The Legacy of the

American Trojan Horse



Table of Contents

  1. The latest iteration of socialism, radicalism, and Marxism has infiltrated the United States of America
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  2. Progressives corrupted the financial system by socializing lower-income subprime mortgages
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  3. Countrywide Financial made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of Congress
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  4. Barack Obama framed George W. Bush’s policies as an “attack on working families” (2003)
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  5. 2006 Elections: Progressive-controlled Democratic Party took majority control of the 110th Congress
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  6. Congress and the Federal Reserve’s “Too Big To Fail” policies corrupted our free market system
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  7. 2008 Elections: Obama won the White House and Progressives took full control of the 111th Congress
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  8. President Obama claimed he was “committed to restoring fiscal responsibility” (2009)
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  9. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Democrats violated the law by refusing to pass a budget for four years
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  10. Obama in 2008: “I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely”
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  11. President Obama pledged that he would focus “like a laser beam” on job creation (after Obamacare)
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  12. President Obama: “all taxes for those making less than $250,000 would not go up one dime”
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  13. Democrats continued and expanded upon the same policies “inherited” from George W. Bush
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  14. Democrats ignore public sentiment in favor of pushing a Progressive/Marxist/Socialist/Statist agenda
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  15. Obama claimed: “My policies got us out of this mess” and “the worst is behind us…” (2010)
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  16. Democrats are expanding government entitlement programs to “redistribute the wealth”
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  17. Obamacare forced upon U.S. to achieve the socialist “crown jewel” of expanded government powers
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  18. Frank-Dodd Financial Reform expanded union and government control over the economy
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  19. Secular leftists have learned to use religion as a propaganda tool to push for “social justice”
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  20. Obama rebranded and peddled socialism to the American public as “Collective Salvation”
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  21. Nancy Pelosi promised to lead “the most honest, most open, most ethical Congress in history”
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  22. Obama promised a “new era of government” and a “departure from the politics of the past”
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  23. Obama was dubbed “Leaker-in-chief” for repeatedly benefiting politically from national security leaks
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  24. Obama swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States
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  25. President Obama violated the Constitution and abused his power with illegal “recess” appointments
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  26. Obama administration attacks the free press and tries to bully them if they disagree with the agenda
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  27. President Obama encroached on the religious freedoms protected by the First Amendment
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  28. Obama administration attempted to weaken the Second Amendment through illegal deception
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  29. Democrats exploited the Aurora, Colorado mass shooting tragedy to push for greater gun control
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  30. Democrats exploited the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre to push for more gun control (2012)
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  31. Second Amendment: “The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms, Shall NOT be Infringed”
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  32. Obama insisted that “Chicago is an example of what makes this coutry great” (August 2012)
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  33. Obama administration does not respect the guarantee of equal protection under the law
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  34. Obama had appointed more bundlers in just over two years than George W. Bush did in 8 years
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  35. Critics labeled Obama as the “campaigner-in-chief” instead of focusing on fixing the economy
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  36. Critics labeled President Obama as the “outsourcer-in-chief” of American Jobs
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  37. Critics labeled Obama as the “vacationer-in-chief” instead of focusing on fixing the economy
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  38. A “New Era of Transparency” was promised by the Democrats and the Obama administration
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  39. Obama: “I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead” (2011)
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  40. President Obama demanded: “Plug the damn hole!” ...and I’ll figure out “whose ass to kick!”
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  41. Obama administration’s anti-fossil fuel policies are contributing to skyrocketing energy prices
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  42. Candidate Barack H. Obama: “Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself”
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  43. Obama: “One of the things you’ve got in Jon Corzine is somebody who tells it to you straight”
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  44. Obama picked Elizabeth Warren to head his new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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  45. Obama engages in crony capitalism and Pay-to-Play politics (commonly known as “The Chicago Way”)
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  46. Obama described Warren Buffett as a source for economic advice during the 2008 campaign
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  47. Obama pledged to “close the revolving door between K Street and the executive branch”
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  48. President Obama expanded crony socialism with risky “green” energy venture projects doomed to fail
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  49. ”We thought Obama is a trained orator and skilled in the art of mass address with his continuous eye contact”
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  50. Obama has consistently lied and has been willing to say anything for political expediency
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  51. Pentagon report revealed suspicion that financial terrorists are sabotaging our economy (2009)
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  52. Marxist Billionaire George Soros: “The main obstacle to a stable and just world is the U.S.”
  53. Soros has spent over $48 million on progressive political media and advertising organizations
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  54. Soros’ Open Society Institute provides funding for a vast network of Marxist front groups
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  55. Big Labor in America have been plotting to “destabilize the country” and crash Wall Street
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  56. Vote Early, Vote Often: Democrats undermine our election system by allowing for voter fraud
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  57. Community Organizations have aligned with Unions to promote the destruction of Capitalism
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  58. Democrats are pushing for amnesty for millions of illegal aliens to expand their electorate
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  59. Obama described the Muslim call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset”
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  60. Those who point out the violent origins of Islam are dismissed as being bigots and “Islamophobes”
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  61. President Obama engages in outreach to Muslims, but remains silent about anti-Christian violence
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  62. Radicals, socialists, communists, and Islamists have aligned to work together against Israel
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  63. Democrats “spiked the football” after Osama’s death made possible by the very techniques they opposed
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  64. World public opinion of the United States has dropped precipitously under President Obama
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  65. President Obama further expanded the United States’ involvement in the Middle East & Africa
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  66. The War on Libya: “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine was used to justify the U.S. bombing of Libya
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  67. Obama went to war in Libya with approval from the U.N., but not from the U.S. Congress
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  68. Obama’s foreign policy seems to include helping form a sixth Caliphate from Tunisia to Pakistan
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  69. President Obama on Benghazi: “If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal” (September 11, 2012)
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  70. President Obama’s re-election prompted regional conflict in the Middle East (November 2012)
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  71. Louis Farrakhan: the “Arab Spring” Middle East Islamic uprisings will soon come to the U.S.
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  72. The New Civility: Liberal hypocrites falsely accuse others of doing things they themselves do
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  73. Martin Luther King Jr’s Faith, Hope, and Love has been replaced with Fear, Bigotry, and Hate
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  74. Obama’s campaign claimed that he “has worked hard for the African American community”
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  75. Politicians and the media used Trayvon Martin to incite racial tension between blacks and whites
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  76. Most Americans say they have little or no trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly
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  77. Obama to Hollywood: “You’re the ultimate arbiter of which direction this country goes” (2012)
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  78. Americans are rejecting Obama and Democrats’ socialistic takeover and the destruction of our economy
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  79. Republican and Tea Party gains from the 2010 Elections were the largest since 1946
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  80. Marxists, Radicals, & Unions joined together to “Occupy Wall Street” to be like the Tea Party
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  81. ”Occupy Wall Street” organizers endorsed President Obama for re-election in 2012
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  82. Democrats were “silent” in the face of violence, criminal activity, and anti-Semitism within OWS
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  83. Communists and Islamists are working together to bring down capitalism and Western society
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  84. Scott Walker’s recall victory in Wisconsin threatens public-sector unions across America
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  85. Obama engaged in scare tactics to manufacture a phony U.S. “default” debt-ceiling crisis
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  86. President Obama campaigned for another bailout of his supporters disguised as a new “Jobs Plan”
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  87. Obama’s re-election strategy was to blame Congress (and Bush) for the results of his failed policies
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  88. Democratic National Convention was held at “Bank of America” stadium in Charlotte, N.C. (2012)
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  89. Barack Obama was for same-sex marriage before he was against it… before he was for it again
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  90. Democrats unveiled a “War on Women” smear campaign against Republican candidates
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  91. Democrats protect “gendercide” or the sex-selective abortion of an undesired female child
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  92. Romney chose one of the smartest men in the House... Obama kept the dumbest man in the Senate
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  93. Obama: “I don’t think anyone would suggest I’ve tried to divide the country” (August 2012)

Thursday, February 21, 2013

A List of Factual Googleable Statements
by John Doe Soetoro (Soebarkah)
johndoesoetoro@columbus.rr.com

The latest iteration of socialism, radicalism, and Marxism has infiltrated the United States of America
  1. Radical progressives laid the groundwork for Obama’s fundamental transformation of America
  2. Self-described “socialist” Bernie Sanders founded the Progressive (Democratic) Caucus in 1991
  3. The Progressive Caucus closely associated itself with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
  4. The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the heir to the defunct Socialists Party of America
  5. The DSA strive to achieve public ownership of private property and the means of production
  6. First reported in 1998, the DSA “helped to organize” the Congressional Progressive Caucus
  7. In the January/February 1998 issue of the Chicago DSA’s New Ground publication, avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Barney Frank (D-MA) were identified as leaders of the Progressive Caucus in Congress, which the Democratic Socialists of America “helped to organize”
  8. Until November 2002, the Congressional Progressive Caucus website was hosted by the DSA
  9. The website being hosted by the DSA and the list of CPC names was moved to Sander’s website
  10. Eventually the Congressional Progressive Caucus website moved to its own site
  11. The DSA scrubbed their website of communist material after first being exposed by the media
  12. The website displayed a song list that included: “The Internationale,” the worldwide anthem of communism and socialism, “Red Revolution,” and “Are You Sleeping Bourgeoisie?”
  13. The DSA outlined their plans to control the government with a Democratic Party coalition
    “Many socialists have seen the Democratic Party, since at least the New Deal, as the key political arena in which to consolidate this coalition, because the Democratic Party held the allegiance of our natural allies. Through control of the government by the Democratic Party coalition, led by anti-corporate forces, a progressive program regulating the corporations, redistributing income, fostering economic growth and expanding social programs could be realized.”
    ~DSA statement in the “Where we stand” section of its website

  14. The DSA admits they’re anti-corporate, seek to redistribute income, and expand social programs
  15. The DSA seeks to achieve public ownership of private property and the means of production
  16. The DSA also calls for a breaking down of America-style notions of nationalism and sovereignty
  17. Democratic socialists openly sought unionists, environmentalists, feminists, and “people of color”
  18. The DSA is became the largest Marxist organization in the United States of America
  19. By October 2009, the DSA newsletter reported that 70 congressional Democrats were members
  20. DSA also claimed at the time that 11 socialists sit on the House Judiciary Committee
    “Stress our Democratic Party strategy and electoral work. The Democratic Party is something the public understands, and association with it takes the edge off. Stressing our Democratic Party work will establish some distance from the radical subculture and help integrate you to the milieu of the young liberals.”
    ~Internal DSA organizing document

  21. Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) endorsed Obama for Illinois state senate in 2000
  22. John Conyers (D-MI) was present at the convention that resulted in the formation of the DSA
  23. Conyers is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, also closely tied to the DSA
  24. Conyers has spoken at numerous DSA events, including as keynote for their 2008 national dinner
  25. Conyers was one of 13 founders of the Congressional Black Caucus promoting far-left causes
  26. John Conyers was captured on tape meeting with the Democratic Socialists of America (2010)
  27. Conyers promoted “one-world” government and asked the DSA to organize in support of Obama
  28. Joel Rogers was a founder of the socialist-leaning New Party in 1992
  29. Many of the New Party’s founding members were Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) leaders and members of Committees of Correspondence, a breakaway of the Communist Party USA
  30. Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) was tied to the New Party
  31. First strategic meetings of The New Party were held in Joel Roger’s Madison, Wisconsin home
  32. ACORN and SEIU founder Wade Rathke and Gerry Hudson from DSA and SEIU attended
  33. Gerry Hudson is the SEIU Executive Vice President and an original New Party member
  34. Gerry Hudson serves on the board of the Apollo Alliance, a project of the Tides Center
  35. Apollo Alliance was organized by Joel Rogers’ group, Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS)
  36. Billionaire George Soros’ Open Society Institute funds the Tides Foundation and Apollo Alliance
  37. New Party was largely regarded as being the de facto political branch of ACORN
  38. New Party and ACORN seemed to have morphed into a single entity, having shared an office address, fax lines, and email addresses in New York, Boston, St. Paul, Little Rock, and Chicago
  39. New Party’s Washington, D.C. chapter, which called itself DC New Democracy, was run by organizer Doug Hess, whose full-time job at the time was coordinator of ACORN
  40. Ted Thomas, Illinois ACORN president, served as the Chicago New Party chairman
  41. Madeline Talbott, a key New Party builder, served as national field director of ACORN
  42. Talbott is a former colleague of Obama’s from his 1990s Project Vote Chicago Coalition
  43. Project Vote worked directly with ACORN when Talbott was ACORN’s lead Illinois organizer
  44. Talbott wrote about working with Obama as a fellow Chicago community organizer in the 1990s
    “When I ran Project Vote, the voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it.” ~Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign

  45. ACORN spearheaded a “living wage” campaign launched by the New Party (1999)
  46. New Party literature sometimes described ACORN as having “affiliated” itself with the New Party
  47. The New Party sought to infiltrate the Democratic Party and ultimately make it socialist-leaning
  48. The New Party sought to ultimately form a new political party with a socialist agenda
    New Party’s stated objectives were “full employment, a shorter work week and a guaranteed minimum income for all adults; a universal ‘social wage’ to include such basic benefits as health care, child care, vacation time and lifelong access to education and training; a systematic phase-in of comparable worth; and like programs to ensure gender equality.”
    New Party stated it also sought “the democratization of our banking and financial system – including popular election of those charged with public stewardship of our banking system, worker-owner control over their pension assets [and] community-controlled alternative financial institutions.”

  49. The New Party was established in 1992, but went defunct in 1998 after SCOTUS halted “fusion”
  50. The New Party helped elect members to public office to move the Democratic Party far leftward
  51. New Party’s members consisted mainly of individuals from ACORN, SEIU, and the DSA
  52. New Party’s 1994 newspaper listed more than 100 activists “who are building the New Party,” including Noam Chomsky, Frances Fox Piven, Wade Rathke, Cornel West, Jon Barton of SEIU, Maude Hurd of ACORN, and Margaret Shelleda of SEIU
  53. Obama spoke at the DSA’s First Townhall Meeting on Economic Insecurity in Chicago (1996)
  54. DSA said afterwards that Obama’s speech was right in line with “European social democracy”
  55. Noam Chomsky described where the New Party belonged in the political continuum, saying that it was aiming to create “some kind of social democratic version of state capitalism” (1997)
  56. Joel Rogers cited Francis Fox Piven as an early builder of the “social democratic” New Party
  57. Francis Fox Piven and her late husband, activist and fellow Columbia professor Richard Cloward, developed the Cloward-Piven strategy, which called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system
  58. Cloward-Piven’s stated goal was to create a financial crisis that would collapse the U.S. economy and replace it with a national system with “a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty”
  59. The New Party’s influential Chicago chapter formed in January 1995
  60. Documented evidence shows that in 1995 Obama was a member of the socialist New Party
  61. New Party’s spring 1996 newspaper boasted three primary victories in Chicago, including Obama
  62. The paper quoted Obama saying “these victories prove the small ‘d’ democracy can work”
  63. The New Party newspaper specifically listed Barack Obama as a New Party member
  64. A photo of Obama was taken at a New Party function and published in the New Party newspaper
  65. Uncovered documentation from the updated records of Illinois ACORN at the Wisconsin Historical Society “definitively establishes” that Obama was a member of the socialist New party
  66. New Party literature suggests that Obama would have paid dues in order to gain membership
    “Barack Obama, candidate for State Senate in the 13th Legislative District, gave a statement to the membership and answered questions. He signed the New Party “Candidate Contract” and requested an endorsement from the New Party. He also joined the New Party.” ~New Party meeting minutes from 1996

  67. The New Party was run by dues-paying members, who were organized into chapters (1997)
  68. New Party had “chapters in 11 states, with a dues-paying membership of approximately 10,000”
  69. New Party boasted that it was “poised to elect progressive majorities in cities across the country”
  70. Marxist activist Carl Davidson, a top member of the New Party, recalled interviews with Obama
  71. Davidson said they endorsed Obama once it was determined that their views on issues overlapped
  72. Davidson, a notorious far-left activist, was a national leader in the anti-Vietnam War movement
  73. Davidson served as national secretary for the anti-war Students of a Democratic Society (SDS)
  74. The Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization later splintered from this organization
  75. DSA’s New Ground reported that Obama attended a New Party meeting on April 11, 1996
  76. Obama encouraged New Party members to join his task forces on Voter Education & Registration
  77. Correspondent John Nichols recalled speaking with Obama at New Party events in the 1990s
  78. Nichols recalled that Obama wanted to move the Democratic Party leftward away from the center
  79. Obama desired to move the party “off the cautious center where Bill Clinton had wedged it”
  80. Obama placed blame on a “propaganda campaign against the possibility of government action”
    “…As we try to resuscitate this notion that we’re all in this thing together, leave nobody behind. We do have to be innovative and thinking how- what are the delivery systems that are actually effective and meet people where they live. And my suggestion I guess would be that the trick, and this is one of the few areas where I think there are technical issues that have to be dealt with as opposed to just political issues. I think the trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources and hence facilitate some redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution.” ~Barack Obama speaking at a conference at Loyola University (October 19, 1998)

  81. On June 8, 1998, Obama was invited by the Brookings Institute to speak on a panel in Chicago
  82. Obama’s “bold” proposals included revenue tax-based sharing and lifting housing restrictions
  83. Then-State Senator Obama (D-IL) admitted that his ideas sound “radical” for corporate America and even joked that the speaker of the Illinois house described his proposals as “Soviet” (1998)
  84. Obama said that “working poor” on welfare were a political voting bloc that can be harnessed (1998)
  85. Progressive Caucus drafted their proposal for wealth redistribution and social justice in 1999
  86. Having failed to pass health care reform in 1993, Democrats set their sights on home ownership
  87. Progressives pushed for wealth redistribution through the sub-prime housing loan market

    88. Progressives corrupted the financial system by socializing lower-income mortgages

  88. Progressives used government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to push for social justice reforms
  89. F.D.R. began with “New Deal” reform programs designed to affect the private mortgage market
  90. Fannie Mae was established by Congress back in 1938 as a private, profit-seeking company
  91. Fannie Mae was originally established to facilitate liquidity among lending institutions
  92. Freddie Mac (1970) was later established in 1970 to create competition with Fannie Mae
  93. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac both GSEs that basically function as a secondary mortgage market
  94. Both operated with the implicit understanding that taxpayers would bail them out if needed
  95. Today, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee most of the home mortgages in the U.S.
  96. Congress was pressured to reduce discriminatory credit practices against low-income borrowers
  97. Fair Housing Act of 1968 and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, sex, or other personal characteristics in the credit and housing markets
  98. Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 (HMDA) required that financial institutions publicly disclose mortgage lending and application data, creating unnecessary additional regulatory burdens
  99. Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977 was passed under President Jimmy Carter
  100. Community Reinvestment Act pushed banks to give mortgage loans to low-income buyers
  101. Federal regulatory agencies began examining banking institutions for CRA compliance
  102. The same federal regulatory agencies then took this information into consideration when approving applications for new bank branches or for mergers or acquisitions (Section 804)
  103. New housing and credit mandates were issued destabilizing the home mortgage finance market
  104. Congress passed the 1989 Financial Institutions Reform Recovery & Enforcement Act (FIRREA)
  105. FIRREA mandated the public release of lender evaluations and performance ratings
  106. Law was used to pressure the banking industry to give loans to people with poor credit
  107. Public oversight enabled community organization groups to influence bank lending practices
  108. Community organizing groups began developing direct strategies to exert more pressure on banks
  109. ACORN used tactics to shake down lenders and other financial institutions for low-income loans
  110. ACORN challenged the merger of Chicago’s Bell Federal Savings and Loan Association, which responded that they were being bullied into irresponsible “affirmative-action lending policy” (1990)
  111. Chicago Tribune described the ACORN agenda as “affirmative action lending”
  112. Increased litigation from ACORN forced private banks to lower their lending credit standards
  113. ACORN issued fact sheets bragging about relaxations of credit standards on behalf of minorities
  114. CRA allowed ACORN to collect a fee from the banks for their services in marketing the loans
  115. Senate Banking Committee estimated that $9.5 billion was funneled to organizers under the CRA
  116. Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank forced banks to lower risk assessment standards when lending
  117. Obama explained how as a community organizer he helped force banks to make high-risk loans
  118. Activists employed radical Alinsky intimidation tactics that Obama had learned and was teaching
  119. Using Saul Alinsky’s “direct action,” activists crowded bank lobbies, blocked drive-up tellers, and demonstrated at the homes of bankers to push for risky lending in poor and minority communities
  120. Anybody who resisted was accused of racism to both the media and government officials
  121. Activists complained that “mortgage loans were not being made in minority communities”
  122. Enforcement of the CRA was “sporadic,” according to the Washington Times (1992)
  123. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston conducted a flawed study confirming the activists premises
  124. Washington Times claimed that “the study had mishandled statistics on minority default rates”
    “I think we all agree that more Americans should own their own homes, for reasons that are economic and tangible and reasons that are emotional and intangible but go to the heart of what it means to harbor, to nourish, to expand the American dream… I am determined to see that you have the opportunity and together we can make that opportunity for the young families in our country. I am committed to a new and unprecedented partnership between industry leaders and community leaders and Government to recommit our Nation to the idea of homeownership and to create more homeowners than ever before.” ~President Bill Clinton (November 1994)

  125. Clinton administration announced a bold new strategy to expand homeownership in 1994
  126. Strategy included loosening of credit standards and the imposition of subprime lending quotas
  127. Sub-prime lending was pushed to the poor through legislation and using grassroots intimidation
  128. Congress began creating federal affordable-housing mandates to promoted low-income housing
  129. Federal affordable-housing mandates were then implemented by HUD and banking regulators
  130. Community Reinvestment Act was enforced by the Clinton administration starting in 1995
  131. Fannie Mae, the largest mortgage underwriter, began easing credit requirements under Clinton
  132. Fannie and Freddie had resisted purchasing risky mortgages until instructed to do so under Clinton
  133. Under President Clinton’s policies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac turned into a “feeding trough”
  134. A.G. Janet Reno warned that under the new policy “no loan is exempt” and “no bank is immune”
    “For those who thumb their nose at us, I promise vigorous enforcement...”
    ~Attorney General Janet Reno (1995)

  135. Democrats also set the stage for the derivatives market bubble during the Clinton administration
  136. Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin helped deregulate the markets during the 1990s
  137. Robert Rubin served in the White House as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy
  138. Rubin directed the National Economic Council, a newly formed group created by Clinton (1993)
  139. Clinton’s next Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers, expanded on Rubin’s banking deregulations
  140. Clinton, allied with Barney Frank (D-MA) and Sen. Kennedy (D-MA), bypassed Congress and directed HUD Sec. Andrew Cuomo to inject Fannie & Freddie into the subprime mortgage market
    “GSE presence in the subprime market could be of significant benefit to lower-income families, minorities, and families living in underserved areas…”
    ~HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo (1997)

  141. Clinton’s HUD announced a $2.1 billion settlement with AccuBanc Mortgage Corp. in April 1998
  142. AccuBanc Mortgage Corp. was accused of discrimination against minority loan applicants
  143. The funds were used to provide poor families with down payments and low interest mortgages
  144. HUD Sec. Andrew Cuomo admitted that the mandate amounted to “affirmative action” lending
  145. Cuomo also conceded that the “affirmative action” lending would result in a “higher default rate”
    “Discrimination isn’t always that obvious. Sometimes more subtle but in many ways more insidious, an institutionalized discrimination that’s hidden behind a smiling face.” ~Andrew Cuomo announcing the AccuBanc settlement (1998)

  146. Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac were mandated to buy mortgages with deviant debt-to-income ratios
  147. Banks began approving mortgages for lower-income buyers with little down-payment
  148. Lending practices were based upon concerns of discrimination regardless of the consequences
  149. L.A. Times reported that black homeownership was increasing three times as fast as that of whites
  150. L.A. Times also reported that Latino homeownership was growing five times as fast as whites
    “There is obviously a limit beyond which [we] can’t push [the banks] to produce.” ~Barry Zigas, head of Fannie Mae’s low-income efforts (L.A. Times, 1999)

  151. Clinton threatened to veto a Senate bill that would have “shortsightedly voted to retrench” CRA
  152. Fannie and Freddie helped borrowers with poor credit get loans at the urging of our government
  153. Fannie Mae resisted increased scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators fearing more loan defaults
  154. Fannie Mae eased their credit requirements on loans that they would purchase from other lenders
  155. New requirements made it easier for banks to lend to borrowers unqualified for conventional loans
  156. Clinton administration turned CRA into “a vast extortion scheme against the nation’s banks”
  157. Clinton administration committed more than $1 trillion for mortgages and development projects
  158. Lending rules were eased by private banks and other lenders in response to government overreach
  159. Independent mortgage companies competed by making twice as many risky high-priced loans
  160. S.811 American Dream Downpayment Act was passed in Congress without a single objection
  161. Wall Street benefited from increased sales of F&F and guaranteed mortgage-backed securities
  162. The housing market benefited from new capital channeled from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
  163. Fannie and Freddie’s overseers in Washington benefited with political campaign contributions
    “I can tell you… that some of the most damaging behavior on Wall Street, in some of the least ethical behavior on Wall Street, wasn’t illegal. That’s exactly why we have to change the laws.” ~President Barack Obama (2011)

  164. Rapid credit rescores were used to temporarily provide good credit ratings in order to buy a house
  165. Loans that Democrats knew were toxic were bundled with other investments and then resold
  166. Robert Rubin while at Citigroup pocketed millions issuing and repackaging bad mortgage loans
  167. Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, and Larry Summers torpedoed attempts to regulate the derivatives
    “Debates about systemic risk should now include government-sponsored enterprises, which are large and growing rapidly.” ~Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers (1999)

  168. Signatures were falsified on Fannie Mae accounting transactions to shift $200 million in expenses from 1998 to later periods, thereby triggering $27.1 million in bonuses for top executives
  169. James A. Johnson received $1.932 million, Franklin D. Raines received $1.11 million, Lawrence M. Small received $1.108 million, Jamie S. Gorelick received $779,625, Timothy Howard received $493,750, and Robert J. Levin received $493,750 in bonuses
  170. Congressman Richard Baker (R-LA) proposed a bill to reform Fannie and Freddie’s oversight
  171. Barney Frank (D-MA) dismissed it, saying the concerns about Fannie & Freddie were “overblown”
  172. Congressman Barney Frank argued that there was “no federal liability there whatsoever”
  173. Treasury Undersecretary Gary Gensler testified in favor of new Fannie and Freddie regulations
  174. Fannie Mae spokesmen called the testimony “inept,” “irresponsible,” and “unprofessional”
  175. Barney Frank promoted low-income loans throughout his time on the House Banking Committee
  176. Frank served on the House Banking Committee since becoming a congressman in 1981
  177. Barney Frank became the ranking Democrat on the House Banking Committee in 2003
  178. GOP introduced legislation in 2003 for Fannie Mae oversight but it was blocked by Democrats
  179. Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) claimed Fannie Mae was solvent and blocked all reforms
  180. In 2003, Frank said that Fannie and Freddie were sound and there was no housing disaster coming
  181. Barney Frank told the N.Y. Times that Fannie and Freddie’s problems were “exaggerated” (2003)
    “I do not think we are facing any kind of a crisis. That is, in my view, the two government sponsored enterprises we are talking about here, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are not in a crisis… I do not think at this point there is a problem with a threat to the Treasury… I believe that we, as the Federal Government, have probably done too little rather than too much to push them to meet the goals of affordable housing and to set reasonable goals.”
    ~Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) in 2003
    “These two entities… are not facing any kind of financial crisis… The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.”
    ~Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) in 2003
    “I do not want the same kind of focus on safety and soundness [in the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] that we have in the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision. I want to roll the dice a little bit more in this situation towards subsidized housing.”
    ~Congressman Barney Frank’s “famous dice roll” in 2003
    “I don’t see much other than a shell game going on here, moving something from one agency to another and in the process weakening the bargaining power of poorer families and their ability to get affordable housing.”
    ~Congressman Melvin Watt (D-NC) on September 2003
    “The enormous size of the mortgage-backed securities market means that any problems at the GSEs matter for the financial system as a whole. This risk is a systemic issue also because the debt obligations of the housing GSEs are widely held by other financial institutions. The importance of GSE debt in the portfolios of other financial entities means that even a small mistake in GSE risk management could have ripple effects throughout the financial system.”
    ~Council of the Economic Advisers Chairman Greg Mankiw (November 2003)

  182. Richard Syron went on to be the CEO and chairman of Freddie Mac in 2003
  183. Syron was the head of the Boston Federal Reserve at the time their flawed study was conducted
  184. Boston Herald noted, “They were looking for mortgage discrimination and they found it”
  185. Syron later “faced increasing pressure to buy up more risky mortgages” he helped legitimize
  186. Richard Syron later falsely testified before lawmakers in April 2007 that Freddie Mac hadn’t “been heavily involved in subprime all along”
  187. Freddie Mac CEO Richard Syron pocketed $19.8 million in total compensation in 2007
    “Nice reward for presiding over unprofessional research behavior, bankrupting Freddie Mac, and crippling our financial system, all in the name of politically correct lending...” ~Wall Street Journal's Stan Liebowitz wrote regarding Richard Syron’s reported total compensation then-estimated at $18.3 million in 2007

  188. Syron was eventually sued by the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) for understating by hundreds of billions of dollars the subprime loans held by the Freddie Mac (December 2011)
  189. Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) was established in 1992 within HUD
  190. Ironically, it was established by the Federal Housing Enterprise Financial Safety & Soundness Act
  191. OFHEO was charged with ensuring the financial safety and soundness of Fannie and Freddie
  192. Democrats in Congress, lead by members of the CBC, attacked OFHEO for their oversight report
  193. Maxine Waters (D-CA) complained that Congress was “trying to fix something that wasn’t broke”
  194. Fannie Mae first invested in securities backed by subprime loans under CEO Franklin D. Raines
  195. Raines began a pilot program in 1999 to issue bank loans to those with low to moderate income
  196. Taxpayer-backed Fannie Mae disclosed a massive $1.2 billion accounting error in October 2003
  197. Fannie Mae was caught manipulating its accounting to drastically overstate its profits (2004)
    “Mr. Chairman, we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly at Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines.”
    ~Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) in 2004
    “This hearing is about the political lynching of Franklin Raines.”
    ~Congresswoman Lacy Clay (D-MO) in 2004
    “Under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines, everything in the 1992 Act has worked just fine. In fact, the GSEs have exceeded their housing goals. What we need to do today is to focus on the regulator, and this must be done in a manner so as not to impede their affordable housing mission, a mission that has seen innovation flourish from desktop underwriting to 100% loans.” ~Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) in 2004
    “I find this to be inconsistent and a rush to judgment. I get the feeling that the markets are not worried about the safety and soundness of Fannie Mae as OFHEO says that it is, but of course the markets are not political.”
    ~Congresswoman Lacy Clay (D-MO)
    “These assets are so riskless that their capital for holding them should be under two percent.” ~Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines testifying to Congress in 2004

  198. Daniel Mudd earned at least $12.2 million in base pay and bonuses as CEO of Fannie Mae
  199. Congress and the Bush administration sought strong new regulation and authority over the GSEs
  200. Fannie and Freddie responded by orchestrating a major campaign to halt the new regulations
  201. Fannie Mae ran radio and television ads depicting a Latino couple fretting about mortgage rates
  202. Deputy Treasury Secretary Samuel Bodman warned of the risk from GSEs and called for reform
  203. Daniel Mudd took over as CEO of Fannie Mae in 2004 as the successor to Franklin Raines
  204. Purchasing subprime mortgages expanded under the guidance of Daniel Mudd
  205. Fannie Mae began buying subprime loans directly and bundling them into securities in late 2004
  206. Mudd said in a 2006 interview that he planned to expand Fannie Mae’s higher-risk holdings
  207. Mudd told investors in March 2006 that anything else would be “counterproductive”
  208. In April 2007, Mudd falsely testified before lawmakers that Fannie Mae’s exposure to subprime loans “remains minimal, less than 2.5 percent of our book”
  209. Daniel Mudd was sued by the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) for understating the subprime loans held by the Fannie Mae by hundreds of billions of dollars (December 2011)
    “We do not have a world-class system of supervision of the housing government-sponsored enterprises (GSE), even though the importance of the housing financial system that the GSEs serve demands the best in supervision to ensure the long-term vitality of that system. Therefore, the Administration has called for a new, first class, regulatory supervisor for the three housing GSEs: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banking System.” ~Deputy Secretary of Treasury Samuel Bodman (June 2004)

  210. Bush administration issued a warning on housing GSEs and called on Congress to act (2004)
  211. Bush administration officials called for a new first class, regulatory supervisor for the three housing GSEs: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banking System (2004)
  212. Frank opposed a Bush administration proposal for the transfer of oversight responsibilities
  213. Proposal would have transferred oversight from Congress (HUD) to the United States Treasury
  214. The Bush administration’s proposal was supported by the head of Fannie Mae, but not by Frank
  215. Using guarantees and tax breaks, the government pushed homeownership past 69% by 2004
  216. GOP introduced legislation for Fannie Mae oversight but it was blocked by Democrats (2005)
  217. Democrats opposed the bill on a party-line vote in committee and a Senate vote never happened
  218. Treasury Secretary John Snow again called for Fannie and Freddie reform in April 2005
  219. Democrats were accused of “socializing the risk while privatizing the profit” in May 2005
  220. GOP Senators Sununu and Hagel introduced an amendment to a Lobbying Reform Bill
  221. Amendment directed the GAO to study GSE lobbying and required HUD to audit GSEs annually
    After years of Democrats blocking reform legislation, Senators Chuck Hagel (R-NE), John Sununu (R-NH), Elizabeth Dole (R-NC), John McCain (R-AZ) and sixteen other U.S. Senators wrote a letter to Majority Leader William Frist and Chairman Richard Shelby demanding that GSE regulatory reform be “enacted this year” to avoid “the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the Housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole.” (May 2006)

    GOP letter stated that it was “…vitally important that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac]… operate in a safe and sound manner [and]… More importantly, Congress must ensure that the American taxpayer is protected in the event that either… should fail.”

    “Mr. President, this week Fannie Mae’s regulator reported that the company’s quarterly reports of profit growth over the past few years were ‘illusions deliberately and systematically created’ by the company’s senior management… Fannie Mae used its political power to lobby Congress in an effort to interfere with the regulator’s examination of the company’s accounting problems… OFHEO’s report solidifies my view that the GSEs need to be reformed without delay. If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole. I urge my colleagues to support swift action on this GSE reform legislation.”     ~Senator John McCain (R-AZ) addressing the Senate in May 2006

  222. Democrats ran Fannie Mae, the government-sponsored entity (GSE) that donates to top democrats
  223. Democrats vehemently rejected regulation of Fannie Mae to protect their CRA extortion racket
  224. In 2005, Barney Frank told America on the floor of Congress that there is no housing bubble
  225. Frank vowed that he and his committee would “continue to push for more home ownership”
  226. Barney Frank’s partner, Herb Moses, worked as a chief executive at Fannie Mae for 7 years
  227. Frank served on the House Banking Committee the entire time they were romantically involved
  228. Barney Frank (D) received more than $42,350 in campaign donations from Fannie Mae since 1989
  229. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) received $165,400 serving as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee
  230. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) received $126,349 in contributions with only three years in the Senate
  231. Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo pocketed millions issuing and repackaging bad mortgage loans
  232. Chris Dodd (D-CT) received sweetheart loans from Countrywide’s “Friends of Mozilo” program
  233. Barney Frank and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) led the efforts to block Fannie and Freddie reforms
  234. Senator Obama did not, nor did any other Democrat, sign the letter calling for needed reforms
  235. Disgraced former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines became an advisor and backer of Obama
  236. In 2005, Progressives in Congress voted against proposed reforms to fix Fannie and Freddie
  237. Anti-war progressives took control of the Democrat Party following the loss of the 2004 elections
  238. MoveOn.org wrote that grassroots contributors “bought” and “own” the Democrat Party (2004)
  239. Communist Party U.S.A. boasted that they may be able to capture the Democratic Party “entirely”
  240. In 2005, the Progressive Caucus crafted the “Progressive Promise” to fight for economic equality

    241. Countrywide Financial made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of Congress

  241. Countrywide Financial, led by CEO Angelo Mozilo, was the nation’s largest mortgage lender
  242. Countrywide Financial’s subprime loans helped start the nation’s foreclosure crisis
  243. Countrywide made hundreds of discount loans to buy influence with members of Congress, top government officials, congressional staff, and executives of mortgage giant Fannie Mae
  244. Some of the discounts were ordered personally by former Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo
  245. Countrywide’s discounts were aimed at gaining influence and helping Fannie Mae block reforms
  246. Fannie Mae was responsible for purchasing a large volume of Countrywide’s subprime mortgages
  247. Countrywide was taken over by Bank of America in January 2008
    “Documents and testimony obtained by the committee show the VIP loan program was a tool used by Countrywide to build goodwill with lawmakers and other individuals positioned to benefit the company. In the years that led up to the 2007 housing market decline, Countrywide’s VIPs were positioned to affect dozens of pieces of legislation that would have reformed Fannie…” ~Report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (2012)

  248. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee report concluded that “Countrywide’s effort to build goodwill on Capitol Hill worked” until the housing market became swamped with foreclosures
  249. Countrywide became a trusted adviser in Congress and was consulted when the House Financial Services Committee and Senate Banking Committee considered reforms of Fannie and Freddie
    “If Countrywide’s lobbyists, and Mozilo himself, were more strictly prohibited from arranging preferential treatment for members of Congress and congressional staff, it is possible that efforts to reform (Fannie and Freddie) would have been met with less resistance.” ~Report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (2012)

  250. Fannie Mae assigned as many as 70 lobbyists to the Financial Services Committee while it considered legislation to overhaul the company from 2000 to 2005
  251. Four reform bills were introduced during that time, but none made it out of the House committee
  252. Historically, the Federal Reserve was responsible for supervising Countrywide’s home loans unit
  253. Countrywide’s bank subsidiary was overseen by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
  254. In March 2007, Countrywide switched oversight of both units to the Office of Thrift Supervision
  255. In 2007, the Office of Thrift Supervision was overseen by John M. Reich, a former banker
  256. John Reich was “uninterested” in oversight and was a “good friend” of CEO Angelo Mozilo
  257. Angelo Mozilo paid $22.5 million in penalties to the SEC following investigations into his role
  258. Mozilo was banned for ever again serving as an officer or director of a publicly traded company
  259. Mozilo agreed to pay $45 million to settle other violations, for a total settlement of $67.5 million
  260. Democrat-led Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission decided not to investigate Countrywide
  261. Commission chairman Phil Angelides declared that Countrywide was “off limits” for investigation
  262. Democrat-led Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission was unable to agree on causes of meltdown
  263. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were seized by the federal government on September 2008
  264. Treasury department has committed more than $183 billion to support Fannie and Freddie
  265. Auditor of the Federal Housing Finance Agency found that Fannie and Freddie lost another $3 billion tied to the illegal manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (December 2012)

    Among those who received loan discounts from Countrywide were:
  266. Former Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-CT)
  267. Chris Dodd referred Mary Jane Collipriest, communications director for former Senator Robert Bennett (R-UT), then a member of the Banking Committee, to Countrywide’s VIP unit
  268. Dodd, when commenting on his own loans, claimed he was unaware of the discount program
  269. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) received a discount loan
  270. Congressman Edolphus Towns (D-NY), former chairman of the House Oversight Committee
  271. Edolphus Towns was responsible for issuing the first subpoena to Bank of America for the Countrywide documents, but Bank of America left out documents related to Towns’ own discount loan
  272. Others who received “sweetheart” VIP loan discounts from Countrywide included: top staff members of the House Financial Services Committee, a staff member of Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX) – a member of the Financial Services Committee, former Congressman Tom Campbell (R-CA), Congressman Howard McKeon (R-CA) – chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Congressman Elton Gallegly (D-CA), and Former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala
  273. Former HUD Secretaries Alphonso Jackson and Henry Cisneros each received discount loans
  274. Henry Cisneros’ loan was processed by the VIP unit after he joined Fannie’s board of directors
  275. Fannie Mae employees were the most frequent recipients of Countrywide’s VIP discount loans
  276. Fannie Mae heads James Johnson, Daniel Mudd, and Franklin Raines each received discount loans
  277. Countrywide was even willing to take a loss on Daniel Mudd’s discounted loan
  278. James Johnson received a discount after Mozilo waived problems with his credit rating
  279. In 2008, Johnson resigned as a leader of Barack Obama’s vice presidential search committee after the Wall Street Journal reported he had received $7 million in Countrywide discounted loans
  280. Those who received the discounts knew the loans were handled by a special VIP unit
    “The documents produced by the bank show that VIP borrowers received paperwork from Countrywide that clearly identified the VIP unit as the point of contact.” ~Report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee (2012)

  281. Report shows that Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX) was an exception, since he told Countrywide’s VIP unit not to give him a discounted loan, and as a result he did not receive one

    282. Barack Obama framed George W. Bush’s policies as an “attack on working families” (2003)

  282. Obama called on Bush to “fix up the economy first” before anything else, such as cutting taxes
  283. Obama predicted that George W. Bush would only win re-election because of his “spin masters, who are very good on focusing the public’s attention on the war in Iraq, and they will do their best to keep the focus away from the economic disaster that is occurring in our communities” (April 2003)
  284. Obama called on the Senate to “resist” Bush’s “unprecedented $300 billion deficit” (May 2003)
  285. Obama was “stunned” at the projected deficit and Bush’s poor economic policies (August 2003)
  286. Economy was losing 103,000 jobs a month from the start of the 2001 recession until the 2003 tax cuts
  287. Bush’s lowered taxes for everyone, and the economy enjoyed 35 straight months of expansion
  288. George W. Bush with a Republican Congress set a record of 52 straight months of job creation
  289. From May 2003 until December 2007, the economy created 8.1 million jobs (145,000 per month)
  290. Ten biggest U.S. banks and brokerage firms had their best year ever in 2006 ($104 billion in profits)
  291. Bush with a Republican Congress reduced the yearly budget deficit each year from 2004-2006
  292. Republican-led Congress posted a deficit of $247.7 billion for the 2006 fiscal year, a four-year low
  293. Democrats called the 2006 deficit improvement a temporary blip and predicted rising deficits
  294. Deficit for the last budget adopted by a GOP-controlled Congress was $161 billion (fiscal year 2007)
  295. Unemployment was 4.6%, previous GDP growth was +3.5%, and the DOW was at 12,621.77
  296. Unemployment rate reached a low of 4.4% in March 2007

    297. 2006 Elections: Progressive-controlled Democrats took majority control of the 110th Congress

  297. Political allies expressed desires to socialize America in the name of social justice and equality
  298. Obama warned Bush not to be “stubborn” and ignore the message sent by the American people
  299. The progressive-controlled “do-nothing” 110th Congress obstructed efforts to reform the GSEs
  300. Progressive Democrats who took over Congress (2007) doubled the deficit by end of 2008
  301. Obama was ‘present’ for the setting of record deficits in the majority as a Senator in Congress
  302. Democrats and then-Senator Obama posted another $161.8 billion deficit for the 2007 fiscal year
  303. Democrats raised the minimum wage stunting job growth and raising uncertainty in the markets
  304. Energy Independence and Security Act was passed in 2007 which began penalizing companies millions of dollars for not incorporating a cellulosic biofuel that does not even exist commercially
  305. Progressive Democrats then nearly tripled the deficit to $454.8 billion for the 2008 fiscal year
  306. Democrat Congress and then-Senator Obama passed the failed $168 billion “stimulus” in 2008
  307. Congress had set an all-time record low in the July 2008 Gallup Poll with a 14% approval rating
  308. Chris Dodd (D-CT) ran the Senate Banking & Finance Committee for a year before the 2008 crash
  309. Barney Frank (D-MA) became the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee in 2007
  310. Three Republican senators re-introduced legislation to improve GSE oversight in April 2007
  311. New York Times wrote that “affordability loans” and the “democratization of credit” is “turning the American dream of homeownership into a nightmare for many borrowers” (April 8, 2007)
  312. The “newfangled mortgage loans,” called “affordability loans,” “represent 60% of foreclosures”
  313. GOP again introduced legislation in 2007 for GSE oversight but was again blocked by Democrats
    “These institutions provide liquidity in the mortgage market that benefits millions of homeowners, and it is vital they operate safely and operate soundly. So I’ve called on Congress to pass legislation that strengthens independent regulation of the GSEs… the United States Senate needs to pass this legislation soon.”
    ~President George W. Bush (September 2007)

  314. Democrats ignored 17 warnings from George W. Bush to reform the system in 2008 alone
  315. Barney Frank made jokes about Bush warning of “systemic risk to our financial system”
  316. Credit requirements for home ownership eased as Fannie Mae backed even more subprime loans
  317. Fannie and Freddie had made sub-prime lending nearly a quarter of their portfolios by 2007
  318. Wholesale credit unions broke federal rules by investing in subprime mortgaged-backed securities
  319. Housing prices started crumbling in 2007, panicking financial markets leading to a recession
  320. With Democrats in control, Frank guided through the Federal Housing Reform Act in 2007
  321. Frank also guided through the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007
  322. Frank said reforms could have been done “quicker if the [Bush] administration had cooperated”
  323. Frank: “In 2004, it was Bush who started pushing Fannie and Freddie into subprime mortgages…”
  324. Frank also blamed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 (repealed part of the Glass-Steagall Act)
  325. Clinton rightfully placed blame on Democrats for planting the seeds of today’s economic crisis
    “Like a lot of my Democratic colleagues I was too slow to appreciate the recklessness of Fannie and Freddie. I defended their efforts to encourage affordable homeownership when in retrospect I should have heeded the concerns raised by their regulator in 2004. Frankly, I wish my Democratic colleagues would admit when it comes to Fannie and Freddie, we were wrong.”
    ~Congressman Artur Davis (D-AL) (September 2008)

    326. Congress and Federal Reserve’s ‘Too Big To Fail’ policies corrupted our free market system

  326. Federal Reserve was created as an extra-constitutional institution by an act of Congress in 1913
  327. Federal Reserve manipulates and impacts the economy by exerting control over interest rates
  328. During a more historically stable period of growth, short-term rates tend to be around 2-3%
  329. At the first sign of economic slowdown, the Feds can begin a series of interest rate cuts
  330. Federal Funds Rate is the rate that banks charge each other for overnight deposits
  331. Discount Rate is the rate that the Feds charges banks for overnight borrowing from the Fed itself
  332. Lowering the Federal Funds Rate and Discount Rate sets a new benchmark for short-term rates
  333. Treasury bonds and corporate and individual borrowing fall in unison with the new benchmark
  334. Lower rates stimulate borrowing by putting more cash to work in the economy
  335. More money in the economy stimulates growth, further investment, and increases employment
  336. As the financial crisis of 2008 developed, the Feds cut the short-term rates to practically zero
  337. Feds also introduced quantitative easing (QE) to further influence economic stimulus
  338. QE1 occurred in the fall of 2008 and targeted mortgage-backed securities held by banks
  339. Fed’s QE1 added $1.4 trillion to the banking system in the form of “electronic money” deposits
  340. Banks did not increase lending fearing risk and due to lack of demand by consumers and business
  341. Federal Reserve responded with QE2 after the midterm elections in November 2010
  342. Under QE2, Treasury securities were purchased from the banks in exchange for Fed deposits
  343. QE2 added another $600 billion in excess reserves at the banks
  344. Federal Reserve encouraged banks to raise capital by earning the interest on Fed deposits
  345. Fed’s low 0.25% rate was still risk free income for the banks and therefore discouraged lending
  346. Sub-prime market grew from 5% of the market to over 30% before crashing in late 2008
  347. Widespread home foreclosures began as sub-prime loans defaulted dragging down the markets
  348. Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke at the Fed turned a blind eye to the growing housing bubble
  349. The $8 trillion housing bubble orchestrated by Democrats began collapsing beginning in 2008
  350. There weren’t prosecutions for any of the top figures responsible for the 2008 financial crisis
  351. Former top-officials in the SEC and Treasury were never punished for failure of proper oversight
  352. Congress passed the Toxic Asset Relief Program (TARP) to prop up banks holding bad mortgages
  353. Some in Congress engaged in insider trading during the TARP debate and economic downturn
  354. While at the N.Y. Fed, Tim Geithner worked with the Treasury Department to bail out AIG
  355. Merrill Lynch understated its risky mortgage holdings by hundreds of billions of dollars
  356. Countrywide Financial praised its own mortgage practices despite private emails stating otherwise
  357. Lehman Brothers assured investors in 2008 that the company’s financial position was sound
  358. Bear Stearns was the first major Wall Street company to collapse as executives pocketed revenue
  359. Progressive-controlled federal government seized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
  360. Fannie and Freddie were made wards of the Treasury right before Lehman Brothers failed in 2008
  361. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had become “the poster children for corporate welfare”
  362. For years, companies like UBS and Goldman Sachs auctioned securities as safe investments
  363. Goldman Sachs paid $550 million to resolve SEC charges alleging fraud in mortgage securities
  364. Records of contributions from Fannie and Freddie to congressional candidates and lobbyists, estimated to be approximately $200 million, are sealed from public view and FOIA oversight
  365. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were seized by regulators in September 2008 during the crash
  366. SEC sued former Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac CEOs, Richard Syron and Daniel Mudd, for understating by hundreds of billions of dollars the subprime loans they held (December 2011)
  367. Syron, Mudd and others understated the lenders’ exposure to subprime mortgage loans
  368. From 2007 to 2008, top Freddie Mac executives claimed their exposure to subprime mortgage loans was between $2 billion and $6 billion when it was actually as high as $244 billion
  369. Patricia Cook, Freddie Mac’s former executive vice president, was included in the SEC lawsuit
  370. Donald Bisenius, ex-senior vice president at Freddie Mac, was included in the SEC lawsuit
  371. According to the SEC, Freddie Mac had “agreed to accept responsibility” for their conduct (2011)
  372. From 2006 to 2008, top Fannie Mae executives claimed their exposure to subprime mortgage loans was only about $4.8 billion when it was nearly 10 times greater
  373. Enrico Dallavecchia, chief risk officer for Fannie Mae, was included in the SEC lawsuit
  374. Thomas Lund, former executive vice president of Fannie Mae, was included in the SEC lawsuit
    “Under the agreement, without admitting or denying liability, Fannie Mae has offered to accept responsibility for its conduct and to not dispute, contest or contradict a set of factual statements regarding the disclosures.”
    ~Statement from Fannie Mae in a securities filing (December 2011)

  375. Federal judge rejected a SEC settlement with Bank of America over claims it misled investors
  376. Bank of America misled investors about bonuses paired to Merrill Lynch, which it had taken over
  377. Federal judge argued that the deal suggested “a rather cynical relationship between the parties”
  378. Judge Jed Rakoff later approved a revised settlement Bank of America in February 2010
  379. Bank of America agreed to pay $150 million to resolve allegations about misleading investors
  380. Citigroup misled clients in investments related to sub-prime residential mortgages
  381. As a result, Citigroup’s clients lost about $700 million, while Citigroup made $160 million
  382. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused Citigroup of betting against their customers
  383. Citigroup traders discussed buying financial instruments to bet on the failure of mortgage assets
  384. SEC issued a $285 million settlement with Citigroup, but it was rejected by a federal judge (2011)
  385. New York judge argued that the deal obscured an “overriding public interest in knowing the truth”
  386. Citigroup made $160 million in profit betting against a complex mortgage investment in 2007
  387. Settlement would have imposed penalties on Citigroup without them having to admit wrongdoing
  388. Democrat Jon Corzine became Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs in 1994
  389. Prior to 1994, private-partnership Goldman Sachs contributed evenly to both political parties
  390. After 1994, Goldman Sachs increased and shifted their political donations to help elect Democrats
  391. CEO Jon Corzine knew that private partners could only legally leverage stocks by 100%
  392. Corzine also knew that U.S. government bonds could be leveraged by as much as 5,000%
  393. Corzine led an effort to convince the Clinton and Congress to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act
  394. The Great Depression was blamed on massive leveraged speculation by banks in stocks and bonds
  395. Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 banned commercial banks that receive insurance from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) from engaging in speculation and trading in securities
  396. Efforts to repeal Glass-Steagall accelerated when former senior partner of Goldman Sachs, Robert Rubin, was named Secretary of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration in January of 1995
  397. Congress and Clinton signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, repealing Glass-Steagall (1999)
  398. Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act allowed for rampant growth of the speculation markets
  399. Normal banks doubled as investment banks and gambled with money they loaned to themselves
  400. Goldman Sachs dramatically ramped up risk taking in derivatives using the public’s money
  401. Corzine earned an estimated $400 million on the 1999 initial public offering for Goldman Sachs
  402. Ben Bernanke was CEO of Goldman Sachs prior to becoming the U.S. Treasury Secretary
  403. Robert Rubin went on to serve on the Board of Citicorp, receiving more than $126 million in cash
  404. Greece gained entry into the European Union in 2001, and by 2011 had nearly destroyed the euro
  405. Greece violated its EU entry agreement by exceeding the euro member debt restrictions (2002)
  406. Goldman Sachs engineered a $10 billion Greek derivatives trade based on fictional exchange rates
  407. Goldman Sachs then secretly arranged an additional $1 billion in loans for Greece
  408. Goldman Sachs leveraged 25 times its “$32 billion of equity to support $799 billion of assets”
  409. As a result, Goldman Sachs was very profitable prior to the 2008 economic “Credit Crisis”
  410. Former Goldman Sachs Chairman Henry Paulson became Secretary of the Treasury in 2008
  411. Sec. Paulson gave Goldman Sachs $10 billion from the Trouble Asset Recovery Program (TARP)
  412. Paulson’s bailout of AIG also allowed Goldman Sachs to collect $12.9 billion in unsecured debt
  413. Paulson testified to the Senate that federal intervention in Fannie & Freddie was near “impossible”
  414. Treasury Secretary Paulson met with several hedge fund managers a week later in July 2008
  415. Paulson warned them that a government takeover of Fannie & Freddie was a real possibility
  416. Federal Reserve secretly created a program that provided crisis funding to more than 700 banks
  417. Federal Reserve handed free money to the banks at 0% interest to loan out to make a profit
  418. Banks simply invested the money in the stock market, instead of risking loaning it to the people
  419. By the end of 2008, the Fed bank established or expanded 11 lending facilities catering to banks
  420. Federal Reserve potentially gave out $7.77 trillion in secrecy to rescue the financial system
  421. Federal Reserve potentially lent out a total of $6.8 trillion “if all eligible program applicants
    request assistance at once to the maximum permitted under the program guidelines” (2007-2009)
  422. Supreme Court ruled that the Federal Reserve had to release names of banks that received bailouts
  423. Foreign banks benefited the most from the U.S. Federal Reserve ‘Discount’ Loan program
  424. Fed released over 29,346 documents covering emergency-lending programs between 2007 & 2010
  425. According to Bloomberg, the combined bank debt peaked at $1.2 trillion on December 5, 2008
  426. Peak was more than 25 times the Fed’s pre-crisis lending peak of $46 billion on Sept. 12, 2001
  427. Federal Reserve’s own numbers actually show a higher peak lending of $1.5 trillion
  428. According to the Fed’s website, their numbers included the foreign-currency liquidity swaps
  429. In addition to the six biggest banks in the U.S. receiving $160 billion in TARP funds, the Federal Reserve gave another combined $460 billion to the same banks: JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Morgan Stanley
  430. Morgan Stanley was the largest Federal Reserve recipient getting as much as $107.3 billion
  431. Citigroup took $99.5 billion and Bank of America took $91.4 billion
  432. Bank of America and Wachovia Corp. each received $15 billion at the discount TAF interest rate
  433. Bank of America’s CEO Kenneth D. Lewis wrote to shareholders that Bank of America was “one of the strongest and most stable major banks in the world,” despite receiving $86 billion from the Fed
  434. Foreclosures from Bank of America increased well over 200% month-to-month in August 2011
  435. JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon misled shareholders about their own TAF borrowings
  436. JP Morgan Chase’s TAF borrowings were almost twice its cash holdings
  437. JP Morgan Chase’s peak borrowing of $48 billion occurred on February 26, 2009
  438. Federal Reserve reportedly made $113.3 billion through its Term Auction Facility (TAF) rate
  439. CEO Jamie Dimon disclosed a nearly $3 billion loss citing “sloppy” and “stupid” trading mistakes
  440. Losses on JP Morgan’s bungled trade were later to be found to total as much as $9 billion
  441. President Obama said “JP Morgan is one of the best-managed banks there is” (2012)
  442. Obama described JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon as being “one of the smartest bankers we got”
  443. Financial disclosure records show that Obama has up to $1 million invested in JP Morgan Chase
  444. CEO Jamie Morgan wore cuff links Obama gave him to his hearing before Congress (2012)
  445. Barney Frank accused Jamie Dimon of downplaying his bank’s losses before Congress (2012)
  446. JP Morgan Chase employees gave $808,799 to Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008
  447. JP Morgan Chase provides $15.2 billion in home mortgages to the AFL-CIO and SEIU
  448. JP Morgan Chase received $25 billion in TARP bailouts in 2008, the largest given to any bank
  449. Federal Reserve gave most of the U.S. money to foreign banks during the 2008 financial crisis
  450. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke kept it secret until forced to disclose the information
  451. Nearly half of the Federal Reserve’s top 30 borrowers were European-based firms
  452. Edinburgh-based Royal Bank of Scotland borrowed $84.5 billion from U.S. taxpayers
  453. Zurich-based UBS AG (UBSN) received $77.2 billion in taxpayer funds from the Federal Reserve
  454. Germany’s Hypo Real Estate AG took $28.7 billion ($21 million for each of its 1,366 employees)
  455. Other borrowers included Belgium’s Dexia SA (DEXB) and Paris-based Societe Generale SA
  456. London-based Barclays (BARC) borrowed $64.9 billion through the secretive program
  457. Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) borrowed $66 billion from the U.S. Federal Reserve
  458. Libya-owned Arab Banking Corp. received 73 loans (over $5 billion) from the Federal Reserve
  459. U.S. exempted the Arab Banking Corp. from sanctions despite being partly owned by Qadhafi
  460. The longest serving Fed bank president, Thomas Hoenig, said big banks are government-backed
  461. Hoenig recommended reclassifying these banks as restricted ‘government-sponsored entities’
  462. Hoenig described big banks like Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. as “public utilities”
  463. In December 2011, spreadsheets were released showing daily borrowing totals for 407 banks that tapped the Federal Reserve’s emergency lending programs during the 2007 to 2009 financial crisis
  464. Federal Reserve only released the names of the central banks involved in the foreign-currency liquidity swaps transactions, but not the local banks receiving the funds
  465. Federal Reserve again bailed out the European banks secretly with taxpayer funds (2011)
  466. U.S. and European regulators began forcing banks to buy up their own government’s debt (2012)
  467. Banks in the United States have bought over $700 billion of American debt since 2008

    468. 2008 Elections: Obama won the White House and Democrats took full control of the 111th Congress

  468. Marxist revolutionaries hijacked the Democrat party using the tactics of Saul Alinsky
  469. Saul Alinksy was a Chicago Marxist organizer who used tactics of confrontation and infiltration
  470. Radicals have employed an Alinsky strategy of working within the system to accumulate power
  471. Saul Alinsky was convinced that large-scale socialist transformation would require an alliance between a struggling middle class and the poor
  472. Saul Alinsky believed that they must turn the wrath of the middle class against large corporations
  473. John L. McKnight, a student of Alinsky tactics, wrote Obama’s Harvard Law recommendation
  474. Obama praised McKnight’s teachings as “best education” received, even better than Harvard
  475. Alinsky’s son wrote a letter to the Boston Globe praising Obama for stirring up the masses
  476. Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals #13: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it
  477. George W. Bush and Wall Street were blamed after the progressive social justice policies failed
  478. Obama united the Democratic factions around Bush hatred and the power of his own biography
  479. Obama sealed his records, misrepresented his past, and directed his attacks on George W. Bush
  480. George W. Bush couldn’t run for re-election and therefore didn’t defend against political attacks
  481. Obama ran on the theme of ‘Hope and Change’ and telling everybody what they wanted to hear
  482. Obama used Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals’ theme of how the world “is” and how “it should be”
  483. Radical change comes by working within a system instead of attacking a system from the outside
  484. Alinsky taught that it was fine to lie, steal, and cheat to accomplish what is “good for mankind”
  485. Obama: Alinsky’s teachings were “seared into my brain” providing “the best education I ever had”
  486. Obama ran on ideas like hope and change, greater transparency, and improved leadership (2008)
  487. Obama falsely placed free-market capitalism at the root of the mortgage industry debacle
  488. Obama completely ignored the real history of government interference in the housing market
  489. Obama presented “straw man” arguments to knock down to fit his campaign’s political narrative
  490. Bush destroyed the economy, not Democrat-run mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
  491. Insurance companies and doctors are the bad guys, not trial lawyers that force defensive medicine
  492. Banks and Wall Street are the problem, not Democrat’s radical-socialist agenda scaring investors
  493. Investor fears and mounting uncertainty caused the economic downturn to accelerate in late 2008
  494. Obama voted ‘Most Liberal Senator’ for 2007 while another Senator was an admitted socialist
  495. Obama voted “present” 129 times while serving as a senator in order to dodge tough issues
  496. Obama chose to run for president and now claims to have “inherited” a problem he helped create
  497. Obama was portrayed as a messiah by the socialist-left and children were taught to sing his praises
    “Mm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama

    He said that all must lend a hand; To make this country strong again;
    Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama

    He said we must be fair today; Equal work means equal pay;
    Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama

    He said that we must take a stand; To make sure everyone gets a chance;
    Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama

    He said red, yellow, black or white; All are equal in his sight;
    Mmm, mmm, mm! Barack Hussein Obama

    Yes! Mmm, mmm, mm; Barack Hussein Obama”
    ~Song taught to a class at a New Jersey elementary school (2009)


    “Hello, Mr. President we honor you today!
    For all your great accomplishments, we all doth say “hooray!”

