Post-American Presidency (44 page)

Now Obama is doing all he can to discard that fundamental principle, while rendering us subject to international authorities that do not have America’s best interests at heart, and rolling back our defenses against enemies newly emboldened by his weakness.

After just one year of the post-American presidency, on January 29, 2010, Solidarity hero and former Polish president Lech Walesa spoke of the new post-American world: “The United States is only one superpower. Today they lead the world. Nobody has doubts about
it—militarily. They also lead economically, but they’re getting weak. They don’t lead morally and politically anymore. The world has no leadership. The United States was always the last resort and hope for all other nations. There was the hope, whenever something was going wrong, one could count on the United States. Today, we lost that hope.”
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Our enemies could never have defeated us; we can only defeat ourselves.

Whether Barack Hussein Obama succeeds in destroying America or not, those words could be the epitaph of his post-American presidency.

PREFACE

1
. Nicholas Kristof, “Obama: Man of the World,”
New York Times,
March 6, 2007.

2
. Ayn Rand,
The Ayn Rand Letter 1971–1976
(New Milford, Conn.: Second Renaissance Press, 1990), pp. i, 5, 24.

3
. “Could US elect a Luo before Kenya?” BBC News, January 3, 2008.

4
. Kirsten Scharnberg and Kim Barker, “The Not-So-Simple Story of Barack Obama’s Youth,”
Chicago Tribune,
March 25, 2007.

5
. “President Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address,” WhiteHouse.gov, January 21, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/inaugural-address
.

6
. Mark Silva, “Cheney: Obama ‘More Radical’ Than Seen,”
Chicago Tribune,
December 8, 2009, available at
http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/
blog/2009/12/cheney_obama_radical.html
.

7
. “
The Post-American World
by Fareed Zakaria,” FareedZakaria.com,
http://www.fareedzakaria.com/books/index.html
.

8
. Silva, “Cheney: Obama ‘More Radical’ Than Seen.”

9
. “Interview of the President by Laura Haim, Canal Plus,” WhiteHouse.gov, June 1, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/
Transcript-of-the-Interview-of-the-
President-by-Laura-Haim-Canal-
Plus-6-1-09
; “Remarks by President Obama to the Turkish Parliament,” WhiteHouse.gov, April 6, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/
Remarks-By-President-Obama-To-The-
Turkish-Parliament
.

ONE: OBAMA AND AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM

1
. Barack Obama, “Remarks by the President to the United Nations General Assembly,” WhiteHouse.gov, September 23, 2009,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office
/Remarks-by-the-President-to-the-
United-Nations-General-Assembly
.

2
. Jamil Dakwar, “Protecting the Constitution, At Home and Abroad,” ACLU.org, September 17, 2008,
http://www.aclu.org/blog/human-rights/protecting
-constitution-home-and-abroad
.

3
. “Bolder Bolton,” National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, May 7, 2009,
http://www.nraila.org/Issues/Articles/Read.aspx?id=355&issue=015
.

4
. John Bolton,
Surrender is Not an Option
(New York: Threshold Editions, 2007), p. 89.

5
. “US wins first seat on UN rights council,” Associated Press, May 12, 2009.

6
. Harvey Morris, “Obama to Seal US-UN Relationship,”
Financial Times,
September 8, 2009.

7
. Randall Mikkelsen, “U.S. drops ‘enemy combatant’ as basis for detention,” Reuters, March 13, 2009.

8
. Daniel Schwammenthal, “Prosecuting American ‘War Crimes,’”
Wall Street Journal,
November 26, 2009.

9
. Gerald Warner, “Barack Obama May Subject US Troops to International Criminal Court,”
Telegraph,
March 6, 2009.

10
. Schwammenthal, “Prosecuting American ‘War Crimes.’”

11
. Ibid.

12
. Warner, “Barack Obama May Subject US Troops to International Criminal Court.”

