12regulate.html
[accessed August 6, 2010]. See also, David Sessions, “Financial Reform Will Become Law, So What’s in the Bill?”
Politics Daily
, July 15, 2010; available at:
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/07/15/financial-reform-will-become-law-so-whats-in-the-bill/
[accessed August 6, 2010].
19
“Obama’s Remarks at the Signing Ceremony,”
New York Times
, July 21, 2010; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/business/22regulate-text.html
[accessed August 6, 2010].
20
“A sticky gas pedal,”
The Economist
, May 29, 2010, p. 27; available at:
http://www.economist.com/node/16216567
.
21
Motoko Rich, “U.S. Lost 131,000 Jobs As Governments Cut Back,”
New York Times
, August 6, 2010, p. A-1; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/07/business/economy/07econ.html
[accessed August 9, 2010].
22
This point is effectively made in Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore,
Return to Prosperity
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2010), 43–45.
23
See, e.g., William McGurn, “For Obama, Taxes Are About Fairness,”
Wall Street Journal
, August 19, 2008. See also, “President Obama’s Address to Congress,”
New York Times
, February 24, 2009; available at:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/02/25/us/politics/1194838132344/president-obama-s-address-to-congress.html
[accessed August 9, 2010].
24
“Who Pays Income Taxes and How Much?” Tax Year 2007, National Taxpayers Union, Washington, D.C,
www.ntu.org
25
Peter J. Hansen, “Put the Patient in Charge,”
The Weekly Standard
, May 24, 2010, p. 21–26; available at:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/put-patient-charge
[accessed August 6, 2010].
26
Amy Goldstein and Scott Wilson, “Obama Launches Attack on Health Insurance Companies,”
Washington Post
, March 9, 2010; available at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/08/AR2010030801703.html
[accessed August 6, 2010].
27
Tim Carney, “Big Business, Big Government and Libertarian Populism,”
Cato Policy Report
, March–April 2010, p. 9; available at:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v32n2/cpr32n2-3.html
[accessed August 6, 2010].
28
Robert Samuelson, “China’s $2.4 Trillion Stash,”
Newsweek
, February 1, 2010, p. 17; available at:
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/01/22/china-s-2-4-trillion-stash.html
[accessed August 9, 2010].
29
Stephen Cohen and J. Bradford Delong,
The End of Influence
(New York: Basic Books, 2010), 14; Fareed Zakaria,
The Post-American World
(New York: W.W. Norton, 2009), xxi.
Chapter 9
 
1
Jonathan Alter,
The Promise
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), 348.
2
Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
, 276.
3
Deepak Lal,
In Praise of Empires
(New York: Palgrave, 2004), xxiv; Edward Said,
Culture and Imperialism
, xvii; Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
, 293.
4
Sayyid Qutb,
Social Justice in Islam
(Oneonta, New York: Islamic Publications, 2000), 273; “The Battle for a Religion’s Heart,”
The Economist
, August 6, 2009, p. 52; available at:
http://www.economist
. com/node/14179219; Osama bin Laden,
Messages to the World
(London: Verso, 2005), 5, 25.
5
Jonathan Alter, “Secrets from Inside the Obama War Room,”
Newsweek
, May 15, 2010; available at:
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/15/secrets-from-inside-the-obama-war-room.html
[accessed August 9, 2010]. See also, Walter Russell Mead, “The Carter Syndrome,”
Foreign Policy
, January-February 2010, p. 61; available at:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/01/04/the_carter_syndrome
[accessed August 9, 2010].
6
“Obama Breaks With Bush Doctrine in New Security Policy,” AOL News, May 26, 2009; available at: aolnews.com/2010/05/26/obama-breaks-with-bush-in-new-security-policy.
7
Michael Scherer, “Barack Obama’s New World Order,”
Time
, April 3, 2009; available at:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1889512,00.html
[accessed August 9, 2010].
8
Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President at the Summit of the Americas,” April 17, 2009; available at:
http://www.whitehouse
. gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-the-Summit-of-the-Americas-Opening-Ceremony / [accessed August 9, 2010]. See also, Katie Pickert, “Chavez’s Gift: Open Veins of Latin America,”
Time
, April 21, 2009; available at:
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1892801,00.html
[accessed August 9, 2010].
9
Barack Obama, “Remarks by President Obama to the Turkish Parliament,” April 6, 2009; available at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-obama-turkish-parliament
[accessed August 9, 2010].
10
Victor Davis Hanson,
How the Obama Administration Threatens Our National Security
(New York: Encounter, 2009), Broadside No. 5; Robert Kagan, “Obama Year One: Contra,”
World Affairs
, January-February 2010, pp. 12–18; available at:
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/articles/2010-JanFeb/full-Kagan-JF-2010.html
.
11
Graham Allison, “Nuclear Disorder,”
Foreign Affairs
, January-February 2010, p. 76; available at:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65732/graham-allison/nuclear-disorder
.
12
Lara Setrakian, “Iranian President Tells Obama to Back Off,”
ABC News
, June 25, 2009; available at:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=7932217
[accessed August 9, 2010].
13
Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
, 294.
14
Barack Obama, speech on the Iraq war, October 2, 2002; available at:
http://www.barackobama.com/2002/10/02/remarks_of_illinois_state_sen.php
[accessed August 9, 2010].
15
Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
, 316–17.
16
Jon Ward, “Democrats Ready to Fight New War Plan,”
Washington Times
, January 11, 2007, p. A-1; available at:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2007/jan/1½0070111-121645-6413r/?page=1
[accessed August 9, 2010]. See also, Shailagh Murray, “Obama Bill Sets Date for Troop Withdrawal,”
Washington Post
, January 31, 2007, p. A-4; available at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/0⅓0/AR2007013001586.html
[accessed August 9, 2010].
17
“No promised land at the end of all this,”
The Economist
, March 6, 2010, p. 31; available at:
http://www.economist.com/node/15603901
. See also, Anthony Shadid, “In a Baghdad Cinema, Celebrating a Return of Iraqi Culture,”
New York Times
, May 6, 2010, p. A-4; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/07/world/middleeast/07baghdad.html
[accessed August 9, 2010].

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