    Hooray, Mr. President! You’re number one!
    The first black American to lead this great nation!

    Hooray, Mr. President we honor your great plans
    To make this country’s economy number one again!

    Hooray Mr. President, we’re really proud of you!
    And we stand for all Americans under the great Red, White, and Blue!

    So continue – Mr. President we know you’ll do the trick
    So here’s a hearty hip-hooray –

    Hip, hip hooray!
    Hip, hip hooray!
    Hip, hip hooray!”
    ~Song taught to a class at a New Jersey elementary school (2009)


    “The world is as cold as the white snow, the birds have been wondering if it’s safe to return; We’ve all been hibernating for too long; but now we’ve got the power – we’re no longer cowards; We’ll have a brand new song.”

    “Now we’re ready to shed our old skin; We’re ready for a brand new day; Ready for peace – ready for spring; Ready for freedom – let freedom ring; Welcome Barack Obama, he’ll save the day – hip hip horray!”

    “Barack Obama, hip hip horray, Barack Obama, hip hip horray, Barack Obama, hip hip horray. Barack Obama!”     ~Song “Inauguration,” supposedly written by third-grade elementary school kids with the help of left-wing Kid Pan Alley facilitators

  498. Obama’s only executive experience was running a Senate office and campaigning for office(s)
  499. Obama had never held a real private job where he is required to budget and produce results
  500. Obama’s resume didn’t qualify for entry-level management, let alone leading over 300 million
    “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” ~Barack Obama wrote in The Audacity of Hope (2006)

  501. Progressives expanded their majorities in the 111th Congress, including a filibuster-proof Senate
  502. Progressive Democrats led with an 81-vote edge in the House and a 10-vote edge in the Senate
  503. As Senator, then as President, Obama has backed a radical agenda that alarms the private sector
  504. President Obama had signed 329 bills passed by Progressives in the 111th Congress (2008-2010)
  505. Obama began engaging in a strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis
  506. Obama encouraged and engineered Keynesian deficit spending at a level never seen before
  507. Obama exacerbated the recession by pushing an expensive job-killing progressive agenda
  508. Obama used fear and manufactured crisis (part of Cloward-Piven) in order to build public support
  509. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel stated, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste”
  510. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated that philosophy saying, “Never waste a good crisis”
  511. Every issue for Obama is either considered a “top priority” or described as “unprecedented”
  512. Obama began experimenting with the merging of all historically failed leftist government models
  513. Fascist business model where large corporate interests are merged with the government
  514. Socialist business model where government snatches up industries and redistributes the wealth
  515. Marxist business model where economic equality, social justice, and fairness decide outcomes
  516. Obama is presiding over a corrupt regime that assaults the very pillars of American capitalism
  517. America is being intentionally diminished in every conceivable way to advance a new global order
  518. Agenda parallels the Cloward-Piven strategy to push society into crisis and economic collapse
  519. Goals undermine capitalism by overloading the federal bureaucracy with impossible demands

    520. President Obama claimed he was “committed to restoring fiscal responsibility” (2009)

  520. In 2006, Senator Obama voted against raising the federal debt ceiling and blamed past leadership
  521. Every Democrat Senator at the time voted against raising the debt ceiling (March 16, 2006)
  522. Obama in 2006: “Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally”
  523. Obama criticized George W. Bush by arguing that we are “shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren”
  524. As Senator in 2007, Obama did not bother to vote as Democrats raised the ceiling by $850 billion
  525. As Senator in 2008, Obama again refused to vote as Democrats raised the ceiling by $800 billion
  526. In 2008, Senator Obama voted for TARP which raised the debt ceiling by another $700 billion
  527. Obama and the Democrats raised the federal debt ceiling to $12.4 trillion on December 24, 2009
  528. Democrats again voted to further raise the debt ceiling to $14.294 trillion on January 28, 2010
  529. Democrats had multiplied the 2006 Republican-led deficit by a factor of eight in just three years
    “They have driven up the national debt to 8 trillion dollars. Ladies and gentlemen, who are these guys? Where do they come from? What do they… what possible right do they have to say to anybody, particularly to us, that they know how to manage our money and manage the economy?” ~Joe Biden in Maumee, Ohio (September 2008)

  530. Obama proposed “a net spending cut” throughout the 2008 campaign which did not materialize
    “There is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments. Now, what I’ve done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut.” ~Obama speaking during the third presidential debate (October 15, 2008)

  531. Obama pledged he would cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term as president
    “Today I’m pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.” ~President Obama speaking at the opening of Fiscal Responsibility Summit (February 23, 2009)

  532. Obama and Congress tripled the budget deficit from $455 billion in 2008 to $1.416 trillion in 2009
  533. Federal debt rose by $2.4 trillion in the first 500 days of Obama’s presidency and is accelerating
  534. Federal debt increased by over $3.7 trillion during the first 821 days of Obama’s presidency
  535. President Obama set a new record by adding $4.247 trillion in debt in just 945 days
  536. National debt under President Obama is increasing by $3 million with each passing minute
  537. Obama said that Bush was “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic” because he ran up the debt (2008)
    “The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents – #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back – $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.”
    ~Candidate Barack Obama on July 3, 2008

  538. President Obama piled up more debt in three years than George W. Bush did in eight years
  539. Obama’s federal debt is increasing $4.1 billion per day, compared to $1.6 billion per day under Bush
  540. U.S. is adding on average over $139.5 billion to the debt every month during Obama’s presidency
  541. President Barack Obama holds the record for the four largest deficits in U.S. history (2009-2012)
  542. Democrats and President Obama posted a $1.416 trillion deficit for the 2009 fiscal year
  543. They quadrupled the record yearly deficit left by the previous Democrat-led Congress in one year
  544. Democrats and President Obama then posted a $1.294 trillion deficit for the 2010 fiscal year
  545. President Obama and his administration ran a $1.300 trillion deficit for the 2011 fiscal year
  546. Obama ran a $1.089 trillion deficit for the 2012 fiscal year, the fourth straight year over $1 trillion
  547. Annual deficit spending under President Obama will average a record 8.4% of GDP, nearly doubling the average annual deficit under any other post-War president
  548. Socialist entitlement agenda leading to trillion dollar deficits projected for the next decade
  549. In 2010, Congress passed the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control (PAYGO)
  550. Democrats in Congress enacted PAYGO, but then opted-out of the law to pass new spending
  551. Federal debt is increasing at a rate of $1,148 per month per household (as of April 2011)
  552. CBO predicting a total projected debt of $20.2 trillion ($170,000 per household) by 2020
  553. The streak is three times the previous streak (Treasury Department began keeping records in 1980)
  554. Total public debt when Obama took office was $6.3 trillion ($56,000 per household)
  555. United States public debt topped $10 trillion for the first time ever in August 2011
  556. Obama has added more than $5.4 trillion to the federal debt since January 20, 2009
  557. The gross debt of our federal government surpassed $16 trillion (September 2012)
  558. In four years under President Obama, the debt increased by more than in the previous 17 years
  559. Under President Obama’s proposed budget, the debt will surge to $25.4 trillion by 2022
  560. Obama’s proposed budget will add another $66,000 in debt for every American household
  561. Americans have more government debt per person than Portugal, Italy, Spain, or Greece (2012)
  562. U.S. debt is now $136,249 per household, up 50% under President Obama (September 2012)
  563. More than $6.1 trillion of the public debt is owned by foreign interests and the Federal Reserve
  564. Federal Reserve’s holdings of U.S. government debt hit a record $1.696691 trillion (January 2013)
  565. Federal Reserve’s holdings increased $1.221369 trillion during President Obama’s first term
  566. Federal Reserve’s holdings of government debt is up more than 257% under Obama (January 2013)
  567. When Obama was inaugurated in 2009, the Fed owned $475.322 billion in U.S. government debt
  568. The publicly held portion of the debt increased by more than $5.264 trillion under Obama

    569. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Democrats violated the law by refusing to pass a budget for four years

  569. Democrats refused to even try to pass a budget fearing political backlash from the American public
  570. Senate Democrats haven’t passed a budget in over 1,200 days and still counting
    “It would be foolish for us to do a budget at this stage.”
    ~Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) in May 2011
    “To put other budgets out there is not the point.”
    ~Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in May 2011

  571. The 1974 Budget Act requires that a budget be completed by Congress for each fiscal year
  572. Senate Democrats will have gone four years without passing a budget going into 2013
  573. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) admitted there was “no excuse” for Democrats not producing a budget
    “… Democratic leaders have defiantly refused to lay out their own vision for how to deal with federal debt and spending… centrists in the 53-member Democratic conference expressed frustration with their party’s budget inaction.” ~POLITICO reporting from May 15, 2012

  574. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) falsely claimed that the Senate passed a budget in August 2011
  575. Harry Reid: “We do what we can to protect the president of the United States” (July 2012)
  576. Obama exploded the national debt at a rate far exceeding any previous president in history
  577. The total federal debt has grown well over $5 trillion since Obama took office in January 2009
  578. Obama increased the national debt more in 4 days than Truman and Eisenhower did in 10 years
  579. It took just 7 months for the federal debt to rise from $13 trillion (6/1/10) to $14 trillion (12/31/10)
  580. $14 trillion in debt equates to $45,300 owed by each and everyone in the United States of America
  581. President Obama created more debt in 3 years and 2 months than Bush did in eight years (2012)
  582. President Obama has missed more legally required budget deadlines than any president since the 1920s
  583. House passed a ‘No Budget, No Pay’ plan to force Senate Democrats to craft a budget (2013)
  584. Senate Budget Committee chairwoman Patty Murray relented and said, “we are ready to get to work” and promised to draft a budget in the Democrat-controlled Senate for the first time in 4 years (2013)
  585. Patty Murray falsely claimed that Republicans ‘have time and again pulled budget negotiations out of the Budget Committees,’ when Democrats alone control whether committee meetings occur
    “To compel Senate action I have introduced legislation, blocked recess, and encouraged the use of the debt ceiling as leverage. Now, with their pay threatened, and long-simmering public anger growing, Senate Democrats have suddenly seen the light. Even just a few days ago, they were not willing to commit to doing a budget. The sooner the majority allows the budget process to move forward, the sooner meaningful debate can occur and the sooner the Senate can at last meet its legal and moral obligations. Secret meetings are an affront to popular democracy.”
    ~Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) (January 2013)

  586. Factcheck.org caught Harry Reid (D-NV) making false claims about spending cuts (February 2013)
  587. Senator Harry Reid lied twice that Congress had made significant non-defense spending cuts

    588. Obama in 2008: “I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely”

  588. Obama and Democrats passed an $821 billion “stimulus” to prop up their special interests
  589. Vice President Joe Biden told Americans that we needed to “spend our way out of debt”
  590. Mike Honda (D-CA) on crafting the 2009 stimulus, “We didn’t know what the hell was going on”
    “The stimulus bill, which was under the other administration, was put together because we didn’t know what the hell was going on and you know, and we were trying to do things that we thought might help stimulate the economy. We set aside quite a bit of money for what we call ‘shovel ready projects’ which we thought would create jobs right away but it didn’t.”
    ~Congressman Mike Honda (D-CA) looking back in hindsight from December 2011

  591. CBO numbers show Obama’s “stimulus” program cost 15% more than the Iraq War under Bush
  592. Obama’s own government officials repeatedly warn of looming debt crisis on the horizon
  593. CBO “can’t conceive of any way” that the economy can continue past 2037 with current trajectory
    Note: Estimates for the actual cost of the “stimulus” started at $787 billion, rose to $862 billion, fell back to $814 billion, then rose up again to a cost of $821 billion...

  594. Obama promised, “we are going to ban all earmarks,” before signing thousands of them into law
    “We are going to ban all earmarks.”
    ~Obama speaking at a press conference on January 6, 2009

  595. Obama pledged that recovery.org would allow all Americans to see where taxpayer money is going
    “We will launch a sweeping effort to root out waste, inefficiency, and unnecessary spending in our government, and every American will be able to see how and where we spend taxpayer dollars by going to a new website called recovery.gov.” ~President Obama in a speech on January 28, 2009

  596. Obama signed a $410 billion omnibus 2009 budget with more than 9,000 wasteful ‘earmarks’
  597. GAO study: over $24 billion in taxpayer money went to companies that did not pay their taxes
  598. At least 3,700 companies receiving “stimulus” money were tax cheats owing over $757 million
  599. GAO investigators found that one out of every six contract/grant dollars went to a known tax cheat
  600. IRS: Federal workers and military personnel owed $3.42 billion in delinquent taxes in 2010
  601. 2010 Census cost taxpayers around $13 billion, more than double the cost of 2000’s count
  602. HHS announced a $500 million initiative to help kids who “can’t sit still” in kindergarten (2011)
  603. Obama signed off on $42 million in bonuses for the top 12 Fannie and Freddie executives in 2010
  604. Top 10 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac executives received another $12.79 million in 2011
  605. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents showed that Freddie Mac’s CEO Ed Halderman received a base salary of $900,000 plus another $2.3 million in bonus pay for 2010
  606. Fannie Mae CEO Michael Williams received $2.37 million in performance bonuses in 2010
  607. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have received over $170 billion in federal taxpayer bailouts
  608. Inspector General for the Federal Housing Finance Agency found that nearly 2,000 senior managers at government-controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exceeded $200,000 in median pay (2011)
  609. Obama wanted another $50 billion (before 2010 elections) for more road and railway upgrades
  610. Obama voted ‘yes’ on TARP bank bailouts and then used them as a slush-fund as president
  611. Billions of dollars of TARP funds wound up in big banks in France, Germany, and other nations
  612. 2010 Defense Spending Bill was $636 billion with over 1,800 wasteful pork spending projects
  613. Spending budget for 2010 was a record $3.6 trillion and 2011 budget was projected at $3.8 trillion
  614. Obama proposed another “stimulus” costing $140 billion to prevent a double-dip recession
  615. National Science Foundation (NSF) mismanaged more than $3 billion & funds ridiculous projects
  616. NSF spent millions on porn, studying shrimp on treadmills and Jell-O wrestling in Antarctica
  617. Taxpayer “stimulus” dollars went to fund gator wrestling by teenage kids in an Indian village
  618. Nearly $1.5 million in “stimulus” grants were distributed to the University of San Francisco to study erectile dysfunction of overweight middle aged men and asking people about their sexual behavior
  619. Nearly $19 billion in unemployment benefits were errantly given out from 2008-2010
  620. Vice President Joe Biden was tasked with leading the Campaign to Cut Waste (2011)
    “Unemployment checks are going to people in prison. Unemployment checks are going to graveyards.” ~Vice President Joe Biden (September 2011)

  621. Another estimated $14 billion in unemployment benefits were errantly distributed in 2011
  622. State Department spent more than $70,000 taxpayer dollars on books authored by Obama
  623. Feds opened more than 1,900 investigations into waste and fraud of taxpayer stimulus dollars
  624. The 7-Eleven Presidency: Under Obama, for every $7 we’ve had, we’ve spent nearly $11
  625. Democrats proposed a $1.1 trillion spending bill during the lame-duck session of Congress
  626. Spending bill was filled with 6,488 earmarks at a cost of $575 million per page (1,924 pages)
  627. Obama’s $858 billion compromise bill extended the Bush-era tax rates plus more deficit spending
  628. Obama presented a budget for 2012 that allocated a total of $3.73 trillion into federal programs
  629. Obama’s 2012 budget was proposed in February 2011 with at least (19) senators showing support
  630. Obama’s 2012 budget proposal was voted down unanimously (0-97) in the Senate (May 25, 2011)
  631. Obama’s budget prediction for spending in 2011 represented a 40% increase over fiscal year 2007
  632. Obama predicted that spending in fiscal year 2011 will total $3.819 billion, an all-time high record
  633. U.S. ended December 2011 with a record $15.22 trillion in debt and a 100.3% debt-to-GDP ratio
  634. Obama: “We must confront the fact that our gov’t spends more than it takes in... not sustainable”
  635. Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner called the obligations in Obama’s budget “unsustainable”
  636. AMTRAK station named after stimulus “sheriff” Joe Biden was $5.7 million over budget in 2011
  637. AMTRAK lost $84.5 million in food and beverage services in 2011, and $833.8 million over 10 years
  638. Federal lawmakers gave large taxpayer-funded bonuses to their staff during the budget crisis
  639. United States Postal Service (USPS) posted an $8.5 billion loss to taxpayers in 2010
  640. USPS warned it could default after losing $3.1 billion from April to June 2011
  641. USPS posted an additional $5.1 billion loss to taxpayers for the 2011 fiscal year
  642. United States Postal Service lost another $3.2 billion for just the first three months of 2012
  643. Labor costs represent 80% of the USPS’ expenses (compared to UPS’ 53% and FedEx’s 32%)
  644. USPS enjoys extremely generous benefits with “no layoff” clauses in their union contracts
  645. USPS overpaid an estimated $60 billion into its employee pension plans
  646. Despite mandates to avoid deficits, the post office loses billions of dollars every year (2012)
  647. USPS reported a $5.2 billion third quarter loss and said it was nearly out of cash (August 2012)
  648. USPS defaulted on a $5.5 billion obligation to pre-fund retiree health benefits (August 2012)
  649. It was the first time the USPS has ever defaulted on a payment to the Treasury Department
  650. USPS defaulted again on a $5.6 billion obligation one month later (September 2012)
  651. Election junk mail barely spared the United States Postal Service from insolvency (October 2012)
  652. U.S. Postal Service hit its $15 billion borrowing limit for the first time in its history (October 2012)
    “[S]eniors love to get junk mail. It’s sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they’re part of the real world.”
    ~Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) arguing against cuts to the USPS

  653. Postal Service Board of Governors met following a staggering $15.9 billion loss in fiscal year 2012
  654. Despite losing $15.9 billion in fiscal 2012, the USPS increased executive compensation (2012)
  655. Postal Service is mandated to pre-fund retiree health care benefits, which according to postal officials accounted for about 70 percent of the Postal Service’s net loss for fiscal year 2012
  656. The cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service has eliminated more than 168,000 jobs since 2006
  657. African-Americans represent 13.1% of the U.S. population and 11.6% of the labor force (2013)
  658. Nearly one-in-five black workers hold government jobs (i.e. mail clerks, firefighters, teachers, etc.)
  659. Blacks make up about 20% of the U.S. Postal Service workers and are even the majority in larger cities
  660. U.S. Postal Service is the largest employer of veterans in the nation behind the Department of Defense
  661. Loss of more Postal Service jobs would be devastating to both the black community and our veterans
  662. USPS, a booster of minority prospects since the Civil War, is unraveling under the first black president
  663. Postal Service is losing $25 million a day and without action could run out of money by October 2013
  664. Federal Reserve has expanded its balance sheet past $2.5 trillion through “quantitative easing”
  665. Federal Reserve is robbing current and future Americans with each “quantitative easing” (QE)
  666. Big companies and banks were given free money and the stock market increased with each QE
  667. Federal Reserve gave banks $80 billion of taxpayer money in secretive loans at 0.01% interest rate
  668. Federal Reserve Governor and Bernanke advisor Kevin Warsh resigned after questioning QE2
  669. Ben Bernanke argued that Federal Reserve pumping is ‘good for the global economy’ (2012)
  670. Greenspan: Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing did little to loosen credit & boost the economy
  671. $2 trillion stimulus program had little impact on the U.S. economy besides weakening the dollar
  672. Gold prices have skyrocketed as the dollar continues to be devalued by Federal Reserve policies
  673. The U.S. dollar has lost 21.4 percent of its value during the last 8 years (as of April 2011)
  674. U.S. dollar slumped to a new record low against the yen in October 2011 due to Fed policies
  675. Federal Reserve modified their quantitative easing with the addition of ‘Operation Twist’ (2011)
  676. ‘Operation Twist’ converts short maturities to longer maturities to drive long-term rates lower
  677. Federal Reserve already converted $400 billion, but seeks to convert another $267 billion (2012)
  678. Progressive-led government posted biggest monthly deficit ever of $223 billion in February 2011
  679. U.S. government spent more than eight times its monthly revenue for the month of March 2011
  680. CBO numbers show that the federal government ran a $189 billion deficit in March 2011
  681. Forty-five states and D.C. projected budget shortfalls totaling $125 billion for fiscal year 2012
  682. Local governments facing aggregate revenue shortfalls from 2010-2012 totaling $56-$83 billion
  683. Minority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said the federal budget may not be balanced for 20 years
  684. Minority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said “we’ve dug such a deep hole...” over the years
  685. Harry Reid (D) worried that cuts would eliminate the annual “cowboy poetry festival” in Nevada
  686. Pelosi warned that House Democrats won’t support Obama on proposed debt-limit entitlement cuts
  687. Freshman Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) declared that Obama has “failed to lead” on budget cuts
  688. Senator Manchin warned, “we cannot ignore the fiscal Titanic of our national debt and deficit”
  689. Radical group founded by Obama called for another $382 billion in ‘stimulus’ spending in 2011
  690. Democrats were only willing to cut $20 billion for fiscal year 2011 from a $3.6 trillion budget
  691. Obama ignored all recommendations from the deficit commission he created to study the problem
  692. Democrats demagogued the 2012 GOP budget proposal cutting more than $5.8 trillion in spending
  693. Democrats have resorted to using lies and propaganda to defend their anti-spending cut position
  694. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) caught telling senators to describe GOP spending cuts as “extreme”
  695. Schumer said, “I always use the word ‘extreme.’ That is what the caucus instructed me to do”
  696. Democrats described those seeking spending cuts as “extreme” and a “small minority”
  697. Senate Rules Committee blocked a Tea Party Debt Commission from presenting a budget proposal
  698. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) even evicted the debt commission from the Russell Building (2011)
  699. Sen. Harry Reid (D) suggested we return to the “type of fiscal discipline” under the Democrats
  700. Harry Reid predicted the Tea Party “will pass… will lose a number of seats next year” in 2012
  701. Obama administration suggested that GOP 2011 budget cuts would kill 70,000 kids worldwide
  702. Democrats killed millions by banning DDT in African countries as a condition for U.S. aid
  703. The Left protected funding for Planned Parenthood, which aborts 332,278 boys and girls each year
  704. Socialist Bernie Sanders said the rich “have not contributed one nickel to deficit reduction” (2011)
  705. Democrats raised campaign money off the threat of a government shutdown in April 2011
  706. W.H. said their proposed cut of $6.5 billion met the GOP’s $60 billion cut ‘more than halfway’
  707. W.H. and OMB called a 1-week budget extension and U.S. troop pay through 2011 ‘a distraction’
  708. Jim Moran (D-VA) described a troop funding question as “caustic” yelling, “sit down or leave!”
  709. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said Obama ‘needs to lead, instead of sitting on sidelines’
  710. Eric Cantor: “We’ve had to bring this president kicking & screaming to the table to cut spending”
  711. Despite playing cheerleader, Obama took credit for the “biggest annual spending cut in history”
  712. As Washington celebrated, the U.S. budget deficit grew 15.7 percent in the first half of 2011
  713. Treasury reported a deficit of $829 billion for the October-March period of fiscal year 2011
  714. U.S. debt jumped $54 billion in the week preceding a deal to cut $38 billion from the 2011 budget
  715. There was no signing ceremony when Obama signed the $38 billion cuts into law
  716. Due to Democrat budgetary gimmicks, the actual cuts in spending amounted to just $353 million
  717. Budget deal: 2011 fiscal year budget deal left federal spending $773 billion above 2008 levels
  718. CBO: Spending bill produces less than 1% of claimed savings by end of the 2011 fiscal year
  719. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called for another $1 trillion or more in federal “stimulus” (2011)
  720. Senate Democrats voted in favor of raising the debt ceiling by $500 billion in September 2011
  721. Bill Clinton described President Obama’s approach to the deficit as “a little confusing”
  722. Economic Development Administration (EDA) was created to “increase society’s wealth”
  723. EDA was set up as part of the Great Society agenda under President Lyndon Johnson (D)
  724. EDA adds to the deficit, picks winners and losers, and purports to create jobs in the economy
  725. Taxpayers are on the hook for a monument being built to honor Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) (2011)
  726. Freshman Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KA) introduced the EDA Elimination Act of 2011 in the House
  727. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) also proposed legislation in the Senate that would eliminate the EDA
  728. Obama looked for ways to spend more money “without additional Congressional authorization”
  729. President Obama’s 2013 budget proposal increases the national debt by another $2 trillion
  730. Obama’s deficit spending equates to $17,000 per person, or about $70,000 for a family of four
  731. Obama’s Budget Director Jeffrey Zients claimed that Obama’s budget was a “balanced budget”
  732. U.S. per capita government debt is worse than Greece, Ireland, Italy, France, Portugal, and Spain
  733. Federal government ran the worst monthly deficit ($229 billion) in history in February 2012
  734. U.S. borrowed 42 cents of every dollar it spent during the first five months of 2012 fiscal year
  735. U.S. recorded its record 42nd straight month of running deficits (ending March 2012)
  736. The previous longest streak of our government running deficits was just 11 months
  737. Obama’s 2012 budget proposal was voted down 414-0 in the U.S. House of Representatives
  738. Obama’s 2013 budget proposal was voted down unanimously (0-99) in the Senate (May 16, 2012)
  739. Under Obama’s budget, interest payments on the debt will exceed defense budget in 2019
  740. More than $5 trillion later, David Axelrod warned that it is the GOP ‘bankrupting our country’
  741. President Obama claimed he was cleaning up after “wild debts” caused by Republicans (2012)
  742. Comparing federal spending as a percentage of GDP, Obama has outspent the last five presidents
  743. Federal spending under President Obama is currently at 24% of GDP (as of June 2012)
  744. Federal spending in 2012 is higher than any year since 1949, following World War II
  745. Federal debt has increased more in last 15 months than first 97 Congresses combined (June 2012)
  746. Federal Reserve’s holdings of U.S. debt soared by over 452% under President Obama
  747. Federal Reserve owned $302 billion in U.S. Treasury securities on January 28, 2009
  748. Federal Reserve owned $1.668 trillion in U.S. Treasury securities on April 25, 2012
  749. At the end up January 2009, China owned $739.6 billion and Japan owned $634.8 billion
  750. By the end of March 2012, China owned $1.1699 trillion and Japan owned $1.083 trillion
  751. Federal Reserve, China, and Japan increased their holdings by $2.2445 trillion under Obama
  752. Forbes magazine described President Obama as ‘the biggest government spender in world history’
  753. Obama claimed that it was Bush and Republicans who “baked” the deficits “into the cake” (2012)
  754. For fiscal year 2009, President Bush had proposed a budget with just a 3% spending increase
  755. The budget approved and implemented by Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), then-Senator Obama (D-IL), and the rest of the Congressional Democrat majorities provided for a 17.9% increase in spending for the fiscal year 2009, which ran from October 1, 2008 until September 30, 2009
  756. In 2008, the Democrat-led Congress, confident that Obama was going to win in 2008, passed only three of fiscal 2009’s twelve appropriations bills, those related to veterans and national defense
  757. Democrat majorities in Congress passed the rest of them in 2009 once Obama became president
  758. Obama signed the bills and played a very direct role in the runaway fiscal 2009 spending explosion
  759. Obama then worked with Pelosi’s Democratic Congress to pass an additional $410 billion supplemental spending bill for fiscal year 2009, which had been rejected by President Bush in 2008
  760. Obama and Democrats then passed a $40 billion expansion in the SCHIP entitlement program
  761. Obama and Democrats then passed Obamacare, the biggest single spending bill in world history
  762. Budget deficits for President Obama’s four years were reported in Obama’s own 2013 budget as $1.413 trillion for 2009, $1.293 trillion for 2010, $1.3 trillion for 2011, and $1.327 trillion for 2012
  763. Federal debt held by the public will double during Obama’s four years as president
  764. By 2013, Obama will have increased the national debt by as much as all prior presidents combined
  765. Obama complained that the Republicans left him a check for a steak dinner (June 2012)
    “It’s like somebody goes to a restaurant, orders a big steak dinner, a martini and all that stuff, then just as you’re sitting down they leave and accuse you of running up the tab.” ~President Obama blaming Bush for the trillion dollar deficits engineered by Democrats (June 13, 2012)

  766. Obama literally stuck someone else with the tab after eating pork ribs at Kenny’s BBQ a day later
  767. Federal budget deficit in May 2012 was $125 billion, more than double the deficit in May 2011
    “I don’t know how they’ve been bamboozling folks into thinking that they are the responsible, fiscally-disciplined party. They run up these wild debts and then when we take over we have to clean it up. And then they point and say, ‘Look how irresponsible they are.’ Look at facts, look at the numbers. And now I want to finish the job.” ~President Obama speaking at a campaign fundraiser in Denver, Colorado (May 24, 2012)

  768. Obama couldn’t recall how much the national debt was when asked by David Letterman (2012)
  769. Former Biden aide Jeff Connaughton described both Obama and Biden as “financially illiterate”
  770. The United States federal budget deficit was $120 billion in just October 2012 alone
  771. Chinese yuan hit a new record high against the United States dollar (November 2012)
  772. Charlie Rangel (D-NY): ‘Spending cuts doesn’t necessarily mean you’re saving money’ (January 2013)
  773. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) argued that Washington’s spending problem only exists “on Fox News” (2013)



                   “The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.”
                   ~George Washington

    774. Obama pledged repeatedly that he would focus “like a laser beam” on job creation (after Obamacare)

  774. President-elect Obama unveiled a vague plan that will create or “save” 2.5 million jobs (2008)
  775. Obama’s “stimulus” plan promised to create or “save” 3.5 million jobs by the end of 2010
  776. Obama then claimed that the stimulus package would create 4 million jobs by the end of 2010
  777. Obama in 2009: If economy isn’t fixed in three years there will be a “one-term proposition”
  778. Senior economic advisers to Obama turned down a supersized fiscal stimulus because they doubted its practicality and feared spooking the bond markets, according to a December 2008 internal memo
    “Every month we do not have an economic recovery package, 500 million Americans lose their jobs.” ~Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) falsely claiming while arguing for passage of the $821 billion “stimulus” package (2009)

  779. Obama passed the $821 billion “stimulus” pledging that unemployment would stay below 8%
  780. Unemployment remained above 8% for the 43 consecutive months (ending August 2012)
  781. In the previous 60 years, the unemployment rate topped 8% in a total of 39 months
  782. More than 2 million net jobs have been lost since Obama signed the so-called “stimulus” bill
  783. We are roughly 6 million jobs off from the stated Obama goal for job growth during campaign
  784. Over 14 million are unemployed, up from 6.3 million when Democrats took over Congress
  785. Obama invented a non-provable economic metric of “jobs saved” to justify the failing “stimuli”
  786. White House press secretary Jay Carney claimed that the stimulus “goals have been met” (2011)
  787. Number of people with jobs is still nearly 5 million below the pre-recession peak
  788. National Employment Law Project study found that 58% of the jobs recovered are low-wage jobs
  789. CBO downgraded its estimate of the benefits of Obama’s 2009 “stimulus” package (2011)
  790. CBO said that the Recovery Act temporarily sustained as few as 700,000 jobs at its peak in 2010
  791. Government “stimulus” spending “crowds out” private investment and reduces overall output
  792. CBO said that over the long run the “stimulus” will actually be a net drag on the economy (2011)
  793. Committee on Ways & Means officially declared Democrats’ 2009 stimulus a “huge failure”
  794. Obama joked about the ‘stimulus’ failure: “Shovel-ready was not as shovel-ready as we expected”
  795. Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) said “we have nothing to show” for the $821 billion “stimulus”
  796. DNC Chairwoman: “Republicans who think the Recovery Act didn’t work are simply wrong”
  797. Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats dropped the word “stimulus” from their vocabulary (2011)
  798. Stimulus website showed jobs “saved” or “created” in zip codes and districts that did not exist
  799. Whistleblowers revealed how they were fired and rehired in order to appear to “create” jobs
  800. “Stimulus” created 450,000 government jobs at the cost of over 1 million private-sector jobs
  801. Stimulus bailouts for the state governments were mostly directed to regions that vote Democrat
  802. Obama described government jobs as the most important jobs that can be created in a society
  803. Federal government bureaucrats intentionally inflated stimulus’ projected-job-creation estimates
  804. President Obama tried to sell his new jobs plan with yet a new metric, jobs “supported” (2011)
  805. Obama administration also created the metric “added or preserved” to justify GM union bailouts
  806. Washington D.C. took $885 million in “stimulus,” but still can’t say how many jobs were created
  807. Democrats pursued healthcare and financial reforms first over jobs and the economy
  808. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said health reform would create 400,000 jobs “almost immediately” (2010)
  809. Nancy Pelosi insisted “it’s about jobs,” saying that passing Obamacare “will create 4 million jobs”
  810. The $821 billion stimulus and new multitrillion-dollar Obamacare entitlements hurt job growth
  811. CBO Director claimed Obamacare will cost 800,000 jobs if fully implemented
  812. Due to Obamacare, a Las Vegas business owner fired 22 employees after Obama was re-elected
  813. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) insisted that giving unemployment checks is the fastest way to create jobs
  814. Obama urged Congress to extend unemployment benefits to “create jobs right now” (August 2011)
  815. W.H. Press Secretary said that unemployment benefits could create up to 1 million jobs (2011)
  816. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) told ABC that he had “nothing to do with these unemployment figures”
  817. Pelosi: Extending the unemployment benefits would add “600,000 jobs to our economy” (2011)
  818. Nancy Pelosi claimed that Bush left Democrats an economy in the “depths of hell” (2012)
  819. Obama administration pushed for more extensions to unemployment benefits past 99 weeks
  820. Leslie Macko lost her job a month after being found guilty of prescription drug fraud
  821. Obama then used Leslie Macko as a prop and an example of the need to extend jobless benefits
  822. Roughly 93% of Obama’s original administration had never held or created a private sector job
  823. Many corporations represented on Obama’s jobs council are increasingly shifting jobs overseas
  824. Policies increase unemployment and drive down wages by flooding the U.S. with foreign workers
  825. Obama’s anti-energy policies are having a cascading destructive effect on jobs across the country
  826. Obama proposed major tax increases for those who create wealth and jobs in the U.S. (April 2011)
  827. Obama sat on trade-agreements that would have generated much-needed jobs in America
  828. Obama signed into law the Democrat’s Small Business Jobs Bill on September 16, 2010
  829. House Democrats pledged that the $30 billion bank handout could create 500,000 new jobs
  830. One year later, there was no evidence that a single job had been created from the program
  831. White House Transcript: “…we’ve created over 2.1 million private sector jobs. (Laughter)”
  832. Timothy Geithner: Obama administration believes that taxes on small business must increase so that the administration does not have to “shrink the overall size of government programs”
  833. Renee Ellmers (R-NC): 64% of jobs created in the United States are from small business
  834. More than two years ago: ‘Obama puts renewed focus on job creation…’ (December 2009)
  835. More than 4 million jobs were lost in 2009, more than any other year since World War II
  836. ‘Obama to focus hard on economy’ again after a major Senatorial election defeat in Massachusetts
  837. Following 2010 election “shellacking,” Obama pledged an economic focus during the next 2 years
  838. Obama said the economy will be his “singular focus” during the remaining two years of his term
  839. Day 729 as president: Obama orders a government-wide review of regulations that hurt job growth
  840. Obama administration added new job-killing regulations during the debt-ceiling debate (July 2011)
  841. Obama dismissed a farmer concerned about regulations: “Don’t always believe what you hear”
  842. Business community predicted there would be a “tsunami of regulations” if Obama won reelection
  843. Obama administration withheld the more controversial environmental and healthcare regulations before the 2012 elections, but still posted 68 new regulations a day for 3 straight months prior to the elections
  844. Obama administration issued $236.7 billion in new rules and regulations in 2012
  845. Obama has issued more than $518 billion in regulations since he took office (January 2013)
  846. American businesses must waste 87 million man-hours to fill out the new regulatory paperwork
  847. In 2011, Obama released a plan claiming he would cut regulations and reduce the burden on businesses
  848. Cass Sunstein: Obama’s plan would “eliminate unjustified regulatory costs and to reduce burdens”
  849. Sunstein said that Obama had done more to cut government tape than any president in recent history
  850. Obama delayed multiple domestic energy projects that would have created thousands of jobs
  851. Democrat(s) criticized Obama for “4,200 pages” of new pending job-killing regulations (2011)
  852. Study showed that new regulations under Obama are costing consumers, businesses, and the economy an additional $46 billion annually during the first 3 years of his presidency (2012)
  853. Obama administration actually tried to eliminate private-sector jobs via rules and regulations
  854. Obama’s NLRB tried to charge a company to create jobs by blocking a Boeing plant in S.C.
  855. G3 unemployment was 4.5% back in February 2007 when progressives took control of Congress
  856. Democrat orchestrated banking & housing recession wiped out more than 8 million jobs
  857. G3 unemployment rate increased to over 10% under the weight of a democratic job-killing agenda
  858. G6 underemployment rate (includes those who can’t get full-time work) increased to over 20%
  859. By comparison, G6 underemployment was 8.1% in February 2007 and 15.0% in February 2009
  860. Number of Americans jobless for at least six months hit a record 6.1 million people in 2010
  861. More than 8.5 million part-time workers seek full-time work that is not available (2011)
  862. In January 2011, more than 8.6 million Americans were collecting unemployment benefits
  863. The average time needed to find a job rose to a record 40.4 weeks in July of 2011
  864. Gallup’s unemployment polling showed U6 underemployment at 19.0% for December 2010
  865. U.S. population has grown 30 million since 2000, but total U.S. jobs are lower now than in 2000
  866. There are more idle men and women today than at any time since the Great Depression (2011)
  867. Nearly seven people in the labor pool compete for each and every job opening (June 2011)
  868. One fifth of all men of prime working age are not getting up and going to work (2011)
  869. Number of Americans jobless for at least six months increased to over 6.2 million people in 2011
  870. Percentage of people currently working in the United States is at the lowest level since 1983
  871. Paychecks from private businesses shrank to smallest share of personal income in U.S. history
  872. Obama administration is reducing the number of jobs that exist to lower the unemployment rate
  873. If today’s workforce size was the same as in 2009, the U3 unemployment would be 11.4% (9/11)
  874. More than 40% of the unemployed have been out of work for more than six months
  875. Obama’s extended 99-week unemployment benefits plan caused lingering joblessness
  876. Millions of Americans have been dropped out of the labor force skewing government estimates
  877. The employment-population ratio is at the lowest level in decades (as of September 2011)
  878. Just 58% of work-age Americans have jobs (as of August 2011), the lowest level since July 1983
  879. Labor Department estimated that jobs were created in newly formed companies that may not exist
  880. BLS data assumes that hundreds of thousands of jobs are being created using historical models
  881. There have been no net increase in full-time jobs under Obama, contrary to all previous recessions
  882. Economy lost 8.8 million jobs from when employment peaked (January 2008) until it hit bottom (February 2010), of which only 4 million jobs have been recovered (as of September 2012)
  883. Never since WWII has the economy been so slow to recover all the jobs lost in a downturn
  884. President Obama added 11,327 pages of regulations in three years
  885. Labor Department lowered the unemployment rate to 7.8% once month before the 2012 election
  886. CNBC described the new employment numbers as “contradictory” (October 2012)
  887. According to the household survey 873,000 people claimed to have found work in September 2012
  888. The number of unemployed people dropped by 456,000 when only 114,000 jobs were created
  889. Roughly 324,000 people dropped out off the unemployment rolls, lowering the rate below 8%
  890. BLS reported a large 7.5% increase in part-time jobs, adding 600,000 jobs to the total (October 2012)
  891. Obama administration’s revisions showed that employers added 146,000 jobs per month from July through September, up from the 67,000 reported in the previous three months
  892. Obama’s cooked numbers resulted in the biggest one-time drop in the unemployment rate in 29 years
  893. Interestingly, the U6 underemployment and unemployment number remained fixed at 14.7%
  894. Hilda Solis falsely claimed that 86,000 more private sector jobs were created, when in fact private sector revisions were down 5,000 and public-sector employment rose 91,000
  895. At least two economists at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) contributed to Obama’s campaign
  896. Harley Frazis contributed at least $2,000 to Obama and $9,000 to the Democratic National Convention
  897. Stephen Phillips, an economist at BLS since June 2009, also contributed money to President Obama
  898. Intel CEO Paul Otellini, a member of Obama’s Jobs Council, endorsed Romney for president (2012)
  899. In 2010, Otellini was critical of Obama’s failure to generate more robust job growth and of the stimulus
    “Now, my administration has a job to do, as well, and that job is to get this economy back on its feet. That’s my job. And it’s a job I gladly accept. I love these folks who helped get us in this mess and then suddenly say, ‘Well, this is Obama’s economy.’ That’s fine. Give it to me. My job is to solve problems, not to stand on the sidelines and carp and gripe.” ~President Obama on July 14, 2009
    Then after his policies failed and the Democrats lost the House of Representatives, President Obama looked to share the blame...
    “Both parties share power in Washington and both parties need to take responsibility for improving this economy. It’s not a Democratic responsibility or a Republican responsibility. It is our collective responsibilities as Americans.” ~President Obama on August 5, 2011

  900. Obama created the White House Office of Manufacturing Policy to keep jobs in the U.S. (2011)
  901. Obama chose John Bryson and Gene Sperling to head the new Manufacturing Policy office
  902. John Bryson is a globalist activist and co-chairman of the globalist organization PCIP
  903. Economic advisor Gene Sperling blamed Bush an unemployment rate of 9.1% in September 2011
  904. Sperling touted 11 million jobs that were supposedly “saved” due to Obama’s spending policies
  905. Official government unemployment numbers are being massaged to lower the unemployment rate
  906. BLS lowered the unemployment rate by saying that more people “drop out” of the labor pool
  907. The difference between the reported and implied unemployment rate is the largest since 1980
  908. A record 1.2 million people “dropped out” of the labor force in just one month (January 2012)
  909. Number of people not in the labor force rose to a record 87.897 million (March 2012)
  910. Another 522,000 people reportedly “dropped out” of the labor force in April 2012
  911. Number of people not in the labor force rose to a new record 88.419 million (April 2012)
  912. Labor force participation rate (64.3%) under President Obama fell to its lowest level since 1981
  913. BLS data shows that 29.7 million people are not working or are underemployed (April 2012)
  914. Unemployment rate was lowered again from 8.3% to 8.1%, despite only creating 96,000 jobs, by saying that 581,000 more workers dropped out of the labor force (August 2012)
  915. President Obama told members of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness that his administration has made “substantial progress” in embracing ideas on how to solidify the economic recovery (2012)
  916. Obama said extending jobless benefits will create more jobs than the Keystone XL pipeline (2012)
  917. Obama told a woman that her husband shouldn’t be unemployed since he was an engineer (2012)
  918. Obama found it “interesting” that her husband couldn’t find a job and asked to see his resume
  919. CBO estimated that Obama’s “stimulus” may have cost as much as $4.1 million a job (2012)
  920. Obama administration spent $10 billion to create just 355 renewable energy jobs per year
  921. Obama’s latest jobs program was to help illegals compete with Americans for scarce jobs (2012)
  922. Obama granted young illegal immigrants the right to work, resulting in fewer jobs for U.S. citizens
    “How can the administration justify allowing illegal immigrants to work in the U.S. when millions of Americans are unemployed? President Obama and his administration once again have put partisan politics and illegal immigrants ahead of the rule of law and the American people.” ~Congressman Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (June 15, 2012)

  923. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) told a panel made up of progressive researchers and politicians that he didn’t know a “single small business” that would be effected by tax rates (2012)
  924. President Obama called 80,000 new jobs (one-third of them temporary) compared to 85,000 more people signing up for federal disability insurance in June 2012 as a “step in the right direction”
  925. In May 2004, the economy added 310,000 jobs and the unemployment rate was 5.6%, Obama used the Democrats’ radio address to attack the Bush administration for citing good economic numbers
  926. Obama’s economic adviser, Austan Goolsbee, said he was “okay” with 8.2% unemployment
  927. ABC News reported that Obama’s tax increases that would affect 900,000 small businesses (2012)
  928. Harry Reid compared America’s job creators to Paris Hilton, claiming they “do nothing” (2012)
  929. Reid sidelined Obama’s proposal to raise taxes for those making over $250,000 (July 2012)
  930. President Obama’s Jobs Council didn’t meet publicly in more than 6 months in 2012
  931. Obama spent 412 hours in economic meetings, compared to 600 hours on the golf course (2012)
  932. Survey found that 55% of small-business owners would not start a company today under Obama
  933. Obamacare requires employers to provide health insurance to anyone working over 30 hours a week
  934. Obama’s Small Business Administration chief, Karen Mills, told MSNBC that she had not heard of one case of Obamacare hurting small business (2012)
  935. Wendy’s franchisee owner blamed Obamacare for having to cut employee’s hours (January 2013)
  936. Many colleges and universities began slashing teachers’ work hours to evade Obamacare (2013)
  937. Windber Medical Center in Pennsylvania stopped delivering babies due to Obamacare (2013)
  938. Obama’s 26-member Jobs Council went an entire year without meeting (January 17, 2012-2013)
  939. Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness only met four times since it was created in early 2011
  940. Jay Carney claimed that President Obama was simply too busy to meet his Jobs Council
  941. Jobs Council is the successor to the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which was used during the first two years of Obama’s first term
  942. Obama disbanded his Jobs Council with more than 12 million Americans still out of work (January 2013)
  943. President Obama again said he would “focus” on “job creation” during his second term (February 2013)

    944. President Obama: “all taxes for those making less than $250,000 would not go up one dime”
    “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase – not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes.” ~Obama speaking at a town-hall meeting (September 2008)

  944. Passed an increase in cigarette taxes despite Obama campaign pledge against raising taxes
  945. Obama passed a discriminatory 10% tanning tax, despite campaign pledges against raising taxes, that also “fundamentally changes the relationship between the federal government and the citizen”
  946. Obama pledged to eliminate income taxation for seniors making less than $50,000 per year
    “[I] will eliminate all income taxation of seniors making less than $50,000 per year. This will eliminate taxes for 7 million seniors – saving them an average of $1,400 a year – and will also mean that 27 million seniors will not need to file an income tax return at all.” ~Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign fact sheet

  947. Democrats masked Obamacare’s true cost and deceived America into believing it wasn’t a tax
  948. Obamacare’s cost estimates collected taxes for 10 years, but only providing benefits for 6 years
  949. Obamacare includes over twenty new or higher taxes which started on January 1, 2011
  950. Obamacare, also dubbed “Obamatax,” is one of the largest tax increases in American history
  951. Seven of the tax hikes hit all citizens and families making less than $250,000 per year
  952. Thirteen other taxes apply to businesses and to high income (over $250,000 per year) households
  953. Beginning in 2014, the Employer Mandate Tax will impose an annual non-deductible tax on employers with more than 50 employees who do not provide health insurance for their employees
  954. Employers will elect to pay the penalty and drop insurance for an estimated 20 million Americans
  955. Employers will lay off employees, or not hire additional employees, because of Obamacare
  956. Tax increases on businesses are passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices
  957. Individual Mandate Excise Tax for anyone not buying “qualifying” health insurance in 2014
  958. By 2016, individuals will see a base tax of $695 and for families a base tax of $2,085 per year
  959. Couples will have to either pay a base tax of $1,360 per year, or 2.5% of adjusted gross income
  960. Exemptions were granted for religious objectors, illegal aliens, prisoners, native Americans, and the poor
  961. Job-killing employer mandate tax and fines for employers that do not offer health coverage
  962. Higher tax rates on savers and investors through higher capital gains tax and dividend tax
  963. In 2011, the “Medicine Cabinet Tax” began prohibiting reimbursement of expenses for over-the-counter medicine (with the lone exception of insulin) from an employee’s pre-tax dollar funded Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), or Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
  964. Health Savings Account (HSA) non-medical early withdrawal tax doubles to 20% in 2013
  965. The “Special Needs Kids Tax” caps FSA spending at $2,500 affecting special needs education
  966. New 2.3% excise tax on medical device manufacturers starting in 2013 (passed on to consumers)
  967. Threshold for medical itemized tax deductions raised from 7.5% to 10% of adjusted gross income
  968. Surtax on Investment Income for households earning $250,000 or more will raise the Capital Gains Tax from 15% to 23.8% on investment income and raises Taxes on Dividends from 15% to 43.4%
  969. Tax rate on Other Investment Income earned by Subchapter S Corporation rises from 35% to 43.4%, placing additional pressure on small businesses resulting in more layoffs and less hiring
  970. Elimination of the tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug coverage in 2013
  971. Blue Cross/Blue Shield tax hike if 85% of premium revenues aren’t spent on clinical services
  972. Excise tax on charitable hospitals that fail to meet new rules set by Health & Human Services
  973. New tax on innovator drug companies based relative to the share of sales made that year
  974. Tax on health insurers relative to health insurance premiums collected that year starting in 2014
  975. $500,000 annual executive compensation limit for health insurance executives starting in 2013
  976. Employer reporting of insurance on W-2’s as a preamble to taxing individual health benefits
  977. Codification of the “economic substance doctrine” allows IRS to disallow legal tax deductions
  978. Tax hike of $23.6 billion on “black liquor,” a type of bio-fuel, to help offset the cost of Obamacare
  979. Increase in Medicare payroll tax (not including the 2010 GOP tax-rate deal cutting it for one year)
  980. By 2018, the new Excise Tax on Comprehensive Health Insurance Plans will impose a 40% excise tax on the employer-paid premium for those taxpayers with plans deemed to be “Cadillac” plans
  981. The “Cadillac” Health Insurance Plan Tax was delayed to benefit most unionized workers
  982. Obama and Progressive Democrats are using the tax system to redistribute wealth as they see fit
  983. Democrats continued robbing future generations to avoid large tax increases while in control
  984. If they are unable to create or raise taxes, they will continue passing the bill onto our children
  985. “Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes”
  986. Democrats proposed a new European-style value added tax (VAT) on top of the state sales tax
  987. Democrats also proposed monthly cell phone and Internet taxes to bailout the failing newspapers
  988. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recommended taxing drivers based on vehicle mileage
  989. Obama administration floated a bill to study and implement a tax on drivers based on miles driven
  990. Obama responded to a question about high gas prices: “I remember what it was like to pump gas”
  991. Obama when asked about rising fuel prices: “You might want to think about a trade-in”
  992. The average American household spent 9 percent of their total income on gas in April 2011
  993. New regulations forced utilities to pass on hundreds of millions of dollars to their consumers
  994. Democrats introduced a transaction tax for financial firms modeled on Europe’s latest tax (2011)
  995. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) said during an interview, “I bet nobody would even feel it”
  996. During lame-duck tax debate, Obama compared GOP to hostage-takers willing to harm Americans
  997. Obama’s compromise to continue Bush-era tax rates has the death tax raising from 0% up to 30%
  998. 2011 House Committee on Ways & Means claimed Obama’s 2012 budget hiked taxes $1.9 trillion
  999. Obama increases taxes via higher top brackets, tax hikes in Obamacare, and fewer tax deductions
  1000. Obama’s plan would trigger automatic tax increases when Washington D.C. politicians overspend
  1001. As of 2008, the top 1 percent of taxpayers in the U.S. paid 38 percent of all income taxes
  1002. Millionaire Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) said that “we got to eliminate the rich” (2011)
  1003. Democrats yearn to raise taxes “on the rich,” but didn’t do it when they controlled everything
  1004. Study found that nearly half (49.5%) of Americans households did not pay income taxes in 2009
  1005. Forty-five percent of all U.S. households paid no federal income tax for 2010
  1006. Gallup: Forty-three percent of Americans say that the tax level ‘about right’ (April 2011)
  1007. Obama said in August 2009 that raising taxes in a recession was “the last thing you want to do…”
  1008. Obama refers to tax increases as cutting “spending in the tax code” and also as “revenue”
  1009. In April 2011, Obama again described his tax proposals as “spending reductions in the tax code”
  1010. Obama demanded more than $1 trillion in tax increases as part of a deal to raise the debt-ceiling
  1011. Obama lectured others on raising the debt ceiling: “Pull off the band-aid” and “eat our peas”
  1012. Obama warned that a credit downgrade would be a tax increase while threatening default
    “The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of a recession because that would just suck up – take more demand out of the economy and put business further in a hole.” ~President Obama speaking in Elkhart, Indiana (August 2009)
    “By putting more money in people’s pockets, and helping companies grow, we’re going to see people being able to spend a little more, we’re going to spur hiring – we’re going to strengthen our entire economy.”
    ~President Obama’s Weekly Address on December 11, 2010
    “I am absolutely convinced that this tax cut plan, while not perfect, will help grow our economy and create jobs in the private sector… I urge members of Congress to pass these tax cuts as swiftly as possible. Getting that done is an essential ingredient in spurring economic growth over the short run.”
    ~President Obama’s remarks on extending the Bush tax-cuts on December 15, 2010
    “By a wide bipartisan margin, both houses of Congress have now passed a package of tax relief that will protect the middle class, that will grow our economy and will create jobs for the American people.”
    ~President Obama’s remarks on December 17, 2010

