Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies (50 page)

62
Siobahn Gorman, “Intelligence Pick Derailed by Critics,”
Wall Street Journal
, March 11, 2009; available online at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123671973608687743.html
[accessed April 25, 2009].

63
“Charles Freeman’s Statement in Wake of Withdrawal From Intelligence Post,”
Wall Street Journal
, March 10, 2009; available online at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123672847973688515.html
[accessed April 25, 2009].

64
Frank Gaffney, “GAFFNEY: Garbage in, garbage out,”
Washington Times
, March 3, 2009; available online at:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/mar/03/garbage-in-garbage-out/print/
[accessed April 25, 2009].

CHAPTER 2

1
The View,
ABC TV, June 18, 2008; video available online at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59twO1fJwtQ
[accessed April 20, 2009].

2
Helena Andrews, “Michelle O: Suited to be Jackie’s successor,”
Politico
, January 31, 2008; available online at:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0108/8221.html
[accessed April 20, 2009].

3
“Michelle Obama: A First Lady Fashionista,” CBS News,
The Early Show
, November 7, 2008; available online at:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/07/earlyshow/main4583142.shtml
[accessed April 20, 2009].

4
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, “Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community,” Princeton University Thesis, 1985, pp. 2-3; available online at:
http://www.politico.com/pdf/080222_MOPrincetonThesis_1-251.pdf
[accessed March 23, 2009].

5
Liza Mundy,
Michelle: A Biography
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008).

6
Ibid., 25

7
Imayen Ibanga, “Obama Warns GOP ‘Lay Off My Wife,’” ABC News,
Good Morning America
, May 19, 2008; available online at:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Vote2008/story?id=4881883&page=1
[accessed March 23, 2009].

8
Mikki Halpin, “Barack Obama tells Glamour: ‘Debate me, not Michelle,’”
Glamour
, July 17, 2008; available online at:
http://www.glamour.com/sex-love-life/blogs/glamocracy/2008/07/barack-obama-tells-glamour-deb.html
[accessed March 23, 2009].

9
Katie Connolly and Evan Thomas, “The Busiest Woman in Washington,”
Newsweek
, February 28, 2009; available online at:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/186963
[accessed March 23, 2009].

10
All Things Considered
, “White House Social Secretary Reflects On Role,” January 29, 2009; available online at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100027497
[accessed March 23, 2009].

11
The HistoryMakers, “Desiree Rogers Biography,” April 27, 2007; available online at:
http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/biography.asp?bioindex=1685&category=Businessmakers&occupation=Corporate%20Executive&name=Desiree%20Rogers
. [accessed March 23, 2009].

12
ABC News, “Where Were the White House Bouncers?” (undated); available online at:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/white-house-partycrashers-michaele-tareq-salahi-wh/story?id=9210213&page=3
(accessed February 25, 2010).

13
Michael Scherer, “No Testifying for Obama’s Social Secretary?”
Time
(December 3, 2009); available online at:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1945192,00.html
(accessed February 25, 2010).

14
White House For Sale, “Bundler: Desiree Glapion Rogers,” available online at:
http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/bundler.cfm?Bundler=25484
[accessed March 23, 2009].

15
Chicago Business
, “Desiree Rogers,” undated; available online at:
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?article_id=27749&seenIt=1
[accessed March 23, 2009].

16
John D. McKinnon, “Obama Team’s Finances Released,”
Wall Street Journal
, April 6, 2009; available online at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123897383937190973.html
.

17
Matthew Mosk and Alec MacGillis, “Big Donors Among Obama’s Grass Roots,”
Washington Post
, April 11, 2008; available online at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/10/AR2008041004045.html?hpid=topnews
[accessed March 24, 2009].

18
Barack Obama, “The problem with bundling money,”
Chicago Tribune
, May 21, 2007; cached version available online at: http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:ziFZIpuyR1MJ:www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-42f3tq7may21,0,4110308.story%.3Fcoll%3Dchi-newsopinioncommentary-hed1 bundling 1 barack 1obama&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=safari [accessed March 24, 2009].

19
Josh Gerstein, “GOP transparency push seen as attack on Michelle O.,”
Politico
, March 26, 2009; available online at:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/joshgerstein/0309/GOP_transparency_push_seen_as_attack_on_Michelle_O.html
[accessed March 30, 2009].

20
Liza Mundy, “When Michelle Met Barack,”
Washington Post
, October 5, 2008; available online at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092602856_pf.html
[accessed March 24, 2009].

21
Lynn Sweet, “Sweet blog column special: Valerie Jarrett steps up role in Obama campaign. ‘She’s always been the other side of Barack’s brain,’”
Chicago Tribune
, September 20, 2007; available online at:
http://blogs.sun-times.com/sweet/2007/09/sweet_blog_column_special_vale.html
[accessed March 24, 2009].

22
M. J. Stephey & Claire Suddath, “Valerie Jarrett,”
Time
, November 11, 2008; available online at:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article /0,8599,1858012,00.html/vogue
[accessed March 24, 2009].

