The Post-American Presidency

552 Pages·2012·1.7 MB·English

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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