  1013. President Obama called for a year-long extension on the payroll tax cut, but then only signed onto a two-month extension while using the tax cut as a political weapon against the GOP House (2011)
  1014. After raising income taxes by 67%, Illinois was still $8.5 billion in debt and following the largest tax hike in state history, Illinois added more unemployment than any other state in 2011
  1015. Obama’s budget director claimed that the Obamacare mandate was not a tax (2012)
  1016. Volume of expatriation since Obama took office increased by over 700% compared to 2008
  1017. Democrats proposed a new tax for those who relinquish their citizenship and leave the U.S.
  1018. Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renounced his U.S. citizenship just before the IPO (2012)
  1019. Denise Rich renounced her U.S. citizenship to avoid paying significant taxes on her estate
  1020. Denise Rich has made more than $1.3 million in political contributions to Democrats since 1993
  1021. Denise Rich is the wife of Marc Rich, who was pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2001
  1022. Denise Rich gave $70,000 to Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign and $450,000 to the Bill Clinton presidential library in Arkansas
  1023. Obama’s 2013 budget proposed raising federal taxes by nearly $2 trillion over the next 10 years
  1024. U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Obamacare’s individual mandate was constitutional only as a “tax”
  1025. As a result, 21 overall tax increases in Obamacare will cost $675 billion over the next 10 years
  1026. Seven of the tax hikes will affect middle-class families earning less than $250,000 per year
  1027. Obama tried to redefine “middle-class” as not being about money, but a state of mind
  1028. Joe Biden thinks that he is middle-class, despite making over $300,000 each year
  1029. Democrats threatened to go over the “fiscal cliff” if the GOP fails to raise taxes (July 2012)
  1030. FCC wants to tax broadband Internet services, a cost that would be passed on to consumers (2012)
  1031. Senate candidate Tim Kaine (D-VA) said he’s open to having a “minimum tax level for everyone”
  1032. Romney described the decline in household income under Obama as the “economy tax” (2012)
  1033. After being re-elected, David Axelrod said that Obama has a mandate to raise taxes (November 2012)
  1034. Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) claimed that Obama has a clear mandate to raise taxes (November 2012)
  1035. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA): We need “revenue” “fairly distributed” so “wealthy pay their fair share”
  1036. “Fiscal cliff” budget deal passed by the Senate raised taxes on 77.1% of households by allowing for an expiration of the payroll tax cut, resulting in an average increase of $1,635 per year (January 2013)
  1037. Under the “Fiscal cliff” deal passed by Congress and signed by Obama, the tax burden increased more for someone making $30,000 a year (1.7%) than for someone earning $500,000 a year (1.3%)
  1038. President Obama said there is “no doubt” that the government needs new “revenue” (i.e. taxes) (2013)

    1039. Democrats continued and expanded upon the same policies “inherited” from George W. Bush

  1039. Obama engaged in an unfunded and unlawful war in Libya without the approval of Congress
  1040. Renewed Patriot Act and use of warrantless wiretaps by the National Security Agency (NSA)
  1041. Obama administration wants to pass new legislation extending wiretapping to the Internet
  1042. Guantanamo remains open past the one year self-imposed deadline and lofty campaign promises
    “As president, I will close Guantanamo, reject the Military Commissions Act, and adhere to the Geneva Conventions.” ~Candidate Barack Obama in 2007

  1043. Obama continues the indefinite detention of those individuals perceived as threats to America
  1044. Obama failed to restore habeas corpus rights to alleged terrorists as promised during the campaign
  1045. Obama in June of 2008: “we are less safe because of the way George Bush has handled this issue”
    “The detention facilities at Guantanamo for individuals covered by this order shall be closed as soon as practicable, and no later than one year from the date of this order.” ~Obama’s presidential executive order on January 22, 2009

  1046. Obama proceeded with the Guantanamo Bay military commission against a USS Cole bomber
  1047. National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 included the use of indefinite military detention
  1048. White House lawyers who drafted the secret Awlaki kill memo were critics of Bush’s war powers
  1049. Obama expanded rendition to include assassination of U.S. citizens abroad if they pose a threat
  1050. Out of control runaway government spending and a continuation of wasteful earmark spending
  1051. Obama continued Bush’s expansionary fiscal policies in an attempt to deliver even faster growth
  1052. Obama and Democrats extended all of the Bush tax rates despite campaign promises otherwise
  1053. President Obama hires lobbyists and those with serious conflicts of interest into his administration
  1054. Obama campaigned against lobbyists in 2008 pledging, “They will not work in my White House”
  1055. Obama rephrased it to, “We’ve excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs,” after hiring lobbyists
  1056. President Obama broke his promise to voters that “lobbyists won’t find a job in my White House”
  1057. Obama signed an executive order on his first day codifying this pledge, but allowed for “waivers”
  1058. Obama used the waivers in order for former lobbyists to serve in the administration
  1059. Obama administration hired former lobbyists without a waiver and without disclosing it publicly
  1060. Washington Examiner reported in 2010 that more than 40 ex-lobbyists worked for Obama
  1061. Many of these ex-lobbyists included a number of senior White House officials
  1062. President Obama’s 2008 Transition Team included more than a dozen registered lobbyists
  1063. Obama’s inaugural sponsors for his re-election spent $160 million lobbying the government
    “We don’t take a dime from D.C. lobbyists or special-interest PACs – never have and never will.” ~President Obama’s e-mail fundraiser (December 28, 2011)

  1064. Ron Klein (D) was a registered lobbyist and bundled more than $200,000 in donations for Obama
  1065. Klein denied being a lobbyist and said his registration was an accident caused by a “clerical error”
  1066. Klein became a registered federal lobbyist after losing to Allen West (R-FL) in the 2010 elections
  1067. Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign embraced third-party anonymous donor Super PACs
  1068. President Obama had previously described super PACs as “a threat to our democracy”
  1069. Democrats criticized George W. Bush for breaking all records for presidential fundraising
  1070. President Obama shattered the record for fundraising appearances for his own re-election
  1071. Americans remain at risk as borders remain open to terrorists, criminals, and illegal trespassers
  1072. Obama ditched the “operational control” yardstick that was developed under the Bush administration
  1073. That yardstick showed that just a fraction of the U.S.-Mexico border was effectively sealed
  1074. Obama administration went more than 3 years without a measure of border enforcement effectiveness
  1075. Border Patrol is only intercepting about 61% of would-be illegal immigrants along the border (2013)
  1076. GAO report estimated that 208,813 illegal immigrants escaped capture along the border in 2012
  1077. Obama engaged in unfunded wars and expanded overseas military operations in the Middle East
  1078. Timeline set by George W. Bush and his generals to leave Iraq by the end of 2011 was preserved
  1079. Obama’s Defense Secretary told troops in Iraq: “The reason you guys are here is because of 9/11”
  1080. Obama escalated the Afghanistan War having previously been against a smaller surge in Iraq
  1081. Civilian casualties have increased due to the high number of predator drone attacks in Pakistan
  1082. Obama approved and expanded the use of armed predator drone aircraft in the Libyan War
  1083. United States launched predator drone attacks in Yemen in 2011, the first in nearly 10 years
  1084. Obama approved the use of drone military aircraft to conduct lethal attacks in Somalia in 2011
  1085. Obama expanded the use of predator drones to attack targets in both Afghanistan and Iraq
  1086. President Obama expanded United States military intervention into Africa
  1087. Obama characterized U.S. soldiers as “fighting on my behalf,” rather than for the country (2012)
  1088. Obama is protecting and extending executive privilege powers and exerting control over Congress
  1089. Obama abused war powers attacking Libya without imminent threat or approval from Congress
    “Some of you may know that recently I’ve been taking a series of executive actions that don’t require congressional approval…”
    ~President Obama (November 23, 2011)

  1090. Obama used “signing statements as a way of doing an end-run around Congress” to keep his czars
  1091. No-bid contracts worth $568 million were given to logistical company Halliburton-KBR Inc.
  1092. “No blood for oil” Democrats were against Bush, but cheered the death of Libya’s Qadhafi
  1093. Obama awarded a $433 million no-bid contract for a questionable drug to a top donor (2011)
  1094. Other no-bid contracts were awarded, including to Jeff Nussbaum for teleprompter coaching
  1095. Unable to convince regimes in Iran or North Korea to give up their pursuit for nuclear bombs
  1096. Unable to make progress relating to Middle-east peace between Israel and the Palestinians
  1097. Obama handed out lab coats to fake doctors for an Obamacare Rose Garden press conference
  1098. Obama includes his political advisors during Situation Room strategy meetings
  1099. Obama uses recess appointments to bypass the Senate when unable to get nominee confirmed
  1100. Obama attended almost four times more fundraisers during his first year than George W. Bush
  1101. President Obama vacations and plays golf more often in three years than Bush did in eight years
  1102. Obama used more “exemptions to block the release of information” than George W. Bush
  1103. There was a “50-percent jump” in exemptions in Obama’s first year compared to Bush’s last year
  1104. Obama has kept in place or expanded 14 ‘intelligence orders’ issued by George W. Bush
  1105. These ‘intelligence orders’ provide the legal basis for the CIA’s worldwide covert operations
  1106. CIA created, controls and pays for a clandestine 3,000-man paramilitary army of local Afghans
  1107. Obama preserved Bush’s decisions to use military commissions to try Guantanamo detainees
  1108. Continued the hunt for Osama culminating in the May 2, 2011 raid on his hideout in Pakistan
  1109. To get bin Laden, Obama used Bush’s policies that he opposed as a candidate and as president
  1110. Obama expanded Bush’s policy of bypassing the media to “filter and speak directly to the people”
  1111. A record number of civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2010, up 15 percent from 2009
  1112. More U.S. soldiers were killed in Obama’s first term than in George W. Bush’s two terms
  1113. A rogue Stryker “kill team” was caught posing for Abu Ghraib-style photos of murdered civilians
  1114. American soldiers under Obama’s command desecrated the dead bodies of three Afghans (2011)
  1115. Democrats recruited for a Texas Senate seat a 3-star general that resigned because of Abu Ghraib
  1116. U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan were caught posing with the bodies of Taliban suicide bombers
  1117. Obama keeps raising the debt ceiling despite ripping Bush as a failed leader for doing the same
  1118. Obama called Bush “unpatriotic” for spending less than half of what Obama has as president
  1119. Obama literally dined and dashed a day after accusing George W. Bush of a fiscal dine and dash
  1120. Obama, speaking of Bush, said that “people don’t have a lot of confidence in the president” (2008)
  1121. Obama administration spent lavishly on portraits for Cabinet secretaries and top appointees (2012)
  1122. Ralph Nader described Obama as a “war criminal” and worse than Bush (September 2012)
  1123. Nader said that Obama’s foreign policy is “more aggressive, more illegal worldwide”
  1124. Obama’s “fiscal cliff” deal confirmed 82% of the tax cuts passed under Bush (January 2013)



    1125. Democrats ignore public sentiment in favor of pushing a Progressive/Marxist/Socialist/Statist agenda

  1125. “Social justice” takeover of the mortgage industry through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
  1126. Fannie & Freddie own or guarantee half of all U.S. mortgages (31 million homes worth $5 trillion)
  1127. Unending taxpayer bailouts were given to Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac without any reforms
  1128. 111th Congress did not reform Fannie & Freddie when Democrats controlled both chambers
  1129. Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac’s rescue and bailouts have already cost taxpayers over $170 billion
  1130. The estimated future cost to fix Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac ranges up to $1 trillion
  1131. CEOs of bailed-out Fannie & Freddie were given millions in executive compensation (2009-2011)
  1132. Federal government has backed nearly 90% of all new mortgages over the past year (2011)
  1133. Democrats pursued healthcare taxes and financial controls first over jobs and the economy
  1134. Designed a plan to takeover the health care industry and place it under government control
  1135. V.P. Joe Biden said “we’re going to control the insurance companies” during an ABC interview
  1136. Settled for a partial takeover of the health insurance industry under the unpopular Obamacare law
  1137. Attempted establishing a medical bureaucratic board, or “death panel(s),” in the “stimulus” bill
  1138. Obamacare legislation included a socialist government takeover of the student loan industry
  1139. Bailout to subprime loaners and borrowers through a $75 billion foreclosure prevention program
  1140. Socialist government takeover of portions of the banking and financial services industries
  1141. Obama pushed another bank bailout bill under the guise of another “small business jobs bill”
  1142. Bailout and socialist takeover of the wholesale credit union system by federal regulators in 2010
  1143. Socialist takeover of large portions of America’s automobile manufacturing and banking industry
  1144. Three taxpayer bailouts made Detroit’s Ally Bank (GMAC) one of five largest wards of state
  1145. Government holds a 74% stake in Ally Bank, with taxpayer losses projected at $17.2 billion
  1146. When government subsidizes something producers react by raising prices to soak up the subsidy
  1147. Cash for Clunkers was a bailout for foreign auto companies by removing U.S. cars from the road
  1148. Subsidy program for the construction industry (Cash for Caulkers) was filled with lobbying deals
  1149. Government-inflated college loan bubble expanded to over $1 trillion in student loan debt
  1150. Student loan debt now exceeds Americans’ total credit card indebtedness (2011)
  1151. Like the real-estate bubble, a higher education bubble is being fed by cheap government money
  1152. Since 1999, student loan debt has increased by over 511%, yet disposable income is up only 73%
  1153. Obama faced a bipartisan revolt over a proposed plan to crackdown on for-profit colleges
  1154. For-profit colleges educate a high number of minority and low income people in the U.S.
  1155. Multiple bailouts were given to unions that help protect bad teachers and waste taxpayer dollars
  1156. Socialist government expansion into the agricultural industry under the guise of a food safety bill
  1157. Obama administration pushing food marketing restrictions to control human food consumption
  1158. Democrats designed plans to take control of all energy in the U.S. through a Cap & Trade system
  1159. Cap & Trade taxes were proposed to increase control over energy and manufacturing industries
  1160. Cap & Trade ultimately expands control of human activity since we emit CO2 as we breathe
  1161. Maxine Waters (D-CA) revealed views that she wants to socialize the energy industries
  1162. Advisor Robert Reich and other supporters suggested having government take control of BP
  1163. Federal government has been buying up substantial amounts of resource-rich lands out West
  1164. Takeover of the Internet began as the Obama FCC approved the first ever regulations on access
  1165. FCC repeatedly gives failing grades to private internet providers to justify government intrusion
  1166. In 1988, fewer than 100,000 people used the Internet prior to entering the free market
  1167. Shortly after it was privatized in 1995, the number of users jumped up to 16 million users
  1168. By 2011, more than 2 billion use the Internet, with another 500,000 users joining every day
  1169. “Net neutrality” group Save the Internet wants to give government control of the Internet
  1170. Save the Internet advocates includes the ACLU, MoveOn.Org, SEIU, CREDO, and ACORN
  1171. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seeking authority to regulate Internet content
  1172. Democrats offered a bill that would grant Homeland Security emergency cyber powers
  1173. Democrat’s plan would give Homeland Security far-reaching “oversight” over the Internet
  1174. Federal government seized the airways of all cable, broadcast, radio, and television for the first time in the history of America in order to perform a test to see if it could be done (November 2011)
  1175. Obama’s new executive order seeks ‘control’ over communications during a ‘crisis’ (July 2012)
  1176. DHS emergency powers were extended to include control of private telecom systems (2012)
    “Over the long term, Obama’s plans are designed to ensnare the country in a new socialism, a stealth socialism that masquerades as a traditional sense of fair play, a soft but pernicious socialism similar to that currently strangling the economies of Europe.” ~Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center

  1177. Bailouts for failing socialist countries including Greece ($157 billion) and Ireland ($122 billion)
  1178. U.S. taxpayers are also on the hook for a $116 billion bailout to Portugal through the IMF
  1179. IMF reportedly drafted an $800 billion bailout plan for Italy, Spain and the euro currency (2011)
  1180. Washington-based IMF asked for another $500 billion to protect the Eurozone (2012)
  1181. GOP Congressman: Obama wants us to “hold hands and jump off the cliff” with Europe (2011)
    “This man represents the Treasury department. He’s brought hundreds of millions of dollars.” ~Joe Biden in Athens, Greece (December 5, 2011)

  1182. Democrats want to pass the Smith-Leahy Patent Reform Act of 2011 that was defeated in 1997
  1183. Patent Reform Act would destroy the U.S. patent system and America’s engine of prosperity
  1184. Gov. Deval Patrick (D-Mass.) commenting on Beck’s rally: “It’s a free country. I wish it weren’t”
  1185. Jim McDermott (D-WA) said he was tired of reading the Constitution, and “silly things” like that
  1186. New York Times wrote that the U.S. Constitution “loses appeal with people around the world” because it is “terse and old” and doesn’t protect “entitlement to food, education and health care” (2012)
  1187. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg advised others not to use our Constitution as a model
    “I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012…” ~Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who instead recommended the South African Constitution, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the European Convention on Human Rights

  1188. NYT article quoted Obama saying, “it would be so much easier to be the President of China”
  1189. Communist China’s debt situation is three times worse than that of the United States
  1190. China’s national income per capita is $4,260, compared to $47,140 per capita in the U.S. (2011)
  1191. China’s taxes on Chinese businesses are 70% of earnings, while individual rates are 81.6%
  1192. China’s official interest rate of 6.2% is fabricated compared to actual real inflation of 16%
  1193. Similarly, the United States 3% inflation rate is well below the actual annual inflation of 10-13%
  1194. China’s GDP growth of 9% is fabricated by building excess infrastructure, including ghost cities
    “We all agree that there must be limits to the state’s power to control our behavior even if it’s for our own good. Not many Americans would feel comfortable with the government monitoring what we eat, no matter how many deaths and how much of our medical spending may be due to rising rates of obesity.” ~Barack Obama wrote on page 36 of Audacity of Hope (2006)

  1195. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed a ban on sugary drinks over 16 ounces
  1196. Bloomberg’s argument defense was, ‘We’re simply forcing the consumer to understand’
  1197. First Lady Michelle Obama applauded Bloomberg’s New York City soda ban (June 2012)
  1198. Food police rejected the homemade lunch of a preschooler and gave her ‘cafeteria nuggets’ instead
  1199. Michelle Obama scolded Olympic hero Gabby Douglas for eating an Egg McMuffin (2012)
  1200. Michelle Obama said that being fat is ‘absolutely’ the greatest threat to our national security (2012)
  1201. Plan B became Plan A in the Bloomberg administration’s stealth war on teen pregnancy (2013)
  1202. New York City schools handed out 12,721 ‘morning-after pills’ from 2011-2012
  1203. New York City schools handed out 10,720 ‘morning-after pills’ from 2010-2011
  1204. New York City schools handed out 5,039 ‘morning-after pills’ from 2009-2010
    “I’m in shock. What gives the mayor the right to decide, without adequate notice, to give our children drugs that will impact their bodies and their psyches? He has purposely kept the public and parents in the dark with his agenda.” ~Mona Davids, president of the NYC Parents Union (February 2013)

  1205. Most of Mayor Bloomberg’s school-based health centers are located in poor neighborhoods
  1206. School-based clinics also dispensed prescriptions for birth-control pills, intrauterine devices (IUDs), hormone-delivering injections, the Patch, and NuvaRing (93,569 monthly cycles thru June 2012)
    “This was population control on blacks and Latinos without our knowledge.”
    ~Mona Davids, president of the NYC Parents Union (February 2013)

  1207. Pete Stark (D-CA) said that “the federal government can do most anything in this country” (2010)
    “If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” ~Samuel Adams

  1208. Allen West (R-FL) claimed that there were ‘80 Communists in the House of Representatives’
    “When you go back and you read the documents, the Declaration of Independence, the full declaration, the full Constitution, you’ll understand limited government, you’ll understand fiscal responsibility, you’ll understand individual sovereignty, free markets… strong national defense.

    But there are people on the other side, and you can call them whatever you wish, you can call it Communism, Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism, or Statism… They believe in creating and expanding an entitlement of welfare state.”
    ~Allen West (R-FL) (July 2012)

  1209. Obama tries to socialize private-sector risk and profit in order to justify his wealth redistribution
  1210. Obama wants to go “forward towards a new vision of an America in which prosperity is shared”
  1211. Obama bragged about the “success” of the auto bailouts and wants to repeat it “in every industry”
  1212. Taxpayer losses on the auto bailout were revised upward to $25 billion (August 2012)
  1213. Treasury Department expects to lose more than $25 billion of the $85 billion bailout
  1214. Obama misleadingly claimed that the government got back “every dime” of bailouts
  1215. CBO report found that taxpayers have lost between $24 billion and $63 billion on the bailouts
  1216. Obama slipped by saying that he wants to make sure “everybody’s getting a fair share” (2012)
  1217. Maxine Waters: Obama won in a landslide and it’s time for the rich to “ante up” (November 2012)
  1218. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said that the 2016 presidential candidate on the Democratic side will have a “very powerful” database that has “information about everything on every individual”
    “The President has put in place an organization with the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. That’s going to be very, very powerful. That database will have information about everything on every individual on ways that it’s never been done before and whoever runs for President on the Democratic ticket has to deal with that. They’re going to go down with that database and the concerns of those people because they can’t get around it. And he’s been very smart. It’s very powerful what he’s leaving in place.” ~Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) speaking to Roland Martin (February 2013)

    1219. Obama claimed: “My policies got us out of this mess” and “the worst is behind us…” (2010)

  1219. Obama defended his record saying, “Take a tally. Look at what I promised during the campaign…”
    “Take a tally. Look at what I promised during the campaign. There’s not a single thing that I’ve said that I would do that I have not either done or tried to do. And if I haven’t gotten it done yet, I’m still trying to do it.” ~President Obama firing back at those who accused him of selling out by breaking so many of his campaign promises (2010)

  1220. Obama and Democrats had full control of Congress with a supermajority for nearly two years
  1221. Obama arrogantly told Eric Cantor (R) that “elections have consequences… and Eric, I won”
  1222. Obama reminded Congress that he “won” and that he wasn’t interested in typical GOP ideas
  1223. Democrat leaders in the 111th Congress consistently refused to grant floor time for GOP ideas
  1224. Obama and Democrats passed multi-thousand page bills without reading what was in them
  1225. Democrats squandered the stimulus money by giving it to political allies and special interests
  1226. Unemployment, home foreclosures, and bankruptcies have increased since the “stimulus” passed
  1227. Obama: Most people “would acknowledge that I’ve tried real hard” to be bipartisan (July 2012)
  1228. National debt has ballooned to over $16.2 trillion, up more than 40% since January 2009
  1229. IMF admitted in 2010 that America faces one of the biggest budget crunches in the world
  1230. Obama claimed that he and his administration “didn’t understand at that point how bad it was going to get” when defending his pledge to cut the annual federal budget deficit in half (2012)
  1231. As of February 2012, the White House website still touted Obama’s pledge to halve the deficit
  1232. 2010: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said America’s financial future is “unusually uncertain”
    “Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known, the stock market has come roaring back. Corporate profits are up. The economy is growing again.” ~President Obama’s State of the Union address on January 25, 2011

  1233. World Bank: It’s ‘far from clear that leaders are ready for the impending catastrophe’ (2012)
  1234. Foreign holdings of U.S. debt hit a new record high of $5.16 trillion in April 2012
  1235. For every $1 added to the economy, President Obama has added more than $3 to the debt (2012)
  1236. U.S. federal government borrowed 46 cents of every dollar it spent (December 2012)
  1237. Joe Biden: “We’re moving in the right direction” and predicted a “recovery summer” in 2010
  1238. Biden declared: “We’re going to be creating between 250,000 and 500,000 jobs a month…”
  1239. Economic growth slumped during what Joe Biden promised would be a “recovery summer”
  1240. United States trade deficit in June 2011 was the highest since 2008 due to declining exports
  1241. Investors lost faith in the stock market in 2011 and removed billions of dollars from equity funds
  1242. IMF predicted in April 2011 that the Chinese economy will surpass America’s economy in 2016
  1243. By March 2012, the U.S. trade deficit widened to the biggest gap since October 2008
  1244. Consumer confidence (54.9) fell to its lowest level in three decades since Jimmy Carter (D)
  1245. Bad economic times were expected by 75% of all consumers in early August 2011
  1246. Bad economic expectations hit an all-time peak of 82% in 1980 during the Carter administration
  1247. United States economy grew by only 1.7% in 2011, slower than the 3.0% growth rate in 2010
  1248. United States fell to fifth place on the list of the world’s most competitive economies (2011)
  1249. World Economic Forum cited our huge deficits and declining public faith in government
  1250. U.S. slipped further down the ranks of global competitiveness from 5th to 7th (September 2012)
  1251. America’s global competitiveness ranking has declined for four straight years under Obama
  1252. U.S. was ranked in first place in 2008 and fell to fourth in 2010 under President Obama’s watch
  1253. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke described a bleak outlook for the U.S. economy (2011)
  1254. New orders for U.S. factory goods posted their biggest decline in three years in March 2012
  1255. Poll showed that people trusted Bill Clinton on the economy over Obama by 2 to 1 margin (2012)
  1256. Bill Clinton admitted, “it’s true” that President Obama has not fixed the economy (October 2012)
  1257. Survey found that 40% of Americans have $500 or less in savings (October 2012)
  1258. In 2012, average GDP growth was less than half of what Obama predicted for the first three quarters of 2012, and less than a third of what was projected when he took office (October 2012)
  1259. Dow Jones suffered its second biggest one-day drop following a presidential election (2012)
  1260. Annual Wall Street survey found that all of the top-5 best run states had Republican governors and Republican-controlled legislatures, while Democrats dominated the worst-run states (2012)
  1261. U.S. consumer confidence fell sharply in January 2013, erasing all the gains made through 2012
  1262. United States economy contracted in the fourth quarter of 2012 as GDP fell by 0.1%
  1263. Joe Biden had boasted that “stimulus” spending would add half-million jobs a month
  1264. Since 2007, the Democrat-controlled Congress oversaw the destruction of over 8.0 million jobs
  1265. The 2009 “Romer-Bernstein Report” claimed that with ‘stimulus’ U3 would be 7% by end of 2010
  1266. W.H. Council of Economic Advisors estimated that the ‘stimulus’ cost taxpayers $278,000 per job
  1267. Claim “stimulus” added or saved almost 2.4 million jobs at a cost of $666 billion (as of July 2011)
  1268. BLS showed an unemployment rate of 7.3 percent when Obama’s “stimulus” was being debated
  1269. Annual World Bank study: U.S. does not rank in the top ten for new start-up businesses (2011)
  1270. “New Company Policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone” due to economic uncertainty
  1271. CEOs in the Business Roundtable described President Obama as “anti-business”
  1272. Layoffs in September 2011 were at the highest level in two years
  1273. CBO: U.S. enduring the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression (2012)
  1274. Gallup polling showed unemployment in the United States rising to 9% in February 2012
  1275. Over 5 million people have been jobless for 27 weeks or more, nearly twice the high set in 1983
  1276. A record number of young people are unemployed and unable to obtain work after college
  1277. Applications for unemployment benefits have topped 400,000 each week for nearly all of 2011
  1278. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz denied that unemployment has gone up under President Obama (2011)
  1279. During the first three months of 2012, about 3.9 million have been out of work for a year or more
  1280. President Obama said at a press conference that “the private sector is doing fine” (June 8, 2012)
  1281. Obama argued that the ‘weaknesses in our economy’ are due to cuts in state and local governments
  1282. Obama said we should give state and local government more money to hire public-sector workers
  1283. White House advisers told voters they shouldn’t “read too much into” the unemployment figures, using those exact words, at least 32 times over the last three years
  1284. Despite manipulation of the numbers, President Obama has the worst job record since World War II
  1285. Companies announced plans for major layoffs as Obamacare becomes reality (November 2012)
  1286. BLS: 73% of the jobs created from June to November prior to the election were government jobs
  1287. Long-term unemployment under Obama is at the highest level since at least World War II (2013)
  1288. Since 2008, Congress has voted to extend unemployment benefits 10 times costing over $500 billion
  1289. Number of Americans “not in the labor force” increased by 8,332,000 during Obama’s first term
  1290. Center for College Affordability and Productivity study found that nearly half of working Americans with college degrees are in jobs for which they’re overqualified (January 2013)
  1291. Labor Department data from 2010 shows that the number of college graduates in the workforce (41.7 million) in 2010 was larger than the number of jobs requiring a college degree (28.6 million)
  1292. Food prices rose 3.9 percent in February 2010, the steepest increase since November 1974
  1293. Obama’s inflationary economic policies caused food prices to skyrocket in 2011
  1294. After a big jump in food prices in June, world food prices rose another 10% in July 2012
  1295. The number of Americans relying on food stamps has increased rapidly under President Obama
  1296. A record 40.8 million Americans were using food stamps according to data from May 2010
  1297. Enrollment in the food stamp program jumped by 11.6% from February 2010 to February 2011
  1298. During the 1970s, just one out of every 50 Americans relied on food stamps
  1299. Food stamp spending has doubled (now up to $78 billion) since 2008, when it was $38 billion
  1300. Food stamp spending has more than quadrupled since 2001, when it was just $18 billion
  1301. By May 2011, a new record of 44.2 million Americans (1 in 7) relied on food stamps
  1302. Food stamp usage rose to a new record of 45.8 million participants (15%) as of May 2011
  1303. Food stamp participation has increased by more than 45% since President Obama took office
  1304. CBO said that 45 million people in 2011 received food stamps, a 70% increase from 2007
  1305. Using numbers from the Congressional Budget Office, most (57%) of the growth of food stamp participation is attributed to factors not directly associated with the 2008 recession
  1306. Food stamp usage again rose to a new-record 46.7 million Americans in June 2012
  1307. U.S. government spent a record $80.4 billion on food stamps during the fiscal year 2012
  1308. Poverty line is $22,314 pre-tax income for a family of four, not including non-cash benefits
  1309. Census Bureau found that the poverty rate has grown by 2.6% since Democrats took over in 2007
  1310. Nearly one in six Americans are living in poverty, the worst since statistics began being kept
  1311. Census Bureau reported that the U.S. poverty rate rose to 15.1%, the highest level since 1983
  1312. Number of Americans living in poverty line rose to a record 46.2 million Americans in 2010
  1313. Census Bureau: More than a fifth (22%) of American children lived in poverty in 2010
  1314. Labor Department’s cost of living (CPI) for Americans hit a record high in February 2011
  1315. Wholesale prices jumped 1.6 percent in February 2011, the most in nearly two years
  1316. Census shows that U.S. poverty (15.1%) is on track to rise to the highest level since the 1960s
  1317. The U.S. spent over $60,000 to support welfare program per each household in poverty (2011)
    “According to the Census’s American Community Survey, the number of households with incomes below the poverty line in 2011 was 16,807,795. If you divide total federal and state spending by the number of households with incomes below the poverty line, the average spending per household in poverty was $61,194 in 2011.” ~Senate Budget Committee, with calculations based on data from the Census, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Congressional Research Services

  1318. Poverty rate among Latinos in the United States climbed to 28% under Obama (November 2012)
  1319. If distributed directly, welfare spending could have paid every poor American $20,000 in 2011
  1320. Senate Budget Committee: Welfare spending will rise another 80% in the next decade (2013)
  1321. Spending on welfare from FY2013-FY2022 represents a total cost of $11 trillion paid by taxpayers
  1322. Currently, 95% of spending on means-tested poverty assistance falls into four categories: cash assistance, health assistance, housing assistance, and social and family services
  1323. U.S. workers earned an average of $40,790 as average hourly earnings fell by 1% in 2010
  1324. Census Bureau: Median household income was $49,445 in 2010, down 2.3 percent from 2009
  1325. United States incomes have fallen for the past three years down to 1996 household income levels
  1326. Income rose 3.7% in right-to-work Texas, compared to a 7.3% decline in forced-unionism Illinois
  1327. June 2009 to September 2012: Right-to-work states were responsible for 72% of job creation
  1328. CNBC rated Texas as America’s top state for doing business (based on 51 metrics) in 2012
  1329. The unemployment rate in the progressive stronghold of Illinois exceeds 10% (November 2011)
  1330. Obama had campaigned to stem the middle-class slide while blaming Bush for the problem
  1331. President Obama’s policies have exacerbated wage losses being suffered by the middle class
  1332. Biden admitted that the middle class has been “buried” during the four years under Obama (2012)
  1333. Candidate Obama cited census figures to show that medial income for working-age households dropped more than $2,000 after inflation during the first seven years of Bush’s time in office
  1334. Real median household incomes are down $4,300 since Obama took office in January 2009
  1335. Personal incomes fell during the recession, which officially ended in June of 2009, by 3.2%
  1336. During the recovery (since July 2009), personal incomes have fallen an additional 6.7% by 2012
  1337. Median net worth of families plunged by 39% after Democrats took over Congress (2007-2010)
  1338. Federal Reserve reported that median incomes fell nearly 8 percent, to $45,800, in 2010
  1339. The median value of stock-market-based retirement accounts declined 7%, to $44,000
  1340. Survey showed that 23% of small business owners have gone more than a year without pay (2012)
  1341. GfK Media found that millions of homes can no longer afford cable services under Obama (2012)
  1342. BLS: Average weekly wages dropped in 2011 for only the 5th time in the last 33 years
  1343. Weekly wages dropped by over 1.7% from $971 down to $955 during the fourth quarter of 2011
  1344. CBO: Incomes of the top 1% fell 18 times more than incomes for the middle class (2007-2009)
  1345. Median household income fell 4.8% (adjusted for inflation) since the recession ended in June 2009
  1346. American incomes dropped more during the Obama “recovery” than during the recession (2012)
  1347. Census Bureau: Median household income fell to $50,054 in 2011, the lowest level since 1995
  1348. Pay gap between federal employees and private-sector workers widened from 26% to 34% (2012)
  1349. American households hit a 43-year low in net worth (November 2012)
  1350. U.S. government spent an estimated $22 billion from 2008 to 2010 to prop up the housing market
  1351. Obama’s failed mortgage rescue efforts negatively impacted an already bad housing market
    “[My plan] will not help speculators who took risky bets on a rising market and bought homes not to live in but to sell.” ~President Obama (February 18, 2009)

  1352. President Obama and Democrats created the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP)
  1353. Obama and the Democrats also created the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP)
  1354. Fannie Mae used Obama’s HAMP loan modification program to bilk struggling homeowners
  1355. The expiration of the homebuyers’ tax credit led to a 30% fall in home sales in May 2010
  1356. Commerce Department reported that new home sales sank to the lowest pace on record (2010)
  1357. Mortgage insurers across the country are failing resulting in bigger losses to the U.S. taxpayers
  1358. Obama considering renting out government-owned foreclosed homes to boost home prices
  1359. Personal bankruptcies rose to 1.53 million in 2010, up 9% from 2009 levels
  1360. Banks repossessed over one million homes in 2010, and expected to jump another 20% in 2011
  1361. Banks hold 875,000 foreclosed homes as selloffs expected to further depress prices (May 2011)
  1362. U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke predicted high level of foreclosure starts in 2011
  1363. Ben Bernanke benefited from low interest rates to refinance his home mortgage (2011)
  1364. Existing-home sales plunged in February 2011 to the lowest level in nine years
  1365. Housing starts posted their biggest decline in 27 years in 2011, the biggest drop since 1984
  1366. Home values continue to decline, 1.8% during the first quarter of 2011, following the recession
  1367. Homeowners are abandoning their homes that are worth less than they owed on their mortgages
  1368. Percentage of homeowners in negative-equity positions increased to a new high of 28.4% (2011)
  1369. As of May 2011, home prices were falling at their fastest rate since the Lehman collapse in 2008
  1370. Nearly 75% of all homes lost value from the first quarter of 2010 to the first quarter of 2011
  1371. Foreclosure re-sales hit a new high, representing 23.7% of the market in May 2011
  1372. Sales of bank-owned foreclosed homes accounted for 28% of all first-quarter 2011 sales
  1373. 2 million homes are in the foreclosure process, and another 1.5 million seriously delinquent (2011)
  1374. New-home sales in 2011 were the worst on record dating back to 1963
  1375. Jobless claims and food prices surged in 2011 as home building was stuck near 50-year lows
  1376. Census Bureau numbers showed that the housing bust was the worst since the Great Depression
  1377. The homeownership rate fell to 65.1%, or 76 million occupied homes, the worst drop since 1940
  1378. Gap between white and black homeownership is at its widest level since 1960
  1379. Progressive democrats have wiped out more than 40 years of gains for black homeownership
  1380. Obama again pushed banks to offer sub-prime mortgages to disadvantaged neighborhoods
  1381. Some lenders are being cited for failing to operate in minority and low-income areas (2011)
  1382. Federal Housing Agency sued 17 banks over risky mortgages on behalf of Fannie & Freddie
  1383. Federal Housing Agency accused the banks of misrepresenting the quality of mortgage securities
  1384. Banks being sued include Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank
  1385. FHA ended September 2012 with a $16.3 billion in projected losses
  1386. FHA had been self-funded through mortgage insurance premiums since the Great Depression
  1387. FHA is overseen by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
  1388. FHA does not lend money, but guarantees loans made by banks in exchange for insurance premiums
  1389. FHA’s role expanded following the subprime mortgage crash, now insuring $1.1 trillion in losses
  1390. President Obama’s failed mortgage rescue efforts caused home prices to fall even further
  1391. Shadow inventory: more than 6 million foreclosed homes have yet to reenter the market (2011)
  1392. Child homelessness in the U.S. is up 33% (1.6 million children) over the last three years (2011)
  1393. Housing & Urban Development (HUD) reported a 28% increase in homeless families (2007-2010)
  1394. Unemployed young adults are much more likely to live with mom and dad in the Obama economy
  1395. Justice Department announced a $25 billion foreclosure abuse settlement (February 2012)
  1396. Many of the states diverted their portion of the $25 billion to plugging budget gaps instead
  1397. Median value of Americans’ stake in their homes fell by 42%, to $55,000, under a Democrat-led Congress (2007-2010) as they manipulated the housing market in the name of ‘social justice’
  1398. Housing market hit a 15-year low despite record low 30-year mortgage rates of 3.7% (June 2012)
  1399. Obama administration declared that all Americans must have “healthy housing” (February 2013)
  1400. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan said the federal government must do “everything we can to ensure that individuals and families have a healthy place to call home” (February 2013)
  1401. Obama administration failed to lead and define a sensible energy policy during an energy crisis
  1402. Obama’s push for biofuels is sending food prices soaring as Americans burn food to drive vehicles
  1403. Gas prices were $1.60 a gallon when Obama took office and had skyrocketed past $4.00 a gallon
  1404. Gas prices have gone up more under President Obama than under Jimmy Carter (2012)
  1405. Obama has downgraded the expectations of the United States public school system
  1406. Value of the U.S. dollar is approaching an all-time low measured against other national currencies
  1407. Dollar’s decline mostly attributed to our huge debt and the Federal Reserve’s easy-money policies
  1408. The value of the U.S. dollar hit a three-year low against other major currencies in May 2011
  1409. Two-year Treasury yield dropped to a record low in August 2011 after the debt ceiling was raised
  1410. In 2012, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke pledged to keep interest rates low through at least 2014
  1411. Bernanke also said he was considering additional asset purchases to boost growth and employment
  1412. Two Federal Reserve officials warned that the U.S. could be heading for a “fiscal cliff” (2012)
  1413. Charles Evans of the Chicago Fed called the cliff a “big uncertainty”
  1414. Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart warned of “financial shock” if our leadership doesn’t act
  1415. Dollar fell to a 14-month low against the euro as Federal Reserve devalued the dollar with QE3 (2013)
  1416. Federal Reserve used the 2008 housing crisis to eliminate the competition of the larger banks
  1417. Strategy helped maximize the profits of the big banks while easing the ability to regulate them
  1418. Small bank closures consolidated power into the hands of government-sponsored mega-banks
  1419. Government-sponsored mega-banks were those that caused the financial crisis in the first place
  1420. Largest banks in the U.S. are even larger now than they were when President Obama took office
  1421. Federal data shows banks nearing the profits they were making before the financial crisis of 2008
  1422. Only 3 banks were closed in 2007, while 25 banks failed in 2008 as the financial crisis accelerated
  1423. Another 140 banks were seized in 2009 costing the FDIC insurance fund and taxpayers $36 billion
  1424. The 157 bank closures in 2010 were the most since the Savings and Loan scandal of the 1990’s
  1425. The failures in 2010 cost the FDIC only around $21 billion since smaller banks were involved
  1426. Bank failures cost the FDIC fund approximately $76.8 billion from 2008 through 2010
  1427. The growing number of bank failures sapped billions of dollars out of the deposit insurance fund
  1428. Banks at risk of failing made up 12% of all federally insured banks, the highest in 18 years
  1429. Gallup Polling: Obama’s approval rating of 40% tied his record low in August 2011
  1430. Reuters/Ipsos: 73% believe the U.S. is on the wrong track, the highest since Obama took office
  1431. Just 17% of likely U.S. voters think that the country is headed in the right direction (2011)
  1432. Gallup Polling: Americans’ satisfaction with the way things are going fell to 11% in August 2011
  1433. Americans are struggling with rising inflation and high unemployment creating widespread misery
  1434. The ‘Misery Index’ under Obama is up 62% and is the highest in 28 years (as of June 2011)
  1435. Every policy tried under Obama has only benefited Obama’s friends – it is “The Chicago Way”
  1436. Obama votes ‘present’ on many major issues that may upset some of his leftist supporters
  1437. Black Chamber of Commerce CEO described the administration as “Marxist” and “fanatical”
  1438. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL): Every aspect of life in America is worse since Obama took over
  1439. Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ): ‘After three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless’ (2011)
  1440. Obama admitted that the American people are not better off than they were four years ago (2011)
  1441. DNC’s Debbie Wasserman-Schultz insisted that “anyone” can see that the economy is improving
  1442. Democrat-led recovery has been the worst since records began following the Great Depression
  1443. Employment growth, unemployment levels, bank lending, economic output, income growth, home prices, and household expectations for financial well-being are all below previous recovery statistics
  1444. “When I said ‘change we can believe in’ I didn’t say ‘change we can believe in TOMORROW’”
  1445. Obama blamed blizzards, floods, earthquakes, EU debt, and the Arab Spring for our problems
  1446. Obama: “There is nothing wrong with our country. There is something wrong with our politics”
  1447. President Obama said that America has “gotten a little soft” over the last two decades (2011)
  1448. President Obama claimed that Americans are “better off” under his economic policies (2011)
  1449. After 3 years, the United States’ role in the world is considerably weaker due to Obama’s policies
  1450. Obama: “We didn’t get into this mess overnight, and it’s going to take time to get out of it” (2011)
  1451. Obama: “I didn’t overpromise” and “I don’t control the weather” in regards to the economy (2011)
    “I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs for the jobless. This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal…”
    ~Candidate Barack H. Obama

  1452. Homeland Security began monitoring Twitter for signs of social unrest in America (2011)
  1453. Polling shows a majority of voters (56%) believe that Obama has changed the country for the worse, compared to just 35% who believe that the country has been changed for the better (2012)
  1454. “Tonight Show” with Jay Leno: “Even Obama is doing worse under President Obama” (2012)
  1455. Obama’s “encouraging more Americans to give up looking for work” to bring down unemployment
    “The Democrats are saying something like this: ‘We found a big hole that we did not dig. We didn’t get it filled in 21 months, but at least we quit digging. Give us two more years. If it doesn’t work, vote us out.’”
    ~Former President Bill Clinton (2010)

  1456. Gallup found that Obama’s job approval dropped to 43%, but he was reelected (September 2012)
  1457. In 2013, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said that “America is one big pothole right now”
    “America is one big pothole right now.”
    ~Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (February 2013)

  1458. Quinnipiac polling: Obama’s approval rating collapsed to 46% after his re-election (February 2013)

    1459. Democrats are expanding government entitlement programs to redistribute the wealth

  1459. Obama and Democrats are replacing our merit-based society with a welfare entitlement society
  1460. Obama argues that government should play an increasing role to ensure a society that is fairer
  1461. President Obama describes it as “shared responsibility” with ultimate “collective salvation”
  1462. Currently, 47% pay no income tax leaving half of society to pay all of the bills for the other half
  1463. The phrase “the American Dream” was originally coined by a progressive to push social justice
  1464. Obama said the Constitution he swore to uphold and protect is a “flawed” document (2001)
  1465. U.S. Supreme Court erred by not interpreting the Constitution to allow redistribution of wealth
  1466. Admitted to ‘Joe the Plumber’ off-prompter that the policy goals were redistribution of wealth
  1467. Public-sector unions are being used to launder taxpayer money to the Democrat Party
  1468. Obama reversed the welfare reforms of the 1990s as part of the so-called “stimulus” package
  1469. Max Baucus (D-MT) said Obama is engineering the biggest “redistribution of income” in history
  1470. Obama passed the home-buyer’s credit as one of many other tools to redistribute the wealth
  1471. Reverend Al Sharpton claims social justice is everyone having the same stuff in their homes
  1472. Medicare Czar Donald Berwick said the health care system must redistribute the wealth (2008)
  1473. Census was used to redistribute the wealth by more than doubling the cost to complete for 2010
  1474. Obama administration promoted taxpayer-funded entitlement programs to redistribute the wealth
  1475. Obama’s USDA gave Oregon a $5 million “performance bonus” for adding food stamps recipients
  1476. Oregon has seen a 60% increase in the number of food-stamp recipients (1 in 5) since 2008
  1477. Obama gave Oregon a two-year grant to improve their “client eligibility review process”
  1478. Co-chair of Obama’s debt panel said “social security is a ‘milk cow with 310 million t*ts!”
  1479. Federal government’s total revenue of $544.8 billion from Social Security taxes in 2010 was not enough to cover Social Security’s total benefit payments of $577.4 billion
  1480. Social Security board of trustees reported that there were 53.398 million beneficiaries in 2010
  1481. There were only 1.75 full-time private-sector workers for each Social Security recipient in 2010
  1482. Since 1984, all federal workers have been part of the system and pay Social Security taxes
  1483. Government workers pay their payroll taxes out of wages that the government pays them with tax dollars or with money that has been borrowed by government and taxpayers must eventually repay
  1484. Social Security board of trustees: there were 41.9 “covered workers” per beneficiary in 1945
  1485. “Covered workers” includes anyone who worked part-time for a month and paid taxes
  1486. Social Security board of trustees: there were 2.9 “covered workers” per beneficiary in 2010
  1487. Social Security ran a deficit of $49 billion in 2010 for the first time since 1983
  1488. Obama is calling for a pay increase for federal workers as part of his 2013 budget proposal (2012)
  1489. Democrats passed multi-thousand page bills, a kickback to the lawyers required to decipher them
  1490. USDA handed out more than $3 billion in discrimination settlements as wealth redistribution
  1491. USDA admitted guilt of discrimination, but no one at USDA has ever been identified or fired
    “When I was sworn in as secretary of Agriculture two years ago, President Obama and I made a commitment to mend the USDA’s troubled civil rights record. Since then, we have taken comprehensive action to turn the page on past discrimination. Last year we entered into a settlement with black farmers in Pigford II to address pending claims, and finalize a historic settlement agreement with Native American farmers under Keepseagle that faced discrimination by USDA.”
    ~Statement from Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack (2011)

  1492. Pigford v. Glickman was a 1990s black farmer lawsuit that charged racism from 1983 to 1997
  1493. Timothy Pigford sued along and 400 southern black farmers, which then grew to 94,000 claims
  1494. U.S. Census Bureau never counted more than 33,000 black farmers in America during that period
  1495. USDA settlement for the original Pigford lawsuit cost taxpayers roughly $1 billion
  1496. A second round of litigation, Pigford II, followed the first payout after some people were shut out
  1497. The Pigford II settlement was full of corruption and fraud and served as pseudo-reparations
  1498. Original Pigford claimant called it one of the ‘biggest conspiracies against the U.S. Treasury ever’
  1499. Sanford Bishop (D-GA) helped cover up Pigford fraud warning that “they’ll shut this thing down”
  1500. An attorney for Pigford publicly revealed the conspiracy to defraud the federal government (2011)
  1501. Plaintiffs and the USDA announced a settlement of $1.25 billion to resolve discrimination claims
  1502. President Obama signed the bill authorizing the payment of the settlement on December 9, 2010
    “Here’s an example: you had two farmers – one white, one black – go into a Farm Service Agency in state ‘X.’ The white farmer applied for an operating loan, had it processed rapidly, had it approved and had the resources available so he could put a crop in. The black farmer was either denied the operating loan without due diligence to determine if he could repay the loan or he was strung out for such a long time that he didn’t get the operating loan in a timely (manner). That compromised (the black farmer’s) capacity to put a crop in the ground and therefore made it more difficult to make payments and keep their farm operation. The result was either people got deeply in debt, or in some cases, they lost the farm.” ~Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsack (D) during the press conference when asked for the “most egregious example” of racial bias at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

  1503. Obama refused to even address out-of-control entitlement spending in his 2012 budget proposal
  1504. Federal agencies are refinancing mortgages and then shifting the losses to the U.S. taxpayers
  1505. Frank: “It was a great mistake to push lower-income people into housing they couldn’t afford”
  1506. Barney Frank admitted in 2011 that, “I had been too sanguine about Fannie and Freddie”
  1507. Barney Frank in 2011: “I hope by next year we’ll have abolished Fannie and Freddie”
  1508. CBO estimates that the $170 billion bailout for Fannie & Freddie could rise to $400 billion
  1509. Tim Geithner, speaking about the future of housing finance, said that the system needs changed
  1510. “We will not support a return to the system where private gains are subsidized by taxpayer losses”
  1511. Fannie & Freddie borrowed $1.5 billion to pay the $1.8 billion dividend on the Treasury stock
  1512. Social welfare benefits increased by $514 billion during Obama’s first two years in office (‘09-‘10)
  1513. Government-provided benefits rose to a new record high during the first three months of 2010
  1514. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner admitted that, “we write 80 million checks a month…”
  1515. Government handouts now make up a record 35 percent of total wages and salaries in the U.S.
  1516. 64 million rely on the government for daily necessities such as food, housing, and health care
  1517. Social welfare benefits were 21 percent of wages and salaries in 2000, and 10 percent in 1960
  1518. In 2010, household entitlement spending surpassed the household tax revenue needed to support it
  1519. Liberal college students wouldn’t apply wealth redistribution theory to their own earned grades
  1520. Cash for clunkers, cash for caulkers, and cash for keys were all used to redistribute the wealth
  1521. Obama claimed America would not be a “great country” today without government entitlements
  1522. Sen. Coburn: Obama’s “intent is to create a dependency because it worked so well for him” (2011)
  1523. Power Shift 2011 was hosted by the Energy Action Coalition, with Van Jones as a leading partner
  1524. The Energy Action Coalition is a group of “50 youth-led environmental and social justice groups”
  1525. EPA's administrator hailed Obama’s environmental policies as “social justice wrapped in green”
  1526. Obama administration honored “green” schools that teach “environmental literacy” (2011)
  1527. GAO study showed that millions of taxpayer dollars were used to support the “Big Green” agenda
  1528. “Green” groups are given taxpayer money to file lawsuits directed at putting taxpayers out of work
  1529. GAO: Justice Department had spent $43 million to defend the EPA in court from 1998 to 2010
  1530. GAO study showed that 82 percent of court judgment claims were paid out to environment groups
  1531. The three primary beneficiaries from the period of 1998 to 2010 went to the Sierra Club, Earthjustice, and the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC)
  1532. Obama’s executive order created the White House Rural Council to redistribute wealth (2011)
  1533. Omaha schools spent $130,000 in “stimulus” money to buy 8,000 ‘social justice’ diversity manuals
  1534. Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack described food stamps as an “economic stimulus”
  1535. Brad Sherman (D) admitted that the estate tax was designed for generational wealth redistribution
  1536. Government offered a $5,000 prize for the best YouTube video promoting federal benefits (2011)
  1537. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn) introduced legislation seeking federal funding for diapers
  1538. President Lyndon B. Johnson advocated for social justice by calling for a war on poverty
  1539. Cornel West called for a second war on poverty and more new entitlements for the poor (2011)
  1540. Cornel West said that the push for more entitlements “is going to be fought in the streets” (2011)
  1541. “Sesame Street” Muppet Lily touted entitlements saying, “I get a free breakfast and lunch…” (2011)
  1542. Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash engaged in an underage relationship with a 16-year-old-boy (2012)
  1543. Clash resigned from his role as Elmo after a second sex accuser filed a lawsuit (November 2012)
  1544. Dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under Obama (2012)
  1545. Heritage Foundation study found that 67 million now rely on some type of federal program (2012)
  1546. Under Obama, dependency on the federal government saw the biggest two-year jump since Carter
  1547. Dependency on the federal government shot up 8% in 2010, a year when the economy grew by 3%
  1548. Extending unemployment benefits keeps unemployment higher than it otherwise would have been
    “Government assistance programs contribute to long-term unemployment… by providing an incentive, and the means, not to work.” ~President Obama’s former economic adviser Larry Summers (1999 Concise Encyclopedia of Economics)

  1549. Spending on “dependence programs” accounts for more than 70% of the bloated federal budget
  1550. Federal program run by the FCC spent $1.6 billion on free cell phones for the poor in 2011
  1551. Obama administration forced insurance companies to provide free contraceptives (2012)
  1552. Direct payments from the federal government to individuals has grown steadily for decades under the welfare state, but has spiked up 32% (almost $600 billion) in just three years under President Obama
  1553. President Obama’s own budget calls for these payments to climb another $500 billion by 2016
  1554. By 2016, direct payments would then account for two-thirds of all federal spending
  1555. Obama boosted the benefit amount for food stamps as part of his so-called “stimulus” plan
  1556. Food stamp usage is 45% higher (up to a record 46 million) under President Obama (2012)
  1557. Obama administration offered $75,000 grants to those who come up with effective strategies to get more people enrolled on food stamps, including overcoming the stigma associated with such benefits
  1558. Number of people on Social Security disability was up 10% during Obama’s first two years
  1559. Mental illness and Social Security disability claims surged under President Obama (2012)
  1560. A record 5.4 million workers signed up for federal disability checks under President Obama (2012)
  1561. More than 10.8 million people are now collecting federal disability payments (2012)
  1562. More workers joined the federal government’s disability program than got new jobs (June 2012)
  1563. Since June 2009, 2.6 million people found jobs, but 3.1 million workers signed up for disability
  1564. Number of new disability enrollees has climbed 19% faster than the new jobs created
  1565. Number of people collecting federal disability exceeds the population of New York City (2012)
  1566. Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) warned that the nation is turning into “people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check” (April 2012)
  1567. Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA) said that Obama will get votes because he’ll protect the government assistance programs, such as unemployment benefits and food stamps
  1568. Obama’s re-election campaign created a fictionalized woman named ‘Julia’ to illustrate how President Obama’s proposed policies would help female voters in a ‘government-centered society’
  1569. Karen Bass (D-CA) described food stamp expansion as “small business” investments (2012)
  1570. In Q1 of 2011, 49.1% of the U.S. population lives in a household receiving government benefits
  1571. The number of millionaire households in America dropped by 129,000 in 2012
  1572. Food stamp program spending grew from $35 billion in 2008 to $75 billion in 2011
  1573. Free government phones through Lifeline is costing taxpayers another $2.1 billion per year
  1574. Lifeline provides free taxpayer-funded cell phones and free monthly minutes to anyone on food stamps, WIC, Medicaid, Head Start, and several other government programs
  1575. Massive fraud and waste was discovered in the Lifeline phone program (November 2012)
  1576. FCC audit uncovered 400,000 instances of multiple phones distributed to individual people (2011)
    The food stamp program (SNAP), a U.S. government run program, announced it was pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the National Park Service, also part of the U.S. government, asks us to “please do not feed the animals” because the animals may grow dependent and not learn to take care of themselves.