13
. Phillip Barea, “Obama to Promote International Law and Diplomacy: Future American President has Progressive World View,” Suite101.com, November 6, 2008,
http://international-politics.suite101.com/article.cfm/
obama_to_promote_international_law_and_diplomacy
.

14
. John B. Bellinger III, “A Global Court Quandary for the President,”
Washington Post,
August 10, 2009.

15
. Warner, “Barack Obama May Subject US Troops to International Criminal Court.”

16
. Frank Jordans, “UN body OKs call to curb religious criticism,” Associated Press, March 26, 2009.

17
. “Outcome Document of the Durban Review Conference,” Durban Review Conference,
http://www.un.org/durbanreview2009
.

18
. Rukmini Callimachi, “Defame Islam, Get Sued?” Associated Press, March 14, 2008.

19
. Ariel Rabkin, “Who Controls the Internet?”
Weekly Standard,
May 25, 2009.

20
. “Obama says US can work with Muslims: OIC,” Agence France-Presse, February 1, 2009.

21
. “The Secretary Announces the Office of the United States Special Representative to Muslim Countries (S/SRMC),” United States Department of State Department Notice, June 23, 2009; Patrick Goodenough, “Islamic Bloc Chief Urges Appointment of New US Envoy, But Is This It?” CNSNews.com, June 26, 2009.

22
. “Biography: Farah Anwar Pandith, Special Representative to Muslim Communities,” U.S. Department of State,
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/125492.htm
.

23
. Stuart Taylor Jr., “Troubling Signals On Free Speech,”
National Journal,
October 31, 2009.

24
. Eugene Volokh, “Is the Obama Administration Supporting Calls to Outlaw Supposed Hate Speech?” Huffington Post, October 1, 2009,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eugene-volokh/is-the-obama-administrati_b_307132.html
.

25
. Ibid.

26
. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, “Speech of Secretary General at the thirty-fifth session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference,” June 18, 2008,
http://www.oic-oci.org/topic_detail.asp?t_id=1144&x_key=
.

27
. “Obama: ‘Peace requires responsibility,’” CNN, December 10, 2009,
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12
/10/obama.transcript/index.html
.

28
. Sher Zieve, “Obama Begins Turnover of USA Sovereignty to International Body,” Canada Free Press, April 3, 2009,
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php
/article/9908
.

29
. Matthew Day, “President of Poland Signs Lisbon Treaty,”
Telegraph,
October 10, 2009.

30
. “Barack Obama Praises EU’s Lisbon Treaty Agreement,”
Telegraph,
November 3, 2009.

31
. Simon Johnson, “John Bolton: Lisbon Treaty Will Undermine Democracy,”
Telegraph,
June 8, 2008.

32
. “AIM Says Media Cover-Up Obama’s Socialist-Oriented Global Tax Bill,” Accuracy In Media, February 13, 2008,
http://www.aim.org/press-release/aim-says-media-cover-up-obamas-socialist-oriented-global-tax-bill
.

33
. David Adam, “Copenhagen Negotiating Text: 200 Pages to Save the World?”
Guardian,
September 28, 2009.

34
. Lord Christopher Monckton, address at Bethel University, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 14, 2009,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMe5dOgbu40&feature=player_embedded
.

35
. Mark Steyn, “The ‘Science’ of Global Warming,”
Maclean’s,
December 3, 2009,
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/12/03/the-science-of-global-warming
.

36
. Daniel Terris, Cesare P.R. Romano, and Leigh Swigart,
The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World’s Cases
(Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis University Press, 2007), p. ix.

37
. Collin Levy, “Sotomayor and International Law,”
Wall Street Journal,
July 14, 2009.

38
. Nathan Figler, “Obama’s Supreme Pick,” American News Inc., May 26, 2009, available at
http://jumpinginpools.blogspot.com/2009/05/
sotomayor-gun-ownership
.html#ixzz0YVlcoSQC
.

