The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America PDF
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Threshold Editions A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 www.SimonandSchuster.com Copyright © 2010 by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Threshold Editions Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020 First Threshold Editions hardcover edition July 2010 THRESHOLD EDITIONS and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc. For information about special discounts for bulk purchases, please contact Simon & Schuster Special Sales at 1-866-506-1949 or [email protected]. The Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau can bring authors to your live event. For more information or to book an event contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com. Designed by Ruth Lee-Mui Manufactured in the United States of America 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Geller, Pamela A. The post-American presidency : the Obama administration’s war on America / Pamela Geller with Robert Spencer ; foreword by Ambassador John R. Bolton. p. cm. 1. Obama, Barack. 2. Presidents—United States. 3. Executive power—United States. 4. Political culture— United States—Congresses. 5. Control (Psychology)— Political aspects—United States. I. Spencer, Robert, 1962– II. Title. JK516.G4 2010 973.932—dc 22 2010005967 ISBN 978-1-4391-8930-6 ISBN 978-1-4391-8990-0 (ebook) To my children and my children’s children CONTENTS Foreword by Ambassador John R. Bolton Preface: The Post-American President One Obama and American Exceptionalism Two The Indoctrination of Barack Obama Three Obama and Jews Four Obama and Israel Five Obama and Iran Six A Post-American President Wages War Seven Obama and Islamic Politics Eight An Islamo-Christian Nation Nine Destroying the Prestige of America Ten Freedom of Speech in the Age of Jihad Eleven Socialist America Twelve The Red Czars Thirteen ACORN: Federally Funded Fraud FourteenThe Energy Shell Game EpilogueWhat Lovers of Freedom Must Do Notes Acknowledgments Index FOREWORD BY AMBASSADOR JOHN R. BOLTON Barack Obama is the first post-American president, as his statements and actions since his inauguration have proven beyond dispute. Central to his worldview is rejecting “American exceptionalism,” and the consequences that flow from discarding this foundational belief so widely held by U.S. citizens. “Exceptionalism” is hard to define precisely, but it first appeared when John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, said “we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill.” Ronald Reagan went one better, and called us “a shining city on a hill,” and others have used the term “New Jerusalem.” Alexis de Tocqueville, the gifted French observer of the early United States, laid the basis for the actual phrase when he said in Democracy in America: “The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.” While most Americans have appreciated and prized our exceptionalism, that reaction has been far from universal overseas. It is no surprise, therefore, that since an overwhelming majority of the world’s population would welcome the demise of American exceptionalism, they are
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