  1577. Under Obama, federal welfare spending has increased by 41% (more than $193 billion per year)
  1578. Federal welfare spending in fiscal year 2011 totaled $668 billion, spread out over 126 programs
  1579. Poverty remains at 15.1%, roughly where it was in 1965 when LBJ declared the War on Poverty
  1580. In 1966, the national poverty rate was 14.7%, according to Census Bureau figures
  1581. Income limits for welfare eligibility have risen twice as fast as inflation since 2007
  1582. Income limits for welfare eligibility have risen roughly 10% since President Obama took office
  1583. According to the administration’s own projections, federal welfare spending is unlikely to decline even after the economy recovers, evidence that not all the increase in spending is recession-related
  1584. Vast majority of current welfare programs are designed to make poverty more comfortable, rather than giving people the tools that will help them escape poverty
  1585. Obama administration puts out guides on how to encourage people to apply for food stamps
  1586. Obama administration suggests hosting parties as a way to hook seniors on food stamps (2012)
    “Throw a Great Party. Host social events where people mix and mingle. Make it fun by having activities, games, food, and entertainment, and provide information about SNAP. Putting SNAP information in a game format like BINGO, crossword puzzles, or even a “true/false” quiz is fun and helps get your message across in a memorable way.” ~Guide released jointly by the USDA and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

  1587. Massachusetts’ governor vetoed a bill banning the purchase of porn and tattoos with food stamps
  1588. The daughter of Senator Elizabeth Warren, Amelia Tyagi, is the chairwoman of the Board of Demos
  1589. Demos filed a lawsuit against Massachusetts because the Department of Transitional Assistance was not giving welfare recipients the opportunity to register to vote
  1590. Former Senator Scott Brown (R-MA), who was later defeated by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), argued that the mass mailing was actually a plan to push more democratic voters to the polls
  1591. Massachusetts could not locate roughly 19,000 missing welfare recipients in the state (January 2013)
  1592. USDA proposed Spanish-language soap operas to push food stamps, including to non-citizens
  1593. U.S. Department of Agriculture pushed for increased use of food stamps at farmer’s markets (2012)
  1594. Obama administration illegally waived the welfare program’s work-requirement reform (2012)
  1595. Roughly 117,000 Americans double-dipped by cashing unemployment and Social Security checks
  1596. Social Security and disability payments totaled a record $591.492 billion for fiscal year 2011
  1597. Social Security and disability payments surpassed $594.643 billion with a month left in FY 2012
  1598. A record 8,767,941 American workers collected federal disability payments in August 2012
  1599. A record 45,505,287 people in the U.S. received Social Security benefits in August 2012
  1600. Americans on disability hit a new record for the 192nd straight month (as of January 2013)
  1601. Americans collecting federal disability increased to a new record of 8,830,026 (January 2013)
  1602. In January 2013, there are only 13 Americans working full-time for each person collecting disability
  1603. In January 1997, there were about 24 Americans working full-time for each person on disability
  1604. In December 1968, there were about 51 Americans working full-time for each person on disability
  1605. Romney warned that Obama’s supporters have been made to be “dependent upon government”
  1606. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said that it was “shocking” that Romney would “go behind closed doors” to describe nearly half of the electorate in such terms
  1607. In 2008, candidate Obama criticized voters who, bitter over their economic circumstances, “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them” as a way to explain their frustrations
  1608. Tax Policy Center found that 46.4% of households paid no federal income tax in 2011
  1609. Gallup poll found that 67% of Democrats think the government should be doing even more (2012)
    “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples’ money.” ~Margaret Thatcher

  1610. Lifeline was established in 1984 to subsidize landline phone service for low income Americans
  1611. Lifeline was expanded to support cell phones, quickly escalating the cost of the program (2008)
  1612. In 2008, the “Obama phones” program cost $772 million, but by 2011 it cost $1.6 billion
  1613. Obama supporter openly bragged about having a free “Obama phone” on video (September 2012)

    [Reporter] “You got an Obama phone?”

    [Obamaphone Lady] “Yes! Everybody in Cleveland, low minorities, got Obama phone. Keep Obama in president, you know? He gave us a phone!”

    [Reporter] “He gave you a phone?”

    [Obamaphone Lady] “He gonna do more!”

    [Reporter] “How did he give you a phone?”

    [Obamaphone Lady] “You sign up. If you’re… If you on food stamps, you on Social Security, you got low income, you disability…”

    [Reporter] “Okay, what’s wrong with Romney again?”

    [Obamaphone Lady] “Romney, he sucks! Bad!”

  1614. In their first debate, Romney described Obama’s approach as “trickle-down government” (2012)
  1615. Welfare spending jumped 32% during Obama presidency over the last four years (October 2012)
  1616. Enrollment in food stamps, Medicaid, and disability far outpaced job growth over the last 4 years
  1617. A record 70.4 million Americans (1 out of every 5) are enrolled in Medicaid (November 2012)
  1618. There are nearly 80 means-tested federal welfare programs, according to the Census Bureau
  1619. Federal and state spending on these welfare programs topped $1.03 trillion for the first time in 2011
  1620. Census Bureau found that nearly 110 million people in the U.S. receive some form of means-tested welfare in 2011, which does not include Medicare and Social Security to which people contribute
  1621. Cory Booker said that the food stamp program is “not a government handout” (December 2012)
  1622. Charlie Daniels warned that the nanny state policies of Obama will result in “chaos and bloodshed”

    1623. Obamacare forced upon the United States to achieve socialist ‘crown jewel’ of expanded government powers

  1623. Obama: “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits, either now or in the future”
  1624. During a 2008 Clinton debate, Obama expressed his personal view against universal mandates
    “We’ve got a philosophical difference, which we’ve debated repeatedly, and that is that Senator Clinton believes the only way to achieve universal health care is to force everybody to purchase it.” ~Candidate Barack Obama speaking during the February 21, 2008 Democratic Party presidential debate
    “Hillary Clinton’s attacking, but what’s she not telling you about her health care plan? It forces everyone to buy insurance, even if you can’t afford it, and you pay a penalty if you don’t.” ~Candidate Obama’s April 2008 campaign ad attacking Hillary Clinton’s health care mandate
    “During the campaign I was opposed to this idea because my general attitude was the reason people don’t have health insurance is not because they don’t want it, it’s because they can’t afford it. And if you make it affordable, then they’ll come. I am now in favor of some sort of individual mandate as long as there’s a hardship exemption.” ~President Obama speaking to CBS in July 2009

  1625. Obama lied eight times in promises to televise the health care discussions openly on C-SPAN
    “These negotiations will be on C-SPAN, and so the public will be part of the conversation and will see the decisions that are being made.”
    ~Obama speaking on January 20, 2008 (and seven other times)

  1626. Obamacare was masked by populist rhetoric, pushed along, and partially crafted by extremists
  1627. Obamacare was dubbed as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)
  1628. President Obama and Democrats claimed that Obamacare would “bend the cost curve down”
  1629. Obama administration said that slowing healthcare spending was the “single most important thing” we could do to improve our nation’s finances
  1630. The $2.8 trillion U.S. healthcare system costs nearly $9,000 for every man, woman, and child (2012)
  1631. CMS report warned that national health care expenditures would increase due to Obamacare
  1632. Nancy Pelosi said “we have to pass the (Obamacare) bill so that you can find out what is in it”
  1633. Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) admitted to not having read the Obamacare bill he supposedly authored
  1634. Democrats falsely claim that $500 billion will be cut from Medicare to fund Obamacare
  1635. Kathleen Sebelius admitted to double counting the Medicare “savings” to pay for Obamacare
  1636. Sebelius and HHS reportedly awarded Quality Software Services, Inc. (QSSI) a “large contract to build a federal data services hub to help run the complex federal health insurance exchange”
  1637. Obamacare established the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO)
  1638. Quality Software Services, Inc. was awarded the contract while Steve Larsen was CCIIO’s director
  1639. Steve Larsen had been the insurance commissioner for Maryland and was close friends with Sebelius
  1640. Larsen left the CCIIO and took a position with Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group
  1641. UnitedHealth Group then bought QSSI after they were awarded the valuable contract (2012)
  1642. UnitedHealth Group, through QSSI, could police the same field in which it would be a competitor
  1643. HHS was unwilling to void the contract due to delays in setting up the exchanges by 2014
  1644. HHS created a firewall designed to block UnitedHealth Group from gaining access to QSSI’s data
  1645. HHS told UnitedHealth Group not to alert the SEC of the purchase of QSSI, as UnitedHealth Group was legally required to do within 4 days of the transaction, until after the election
  1646. Obama administration illegally misused public funds to spread “Obamacare” propaganda
  1647. FOIA requests show that HHS launched a taxpayer-funded campaign to track Internet searches
  1648. HHS also used online search engines such as Google and Yahoo to drive traffic to a government website promoting Obama’s healthcare overhaul, specifically targeting the term “Obamacare”
  1649. Obama administration spent $1,435,009 (almost $300,000 per month) on online advertisements, including advertising campaigns with Google and Yahoo, from October 2010 through February 2011
  1650. Documents addressed the need to target Obamacare propaganda to Hispanics, blacks, and women
  1651. Democrats Bart Stupak (D-MI), Kathy Dahlkemper, and a handful of other Democrats held back on voting for final passage of Obamacare due to concerns with the Senate’s language regarding abortion
    “A review of the Senate language indicates a dramatic shift in federal policy that would allow the federal government to subsidize insurance policies with abortion coverage. Further, the segregation of funds to pay for abortion is another departure from current policy prohibiting federal subsidy of abortion coverage.”
    ~Congressman Bart Stupak (D-MI) (December 2009)

  1652. Six pro-life Democrats united in their opposition to the bill and its violation of the Hyde Amendment
  1653. Hyde Amendment prevented public funding of abortion and protected the conscience clause
  1654. President Obama signed an executive order (#15535) saying that Obamacare would not fund abortions
  1655. Executive order signed by Obama did nothing to prevent the subsidized health care exchanges from covering elective abortions
  1656. HHS later mandated for taxpayer-funded contraception, including abortion-inducing drugs
  1657. Bart Stupak (D-MI) said that the HHS mandate violated his Obamacare compromise (2012)
    “I am perplexed and disappointed that, having negotiated the Executive Order with the President, not only does the HHS mandate violate the Executive Order but it also violates statutory law.” ~Bart Stupak (D-MI) (September 2012)

  1658. Obama made special backroom deals with the drug industry to curry support for Obamacare
  1659. Top drug lobbyist Billy Tauzin cut a deal with Rahm Emanuel in the summer of 2009
  1660. Deal pledged PhRMA’s support if the W.H. promised to protect and subsidize drug companies
  1661. Memos show that drug makers, led by Pfizer, vowed to campaign in support of Obamacare
  1662. Obama praised Congress for “standing up to the special interests” after Obamacare passed
  1663. Emails suggest that the White House pushed business to Axelrod’s former firm to sell Obamacare
  1664. Axelrod’s former firm, AKPD Message and Media, still owes him money and employs his son
  1665. Axelrod started AKPD in 1985 and earned millions helping run Obama’s 2008 campaign
  1666. Axelrod moved to the White House in 2009 and had AKPD buy him out for $2 million
  1667. AKPD chose to pay Axelrod in annual installments, even as he worked in the West Wing
  1668. Healthy Economy Now (HEN) formed at an April 15, 2009 meeting arranged by then-White House aide Jim Messina and a chief of staff working for Senator Max Baucus (D-MT)
  1669. Jim Messina and Senator Max Baucus’ chief of staff met at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) and invited representatives of business and labor, including SEIU
  1670. Nick Baldick started HEN, but it was the job of PhRMA and others to fund it
  1671. Baldick was a Democratic consultant who had worked on the Obama campaign and for the DSCC
  1672. David Axelrod’s old firm, AKPD, was hired to run the ads promoting Obamacare
  1673. Emails from HEN contributors referred to four men as the “White House” team running healthcare
  1674. “White House” team included John Del Cecato, Larry Grisolano, Andy Grossman, and Erik Smith
  1675. John Del Cecato and Larry Grisolano are both partners at AKPD Message and Media
  1676. Andy Grossman previously ran the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC)
  1677. Erik Smith was previously a paid adviser to the Obama presidential campaign
  1678. PhRMA consultant Steve McMahon referred to these four men as the “WH-designated folks”
  1679. In emails, PhRMA consultant Steve McMahon explained to colleagues that these men “are very close to Axelrod” and that “they have been put in charge of the campaign to pass health reform”
  1680. White House visitor logs showed 28 appointments for Erik Smith between May and August 2009
  1681. Andy Grossman appeared in the White House visitor logs at least19 times
  1682. John Del Cecato and Larry Grisolano of AKPD visited at least twice in the spring and summer
  1683. PhRMA memo also makes clear that AKPD had been chosen before PhRMA joined HEN (2009)
  1684. Emails showed that even the contributors to HEN did not like the conflict of interest at the time
  1685. Nick Baldick advised media to “just say, AKPD is not working for PhRMA” (July 2009)
  1686. Axelrod, the White House, and a partner for AKPD refused to respond to requests for comment
  1687. Claimed Obamacare reform would cover everyone, increase quality, cut costs, and reduce deficits
  1688. Obamacare comes with a monstrous price tag of $940 billion required for implementation
  1689. CBO projected massive cost overruns on Obamacare after being “Rahmed” through Congress
  1690. Obamacare creates 68 grant programs, 47 bureaucratic entities, along with 29 pilot programs
  1691. Obamacare also creates 6 regulatory systems, 6 compliance standards, and 2 more entitlements
  1692. Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) created to end “unnecessary spending”
  1693. IPAB is comprised of 15 members all appointed by Obama without Congressional approval
  1694. IPAB decides if coverage is granted and how much will be paid (i.e. rationing and death panel)
  1695. Obamacare-funded health centers for ‘migrants’ won’t check immigration status
  1696. Democrats gave special deals to members of Congress in exchange for votes on Obamacare
  1697. Obamacare imposes huge regulatory costs on American businesses at the expense of jobs
  1698. Attempted to trample on Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution with the “Slaughter Solution”
  1699. Pushed through $2 trillion health insurance reform bill (with mandates) through reconciliation
    “We’ll go through the gate; if the gate’s closed, we’ll go over the fence; if the fence is too high, we’ll pole vault in; if that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in…”
    ~Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on the passage of Obamacare legislation

  1700. Extremists admit aims were to achieve corporate socialist goals and increase government powers
  1701. John Dingell (D-MI) admitted that healthcare insurance reform is about control of the people
  1702. John Conyers (D-MI) described Obamacare as a “platform” for creating a single-payer system
    “I love these members, they get up and say, ‘Read the bill’… What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out when it means after you read the bill?”
    ~Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) in July 2009

  1703. Pelosi said they would have passed Obamacare even if everyone was happy with their coverage
  1704. Democrats manipulated the CBO to misrepresent legislation that increases the deficit and debt
  1705. Obama claimed AARP supported his specific healthcare plan despite AARP denying the claim
  1706. AARP, representing senior citizens, lobbied for $500 billion in cuts for Medicare in Obamacare
  1707. Congress later found that AARP will reap an extra billion in profit per decade for their support
  1708. Fifteen of the last sixteen people on AARP’s magazine cover were left-wing celebrity activists
  1709. Medicare doctor-fix legislation separated from bill to avoid the CBO impact on projected costs
  1710. Obamacare makes small businesses pay unknown costs of forced health insurance hurting jobs
  1711. Obamacare was passed through reconciliation despite widespread opposition from Americans
  1712. Majority of Americans support repealing Obamacare, a number that has increased since passage
  1713. CBO: Repealing Obamacare would save about $540 billion in costs and $770 billion in taxes
  1714. Phil Hare (D) responded “I don’t worry about the Constitution” when questioned by voters
  1715. Mandates for everyone to buy insurance from private companies or else face “penalties”
  1716. Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax with the health insurance mandate
  1717. Congress anticipated a constitutional challenge to Obamacare by including 10 detailed findings
  1718. All 10 findings dealt with the interstate Commerce Clause, none cite taxing power for authority
  1719. Obama “rejected the notion” that the Obamacare mandate fit the dictionary definition of a tax
  1720. In court, the Obama administration is defending the mandate under the power to “collect taxes”
  1721. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has begun rationing late-stage cancer drugs to save money
  1722. Changes in pre-existing conditions and lifetime maximums have caused insurance premiums to rise
  1723. Obamacare’s implementation violates equal protection under the law by selectively giving waivers
  1724. Obama’s HHS gave waivers to more than 1,800 select unions, companies, and organizations
  1725. Union members account for just 12% of all employees, yet received 50.3% of Obamacare waivers
  1726. HHS tightened their application rules in 2011 to allow a maximum waiver of two-and-a-half years
  1727. Waivers were granted to at least 1,200 unions, companies, and organizations under the new rules
  1728. Labor unions representing 543,812 workers received most of the waivers from Obamacare
  1729. Only private employers with a total of 69,813 employees were granted Obamacare waivers
  1730. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) defended the Obamacare waivers by restating, “They’re small companies”
  1731. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is now the largest healthcare union in the U.S.
  1732. SEIU forced parents of special needs children to join and pay dues from their Medicare checks
  1733. Three of SEIU Local Unions received Obamacare waivers, including Obama’s hometown Local
  1734. Nearly 20% of Obamacare waivers went to restaurants, nightclubs, and hotels in Pelosi’s district
  1735. The entire state of Nevada, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s state, was given a special waiver
  1736. Maine was granted a unique waiver from an Obamacare provision regulating insurance premiums
  1737. HHS promised transparency in the waiver process, but won’t list which waivers had been denied
  1738. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), a proclaimed Obamacare author, sought a waiver for New York City
  1739. Two-thirds of doctors fear worse care for patients due to Obamacare rules and regulations
  1740. H.H.S. turned (6) pages of the Obamacare law into 429 pages of new rules and regulations (2011)
  1741. Chuck Schumer (D-NY): “We have 3 branches of government -- a House, a Senate, a President”
  1742. When asked about the Constitutionality of Obamacare, Pelosi twice responded, “Are you serious?”
  1743. A Virginia state judge later ruled that the individual mandate was unconstitutional
  1744. A Florida federal judge also ruled that the entire 2,700 page health care law was unconstitutional
  1745. Obama appealed the Florida federal court ruling striking down Obamacare, his signature law
  1746. Most states have joined the Federal lawsuit against Obamacare challenging its Constitutionality
  1747. Missouri’s attorney general, a Democrat, joined the state’s lawsuit to strike down Obamacare
  1748. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled (2-1) that the Obamacare mandate was unconstitutional
  1749. Judge Frank Hull, appointed by Clinton, voted that the individual mandate was unconstitutional
    “We have not found any generally applicable, judicially enforceable limiting principle that would permit us to uphold the mandate without obliterating the boundaries inherent in the system of enumerated congressional powers…”
    ~Chief Judge Joel Dubina and Judge Frank Hull in their expansive 200-page ruling

  1750. Federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled that Obamacare mandate was unconstitutional (2011)
  1751. Obama believes that Obamacare “should be upheld without a problem” in the Supreme Court
  1752. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that America’s health “really is an issue of national security” and that she’s optimistic the Supreme Court would uphold Obamacare
  1753. Obama nominated Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court seven weeks after Obamacare’s passage
    “President Obama chose to nominate a member of his administration to the Supreme Court knowing it was likely that, if confirmed, she would be in a position to rule on his signature domestic policy achievement.” ~Four leading U.S. Senators wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder while requesting more information on Elena Kagan’s previous work as solicitor general

  1754. Elena Kagan served as Obama’s solicitor general overseeing expected lawsuits over Obamacare
  1755. Harvard Law Prof. Laurence Tribe served in the Justice Department during the health-care vote
  1756. Elena Kagan email to Laurence Tribe: “I hear they have the votes, Larry!! Simply amazing”
  1757. Federal law clearly states that a Supreme Court Justice must recuse themselves from any proceeding in which his/her “impartiality might reasonably be questioned”
    Section 455 of Title 28 of the U.S.C. - federal law prohibits a Supreme Court Justice from participating in a case where impartiality might be reasonably questioned or where an opinion was expressed on the matter while serving in government office.

  1758. Kagan was responsible for defending the Obama administration’s positions in court disputes
  1759. FOIA emails show Kagan personally assigned her top deputy Neal Katyal to handle the lawsuits
  1760. Katyal told the Associate Attorney General that Kagan “definitely” wanted her office involved
  1761. Brian Hauck, senior counsel to Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli, emailed Neal Katyal to inform him that Perrelli wanted “to put together a group to get thinking about how to defend against the inevitable challenges to the health care proposals that are pending”
  1762. Neal Katyal: “Absolutely right on. Let’s crush them. I’ll speak to Elena and designate someone”
  1763. 49 lawmakers called for investigations of Kagan’s contradictory Senate confirmation testimony
  1764. House Judiciary Committee launched a probe of Kagan’s involvement in Obamacare in 2011
  1765. Kagan did not recuse herself, though clearly her “impartiality might reasonably be questioned”
  1766. Justice Department stonewalled on Kagan’s Obamacare recusal controversy (July 2012)
  1767. Eric Holder refused to answer questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee on the matter
  1768. Former ABC News reporter Linda Douglass joined the Obama White House’s efforts
  1769. Douglass became Director of Communications for the White House Office of Health Reform
  1770. Obama’s “Health Care Town Hall” was then hosted by ABC News as unchallenged propaganda
  1771. ABC News staffer then warned GOP against Obamacare repeal following 2010 election results
  1772. Obama installed Donald Berwick as the Medicare/Medicaid administrator during a Senate recess
  1773. “Medicare Czar” Donald Berwick told a British audience that he opposes free markets (2008)
  1774. Donald Berwick described the socialist British National Health Service as a “global treasure”
  1775. Donald Berwick has been described as an “expert on healthcare rationing” by his opponents
  1776. Donald Berwick departed from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services in late 2011
  1777. President Obama nominated Henry J. Aaron to head the Social Security Advisory Board (2011)
  1778. Henry Aaron has praised the IPAB, a panel of 15 unelected members that would ration care
  1779. Aaron advocated for a British-style system where you ration some types of costly medical care
  1780. Patients in England wait months for routine surgeries due to cost-cutting and healthcare rationing
  1781. Half of patients with chronic kidney failure in Britain are left untreated and die as a result
  1782. British doctors often have to define “what is best” in terms of “what is available”
  1783. Two patients died while waiting for an ambulance outside of a ‘full’ British hospital (May 2011)
  1784. Surgeons have described the delays faced by patients as “devastating and cruel”
  1785. More than 90,000 terminally ill patients in the UK do not get proper end-of-life palliative care
  1786. British health chiefs refused to fund a lifesaving gastric surgery for Rudi Hargreaves, 22 (2011)
  1787. British NHS began rationing treatments for “non-urgent” conditions to save money (2011)
  1788. Doctors in the U.K. have been ordered to ration life-saving cancer scans to save money (2011)
  1789. Rationed tests include ultrasounds, CT scans, and MRIs commonly used to spot tumors
  1790. Britain has one of the lowest cancer survival rates in Europe due to factors including late diagnosis
  1791. NHS reportedly kills off 130,000 elderly patients each year through their ‘death pathway’ (2012)
  1792. Studies show that Obamacare will create longer waits for healthcare and along with higher costs
  1793. Michael Moore: “If you are a Patriotic American” you will wait longer for healthcare (2011)
  1794. Insurance premiums for family health benefits in 2011 jumped 9% from 2010 up to $15,073
  1795. Spending on health care outpaced inflation by increasing 3.8% in 2010 and another 3.9% in 2011
  1796. Medical device makers moved jobs overseas to avoid the Obamacare tax increases and regulations
  1797. Democrats designed targeted bailouts to hide and minimize the negative effects of Obamacare
  1798. Obamacare provision provided money for early retirees that are not yet eligible for Medicare
  1799. Taxpayers gave unions and corporations $5 billion to subsidize early retiree coverage
  1800. United Auto Workers was given more money than New York, California, and Texas combined
  1801. Companies benefiting are closely tied to Obama and Democrats (GM, GE, AT&T, Verizon, etc.)
  1802. U.S. Post Office proposed pulling out of Obamacare in order to reign in health benefit costs
  1803. AP: Public support for Obamacare fell to 35% in April 2011, the lowest since passage in 2010
  1804. Poll: Obamacare’s popularity fell to 34% in October 2011 as Democrats soured on the law
  1805. Number of uninsured has increased under President Obama and since Obamacare was enacted
  1806. Census Bureau: Americans without health coverage rose to 49.9 million people (2011)
  1807. Fewer people received insurance coverage through their employer in 2010 than in 2009
  1808. Employment-based health insurance coverage dropped by 1.5 million people in 2010
  1809. Number of people covered through taxpayer-funded insurance programs continued to rise in 2010
  1810. Those covered by government programs rose by 1.8 million people, or 31% of the population
  1811. 4.5 million Americans lost their employer-sponsored insurance in just 18 months after passage
  1812. CBO falsely predicted that 6 million more would have employer-sponsored insurance by 2011
  1813. Obama used Alinsky’s tactics to systematically lie in the short term to achieve long-term goals
    “First of all, if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you.” ~President Obama (July 2009)
    “If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.”
    ~President Obama during the health care debate (2009)

  1814. Obamacare destroys marriage and families by creating a financial incentive to stay single
  1815. Obama administration attempted to circumvent Congress to fix an ‘Obamacare glitch’ (2011)
  1816. Obamacare authorizes premium assistance in state-run exchanges, but not federal ones
  1817. Obama administration proposed a new IRS rule to offer premium assistance in all exchanges
  1818. Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment opting out of a health care mandate (2011)
  1819. Issue won with 66% of the vote, including gaining a majority vote in all 88 counties in Ohio
  1820. Issue bars Ohio from instituting a state-mandated health insurance program like in Massachusetts
  1821. United States Supreme Court agreed to hear the case against Obamacare on November 14, 2011
  1822. AP-GfK Poll: Support for Obama’s signature accomplishment fell to 29% in December 2011
  1823. In an election year maneuver, HHS eased Obamacare’s state implementation requirements (2011)
  1824. Nancy Pelosi claimed that repealing Obamacare would “destroy more than 300,000 jobs” (2012)
  1825. Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper (D-PA) regretted her own vote in favor of Obamacare in 2010
    “I would have never voted for the final version of the bill if I expected the Obama Administration to force Catholic hospitals and Catholic Colleges and Universities to pay for contraception…”
    ~Congresswoman Kathy Dahlkemper (D-PA) in February 2012

  1826. President Obama: “The plan I’m proposing will cost around $900 billion over 10 years…” (2009)
  1827. President Obama: “The plan will not add to our deficit” (September 9, 2009)
  1828. Kathleen Sebelius testified that she has “no idea” if Obamacare adds to the deficit (2012)
  1829. CBO nearly doubled their Obamacare cost estimate to $1.76 trillion over 10 years (2012)
  1830. Longtime Democrat strategist James Carville argued that overturning Obamacare would be the ‘best thing that ever happened to the Democratic Party’ (2012)
  1831. Obama placed a figurative bounty on the “unelected” U.S. Supreme Court prior to their ruling
  1832. Obama charged that if the Supreme Court overturned Obamacare it would be “unprecedented”
  1833. Obama attacked judicial review, a power federal courts have exercised for over 200 years
  1834. U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the DOJ to “answer by Thursday whether the Obama administration believes that the courts have the right to strike down a federal law”
  1835. Obama administration diverted $500 million to the IRS for Obamacare (April 2012)
  1836. Barney Frank lamented that President Obama made a ‘mistake’ pushing so hard for Obamacare
  1837. Obama is spending $8.3 billion in taxpayer funds to mask the effect of Obamacare on seniors
  1838. Obamacare guts the popular Medicare Advantage program relied on by 12 million seniors
  1839. Medicare Advantage is a more market-oriented alternative to traditional Medicare without the aggravating gaps in coverage
  1840. Open Enrollment for these seniors would have begun prior to the election on October 15, 2012
  1841. HHS will spend $8.3 billion to temporarily restore Medicare Advantage until after the elections
  1842. Money originated from funds that the HHS is allowed to use for “demonstration projects”
  1843. To make the transfer legal, HHS has to pretend that it’s doing an “experiment” to study the effect of this money on the insurance market
  1844. Under a 1967 statute, the HHS secretary can spend money without specific approval by Congress on “experiments” directly aimed at “increasing the efficiency and economy of health services”
  1845. GAO released a report that no experiment was being conducted, just money being spent (2012)
  1846. GAO recommended that Health and Human Services (HHS) should cancel the project
  1847. Dr. David Scheiner, Obama’s longtime physician, blasted the health care reform law (2012)
  1848. Dr. Scheiner said that Obama has an “academic detachment” that he could never break through
  1849. Scheiner: Obama “lacks passion and feeling” and lacks the “sense of humanity that I expected”
  1850. Scheiner, a liberal, blasted Obama for being uncaring, and perhaps worse, incompetent
  1851. Obama privately told his donors that he may have to revisit health-care in a second term (2012)
  1852. Governor John Lynch (D-NH) signed into law legislation blocking Obamacare (June 2012)
  1853. Obama administration boosted Obamacare spending after SCOTUS’s oral arguments (2012)
  1854. CNN described the Supreme Court oral arguments as a “train wreck”
  1855. Obama and his media allies immediately began attacking the court following oral arguments
  1856. Chief Justice John Roberts, steward of the court, may have been pressured to change his decision
  1857. Supreme Court’s dissent, authored by Justice Kennedy, refers to another opinion as “the dissent” and uses the pronoun “we,” as if speaking for the Court, as majority opinions typically do
  1858. The dissent also focused on the government’s arguments, rather than tackling the majority head-on
  1859. Chief Justice John Roberts relied on flimsy reasoning to uphold Obamacare as a tax
  1860. Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt claimed that the Obama administration never referred to the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as a “tax” when it argued the bill’s constitutionality
  1861. Solicitor General Don Verrilli argued before the Supreme Court they could treat the mandate as a tax, therefore making it constitutional
  1862. President Obama previously argued to George Stephanopolus that the mandate was not a tax
  1863. President Obama said, “I absolutely object to the notion” that the Obamacare mandate is a tax
    “My critics say everything is a Tax increase.”
    ~President Obama

  1864. When asked if the mandate was a tax, W.H. Budget Director Jeffrey Zients responded “No”
  1865. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stated that, “[The individual mandate] is not per-say a tax”
  1866. Obama in 2009 promised no Obamacare tax and said the middle class would not pay for it
    Obamacare will “not have an impact on middle-class Americans. They’re not going to be forced to pay for this.”
    ~Obama speaking on CBS “Face the Nation” (September 20, 2009)
    “It is absolutely NOT a tax increase…”
    ~President Obama

  1867. Supreme Court upheld (5-4) Obamacare and the individual mandate as a tax (June 28, 2012)
    “[D]ecisions are entrusted to our nation’s elected leaders, who can be thrown out of office if the people disagree with them, it is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices.” ~Chief Justice John Roberts’ reasoning that Obama’s dishonesty does not invalidate Obamacare

  1868. Supreme Court outright rejected the Obama administration’s commerce-clause argument
    “The Framers knew the difference between doing something and doing nothing. They gave Congress the power to regulate commerce, not to compel it. Ignoring that distinction would undermine the principle that the Federal Government is a government of limited and enumerated powers. The individual mandate thus cannot be sustained under Congress’s power to “regulate Commerce.” ~Chief Justice John Roberts’ Opinion that Obamacare is “not commerce”

  1869. Obamacare: It’s not just a big f---ing deal… It’s a big f---ing tax on middle-class Americans
  1870. Obama: “By the way, if you’ve got health insurance, you’re not getting hit by a tax” (July 2012)
  1871. Supreme Court should have rejected the constitutionality of any bill that raises revenue and does not originate in the House of Representatives
  1872. Obamatax originated in the Senate, in direct violation of Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution
  1873. Legal scholars said that the Supreme Court rewrote Obamacare from the bench to make it a tax
  1874. Chief Justice John Roberts failed to mention what type of tax Obamacare is classified as, which would have to be enumerated as a limitation of the Constitution
  1875. Since it was is a tax, Obamacare can be repealed with just 50 votes in the Senate via reconciliation
  1876. DNC executive director Patrick Gaspard tweeted, “It’s constitutional. Bitches” (June 2012)
  1877. DNC’s Greg Greene gloated over Obamacare decision, tweeting “Take that Motherf---kers!!”
  1878. Michael Moore gleefully predicted, “We’re on path toward universal healthcare” (June 2012)
  1879. Most think that Obamacare will increase their health care costs, their premiums, and the deficit
  1880. WSJ Sr. Economist: 75% of Obamacare costs will fall on those making less than $120,000 a year
  1881. As a result of the decision, Democrats through their duplicity have imposed the biggest, broadest, and most regressive tax-hikes in history during a deep recession by passing Obamacare
  1882. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the courts four liberal justices – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer, and Elena Kagan – in voting to uphold the mandate as a “tax”
  1883. The Supreme Court also upheld the federal government’s ability to expand Medicaid coverage
  1884. Public approval of the Supreme Court fell to the lowest level on record after the decision (2012)
  1885. Some critics charge that Justice John Robert’s epilepsy medication affected his cognition
  1886. Mitt Romney raked in at least $4.3 million within the first 24-hours after the health care ruling
  1887. Obama’s campaign surrogate Deval Patrick (D-MA) still insisted that the mandate was not a tax
  1888. Chief Justice John Roberts joked about taking a trip to an “impregnable fortress” after his decision
  1889. Democrats began embracing the ‘Obamacare’ label that they once said was slanderous
  1890. President Obama threatened to veto a defense appropriations bill in part because it did not include higher health care fees for members of the military (June 2012)
  1891. Obama’s 2013 budget proposal included billions of dollars in higher fees for members of Tricare, the military health care system, as part of the plan to cut $500 billion from the Pentagon’s budget
  1892. Obama wanted to add a 400% increase to military member’s tricare fees in order to make Obamacare a more appealing option, thereby moving military families off of their Tricare membership
  1893. After the decision, Democrats immediately began moving to unionize Obamacare doctors (2012)
  1894. IRS hired 16,500 new agents tasked with determining whether your insurance policy merits a fine
  1895. Donald Trump: Chief Justice John Roberts “wanted to be loved by the Washington establishment”
  1896. Allen West (R-FL): “Every American should be mandated to buy a glock 9mm” (July 2, 2012)
    “What will be next? If you don’t buy a certain type of green car, they will tax you. If you don’t buy a certain type of food, they will tax you. Well, I got a great idea: I believe for personal security, every American should have to go out and buy a Glock 9mm. And if you don’t do it, we’ll tax you. Now, I wonder how the liberals will feel about that one.” ~Congressman Allen West (R-FL) speaking at a campaign rally in Florida (July 2, 2012)

  1897. Doctor Patient Medical Association Foundation conducted a 2012 survey and found that 83% of doctors have considered quitting the profession
  1898. Survey also found that 90% of doctors thought the medical field was on the wrong path
  1899. Doctors virtually all agreed that government is at fault for medicine being on the wrong track
  1900. Many doctors are concerned that corporate medicine is trying to destroy private medicine
  1901. Most (61%) of surveyed doctors feel that their Hippocratic oaths are being compromised
  1902. Majority (85%) of surveyed doctors felt that the patient-physician relationship is declining
  1903. Survey found that 37% of doctors said they were just squeaking by
  1904. Survey also found that 39% said things would get worse over the next five years
    “You can keep your doctor if you want to.”
    ~Barack Obama

  1905. The highest number of physicians ever are opting out of seeing Medicare and Medicaid patients
  1906. Doctors feel that the best way to attack the current problems is to restore autonomy, eliminate government involvement, increase patient responsibility and implement free market reforms
    “I have been in practice for 28 years and medicine is now the worst for doctors it has ever been and I don’t see it getting any better. We needed insurance reform not health care reform, we got neither.”
    ~Orthopedist from Texas
    “Less government will mean better and less expensive medical care. Government is the problem. Are there any long term Government run programs that aren’t riddled with inefficiency and corruption?”
    ~General surgeon from Illinois
    “Obamacare will be the ultimate [end] of the solo practitioner and small practices.” ~Dermatologist from Missouri

  1907. Polling shows that Obama did not receive a bounce following the Obamacare ruling (July 2012)
  1908. As just a start, lawyers had already drafted 13,000 pages of new ObamaTax law by July 5, 2012
  1909. President Obama lined up his domestic army of IRS agents to dole out punishment and fear
  1910. Governor Paul LePage (R-ME) described the IRS as the “new Gestapo” (July 2012)
    “We the people have been told there is no choice. You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo – the IRS… Even more disheartening is that reviving the American dream just became nearly impossible to do. We are now a nation which supports dependency rather than independence. Instead of encouraging self-reliance, we are encouraging people to rely on the government.” ~Governor Paul LePage (R-ME) (July 2012)

  1911. Estimated cost of Obamacare rose to $2.6 trillion, $1.7 trillion more than Obama promised
  1912. House Republicans and five Democrats voted to repeal Obamacare (244-185) (July 2012)
  1913. Obamacare was sold to America based on three broken promises: That it’s a tax on middle income taxpayers; Obama said that health care premiums would go down (they went up about $2,500); and Obama said that if you like the plan you have, you could keep it
  1914. States began limiting the number of drug prescriptions for Medicaid patients (August 2012)
  1915. It required 18-pages just to define a “full-time employee” for Obamacare
  1916. CBO said that nearly 6 million Americans will face a “tax penalty” in 2014 under Obamacare
  1917. CBO’s estimate was 2 million more than their estimate in 2010
  1918. Most of the 6 million Americans that will potentially pay the Obamatax are in the middle class
  1919. CBO found that “80% of those who’ll face the penalty would be making up to or less than five times the federal poverty level ($55,850 or less for an individual / $115,250 or less for a family of four)
  1920. CBO estimated the Obamatax will raise $6.9 billion in 2016 and the average tax would be $1,600
  1921. Premiums for employer-provided family coverage rose $3,065 (by 24%) from 2008 to 2012
    “[T]he only thing we’re going to try to do is lower costs so that cost savings are passed onto you. And we estimate we can cut the average family’s premium by about $2,500 per year.”
    ~Obama in a debate with Senator John McCain (2008)
    “We are going to work with you to lower your premiums by $2,500. We will not wait 20 years from now to do it, or 10 years from now to do it. We will do it by the end of my first term as president.”
    ~Obama at a campaign stop in Columbus, Ohio (February 2008)

  1922. New Obamacare tax form mandates that Americans report personal health ID info to the IRS (2012)
  1923. Health costs for employers increased $1.79 per hour for each full-time employee (November 2012)
  1924. Supreme Court ordered the appeals court to hear a health care lawsuit over mandated contraceptives
  1925. More than a dozen Democratic senators who voted for Obamacare, lobbied against its “job-killing tax” regarding medical devices
  1926. Some policyholder’s insurance premiums went up by double-digit percentages in 2013
  1927. Anthem Blue Cross (CA) proposed raising its rates by 26%, and other private insurers are onboard
  1928. IRS assumed that the cheapest Obamacare plan (bronze) will cost about $20,000 per family by 2016
  1929. CBO: Obamacare will cost 7 million workers their job-based health insurance coverage (February 2013)
  1930. CBO estimated that the new health provisions will cost $1.165 trillion over the next decade (2013)





    1931. Frank-Dodd Financial Reform expanded union and government control over the economy

  1931. The Dodd-Frank financial regulation law was named after the two responsible for the recession
  1932. Democrats controlled the Senate with a super majority in the House of Representatives
  1933. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Chris Dodd (D-CT) led the efforts despite their roles in the recession
  1934. Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) stated, “no one will know until this is actually in place how it works”
  1935. The Democrat financial reform bill institutionalized the cause of the 2008 mortgage meltdown
  1936. The 2,319 page financial reform bill is full of provisions catering to unions and special interests
  1937. Democrats ignored the government-run mortgage-finance giants Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac
  1938. Legislation gives government new powers to break up companies that ‘threaten’ the economy
  1939. Obama specifically stated that the bill would “increase transparency in financial dealings”
  1940. Securities and Exchange Commission was exempted from disclosing virtually any information
  1941. Unions and activist organizations can infiltrate the board of directors of every U.S. corporation
  1942. Law favors Democrat constituencies by requiring banks and federal agencies to discriminate
  1943. Creates more than 20 “offices of minority and women inclusion” within the federal bureaucracy
  1944. Federal agencies must apply “fair employment tests” to banks and other financial institutions
  1945. Law places costly new burdens on many airlines, utilities, and other non-financial businesses
  1946. Provides the ability for just one person to try to create social justice in the financial system
  1947. Reform bill potentially affects everything from debit cards to ability to invest in hedge funds
  1948. After passage, 10 regulatory agencies were given discretion to write hundreds of new finance rules
  1949. Goldman Sachs emerged “practically unscathed” from the Democrat's Wall Street reform bill
  1950. Frank-Dodd Act created a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
  1951. The new agency is an “independent entity” housed under the United States Federal Reserve
  1952. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s power is concentrated in a single director
  1953. New rules on credit cards, mortgages and other financial products do not require Senate approval
  1954. CFPB began supervising the 30 largest firms that make up 94% of the credit rating industry (2012)
  1955. Marks the first time that a single government agency took an active role in policing credit bureaus
  1956. Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 required them to keep accurate information about consumers
  1957. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) was responsible for enforcing the Fair Credit Reporting Act
  1958. Obama picked Elizabeth Warren to launch the law’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  1959. Elizabeth Warren basically argued that everyone owes everything to the government (2011)
  1960. Frank-Dodd Act created a 10-member U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Council led by Geithner
  1961. Banks warn that new standards on liquidity starting in 2015 will sharply curtail private lending
  1962. Chris Dodd (D-CT) retired prior to the 2010 elections after spending 30 years in the Senate
  1963. Barney Frank (D-MA) retired following 32 years in the House of Representatives (2012)
  1964. Barney Frank argued, “I don’t want [America] to be the indispensable nation” (January 2013)

    1965. Secular leftists have learned to use religion as a propaganda tool to push for “social justice”

  1965. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi used Christmas as leverage to try to pass a health care bill
    “I’m confident… I’m hopeful that we will have a (health care) bill as a Christmas present for the American people.”
    ~Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (November 2009)

  1966. Nancy Pelosi said the GOP budget cuts will force seniors into starvation, and then quoted scripture
  1967. NBC News’ Rev. Sharpton: Republicans can’t “use Christianity” then vote against welfare (2011)
  1968. Sharpton misinterpreted the use of a Bible verse, “If anyone will not work, neither shall they eat,” to mean “if you don’t have work, you should starve,” and then added, “Republicans aren’t the answer”
  1969. Gallup polling shows that majority of Democrats seldom or never even go to church (2011)
  1970. Congressman Charlie Rangel (D-MI) said that “silence of clergy is almost frightening” after all of the “biblical work” Democrats have done on entitlements and the economy (2011)
  1971. Nancy Pelosi bashed Catholics because “they have this conscience thing” to worry about (2011)
  1972. Pelosi was upset that bishops wouldn’t approve forcing insurance to cover drugs for abortion
    “Let’s honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion, and draft a sensible conscience clause, and make sure that all of our health care policies are grounded in clear ethics.” ~President Obama speaking at Notre Dame (2009)

  1973. Robert Creamer, the political architect of Obamacare, argued that Catholic institutions should agree to provide birth control as a “moral imperative” to stop population growth
  1974. Pelosi said it was “sad” that people used the religious freedom “excuse” for their opposition
  1975. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said that the GOP “take away the highest essence of all religious faith”
  1976. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) suggested that Americans don’t actually follow the Christian faith (2012)
    “There is a few, in the... some in the Catholic church and maybe some other Evangelical churches, I don’t know, that think it’s wrong, but NONE of the American people follow that.” ~Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)

  1977. Christians on the left issued advice and praise for Occupy Wall Street to push for redistribution of wealth
  1978. Audience at an Obama speech booed a man who shouted, “Jesus Christ is the true and living God”
  1979. Current TV’s Cenk Uygur slammed Fox News, “Is that what Jesus Christ would have done?”
  1980. Jennifer Granholm tweeted that God had ways to shut down the GOP convention (August 2012)
  1981. Current TV’s David Shuster joked about God smiting the GOP convention (August 2012)
  1982. Samuel L. Jackson was upset that God “spared” the GOP convention from Hurricane Isaac (2012)
  1983. Democrats handed out calendars at the DNC that used John 3:16 in reference to Obama
  1984. Democrats dropped “God” from their official 2012 party platform (September 2012)
  1985. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) opened up an anti-gun press conference with a prayer (2013)
  1986. Dean of the National Cathedral Reverend Canon Gary Hall said he could no longer justify a society that allowed ordinary citizens to keep and bear “assault weapons” (January 2013)
    “Everyone in this city seems to live in terror of the gun lobby. But I believe that the gun lobby is no match for the cross lobby.” ~Dean of the National Cathedral Reverend Canon Gary Hall (January 2013)

  1987. MSNBC’s Al Sharpton dropped “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance (February 2013)
    “We must have a renewed fight for many of the things we fought for because voting rights, and women’s rights, and the rights of people against discrimination, whether they’re African-American, Latino, lesbian and gay must be protected, until we have a nation that is really living up to the creed of one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Not all of one kind, but all.”
    ~Al Sharpton commercial for MSNBC (2013)

    1988. Obama rebranded and peddled socialism to the American public as “Collective Salvation”

  1988. Saul Alinsky Rule #4: make opponents live up to their own book of rules (what would Jesus do?)
  1989. Reverend Jeremiah Wright preached that racism, capitalism, and militarism are the enemy
  1990. Obama replaced Rev. Jeremiah Wright with self-described activist preacher Rev. Jim Wallis
  1991. Jim Wallis joined the anti-Vietnam War movement & Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
  1992. In 1979,Time magazine hailed Jim Wallis as one of the “50 Faces for America’s Future”
  1993. Rev. Jim Wallis has connections to Hamas, Marxism, and billionaire activist George Soros
  1994. Jim Wallis is an activist preacher and editor of the leftwing Christian magazine Sojourners
  1995. Sojourner editorials exculpated Cambodia’s communist Khmer Rouge of charges of genocide
  1996. Jim Wallis apologized for communist atrocities in Cambodia and Vietnam
  1997. Rev. Jim Wallis denied ties to George Soros until investigations later forced him to do so
  1998. George Soros provided Rev. Jim Wallis’ Sojourners with a $200,000 grant in 2004
  1999. Sojourners received at least two more grants from Soros organizations since then
  2000. George Soros’ Open Society Foundation gave another $150,000 to Sojourners in 2011
  2001. Wallis is a registered Democrat, a Democratic Party operative, and a dedicated foe of capitalism
  2002. Jim Wallis founded an anti-capitalism magazine called ‘The Post American’ in 1971
  2003. Wallis said wealth redistribution and government-managed economies are keys to “social justice”
  2004. Jim Wallis contends that Biblical scripture calls for large central government to aid the poor
    “…To articulate the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world.” ~Segment of the founding mission of The Post American (later renamed Sojourners)

  2005. In 1995, Jim Wallis founded Call to Renewal, a coalition of leftwing religious groups
  2006. Call to Renewal advocated for leftist economic agendas to promote “social justice”
  2007. Jim Wallis hoped that “more Christians will come to view the world through Marxist eyes”
  2008. Jim Wallis openly supported the Soviet Union during the Cold War
  2009. Wallis tried to undercut public support for stopping the spread of Communism in Central America
  2010. Jim Wallis, as Obama’s spiritual advisor, engaged in a “hunger fast” to help stop GOP budget cuts
  2011. Fliers were placed on cars in church parking lots urging Christians to oppose budget cuts
  2012. Reverend Jim Wallis said that OWS protester’s stances showed that “they stand with Jesus”
  2013. Jim Wallis and Richard Land joined 140 Christian leaders for a mass push for immigration reform
  2014. Jim Wallis, liberal faith leaders, and leftist Christians partied with ‘beers and hymns,’ praised the ‘Occupy’ movement, and touted ‘social justice’ during the Wild Goose Festival (2012)
  2015. President Obama told his audience that “God wants to see us” pass his jobs bill (2011)
  2016. Spokesman Jay Carney made up a bible quote: “The Lord helps those who help themselves”
  2017. Obama used the National Prayer Breakfast to explain to religious leaders that his understanding of the teachings of Jesus Christ led him to believe taxes need to be raised on rich people (2012)
  2018. President Obama tied his social justice political agenda to a commandment from God (2012)
  2019. Gallup polling showed that 44% still couldn’t name President Obama’s religion (June 2012)
  2020. Michelle compared Barack to biblical figures at AME Church conference in Nashville (June 2012)
  2021. Obama told a Buddhist monk, “we’re going to need a lot of prayer” to reach a budget deal (2012)
  2022. GOP candidate Mitt Romney gave roughly 16% of his income to charity from 2010 to 2011
  2023. By comparison, Barack and Michelle Obama gave less than 1% to charity from 2000 to 2004
  2024. Between 2005 and 2006, Barack and Michelle Obama donated 5.7% of their income to charity
  2025. Joe Biden and his wife gave just $369 a year (0.3%) in charity over the course of a decade
  2026. In 2010, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife donated just $5,350, or about 1.4% of their income
  2027. In 2011, the Joe Biden and his wife donated just 1.5% of their income to charity, including: $1,000 to the U.N. World Food Program; $1,080 to the Northern Virginia Community College Alumni Scholarship Fund; $1,000 to the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware; $360 to a breast health initiative launched by Dr. Jill Biden; and $50 to the Wounded Warrior Project
  2028. In 1997, Vice President Al Gore and his then wife Tipper gave $353 in charitable contributions
  2029. Romney donated $4,020,772 (13.45%) to charity in 2011, nearly doubling Obama’s rate of giving
  2030. IRS audits of tax-exempt charities have increased 79% under President Obama (2009-2011)
  2031. A portrait, painted by Michael D’Antuono and titled “Truth,” depicted Obama as a crucified Jesus
  2032. The portrait was displayed at Bunker Hill Community College, a public college (November 2012)
  2033. Newsweek labeled President Obama as “The Second Coming” on their online publication (January 2013)
  2034. Obama’s new pastor, Ronald Braxton, led a “Forward!” chant at the pre-inauguration church service
  2035. Ronald Braxton compared Obama to the founder of Judaism and the prophet of the Bible, Moses
  2036. Ronald Braxton added that Obama’s political opponents were like the Biblical enemies of Moses
  2037. Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA) warned of “mob scenes” without “equity in society” (2013)

    2038. Nancy Pelosi promised to lead “the most honest, most open, most ethical Congress in history”

  2038. Federal debt under Obama and Progressive Liberal Democrats ballooned to over $15 trillion
  2039. Our debt has increased $5 trillion since Speaker Pelosi vowed, “No new deficit spending…”
  2040. $5.343 trillion added to the debt during Pelosi’s 4-year Speakership, equaling $3.66 billion per day
  2041. Nancy Pelosi, the 52nd Speaker of the House, amassed more debt than the first 49 combined
  2042. Nancy Pelosi’s net worth increased by 62% up to $35.2 million in 2010 while serving taxpayers
  2043. Pelosi failed to disclose a conflict of interest of a business deal and the selection of an ambassador
  2044. House rules do not require members to disclose the underlying assets of Subchapter S corporations
  2045. Pelosi’s husband, Paul F. Pelosi, is a longtime business associate of Angelo Tsakopoulos
  2046. Washington Times questioned business dealings between Pelosi’s husband and a land deal (2010)
  2047. Mrs. Pelosi first listed the asset on her federal financial-disclosure form a month later in May 2010
  2048. Paul F. Pelosi had invested in land in California now worth between $5 and $25 million
  2049. Paul F. Pelosi made the undisclosed land deal with Angelo Tsakopoulos in the late 1990s
  2050. Washington Times reported that Pelosi had received between $1 million and $9 million from four other real estate investments with Angelo Tsakopoulos and his company, AKT Development Corp.
  2051. Speaker Nancy Pelosi then helped Angelo Tsakopoulos’ daughter become ambassador to Hungary
  2052. Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis was president of AKT Development from 1997 until 2009
  2053. Pelosi praised Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis at her Senate confirmation hearing (November 2009)
  2054. Eleni also had the support of Hillary Clinton (D), Dianne Feinstein (D), and Barbara Boxer (D)
  2055. Eleni was sworn in by Mrs. Clinton in January 2010 with her father and Mrs. Pelosi by her side
  2056. As speaker, Pelosi facilitated financial reform despite being involved with credit card companies
  2057. Pelosi blocked credit card reform while investing millions in an exclusive Visa stock offering
  2058. Pelosi bought up to $5 million of Visa stock and then watched her investment skyrocket 203%
  2059. Pelosi received her Visa IPO two weeks after the Credit Card Fair Fee Act was introduced (2008)
  2060. Despite broad support for the bill, Pelosi made sure the bill never made it to the House floor
  2061. Pelosi also blocked the Credit Card Interchange Fee Act of 2008 due to the interchange fees
  2062. Nancy Pelosi’s “expert” for economic growth was a family friend and business partner
  2063. William Hambrecht has worked with Nancy and Paul Pelosi as far back as the early 1970s
  2064. Bill Hambrecht is an investment partner with the Pelosi’s and was also their son’s former boss
  2065. Hambrecht appeared with Pelosi three times at economic policy forums as an “economic expert”
  2066. Pelosi failed to disclose their financial relationship prior to his appearances as a so-called expert
  2067. Bill Hambrecht has invested at least $2 million in Democratic Party campaigns and causes
  2068. Bill Hambrecht gave Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi at least $38,000 in campaign contributions
  2069. Nancy and Paul Pelosi have made numerous investments in Hambrecht-related companies over the years, including a failed $12 million investment in Hambrecht’s United Football League
  2070. Pelosi invested millions into Hambrecht-related Matthews International Capital Management
  2071. The investment produced between $100,000 to $1 million of income for the Pelosis just in 2010
    Nancy Pelosi had previously given a speech from the floor of the United States House of Representatives “acknowledging his contributions and on-going dedication to social justice and the advancement of the Bay Area’s well-being. I applaud his commitment to his community and cherish his friendship.”
    ~Nancy Pelosi honoring William Hambrecht on July 19, 2001

  2072. Many consider William Hambrecht a pioneer in the field of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
  2073. In 2010, Hambrecht appeared before the House Finance Committee, chaired by Barney Frank
  2074. Hambrecht pushed for an exemption change in the registration process for stock IPOs (2010)
  2075. William Hambrecht “wanted the exemption raised to $30 million, which would greatly benefit his business, making IPOs easier, quicker, and far less expensive” (2010)
  2076. Barney Frank was quoted as saying that Nancy Pelosi had been the inspiration for the hearing
  2077. Pelosi threatened to abuse the House ethics process in order to harm Newt Gingrich (2011)
  2078. In the late 1990s, Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) served on the ethics committee that investigated then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA) for tax cheating and campaign finance violations
    “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich. When the time is right…. I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.” ~House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
    (December 2011)

  2079. Nancy Pelosi: “There is something I know” that will never allow Gingrich to be president (2012)
  2080. Pelosi criticized the GOP for trying to get answers on ‘Fast and Furious’ for Brian Terry’s family
    “It’s just the irresponsibility of the Republicans. We want jobs. Why are they spending this time doing this?” ~Nancy Pelosi criticizing a looming contempt vote against Eric Holder

  2081. Pelosi claimed she could have arrested Karl Rove based on “any number” of charges (2012)
    “I could have arrested Karl Rove on any given day. I’m not kidding. There’s a prison here in the Capitol. If we had spotted him in the Capitol, we could have arrested him.” ~House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), as reported by the Huffington Post (2012)

  2082. Karl Rove was a senior policy adviser, not the top law enforcement official in the United States
  2083. Pelosi skirted ethics rules by soliciting campaign contributions in a federal office building (2012)
  2084. Pelosi “swears” that the spirit of Susan B. Anthony and others spoke to her in the White House
  2085. Pelosi displayed a frightening lack of knowledge about the U.S. Constitution (November 2012)
    “I’m with the 11th amendment… is it the 11th amendment that… uh…? 14th? Whatever it is… I’m with the constitution of the United States.” ~House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (November 2012)