39
. M. Edward Whelan III, “Harold Koh’s Transnationalism,”
National Review Online
’s Bench Memos, April 16, 2009, available at
http://www.eppc.org/publications
/pubID.3793/pub_detail.asp#Part10
.

40
. Eric Lichtblau, “After Attacks, Supporters Rally Around Choice for Top Administration Legal Job,”
New York Times,
April 1, 2009.

41
. Whelan III, “Harold Koh’s Transnationalism.”

42
. Meghan Clyne, “Obama’s Most Perilous Legal Pick,”
New York Post,
March 30, 2009.

43
. Ibid.

44
. Robin Reeves Zorthian, letter to the
New York Post,
April 1, 2009.

45
. “Sharia law in UK is ‘unavoidable,’” BBC News, February 7, 2008.

46
. “The UN And International Treaties,” National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, November 25, 2009,
http://www.nraila.org/Legislation/Read.aspx?ID=5224
.

47
. “Bolder Bolton,” National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action.

48
. Ayn Rand,
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
(New York: Signet, 1986), p. 148.

49
. Andrew Bostom, “From Communism as ‘The 20th Century Islam,’ to ‘Islam as the 21st Century Communism’?” AndrewBostom.com, December 5, 2009,
http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2009/
12/05/from-communism-as-%E2%80%9Cthe-20th
-century-islam%E2%80%9D-to-%E2%80%
9Cislam-as-the-21st-century-communism
%E2%80%9D/
.

TWO: THE INDOCTRINATION OF BARACK OBAMA

1
. Ryan Lizza, “Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama,”
New Yorker,
July 21, 2008.

2
. Kirsten Scharnberg and Kim Barker, “The Not-So-Simple Story of Barack Obama’s Youth,”
Chicago Tribune,
March 25, 2007.

3
. Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006), p. 274.

4
. Ibid., pp. 278–279.

5
. Ibid., pp. 274–275.

6
. Andrew Walden, “What Barack Obama Learned from the Communist Party,”
American Thinker,
July 8, 2008.

7
. Dan Boylan, “’08: Year of Obama,”
MidWeek,
January 2, 2008.

8
. Walden, “What Barack Obama Learned from the Communist Party.”

9
. Barack Obama,
Dreams from My Father
(New York: Crown Publishers, 1995), pp. 46–47.

10
. Amanda Ripley, “The Story of Barack Obama’s Mother,”
Time,
April 9, 2008.

11
. Tim Jones, “Obama’s Mom: Not Just a Girl from Kansas: Part 2,”
Chicago Tribune,
March 27, 2008.

12
. Morgan Reynolds, “Timothy Geithner and the Ruling Class,” LewRockwell.com, February 12, 2009.

13
. “Barack Hussein Obama,” Discover the Networks,
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/
individualProfile.asp?indid=1511
.

14
. Obama,
Dreams from My Father,
p. 98.

15
.
Unfit for Publication: An Investigative Report on the Lies in Jerome Corsi’s “Obama Nation,”
pamphlet published by Obama for America, 2008, p. 9, available at
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&
source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAsQFjAA
&url=http%3A%2F%2Fobama.3cdn.net
%2Fa74586f9067028c40a_5km6vrqwa.pdf&
rct=j&q=%22Unfit+for
+Publication%22+Obama&ei=7Zm
WS6XiIJGXtgeLjaXtDQ&usg=AFQjCNFrAQV7
ys8YYaLtgMIqIzpEiILXjw
.

16
. James A. Miller, “Frank Marshall Davis: Black Moods: Collected Poems,”
African American Review,
Summer-Fall, 2003.

17
. Gerald Horne, “Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party,”
Political Affairs,
March 28, 2007,
http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/
articleview/5047/1/32
.

18
. Ibid.

19
. Toby Harnden, “Frank Marshall Davis, Alleged Communist, was Early Influence on Barack Obama,”
Telegraph,
August 22, 2008.

20
. Ibid.