23
Don Terry, “Insider has Obama’s ear: What’s she telling him?”
Chicago Tribune
, July 27, 2008; available online at:
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2008/jul/27/health/chi-072708-jarrett
[accessed March 24, 2009].

24
Jodi Kantor, “An Old Hometown Mentor, Still at Obama’s Side,”
New York Times,
November 23, 2008; available online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/politics/24jarrett.html?_r=2
[accessed March 24, 2009].

25
John King, “Source: Obama wants Valerie Jarrett to replace him in Senate,”
CNNPolitics.com
, November 9, 2008; available online at:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/09/source-obama-wants-valerie-jarrett-to-replace-him-in-senate/
[accessed March 24, 2009].

26
Marcia Froelke Coburn, “Valerie Jarrett & Desirée Rogers,”
Chicago Magazine
, August 2000; available online at:
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2000/Valerie-Jarrett-Desiree-Rogers/
[accessed March 24, 2009].

27
White House, “Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett,” available online at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/staff/valerie_jarrett/
[accessed March 24, 2009].

28
Jonathan Van Meter, “Barack’s Rock,” Vogue
Style.com
, October 2008; available online at:
http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/2008_Oct_Valerie_Jarrett/
[accessed March 24, 2009].

29
Ibid.

30
Liza Mundy, “Excerpt from ‘Michelle: A Biography,’”
USA Today
, December 5, 2008; available online at:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/excerpts/2008-12-05-Michelle-A-Biography_N.htm
[accessed March 24, 2009].

31
White House, “Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett,” op cit.

32
Binyamin Appelbaum, “Grim proving ground for Obama’s housing policy,”
Boston Globe
, June 27, 2008; available online at:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/06/27/grim_proving_ground_for_obamas_housing_policy/?page=full
[accessed March 24, 2009].

33
David Freddoso,
The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate
(Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, 2008), 217-19.

34
Associated Press, “Obama plans boost for low-income housing,” February 26, 2009; article formerly available online at:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hJXeuFtmocS2aiejfbO4755x2s5wD96JC7FO0
[accessed March 24, 2009].

35
“Aon Settles Corruption Probe with 3 States for $190 Million; Complaint Cites Involvement of Top Execs,”
Insurance Journal
, March 2005; available online at:
http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2005/03/04/52151.htm
[accessed April 21, 2010].

36
John Pletz, “Peeling back the coverage,” Crain’s
Chicago Business
, September 21, 2009; available online at:
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?articleId=32386
’ [accessed April 20, 2010].

37
Neil DeMause, “Chicago council to sign off on Olympics blank check,” Field of Schemes website, September 8, 2009; available online at:
http://www.fieldofschemes.com/news/archives/2009/09/3820_chicago_council.html
[accessed April 20, 2010].

38
Paul Merion, “Chicago 2016 hunts fed cash,” Crain’s
Chicago Business
, September 28, 2009; available online at:
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?article_id=32423&seenIt=1
[accessed April 20, 2010].

39
Kenneth P. Vogel, “Why did Chicago lose?”
Politico.com
, October 2, 2009; available online at
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/27859.html
[accessed April 22, 2010].

40
Mike Dorning, “Employer: Michelle Obama’s raise well-earned,”
Chicago Tribune
, September 27, 2006; available online at: http://archives.
chicagotribune.com/2006/sep/27/news/chi-0609270216sep27
[accessed March 24, 2009].

41
Steve Gilbert, “Michelle Obama Got $63K For No Show Job?”
Sweetness & Light
, April 16, 2009; available online at:
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/michelle-obama-got-63k-for-job-she-had-quit
[accessed April 23, 2009].

42
Ibid.

43
Mike Dorning, “Employer: Michelle Obama’s raise well-earned,” op cit.

44
University of Chicago Medical Center, “Michelle Obama appointed vice president for community and external affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals,” May 9, 2005; available online at:
http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/2005/20050509-obama.html
[accessed March 24, 2009].

45
Rosalind Rossi, “The woman behind Obama,”
Chicago Sun-Times
, January 20, 2007; available online at:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/221458,CST-NWS-mich21.article
[accessed March 24, 2009].

46
Joe Stepehens, “Obama Camp Has Many Ties to Wife’s Employer,”
Washington Post
, August 22, 2008; available online at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/21/AR2008082103646_pf.html
. [accessed March 24, 2009].

47
Lynn Sweet, “U of Chicago Hospital VP Susan Sher tapped to be White House associate counsel,”
Chicago Tribune
, January 5, 2009; available online at:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/01/u_of_chicago_hospital_chief_su.html
[accessed March 27, 2009].

48
Bruce Japsen, “University of Chicago hospital to trim 7% of budget,”
Chicago Tribune
, January 10, 2009; available online at:
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/jan/10/business/chi-sat-uofc-restructuring-jan10
[accessed March 24, 2009].