  2086. Study found that 16 members of Congress funneled millions to their relatives’ employers (2012)
  2087. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) secured $5.3 million in taxpayer funding for the University of Houston
  2088. Sheila Jackson Lee’s husband had been employed at the University of Houston since 1978
  2089. Sheila Jackson Lee sought another $16.5 million more for the University of Houston
  2090. Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) secured $4 million for a Pentagon program connected to his wife
  2091. Ed Pastor (D-AZ) earmarked $4 million for an education program directed by his daughter
  2092. Congressman Robert E. Andrews (D-NJ) earmarked $3.4 million for a scholarship program at Rutgers School of Law, where his wife Camille Spinello Andrews is an associate dean of the law school
  2093. Dan Lipinski (D-IL) secured $2.5 million for his dad’s lobbying client, Chicago Transit Authority
  2094. Corrine Brown (D-FL) earmarked $21.9 million for clients of a firm where her daughter works
  2095. Local media outlets targeted Ben Cardin (D-MD) for questionable congressional insider trading
  2096. Congress called for hearings on Congressional insider trading following media investigations
  2097. Congress scrambled to pass new insider trading laws that apply to members of Congress
  2098. Congress proposed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act in 2011
  2099. Law professors claim Pelosi could be prosecuted under existing insider trading laws (2011)
  2100. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) proposed a bill that would legalize Congressional insider trading
  2101. Obama called for a law banning congressional insider trading during the 2012 SOTU Address
  2102. When Obama signed the STOCK Act into law, he compared it to Occupy Wall Street’s agenda
  2103. Democrats made time in Congress for Colbert’s comedy, but not for extending the tax cuts
  2104. Democrats received more money from foreign-connected PACs for the 2010 election cycle
  2105. Democrats tried to pass their agenda items after the 2010 elections to avoid a greater backlash
  2106. Lame-duck session of Congress was used to push through controversial last-minute items
  2107. Democrats pursued amnesty through the DREAM Act and repealing DADT during the lame-duck
  2108. Obama and Democrats also rushed through a nuclear arms treaty during the lame-duck session
  2109. Democrats advancing the ‘North American Union’ agenda to quietly erase American sovereignty
  2110. Democrats in the CBC proposed gutting the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) of power
  2111. Edwards and Maffei amendments show Democrats using the legislative process for political gains
  2112. Liberal Melvin Watt (D-N.C.) held a fundraiser and then withdrew a proposal for regulations
  2113. Eleanor Holmes (D-DC) left a voicemail asking for lobbyist cash for previous work provided
  2114. Jim Moran (D-VA) made 90 stock trades one day after a private Congressional economics meeting
  2115. Democrats raised $1.4 million a day before a scheduled vote on new campaign fundraising rules
  2116. General Electric’s (GE) massive tax department is led by former Treasury official John Samuels
  2117. John Samuels met with Charlie Rangel (D-MI) and begged him to renew a lucrative tax break
  2118. Democrats on the Ways & Means Committee testified that Rangel changed his mind that same day
  2119. Rangel stood with GE’s Jeffrey Immelt as he announced a $30 million donation to NYC schools
  2120. Various schools within Charlie Rangel’s (D-MI) district received $11 million of the donation
  2121. Charlie Rangel was convicted of 11 ethics violations in 2010, including failure to pay some taxes and using congressional resources to raise money for an academic center bearing his name
  2122. Congress censured Rangel in 2010 for soliciting donations from corporations and executives
  2123. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) was investigated for possible ethics violations and sexual harassment
  2124. Hastings was previously impeached from his Federal Judgeship for taking bribes
  2125. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) resigned after lying about posting lewd photos of himself on Facebook
  2126. House Ethics Committee investigated Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) for violating federal laws
  2127. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) lobbied Gov. Blagojevich in an attempt to buy Obama’s old Senate seat
  2128. Jackson Jr. used congressional staff to mount a “public campaign” to secure a Senate appointment
  2129. Fundraisers Raghuveer Nayak and Rajinder Bedi declined to cooperate with the investigation
  2130. Federal investigators launched numerous probes of Jackson’s finances for suspicious activity
  2131. Jackson entered into the Mayo Clinic to treat a bipolar disorder during his re-election year (2012)
  2132. Jackson wife, Sandi Jackson, steadfastly supported her husband despite reports of his infidelity
  2133. Sandi Jackson described reporters as “jackals” at a campaign fundraiser in Chicago (2012)
  2134. Despite not sending out campaign mailers or speaking on video or in public in months, records show that Jesse Jackson Jr. spent about the same amount of money that other candidates had spent
  2135. Jackson’s expenditures include fees paid to a political consulting business owned by his wife Sandi
  2136. Jesse Jackson Jr. reportedly was willing to resign if he was given disability pay when he stepped down
  2137. Federal investigators took an independent look at Sandi Jackson, a former alderman for the 7th Ward
  2138. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) was chosen as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (2007)
  2139. NYT expose alleged conflicts of interest and wrongdoing by retired military analysts (April 2008)
  2140. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) and 40 House Democrats promptly demanded an investigation (2008)
  2141. New York Times was subsequently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for their work on the article
  2142. Investigations by the Pentagon I.G., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the General Accounting Office (GAO) all found that there was no wrongdoing or misconduct (2008)
  2143. After Obama was elected president, Levin pressed the Pentagon I.G. for a reinvestigation (2009)
  2144. The inspector general reported that its three-year investigation was complete in September 2011
  2145. Once again, the Pentagon’s inspector general concluded that there was no wrongdoing (2011)
  2146. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee began examining Levin’s meddling (2011)
  2147. Carl Levin intervened in an investigation in order to influence the wording of the final IG report
  2148. House ethics committee investigated Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) in 2006
  2149. Conyers violated House rules by using his staff to work on several local and state campaigns
  2150. Conyers used aides as baby sitters, personal servants, and had them pay restaurant and motel bills
  2151. John Conyers’ aides were actually supposed to be working in his Detroit, Michigan offices
  2152. Conyers “accepted responsibility” for possibly violating House rules due to a “lack of clarity”
  2153. Conyers promised to hold impeachment hearings for George Bush and Dick Cheney, but didn’t
  2154. Conyers’ wife Monica (D-MI) was indicted on corruption charges involving contracts in Detroit
  2155. Monica Conyers pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bribery in June 2009
  2156. Monica Conyers was sentenced to 37 months in prison followed by two-years probation (2010)
  2157. Monica Conyers arranged to get aide Sam Riddle a contract with Dimitrios (Jim) Papas (2007)
  2158. Riddle was hired for crisis consulting and political advising, but was never asked to do any work
  2159. Monica Conyers demanded half of the $20,000 contract from Sam Riddle as a “finder’s fee”
  2160. John Conyers sent a letter to the EPA in support of a controversial hazardous waste injection well
  2161. The well, located in Romulus, happened to be one that Papas’ companies was seeking to operate
  2162. FBI arrested and charged Kinde Durkee, a prominent Democratic campaign treasurer, for mail fraud
  2163. Durkee was the treasurer for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), and others
  2164. Durkee was sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay $10.5 million in restitution (2012)
    “Yes, I am aware that there is fraud in the program, that’s why anti-fraud provisions were written into the settlement… It’s not my job to monitor fraud in the program.”~Congressman Sanford Bishop (D-GA) (January 20, 2011)

  2165. Sanford Bishop (D-GA) helped cover up Pigford fraud warning that “they’ll shut this thing down”
  2166. Congressman Sanford Bishop’s wife, Vivian Bishop, was accused by a co-worker of a check fraud scheme (2012) against her office and the Black Congressional Caucus Foundation Scholarship Fund
  2167. Sanford Bishop gave “privately-funded scholarships to his stepdaughter and his wife’s niece”
  2168. Vivian Bishop’s co-worker witnessed her depositing at least one of the checks in her own account
  2169. Scholarship checks were issued to people who weren’t legitimately in school or going to school
  2170. Democrats perpetrated a phony contraceptive controversy in order to raise money (2012)
  2171. Sen. John Kerry housed his yacht in Rhode Island in order to avoid paying a sales tax on it (2010)
  2172. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-FL) investigated tax loopholes and claimed he was against them (2011)
  2173. Ben Nelson used a tax loophole to avoid paying $43,000 in property taxes in Florida
  2174. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee since 2010
  2175. House Ethics Committee accused Maxine Waters of improperly trying to facilitate federal bailout financing and doing special favors for a Boston-based bank, OneUnited
  2176. Maxine Waters’ husband had stock in OneUnited worth about $200,000 at the time
  2177. House Committee said that it would continue its investigation into the allegations (June 2012)
  2178. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) consistently demands that Americans pay their “fair share”
  2179. Sherrod Brown was delinquent on his own District of Columbia property taxes (2012)
  2180. Ex-CIA chief said that Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) lied about her waterboarding knowledge (2012)
  2181. House Ethics Committee unanimously voted to investigate Shelley Berkley (D-NV) (2012)
  2182. Shelley Berkley’s husband runs the Kidney Specialists of Southern Nevada
  2183. Shelley Berkely allegedly attempted to direct cash towards the kidney health care industry
  2184. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) sought a “green vehicle” earmark for a for-profit school, Delaware Valley High School, where his adult son, Chaka “Chip” Fattah Jr., worked as director of business development
  2185. Justice Department investigated Chaka Fattah Jr. and the FBI searched his home and office
  2186. Chaka “Chip” Fattah Jr.’s company, 259 Strategies, has a $450,000 contract with the school
  2187. Philadelphia reportedly pays Delaware Valley High School more than $4 million per year (2012)
  2188. Chaka Fattah Sr. received a $375,000 solicitation for federal funds from the school and then advocated that the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee earmark money for the project in 2009
  2189. The 2009 transportation bill never got off the ground, but the solicitation was investigated anyways
  2190. Chaka Fattah Sr. oversees DOJ’s budget as the top Democrat on the appropriations subcommittee
  2191. House Ethics Committee strongly condemned Congresswoman Laura Richardson (D-CA) after finding her guilty of improperly pressuring her official staff to campaign for her, destroying evidence, and tampering with witness testimony
  2192. Laura Richardson claimed that the committee was racist and investigated her because she is black
  2193. After having delayed her interview with the House Ethics committee, Laura Richardson agreed to an interview, but then cut it short so that she could participate in a congressional softball game (2012)
  2194. Laura Richardson previously raised suspicion after defaulting on three different home loans while at the same time having donated over $77,000 to her campaign and dodged taxes and utility bills
  2195. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) helped a Chinese solar firm represented by his son, Rory Reid (2012)
  2196. Rory Reid works as an attorney for the Chinese renewable energy company, ENN Mojave Energy
  2197. Harry Reid pressured NV Energy to purchase more renewable energy, despite the cost to consumers
  2198. ENN was sold public land in Nevada for $4.5 million, despite being appraised for $38.6 million
  2199. Reid denied involvement in a Utah businessman’s scheme to make a FTC investigation disappear
  2200. Jeremy Johnson told the Salt Lake Tribune that he believed that Reid would intervene in a FTC investigation into his business after allegedly paying $600,000 to someone connected to Reid
  2201. Illinois state workers were unethically and illegally forced to attend an event featuring Nancy Pelosi, Jesse Jackson Sr., and Jesse Jackson Jr. on the taxpayers’ dime (March 2012)
  2202. According to a whistleblower, Jesse Jackson Sr. encouraged the government employees to load first-generation and low-income college students with student loan debt
  2203. Jesse Jackson Sr. allegedly promised that Democrats in Congress would eventually pass laws to forgive the debt later and “those people will continue to vote Democratic”
  2204. Businesses affiliated with the husband of Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Joseph Shepard, received about $39 million of taxpayer money for low-income housing developments during her first five years in office
  2205. Shepard earned between $400,000 and $2.6 million from those businesses in the years in which they received government payments from the DOA’s Rural Housing Service or from HUD (2007-2011)
  2206. Claire McCaskill defended her votes and claimed that they represented no conflicts of interest
  2207. McCaskill said that most of the housing subsidy contracts were initiated before she became senator
  2208. Although, Shepard invested in some after she was elected and renewed others during her term in office
  2209. Shepard used the Senate dining room to cut business deals selling tax credits tied to “stimulus” money
  2210. Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (D-LA) was indicted on corruption charges (January 2013
  2211. Corruption charges filed against Ray Nagin includes money laundering, bribery, and fraud
  2212. Emails show FBI investigating Bob Menendez (D-NJ) for sleeping with underage Dominican prostitutes
  2213. Two Dominican Republic prostitutes alleged that they were under-paid to have sex with Menendez
  2214. NRSC: Bob Menendez may have broken Senate ethics rules and federal campaign finance laws
  2215. FBI raided the offices of a Menendez donor linked to the alleged prostitution scandal (January 2013)
  2216. Menendez admitted to flying to the Dominican Republic on his donor’s private plane (January 2013)
  2217. Bob Menendez’ donor, Dr. Salomon Melgen, has financed several other high-ranking politicians
  2218. Salomon Melgen and his wife have donated to former President Bill Clinton (D), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Hillary’s brother Hugh Rodham, former Vice President Al Gore (D), Kendrick Meek (D-FL), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Chris Dodd (D-CT), Bob Graham, Tom Harkin, Bill Nelson, Dick Gephardt, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)
  2219. Melgen also gave $250 to Mark Foley (R-FL), who resigned in disgrace in September 2006
  2220. Melgen and his wife Flor hosted fundraisers and grew close to the Clinton family in the 1990s
  2221. Long before the FBI raid, Menendez tried to help Melgen’s Dominican Republic business
  2222. As more prostitutes came forward, one said that Menenedez “likes the newest and youngest girls”
  2223. IRS filed a federal tax lien against Melgen for about $1.3 million for unpaid taxes dating back to 1999
  2224. Melgen’s political contributions exploded after the IRS filed a tax lien against him (November 2002)
  2225. From 1993 until 2006, the Melgens gave $88,360, almost entirely to Democrat politicians
  2226. From 2006 to 2012, the Melgens nearly quadrupled their contributions ($324,600) to politicians
  2227. Salomon Melgen’s original 2002 IRS tax lien was later wiped away for unknown reasons
  2228. Melgen began hosting sex parties replete with “sex, hookers and drinking,” which Menendez attended
  2229. In 2008, Melgen was hit with a second tax lien for $6.2 million, which was also lifted in August 2011
  2230. In 2011, Melgen expanded and increased and his political profile as a donor by giving to two prominent Hispanic Republicans, Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)
  2231. In May 2011, Melgen was hit with a third tax lien of $11.1 million for unpaid taxes dating back to 2006
  2232. Melgen and Emilio Sanchez founded the Hispanic media company VOXXI, with Sanchez as CEO
  2233. Melgen’s name is listed as the managing member of La Vox LLC, which owns VOXXI
  2234. Salomon Melgen and Emilio Sanchez threw a party to celebrate VOXXI’s launch and invited Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)
  2235. A tipster alerted the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) to investigate
  2236. CREW alerted ABC News reporter Rhonda Schwartz and the FBI about the prostitution scandal
  2237. FBI Special Agent Regino Chavez launched an inquiry into Melgen and Menendez (August 2012)
  2238. ABC News reporter Rhonda Schwartz investigated the prostitution scandal but never ran the story
  2239. Julissa Bonfante, a spokesman for VOXXI, said that leadership decided to ignore covering the story
    “There is no relationship between VOXXI and the Dr. Salomon Melgen-Senator Robert Menendez story. We don’t have to make a statement.”
    ~Emilion Sanchez when asked for a statement

  2240. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) defended Menendez and expressed “confidence he did nothing wrong”
  2241. Harry Reid (D-NV) described Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) as “an outstanding senator” (2013)
    “Senator Menendez has traveled on Dr. Melgen’s plane on three occasions, all of which have been paid for and reported appropriately.”
    ~Senator Bob Menendez’s (D-NJ) staff

  2242. Flight records suggested there was an undisclosed fourth Easter flight to the Dominican Republic
  2243. Menendez was defiant and claimed that the prostitute allegations were “nameless, faceless” “smears”
  2244. Menendez claimed that he was simply too busy to pay back the money for the flights (February 2013)
  2245. Menendez said that reimbursement for the Dominican Republic flights “fell through the cracks”
  2246. Menendez hired crisis-expert Matt Miller to assist with his communications strategy (February 2013)
  2247. Matt Miller was a spokesman for the DOJ and is very close to Attorney General Eric Holder
  2248. Melgen donated $700,000 to a SuperPAC that campaigned for Menendez’s reelection in 2012
  2249. Menendez pressed a State Department official at a hearing to intervene in a contract dispute
  2250. The contract dispute would potentially reap an enormous profit for Dr. Salomon Melgen (July 2012)
  2251. Senator Menendez also tried to intervene in a dispute over whether Melgen over-billed Medicare
  2252. GOP: Menendez spending 87% of his wealth to pay for flights raises questions (February 2013)
  2253. Menendez argued that Secret Service men should’ve been fired in their prostitution scandal (April 2012)
  2254. Dr. Salomon Melgen is also linked to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa
  2255. In 2012, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa met with Dr. Salomon Melgen and Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) at the National Association of Latino Electoral and Appointed Officials

    2256. Obama promised a ‘new era of government’ and a “departure from the politics of the past”

  2256. Obama promised to end the partisan and ideological bickering and build a new governing majority
  2257. Obama promised that he would launch “the most sweeping ethics reform in history” (2008)
  2258. Obama pledged to America that he would “clean up both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue” (2008)
  2259. Obama administration promised “to have the toughest ethic laws of any administration in history”
  2260. Obama uses federal agencies to bypass Congress and implement items on the socialist agenda
  2261. EPA bypassed Congress in order to regulate carbon dioxide emissions under the Clean Air Act
  2262. Obama issued a major “green energy” executive order bypassing Congress (September 2012)
  2263. Obama issued executive orders that bypassed Congress and pushed for gun control (January 2013)
  2264. Obama bypassed Congress to allow women to assume combat roles in the military (January 2013)
  2265. National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) was used to create art that helped sell the Obama agenda
  2266. Obama administration casually disregards laws against illegal immigration and political bribery
  2267. White House Chief of staff Rahm Emanuel followed Obama from the “pay-to-play” Chicago
  2268. Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) allegedly tried to sell Obama’s Senate seat and was impeached
  2269. Rahm Emanuel spoke to Blagojevich about the type of person who should replace Obama
  2270. Emanuel confronted Eric Massa (D) naked in the men’s shower to “ask for” a critical vote
  2271. Obama administration violates civil liberties and excessively uses the executive secrecy privilege
  2272. According to laws, offering a specific position or reward in exchange for a specific act is illegal
  2273. White House officials illegally attempted to use appointment powers to achieve political goals
  2274. Obama subverted the democratic process, rule of law, and our system of checks and balances
  2275. Obama is criminalizing and prosecuting whistleblowers to punish then for uncovering scandals
  2276. President Obama has prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous administrations combined
  2277. An Army intelligence analyst who publicly leaked the “Collateral Murder” video was arrested
  2278. Former senior official Thomas Drake was indicted for revealing the failures of the NSA
  2279. U.S attorney Dennis Burke leaked a sensitive document to punish a Fast & Furious whistleblower
  2280. Obama’s DOJ shared the memo with reporters to in order to smear Special Agent John Dodson
  2281. John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer and a Senate Democratic staffer was arrested for leaking classified information and disclosing the identities of CIA operatives to al-Qaeda inmates at Gitmo
  2282. Kiriakou was among the first to blow the whistle on waterboarding and harsh interrogation
  2283. Critics warn that Obama’s crackdown will erode the ability of the media to expose government abuses
  2284. ‘Fast & Furious’ whistleblower was fired by senior ATF officials at a Denny’s parking lot (2012)
  2285. Evidence shows patterns of the Obama administration routinely violating laws for political gain
  2286. Obama fired an inspector general to stop a fraud investigation and help a crony in Sacramento
  2287. Obama injected himself into State affairs to halt Governor Patterson’s run for re-election in N.Y.
  2288. 18-USC-211, 18-USC-600, and 18-USC-595 were potentially violated through quid pro quo deals
  2289. Obama exchanged a judgeship to Jim Matheson’s (D-UT) brother for an undecided Obamacare vote
  2290. Doug Elmendorf was selected to be the Director of the CBO during the 111th Congress (2009)
  2291. Obama invited Elmendorf to the W.H. just before favorable CBO numbers were released (2009)
  2292. Doug Elmendorf later appeared before a Senate Budget Committee hearing in November 2011
  2293. Elmendorf admitted that the “stimulus” would actually shrink the economy over 10 years (2011)
  2294. $17 million of the “stimulus” went to Coach Craig Robinson, the brother of Michelle Obama
  2295. John McCain (R-AZ) questioned the specter of opaque and “unsavory” deal-making in the Senate
  2296. Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) inserted AIG bonuses into the stimulus bill to pay back his supporters
  2297. Using inaccurate CBO numbers, Senate Democrats passed Obamacare via budget reconciliation
  2298. Senate Democrats handed in special deals in exchange for crucial votes on Obamacare
  2299. Louisiana Purchase: $300 million Katrina kickback to entice the vote of Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
  2300. Cornhusker Kickback: backdoor $100 million deal to entice the vote of Ben Nelson (D-NE)
  2301. Gatorade: special deal to Floridians to exempt from national Medicare cuts for Bill Nelson (D)
  2302. Public hospital in Connecticut given $100 million to entice the vote of Chris Dodd (D-CT)
  2303. Conrad Carveout: bank exempted from takeover of student lending for Kent Conrad (D-ND)
  2304. Rocky Top Vote Swap: extra money provided in exchange for the vote of Bart Gordon (D-TN)
  2305. Labor unions given special exemptions from the new tax on high-end health care plans
  2306. The Frontier States: Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and Utah received special deals
  2307. Five-term GOP incumbent Arlen Specter defected from the GOP to the Democratic Party (2009)
  2308. Arlen Specter (D-PA) casted the critical vote to pass Obama’s $821 billion “stimulus” program
  2309. Democratic leaders later tried to bribe Joe Sestak (D-PA) to drop out of his Senate race for Specter
  2310. According to Sestak, Democrats had offered him future assistance finding a job, but he declined
  2311. Sestak’s admission caused a media firestorm about the White House trying to sell a Senate seat
  2312. Obama had Bill Clinton offer Sestak a “high-ranking unpaid volunteer job” to end his Senate run
  2313. Joe Sestak (D-PA) went on to win the Democrat primary over Obama-backed Arlen Specter (2010)
  2314. Senate Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Eric Holder demanding a probe into illegal activity
  2315. Obama declined to comment on the Sestak deal during his first Q&A press conference in 308 days
  2316. President Obama’s previous Q&A press conference: “the Cambridge police acted stupidly!”
  2317. Longest stretch where George W. Bush didn’t have a full-blown news conference was 204 days
  2318. Obama had lunch with Bill Clinton and then released his first statement regarding the Senate bribe
  2319. Rahm Emanuel enlisted Bill Clinton as a front-man to bribe Sestak (D-PA) to drop out of race
  2320. Bill Clinton changed his story months later: “I didn’t try to get him (Sestak) out of the race”
  2321. Recall President Bill Clinton: “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinski”
  2322. Obama “dangled” a job for Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff (D-CO) to drop his Senate run
  2323. White House deputy chief of staff Jim Messina reportedly offered Romanoff a job at U.S. AID
  2324. Jobs were offered in attempt to bribe Romanoff to help Obama-backed Senator Michael Bennet
  2325. Arlen Specter (D-PA) opposed Elena Kagan nomination for Solicitor General back in 2009
  2326. Specter shopped his Senate vote of Kagan’s Supreme Court nomination in exchange for a job
  2327. Arlen Specter (D-PA) told the White House he would like a “public service” job after his term
  2328. Candidate Obama vowed in 2008 to respect state laws on the issue of medical marijuana
  2329. Under Obama, the federal government has moved towards more restrictive marijuana policies
  2330. Obama’s DOJ changed its legal interpretation to effectively legalized Internet gambling (2011)
  2331. Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 bans banks from processing payments to online casinos and the Wire Act of 1961 bars betting across state lines using telecommunication devices
  2332. Signing statements allow presidents to raise constitutional objections that circumvent Congress
  2333. In 2007, then-Senator Obama told the Boston Globe: “I will not use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law”
  2334. Obama: I won’t “use signing statements as a way of doing an end-run around Congress” (2008)
  2335. Obama used a signing statement to question the constitutionality of preventing pay for “czars”
  2336. Obama used a signing statement to object to the block on transferring terrorists to the U.S.
  2337. President Obama issued a signing statement when he signed the $662 billion defense bill (2011)
  2338. White House spokesman Jay Carney insisted Obama was never against signing statements (2011)
    “When I go and stand up in front of the podium, in front of the White House press corps, I never lie. I never say something that I know is not true.”
    ~White House Spokesman Jay Carney speaking with student journalists on April 27, 2012

  2339. Obama’s budget gutted our manned-space program that took America decades to build up
  2340. Obama tasked NASA with “foremost” mission to “improve relations with the Muslim world”
  2341. Obama’s policies left “our American astronauts with no alternative but to hitchhike into space”
  2342. Russia grounded their own Soyuz rockets following an unmanned launch accident (August 2011)
  2343. NASA announced it may have to temporarily abandon the space station in (November 2011)
  2344. NASA also warned that the calculated ‘risk of losing’ the space station was rising as a result
  2345. When asked for advice, former astronaut Dr. Anna Fisher told a boy to “study Russian”
  2346. Russian rocket carrying a U.S. satellite plunged into the Pacific Ocean 40 seconds after launch (2013)
  2347. In 2011, for the first time ever China launched more rockets into orbit than the United States
  2348. Feds approved the first ever takeover of a U.S. bank by a state-controlled Chinese company (2012)
  2349. Lawmakers remained silent over the Chinese takeover of U.S. bank branches (May 2012)
  2350. Obama administration approved of a low-level Air Force One photography flight over NYC
  2351. Obama made controversial decision to move the 2010 Census operations into the White House
  2352. Citizen journalist uncovered video evidence of waste, fraud and corruption with Census operations
  2353. Obama used his campaign resources to push his agenda through unlawful propaganda initiatives
  2354. Obama administration has engaged in an unprecedented amount of propaganda and lobbying
  2355. Violations of law includes 18-USC-1913, 5-USC-3107, and 5-USC-7321-26 (the “Hatch Act”)
  2356. Hatch Act limits political activity on federal property and by government officials
  2357. The standard penalty for violating the Hatch Act is termination with total loss of pay
  2358. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius violated the Hatch Act by making “extemporaneous partisan remarks” during a speech in her official capacity (2012)
    “[I]t’s hugely important to make sure that we re-elect the president and elect a Democratic governor here in North Carolina… [O]ne of the imperatives is to make sure that we not only come here in Charlotte to present the nomination to the president, but we make sure that in November he continues to be president for another four years because this effort has just begun.” ~HHS Kathleen Sebelius violating the Hatch Act while speaking to the Human Rights Campaign (February 2012)

  2359. White House spokesman Jay Carney described Sebelius’ law breaking as an “inadvertent error”
  2360. Office of Special Council determined that Sebelius had violated the Hatch Act (September 2012)
  2361. Sebelius returned the campaign trail in “her personal capacity” on behalf of Obama for America
  2362. DNC-sponsored meetings were held in the Obama White House with donors and fundraisers
  2363. Obama administration aides refused to disclose which aides accompanied Obama to the meetings
  2364. Obama held at least three meetings in the White House with groups of DNC and OfA operatives
  2365. Video of Obama filmed in the White House and sent out in fundraiser emails violated federal law
  2366. The video was filmed in the Map Room, an area of the White House only used for official duties
    According to federal law (Title 18, subsection 607 U.S.C.), “It shall be unlawful for an individual who is an officer or employee of the Federal Government, including the President, Vice President, and Members of Congress, to solicit or receive a donation of money or other thing of value in connection with a Federal, State, or local election, while in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties.”

  2367. Obama’s IRS tried to place foreign tax law above the U.S. tax law against the will of Congress
  2368. Homeland Security official was targeted in a criminal probe over a phony college degree
  2369. Number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) workers who claimed that they faced retaliation from superiors more than doubled since Janet Napolitano took over Homeland Security
  2370. Top Homeland Security official was placed on leave after being charged with lewd conduct (2012)
  2371. Senior law-enforcement official James Hayes sued Homeland Security (August 2012)
  2372. James Hayes claimed that he faced a “hostile work environment” in which males were discriminated against under Napolitano, who oversees ICE as head of Homeland Security (2012)
  2373. National Intelligence Director was asked to resign after a critical panel report was given to Obama
  2374. Democrats tried to circumvent the Constitution in order to craft new spending bills in the Senate
  2375. Obama blackmailed Congress by threatening to go public with lawmakers’ pork spending requests
  2376. Obama waited three days to publicly address the first credit-rating downgrade in U.S. history
  2377. Obama’s campaign announced plans to assassinate Romney’s character rather than defend policies
  2378. Obama’s labor secretary Hilda Solis purchased a new SUV to promote American jobs (2011)
  2379. Hilda Solis: “What better example could I set if I encouraged my staff to go and purchase and seek how we could acquire a vehicle that would for me would send a signal that we’re for supporting our American workers, American-made products, fuel efficient as well”
  2380. Hilda Solis’ new SUV was built and assembled in Canada with parts also made in Canada
  2381. Federal government executed its second major raid on Gibson Guitars in just two years (2011)
  2382. Gibson Guitars was raided by the Feds for alleged importation and use of illegal wood
  2383. Feds said Gibson violated the U.S. Lacey Act by importing unfinished wood from India
  2384. Obama’s DOJ claimed that the wood was illegal based on their interpretation of a law in India
  2385. Justice Department’s action was taken without the support and consent of the government in India
  2386. Gibson’s CEO was told the problems “would go away” if the company used Madagascar labor
  2387. Gibson Guitar’s CEO, Henry E. Juszkiewicz, had donated money to the Republican Party
  2388. Gibson’s competitor C.F. Martin & Company uses the exact same wood but was never raided
  2389. According to C.F. Martin’s catalog, several of their guitars also contain “East Indian Rosewood”
  2390. C.F. Martin’s CEO, Chris Martin IV, is a long-time Democratic supporter and big-money donor
  2391. Chris Martin had recently given $35,400 in contributions to Democratic candidates and the DNC
  2392. C.F. Martin & Company also manufactures their guitars in Pennsylvania, a forced-union state
  2393. Obama’s Secretary of Education sent out emails urging their workers to attend an Al Sharpton rally
  2394. Al Sharpton’s Atlanta headquarters admitted to handing out suspect stimulus check forms
  2395. Senior citizens filled out forms promising a $500 check from the ‘stimulus’ program
  2396. Sensitive information was exchanged with the promise of getting a Visa Check card in return
  2397. Fulton County government warned the public that it might be an identity theft scam
  2398. The program was run out of Al Sharpton’s National Action Network headquarters in Atlanta
  2399. Obama appointed SEIU lawyer John Sullivan to the Federal Election Commission (FEC)
  2400. Obama’s chief of staff William Daley owned $7.7 million worth of JPMorgan Chase & Co. stocks
  2401. William Daley is the brother of Obama’s mentor Richard M. Daley, the former mayor of Chicago
  2402. After just 9 months on the job, Daley announced he would leave his job after the 2012 election
  2403. Two weeks later, Chief of Staff William Daley was relieved of core management responsibilities
  2404. Day-to-day management of the West Wing was turned over to Obama’s veteran aide Pete Rouse
  2405. Historically, it is highly unusual for a White House chief of staff to relinquish part of their job
  2406. Obama may have become worried about having a former Wall Street banker as chief of staff
  2407. William Daley resigned on January 9, 2012 and was replaced by Budget Director Jacob Lew
  2408. Jacob Lew was chief operating officer of Citibank’s alternative investments division (2006-2008)
  2409. Under Jacob Lew’s leadership, Citibank’s alternative investments division made billions of dollars betting that “U.S. homeowners would not be able to make their mortgage payments”
  2410. Lew made millions at Citibank, including a bonus of $950,000 in 2009 just a few months after Citibank received billions of dollars in a taxpayer rescue
  2411. Citibank is still partly owned by U.S. taxpayers
  2412. Jacob Lew twice lied that Republicans were preventing a vote on Obama’s 2013 budget proposal
  2413. Obama and the “mainstream media” orchestrated coordinated attacks on John Boehner (R-OH)
  2414. Democrats anticipated that John Boehner (R-OH) would be the next Speaker of the House in 2011
  2415. The political Obama White House immediately attacked the House GOP’s ‘Pledge to America’
  2416. GAO: Obama’s White House violated federal law during bilateral talks with the Chinese (2011)
  2417. NSA refused to reveal the number of Americans spied upon by citing privacy protection (2012)
  2418. Veterans Administration sent out an email to their employees touting President Obama (July 2012)
  2419. President Obama skipped more than half of his daily intelligence briefings
  2420. Under public pressure, President Obama gave up his iPad for live intelligence briefings (2012)
  2421. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) managers violated the Hatch Act by urging workers in Seattle to vote for Democrats in 2012, which workers at the meeting said felt like a threat (May 2012)
  2422. Democrats have been using the DOJ and IRS to target and audit various political opponents
  2423. Obama collected hundreds of millions in campaign contributions whose origins were never traced
  2424. Bill Clinton pushed Kendrick Meek (D-FL) to quit the 2010 Senate race to help Charlie Crist (R)
  2425. Charlie Crist lost his bid for Senate in 2010, but later endorsed Obama for re-election in 2012
  2426. Charlie Crist spoke in support of Obama at the Democratic National Convention (September 2012)
  2427. Charlie Crist had described Sarah Palin as being more qualified to be president than Obama (2008)
  2428. The CEO of the company selling the TSA body scanners accompanied Obama during trip to India
  2429. European countries banned the use of the ‘naked’ body scanners due to cancer concerns (2011)
  2430. TSA postponed our own safety study of the body scanners used to screen passengers (2011)
  2431. Rapiscan, a maker of airport body scanners, was suspected of falsifying software tests (2012)
  2432. Congressional report released in 2011 slammed TSA as being bloated and ineffective
  2433. TSA employs 65,000 workers, allowed 25,000 security breaches, and buys inadequate technology
  2434. Oversight committee chairman: “The agency as a whole has been a colossal disappointment”
  2435. Obama used spying, threats, and promises of aid to get support for the 2009 Copenhagen accord
  2436. 111th Congress passed the most laws since 1960s, ended with a record-low 13% approval rating
  2437. Valerie Jarrett told Vanity Fair that Obama “has been bored to death his whole life” (2011)
  2438. Valerie Jarrett contends that President Obama had “never really been challenged intellectually”
  2439. Valerie Jarrett said that President Obama “is just too talented to do what ordinary people do”
  2440. Obama blamed election losses on not communicating his policies with the American people
  2441. Jarrett said Obama’s “biggest regret” was spending “almost every waking hour in Washington”
  2442. In actuality, Obama spent 339 of his first 712 days (48%) outside of Washington D.C. (1/2/2011)
  2443. Obama gave 392 speeches, statements, and remarks in 2009 and another 491 in 2010 (883 total)
  2444. Obama held 42 news conferences and press availabilities in 2009 and another 27 in 2010 (69 total)
  2445. Obama held 40 town hall meetings and 7 backyard chats during his first two years as president
  2446. Obama took 46 domestic trips spanning 72 days in 2009 and another 65 trips in 104 days in 2010
  2447. President Obama told Barbara Walters that his worst quality is “laziness” (December 2011)
  2448. N.Y.T. reported that the White House set the Libya speech time to avoid ‘Dancing With the Stars’
  2449. Obama didn’t invite the governor of Arizona to the W.H. for a meeting about immigration reform
  2450. Obama decides which states to help during a ‘state of emergency’ based on political considerations
  2451. Obama administration denied Texas federal disaster aid for wildfires raging over millions of acres
  2452. Obama administration previously sent assistance to Mexico to help with their wildfires in 2011
  2453. President Obama held seven campaign rallies before visiting Louisiana after Hurricane Isaac (2012)
  2454. Obama’s NLRB tried to tell a Boeing where it could and couldn’t build a plant within the U.S.
  2455. NLRB tried to tell Boeing that they couldn’t open a whole new plant in South Carolina (2011)
  2456. Goal of the NLRB was to prevent direct competition of right-to-work with forced-union states
  2457. NLRB dropped their Boeing lawsuit once it was realized that they did not have that power (2011)
  2458. NLRB documents (FOIA requests) show NLRB staff joking and attacking the U.S. and Congress
  2459. President Obama reportedly complained about taking pictures with troops during a trip to Baghdad
  2460. White House announced they would end the staging of speeches for photographs in May 2011
  2461. Obama’s Secret Service interrogated a 7th grade student without his parents knowledge (2011)
  2462. Obama White House added a new position to deal with unfavorable online media coverage (2011)
  2463. Obama called his new “press” office the Progressive Media & Online Response Department
  2464. Obama’s new “truth minister,” Jesse Lee, is the husband of Nita Chaudhary of MoveOn.org
  2465. Nita Chaudhary was responsible for the 2007 “General Betray Us” MoveOn.org newspaper ad
  2466. MoveOn.org is one of the most anti-American, anti-military, left-wing activist groups in America
  2467. Political donor to Joe Biden was sent to prison for his role in a campaign-finance scheme (2012)
  2468. Christopher Tigani pled guilty to illegally channeling contributions through his family liquor business to numerous federal and state political campaigns, including to Joe Biden in 2007
  2469. Carlos and Alberto Cardona are brothers of a Mexican fugitive wanted on federal drug charges
  2470. Carlos and Alberto Cardona had given $200,000 to President Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign
  2471. Abake Assongba and her husband contributed more than $50,000 to the Obama Victory Fund
  2472. President Obama was photographed standing with the couple at a May 2010 fundraiser
  2473. Abake Assongba and her husband gave another $15,000 to Democrats running for Congress
  2474. Assongba was accused of defrauding a businessman and impersonating a bank official (2012)
  2475. Assongba allegedly stole more than $650,000 to help build a multi-million-dollar home
  2476. General Services Administration (GSA) manages real estate for the federal government
  2477. General Services Administration (GSA) held a lavish conference in Las Vegas (2010)
  2478. Inspector General released a report on the $822,000 training conference held for 300 employees
  2479. The conference was held at the opulent M Resort and Casino hotel just south of Las Vegas
  2480. The taxpayer-funded conference included a clown, a mind reader, and a $31,208 reception
  2481. GSA regional administrator Ruth F. Cox attempted to hide the report from public view
  2482. GSA nixed their “GreenUP 2012 Training Conference and Vendor Showcase” in Las Vegas
  2483. GSA’s chief Martha N. Johnson resigned following reports of excessive spending
  2484. Two top deputies were fired and four managers were placed on leave following the scandal
  2485. GSA chief Martha N. Johnson was also set to visit Solyndra the week of the conference
  2486. The Solyndra visit would have coincided with the October 2010 GSA conference
  2487. Jeffrey Neely was tasked with organizing the $822,000 conference in Las Vegas
  2488. Event planners reportedly violated federal limits on conference spending
  2489. GSA official Jeffrey Neely invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions
  2490. David Axelrod on the GSA scandal: “We’re saving taxpayers money all the time” (2012)
  2491. Obama’s official Twitter account was caught following the account @sideboob
  2492. Obama praised himself as a “twoosh master” for writing a 140-character Tweet (by cheating)
  2493. Reports show that 70% of Obama’s 18.8 million Twitter followers are “fake” or “inactive”
  2494. Secret Service agents partied like rock stars on Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard vacation (2011)
  2495. Secret Service was caught with prostitutes prior to Obama’s arrival at the Summit of the Americas
  2496. Prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia ensnared thirteen Secret Service agents
  2497. Secret Service’s 229-page log revealed agent’s porn, wiretap, embezzlement, drunken misdeeds, etc.
  2498. S.S. Director Mark Sullivan was suspected of lying to Congress about the prostitution scandal
  2499. Inspector General report contradicts the Secret Service regarding the prostitution scandal (2012)
  2500. Scandal led to the resignation or retirement of nine of the 12 implicated Secret Service employees
  2501. Pentagon also launched an investigation of a dozen military members in connection with the scandal
  2502. Three DEA special agents also admitted to the Department of Justice that they had paid for sexual services from a prostitute, and “used their DEA Blackberry devices to arrange such activities”
  2503. Two of the DEA special agents helped line up a prostitute for a Secret Service agent in Columbia
  2504. Joe Biden’s Secret Service detail engaged in a bloody, booze-fueled brawl in Nantucket (2011)
  2505. Sec. Leon Panetta said he regretted his weekly $32,000 round trips to his California home
  2506. Obama violated campaign finance law when he appeared on Fallon’s show to “slow-jam the news”
  2507. Obama violated the equal time rule, which states that if a licensee permits a person “who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station”
  2508. Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, to Dolores Huerta
  2509. Dolores Huerta is an honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
  2510. Dolores Huerta, a socialist, claimed in April 2006 that “Republicans hate Latinos”
  2511. DOJ wasted taxpayer money by repeatedly prosecuting and failing to convict in high-profile cases
  2512. First attempt to try Roger Clemens ended in a mistrial due to prosecutorial misconduct (2011)
  2513. Roger Clemens was found “not guilty” on all six charges that he obstructed and lied to Congress
  2514. Barry Bonds was found guilty of just obstruction of justice after a seven-year investigation
  2515. Two-year investigation into cyclist Lance Armstrong were closed with no charges brought
  2516. Corruption trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards ended with a failure to convict
  2517. Eric Holder and David Axelrod reportedly shoved each other over a DOJ staffing disagreement
  2518. Experts: Obama campaign’s data mining “reaches far beyond anything politics has ever seen”
  2519. Obama shrunk the aerial firefighting fleet prior to Colorado’s ‘epic firestorm’ (2012)
  2520. Obama’s defense budget cuts sixty-five C-130s from the fleet over the next four years
  2521. Obama administration said they felt it would be inappropriate to use the presidential seal for “strictly political” campaign events, but then did it anyway in Pittsburgh on Friday, July 6, 2012
  2522. Obama used the presidential seal again at a designated campaign event in Las Vegas (August 2012)
  2523. By holding a campaign event at the Congregation Keneseth Israel, Obama’s campaign violated IRS rules prohibiting nonprofit organizations, including religious institutions, from “directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office” (July 2012)
  2524. U.S. military officials accused Lieutenant General William Caldwell of covering up a horrifying scandal at a taxpayer-funded hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan to help Obama prior to the 2010 elections
  2525. The Dawood National Military Hospital was described as having “Auschwitz-like conditions”
  2526. U.S. taxpayers reportedly spent more than $150 million on the hospital in just 18 months
  2527. Defense Department issued a memo announcing the concealment and destruction of evidence
  2528. Obama’s Labor Department told defense contractors to ignore a law that Obama himself supported
  2529. Labor Department told contractors to delay announcing layoffs due to the sequestration cuts
  2530. Obama supported the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act as a senator
    “For too long, employers have failed to notify workers that they’re about to lose their jobs due to mass layoffs or plant closings even though notice is required by the WARN Act. The least employers can do when they’re anticipating layoffs is to let workers know they’re going to be out of a job and a pay check with enough time to plan for the future.” ~Press release from Barack Obama (2007)
    “We must act at the federal level to close the loophole that allows employers to disregard the WARN Act without penalty.” ~Obama writing in a Toledo Blade column (2007)

  2531. Law requires that companies give their employees 60 days notice before layoffs take place
  2532. Department of Labor deemed that following the rule of law was “inappropriate” in this case
  2533. Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors threatened to lay off their workers before the election so that voters could see the impact of Obama’s $500 billion cuts to defense spending (2012)
  2534. Obama administration was worried about creating more bad economic headlines before election day
  2535. Obama’s White House promised to pay any fines and/or penalties, using taxpayer money, that might be leveled against a defense contractor for violating federal law (September 2012)
  2536. Boeing waited until after Obama was re-elected to announce lay-offs (November 2012)
  2537. Department of Labor inadvertently released initial jobless claims numbers a day early (2012)
  2538. President Obama failed to submit his annual regulation plan as required by law (September 2012)
  2539. Obama campaign violated the U.S. Flag Code by selling “Our Stripes: Flag Print” merchandise
  2540. Obama administration released incomplete weekly jobless claims to favor Obama (October 2012)
  2541. Number of federal employees in government is nearly equal to the entire U.S. population back in 1776
  2542. Obama administration gave ACORN at least $540,905 in 2011 in defiance of Public Law 111-117
  2543. Obama allowed health care companies to shape policy in exchange for big campaign donations
  2544. Obama appointed Judith Faulkner, CEO of Epic Systems Corporation, to the Health & Human Services Health Information Technology Policy Committee created from the “stimulus” bill
  2545. Faulkner and Epic employees are major liberal donors, giving $300,000 to Democrats since 2006
  2546. Faulkner is the sole representative for the health IT industry on the president’s committee
  2547. The committee has the power to set industry standards and represents a clear conflict of interest
  2548. Obama “summoned” a co-equal branch of government to the White House during debt debates
  2549. Obama refused a bipartisan short-term debt ceiling framework due to the upcoming 2012 elections
  2550. Obama compared his handling of the debt issue with how President Lincoln dealt with slavery
  2551. Obama compared himself to Lincoln and how he worked to shape public opinion (January 2013)
  2552. House Democratic leader urged Obama to raise the debt ceiling without Congressional approval
  2553. Joe Biden charged the Secret Service $2,200 a month rent for a cottage used to protect his life
  2554. Biden’s 2011 tax filings showed that he earned $20,900 in rent from the Secret Service in 2011
  2555. Obama offered $50 million on World AIDS Day, compared to Bush’s $15 billion AIDS initiative
  2556. Kevin McNulty was quietly nominated by Obama to a U.S. District Court judgeship in New Jersey
  2557. Kevin McNulty is the brother-in-law of Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
  2558. Some in the judicial-nomination process in New Jersey believed that the surprise nomination was a naked political maneuver by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) to stay in Chuck Schumer’s good graces
  2559. Lautenberg and his aides gave no public explanation for the decision to go with McNulty (2011)
  2560. McNulty’s name wasn’t even publicly touted as a contender for the job prior to the surprise pick
  2561. The U.S. District Court judgeship in New Jersey carries life tenure and a $174,000-a-year salary
  2562. Obama bemoaned the “corrosive influence of money in politics” during the SOTU speech (2012)
  2563. Obama allowed cabinet members and top advisers to speak at big money events for super PACs
  2564. These super PACs are unaccountable outside groups that are raising money for his re-election
  2565. Herbert M. Allison Jr., a veteran Wall Street executive, performed an independent review that exonerated the Obama administration’s program of loans to energy companies before Congress (2012)
  2566. Allison was the former head of the government’s mass purchase of toxic Wall Street assets
  2567. In congressional testimony, Herbert M. Allison Jr. minimized concerns that the DOE was at high risk in more than $23 billion in federal loans awarded to “green energy” companies (March 2012)
  2568. Campaign records show that Herbert Allison Jr. contributed $52,500 to Obama and the DNC (2012)
  2569. Allison previously gave Obama $2,300 prior to being picked for assistant treasury secretary (2008)

    2570. Obama dubbed ‘Leaker-in-chief’ for repeatedly benefiting politically from national security leaks

  2570. Obama administration rejected the idea of probing recent national security intelligence leaks
  2571. President Obama opposed the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the leaks
  2572. The intelligence leaks apparently originated from the “highest levels” of the administration
  2573. Obama said the notion that “my White House” would leak documents is “offensive” and “wrong”
    “The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. It’s wrong.”
    ~President Obama at a June 8, 2012 press conference

  2574. The political purpose of the leaks appeared to be boosting Obama’s image as commander-in-chief
  2575. New York Times articles sourced current and former officials within the Obama administration
  2576. Justice Department began investigating the White House’s handling of classified information
  2577. Attorney General Eric Holder appointed two prosecutors to investigate the source of the leaks
  2578. Eric Holder picked Ronald C. Machen Jr. of D.C. and Rod Rosenstein of Maryland (June 2012)
  2579. Machen was nominated by Obama to serve as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
  2580. Machen also previously donated $4,350 to Obama’s campaigns
  2581. Classified leaks included details about President Obama’s “kill list”
  2582. New York Times cited “three dozen” of Obama’s “current and former advisers” to detail how he directs U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen based on a classified “kill list” of terror suspects
  2583. Obama is provided with the identities of those put on the “kill list” and signs off on every strike
  2584. Sensitive details about the Stuxnet virus and Flame worm were leaked to the New York Times
  2585. Leaks showed that the U.S. and Israel developed the Flame virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts
  2586. Parts of the Obama administration’s cyber campaign to disrupt and spy on Iran’s nuclear weapons program was leaked to the New York Times
  2587. Israeli officials disputed Obama’s claim that Stuxnet was jointly developed by Israel and the U.S.
  2588. Obama administration gave moviemakers and the press details about the Osama bin Laden raid
  2589. A Pakistani doctor was sentenced to 33-years in a Pakistani prison for helping the United States
  2590. Doctor Shakil Afridi had provided the blood (DNA) sample used to confirm Osama’s whereabouts
  2591. McCain accused the administration of sanctioning leaks by senior officials for political purposes
    “Why else would they want to do this, except to enhance the image of the president six months before the election? Why else reveal the name of this Pakistani doctor? You can only draw one conclusion. The purpose of all these leaks is to tell a story about a brave, lonely warrior with all this awesome responsibility.” ~Senator John McCain (R-AZ) in June 2012

  2592. Obama administration ratted out a mole who had infiltrated al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
  2593. Pentagon officials “fumed” when John Brennan gave away “operational secrets”
  2594. Robert Gates offered a “new strategic communications approach,” which was to “Shut the f--- up”
  2595. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) warned the White House about leaking classified information (July 2012)
  2596. Congressman Dan Burton said that there’s “no question” that the White House leaks are by design
  2597. Admiral William McRaven, Commander of Special Operations, warned that “sooner or later” the White House leaks will “cost people their lives” (July 2012)

    2598. Obama swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States
    “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
    ~Oath taken (twice) by President Barack Obama (January 2009)

  2598. Obama administration routinely fails to defend America to uphold and execute the rule of law
  2599. Obama routinely dismisses precedent and skirts the rule of law to reward his pals and punish his foes
  2600. Obama drafted an executive order to bypass Congress when favored legislation fails to pass
  2601. One draft order requires federal contractors to disclose donations to 3rd-party political groups
  2602. Obama’s draft executive order exempts unions from the same political disclosure obligations
  2603. Carney: Obama recognizes “there are things he can do without Congress and he will do them”
  2604. President Obama went to war in Libya without the authority required from Congress
  2605. President Obama made plans to bypass Congress in order to regulate greenhouse gases
  2606. President Obama used signing statements to spend money without the authority of Congress
  2607. Obama ordered his advisers to push new spending projects without ‘Congressional authorization’
  2608. Jesse Jackson Jr.: Obama should bypass ‘rebellious’ Congress and hire unemployed at $40K/year
  2609. Obama administration made plans to roll out “a jobs plan that doesn’t need Congress”
  2610. Obama bypassed Congress to create a new “We Can’t Wait” summer jobs program (2012)
  2611. Obama announced changes that allow tourists to obtain visas easier as part of “We Can’t Wait”
    “The fact of the matter is there are laws on the books that I have to enforce. And I think there’s been a great disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things. It’s just not true.” ~President Obama speaking in 2011

  2612. Obama bypassed Congress to rewrite the nation’s immigration laws through executive fiat
  2613. Obama stopped deporting as many as 800,000 illegal immigrants and gave them the right to work
  2614. Obama’s policy change accomplishes portions of the DREAM Act that Congress refused to pass
  2615. Obama scolded a reporter, ‘I didn’t ask for an argument…’ when asked about the effect on jobs
  2616. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that President Obama’s action could be illegal (June 2012)
    “President Obama’s attempt to go around Congress and the American people is at best unwise and possibly illegal.” ~Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC)
    “This type of policy proposal, regardless of the motivation, will entice people to break our laws.” ~Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC)

  2617. President Obama assassinated American citizens without due process afforded by the Constitution
  2618. Obama ran for president denouncing the expansive use of executive power in the war on terrorism
  2619. Secret panel of senior government officials can place American citizens on a “kill list”
  2620. The secret “kill list” panel is a subset of the Obama White House’s National Security Council
  2621. There is no law establishing its existence or setting out the rules by which it’s suppose to operate
  2622. DOJ wrote a secret memorandum authorizing the lethal targeting of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki
  2623. Anwar al-Awlaki was the first American citizen added to Obama’s “capture or kill” list
  2624. Al-Awlaki was described as “chief of external operations for al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)
  2625. Al-Awlaki was born in the U.S. and presumably should have been afforded constitutional protections
  2626. Anwar al-Awlaki had never been indicted by the U.S. government nor charged with any crimes
  2627. Officials refused to disclose how they considered any Fifth Amendment right to due process
  2628. Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice reportedly determined that the targeting and killing of U.S. citizens overseas was legal under domestic and international laws
  2629. Anwar al-Awlaki’s son, 16-year-old Abdulrahman, was killed by Obama’s drones (October 2011)
  2630. Abdulrahman was born in Denver, Colorado and had no known ties to any terrorist organizations
  2631. CIA also killed U.S. citizen Samir Khan, a driving force behind “Inspire,” an al-Qaeda magazine
    “Every American has the right to know when their government believes that it is allowed to kill them.” ~Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), member of the Senate Intelligence Committee (February 2013)

  2632. Obama administration uses secret legal justifications and undisclosed intelligence assessments
  2633. Obama insisted on publishing Bush-era legal memos justifying the use of interrogation techniques
  2634. Obama administration refused to make public its rationale for killing a citizen without due process
  2635. W.H. Spokesman Jay Carney on secret kill list: “Not going to engage in conversation about that”
  2636. Obama’s lawyers declared that U.S. citizens are legitimate targets in the war on terrorism (2011)
  2637. Pentagon counsel Jeh Johnson said only the executive branch, not the courts, are equipped to make decisions about who qualifies as an enemy and therefore become legitimate targets of the military
  2638. Obama demanded the power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without Constitutional protections
    “The language which precluded the application of Section 1031 to American citizens was in the bill that we originally approved… and the administration asked us to remove the language which says that U.S. citizens and lawful residents would not be subject to this section.” ~Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), Chairman of the Armed Services Committee (December 2011)

  2639. Obama’s signing statement on DNAA 2012: I have the power to detain Americans… but I won’t
  2640. Obama will be known as the president who enshrined indefinite detention without trial into law
  2641. Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA) questioned Obama’s use of an autopen to ‘sign’ the 2011 Patriot Act
  2642. Obama again used the autopen to approve a stopgap spending bill passed by Congress (2011)
  2643. Article 1 Section 7 of the Constitution says that a president must sign a bill to approve it into law

    2644. President Obama violated the Constitution and abused his power with illegal “recess” appointments

  2644. President Obama tried to dictate to the U.S. Senate when it was and was not in session (2012)
  2645. Liberals wanted Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
  2646. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created by the Dodd-Frank financial reform law
  2647. The CFPB couldn’t fully realize its new executive branch powers without a director in place
  2648. Powers of the CFPB director includes issuing new rules and regulations for many financial firms
  2649. The legal text of the Dodd-Frank law states that the new executive-branch powers will not take effect until the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director “is confirmed by the Senate”
  2650. Liberals urged Obama to break the precedent on recess appointments to appoint Cordray (2012)
    Article 1, Section 5, Clause 4 of the U.S. Constitution provides that “Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days…”

  2651. Republican-controlled House refused to consent to Senate adjournment in January 2012
  2652. As a result, the Democrat-led Senate scheduled pro-forma sessions every third day as required
  2653. After two days, Obama installed Richard via “recess” appointment, but the Senate wasn’t in recess
  2654. Obama also appointed three new members to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
  2655. Two members of the NLRB, Sharon Block (D) and Richard Griffin (D), were rushed appointments by President Obama and had not even been considered by the Democrat-led Senate
  2656. Griffin was a lawyer for the AFL-CIO, the International Union of Operating Engineers, etc.
  2657. Block was deputy assistant secretary for congressional affairs inside Obama’s Department of Labor
  2658. Sharon Block also had previously worked for Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy
  2659. Sharon Block and Richard Griffin hadn’t even passed basic criminal and civil background checks
  2660. Checks are used to ensure nominees have paid their income taxes and have no conflicts of interest
    “It’s hard to argue that the Senate was obstructing these Democratic nominees when they don’t even appear on the administration’s own list of nominations and appointments.” ~U.S. Chamber of Commerce labor policy specialist Glenn Spencer
    “I refuse to take ‘No’ for an answer. I’ve said before that I will continue to look for every opportunity to work with Congress to move this country forward. But when Congress refuses to act in a way that hurts our economy and puts people at risk, I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them.”
    ~President Obama introducing Richard Cordray in Ohio (January 4, 2012)

  2661. John Boehner called the appointments an “extraordinary and entirely unprecedented power grab”
  2662. No recess appointment by a president in the last 20 years has occurred in less than 10 days
  2663. In 1993, Clinton’s Justice Department issued their finding that a recess must be longer than 3 days
  2664. Obama’s solicitor general, Neal Katyal, cited the finding during Supreme Court arguments (2011)
    “The recess appointment power can work in a recess. I think our office has opined the recess has to be longer than 3 days.” ~Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal during arguments to the United States Supreme Court (2010)

  2665. Three-day rule was also the precedent Obama and Senate Democrats followed in 2007 and 2008 to block President George W. Bush from appointing nominees using recess appointments
  2666. Pro forma sessions occur when the Senate is gaveled into business but conducts no real work
  2667. Senate Democrats used the strategy to block Bush’s appointments during his second term
    “I am keeping the Senate in pro forma to prevent recess appointments until we get this process back on track.” ~Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on November 16, 2007

  2668. Obama took a ‘victory lap’ by visiting the CFPB two days after defying the U.S. Constitution (2012)
  2669. Federal appeals court ruled that Obama abused his power with his illegal recess appointments (2013)
  2670. The judges ruled that the appointments Obama made were illegal and unconstitutional (January 2013)
  2671. As a result, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) no longer had a quorum to operate (2013)
  2672. The NLRB and the Justice Department refused requests for comments on the ruling (January 2013)
  2673. Obama administration ignored the Federal Appeals Court’s ruling and insisted that it would have “no impact on the ongoing operations of the National Labor Relations Board” (January 2013)
  2674. After the court ruled against the illegal NLRB recess appointments, Louie Gohmert (R-TX) called on Obama’s former constitutional law students to file a class-action lawsuit to get their money back (January 2013)

    2675. Obama administration attacks the free press and tries to bully them if they disagree with the agenda

  2675. White House encroached on First Amendment rights by manipulating interviews with networks
  2676. Obama administration lied about its attempt to exclude Fox News from interviewing its ‘pay czar’
  2677. Obama’s Treasury Department official claimed: “There was no plot to exclude Fox News…”
  2678. FOIA documents revealed proof of an entrenched anti-Fox bias within the Obama administration
  2679. Obama’s White House: “We’ve demonstrated our willingness and ability to exclude Fox News”
  2680. Obama ridiculed a Fox News reporter, “I didn’t know you were the spokesman for Mitt Romney” (2011)
  2681. FCC cracked down on religious broadcasters by removing exemptions for closed captioning
  2682. Valerie Jarrett blamed “one particular network” for the class warfare rhetoric (July 2012)
  2683. Obama suggested to a patron at Ziggy’s bar in Amherst, Ohio to turn off Fox News (July 2012)
  2684. Obama tried to threaten Fox News and Rush Limbaugh to compromise with him (January 2013)
  2685. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began monitoring U.S. citizens on what they say (2012)
  2686. Department of Homeland Security’s National Operations Center (NOC) Media Monitoring Initiative included surveillance of journalists, politicians, private sector employees, and “persons known to have been involved in major crimes of Homeland Security interest”
  2687. Department of Homeland Security characterizes Americans who are “suspicious of centralized federal authority” and “reverent of individual liberty” as “extreme right-wing” terrorists (2012)
  2688. Obama White House has editorial control over what is said at NBC and other mainstream outlets
  2689. NBC/MSNBC is partially owned (49%) by General Electric (GE), which is run by CEO Jeffrey Immelt
  2690. Jeffrey Immelt was an Obama White House appointee and GE received $24.9 million in stimulus funds
  2691. NBC President Steve Capus claimed to be the “arbiter of issues involving ethics” at NBC News
  2692. Steve Capus fostered an environment where it is okay to maliciously edit facts in order to falsely smear private citizens and the political opponents of President Obama as being racists
  2693. Steve Capus refused to name the NBC “senior” producer fired for portraying a citizen as a racist
  2694. NBC’s Contessa Brewer used deceptively edited video so that MSNBC viewers wouldn’t know that a man carrying firearms to a Tea Party rally was a black man (August 2009)
  2695. Contessa Brewer used the video to slander the Tea Party as being racist towards President Obama
  2696. NBC edited another video to make it appear as if the father of a Sandy Hook victim was being heckled
  2697. Steve Capus resigned as president of NBC News after signing a long-term deal in 2012 (February 2013)
  2698. Comcast’s executive vice president, David L. Cohen, hosted fundraiser(s) for Obama in 2011
  2699. Cohen, a Democratic operative, worked on the regulatory review of the Comcast-NBC merger
  2700. Comcast, which owns NBC Universal, was involved with Joe Biden’s gun violence task force
  2701. Cohen met with Vice President Joe Biden to discuss ways to reduce gun violence in America (2013)
  2702. Comcast reportedly spent $28.1 million lobbying members of the 112th Congress
  2703. NBC Sports Network, a subsidiary of Comcast, sponsored the largest gun trade show in the U.S. (2013)
  2704. NBC Sports was listed as one of the primary sponsors of the 2013 SHOT show in Las Vegas
  2705. The SHOT show bills itself as “the world’s premier exposition of combined firearms”
  2706. Google executive Marissa Mayer hosted a Democratic fundraiser featuring Obama in October 2011
  2707. FOIA documents show that Obama’s White House attacked and excluded Fox News channel
  2708. Obama thinks that Fox News is “destructive,” but that MSNBC “provides an invaluable service”
  2709. Recent polling shows that 47% trust Fox News (most of any network), only 12% trust MSNBC
  2710. MSNBC’s president Phil Griffin admitted that the network caters to the so-called ‘progressive left’
  2711. CNN’s cable news ratings fell to a 21-year low (June 2012 )
  2712. After humiliating ratings, CNN president Jim Walton resigned after thirty years with the network
  2713. Jeff Zucker was hired from NBC to shake up CNN after suffering its worst rating slump in 21 years
  2714. CNN president Jeff Zucker hired and fired six big names in his first two days on the job (2013)
  2715. CNN cut ties with veteran political analyst James Carville and his wife Mary Matalin (January 2013)
  2716. CNN’s managing editor Mark Whitaker resigned, citing Zucker’s “forceful ideas” (January 2013)
  2717. CNN chief national correspondent John King was pushed out in favor of Jake Tapper
  2718. Jake Tapper was poached from ABC to become CNN’s new chief Washington correspondent
  2719. The voice of James Earl Jones will once again speak the “This is CNN” greeting
  2720. President Obama criticized cable news during the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington (2013)

    2721. President Obama encroached on the religious freedoms protected by the First Amendment

  2721. Obama spoke disrespectfully of Christians, saying they “cling to guns or religion” (April 2008)
  2722. Obama presented a plan in February 2009 to revoke conscience protection for health care workers who refuse to participate in medical activities that go against their beliefs (implemented February 2011)
  2723. When speaking to Georgetown University, President Obama ordered that a monogram symbolizing Jesus’ name be covered while he was making his speech (April 2009)
  2724. Obama declined to host services for the National Prayer Day at the White House (May 2009)
  2725. President Obama nominated three pro-abortion ambassadors to the Vatican (April 2009)
  2726. On October 19, 2010, Obama began omitting the phrase about “the Creator” when quoting the Declaration of Independence – an omission he has repeated at least seven times as president
  2727. President Obama misquoted the National motto, saying it is “E pluribus Unum” rather than “In God We Trust” as established by federal law (November 2010)
  2728. Obama refused to allow the World War I memorial to be transferred to private hands as required by law after a judge ruled that the cross in the memorial could continue to stand (January 2011)
  2729. Obama waited more than two years to fill the post of religious freedom ambassador, an official in the State Department that works against religious persecution across the world (February 2011)
  2730. For the first time in American history, Obama urged passage of a non-discrimination law that did not contain hiring protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to hire according to federal mandates without regard to the dictates of their own faith (April 2011)
  2731. Obama administration released new healthcare rules that override religious conscience protections for medical workers in the areas of abortion and contraception (August 2011)
  2732. Obama ignored religious freedom by trying to force Catholic employers to pay for contraception
  2733. Cardinal Timothy Dolan: Obama needs to stop “intruding into the internal life of a church”
  2734. Military chaplains were barred from reading a letter thereby violating their exercise of free speech
  2735. Obama compromised by instead mandating insurance companies to provide the free services
  2736. Sebelius: “The reduction in the number of pregnancies compensates for the cost of contraception”
  2737. Obama administration never sought a legal opinion about the mandate from the DOJ
  2738. The Archdiocese of New York, the Archdiocese of Washington D.C., the University of Notre Dame, and 40 other Catholic dioceses and organizations sued the Obama administration for violating the religious freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution (2012)
  2739. Catholic bishops described the pro-abortion Obamacare mandate as “immoral”
  2740. President Obama opposed inclusion of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous D-Day Prayer in the World War II Memorial (November 2011)
  2741. Obama avoided any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech (November 2011)
  2742. Obama administration denigrated other countries’ religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights (December 2011)
  2743. Obama administration argued that the First Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring their pastors and rabbis (January 2012)
  2744. Obama administration, which forgives student loans in exchange for public service, announced it will no longer forgive student loans if the public service is related to religion (February 2012)
  2745. Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at Houston National Cemetery (June 2011)
  2746. Air Force stopped teaching Just War Theory to officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine (August 2011)
  2747. Air Force Chief of Staff prohibited commanders from notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from chaplains (September 2011)
  2748. Army issued guidelines for Walter Reed Medical Center stipulating that “No religious items (such as Bibles, etc.) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit” (September 2011)
  2749. Air Force Academy rescinded their support for Operation Christmas Child, for impoverished children across the world, because the program is run by a Christian charity (November 2011)
  2750. Air Force Academy spent $80,000 to add a Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches, and Wiccans (November 2011)
  2751. U.S. Military Academy at West Point disinvited Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, a decorated war hero, from speaking at an event because he is an outspoken Christian (February 2012)
  2752. Air Force removed the word “God” from the patch of Rapid Capabilities Office (February 2012)
  2753. Checklist for Air Force Inns no longer include ensuring that a Bible is available in rooms for those who want to use them (April 2012)
  2754. Obama administration opposed legislation to protect the rights of conscience for military chaplains who do not wish to perform same-sex marriages in violation of their religious beliefs (May 2012)
  2755. Obama lifted restrictions on U.S. government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform abortions in other nations (January 2009)
  2756. President Obama’s nominee for deputy secretary of state asserted that American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions and limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional (January 2009)
  2757. Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from attending a White House-sponsored health care summit (March 2009)
  2758. Obama ordered taxpayer funding for embryonic stem cell research (March 2009)
  2759. Obama gave $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population agency that promotes abortion and works closely with Chinese population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary sterilizations
  2760. Obama’s budget eliminated all funding for abstinence-only education and replaced it with “comprehensive” sexual education, thereby increasing teen pregnancies and abortions (May 2009)
  2761. Obama officials assembled a terrorism dictionary calling pro-life advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their “criminal” activities (May 2009)
  2762. Obama administration illegally extended federal benefits to same-sex partners of Foreign Service and Executive Branch employees, in direct violation of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (July 2009)
  2763. Obama administration appointed as EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum, who asserts that society should “not tolerate” any “private beliefs,” including religious beliefs, if they may negatively affect homosexual “equality” (September 16, 2009)
  2764. Obama administration used federal funds in violation of federal law to get Kenya to change its constitution to include abortion (July 2010)
  2765. Obama administration cut funding for 176 abstinence education programs (August 2010)
  2766. Obama administration told researchers to ignore a judge’s decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem cell research (September 2010)
  2767. Obama directed the DOJ to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act (February 2011)
  2768. U.S. condemned “those who abuse universal right of free speech to hurt religious beliefs of others”

    2769. Obama administration attempted to weaken the Second Amendment through illegal deception

  2769. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) ran a series of “gunwalking” sting operations, under the umbrella of ‘Project Gunrunner,’ along the border of Mexico (2006-2011)
  2770. ‘Project Gunrunner’ began under the Bush administration’s Department of Justice (2006)
  2771. ‘Project Gunrunner’ was a plan to sell guns to “straw purchasers” with suspected drug-cartel ties
  2772. Long-standing DOJ and ATF policies required arms shipments to be intercepted
  2773. In February 2006, a suspicious gun purchase was reported to the ATF in Tucson, Arizona
  2774. ‘Project Wide Receiver’ began in early 2006 and ran into late 2007 to monitor future sales
  2775. ATF approved the illegal purchases, while assuring the licensed dealer in Arizona “that Mexican officials would be conducting surveillance or interdictions when guns got to the other side of the border”
  2776. Hundreds of guns were sold during ‘Project Wide Receiver,’ a vast majority of which were lost, such as when Mexican officials failed to intercept the suspects as they crossed the border
  2777. ‘Operation Wide Receiver’ was shut down on October 6, 2007 by ATF’s assistant director
  2778. Obama administration infused cash into ‘Project Gunrunner,’ making it to a full-time project
  2779. Democrats provided $21 million to ‘Project Gunrunner’ in 2009 and another $37 million in 2010
  2780. President Obama’s “stimulus” bill provided $10 million to the ATF to expand ‘Project Gunrunner’
  2781. Obama administration requested $12 million more for ‘Project Gunrunner’ by the end of 2011
  2782. Eric Holder bragged of overseeing the implementation of ‘Project Gunrunner’ back in 2009
  2783. Holder gave a speech in Cuernavaca, Mexico in April 2009 boasting about ‘Project Gunrunner’
    “Last week, our administration launched a major new effort to break the backs of the cartels. My department is committing 100 new ATF personnel to the Southwest border in the next 100 days to supplement our ongoing Project Gunrunner, DEA is adding 16 new positions on the border, as well as mobile enforcement teams, and the FBI is creating a new intelligence group focusing on kidnapping and extortion. DHS is making similar commitments, as Secretary Napolitano will detail.” ~Attorney General Eric Holder in April 2009

  2784. ATF’s strategy was to target high-level individuals within the illegal gun trafficking networks
  2785. Operation ‘Fast and Furious’ let illicit guns “walk” in hopes of tracking them to bigger traffickers
  2786. ATF’s plan was to allow illegal weapons, purchased buy straw buyers in the United States, to be smuggled across the border into Mexico into the hands of drug cartel members ‘in order to trace them’
  2787. Strategy was to allow agents to track criminal networks by finding the guns at crime scenes
  2788. ATF forced gun shops in Arizona to sell guns to the straw purchasers in the drug cartels
  2789. Shop owners did not want to sell these weapons, but the ATF told them they were being tracked
  2790. ATF allowed the sale of at least 2,020 handguns and assault weapons to suspected cartel members
  2791. “Gunwalking,” rather than interdicting and arresting the buyers, led to controversy within the ATF
  2792. Standard ‘Project Gunrunner’ training for agents was to follow the straw purchasers to the hand-off location, identify the drug cartel buyers, then arrest both parties and seize the guns
  2793. ATF prevented their agents from intervening as gun were purchased and stashed on a daily basis
  2794. Only about 700 firearms from ‘Fast and Furious’ were recovered as of October 20, 2011
  2795. ATF officials also allowed thousands of grenades parts to be smuggled illegally into Mexico
  2796. Grenades are the weapon of choice for the Mexican drug cartels when terrorizing the population
  2797. There have been allegations of “gunwalking” in at least ten cities in five states within the U.S.
  2798. Operation ‘Fast and Furious’ was the plan to follow those guns across the border into Mexico
  2799. These same guns were recovered from at least 12 crime scenes in the United States of America
  2800. ‘Fast and Furious’ weapons were also found at more than 170 violent crime scenes in Mexico
  2801. More than 300 Mexican citizens have reportedly been murdered with ‘Fast and Furious’ weapons
  2802. U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered by weapons used in ‘Fast and Furious’
  2803. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered south of Tucson, Arizona on December 14, 2010
  2804. DOJ revealed that Agent Brian Terry was shooting bean bags at the men who killed him (2012)
  2805. Two Arizona police officers were assaulted in 2010 with ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ weapons
  2806. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata was killed on February 15, 2011
  2807. The gun used to kill Zapata was purchased by Otilio Osorio, known by ATF as a straw purchaser
  2808. Holder feigned ignorance of ‘Operation Fast and Furious,’ the offshoot of ‘Project Gunrunner’
  2809. Holder lied to Congress that he had heard of ‘Fast and Furious’ just a “few weeks” earlier
    “When did you first know about the program officially I believe called Fast and Furious? To the best of your knowledge, what date?”
    ~Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA)

    “I’m not sure of the exact date, but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks.”
    ~Attorney General Eric Holder testimony before Congress (May 3, 2011)

  2810. Emails surfaced showing that Holder received regular updates from July 2010 through May 2011
  2811. Eric Holder responded that he “misunderstood that question from Congress” on May 3rd, 2011
  2812. Holder revised his story that he knew of Fast and Furious, but “just not the details” (2011)
  2813. Holder maintained that he had no knowledge of guns walking into Mexico via Fast and Furious
    “It’s not going to be a big surprise that a bunch of U.S. guns are being used in [Mexico], so I’m not sure how much grief we get for guns walking.”
    ~Memo sent to Eric Holder from his Deputy Attorney General (October 22, 2010)

  2814. Eric Holder later defended himself by saying that lying “has to do with your state of mind” (2011)
  2815. Obama also claimed he did not know about the federal operation smuggling guns into Mexico
  2816. White House national security officials received emails about the ‘Fast and Furious’ operation
    “DOJ’s bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is increasing its efforts by adding 37 new employees and three new offices, using $10 million in Recovery Act funds and redeploying 100 personnel to the southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify its Project Gunrunner, which is aimed at disrupting arms trafficking between the United States and Mexico.”
    ~Deputy Attorney General David Ogden talking on video about Barack Obama’s orders to “fight” the Mexican drug cartels on March 24, 2009

  2817. Obama forcefully rejected calls for Holder to resign over ‘Operation Fast and Furious’ (2011)
  2818. Video from March 24, 2009 (26 months earlier) showed Deputy Attorney General David Ogden talking about Barack Obama’s orders to “fight” the Mexican drug cartels, using ‘Project Gunrunner’
  2819. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano bragged about a weapons tracing program in 2009
  2820. Napolitano announced the initiative to help with crime on the southern border (March 2009)
  2821. Napolitano outlined a plan at a press conference which sounded just like ‘Fast and Furious’
  2822. Obama’s ATF director Kenneth Melson failed to respond to an official Congressional subpoena
  2823. Melson claimed that DOJ officials sought to limit and control his communications with Congress
  2824. Melson said that those who ran the controversial ATF project were reassigned without explanation
  2825. Two top ATF supervisors were quietly demoted and reassigned by Justice Department officials
  2826. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to apologize to the murdered U.S. border agent’s family
    “It’s not fair to assume that the mistakes that occurred in Fast & Furious directly lead to the death of Agent Terry.”
    ~Attorney General Eric Holder (November 2011)

  2827. Eric Holder did not apologize to the Brian Terry’s family until shamed into doing so by Congress
  2828. Holder sent the ‘Fast and Furious’ apology letter to the media before Agent Brian Terry’s family
  2829. Holder told both the Senate and House Judiciary Committees that the operation was “flawed”
  2830. Holder said that Fast & Furious weapons will show up at crime scenes “for years to come”
    “It is an unfortunate reality that we will continue to feel the effects of this flawed operation for years to come. Guns lost during this operation will continue to show up at crime scenes on both sides of the border.”
    ~Eric Holder testifying before the House Judiciary Committee on December 8, 2011

  2831. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) also was found to have
    laundered hundreds of millions of dollars for the Mexican drug cartels (2011)
  2832. DEA agents needed to seek approval from the Justice Department to launder over $10 million
  2833. Officials admitted that the $10 million cap was more of a guideline and was waived many times
  2834. Many suspect the gun operation was a ruse to convince Americans that we need more gun control
  2835. Left blamed loose gun laws, yet the ATF forced gun shops to break the laws and sell the weapons
  2836. In 1995, then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announced a public campaign to “really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way,” especially for “young people”
  2837. Holder sought to make his anti-gun message a part of “every day, every school, and every level”
  2838. Obama admitted that he was working to advance his gun control agenda “under the radar” (2011)
  2839. ATF released bogus stats claiming that 90% of firearms recovered in Mexico came from the U.S.
  2840. GAO Office used ATF’s 90% statistic in an official report to Congress about American firearms
  2841. Media ran a flurry of reports saying that majority of illicit firearms in Mexico originate in the U.S.
  2842. Eric Holder’s Justice Department even used the bogus 90% data in several of its programs
  2843. Obama publicly stated that “more than 90% of guns recovered in Mexico come from the U.S.”
  2844. ATF admitted in November 2010 that its 90% figure cited to Congress “could be misleading”
  2845. The statistics only applied to the small portion of guns verified through its eTrace system
  2846. ATF’s eTrace system is an Internet-based firearm database used for Operation “Gunrunner”
  2847. ATF admitted the stats were skewed based on guns it traced, all of which originated in the U.S.
  2848. Operation “Castaway” was another ATF project selling 1,000 weapons to gangs in Honduras
  2849. Obama’s executive order placed new restrictions on the sale of certain weapons in border states
  2850. Obama’s gun control executive order increases the penalties for violating certain firearms laws
  2851. Three of the senior ‘Fast and Furious’ supervisors were promoted following their “mistakes”
  2852. At least 11 more ‘Fast and Furious’ weapons were found at crime scenes within the United States
  2853. ATF chief Kenneth Melson stepped down in August 2011 following the gun-running scandal
  2854. Melson remained on the payroll and was reassigned to the Office of Legal Policy (August 2011)
  2855. Dennis Burke, the U.S. Attorney in Arizona who oversaw prosecutions, also stepped down
  2856. CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson said that the W.H. screamed and swore at her for covering the story
  2857. Guns illegally purchased under ‘Fast & Furious’ were found in a Mexican drug cartel home (2011)
  2858. The home belonged to Torres Marrufo, an enforcer for Sinaloa cartel chieftain Joaquin Guzman
  2859. Sinaloa cartel is considered the most powerful drug trafficking organization in the world
  2860. Six other ‘Fast & Furious’ guns destined for El Paso were recovered in Columbus, New Mexico
  2861. Holder revealed a busted terror plot on the same day he was to be subpoenaed for ‘Fast & Furious’
  2862. Holder ended the press conference after the media began questioning him on ‘Fast & Furious’
  2863. President Obama spoke about Fast & Furious before Eric Holder claimed he knew about it
    “I heard on the news about this story that -- Fast and Furious, where allegedly guns were being run into Mexico, and ATF knew about it, but didn’t apprehend those who had sent it.” ~President Obama speaking to CNN Espanol in March 2011 about Fast & Furious (well before the period that Eric Holder claimed he first heard of it)

  2864. On February 4, 2011, the Department of Justice sent a letter to Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) which claimed that no gunwalking took place in Operation ‘Fast and Furious,’ which was later retracted
  2865. Justice Department officials admitted to Congress that department officials gave inaccurate information to a U.S. senator regarding Fast & Furious (document dump on December 2, 2011)
  2866. Justice Department falsely told Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) that the ATF had not sanctioned the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser and that the agency makes every effort to intercept weapons that have been purchased illegally (Friday document dump on December 2, 2011)
  2867. Then-U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke supplied incorrect information to the Justice Department
  2868. For example, Dennis Burke falsely said that the guns found at the Brian Terry murder scene were purchased at a Phoenix gun shop before Operation ‘Fast and Furious’ began
  2869. In fact, the operation was under way at the time and the guns found at the Terry murder scene were part of Operation Fast and Furious
  2870. Draft letters show the DOJ officials scaling back their denial from “categorically false” to “false”
  2871. U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke complained about the draft in one email: “Every version gets weaker. We will be apologizing” to Grassley “by tomorrow afternoon”
  2872. As of October 20, 2011 nearly 700 of the more than 2,000 ‘Fast and Furious’ weapons had been recovered – 276 inside Mexico and 389 in the United States
  2873. Hank Johnson (D-GA) argued that ‘Fast and Furious’ wasn’t that big of a scandal because “white supremacists,” among others he described, were able to buy guns at “gun shows” (2011)
  2874. Johnson claimed that the Tea Party and NRA manufactured the scandal to attack President Obama
  2875. Hank Johnson (D-GA) expressed concern during a House Armed Services Committee hearing that Guam may “tip over and capsize” if 8,000 more military personnel are sent there (March 2010)
  2876. Attorney General Eric Holder blamed racism for criticism of both him and President Obama (2011)
  2877. Holder pointed to the “more extreme segment” of his critics without clarifying what group that is
    “This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him. Both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.” ~Attorney General Eric Holder (December 2011)

  2878. Allen West (R-FL): Holder invoking race is a ‘slap in the face as a professional African American’
    “I’m disgusted. I find it absolutely reprehensible because this is not about skin color. This is about your character. This is about your competence. This is about your ability to lead. And this is about potentially you having misled Congress and the American people on this operation Fast and Furious… It is a slap in my face as a professional African American member of Congress and a career military officer that this gentleman who is the head of the Department of Justice is going to resort to that very nefarious theme of the race card.” ~Congressman Allen West (R-FL) speaking about Attorney General Eric Holder (December 22, 2011)

  2879. Ninety Congressmen said they had “no confidence” in Holder and wanted him to resign (December 2011)
  2880. Americans bought a record number of guns for Christmas in December 2011
  2881. Patrick Cunningham is the chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona
  2882. Cunningham refused to testify before Congress regarding Operation Fast and Furious (2012)
  2883. Cunningham was subpoenaed to appear before the House Oversight Committee (January 2012)
  2884. Cunningham’s lawyer notified Congress that his client would plead the Fifth Amendment
  2885. Holder failed to provide subpoenaed documents and other information to Congress (2012)
  2886. Documents that were produced were almost always released on the eve of congressional hearings
  2887. Mexican lawmakers called for U.S. officials who approved the operation to be tried in Mexico
  2888. Mexico began conducting their own investigation into the ‘Fast and Furious’ scandal
    “Mexico was never apprised how the operation would be designed and implemented. Regardless of whether this was or was not the intent or the design of Fast and Furious. The thinking that you can let guns walk across the border and maintain operational control of those weapons is really an outstanding lack of understanding of how these criminal organizations are operating on both sides of our common borders.” ~Mexico ambassador Arturo Sarukhan (May 2012)

  2889. Attorney General Eric Holder lied when he claimed during congressional testimony that emails using the phrase “Fast and Furious” don’t refer to Operation ‘Fast and Furious’
  2890. Holder warned of an “impending Constitutional crisis” if charged with contempt (June 2012)
  2891. Holder went back on his word and didn’t provide the ‘Fast and Furious’ documents to Congress
  2892. Holder retracted the claim that the Bush administration knew about Fast and Furious (June 2012)
  2893. Eric Holder falsely told the Senate Judiciary Committee that President Bush’s Attorney General, Michael Mukasey knew of the gunwalking tactics used in ‘Fast and Furious’ (June 2012)
    “An attorney general who I suppose you would hold in higher regard was briefed on these kinds of tactics in an operation called Wide Receiver and did nothing to stop them – nothing. Three hundred guns, at least, walked in that instance.” ~Attorney General Eric Holder falsely shifting blame to the former Attorney General Michael Mukasey (Eric Holder was forced to retract this claim after not being able to support the accusation with actual evidence)

  2894. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to apologize to Michael Mukasey following his retraction
  2895. Congress sought documents to show why the DOJ decided to withdraw, as inaccurate, a February 2011 letter sent to Congress that said top officials had only recently learned about ‘Fast and Furious’
  2896. Obama administration refused to turn over 1,300 pages of documents related to ‘Fast and Furious’
  2897. President Obama granted Holder executive privilege on documents pertaining to ‘Fast and Furious’
    “The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth, are people with something to hide.” ~Barack Obama

  2898. Executive privilege is usually invoked from the beginning, not 18 months into an investigation
  2899. In 2007, Obama told CNN that executive privilege was not a good reason to withhold information
  2900. Katie Couric previously slammed Executive Privilege as “people in power” being “above the law”
  2901. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) criticized President Bush for using Executive Privilege (July 2007)
    “It’s hard for me to comprehend how logically, politically, realistically, constitutionally, the president can do this. It’s like saying I’m king. That isn’t the country we live in. He’s not King George. He’s President George.” ~Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) when asked about President Bush’s use of Executive Privilege (July 20, 2007)

  2902. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted Holder in contempt (June 20, 2012)
  2903. Spokesman Jay Carney forgot the name of slain border patrol agent Brian Terry (June 2012)
  2904. Carney claimed that invoking executive privilege is “entirely about principle” (reporters laughed)
  2905. Murdered border agent Brian Terry’s parents accused Obama officials of “hiding something”
  2906. Brian Terry’s mother and father demanded to Eric Holder that they ‘deserve to know the truth’
  2907. Voters disapproved (56% to 29%) of Obama blocking the release of ‘Fast and Furious’ documents
  2908. Democrats broke ranks and voted Eric Holder in contempt of Congress (June 28, 2012)
  2909. House of Representatives voted Eric Holder in both criminal and civil contempt of Congress
  2910. Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) walked out of the contempt vote against Eric Holder
  2911. Democrats tried to blame “evil” Republicans and the NRA for the ‘Fast and Furious’ fallout
    “The gun lobby is directly responsible for the gap in federal law that allowed purchases of guns here that were sold in Mexico and ultimately for the tragic death of a border agent. Yet our committee spent no time on the root cause of the tragedy because of a political mandate from the gun lobby.” ~Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) falsely trying to pin blame on the NRA

  2912. James Clyburn (D-SC) claimed, “there’s something evil about using the procedures of the House… to further political aims” (June 2012)
  2913. Brian Terry’s brother, Kent Terry, blasted Democrats for walking out of the contempt vote
    “Very sad that our childish Government walks out. What kind of respect? Does that tell you they’re for getting justice for Brian and [Jaime] Zapata and any law enforcement that dies in the line of duty? This is the respect they get.” ~Email from Kent Terry reacting to Democrats walking out of the contempt votes against Eric Holder (June 2012)

  2914. Darrell Issa (R-CA) submitted a secret wiretap application into the Congressional Record
  2915. Secret wiretap application contained a startling amount of detail about ‘Fast and Furious’
  2916. Attorney General Eric Holder and Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) had both maintained that the wiretap applications did not contain details such as about what tactics were being used
  2917. Wiretap applications were signed by senior DOJ officials in the department’s criminal division
  2918. Justice Department announced they would not prosecute Holder for contempt of Congress
  2919. Eric Holder denied executive privilege for Texas concerning their new voter ID law (2012)
  2920. Polling showed that a majority (53%) approved of Congress’s contempt vote against Eric Holder
  2921. Polling also found that 69% of Americans want President Obama to answer all of the questions surrounding the Fast and Furious “gunwalking” scandal (July 2012)
  2922. ‘Wide Receiver’ did not result in any confirmed deaths (unlike ‘Fast and Furious’)
  2923. ‘Wide Receiver’ was a gun-tracing program, not a gun-walking program like ‘Fast and Furious
  2924. ‘Wide Receiver’ guns had implanted RFID chips and were actively tracked electronically
  2925. ‘Wide Receiver’ also incorporated aerial surveillance and attempted to follow the weapons
  2926. Over time, cartels and straw purchasers learned how to shake the tracking maneuvers
  2927. Two of the ‘Fast and Furious’ rifles were recovered in Colombia (August 2012)
  2928. Justice Department inspector general released a report faulting a range of federal agencies for the failed anti-gunrunning program and accused officials in charge of a “disregard” for public safety
  2929. The inspector general report marked deputy assistant attorney general Jason Weinstein as the highest-ranking DOJ employee in a position to stop the ‘Fast and Furious’ program
  2930. Jason Weinstein resigned, but he disputed the findings within the report (September 2012)
  2931. Former ATF acting director Kenneth Melson immediately retired after the report was released
  2932. Investigators reviewed 100,000 documents and interviewed 130 people
  2933. Obama’s White House did not produce any internal White House communications for the inspector general investigation, saying it was “beyond the purview” of the inspector general (2012)
  2934. White House National Security aide refused the inspector general request for an interview
  2935. The report slammed the Phoenix office of the ATF and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for not acting
  2936. Gun sales in the United States soared following President Obama’s re-election (November 2012)
    “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” ~Thomas Jefferson (D)

  2937. Two more “Fast and Furious” guns were found at a Mexican drug cartel shootout (November 2012)
  2938. Mexican beauty queen Susana Flores Maria Gamez and four others were killed during the gun battle
  2939. One gun found at the Mexican drug cartel shootout was trafficked by Uriel Patino, a suspect in the case
  2940. The other weapon, a FN Herstal pistol, was originally purchased by ATF manager George Gillett
  2941. The Herstal pistol is nicknamed “cop-killer” as a “weapon of choice” for Mexican drug cartels
  2942. The pistol was originally purchased by ATF manager George Gillett, who was faulted by the Inspector General during the investigation into the botched “Fast and Furious” gunrunning operation
  2943. Gillett was the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of ATF Phoenix when “Fast and Furious” began
    Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking all documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious and “specifically [a]ll records subject to the claim of executive privilege invoked by President Barack Obama on or about June 20, 2012.”

  2944. Obama administration failed to comply with Judicial Watch’s FOIA request prompting a lawsuit (2012)
  2945. Holder begged a federal court to stop the release of documents on “Fast and Furious” (January 2013)
  2946. ATF storefront sting operation in Milwaukee ended in a string of mistakes and failures (January 2013)
  2947. ATF agents bought guns and drugs under the guise of a company named Fearless Distributing
  2948. ATF agents arrested and charged the wrong person at least three times during the sting operation
  2949. One man, Adrienne Jones, was charged with selling drugs to agents when the man was in already in jail
  2950. Three ATF guns were stolen after an agent parked his Ford Explorer nearby (September 2012)
  2951. ATF operation was ripped off after burglars robbed the building housing the sting operation
  2952. ATF refused to compensate the owner for damage to the store used for the sting following the robbery
    “If you continue to contact the Agents after being so advised your contacts may be construed as harassment under the law. Threats or harassment of a Federal Agent is of grave concern. Utilizing the telephone or a computer to perpetrate threats or harassment is also a serious matter.” ~ATF attorney Patricia Cangemi threatening property owner David Salkin in an email

  2953. Local residents felt betrayed by the ATF operation that brought drug dealers and gun sellers to their area
  2954. According to a report from the Office of the Inspector General with the Department of Justice, the ATF has had its weapons stolen or loses them more frequently that the general public might think (2008)
  2955. From 2002-2007, report showed that 76 ATF weapons were stolen, were lost or had gone missing
  2956. Rate for the ATF is nearly double that of the FBI and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

    2957. Democrats exploited the Aurora, Colorado mass shooting tragedy to push for gun control (2012)
    “You know, my daughters go to the movies. What if Malia and Sasha had been at the theater?” ~President Obama reacting to the Aurora, Colorado movie theater massacre (2012)

  2957. ABC News’ Brian Ross and George Stephanopoulos falsely reported that a gunman who went on a killing spree at an Aurora, Colorado viewing of The Dark Knight Rises was connected to the Tea Party
  2958. Stephanopoulos before smearing the Tea Party: “We’re learning a lot more about the shooter now”
  2959. ABC later apologized, blaming “social media” and “the public” for their Tea Party smear
  2960. Warner Brothers showed a preview featuring a scene of a gangster shooting up a theater
  2961. After Obama led a prayer and moment of silence, his supporters chanted “four more years”
  2962. CNN’s Piers Morgan exploited the Aurora, Colorado cinema massacre to call for more gun control
  2963. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called for gun control in the wake of the massacre
  2964. Michael Bloomberg asked of Obama and Romney, what are you going to do about those guns?
  2965. Salman Rushdie tweeted, “The ‘right to bear arms’ is the real Bane of America” (July 2012)
    “Individual right to bear arms survived by a 5-4 vote in the Supreme Court (DC v Heller, 2008), powerful dissents. This argument isn’t over.” ~Tweet by author Salman Rushdie (July 2012)

  2966. Roger Ebert falsely asserted that the gun-free theater proves that concealed carry doesn’t work
  2967. The Cinemark Century Theater chain has maintained a “gun-free zone” policy for several years
  2968. Michael Moore argued that the guns today are “not really” what was meant by “right to bear arms”
  2969. Actor John Leguizamo exploited the tragedy to “get guns removed in this country” (July 2012)
  2970. Comedian D.L. Hughley tweeted for gun control following the Aurora theater massacre
  2971. White House Spokesman Jay Carney said that Obama supported a ban on assault weapons
  2972. While addressing the National Urban League, Obama called for gun control measures (July 2012)
  2973. Obama ignorantly said that “AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals”
  2974. AK-47 was developed in the Soviet Union and was later adopted by many other communist states
  2975. Obama administration flip-flopped, deciding to instead focus on enforcing current gun control laws
  2976. AP reported that “public opinion has shifted away from tighter gun control” over the last 20 years
  2977. Democratic Senators offered a gun control amendment to a cyber-security bill pending in Congress
  2978. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), a sponsor of the amendment, defended “reasonable” gun control measures
  2979. Amendment was sponsored by Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
  2980. Gun-control amendment was identical to a separate bill sponsored by Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
  2981. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) was the sponsor of the assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004
  2982. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) vows to go after more than just “assault weapons” (January 2013)
  2983. Feinstein’s legislation seeks to “ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited” (2013)
  2984. Kansas City Chiefs football player murdered his girlfriend and then killed himself with a handgun (2012)
  2985. Bob Costas went on a 90-second anti-gun rant during halftime of an NBC Sunday Night football game
  2986. Bob Costas claimed that young men simply can’t own guns “without something bad happening”
  2987. Costas argued that it was “entirely appropriate” to exploit the Javon Belcher tragedy to push for gun control, suggesting that sports could be used to change attitudes and marginalize guns (January 2013)
  2988. During an interview with CNN, Costas compared guns to Big Macs, cigarettes, and racist remarks
  2989. Costas argued that violence in the NFL is rampant because “guns are glorified” in the “hip hop culture”

    2990. Democrats exploited the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre to push for more gun control (2012)

  2990. Twenty children and six women were killed by a gunman, Adam Lanza, who shot himself at the scene
  2991. Democrats exploited the Sandy Hook elementary massacre to push for more gun control (2012)
  2992. CNN’s Don Lemon ranted, “We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off streets”
  2993. MSNBC’s Ed Schultz called for the government to “confiscate” guns and nullify the Second Amendment
  2994. State officials saw a massive influx of gun applications after the Sandy Hook shootings (December 2012)
  2995. Discovery cancelled the third season of “American Guns” in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre
  2996. Harvey Weinstein curtailed the Quentin Tarantino-directed “Django Unchained” premiere in Hollywood
  2997. Quentin Tarantino argued that the blame for violence should remain squarely with the perpetrators
    “Don’t ask me a question like that – I’m not biting… Because I refused your question. I’m not your slave and you’re not my master. You can’t make me dance to your tune. I’m not a monkey.” ~Quentin Tarantino refusing to repeat his position on violence in movies during an interview (2013)

  2998. Premiere for Tom Cruise’s new film, “Jack Reacher,” was cancelled because it featured a sniper attack
  2999. Joe Biden was picked to lead a White House task force to examine more gun control legislation (2012)
  3000. President Obama made clear, “This is not some Washington commission” (December 2012)
  3001. Joe Biden warned back in 2008 that if Obama “tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem”
    “I guarantee you Barack Obama ain’t taking my shotguns, so don’t buy that malarkey. Don’t buy that malarkey. They’re going to start peddling that to you.” ~Joe Biden at a campaign stop in Castlewood, Virginia (September 20, 2008)

  3002. Joe Biden advised, “So you want to keep people away in an earthquake? Buy some shotgun shells”
  3003. In 2010, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) admitted, “I carried a gun every place I went”
  3004. CNN’s Piers Morgan tweeted that he was gleeful that the Sandy Hook tragedy occurred
  3005. Piers Morgan declared that the U.S. Constitution and the Bible are “inherently flawed” and need amended
  3006. In 2004, Piers Morgan described his hatred for home-invasion burglars, who he wants tortured and killed
    “I want them erased from life, all of them. Preferably after a decent period of cattle-prodding, testicle electrode treatment, and slow gentle skewering over hot coals.” ~Piers Morgan (2004)

  3007. In 2006, Morgan gave an interview to the Daily Mail where he imagined having a chance to gun down his three top professional critics by asking, “[I]f I had a gun with just two bullets, who would I shoot?”
  3008. Piers Morgan imagined killing one critic outright and then using a ricochet shot to kill the other two
  3009. Media ignored the psychiatric medications used by Adam Lanza prior to the Sandy Hook massacre
  3010. Media ignored factors such as violent movies, video games, and the “failure of our mental-health system”
  3011. Media and Democrats also ignored the unintended consequences of making schools into “gun-free zones”
  3012. In 1999, Obama voted “present” on a post-Columbine bill to prosecute school shooters as adults
  3013. Michael Moore predicted that the NRA was “doomed” after the Sandy Hook massacre (January 2013)
  3014. Democrats in Congress proposed an assault weapons ban, tighter rules for gun procurement, and the outlawing of clips that spring bullets into guns
  3015. Number of gun prosecutions dropped by 40% under Obama’s presidency (2012)
  3016. Gallup found that more Americans favor arming school officials than having a weapons ban (2012)
  3017. Members of the black community in New Haven were upset that urban gun violence is being ignored
  3018. New Haven residents complained that a similar incident in an urban would not receive the same attention
    “We share in the grief with the families of the lives lost last week and we know all too well about gun violence, because African American families go through this all the time. When doing an interfaith vigil we should never eliminate the black church, because our clergy can share their stories and experiences with others in these difficult times.” ~Carroll E. Brown, president of the West Haven Black Coalition (December 2012)

  3019. Urban gun violence is ignored because the Democrats and media don’t see a political opportunity in it
    “Where is the moral outrage and large media coverage when there are hundreds of murders of young black men in cities like Chicago? No one really cares about black kids as much as they care about white kids or white life. Where are our black clergy when we have these murders in New Haven? We have makeshift vigils all the time on our city streets.” ~Gregory Webb, a resident of New Haven, Connecticut (December 2012)

  3020. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel blasted NRA spokesman Wayne LaPierre for proposing having armed officers in schools across the country in response to the Sandy Hook massacre
    “It’s outrageous and unsettling that the NRA would choose to address gun violence not by taking assault weapons off our streets, but by adding more guns to our schools… That is not the right answer for our society, our schools and most importantly our children.” ~Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (December 2012)

  3021. Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s kid’s school in Chicago is protected by an armed on-duty police officer
  3022. Mayor of Philadelphia declared that the NRA’s armed school guards plan was a “dumbass idea” (2012)
  3023. Polling found that a majority of Virginia residents want armed guards in their schools (2013)
  3024. Sidwell Friends, the school where Barack and Michelle Obama’s kids go to school, has 11 armed guards
  3025. NBC’s David Gregory’s children also attend the private Sidwell Friends school in Washington, D.C.
  3026. David Gregory illegally held up a 30-round magazine on Meet the Press while pushing for gun control
  3027. Washington, D.C. police investigated David Gregory for brandishing the illegal magazine (2012)
  3028. Police had reportedly refused permission for David Gregory to display the high capacity magazine
  3029. Obama joked that he really ran for re-election so that he could have “men with guns” around Malia, 14
    “One of the main incentives of running was continued Secret Service protection so we can have men with guns around at all times.” ~Obama speaking with ABC’s Barbara Walters (December 2012)

  3030. President Obama granted himself lifetime Secret Service protection with armed guards (January 2013)
  3031. In 1996, Barack Obama answered “yes” to a survey question asking whether he would support state legislation to “ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns”
  3032. During the 2008 presidential race, Obama’s campaign claimed that the form had been filled out by an aide who mischaracterized Obama’s position, even though his handwriting was found on the survey
  3033. In 2004, Obama opposed a bill allowing a person to use a gun to save their own life in their own home
  3034. In Atlanta, an off-duty armed resource officer disarmed a teen after he shot a classmate (January 2013)
  3035. Metal detectors installed in the Atlanta, Georgia middle school failed to detect the gun beforehand
  3036. Newtown, Connecticut agreed with the NRA as educators voted to put armed guards in schools (2013)

    3037. Second Amendment: ‘The Right of the People to Keep and Bear Arms, Shall NOT be Infringed’

  3037. In 2008, Senator Obama argued that government can “constrain” the individual right to bear arms
    “I believe that the Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms. But just because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can’t constrain the exercise of that right.”
    ~Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (2008)

  3038. Illinois Democrats advanced gun control bills that included banning handguns and pump shotguns (2013)
  3039. FBI announced that gun purchases set a new record for December (2012)
  3040. White House told the Huffington Post that Obama would go for gun control “quickly” (January 2013)
  3041. FBI crime statistics show that more people are killed with hammers and clubs each year than with rifles
  3042. FBI statistics also show that more people are killed by hands and fists each year than by rifles
  3043. Hunters account for only about 16% of the estimated 70-80 million gun owners in the United States
  3044. FBI: There were 310 million firearms in America in 2011, compared with 192 million in 1992
  3045. During the same period (1992-2011), violent crime rates have dropped 49 percent
  3046. L.A. Police Chief Charlie Beck falsely claimed that rocket launchers, or as he described as “weapons of war,” were turned in during two separate gun buyback programs in L.A. (May and December 2012)
  3047. More than one million AR-15 magazines were on backorder as buyers feared new gun control laws
  3048. In Seattle, a police gun buyback program turned into a gun show for gun collectors (January 2013)
  3049. Amendment found within the 2800-page Obamacare law forbids gun and ammo registration
  3050. Senate amendment 3276, Sec. 2716, part (c) says that the government cannot use doctors to collect “any information relating to the lawful ownership or possession of a firearm or ammunition”
  3051. CNN referred to the amendment as “a gift to the nation’s powerful gun lobby,” referring to the NRA
  3052. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said that he added the provision keep the National Rifle Association (NRA) from getting involved in the legislative fight over Obamacare
    “The president is going to act. There are executive orders, executive action that can be taken. We haven’t decided what that is yet, but we’re compiling it all.”
    ~Vice President Joe Biden (January 2013)

  3053. Eric Holder met with Vice President Joe Biden and gun-control advocates in the White House (2013)
  3054. In 1995, Attorney General Eric Holder said that gun owners should “cower” in shame like smokers
  3055. Holder insisted that we need to “really brainwash people to think about guns in a vastly different way”
  3056. In 2008, Holder signed a amicus brief that supported Washington, D.C.’s ban on handguns as it was being considered by the Supreme Court
  3057. Joe Biden compared gun control to air bags in automobiles, arguing that they save lives (January 2013)
  3058. Department of Justice (DOJ) study found that youth gun violence was down 95% from 1994 to 2010
  3059. The Journal News published a map of gun permit holders in Westchester and Rockland counties
  3060. A blogger retaliated by publishing the names and addresses of employees of the Journal News
  3061. The Journal News’ map was later used by burglars to target a gun safe in a home in White Plains (2013)
  3062. Two handguns and permits were stolen from a second home listed on the Journal News map (2013)
    “The Journal News has placed the lives of these folks at risk by creating a virtual shopping list for criminals and nut jobs. If the connection is proven, this is further proof that these maps are not only an invasion of privacy but that they present a clear and present danger to law-abiding, private citizens. Former convicts have already testified to the usefulness of the asinine Journal News ‘gun maps’ yet the reckless editors are evidently willing to roll the dice, gambling with the lives of innocent local homeowners.” ~Senator Greg Ball (R-NY) (January 2013)

  3063. Journal News removed the names and addresses from their online gun map (January 2013)
  3064. Washington Post columnist Erik Wemple criticized the Journal News for their “cowardice”
  3065. New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said that handguns are the main problem (January 2013)
  3066. Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (D-MD) sought to fingerprint most new gun buyers (January 2013)
  3067. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo also sought aggressive new gun-control legislation (January 2013)
  3068. New York passed the nation’s toughest gun control law claiming it “protects the 2nd Amendment”
  3069. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) asked gun retailers to stop sales as Congress debated new gun control laws
  3070. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) traveled to Washington, D.C. to push for gun control
  3071. Chicago proposed requiring gun owners to report private gun sales or go to jail (January 2013)
  3072. In 2012, more people were killed on the streets of Chicago than all allied deaths in Afghanistan combined
  3073. In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chicago’s 28-year-old handgun ban as unconstitutional
  3074. A federal judge ruled part of Chicago’s latest gun law, rushed into place in 2010, as unconstitutional
  3075. Chicago law originally denied a man a gun permit because of a prior misdemeanor conviction
  3076. Jesse Jackson Sr. described the assault weapons as a threat to national security of the United States
  3077. Jesse Jackson Sr. said that gun manufacturers should be held responsible for those killed with guns
  3078. Obama’s own Justice Department has recommended putting armed guards in schools (2010)
  3079. There has never been a U.S. school shooting where an armed-uniformed police officer was on duty
  3080. School districts across the country started hiring armed guards to protect their children (January 2013)
  3081. Russell Simmons called for unarmed mediators to be hired in our schools across the country (2013)
  3082. Obama argued that if his proposals save just one child, “we should take that step” (January 2013)
  3083. Obama announced twenty-three “executive actions” on gun control while surrounded by children (2013)
  3084. Throughout history, tyrants and dictators have used children as props to push their agenda
  3085. White House released letters from little kids, but only those pleading for gun control (January 2013)
  3086. Obama tweeted a photo of an 8-year-old’s gun control plea in order to rally support for gun control
  3087. White House posted a video of kids begging for gun control, “No gun, no gun!” (January 2013)
  3088. President Obama used the issue of gun control to further advance his health care law, Obamacare
  3089. Obama’s executive actions press doctors to ask patients about guns in their homes
  3090. Obama proposed that ‘health care providers’ offer gun safety tips to their patients
  3091. Obama’s “executive action” proposals call for at least $4.5 billion in additional new spending
  3092. Obama ignored the role of violent movies and video games in creating a culture of violence in America
  3093. Obama proposed banning “assault rifles” and high-capacity magazines holding more than ten rounds
  3094. Secretary Janet Napolitano said she would “expand and formalize coordination” on gun control efforts
  3095. Department of Homeland Security video recommended using scissors to confront mass murderers
  3096. Obama: Second Amendment defenders were ginning up “higher ratings or revenue for themselves”
  3097. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL): President Obama is abusing his executive powers (January 2013)
    “President Obama is targeting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens instead of seriously addressing the real underlying causes of such violence.” ~Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) (January 2013)

  3098. Rubio said that Obama “doesn’t have the guts to admit” that he’s against the Second Amendment (2013)
    “I don’t believe people should be able to own guns.”
    ~Barack Obama (1996)

  3099. Mitt Romney had correctly warned the NRA against an “unrestrained” second-term Obama (2012)
  3100. Steve Stockman (R-TX) suggested impeaching Obama over his executive actions on gun control
  3101. Trey Radel (R-FL) also suggested that impeachment should be an option against President Obama
  3102. Governor Rick Perry (R-TX): Using the massacre of children to advance an agenda “disgusts me”
    “[T]he piling on by the political left, and their cohorts in the media, to use the massacre of little children to advance a pre-existing political agenda that would not have saved those children, disgusts me, personally. The second amendment to the Constitution is a basic right of free people and cannot be nor will it be abridged by the executive power of this or any other president.”
    ~Governor Rick Perry (January 2013)

  3103. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) prepped a bill to “nullify” Obama’s executive orders on gun control (2013)
  3104. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) claimed that Senator Rand Paul was using a “code word” on gun control
  3105. NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that the NRA is more popular than the entertainment industry
  3106. NRA membership grew by a 250,000 in just one month following the Sandy Hook school massacre
  3107. NRA ran an ad that called Obama an “elitist hypocrite” for having armed guards for his daughters
  3108. Study found that 60% of high school and college students in American plan to buy firearms (2012)
  3109. New York Times admitted that Obama’s gun control proposals would not have prevented Sandy Hook
  3110. “Assault weapons” were tied to less than 0.012% of overall deaths in America in 2011
  3111. Project Veritas sting showed how employees of the Journal News and top gun control activists were unwilling to post a “gun-free” sign in front of their home to show support for gun control (January 2013)
  3112. Project Veritas went door-to-door in New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. to see which outspoken champions for gun control would be willing to declare their own home as a “gun free zone”
    “I agree with you and I am on your side on this, but I’m just wondering if that’s not an invitation to somebody with a gun.” ~Newark Star Ledger Bob Braun’s response when confronted by the undercover Project Veritas team posing as members of a gun-control group (January 2013)

  3113. James O’Keefe and Project Veritas wanted to see how some of America’s most fervent gun-control advocates “felt when placed in the same position as our nation’s children – within a Gun Free Zone”
    “It’s amazing to see members of our media equivocate and contradict their spoken and written words when faced with the dilemma to declare their own homes as gun free. Surprisingly, we found that the homes of the very New York paper that was willing to put the lives and fortunes of gun owners at risk by publishing their names and addresses, were also the most heavily armed and protected. The hypocrisy of New York’s Journal News is beyond words… FBI police confronted our reporters within minutes of their knocking on the attorney general’s home. Eric Holder is safe and sound under armed protection, unlike the nation’s children.” ~James O’Keefe (January 2013)

  3114. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) misquoted the congressional oath of office to push for gun control (January 2013)
    “I, (name of Member), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” ~Congressional Oath of Office

  3115. Pelosi claimed that the oath required members of Congress to “protect and defend” the American people
  3116. Pelosi supported all 23 of Obama’s “executive actions,” including his desire for an “assault weapons” ban
  3117. President Obama proposed new gun control laws that wouldn’t have stopped the Sandy Hook massacre
  3118. Hollywood received a pass in President Obama’s new gun control proposals (January 2013)
  3119. Polling found that 65% of American adults see gun rights as protection against tyranny (January 2013)
  3120. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) described the NRA as a “very extreme” “fringe group” (January 2013)
  3121. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) would not bring Obama’s gun control measures to a vote
  3122. NBC/Wall Street Journal polling found that absentee parents and Hollywood are to blame for gun crime
  3123. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) argued that “some of the southern areas have cultures that we have to overcome”
  3124. Sheriff Terry Box in Texas said that he would not enforce gun laws that he considered unconstitutional
  3125. Missouri Sheriff Charles M. Heiss pledged to not enforce Obama’s unconstitutional gun control laws
    “It appears to me and many Americans that there is a genuine desire on the part of your administration to restrict the Second Amendment rights of law abiding American citizens in the interest of curbing gun violence in our nation. Any attempt to restrict these Second Amendment rights through executive order is unconstitutional and tantamount to an all-out assault on the United States Constitution.” ~Sheriff Charles M. Heiss (R-Johnson County) writing in a letter to the Obama administration, which was also signed by other sheriffs in Missouri (January 2013)
    “On the same day the President is taking his oath to uphold the Constitution, he continues to attack our Second Amendment rights. As Osage County Sheriff, I also took an Oath to the Constitution; but unlike Obama, I intend to uphold mine… The President comes from Chicago, the city with the strictest gun laws and worst gun violence in the country. It has been proven time and time again that taking guns from law abiding citizens only emboldens thugs, thieves, and rapists, not stop them from committing crimes.” ~Sheriff Michael Dixon (R-Osage County), one of about a dozen sheriffs in Missouri to have signed and sent Sheriff Charles M. Heiss’ letter

  3126. Disney CEO Bob Iger announced that they would monitor their violent video games (January 2013)
  3127. Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced a gun control bill that exempts government officials (January 2013)
  3128. Dianne Feinstein’s “Assault Weapons Ban of 2013” also bans numerous handguns and shotguns
  3129. Feinstein argued, “The purpose is to dry up the supply of these weapons over time” (January 2013)
  3130. Feinstein also argued against self-defense, saying you don’t “need more than 10 rounds” for self-defense
  3131. Feinstein’s proposals lacked enough Democratic votes to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate (2013)
  3132. Joe Biden claimed that he had heard the gunshots from the Nickel Mines shooting while golfing in 2006
  3133. The nearest golf course, Moccasin Run, had no record of him playing there and is about 6 miles away
  3134. Biden said that he views efforts to reduce firearm violence as gun safety – not gun control (2013)
  3135. Communist Party USA cheered on Obama’s gun grab in their official publication, People’s World (2013)
  3136. Rick Nagin is a member of the Newspaper Guild and the Communications Workers of America
  3137. Nagin, a writer for the Communist Party USA, has written for communist publications since the 1970s
  3138. Rick Nagin also serves as a political coordinator for the AFL-CIO in Ohio
  3139. In 2012, Rick Nagin was the Democratic Leader in Cleveland Ward 14 and served on the County Democratic Party Executive Committee
    “The Second Amendment is obsolete and now had been twisted to threaten the basic safety and security of all Americans.” ~Communist Party USA (CPUSA) writer Rick Nagin
    “[T]he ability to live free from the fear or threat of gun violence is a fundamental democratic right – one that far supercedes any so-called personal gun rights allegedly contained in the Second Amendment.” ~Communist Party USA’s (CPUSA) labor and politics reporter Rick Nagin writing in an article entitled, “Fight to end gun violence is key to defending democracy,” in their official publication, People’s World (January 2013)

  3140. Communist regimes, like all dictatorships, seek the prohibition of private gun ownership, thereby creating a monopoly of force in the hands of the State
  3141. Daily Kos writer “Sporks” outlined a long-term strategy to ban all civilian gun ownership that begins with registration and ends with confiscation by the federal government (January 2013)
  3142. Report by The Washington Times found that stricter gun laws fail to drive down the rates of gun crimes
  3143. Obama’s Organizing for Action used the Sandy Hook massacre of children to raise money (2013)
  3144. President Obama claimed that he goes skeet shooting “all the time” at Camp David (January 2013)
  3145. CNN White House correspondent Jessica Yellin was skeptical and asked why we haven’t seen photos
  3146. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) challenged President Obama to a skeet shooting contest (January 2013)
  3147. White House released a photo of Obama shooting a gun and even mocked so-called “skeeters” (2013)
  3148. White House released a warning to the public not to photoshop the image of Obama with a gun
  3149. President Obama’s own gun-control allies fretted that he was trying to portray himself as a friend of sportsmen and hunters, or worse yet that he was glorifying the use of guns (February 2013)
  3150. Spokesman Jay Carney tried to walk back Obama’s boasting about skeet shooting (February 2013)
  3151. Fox News survey found that two-thirds of Americans would “defy” a federal gun ban (January 2013)
  3152. DHS sought to acquire 7,000 AR-15 “assault rifles” for “personal defense” (January 2013)
  3153. Department of Homeland Security purchased another 21.6 million rounds of ammunition (February 2013)
  3154. DHS purchased over 1.6 billion bullets in a period of just 10 months (March 2012-February 2013)
  3155. Washington Post: Bloomberg is “America’s most prominent and deep-pocketed advocate for gun control”
  3156. When questioned by senior Talk Radio Network investigative reporter Jason Mattera, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg refused to give up his own armed security guards (January 2013)
  3157. Justifiable homicide: About 260 private citizens lawfully killed someone committing a felony in 2011
  3158. Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. warned, ‘Don’t wait for the police; arm yourselves’
  3159. Sheriff Clark said gun control advocates were “sheep” and called for “an armed tactical trained officer or security officer in every school and public place [theaters, malls, etc.] in America” (December 2012)
  3160. San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne thinks we can disarm Americans within “a generation”
  3161. Lansdowne has been slamming the NRA in interviews and declared, “We broke the NRA” (2013)
  3162. Arizona considered a bill that would make a federal ban on semi-automatic weapons “unenforceable”
  3163. Wyoming House approved a bill exempting the state from federal gun-control measures (January 2013)
  3164. Democrats invited Gabrielle Giffords and former NASA astronaut Mark Kelly to testify before the Senate
  3165. Media coverage of Giffords’ testimony exploited her victimhood in order to push for gun control
  3166. Media fawned over Gabrielle Giffords’ “handwritten” notes written by a speech therapist (January 2013)
  3167. Harry Reid (D-NV) said that he hadn’t even read Dianne Feinstein’s legislation yet (February 2013)
  3168. Former SEAL, ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle was killed at a Texas gun range by an Iraqi war vet (2013)
  3169. Obama took his gun control campaign to Minnesota and argued, “Now is the time!” (February 2013)
  3170. President Obama described guns with magazines that held over ten bullets as “weapons of war”
  3171. Court ruled that a New York Times’ request for a list of city gun owners violated the law (2013)
  3172. House Democrats put forth 14 gun control measures with the usual “crisis” urgency (February 7, 2013)
  3173. None of the measures presented would have stopped the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
  3174. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) argued that Democrats must push for gun control while we have the chance
  3175. Eric Holder: Obama decides who’s “entitled” to their Second Amendment rights (February 2013)
  3176. Democratic Party allies in the media did not report on the political motives of a leftwing mass murderer
  3177. Chris Dorner is a former-police officer who went on a murder rampage in Los Angeles (February 2013)
  3178. Chris Dorner left behind a manifesto that endorsed Hillary, Obama, gun control, and the elite media
  3179. Chris Dorner endorsed Hillary for president in 2016 and vigorously defended President Obama
  3180. Chris Dorner endorsed Piers Morgan’s gun control views, but worried that he was hurting the cause
  3181. Piers Morgan tweeted that the Los Angeles murder spree had “nothing to do with politics”

    3182. Obama insisted that “Chicago is an example of what makes this country great” (August 2012)

  3182. Chicago, under complete Democratic control, is the most heavily gun-regulated area in the country
  3183. As violent crime decreased in large cities, such as New York and Los Angeles, the murder rate in Chicago skyrocketed 38% during the first six months of 2012
  3184. High murder rate has made large swathes of Chicago more lethal than the war zone of Afghanistan
  3185. Valerie Jarrett traveled to Chicago to speak at the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention and touted the Obama administration’s “action” on Chicago youth violence (April 2012)
  3186. Valerie Jarrett dated President Obama’s action-taking on youth violence to September 2009
  3187. When he became mayor, Rahm Emanuel disbanded Chicago’s tactical units and combined precincts
  3188. As a campaign promise, Emanuel disbanded the Targeted Response Unit and the Mobile Strike Force
  3189. Prior to Rahm Emanuel, these tactical teams were used to break up gang activity whenever it picked up
  3190. In 2010, there were 68 murder victims in Chicago between the ages of 13 and 18
  3191. Nearly 700 kids were hit by gunfire as Chicago suffered an 11% rise in youth murders
  3192. Since 2008, at least 530 people under the ago 21 have been murdered in the city of Chicago
  3193. More than 100 police officers were sent to guard the wedding of Valerie Jarrett’s daughter (2012)
  3194. Shootings in Chicago skyrocketed over that weekend, leaving at least seven dead and 35 injured
  3195. A 7-year-old girl was gunned down while selling lemonade outside of her home in Chicago
  3196. Five Chicago teenagers were among 8 wounded in 8 separate drive-by shootings in one night
  3197. Three teens in Chicago were charged with beating a disabled grandfather to death (July 2012)
    “All the black brothers just want to get rich, but we got no jobs and no hope. We want the violence to stop but you ain’t safe if you ain’t got your pistol with you. Too many friends, too many men are being killed. We don’t even cry at funerals no more. Nobody expects to live past 21 here.” ~Young Chicago man nicknamed “Killer” (July 2012)

  3198. Thirteen people in Chicago were shot within just a 30-minute period (August 2012)
  3199. Six young black men abducted and raped a 14-year-old girl on her way to school (November 2012)
  3200. Innocent people are repeatedly being shot while driving their cars and SUVs within Chicago
  3201. Media ignored the skyrocketing murder rate in Chicago due to a lack of political upside in the stories
  3202. Media is unable to blame the shootings on Republicans, conservative ideas, or a lack of left-wing ideas
  3203. Media is unable to blame a lack of gun control, since Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the country
  3204. Murder rate in Chicago increased in 2012 compared to 2011, with 41 murders per month
  3205. According to 2010 U.S. Census information, Chicago has a population of 2,695,598 people
  3206. Chicago’s population is 33% black, 32% white (non-Hispanic), and 30% Hispanic or Latino in origin
  3207. From 2003-2011, whites were nearly 6% of the victims and accused of carrying out 4% of the murders
  3208. From 2003-2011, Hispanics were 19% of the victims and accused of carrying out 20% of the murders
  3209. From 2003-2011, blacks were 75% of the victims and accused of carrying out 75% of the murders
  3210. Tyrone Lawson was shot dead at the end of a high school basketball game at Chicago State University
  3211. Homeless shoplifter in Chicago was killed by a CVS drug store manager after stealing toothpaste (2010)
  3212. Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old who performed at Obama’s inauguration, was shot dead in Chicago
    “There has to be an end to it. It’s just too much. The children cannot go to school. They’re in fear.” ~Chicago resident Bonita O’Bannion (January 2013)

  3213. Chicago recorded its deadliest January in more than 10 years (January 2013)
  3214. Murder rate in Chicago over the past decade is more than double the rate of U.S. deaths in Afghanistan
  3215. Steven Robbins, a convicted murderer, was mistakenly released from prison in Chicago (January 2013)
  3216. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel pressured mutual funds to divest from gun companies (January 2013)
  3217. Jesse Jackson and relatives of victims pleaded with Obama to address the gun violence in Chicago
  3218. Jackson called for the Department of Homeland Security to help patrol the streets of Chicago (2013)
  3219. Chicago’s murder rate is higher than during the non-gun-controlled era of Al Capone (1920s)
  3220. Police in Chicago announced they would no longer respond immediately to burglaries and car thefts
    “I don’t mean to be flippant here, because I’ve been the victim of a burglary at least three or four times. I’d rather have the officer on the street, where he can prevent the shooting.” ~Chicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy (February 2013)

  3221. Jeanette Holt, 25, lied about a baby’s abduction to get cops to find her stolen car (February 2013)
  3222. Chicago police union sought a 12% pay raise over two years and proposed a residency stipend of $3,000 per officer for those required to live within the city of Chicago (February 2013)
  3223. Police union asked to pay less for their health insurance and get money for their uniform allowance
  3224. Police wanted to reach the top of the pay scale ($86,000) after 20 years, rather than the current 25 years

    3225. Obama administration does not respect the guarantee of equal protection under the law

  3225. Obama’s Department of Justice was sued for picking and choosing which laws to enforce (2011)
  3226. Department of Justice dropped its defense of a central part of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act
  3227. Obama and Holder arbitrarily claimed that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act is not constitutional
  3228. The 1996 Defense of Marriage Act has been legally attacked before and upheld as constitutional
  3229. Obama’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it would no longer deport noncitizen spouses of gay Americans, another direct contradiction to the Defense of Marriage Act (August 2011)
  3230. Obama will not uphold law and protect our borders from terrorists, criminals, and drug traffickers
  3231. During the campaign, Obama said that we need secure borders and employer enforcement laws
  3232. Senate Democrats blocked bid to send 6,000 troops to help Border States cope with the influx
  3233. Obama cracked “adios amigos” jokes about Arizona requiring people to prove citizenship if asked
  3234. Obama’s Justice Department sued Arizona for a law that mirrors federal immigration laws
  3235. Michael Posner equated the new Arizona immigration law to China’s human rights record
  3236. GAO: Illegal aliens accounted for at least 30 border fires in Arizona over a 5-year period
  3237. Obama administration told the Border Patrol to relax searches along the Canadian border (2011)
  3238. During an interview with Woodward in July 2010, Obama said, “We can absorb a terrorist attack”
  3239. Holder’s DOJ refuses to prosecute cases where the perpetrators are black and the victims are white
  3240. Eric Holder believes that focusing on the NBPP voter intimidation case demeans “my people”
  3241. Holder feels that whites can’t be victims of racial injustice because they haven’t suffered enough
  3242. Islamists cloak political Islam under the guise of religion in order to exploit our legal system
  3243. Holder’s Justice Department filed a lawsuit in support of a Muslim public school teacher
  3244. Sefoorah Khan chose to take a 3-week trip to Mecca, Saudi Arabia after 9 months of employment
  3245. DOJ handled the Muslim teacher’s lawsuit with political correctness and not justice
  3246. School district was compelled to settle with the teacher rather than undertake expensive litigation
  3247. Implementation of Obamacare violated equal protection by selectively giving waivers to supporters
  3248. DOJ’s Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force was created by Obama in November 2009 to track down and begin prosecution of financial crimes with regard to the meltdown of September 2008
  3249. Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused a number of banks including JP Morgan, Wachovia Securities, UBS, and Bank of America of “fraudulently” rigging municipal bond auctions by “entering into secret arrangements with bidding agents to get an illegal ‘last look’ at competitor’s bids”
  3250. SEC also alleged that many large banks “knowingly” passed fraudulent information along to government agencies and investors, including large investment houses involving subprime mortgages
  3251. Top Department of Justice (DOJ) officials are Obama bundlers with high-level Wall Street ties
  3252. Obama’s DOJ is selectively avoiding prosecution of certain banks and firms on Wall Street (2012)
  3253. Top leadership at the DOJ is drawn almost exclusively from White Collar Criminal Defense Practices at large firms that represent the very firms that the DOJ is supposed to be investigating
  3254. Attorney General Eric Holder and Associate Attorney General and head of the criminal division Lanny Breuer both worked for the firm Covington and Burling before joining the Obama administration
  3255. Covington and Burling’s current client list includes Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, ING, Morgan Stanley, UBS, and MF Global
  3256. Number of corporate securities and bank fraud prosecutions is at a 20-year low under Obama
    “The appearance of conflict is as dangerous to public confidence in the administration of justice as true conflict itself. Justice must not only be done; justice must also be seen to be done.” ~Lloyd Cutler (1981)

  3257. House members (70) called on the DOJ to investigate SWATting of conservative bloggers (2012)

    3258. Obama had appointed more bundlers in just over two years than George W. Bush did in eight years
    “The cynics, the lobbyists, the special interests… turned our government into a game only they can afford to play. We’re here today to take it back.”
    ~Candidate Obama (February 10, 2007)

  3258. Obama frequently criticized the role of money in politics and promised to reform the system
  3259. W.H. logs revealed that Obama met with AFL-CIO and ACLU lobbyists over 50 times each
  3260. Top bundlers to the Obama campaign received government jobs in return for their contributions
  3261. Nearly 80% of bundlers collecting more than $500,000 for Obama took “key administration posts”
  3262. More than half of the 24 ambassador nominees who were bundlers raised $500,000 for Obama
  3263. 1980 Foreign Service Act: political contributions “should not be a factor” in picking ambassadors
  3264. Campaign bundlers and their families account for more than 3,000 W.H. meetings and visits
  3265. Telecom executive Donald H. Gips was put in charge of hiring in the Obama White House
  3266. Gips helped place loyalists & fundraisers in key positions prior to being named as an ambassador
  3267. Gips retained stock in Level 3 Communications, which received $13.8 million from the “stimulus”
  3268. James Crowe, chairman of the Level 3 board, bundled more than $100,000 for Obama
  3269. Obama appointed Crowe to his advisory committee on telecommunications & wireless issues
  3270. Michael Caplin raised $200,000 and was appointed to the Commission on Presidential Scholars
  3271. Professor Spencer Overton bundled over $500,000 and was named to Obama’s transition team
  3272. Overton was later appointed principal deputy attorney general in the Department of Justice
  3273. Attorney General Eric Holder bundled $50,000 for Obama prior to his nomination & confirmation
  3274. Julius Genachowski was appointed to chair the FCC after bundling $500,000 for Obama
  3275. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski proposed eliminating federal rules to bailout liberal media
  3276. New rules would allow companies to own both TV and radio stations in the 20 largest markets
  3277. New rules also would remove cross-ownership restrictions for some TV stations and newspapers
  3278. Newspapers and broadcast owners argue that the mergers are needed to preserve local newsrooms
  3279. Genachowski’s wife, Rachel Goslins, was appointed to the Committee on Arts and Humanities
  3280. Edward Lazarus and William T. Lake are other Obama campaign bundlers working at the FCC
  3281. Obama rewarded campaign helpers with high level government jobs they weren’t qualified for
  3282. Over 70 of Obama’s top fundraisers were rewarded with ambassadorships or high ranking jobs
  3283. Obama’s “unpaid Pay Czar” got a 6-figure salary according to uncovered Treasury documents
  3284. Investigations found that nearly 200 of Obama’s biggest donors had landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests, or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events
  3285. At least 18 other bundlers are tied to businesses that stand to profit from Obama’s green agenda
  3286. Democratic donor George Kaiser backs a company that won a $535 million loan guarantee
  3287. Steven Westly, a green energy entrepreneur, raise over $500,000 for Obama’s campaign
  3288. Westly’s venture firm’s portfolio received over $500 million in loans, grants or “stimulus” money
  3289. Penny Pritzker was a key fundraiser and adviser to Obama in the early days of his campaign
  3290. Pritzker was later appointed to Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Commission
  3291. Pritzker’s husband, Bryan Traubert, was appointed to a Commission on White House Fellowships
  3292. Wall Street titan Robert Wolf served on Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Commission
  3293. Financier Mark Gallogly served on Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Commission
  3294. Pritzker, Wolf and Gallogly were later asked to serve on Obama’s commission on job creation
  3295. Wolf is an occasional golf partner for Obama, including during his Martha’s Vineyard visit in 2011
  3296. Other members of Obama’s job council who have donated money to Obama includes: Xerox Corporation CEO Ursula Burns, UC Berkeley professor Laura D’Andrea Tyson, TIAA-CREF CEO Roger Ferguson, MIT/Harvard Broad Institute director Eric Lander, Citigroup chairman Richard Parsons, Hooven-Dayton Corp. CEO Christopher Che, Amazon.com/Google board member John Doerr, and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg
  3297. Sandberg hosted a star-studded fundraiser netting at least $2.5 million for Obama 2012 re-election
  3298. UC Berkeley employees contributed $1.6 million to Obama in 2008 (the most of any organization)
  3299. UBS, Citigroup and General Electric (GE), whose chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt leads President Obama’s job council, were the source of more than $1.7 million combined
  3300. Comcast Corp., headed by CEO Brian Roberts who sits on the council, is the top corporate source of campaign cash for Obama’s 2012 re-election bid
  3301. Two high-profile unions, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and the AFL-CIO, also played a key role in helping to elect Democrats and Obama in 2008, spending more than $900,000 on political communications and advertisements
  3302. The leaders of both unions, Joseph Hansen and Richard Trumka, sit on Obama’s job council
  3303. Obama appointed bundler Cindy Moelis to direct the Commission on White House Fellows
  3304. Moelis’ husband, Robert Rivkin, was appointed general counsel of the Transportation Department
  3305. Bundler Harvey Wineberg was appointed to Obama’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability
  3306. Chicago bundler David C. Jacobson served as Obama’s 2008 campaign deputy finance director
  3307. Valerie Jarrett, also a bundler, serves as Obama’s adviser within the White House inner circle
  3308. Obama nominated Cheryl Saban to be a representative of the U.S. to the U.N. General Assembly
  3309. Cheryl Saban is the wife of Univision chairman Haim Saban, a major Democratic donor
  3310. Cheryl Saban’s nomination came one month after her husband Haim Saban, an Egyptian-born Israeli-American, penned a New York Times op-ed defending President Obama’s record on Israel
  3311. Haim Saban gave more than $1 million to Democratic candidates and committees for the 2012 cycle
  3312. Haim Saban donated at least $333,333 to the Obama-affiliated super PAC Priorities USA
  3313. Haim Saban also donated $325,520 to Majority PAC, a super PAC touted by Harry Reid (D-NV)
  3314. Haim Saban previously criticized Obama personally in 2011 for not visiting Israel as president
  3315. In 2010, Haim Saban labeled the Obama administration “really left leftists, so far to the left there’s not much space left between them and the wall”
  3316. TracFone Wireless, a cell phone company, profited from the “Obama phone” giveaway program
  3317. TracFone, a direct beneficiary of the Lifeline program, receives $10 a month for each subscriber in the form of federal subsidies, and generates additional profit by selling extra minutes to Lifeline subscribers
  3318. TracFone and similar wireless providers claim that the revenue generated from selling additional minutes to customers is low, but declines to publicly release such figures
  3319. TracFone president Frederick “F.J.” Pollak donated at least $156,500 to Democratic candidates for 2012
  3320. Frederick “F.J.” Pollak gave at least $50,000 to the Obama re-election campaign (2012)
  3321. Pollak’s wife, Abigail, has raised more than $1.5 million for Barack Obama since 2007
  3322. Abigail Pollak, a campaign bundler, raised more than $632,000 for President Obama for the 2012 cycle
  3323. Abigail Pollak personally gave more than $200,000 to Democratic candidates and committees since 2008
  3324. The Pollaks also hosted Obama at their Miami Beach home for a $40,000-per-plate dinner (July 2012)
  3325. The Pollaks had previously hosted a similar event with Michelle Obama in July 2008
  3326. In 2008, the Pollaks donated a combined $66,200 to Obama’s election effort that year
  3327. Visitor logs indicate that Frederick and Abigail Pollak have visited the White House seven times
  3328. In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed Abigail Pollak to serve on the “Commission to Study the Potential Creation of a National Museum of the American Latino”
  3329. TracFone is the U.S. affiliate of American Movil
  3330. American Movil is one of the largest phone service providers in Latin America and is controlled by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, the world’s richest man according to Forbes
  3331. Carlos Slim’s stake in American Movil accounts for more than half of his $70 billion net worth
  3332. Carlos Slim bailed out the New York Times and is often referred to as “Mexico’s Mr. Monopoly”
  3333. According to visitor logs, Carlos Slim has visited the Obama White House at least twice
  3334. Lifeline’s rapidly increasing costs have attracted attention of Republicans and Democrats in Congress
  3335. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) found that the Lifeline program was “ripe for fraud” (December 2011)
  3336. McCaskill warned that the government was issuing multiple free phones to the same individuals (2011)
  3337. Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, was one of Obama’s leading fundraisers (2012)
  3338. Wintour was the ‘leading contender to be America’s ambassador to the United Kingdon (UK)’
  3339. Anna Wintour’s boyfriend, J. Shelby Bryan, reportedly owes the U.S. government $1.2 million in taxes
  3340. Bryan is a former adviser to Bill Clinton and helped raise funds for Obama’s re-election campaign
  3341. At one $35,000-a-plate dinner, Obama thanked “Anna and Shelby for being such extraordinary hosts”
  3342. Bryan, who has been in a relationship with Wintour since 1999, has owed money to the IRS since 2006

    3343. Critics labeled Obama as the “campaigner-in-chief” instead of focusing on fixing the economy

  3343. Departments of Health and Human Services, Education, and Labor paid out most of the “stimulus”
  3344. President Obama had held (191) total re-election campaign fundraisers through April 2012
  3345. George W. Bush had held a total of (167) fundraisers for his re-election campaign
  3346. President Bill Clinton had held a total of (173) fundraisers for his re-election campaign
  3347. Taxpayers are paying for Obama’s campaign trips and travel expenses to his fundraisers
  3348. Obama chose to begin campaigning instead of helping the Debt Reduction Committee (2011)
  3349. The taxpayers bought Obama two armored campaign buses costing over $1.1 million each
  3350. The Secret Service said the buses were purchased to be used for the 2012 presidential campaign
  3351. The two taxpayer-funded luxury buses were ordered in July 2010 and received a year later
  3352. The government contract shows that they were manufactured and assembled in Canada
  3353. Both buses were tricked out by the Secret Service with state-of-the-art security features
  3354. Obama embarked on a taxpayer-funded three-day bus tour in August 2011 to tout job creation
  3355. Obama administration called the Midwest bus tour an “official event” and not a campaign event
  3356. The bus tour was billed as a “listening tour” for President Obama to connect with the people
  3357. Obama told Ryan Rhodes, “it sounds like you don’t want to listen,” during his listening tour
  3358. Obama claimed during his Midwest bus tour that his economic program “reversed the recession”
  3359. Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa that “over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck”
  3360. Congressional Black Caucus angry that Obama’s tour did not go through any black communities
  3361. CBC has become increasingly tired and frustrated by Obama’s performance on the issue of jobs
    “The Congressional Black Caucus loves the president too. We’re supportive of the president, but we’re getting tired, ya’ll. We’re getting tired. And so, what we want to do is, we want to give the president every opportunity to show what he can do and what he’s prepared to lead on. We want to give him every opportunity, but our people are hurting. The unemployment is unconscionable. We don’t know what the strategy is. We don’t know why on this trip that he’s in the United States now, he’s not in any black community. We don’t know that.”
    ~Congresswoman Maxine Waters speaking to a Detroit audience in August 2011

  3362. Obama’s White House did not observe the protocol of scheduling a joint session of Congress
  3363. Obama scheduled a speech to intentionally interfere with a long-scheduled GOP debate
  3364. Carney arrogantly told the GOP that they could reschedule a debate scheduled months earlier
  3365. Obama’s political group sent out a campaign letter based on the “frustration” caused by the GOP
  3366. State-run media allies spent 24-hours desperately trying to spin the time conflict in favor of Obama
  3367. Obama ultimately conceded when his political ploy did not work and agreed to another date
  3368. Obama’s 2008 campaign set up the website FightTheSmears.com as a propaganda tool
  3369. Obama’s W.H. asked that “fishy” emails pertaining to Obamacare be sent to flag@whitehouse.gov
  3370. Obama’s 2012 campaign set up the website AttackWatch.com to “fight the smears” against him
  3371. AttackWatch.com’s website hasn’t been updated Twitter feed went silent in November 2011
  3372. “Obama truth squad” in Missouri vowed to arrest anyone telling ‘lies’ about President Obama
  3373. Obama campaign organized propaganda teams to deceive voters and misdirect from his record
  3374. Obama’s 2012 campaign unleashed “truth teams” to counter negative coverage in “swing states”
  3375. Obama’s campaign launched an effort to collect GOP information via the Obama 2012 website
  3376. Obama’s collection effort was cast under the mischievous guise of asking Obama supporters to “have a little fun at the expense of a Republican in your life” by signing them up to get an email from the Obama campaign ribbing them for having “inspired” the Obama support to donate (December 2011)
  3377. Nearly 90% of Obama’s domestic travel for first half of 2011 has been at least partly political
  3378. President Obama’s schedule included a lot of traveling to swing-states in the latter half of 2011
  3379. ABC’s Jake Tapper confronted Jay Carney, asking if Obama is “campaigning on taxpayer dime”
  3380. Joe Biden wrote an op-ed in the Des Moines Register attacking Mitt Romney (December 2011)
  3381. Biden’s op-ed was written 2 days before Christmas and 11 days before the 2012 Iowa Caucuses
  3382. President Obama held a virtual town hall in Iowa during the GOP Caucus (2012)
  3383. Days after returning from Hawaii, President Obama said his New Year’s resolution was to “get out of Washington” and “spend more time” campaigning with everyday “folks” (2012)
  3384. GOP candidate Mitt Romney was assailed over ties to private equity firm Bain Capital (2012)
  3385. Obama more than doubled Romney in campaign contributions from Bain Capital employees
  3386. President Obama also filled his administration with private equity firm executives
  3387. Obama administration sought advice with their failed GM ‘investment’ from Bain Capital
  3388. President Obama’s campaign ads compared Mitt Romney’s private equity work at Bain Capital to that of a “vampire” draining jobs and money from vulnerable companies and workers (2012)
    “My view of private equity is that it is set up to maximize profits, and that’s a healthy part of the free market, [but]… that’s not always going to be good for businesses or communities or workers.” ~President Obama in defense of attacks on Bain Capital (May 2012)

  3389. Then-State Senator Obama praised private equity when he needed campaign cash (2002-2003)
  3390. Obama introduced two bills designed to boost the private equity business in Illinois
  3391. Obama even sponsored a resolution in the Illinois Senate calling private equity firms like Bain “the best opportunity for long-term economic vitality” and for “the creation of jobs”
  3392. Obama introduced a State Senate resolution to set up a “Private Equity Task Force” (March 2003)
    WHEREAS, Private equity is a vital aspect of the Illinois economy providing needed private capital to early and late stage companies in various industries, including but not limited to: retail, restaurant, manufacturing, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical devices, homeland security, software, wireless communications, transportation, and agriculture; and

    WHEREAS, The development of the private equity sector of the Illinois economy offers the best opportunity for long-term economic vitality, for the expansion of jobs, for the improvement of productivity and a quality standard of living, and for providing the greatest number of citizens with genuine opportunity.”
    ~Obama’s State Senate resolution (March 2003)

  3393. WSJ/NBC poll showed that Bain Capital was polling better than Solyndra (June 2012)
  3394. Obama administration plans to sell foreclosed homes held by Fannie Mae to “venture capitalists”
  3395. Obama’s campaign assailed Romney’s work in private equity, calling him a “vulture capitalist”
  3396. Obama’s plan profits directly from individual middle-class citizens who lost homes in the crisis
  3397. Obama plans to sell only to hedge fund managers and multi-billion dollar venture capitalist firms
  3398. Democrats attacked Romney over layoffs made by a bundler for President Obama
  3399. Obama released an ad attacking Romney for layoffs made at a company controlled by Bain Capital
  3400. The layoffs occurred in 2001, yet Romney left Bain Capital in 1999 to run the Winter Olympics
  3401. Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer Jonathan Lavine joined Bain in 1993
  3402. Jonathan Lavine is a major bundler of Obama, raising between $100-200k for his re-election
  3403. Obama’s own former “Car Czar” Steve Rattner called an ad attack on Mitt Romney “unfair”
  3404. Newark Mayor Cory Booker publicly derided the Democrats’ assault on Bain Capital (2012)
  3405. Cory Booker said that the “nauseating” political discourse has become “very uncomfortable”
  3406. Obama administration lied when they claimed they didn’t talk to Cory Booker after his comments
  3407. Cory Booker took out a full-page ad in the New Jersey directory of delegates at the Democratic National Convention urging others to “Re-Elect President Barak Obama” (misspelled “Barack”)
  3408. Mayor Cory Booker injured his leg after tripping on a curb prior to his big speech at the DNC
  3409. Obama attacks private equity, but then turns around and raises funds from private equity leaders
  3410. Ed Rendell (D) described fellow Democrats’ attacks on Bain Capital as “very disappointing”
  3411. James Clyburn (D-SC) described Romney record at Bain Capital as “raping companies”
  3412. James Clyburn has previously taken money from private equity giant Blackstone Group
  3413. Obama admitted that Romney’s role at Bain Capital “is what this campaign is going to be about”
  3414. Obama refused to return campaign donations he received from Bain Capital executives
  3415. Bill Clinton blew Obama’s campaign narrative by calling Romney’s business record “sterling”
  3416. Vice President Joe Biden admitted that Mitt Romney is a “great businessman” (October 2012)
  3417. Governor Martin O’Malley (D-MD) admitted that we’re not better off now than four years ago
  3418. One day later, Governor Martin O’Malley (D-MD) claimed “we are clearly better off as a country”
  3419. Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address was a campaign speech railing against wealth inequality
  3420. Before the speech, Obama said to his supporters, “Tonight, we set the tone for the year ahead”
  3421. Warren Buffett’s secretary, Debbie Bosanek, sat with First Lady Michelle Obama for the speech
  3422. According to IRS charts, Bosanek must make between $200-500k and just bought a second house
  3423. Despite his actions, President Obama told his audiences what they wanted to hear to get re-elected
  3424. Obama touted an “all of the above” energy policy, but never mentioned the Keystone XL pipeline
  3425. Obama offered a populist economic vision, steep tax increases on American job creators, a fresh investigation into the mortgage crisis, and additional support for domestic manufacturing
    “It’s time to apply the same rules from top to bottom: No bailouts, no handouts and no copouts. An America built to last insists on responsibility from everybody.” ~President Obama’s State of the Union Address (January 24, 2012)

  3426. Obama called for a new potential fix for underwater homeowners to refinance at lower rates
  3427. Obama also called for new legislation to discourage companies from shipping jobs overseas
  3428. Obama’s SOTU campaign speech made a point to appeal to as many constituents as possible, including Hispanics, women, anti-Wall Street groups, labor unions, and environmentalists
  3429. Obama’s new $20.7 billion spending plan from the SOTU will come from further defense cuts
  3430. President Obama used the same lines he had used in previous addresses before Congress (2012)
  3431. Obama 2010: “It’s time for colleges and universities to get serious about cutting their own costs”
  3432. Obama 2012: “Colleges and universities have to do their part by working to keep costs down”

  3433. Obama 2010: “And we should continue to work by fixing our broken immigration system”
  3434. Obama 2011: “I strongly believe that we should take on… the issue of illegal immigration”
  3435. Obama 2012: “I believe as strongly as ever that we should take on illegal immigration”

  3436. Obama 2010: “We face a deficit of trust”
  3437. Obama 2012: “I’ve talked tonight about the deficit of trust…”

  3438. Obama 2010: “We can’t wage a perpetual campaign”
  3439. Obama 2012: Let us “end the notion that the two parties must be locked in a perpetual campaign”
  3440. After the 2012 State of the Union Address, President Obama embarked on another three-day campaign tour through five of the battleground states on the taxpayer’s dime

  3441. Obama has held more re-election fundraisers than every president since Nixon combined (2012)
  3442. Obama is the first president to visit every electoral battleground state during his first year in office
  3443. Obama held 21 of his first 27 outside-the-beltway “official” events in battleground states in 2012
  3444. Obama scheduled a visit to Ground Zero during a re-election campaign fundraising trip, thereby turning the trip into an “official” event, meaning that taxpayers had to pay for travel to his fundraiser
  3445. Obama flew into Kabul, Afghanistan to give a campaign speech to “voters at home” (May 2012)
  3446. Presidential biographies on the White House website were altered to include Obama (2012)
    “I do know that when the president ran, he said that this election would be the turning point, that the oceans would recede, that the world would shift because of him being in office. There seem to be people around him, as well as himself, who have a very grand view of what he will accomplish… and we’re still waiting to see that. I think the American people have been disappointed. The promises were grandiose and extraordinary, and the deliverables have been disappointing at best. I think it is one thing to try to rewrite your own history – it’s something different altogether to rewrite that of all your predecessors… I can commit: I will not be trying to rewrite the biographies of former presidents.”
    ~Statement from GOP nominee Mitt Romney

  3447. White House quietly moved the Obama-praising text from the past presidents’ bios (June 2012)
  3448. President Obama honored Neil Armstrong’s death by posting a photo of himself (August 2012)
  3449. ABC’s Jake Tapper: It’s difficult to tell the difference between the White House and the campaign
  3450. Obama attended 6 fundraisers on a day that the unemployment rate went up to 8.2% (June 1, 2012)
  3451. Obama stopped deporting an estimated 800,000 illegal immigrants and gave them the right to work to court more Hispanic voters, which proved to be key in Florida, Virginia, Colorado, and Nevada
  3452. President Obama used his daughters, Malia and Sasha, as political props in a 2012 re-election ad
  3453. Obama campaign refused to pay the costs for a New Hampshire campaign stop (June 2012)
  3454. Obama campaigned off the 2012 record heat wave by advertising their tank tops on Twitter
  3455. Obama used the words “I” and “me” 117 times combined in one speech in Sandusky, Ohio (2012)
  3456. Obama’s campaign email: “This isn’t about me or the outcome of one election…” (July 2012)
  3457. Obama, Axelrod, and Rahm Emanuel all used the same Harry Truman talking point (July 2012)
  3458. When asked why President Obama hasn’t met with his Jobs Council in over six months, White House Spokesman Jay Carney said it was because Obama has had “a lot on his plate” (July 2012)
  3459. President Obama filmed a campaign ad inside the West Wing of the White House (July 2012)
  3460. Obama planned to campaign in Charlottesville, Virginia when hurricane Isaac made landfall (2012)
  3461. Obama campaigned instead of meeting with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly (2012)
  3462. David Axelrod included a “donate now” link in Obama an email about the Sandy Hook massacre (2012)
  3463. A “donate now” link was also included on the MyBarackObama.com page that showed Obama’s speech
  3464. Even after winning re-election, Obama ran a permanent campaign intended to destroy his opposition
  3465. Obama reactivated his re-election machine to target the National Rifle Association (NRA) (January 2013)
  3466. Obama’s campaign turned itself into a 501(c)4 tax-exempt non-profit called Organizing for Action
  3467. Under current law, 501(c)4 non-profits do not have to disclose their donors or the amounts donated
  3468. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina previously blasted conservative 501(c)4 organizations as shadowy, secret money groups backed by anonymous donors and corporate interests
    “They have a vested interest in being able to spend millions anonymously to influence our elections – many of the corporations and individuals funding their organizations don’t want their agendas to receive scrutiny from the press or the public. We can make sure they don’t get away with hiding these donors – or their agendas. But it’s going to take a lot of us standing up, putting our foot down, and saying ‘Hell no.” ~Obama campaign manager Jim Messina (June 2012)

  3469. Organizing for Action can raise unlimited donations and will take unlimited money from corporations
    “It’s ironic and puzzling that a grassroots organization with a public interest agenda is going to take unlimited corporate money. It doesn’t square. There’s one reason that corporations spends money on politics – they’re looking for something in return.” ~Mary Boyle of Common Cause (January 2013)
    “They won’t take money from MoveOn, Democracy for America, or Progressive Change Campaign Committee PACs, but will accept million-dollar checks from Bank of America and Goldman Sachs? What’s the principle there? No big bank or corporation will donate million-dollar checks to OFA without the expectation that it will impact which issues they engage on, and that’s very troubling.” ~Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (January 2013)

  3470. Organizing for Action was unveiled as “the next phase of our movement for change” (January 2013)
  3471. Former campaign manager Jim Messina was chosen to become the group’s chairman of the board
  3472. Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod became a consultant for Organizing for Action
  3473. Obama media strategist David Plouffe plans to join the group after he exits the White House
  3474. First Lady Michelle Obama cut a video to promote Organizing for Action (January 2013)
    “I often think back to one of my first dates with Barack, all those years ago. Back then, he spoke to me about the world as it is and the world as it should be and our obligation to bridge that divide. The work you’ve done has brought us so much closer to the world as it should be. But we aren’t there yet… So I hope you will join Organizing for Action.” ~First Lady Michelle Obama (January 2013)

  3475. Organizing for Action used Obama’s campaign logo in an immigration email (January 2013)
  3476. President Obama flew over nine hours from Washington, D.C. to Las Vegas to give a campaign-style speech (and a photo-op) on immigration reform that cost taxpayers more than $1.6 million (2013)

    3477. Critics labeled President Obama as the “outsourcer-in-chief” of American Jobs

  3477. President Obama rode around in his Canadian-made campaign bus as he kicked off his ‘Betting on America’ tour designed to falsely paint Mitt Romney as an outsourcer of jobs (July 2012)
  3478. Obama’s second largest fundraiser is John Rogers, the CEO of Ariel Capital Management
  3479. John Rogers has raised more than $1.5 million for Obama’s re-election campaign
  3480. Ariel Capital Management owns a $48.6 million stake in Accenture, which was rated as the nation’s “best” outsourcer by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals
    “We’re making a very big bet right now on outsourcing. People have generally soured on the idea, and many companies are trading at discounts to their private-market values. But we don’t think that view accurately reflects the powerful secular growth we’re going to see as companies and individuals outsource more of their day-to-day activities.”
    ~CEO John Rogers, President Obama’s second largest fundraiser

  3481. John Rogers and Barack Obama were buddies back in Chicago
  3482. John Rogers’ex-wife, Desiree Rogers, left a $350,000 per year job at Allstate Insurance Company to serve as the White House party planner after Obama was elected president
  3483. Obama’s largest fundraiser, DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, is outsourcing jobs to China
  3484. Katzenberg raised $2 million for Obama and also hosted a $10 million Hollywood fundraiser
  3485. Jeffrey Katzenberg was even investigated by the SEC for trying to outsource jobs to China
  3486. Some of the companies whose CEOs serve on Obama’s Jobs Council are involved in outsourcing
  3487. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric, serves on President Obama’s White House Jobs Council
  3488. During Immelt’s reign at GE, thousands of jobs were outsourced to foreign coutries like China
  3489. Jeffrey Immelt praised China and said that state-run communism “works” (December 2012)
  3490. Obama and the Democrats used taxpayer-funded “stimulus” dollars to create jobs overseas
  3491. Obama administration gave three taxpayer-guaranteed loans to a Spanish clean energy conglomerate, Abengoa, worth $2.78 billion to create 195 permanent jobs ($14 million per job)
  3492. Fisker Automotive, which manufactures $100,000 electric cars in Finland and is virtually bankrupt, received a $529 million guaranteed loan from American taxpayers to build electric cars in Finland
  3493. Obama touted the success of European-owned Chrysler as proof that his auto bailout worked
  3494. Romney ran a campaign ad warning that Chrysler was shifting production from Ohio to China (2012)
  3495. In 2012, Romney’s campaign ad was later branded the “lie of the year” by fact-checker Politifact
  3496. Chrysler’s CEO revealed that they would begin producing some Jeeps in China and Russia (2013)
  3497. Fiat, an Italian car company, bought the controlling stake in Chrysler from the U.S. Treasury (2011)
    “Chrysler continued its comeback last quarter by posting $436 million in profits.” ~Tweet sent out from Team Obama using the hashtag #MadeInAmerica (July 2012)

  3498. GM invested $600 million in the English soccer team Manchester United for sponsorship (2012)
    “It would be nice if we had a candidate for president who was committed to America…” ~DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz attacking Mitt Romney (July 2012)

  3499. Democrat National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) previously invested in many overseas holdings, including Swiss banks, foreign drug companies, and the state bank of India
  3500. Biden’s ‘good friend’ received a $20 million federal loan to open luxury car dealership in Ukraine
  3501. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) made between $1 million and $5 million on Asian investments in 2011
  3502. Pelosi received the income from “Matthews International Capital Management LLC,” a group that emphasizes that is has a “Singular Focus on Investing in Asia” and extolls the virtue of outsourcing
  3503. Pelosi is also an investor in “Moduslink Global,” the “outsourcing pioneers” that Democrats are criticizing Mitt Romney for associating with while working at Bain Capital
  3504. Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett has a line of credit in an offshore bank account in Bermuda
  3505. President Obama has raised at least $48,572 from Swiss-owned Credit Suisse (CS) employees
  3506. CS’s parent company was investigated for helping Americans avoid taxes with offshore accounts
  3507. Liberals criticized President Obama for his outsourcing hypocrisy (July 2012)
  3508. Ralph Lauren is a prominent contributor to President Obama and the Democratic Party
  3509. Lauren has given $7,300 to Obama since 2008, and more than $15,000 to the DNC (2012)
  3510. Ralph Lauren designed the U.S. Olympic team uniforms, but outsourced production to China
  3511. Obama outsourced part of his fundraising to Switzerland, Sweden, France, and communist China (2012)
  3512. One-third of President Obama’s personal earnings came from foreign sources from 2009-2011
  3513. The Obamas have hundreds of thousands of dollars in a mutual fund that has large holdings in corporations that outsouce jobs, including GE, Apple, and International Business Machines (IBM)
  3514. In 1989, General Electric (GE) became the first U.S. company to outsource software work to India
  3515. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads, and 59 million other products Apple sold last year (2011) were manufactured overseas
  3516. IBM has been steadily building its work force in India and outsourcing jobs from the U.S.
  3517. Obama outsourced our space program forcing our astronauts to rents seats on Russian spacecraft
  3518. U.S. Federal government used stimulus cash to buy Chinese solar panels (September 2012)
  3519. Obama owns share of a Chinese company, Sensata Technologies, that outsourced jobs from Illinois
  3520. Most members of Congress have refused to release their own tax returns, including Nancy Pelosi
  3521. Pelosi: “Maybe the people writing these stories’ should release their tax returns” (July 2012)
    “The word’s out that he [Romney] hasn’t paid any taxes for 10 years.”
    ~Harry Reid (D-NV) on the floor of the U.S. Senate (August 2, 2012)

  3522. Harry Reid attacked Romney on the Senate floor by claiming he hadn’t paid taxes for ten years
    “I don’t think the burden should be on me. The burden should be on him. He’s the one I’ve alleged has not paid any taxes.”~Harry Reid after refusing to reveal his source (August 2012)

  3523. Harry Reid refused to release his own tax returns or reveal the source(s) for his bogus claim
  3524. Obama adviser Stephanie Cutter, who called Romney a “felon,” joined Reid’s smear campaign
  3525. Cutter admitted on CNN that she had absolutely zero proof for her charges (August 2012)
  3526. Stephanie Cutter claimed that Obama created more jobs than the Reagan recovery (August 2012)
  3527. Stephanie Cutter said that it is Republicans who “think that lying is a virtue” (September 2012)
  3528. Mitt Romney paid a 14.1% tax rate in 2010, “higher than what 97 percent of American pay”
  3529. Reid falsely claimed that Romney would “not honor deportation exemptions” (October 2012)
  3530. Obama has investments offshore, such as in the Cayman Islands, and has a bigger pension than Romney
  3531. Boston Globe ran a false story that Mitt Romney managed Bain Capital until 2002
  3532. Boston Globe’s attack on Mitt Romney hinged on a quote from a former SEC member
  3533. The Globe failed to disclose that the SEC member was a regular contributor to Democrats
  3534. Left-wing Factcheck.org and the Washington Post both debunked the smear against Romney
  3535. Former reporters for the Boston Globe had even criticized Romney for leaving Bain back in 1999
  3536. Based on proven falsehoods, Obama campaign floated the idea that Romney might be a “felon”
  3537. Four Bain officials, three of them Democrats, verified that Romney left Bain in February 1999
  3538. Two active supporters of President Obama verified that Romney left Bain in February of 1999
  3539. CNN confirmed that Obama’s attack on Mitt Romney “doesn’t appear to be true” (July 2012)
  3540. Ed Rendell (D-PA) said that the Obama campaign went “too far with the felony business”
  3541. DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz doubled down on the “felony” charge against Romney
  3542. Top Obama bundler, Jonathan Lavine, was in charge of Bain during the GST Steel layoffs (2001)
  3543. Jonathan Lavine bundled between $100,000 and $200,000 for the 2012 Obama Victory Fund
  3544. NYT/CBS polling showed that Obama’s $100 million campaign attacks against Bain hurt Obama
  3545. Laid off steelworker that was used in an anti-Romney ad said he’s not voting for Obama (2012)
  3546. Super PAC Priorities USA Action released an ad blaming Romney for the death of a man’s wife
  3547. Joe Soptic claimed his wife died of cancer because he was laid off and no longer had insurance
  3548. Joe Soptic was laid off in 2002, but his wife still had insurance and didn’t die of cancer until 2006
  3549. Joe’s wife learned of her cancer five years after his departure and died 22 days after her diagnosis
  3550. Joe Soptic was offered a financial buyout when Bain decided to close the GST Steel plant (2002)
  3551. Obama’s campaign team lied that they didn’t know Joe Soptic’s cancer story (August 2012)

    3552. Critics labeled Obama as the “vacationer-in-chief” instead of focusing on fixing the economy

  3552. Extravagant White House party nights continued unabated despite the recession and debt crisis
  3553. White House held a lavish ‘Alive in Wonderland’ costume ball, but kept it largely secret (2009)
  3554. ‘Alive in Wonderland’ ball was put on by Johnny Depp and Hollywood director Tim Burton
  3555. White House downplayed the event for fear of creating the wrong impression during a recession
  3556. White House officials were reportedly fearful of how the party would look to jobless Americans
  3557. W.H. instead advertised Halloween festivities earlier in the day for children of military personnel
  3558. Through 2010, President Obama had participated in 28 separate basketball outings
  3559. Obama publicly scolded Congress for taking a July 4th vacation during the debt ceiling crisis
  3560. By the end of 2010, President Obama had visited Camp David 15 times over 35 days
  3561. Obama: “They’re in one week and they’re out one week. You need to be here. I’ve been here. I’ve been doing Afghanistan and bin Laden and the Greek crisis. You stay here. Let’s get it done.”
  3562. Two days later, Obama headed to Camp David for the July 4th, 2011 holiday weekend
  3563. New York Times reporter said that Obama doesn’t like Camp David because there is “no golf”
  3564. Obama took a 10-day vacation to Martha’s Vineyard during major economic trouble (2011)
  3565. Michelle and Barack traveled just hours apart, but took separate jets costing taxpayers thousands
  3566. Michelle previously went on vacation ahead of the president to Hawaii back in December 2010
  3567. President Obama had played more than 80 rounds of golf through August 2011
  3568. Obama skipped the eighth hole at the Vineyard Golf Course to avoid being photographed (2011)
  3569. Frequent partying at the White House have cost American taxpayers tens of millions of dollars
  3570. In 2011, Michelle again left for Hawaii early for a 17-day vacation costing an extra $100,000
  3571. First Family spent Christmas in Hawaii costing taxpayers an estimated $4 million (2011)
  3572. Carney said that Obama would “not rest until everyone in America who wants a job has a job”
  3573. President Obama shortly after embarked on a nine-day August 2011 vacation in Cape Cod
  3574. Jay Carney doubted Americans would “begrudge” Obama for spending time with his family
  3575. As a reporter for Time in August 2001, Jay Carney bashed George W. Bush for taking a vacation
  3576. Jay Carney: any work done by Bush during his vacation was nothing more than cynical photo ops
  3577. Associated Press (AP): ‘On the road with Obama – a hunt for photo ops…’ (August 2011)
  3578. White House tipped off an AP reporter for Michelle Obama’s shopping-at-Target photo-op (2011)
  3579. Michelle Obama’s Africa vacation cost taxpayers more than $432,142 for flights alone (2011)
  3580. Obama’s daughters were listed on the flight manifest as “senior staff” for their safari vacation
  3581. Michelle joked during a 2012 episode of iCarly, “I kind of like” being called “Your Excellency”
  3582. Michelle Obama claimed, “I am now more popular than the president, because I was on iCarly”
  3583. President Obama visited Walt Disney World to give a speech on tourism and travel (2012)
  3584. Obama was hammered for “jetting around” and taking vacations while Americans suffered
  3585. President Obama responded by saying, “I think most folks understand how hard I work” (2012)
    “We’re having a wonderful time. And usually when I take these summit trips, part of my job is to scout out where I may want to bring Michelle back later for vacation. So we’ll make sure to come back sometime in the near future.” ~President Obama told a panel at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Columbia

  3586. Obama’s campaign failed to disclose the costs of political travel and their reimbursements
  3587. Obama played his 99th round of golf as president in just 3 1/2 years (June 14, 2012)
  3588. Obama has spent the equivalent of more than four months’ worth of work time golfing (assuming six hours to drive to the greens and complete 18 holes)
  3589. Obama played 27 rounds of golf during his first year, starting with an unemployment rate of 8.3%
  3590. Obama played 31 rounds of golf in his second year, when the unemployment rate was 9.7%
  3591. Obama played 33 rounds of golf during his third year, although on May 1, 2011 he was pulled off the green to watch as Navy SEALs were en route to Pakistan, cutting his game to nine holes that day
  3592. Obama played 93 rounds of golf by the time he gave January’s 2012 State of the Union address
  3593. David Axelrod called George H.W. Bush ‘out of touch’ for playing golf in a bad economy (1994)
  3594. Michelle Obama took the daughters, Sasha and Malia, on a Vegas vacation (March 2012)
    “You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime.” ~President Obama in 2009
    “You don’t blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you’re trying to save for college.”
    ~President Obama in 2010 warning families against gambling away college tuition

  3595. The Obamas embarked on four Hawaiian vacations that cost taxpayers more than $20 million (2013)

    3596. A ‘New Era of Transparency’ was promised by the Democrats and the Obama administration

  3596. Obama pledged an “unprecedented level of openness in government” when he took office
  3597. Obama promised that if elected he would “make government more open, more accountable and more responsive to the problems of the American people” (2008)
  3598. Signed first executive order 13489 first day in office sealing federal access to his own records
  3599. Obama administration attempted to blocked the full release of White House visitor records
  3600. Judicial Watch brought suit seeking access to visitor records from January to September 2009
  3601. A federal judge ruled that White House visitor records were subject to FOIA requests (2011)
  3602. Justice Department argued that the visitor records could implicate national security issues
  3603. Obama refuses to disclose who donated money to his campaign as the other campaigns have
  3604. Accepted unlimited and untraceable campaign contributions through his 2008 campaign website
  3605. Obama used the strategy again during the 2012 campaign by removing the CVV code requirement
  3606. Accepted campaign contributions from foreign entities such as a Palestinian-held fundraiser
  3607. Signatures were forged on then-Senator Obama’s 2008 ballot petition in Indiana (2008)
  3608. Obama administration bypasses media networks creating own news Internet propaganda
  3609. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA): HHS online Obamacare program is “state-sponsored propaganda”
  3610. Obama controls old establishment media (MSM) with special treatment and/or intimidation
  3611. Obama blocking White House press access to even the old establishment media allies
  3612. Obama’s White House attempted to bully a Human Events reporter that questioned Joe Biden
  3613. President Obama started feeding pool reporters to curry their favor in news reports (2011)
  3614. Democrats pushing for broad Internet regulations and taxes to control the flow of information
  3615. Democrats pushing for a Fairness Doctrine regulating content and freedom of speech in media
  3616. D.C. liberals signed a petition asking the U.S. government to ban conservative websites
  3617. Pushing to reduce and restrict non-union ‘freedom of speech’ donations for future campaigns
  3618. Obama administration keeps Congress in the dark regarding Intel needed to perform oversight
  3619. Obama is the first president who thinks technology and too much information is a bad thing
  3620. Obama blocked the investigations into the alleged crimes of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney
  3621. Obama releases all negative information on late Friday evenings to avoid the nightly news cycle
  3622. Obama stages town hall meets where all of the questions come solely from planted supporters
  3623. Obama’s White House was repeatedly caught red-handed attempting to control news reporting
  3624. Failed in an effort to exclude Fox News interview access to “Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg
  3625. Media reported that Feinberg would not be paid, but he actually received $120,830 annually
  3626. Obama stonewalled the Commission on Civil Rights & Freedom of Information Act requests
  3627. Obama’s FCC shielded “Diversity Czar” Mark Lloyd from media questions about policy
  3628. Obama withholding documents requested by Republicans from meetings with health providers
  3629. Obama administration withheld sales data accumulated during the Cash for Clunkers program
  3630. Obama has shielded from public view information on expenditure of unions’ dues
  3631. Secret slush fund for taxes and spending on climate change was hidden in Obama’s 2011 budget
  3632. There exists a bizarre lack of accessibility on stimulus fund data through recovery.gov
  3633. Transport Security Administration (TSA) blocked websites with “controversial opinions”
  3634. Democrats blocked Republican requests to visit the gulf coast and survey the oil spill damage
  3635. Obama abolished the position in his White House dedicated to government transparency
  3636. Obama transferred “Ethics Czar” Norm Eisen to an ambassador role with the Czech Republic
  3637. New York Times reported that W.H. officials meet with lobbyists off-site to avoid disclosure
  3638. Obama trying to keep meetings with lobbyists shielded from public view and from SS visitor logs
  3639. White House visitor logs routinely omit or cloud key details about the identity of the visitors
  3640. White House visitor logs includes the names of people who never visited the White House
  3641. The “event” description in the logs is blank for more than 205,000 visits
  3642. Less than 1% of the 500,000 visits to the W.H. during Obama’s first 8 months had been disclosed
  3643. Obama’s aides steer meetings with lobbyists to the Jackson Place complex next to the White House
  3644. A nearby Caribou Coffee has hosted hundreds of meetings among lobbyists & Obama’s staffers
  3645. Caribou Coffee was owned by Bahrain’s First Islamic Investment Bank as of 2005
  3646. The White House continues holding back “tens of thousands” of visitor logs from public view
  3647. Released visitor logs leave no way to verify whether a specific name belongs to a particular person
  3648. The first White House visitor records were released on October 30, 2009 late Friday afternoon
  3649. Norm Eisen, then-White House “ethics czar”, noted that the lists included “false positives”
  3650. Eisen, a major Obama bundler in 2008, was responsible for smearing I.G. Gerald Walpin
  3651. Eisen was later elevated to an ambassadorship through a shady recess appointment from Obama
  3652. Eisen said some names “make you think of a well-known person, but are actually someone else”
  3653. “Michael Jordan, William Ayers, Michael Moore, Jeremiah Wright, R. Kelly, & Malik Shabazz”
  3654. The leftist Think Progress gleefully attacked its ideological foes for reporting “false positives”
  3655. The second release of White House visitors included names “Louis Farrakhan” & “James Taylor”
  3656. The name “Bertha Lewis” (ACORN CEO) was described anonymously as a “false positive”
  3657. White House stonewalling makes it impossible to prove that the “false positives” really are false
  3658. Johnny Depp and Tim Burton were not listed on the visitor logs after throwing a party at the W.H.
  3659. Judicial Watch said, “the Obama administration is less transparent than the Bush administration”
  3660. Society of Professional Journalists: Obama administration is less transparent that under Bush
  3661. V.P. Joe Biden’s staffers stuffed a pool reporter in a storage closet during a Florida fundraiser
  3662. Obama has failed to deliver greater earmark transparency and creation of a single ethics website
  3663. When asked about the Iraq war, Obama responded with: “Come on guys, we’re buying shrimp”
  3664. AP: Fewer than 1-in-3 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests were granted during 2010
  3665. Department of Homeland Security engaging in “Nixonian” political review of FOIA requests
  3666. FOIA requests were being reviewed by Obama administration political appointees
  3667. Obama administration exerted unlawful political pressure corrupting FOIA compliance procedures
  3668. Corruption of FOIA compliance procedures undermines the accountability to the American people
  3669. Inspector General (IG) report shows Obama’s DHS redacting “potentially embarrassing wording”
  3670. ABC News: Obama “has narrowed access by the mainstream media to an unprecedented extent”
  3671. ABC News says that the Obama White House is using its own state run media to bypass MSM
  3672. AP: Obama administration censored 194 pages of emails about its own open-government directive
  3673. Obama heralds new communication technologies, but bans use of video by the press at events
  3674. Obama’s White House manipulated pool coverage to control the media coverage of public events
  3675. Obama administration “punished” a reporter for taping protesters at one of Obama’s speeches
  3676. Obama’s White House refused to give event access to the Boston Herald based on perceived “bias”
  3677. Jay Carney said the media was “irresponsible” for calling an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ party ‘secret’
  3678. Obama official refused to disclose information about an executive order on transparency (2011)
  3679. Obama: “We kept it secret,” referring to intelligence on bin Laden … “That’s how it should be”
  3680. Obama administration opposed transparency measures for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (2011)
  3681. Government whistleblowers are suffering more under Obama than in all previous administrations
  3682. In 2011, Obama accepted a ‘transparency’ award in a secret, undisclosed location
  3683. President Obama signed the August 2011 debt ceiling increase of $2.4 trillion in secret
  3684. Vice President Joe Biden held a transparency meeting that was closed to the press (2011)
  3685. GAO said that the justification for bailouts were not good enough given the lack of transparency
  3686. Obama administration sealed the records of the murdered border agent Brian Terry (2011)
  3687. Annual W.H. Iftar dinners have become lobbying events under the guise of religious outreach
  3688. President Obama hosted his third Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan at the White House (2011)
  3689. Obama administration hid the names of three Islamic guests invited to the Iftar dinner (2011)
  3690. The three guests omitted were Imam Mohamed Magid, Awais Sufi, and Haris Tarin
  3691. Obama again commemorated the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, calling it a time to “cherish family, friends, and neighbors, and to help those in need” (July 2012)
  3692. Imam Mohamed Magid is the President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
  3693. ISNA released a statement that Magid was “very pleased with the focus of Obama’s address”
  3694. Awais Sufi is the Chairman of Muslim Advocates (MA)
  3695. Sufi had participated in a June 2006 panel critical of government efforts to stop terrorist funding
  3696. Muslim Advocates has a history of opposing cooperation with the FBI or other law enforcement
  3697. Muslim Advocates defended Imam Ahmed Afzali, who had lied to the FBI about a bomb plot
  3698. Haris Tarin is the Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)
  3699. MPAC has a repeatedly denied the guilt of groups subsequently convicted of terrorism funding
  3700. These groups lobbied to gut regulations preventing Islamic charities from funding terrorism
  3701. Leaders said that the Iftar dinners were an opportunity to change U.S. policy on terror financing
  3702. These groups have also objected to law enforcement efforts to prevent homegrown terrorism
  3703. GOP Senate leader accused Obama and Democrats of “deliberate deception” of the public (2011)
  3704. Democrats use propaganda and lies to convince Americans that they aren’t to blame for anything
  3705. Allen West (R-FL): Nazi Joseph Goebbels would “be very proud of the Democratic Party” (2011)
  3706. Obama’s Labor Department began forcing journalists to use government-issued computers (2012)
  3707. Obama asserted executive privilege over ‘Fast and Furious’ one day after sending a complaint to the FEC demanding that Karl Rove’s Super PAC, “Crossroads GPS,” disclose its list of private donors
  3708. White House released its annual report to Congress on staff salaries late on a Friday (June 2012)
  3709. Information Security Oversight Committee study found that the Obama administration spent a record $12 billion to keep documents secret in 2011, which was a 12% increase from 2010
  3710. White House released it’s beer recipe for Honey Brown Ale (September 2012)
  3711. State Department contract hid the identity of the British firm providing security in Benghazi (2012)
  3712. Study found that 19 out of 20 of Obama’s cabinet-level agencies ignored disclosure laws requiring them to disclose the cost of travel by its top officials to news organizations (2012)
  3713. Just eight of the 57 federal agencies met the request within the 20-day time period required by law
  3714. Top cabinet officials whose travel expenses were not disclosed include: Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (2012)
  3715. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, and director of the Office of Management and Budget Jacob Lew eventually disclosed their travel expenses, but none met the 20-day deadline
  3716. Obama administration unlawfully withheld public records about the spring break trip to Mexico funded by taxpayers in March 2012 for Malia Obama
  3717. Pat Smith, the mother of State Department official Sean Smith who was killed in the Benghazi 9/11 attack in Libya, said she was tired of being lied to and stonewalled by the Obama administration
  3718. President Obama stopped releasing “stimulus” reports ahead of the 2012 elections (October 2012)
  3719. Obama’s White House released a Situation Room photo for Hurricane Sandy, but not for Benghazi (2012)
    “Well, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is back – not for gays in the military. It’s President Obama’s new policy for questions about Libya. Don’t ask, don’t tell.”
    ~Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show” (October 2012)

  3720. State Department said that their silence on Benghazi was not tied to presidential politics (November 2012)
  3721. State Department made Benghazi documents available to senators, but only when they were out of town
  3722. Obama’s EPA administrators set up hidden email accounts to thwart transparency laws (2012)
  3723. Congress demanded to see all information related to an email account under the name “Richard Windsor”
  3724. Some EPA employees set up private gmail accounts using their first and last name and the word “EPA”
  3725. Federal open-records laws prohibits using private emails to try to circumvent open-records laws
    “Unfortunately, time and again, actions by the administration on transparency have fallen far short of the president’s rhetoric, in many instances trending away from transparency and toward greater secrecy.” ~Science Committee Chairman Ralph Hall, writing in a letter signed by five other lawmakers

  3726. Homeland Security only fully approved 10.5% of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests (2012)
  3727. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employs almost 400 people just to deal with FOIA requests
  3728. Costs associated with processing FOIA requests, including litigation, were $38,633,002 in 2012
  3729. Obama White House refused to release internal communications related to Solyndra’s bankruptcy
  3730. White House Counsel sent a letter to the House Energy and Commerce Committee said it “implicates longstanding and significant institutional Executive Branch confidentiality interests”
  3731. Obama administration pushed Solyndra to keep layoffs quiet until after the midterm elections
  3732. Documents show that President Obama was personally briefed on the troubles with Solyndra
  3733. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) compared the Solyndra documents to Obama’s birth certificate
  3734. Jon Stewart of “The Daily Show” slammed President Obama’s lack of transparency (February 2013)
    “We don’t mind you knowing about sh-t that we do, once we don’t do it anymore. We’re happy to share irrelevant information with the public. We told you we were going to be transparent, we just didn’t tell you it was going to be about the last guy’s secrets.” ~Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” (February 2013)

    3735. President Obama: “I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead” (2011)

  3735. President Obama was not properly vetted by Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic National Committee
  3736. Congressional Research Service admitted that no one in government vetted Obama’s eligibility
  3737. Obama was born a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the U.S. and not a natural-born citizen
  3738. Obama was officially registered in an Indonesian school as a Muslim and Indonesian citizen
  3739. Obama waited over 2 years to provide any evidence of which hospital he was born at in Hawaii
  3740. Obama refuses to release vital documentation to be sufficiently vetted by the American people
  3741. Has not provided evidence that he meets the “natural-born” eligibility requirements to be president
  3742. U.S. Supreme Court opinions were sabotaged then republished during the 2008 campaign
  3743. Minor v. Happersett case court records were systematically manipulated and scrubbed in 2008
    “The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. There were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.” ~Minor v. Happersett case addressing the definition of “natural-born citizen,” a requirement imposed by the U.S. Constitution (1875)

  3744. Millions of Americans have doubts about Obama’s constitutional eligibility to serve as president
  3745. In 2009, a poll showed 51.3 percent were aware of the questions concerning Obama’s eligibility
  3746. An October 2009 poll showed three in 10 Americans believed President Obama to be a foreigner
  3747. A January 2010 poll showed that one-third of Americans refuse to believe Obama is “legitimate”
  3748. A June 2010 poll revealed that only 39 percent believed Obama was born in Hawaii as he claims
  3749. An August 2010 CNN poll showed 6 of 10 people were uncertain that Obama was born in the U.S.
  3750. A March 2011 scientific poll showed that only 9% believed Obama had shown proof of eligibility
  3751. Presidential elector in California brought a lawsuit challenging Obama’s eligibility in 2008
  3752. The courts ruled that the dispute was not yet ripe because the inauguration hadn’t taken place
  3753. The courts later ruled that the elector lost his “standing” to bring the lawsuit after the inauguration
  3754. Hawaii elections clerk who oversaw the 2008 race said that the hospital birth record does not exist
  3755. Gov. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI) was unable to find Obama’s hospital-generated birth certificate
  3756. No Hawaiian hospital has provided documented confirmation of Obama’s birth at their facility
  3757. First Lady Michelle Obama said during a speech that Kenya is Barack’s “home country”
  3758. Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin was sentenced to prison while trying to verify Obama’s eligibility
  3759. Air Force Staff Sgt. Daryn Moran was discharged after questioning Obama’s eligibility (2011)
  3760. Obama cracked jokes about his own (in)eligibility at a Gridiron Club event in March 2011
  3761. Obama again insisted in early 2011 that he “was born in Hawaii,” adding “I don’t have horns”
  3762. Obama tried to rake in campaign cash with a “Made in the U.S.A.” campaign mug (May 2011)
  3763. Obama joked, “I can actually show you the hospital if you want to go down there” (Nov 2011)
  3764. Obama’s campaign recommended buying “birther mugs” for their GOP friends to send a message
  3765. Obama joked that Betty White should release her long-form birth certificate to prove that she’s 90
  3766. President Obama asked a woman born in Hawaii, “Do you have YOUR birth certificate?” (2012)
  3767. Billionaire developer Donald Trump demanded to see Obama’s long-form birth certificate (2011)
  3768. Trump insisted that if Obama was not born in the United States, his presidency may be “illegal”
  3769. White House linked to a deliberate birth certificate forgery from Snopes.com, thinking it was real
  3770. A short-form forgery was created by Ron Pollard, Ph.D. and given to the media on April 27, 2011
  3771. Pollard: “I didn’t say anything until the W.H. published my forged Obama BC as the real thing”
  3772. Snopes.com, DailyKos.com, and FightTheSmears.com all posted the forged birth certificate
  3773. Huffington Post readers unknowingly urged others to send Trump a copy of Polland’s fake COLB
  3774. Obama waited over two years before releasing his “original birth certificate” on April 27, 2011
  3775. The “original birth certificate” released by the White House was a 9-layered Adobe .pdf file
  3776. Experts have shown that the birth certificate released by the White House is a crude forgery
  3777. Experts have testified and given sworn statements that they believe the document to be fraudulent
  3778. Sheriff Joe Arpaio assigned a five-member “Cold Case Posse” to investigate Obama’s B.C. (2011)
  3779. Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the “Cold Case Posse” concluded that there was probable cause that the document released by the White House on April 27, 2011 is a computer-generated forgery (March 2012)
  3780. Investigators developed credible evidence that Obama’s Selective Service card was a forgery
  3781. An investigation was opened into the alleged forgery of Obama’s selective service registration
  3782. Days later, the wording of Selective Service System’s record-keeping requirements were changed
  3783. Rule change was the first update to the Selective Service System requirements in eleven years
  3784. New rules allowed for existing copies of documents sought by investigators to be destroyed
  3785. New rules changed certain federal records from “record copies” to “nonrecord copies” (2012)
  3786. “Nonrecord copies,” which now includes Obama’s registration records, are subject to disposal
  3787. Change also hampers media organizations and watchdog groups from seeking records under FOIA
  3788. Selective Service System officials refused to turn over any of Obama’s registration records
  3789. In March 1983, Obama wrote an article lauding an anti-Selective Service group while at Columbia
  3790. Obama also decried “the relentless, often silent, spread of militarism in the country” (1983)
  3791. Mystery surrounding Obama’s “missing year” at Columbia that was blamed on a “computer error”
    “Officers of the Hawaii Department of Health and various elected Hawaiian public officials may have intentionally obscured 1961 birth records and procedures to avoid having to release to public inspection and to the examination of court-authorized forensic examiners any original Obama 1961 birth records the Hawaii Department of Health may or may not have.”
    ~Mike Zullo, Sheriff Arpaio’s lead investigator (March 1, 2012)
    “That we were able to cast reasonable suspicions on the authenticity of the registrar stamps was especially disturbing, since these stamps imprints are designed to provide government authentication to the document itself.”
    ~Mike Zullo, Sheriff Arpaio’s lead investigator (March 1, 2012)
    “Absent the authentic Hawaii Department of Health 1961 birth records for Barack Obama, there is no credible proof supporting the idea of belief that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii, as he and the White House have consistently asserted. In fact, absent the authentication of Hawaii Department of Health 1961 birth records for Barack Obama, there is no other proof he was born anywhere within the United States.”
    ~Mike Zullo, Sheriff Arpaio’s lead investigator (March 1, 2012)

  3792. Hawaii Department of Health blocked the public inspection of any original 1961 birth records
  3793. Records of Immigration and Naturalization Service cards filled out by passengers arriving on international flights originating outside the U.S. in the month of August 1961 are missing records for the week of Obama’s birth
  3794. Sheriff Joe Arpaio said that the investigation revealed ‘tons’ more shocking info on Obama (2012)
  3795. Adam Eugene Cox was arrested after threatening to kill Sheriff Joe Arpaio an his family (2012)
    “I plan to kill Arpaio first. He will be filled with a thousand bullet holes before the year is out. I promise you this. He won’t f--k with Obama. He will be buried 10 feet under and his whole family will be murdered along with him.”
    ~Adam Eugene Cox, a fanatical supporter of President Obama
    “I will not be intimated against pursuing this investigation into Obama’s eligibility to serve as the president of the United States.”
    ~Sheriff Joe Arpaio (2012)

  3796. Georgia residents challenged Obama’s name on the 2012 ballot, as allowed under state law
  3797. In Georgia, a state law requires “every candidate for federal” office who is certified by the state executive committees of a political party or who files a notice of candidacy “shall meet the constitutional and statutory qualifications for holding the office being sought”
  3798. President Obama’s lawyers argued against appearing at an eligibility hearing in Georgia (2012)
    “Presidential electors and Congress, not the state of Georgia, hold the constitutional responsibility for determining the qualifications of presidential candidates. The election of President Obama by the presidential electors, confirmed by Congress, makes the document and testimony sought by plaintiffs irrelevant.” ~President Obama’s lawyer arguing in a motion to quash a subpoena for him to appear at the hearings on January 26, 2012

  3799. The Georgia hearings were the first time that Obama eligibility evidence was heard in court (2012)
  3800. Many other cases were dismissed over “lack of standing” without a presentation of the evidence
  3801. Judge ordered that Obama personally appear in court in Atlanta for a hearing on the complaint
  3802. Obama ignored the judge’s order and skipped the court date challenging his qualifications (2012)
  3803. Cold Case Posse lead investigator Mike Zullo presented more information that confirms that the document released by the White House on April 27, 2011 is undoubtedly fraudulent (July 2012)
  3804. Despite stonewalling from Hawaiian officials, Sheriff Arpaio’s investigators learned of a birth certificate coding system that indicates the White House document has been altered (July 2012)
  3805. Investigators interviewed the Hawaii official, Verna K.L. Lee, who allegedly signed the Obama document in 1961 and provided further confirmation of the coding anomalies
  3806. For example, the box titled “Race of Father” was coded with a “9” indicating that no information was provided and the box should have remained empty (instead of containing the word “African”)
  3807. “African” was not used as a race identifier until 1989, twenty-eight years after Obama’s birth
  3808. Investigators also found key information missing, including President Obama’s date of birth, on the verification document Hawaii provided to Arizona’s secretary of state in May 2012
  3809. Hawaii’s deputy attorney general, Jill T. Nagamine, would not confirm on the record that the White House document matched what was on file with the Hawaii Department of Health
  3810. Sheriff Arpaio’s investigators found that Hawaii Revised Statute 338-17.8 provides a loophole for foreign born children to illegally establish U.S. citizenship
    Hawaii Revised Statute 338-17.8 Certificates for children born out of state.

    Upon application of an adult or the legal parents of a minor child, the director of health shall issue a birth certificate for such adult or minor, provided that proof has been submitted to the director of health that the legal parents of such individual while living without the Territory or State of Hawaii had declared the Territory or State of Hawaii as their legal residence for at least one year immediately preceding the birth or adoption of such child.

  3811. During a press conference, Arpaio called on Congress to look into the matter (July 17, 2012)
  3812. Arpaio and Zullo cited imminent national security
    “It appears that in the case of Hawaii law, any person can obtain a birth certificate if any adult or their parents can prove that they resided in Hawaii for one year and paid taxes. There is no requirement to show that the child itself was actually born in Hawaii or on U.S. soil.” ~Mike Zullo, Sheriff Arpaio’s lead investigator (July 2012)

  3813. Obama blocked access to nearly all of his records to maintain the false campaign narratives
  3814. Obama will not release his Noelani Elementary School kindergarten records from Hawaii
  3815. Obama will not release his Fransiskus Assisi Catholic school records from Indonesia
  3816. Obama has not explained his Indonesian citizenship required to attend the SDN Besuki School
  3817. Obama will not explain if his U.S. citizenship was relinquished to comply with Indonesian law
  3818. President Obama cancelled both of his State visits to Indonesia during his first 2 years in office
  3819. A photo shows Obama attending 3rd grade in Hawaii when he was reportedly in Jakarta in 1969
  3820. A May 3, 1990 article by the AP reported that Obama spent eight years in Indonesia (ages 2-10)
  3821. An August 1, 1990 article on Obama reports that Obama spent six years in Indonesia (ages 2-8)
  3822. Obama’s memoir and mother’s passport records show only 4 years spent in Indonesia (ages 6-10)
  3823. Will not explain when ‘Barry Soetoro’ switched his legal name back to ‘Barack Obama’
  3824. Obama’s half-sister Maya was born in Indonesia and had the same COLB that Obama presented
  3825. Undisclosed (dead) stepsister Holiyah “Lia” Soetoro Sobah adopted by Lolo and Stanley Soetoro
  3826. Chicago postman Allen Hulton said that Bill Ayer’s parents put ‘foreigner’ Obama through school
  3827. Obama hired Acton & Dystel to promote his first book attempt, Journeys in Black and White
  3828. Obama abandoned Journeys in Black and White, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead
  3829. Acton & Dystel released a promotional booklet in 1991 to celebrate their own 15th anniversary
  3830. Obama’s biography was included with eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel
  3831. Acton & Dystel’s booklet touted Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii”
  3832. Acton’s former partner Jane Dystel, who still lists Obama as a literary client, refused to comment
  3833. The biography stating that Obama was “born in Kenya” was used from 1991 until April 2007
  3834. Miriam Goderich helped edit the 1991 booklet for Obama’s literary agency, Acton & Dystel
  3835. Goderich issued a press release describing the “erroneous statement” as a “fact checking error”
  3836. Obama’s so-called biographical “fact checking error” persisted for sixteen years, through at least three new versions of Dystel’s website, and through at least four versions of Obama’s updated biography
  3837. In June 1998, Obama’s biography was updated, but the birthplace error was repeated
  3838. In February 2005, Obama’s biography was updated to reflect the fact that he had become a U.S. Senator, but again had not corrected the birthplace error that he was “born in Kenya”
  3839. In April 2007, Obama’s biography was again tweaked, but “born in Kenya” text remained
  3840. Obama has been using a Connecticut-based Social Security number without explanation
  3841. Selective Service produced a valid number identified with Obama using SSN 042-68-4425
  3842. SSN Verification System showed that Obama’s SSN 042-68-4425 was never issued to Obama
  3843. Obama’s 042-68-4425 Social Security number was also flagged by E-Verify as ‘likely fraudulent’
  3844. Unable to explain how he obtained work in 1975 but did not obtain a SSN until after 1977
  3845. Judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking more information of potential fraud to protect Obama’s privacy
  3846. Judge: “The plaintiff had identified no public interest that would be served by the disclosure”
  3847. In May 2010, a poll revealed that 55 percent of Americans wanted Obama to release his records
  3848. Obama has not released or disclosed what passport he used to travel to Pakistan in 1981
  3849. Will not release his Punahou High School records from Hawaii
  3850. Will not release his Occidental College records
  3851. Will not release his Columbia University records where he majored in political science
  3852. Will not release his Columbia University thesis
  3853. Will not release his LSAT and SAT scores used to apply to Harvard, Stanford, and Yale
  3854. Will not explain how he got into Harvard despite graduating from Columbia w/o honors
  3855. Will not release his Harvard Law School records
  3856. Will not release his Harvard Law Review articles
  3857. Will not release his Scholarly articles from the University of Chicago
  3858. Will not release his medical records
  3859. Will not release his records from his years as an Illinois state senator
  3860. Will not release his Illinois State Bar Association records
  3861. Will not release his Baptism records (if they exist)
  3862. Will not release his Soetoro adoption records
  3863. Will not release Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Hussein Obama Sr.’s marriage license
  3864. Will not release Stanley Ann Dunham and Lolo Soetoro’s marriage license
  3865. President Obama has battled nearly six-dozen lawsuits across the U.S., including several that reached the Supreme Court, to keep his records concealed from the American people
  3866. Obama used both private attorneys and taxpayer-funded legal teams to conceal his records
  3867. Obama is the first president in modern history of the U.S. not to release his academic records
  3868. Carney dodged a question about Obama’s transcripts: “I would refer you to the campaign” (2012)
  3869. Jay Carney called it ‘preposterous’ for a reporter to ask for Obama’s college records (July 2012)
  3870. Donald Trump offered President Obama $5 million to release his college transcripts (October 2012)
  3871. Obama’s birth narrative does not match up with INS reports released through FOIA requests
  3872. Obama is unwilling to explain his father’s stated intention to put his unborn baby up for adoption
  3873. Obama Sr. told INS that Stanley was making arrangements to give the baby to the Salvation Army
  3874. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) redacted this fact about Obama’s birth narrative (2011)
  3875. Immigration officials expressed doubts about President Obama’s birth story even back in 1961
  3876. INS was prepared to investigate Barack Obama Sr.’s questionable marriage and paternity in 1961
  3877. Obama will not explain the use of the newly-discovered Chicago alias “Harrison J. Bounel”
  3878. Obama stated he did not have any former names in 1991 according to Illinois state filings
  3879. Obama will not answer questions regarding why he relinquished his Illinois law license
  3880. Unanswered questions relating to facing perjury after lying about previously not using aliases
  3881. Obama dispatched private and taxpayer-funded attorneys to prevent access to sealed records
  3882. Unsolved mystery: Quarles Harris Jr. shot in the head after accessing Obama’s passport files
  3883. Congressional Democrats proposed legislation to protect Obama’s records after he leaves office
  3884. House Democrats proposed the measure, the Presidential Records Act Amendments, in 2011
  3885. Obama’s eligibility for 2012 was challenged in New Hampshire, Georgia and Alabama
  3886. Congressional Research Service attempted to equate “native born” with “natural born” (2011)
  3887. James Clyburn (D-SC) warned that the GOP will investigate Obama’s birthplace if given power
  3888. Obama may forever be seen as the biggest fraud ever perpetuated on the United States of America
  3889. Obama told reporters that when you run for president, “your life is an open book” (August 2012)
  3890. Barack Obama’s former classmates at the Punahou School in Hawaii claimed that, as a young child, prince “Barry” told classmates that he was Kenyan royalty and that his father was an Indonesian king
  3891. Romney said to a hometown crowd, “No one has asked to see my birth certificate” (August 2012)
  3892. At a rally in Ohio, a plane was flown with a banner that read, “America is better THEN Birtherism”
  3893. Obama campaign quipped back that America “doesn’t need a birther-in-chief” (August 2012)
  3894. RNC Chair Rience Priebus pointed out that Obama had made a birth certificate joke at the WHCD

    3895. President Obama demanded: “Plug the damn hole!” ...and I'll figure out “whose ass to kick!”

  3895. Obama mishandled the BP gulf oil spill and waited nine days to publically address the catastrophe
  3896. Obama politically distanced himself from BP rather than taking charge of a spill in federal waters
  3897. Obama “understood from day one the potential enormity of the crisis, and acted accordingly”
  3898. Attending a political fundraiser in San Francisco took precedence over the Gulf Oil Spill
  3899. Obama’s EPA chief went to a New York fundraiser in the middle of the oil spill disaster
  3900. Day 1: Oil rig explosion: Obama returned from L.A. after attending a fundraiser for Sen. Boxer
  3901. Day 2: President Obama attended a reception for G-20 Labor Ministers
  3902. Day 3: Obama hosted a Rose Garden reception to honor Earth Day and then flew to New York
  3903. Day 4: Obama mountain hiked and played golf while on vacation in Asheville, North Carolina
  3904. Day 5: Obama played another round of golf and ate a gourmet dinner at the Biltmore
  3905. Day 6: Obama ate brunch with First Lady Michelle at the Grove Park Resort
  3906. Day 7: Obama hosted the New York Yankees for a White House event
  3907. Day 8: Obama visited Iowa for some rhubarb pie at Jerry’s Diner
  3908. Day 9: Obama flew to Missouri for lunch at Peggy Sue’s Diner
  3909. Day 10: Obama attends DNC fundraiser in Washington D.C. at a private Georgetown residence
  3910. Day 11: Obama flew to Maryland to view Secret Service binoculars
  3911. Day 12: Obama joined Jay Leno for a comedy routine at the W.H. Correspondence Dinner
  3912. Day 13: Obama finally visited the gulf coast to personally assess the growing catastrophe
  3913. Obama described the response to the oil spill as “an all hands on deck, immediate response”
  3914. It took 12 days for Obama to visit the site of “the worst environmental disaster in our history”
  3915. Obama claimed to be in control of efforts to stop and contain the massive oil spill in the Gulf
  3916. Obama visited the gulf coast just once during the first month of the expanding environmental crisis
  3917. The “Obama-in-control plan” failed to plug the well with shredded tires, mud, and golf balls
  3918. Officials hid the extent of the spill by using toxic dispersants that made cleanup very difficult
  3919. Obama allowed oil spill to worsen and become the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history
  3920. Spill was more than twenty times worse than the previous worst - Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska
  3921. Eric Holder sent a legion of lawyers to “oversee” BP while they are trying to solve the problem
  3922. Holder began pursuing criminal and civil charges against “those responsible” as the spill worsened
  3923. Obama delayed waiving the Jones Act, which allowed for foreign ships to help clean up the oil
  3924. After 70 days, the Obama administration finally caved to political pressure to allow foreign help
  3925. Obama’s priorities were vacationing, golfing, fundraisers, basketball and hosting Paul McCartney
  3926. Obama was “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore” after Spike Lee told him to get angry
  3927. Obama said he visited Louisiana coast “so I know whose ass to kick” on NBC’s Today Show
  3928. Polls show that the government response to the Gulf Oil Spill was worse than Hurricane Katrina
  3929. Obama administration issued the drilling permit and the spill occurred within federal jurisdiction
  3930. Obama administration gave the oil rig an award for safety the year before the accident occurred
  3931. Drilling regulators accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil companies
  3932. MMS Director Elizabeth Birnbaum was hired for being from Harvard and was not qualified
  3933. Employees with the MMS were having sexual relations with workers they were to oversee
  3934. Obama received the most campaign money from BP of any politician in the last twenty years
  3935. Records show BP lobbying on Obama’s “stimulus” bill and the TARP Wall Street bailout
  3936. BP was a founding member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP) for Cap and Trade
  3937. BP helped secure the release of the Lockerbie bomber in exchange for an oil deal with Libya
  3938. Administration ally Goldman Sachs sold $250 million of BP stock before the Gulf oil spill
  3939. BP was lobbying for Senator John Kerry’s (D-MA) climate legislation as the oil rig was sinking
  3940. Progressive John Podesta co-founded the Podesta Group, a Democratic lobbying group for BP
  3941. Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) said that Obama has the “moral authority” to shakedown BP for cash
  3942. In 1995, Bill Clinton signed the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act allowing this spill to happen
  3943. Liberals and environmentalists have pushed oil rigs far offshore decreasing capability to cap
  3944. Obama compared the Gulf Oil Spill to the attacks of September 11, 2001 to diminish his failures
  3945. Democrats’ no-drill policies also avoid undercutting their billionaire financier George Soros
  3946. Democrats gave the Brazilian oil company Petrobras $2 billion for oil exploration off of Brazil
  3947. Petrobras’ largest individual stockholder is George Soros and most of oil will be sold to China
  3948. Obama’s Interior Department misstated National Academy of Engineering recommendations
  3949. White House refused to allow Inspector General (IG) investigators to interview Joe Aldy
  3950. Joe Aldy was the White House official involved in the editing the spill report
  3951. IG investigative agent Richard Larrabee opined that the editing “mistake” was intentional
  3952. Obama maintains an offshore drilling ban in effect off of both coasts, Alaska, and most of the Gulf
  3953. Polls show Louisianans think Bush did better on Katrina than Obama did on the oil spill
  3954. Never allowing a “serious crisis go to waste,” Obama used spill to push for Cap and Trade taxes
  3955. Obama used the Gulf oil spill crisis to halt all domestic off-shore drilling and exploration
  3956. Obama refuses to develop oil and natural gas resources in U.S. waters for our energy security
  3957. Obama locked up areas in the West where oil shale reserves are estimated to triple Saudi Arabia’s
  3958. Obama stalled on plans to build a pipeline to deliver oil from Canada’s tar sands to the U.S. market
  3959. Officials cite environmental concerns, but have no problem shipping oil by tanker from Brazil

    3960. Obama administration’s anti-fossil fuel policies are contributing to skyrocketing energy prices

  3960. Obama stated that under his cap and trade plan “electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket”
  3961. Candidate Obama warned he would “bankrupt” the coal industry if necessary to achieve his goals
  3962. Plan purposely spikes utility bills to force the nation into using less and cleaner forms of energy
  3963. Joe Biden claimed that coal power and corn syrup are more deadly than terrorism (2007)
  3964. Biden insisted that the Obama team is “not supporting clean coal… No coal plants in America”
  3965. Electricity costs have skyrocketed $300 per household in 2010 compared to 2005
  3966. Obama’s EPA crafted Cross-State Air Pollution Rule requiring coal companies to reduce emissions
  3967. Industry analysts warn that the rule would raise electricity rates over 23% by 2016 in the Midwest
  3968. The new EPA rule is also projected to cost an estimated 1.44 million jobs by 2020
    “We’re going to have to cap the emission of greenhouse gases. That means that power plants are going to have to adjust how they generate power. They will pass on those costs to consumers… A lot of us who can afford it are going to have to pay more per unit of electricity, and that means we’re going to have to change our light bulbs, we’re going to have to shut the lights off in our houses.” ~Candidate Obama speaking during a November 9, 2007 interview in Iowa, explaining how the government could implement the kind of price signals that change consumer habits

  3969. Gas prices at the pump have more than doubled under President Obama’s energy policies
  3970. Obama prioritized green or alternative energy policies over domestic fossil fuel sources of energy
  3971. Obama’s environmental agenda is more important to him than maintaining low-cost energy
  3972. Steven Chu was picked by Obama to be the energy secretary heading the Energy Department
  3973. Chu: “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe”
    “Whatever power plants are being built, they would have to meet the rigors of that [carbon-exchange] market and the ratcheted-down caps that are imposed every year. So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted.” ~Candidate Obama in a San Francisco Chronicle interview (originally taped on January 17, 2008) detailing his long-term cap-and-trade energy plan that would target coal plants in America

  3974. Obama admitted he didn’t mind $4.00 gas prices, but was just concerned with how fast it got there
  3975. High gas and energy prices make expensive alternative fuels more economically competitive
  3976. Former Shell CEO John Hofmeister cited Obama’s energy policies for rising gas prices
  3977. Gas prices in Chicago and across the country has set all-time highs under Obama’s policies
  3978. Obama blamed “speculators” for gas prices rising from $1.61 a gallon to all-new record highs
  3979. Gasoline prices averaged more than $3.53 a gallon in 2011, another new all-time record
  3980. 2011’s average gas prices were 76 cents higher than in 2010, and 29 cents higher than in 2008
  3981. Typical American household spent $4,155 on gasoline in 2011, a new all-time record
  3982. Gas prices rose more than 83% under President Obama’s leadership (as of January 2012)
  3983. Congress reopened the nation’s coasts to drilling in 2008, but Obama reinstated the ban in 2009
  3984. Gas prices rose by over a dollar-a-gallon since Obama instituted his six-month drilling moratorium
  3985. Obama’s offshore oil drilling moratorium was blocked in 2010 by a federal judge in Louisiana
  3986. Obama’s Interior Department came back with a second ban to replace the first that was blocked
  3987. Federal judge in Louisiana held Interior Department in contempt for blocking offshore oil drilling
  3988. Obama administration began a de facto moratorium by not issuing new permits to oil companies
  3989. House Natural Resource Committee said a dozen oil rigs departed the Gulf for other countries
  3990. Obama’s moratorium has cost an estimated 137,000 jobs and $400 million to the state of Louisiana
  3991. Obama committed to helping Brazil develop its offshore oil so that the U.S. can one day import it
  3992. Obama opined, “Brazil holds recently discovered oil reserves that could be far larger than ours”
  3993. China assisted Petrobras in 2009 when the oil company faced tight credit markets
  3994. Brazil agreed to sell their oil to huge state-owned Chinese companies instead of the U.S. (2012)
  3995. Obama administration’s EPA seeks to regulate the oil industry over greenhouse gas emissions
  3996. Domestic energy production on federal lands is way down under the Obama administration (2011)
  3997. President Obama appointed Ken Salazar to lead the Bureau of Land Management
  3998. Salazar issued new rules making it harder to develop natural resources on government-owned land
  3999. American Petroleum Institute (API) criticized the Obama administration for its energy policies
  4000. New environmental hurdles stalled a pipeline that would transport crude from Canadian oil sands
  4001. America is burning 40 percent of our corn crop to offset less than 5 percent of our gasoline use
  4002. New York Times in 2010: Obama’s plan is ‘to open vast expanses of water along Atlantic coastline, eastern Gulf of Mexico, north coast of Alaska’…
  4003. New York Times in 2011: Obama’s plan ‘expands drilling in Alaska and prospect of new exploration off Atlantic coast’…
  4004. Democrats in the Senate rejected a GOP bill to expand and speed up offshore drilling in 2011
  4005. Obama administration suspended exploratory drilling in Alaska and stonewalled new applications
  4006. White House released 30 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in 2011
  4007. Obama is “using a national security instrument to address his domestic political problems”
  4008. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was created in 1975 to deal with “dangerous potential shortfalls”
  4009. The reserve had been tapped just twice before: 1991 Persian Gulf War & Hurricane Katrina (2005)
  4010. Obama and Democrats expanded the burning of our food for food (ethanol) as the world starves
  4011. More corn was being used for ethanol than for feeding livestock for the first time ever in 2011
  4012. EPA rejected a request from eight states and 200 members of Congress to waive ethanol requirements following a severe drought which wilted much of the United States’ corn crop (November 2012)
  4013. OPEC is under the management of Rostam Ghasemi of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard
  4014. Obama administration’s new 2025 fuel efficiency standards will cost $157 billion (2011)
  4015. Obama administration officials lied to Congress when they denied under oath that motor vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards are “related to” fuel economy standards (2011)
  4016. EPA previously admitted that the only way to decrease emissions was to increase fuel economy
  4017. Obama administration refused to admit that the EPA is effectively regulating fuel economy
    “The President’s plan is to simply say ‘no’ to new energy production. It’s a plan that is sending American jobs overseas, forfeiting new revenue, and denying access to American energy that would lessen our dependence on hostile Middle Eastern oil.” ~House Natural Resources Committee chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA) told Interior Secretary Ken Salazar during a hearing pertaining to hydraulic fracturing

  4018. Obama administration delayed its decision on the Keystone XL pipeline for political reasons
  4019. Big Labor wants the pipeline approved, whereas Obama’s radical environmentalists do not
  4020. Environmentalists argued that the pipeline would be prone to accidents and worsen climate change
  4021. Obama administration decided to postpone a decision on Keystone until after the 2012 elections
  4022. Canadian PM Stephen Harper looked at exporting more oil to China after the pipeline delay
  4023. Harper had pressed Obama to approve the 1,700 mile pipeline extension, which would stretch through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma before ending up in Texas
  4024. Left-wing environmentalists demanded that the route through Nebraska be changed
  4025. Nebraska’s state legislature approved an alternate route which was then signed by their governor
  4026. Obama administration rejected the Keystone XL pipeline and blamed Republicans for doing so
  4027. Obama rejected tens of thousands of American jobs purely to satisfy his base before the elections
  4028. Canada pledged to sell its oil to Asia after Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline (2012)
  4029. After Keystone XL was blocked, Canada began building pipelines to sell their oil to China (2012)
  4030. Gas prices increased to the highest point ever this time of year (February 2012)
  4031. Spokesman Jay Carney: Obama didn’t turn down the Keystone XL pipeline (February 2012)
  4032. Carney blamed Republicans who “forced” Obama to deny the permit for the Keystone pipeline
  4033. President Obama reportedly lobbied Democrat Senators to vote against the Keystone pipeline
  4034. As a result, the Senate Democrats killed the Keystone pipeline bill by preventing 60 votes (56-42)
  4035. Spokesman Jay Carney said that the Keystone pipeline would “sacrifice American sovereignty”
  4036. President Obama’s USDA delayed shale gas drilling in Ohio to appease environmentalists (2011)
  4037. U.S. Forest Service delayed plans to sell drilling rights on a national forest in Ohio for more study
  4038. Obama administration pressed analysts to ‘soften’ job-loss estimates from a new mining regulation
  4039. Officials pressured a Kentucky consulting firm ECSI to “revisit” a study to show fewer job losses
  4040. President Obama’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement asked the team to re-do its study when it “did not like the result of the analysis”
  4041. After refusing to “soften” the numbers the firms were told their contracts would not be renewed
  4042. Motor fuel suppliers were fined $6.8 million in 2011 for not mixing in a cellulosic biofuel
  4043. Cellulosic biofuel is made from wood chips or the inedible parts of plants, such as corncobs
  4044. Cellulosic biofuel is not produced and does not exist, outside of laboratories and workshops
  4045. CBS News polling found that 77% cited rising gas prices as the most important factor in the vote
  4046. Energy Secretary Stephen Chu testified to Congress that he personally did not own a car
  4047. Chu: “I’ve been doing everything in our powers to do what we can to reduce these gas prices”
  4048. Obama said his administration has added enough pipeline “to encircle Earth and then some” (2012)
  4049. Domestic oil production on federal lands dropped by 275,000 barrels a day in 2011
  4050. President Obama called for Congress to end the tax breaks of big oil (March 2012)
  4051. Obama voted in favor of oil subsidies while serving as senator in 2005
  4052. EPA tarnished the reputation of three companies by accusing them of water contamination
  4053. EPA official Al Armendariz resigned after video showed him telling an audience that his “philosophy of enforcement” was to “crucify” and “make examples of” energy companies (2012)
    “It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. They’d go into a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they saw, and they’d crucify them. And then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.”
    ~EPA administrator Al Armendariz describing his “philosophy of enforcement” (2010)

  4054. Soon after, the EPA targeted U.S. natural gas producers in Pennsylvania, Texas and Wyoming
  4055. Al Armendariz resigned from the EPA and cancelled his testimony before Congress (2012)
  4056. Sierra Club hired Al Armendariz as a senior representative for their “Beyond Coal” campaign
    “I was, however, surprised not to have been asked to provide a reference – I would have been happy to tell the Sierra Club about his steadfast commitment to regulating fossil fuels out of existence. At least at the Sierra Club he won’t get into so much trouble for telling the truth that their true agenda is to kill oil, gas and coal.” ~Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) commenting on former EPA official Al Armendariz being hired by the Sierra Club (2012)

    4057. Candidate Barack H. Obama: “Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself” (2008)

  4057. Communist mother Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro was a radical leftist and cultural Marxist
  4058. Communist Muslim father and British subject Barack Obama Sr. abandoned his wife and son
  4059. Barack Obama Sr. was already married to a woman in Kenya prior to coming to America
  4060. Stanley Ann Dunham moved to Seattle, Washington just one week after Obama’s birth
  4061. Barack Obama Sr. moved to Boston to attend Harvard and married a third woman Ruth
  4062. Barack Obama Sr. took his third wife back to Kenya where Kezia was waiting for him
  4063. Barack Obama Sr. published an article in the East Africa Journal in which he asked the question: “What does a country do when you have powerful concentrations of economic wealth at the top?” (1965)
  4064. Barack Obama Sr. proposed two solutions: First, utilize the power of the state to control and regulate private industry; Second, impose very high tax rates to confiscate and redistribute the wealth
  4065. Barack Obama Sr. wrote that “there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100% of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income” (1965)
  4066. Socialist grandparents Stanley Armour Dunham and Madelyn Dunham helped raise Obama
  4067. Obama attended an early childhood school in Indonesia, identified as Muslim ‘Barry Soetoro’
  4068. Muslim adopted-father Lolo Soetoro introduced his stepson to Islam in a Wahabi school
  4069. State Department Passport Services claims to maintain passport records from 1925 to present
  4070. State Department claims the records for Stanley Ann Dunham prior to 1968 were destroyed
  4071. Documents show Obama’s mother dropping Barack (Soebarkah) from her U.S. passport (1968)
  4072. Father-figure Frank Marshall Davis of the Hawaiian communist network mentored Obama
  4073. Davis was a radical poet and journalist and a member of the Communist Party USA
  4074. Frank Marshall Davis was listed by party number “CPUSA no. 47544” within his FBI file
  4075. Davis, born in Kansas, lived much of his adult life in Chicago before moving to Hawaii in 1948
  4076. Frank Marshall Davis was under surveillance by the FBI for 19 years both in Chicago and Hawaii
  4077. In 1955, a Commission on Subversive Activities organized by the government of the Territory of Hawaii identified Frank Marshall Davis as a member of the Communist Party USA
  4078. On December 5, 1956, Frank Marshall Davis appeared in executive session before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee, run by Democrats, investigating “the scope of Soviet activity in the United States”
  4079. Frank Marshall Davis invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination refusing to answer a direct question asking if he was then a communist
  4080. Several articles published by Davis in the “Communist Honolulu Record” were also criticized
  4081. Obama traced communist Frank Marshall Davis’ steps in reverse from Honolulu to Chicago
  4082. Obama covered up the true identity of Frank Marshall Davis in Dreams from My Father
  4083. Frank Marshall Davis founded the Chicago Star, a communist newspaper
    “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure… I hold that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world, as storms in the physical.” ~Frank Marshall Davis quoting Thomas Jefferson (March 1950)

  4084. Many believe that Frank Marshall Davis is the real biological father of Barack Obama
  4085. Photos of Frank Marshall Davis show a shockingly close physical resemblance to Obama
  4086. Several indecent photos of Ann Dunham were taken at Frank Marshall Davis’ house
  4087. Frank Marshall Davis was one of the founders of the “Lens Camera Club” in Chicago
  4088. Photos of Ann Dunham were sold to a men’s mail-order catalog of nude women
  4089. Frank Marshall Davis wrote a autobiographical sex novel, titled “Sex Rebel: Black”
  4090. The novel detailed an illicit sexual relationship with an underage woman named “Anne”
  4091. Barack Obama referred to his mentor, “Uncle Frank,” 22 times in Dreams from My Father
  4092. All 22 references to “Frank” were pulled for the audio version of Dreams from My Father
  4093. Obama described Roger Boesche as a “wonderful, wonderful professor” (January 27, 2011)
  4094. Roger Boesche was Obama’s political science instructor at Occidental High School
  4095. Boesche was one of Obama’s early mentors who believed America to be both racist and militarist
  4096. Boesche advocated opposition to the Selective Service registration and the draft
    “Oppose the present method of recruitment into the armed forces, since it ensures that, in case of war, those who are poor, black, or Hispanic will be the ones who fight for a country from which they have derived little benefit.”
    ~Roger Boesche writing in a February 1980 article in The Occidental

  4097. Obama travelled to Pakistan in 1981 for three weeks using an undisclosed national passport
  4098. Obama attended Harvard University with suspiciously unknown funding sources or qualifications
  4099. Obama gravitated to Marxist professors and minorities “to avoid being mistaken for a sellout”
  4100. Some speculated that Obama hid his school transcripts due to a heavily Marxist curriculum in college
  4101. Obama signed on as a community agitator modeled after Marxist ‘fellow traveler’ Saul Alinsky
  4102. Obama taught Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals as a senior lecturer (never was a professor)
  4103. Alinsky dedicated his book to Lucifer (Satan) whom the Bible says “is a liar and the father of lies”
  4104. Obama participated in a panel discussion with opening act of “The Love Song of Saul Alinsky”
  4105. Although he never met Saul Alinsky personally, President Obama was mentored by his protégés
  4106. Carney wouldn’t say whether a portrait of Saul Alinsky was hanging in the White House (2012)
  4107. Hillary Clinton met friend Saul Alinsky in a radical church and his network guided her career
  4108. SDS leader Carl Oglesby heavily influenced Hillary while at Chicago’s Wellesley College
  4109. Hillary Clinton interviewed and wrote her 1969 college thesis on Saul Alinsky
  4110. Hillary tried to hide her thesis from the public in 1993 due to the radical history of Saul Alinsky
  4111. Obama was recruited by Gerald Kellman and worked with Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)
  4112. Saul Alinsky offered Hillary a job with Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), but she declined
  4113. Hillary allegedly landed a job as a legal intern in 1972 after defending Black Panther members
  4114. President Obama later picked Hillary Clinton to serve as his Secretary of State (2009)
  4115. Axelrod asked, “How could you trust Hillary?” when Obama floated giving her a high-profile post
  4116. President Barack Obama and Sec. Hillary Clinton are ideologically identical Marxist Progressives
  4117. Obama was mentored and financed by 1960s SDS and Weather Underground leftist radicals
  4118. Obama is close friends with communist revolutionary radical and domestic terrorist William Ayers
  4119. Ayers' terrorist group sought to overthrow the U.S government and bombed the Capitol in 1971
  4120. William Ayers’ terrorist group also plotted to kill hundreds at a Fort Dix dance in March 1970
  4121. Obama was associated with the May 19th Communist Organization while at Columbia University
  4122. “May 19th” was an above-ground support group for the Weather Underground from 1978 to 1985
  4123. At the time, William Ayers wrote that “May 19th” provided “a sea for the guerrillas to swim in”
  4124. Some “May 19th” members committed acts of violence and terrorism, such as the 1981 Nanuet Brinks robbery and murders, the 1981 bombing of South African offices, and the 1983 U.S. Capitol bombing
  4125. FBI informant revealed that the “May 19th” Communist Organization “had a weapons training camp in the Catskill Mountains run by former Black Panthers”
  4126. Some “May 19th” Venceremos Brigade members were sent to Cuba for explosives training
  4127. Venceremos Brigade was a continuation of the 1960’s SDS/Weather Underground program
  4128. Bernardine Dohrn, revolutionary radical and the wife of William Ayers, was friends with Obama
  4129. Bernardine Dohrn was a self-described “revolutionary communist”
  4130. Bernardine Dohrn was on the FBI’s list of ten most wanted fugitives and a convicted felon
  4131. Bernardine Dohrn was suspected of bombing a San Francisco police station killing one officer
  4132. Bernardine Dohrn and William Ayers hid underground for a decade emerging in 1980
  4133. Due to her felony conviction, Bernardine Dohrn was not allowed to take the Illinois bar exam
  4134. Bernardine Dohrn worked as a paralegal at Sidney Austin from 1984 through 1988
  4135. When questioned by John McCain, Obama dismissed Ayers as “just a guy in the neighborhood”
  4136. Obama minimized and disavowed any connection with Bill Ayers during the 2008 campaign
  4137. As Senator, Barack Obama attended Bill Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s barbecue on July 4, 2005
  4138. William Ayers was denied emeritus status from the University of Illinois, something unheard of
  4139. Ayers had dedicated a book to a man who killed the trustee Chairman’s father, Robert F. Kennedy
  4140. William Ayers has repeatedly stated that he wrote Obama’s memoir, Dreams from My Father
  4141. Obama’s second book, Audacity of Hope,” was clearly a lesser effort and “a political hack book”
  4142. Obama began his political career at a 1995 fundraiser held in an apartment by Ayers and Dohrn
  4143. Obama was director and lead organizer of Developing Communities Project (DCP) in Chicago
  4144. Obama’s boss at DCP was Jerry Kellman, a man who was trained by Saul Alinsky himself
  4145. Obama disguised Kellman’s name in Dreams from My Father by using a so-called composite character, “Marty Kaufman,” to depict his former boss, Jerry Kellman
  4146. DCP and director Obama received two grants from groups promoting Alinsky-style organizations
  4147. Ayer’s father, the late Thomas Ayers formed a community advocacy coalition called the ABC
  4148. Thomas Ayers included Obama in the ABC coalition, which formed in June 1988 in Chicago
  4149. Obama and Ayers were brought together by a radical Marxist who was trained by Saul Alinsky
  4150. Obama’s contact for the ABC coalition was Thomas Ayers’ son, William Ayers
  4151. Obama and Ayers worked together on the hundred-million dollar Chicago Annenberg Challenge
  4152. William Ayers founded the CAC, and Obama was hired as the foundation’s first chairman
  4153. Obama served as director of the Woods Fund with 1960’s domestic terrorist William Ayers
  4154. In a 2011 interview, Ayers said McCain is a war criminal and the Pentagon is a terror organization
  4155. President Bill Clinton commuted sentences of two domestic Weather Underground terrorists
  4156. During the debates, Obama reminded everyone of it when Hillary brought up William Ayers
  4157. Obama then hired Eric Holder, the man instrumental in the release as Deputy Attorney General
  4158. Eric Holder also played a role in the Marc Rich pardon and the FALN terrorist commutations
  4159. Obama delivered a controversial speech attacking capitalist in Osawatomie, Kansas (2011)
  4160. Osawatomie was the name given to Ayers’ and Dohrn’s Weather Underground’s publication
  4161. Obama launched his Illinois Senate campaign backed by Ayers, Dohrn, and Rev. Jeremiah Wright
  4162. Reverend Jeremiah Wright performed Obama’s marriage and baptized their two daughters
  4163. Obama contributed a large amount of money to the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago
  4164. Obama attended Rev. Wright’s racist Marxist Black Liberation Theology church for twenty years
    “The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.”
    ~Reverend Jeremiah Wright (September 2001)
    “We bombed Hiroshima. We bombed Nagasaki. And we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because of stuff we have done overseas is now brought back into our own backyard. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” ~Reverend Jeremiah Wright (September 2001)
    “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes three-strike laws and wants them to sing “God Bless America.” No, no, no! God damn America! That’s in the Bible, for killing innocent people. God damn America for treating her citizen as less than human. God damn America as long as she keeps trying to act like she is God and she is supreme!”
    ~Reverend Jeremiah Wright (April 13, 2003)
    “Barack knows what it means living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich, white people. Hillary would never know that. Hillary ain’t never been called a n-----. Hillary has never had a people defined as a non-person.” ~Reverend Jeremiah Wright (December 2007)
    “Hillary is married to Bill, and Bill has been good to us. No he ain’t! Bill did us, just like he did Monica Lewinsky. He was riding dirty.”
    ~Reverend Jeremiah Wright (January 13, 2008)
    “I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother.”
    ~Barack Obama (March 2008)

  4165. David Axelrod defended Jeremiah Wright, saying he was the victim of selective editing (2012)
  4166. Wright claimed that Obama’s campaign tried to bribe him to keep quiet during the 2008 campaign
  4167. According to Wright, “one of Barack’s closest friends” offered $150,000 to remain silent
  4168. Obama personally met with Jeremiah Wright “in secret, in a secure place” to plead for his silence
  4169. Rev. Jeremiah Wright delivered another racial, hate-filled speech during an Easter sermon (2012)
  4170. Rev. Wright said that Justice Clarence Thomas looks black, but worships some other God
  4171. Obama boasted that he probably knows more about Judaism ‘than any other president’ (May 2012)
  4172. President Obama claimed that “all his friends in Chicago were Jewish” and he read about Judaism
  4173. Arnold Jacob Wolf, a socialist anti-Israel rabbi, taught Obama what he ‘knows’ about Judaism
  4174. Rabbi Arnold J. Wolf subscribed to the “blame Israel first” policy of American Progressivism
  4175. Rabbi Arnold Wolf spent 20 years as the leader of K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Temple in Chicago
  4176. K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Temple was located across the street from Obama’s home in Chicago
  4177. Like Obama, Arnold Wolf was active with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
  4178. Wolf joined Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn as one of the first early backers of Obama
    “I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, who was not just our neighbor, but a dear friend to Michelle and me. We are joined in this time of grief by the entire Hyde Park community, the American Jewish Community, and all those who shared Rabbi Wolf’s passion for learning and profound commitment to serving others. Today we bid farewell to a titan of moral strength and a champion of social justice…”
    ~President-elect Obama following the death of Rabbi Wolf in December 2008

  4179. Rabbi Wolf spent much of his career leading organizations seeking to delegitimize Israel
  4180. Wolf, along with radical MIT professor Noam Chomsky, helped found the Committee on New Alternatives in the Middle East (CONAME), a philosophical grandparent to today’s J Street lobby
  4181. CONAME was described by Time magazine as a pro-Arab organization working in the U.S.
  4182. CONAME’s signatures appeared on telegrams urging Congress to send no arms to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when Israel was attacked by Syria and Egypt
  4183. Rabbi Arnold Wolf also wrote pro-Palestinian articles in Sh’ma, the journal that he established
  4184. In 2000, Rabbi Arnold Wolf was smearing Israel as a human rights violator
  4185. Obama sought the endorsement of the Marxist party during the 1996 Illinois Senate race
  4186. Barack Obama associates himself with individuals who promoted a racially divisive America
  4187. Video shows Obama warmingly praising and hugging radical Harvard Professor Derrick A. Bell
  4188. Barack Obama: “Open up your hearts and your minds to the words of Professor Derrick Bell”
  4189. Obama counseled his fellow Harvard law students to listen to Bell because he was speaking “truth”
  4190. Professor Derrick Bell pioneered the field of Critical Race Theory, a radical school of legal thought that holds that the American legal and political systems are inherently racist
  4191. Professor Derrick Bell was a close associate of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and quoted him regularly
  4192. Derrick Bell wrote a science-fiction story 1993 in which white Americans sold black Americans into slavery to aliens in order to pay down the national debt, and the Jews went along with it
  4193. Derrick Bell said that he wrote his views in fiction because they’re too ‘threatening’ otherwise
  4194. Bell said that the entire legal and constitutional system needed to be transformed in radical fashion
  4195. Bell argued that “racism is an integral, permanent and indestructible component of this society”
  4196. Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree admitted hiding the video to protect Obama
  4197. Professor Ogletree was a mentor for both Barack and Michelle Obama at Harvard Law School
    “Of course we hid this throughout the 2008 campaign. I don’t care if they find it now.” ~Harvard Law School Professor Charles Ogletree

  4198. When questioned about hiding the video in 2008, Charles Ogletree said “it was a big joke”
  4199. Ogletree said he will teach a course called “Understanding Obama” during the 2013 spring term
  4200. Barack Obama required his students to read Professor Derrick Bell’s work when Obama was a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School
  4201. Obama sent a letter to Bell asking him to review and blurb Dreams from My Father (1995)
    “As for me, I’m keeping busy in Chicago. I’m currently working at Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland here in Chicago, a small firm specializing in employment discrimination and voting rights/civil rights cases. I’m also teaching a seminar on race and the law at the University of Chicago law school -- your casebook has been an invaluable reference guide for that.

    The main reason I’m writing to you, though, has to do with a book that I’ve been writing, on again, off again, for the past two years. Originally, the book (called Dreams of My Father) was going to be a series of essays on issues of race and class, but as it has evolved it’s become a memoir of my family and my experiences as an organizer in Chicago…

    Your name came to mind as somebody whose insight I’ve always appreciated, so I’ve enclosed an advanced reader’s edition of the book. If you have time to read it and think it’s worthy of a plug, I’d be thrilled…”
    ~Letter written by Barack Obama to Derrick Bell (February 3, 1995)

  4202. Bell’s blurb on the back cover was removed after Obama ascended to the national stage in 2004

    “Dreams from My Father is a beautifully written chronicle of a gifted young man marked and molded by a family whose love for him was as deep as its diversity was daunting. We hear in Barack Obama’s soaring book that survival demands resilience in the face of frustrated expectations, and that one’s committed opposition to the destructive tides of America’s obsession with color cultivates a vision of life that is nourished by struggle.”     ~Blurb written by Derrick Bell, author of Faces at the Bottom of the Well

  4203. Derrick Bell had also just blurbed Louis Farrakhan’s book on black self-reliance, A Torchlight for America, and praised the Nation of Islam’s community education programs
  4204. Derrick Bell personally visited the White House twice in 2010 (1/29/2010 and 1/31/2010)
  4205. With the approval of the Obama administration, the radical Pacific Education Group (PEG) actively promotes Derrick Bell’s Critical Race Theory in K-12 schools nationwide (2012)
  4206. Derrick Bell was also close friends with Louis Farrakhan and praised his work
  4207. Louis Farrakhan is an anti-Semite who called Judaism a “gutter religion”
  4208. Farrakhan also believes that the H1N1 flu vaccine was created to depopulate the earth
  4209. Farrakhan supported racist Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and was also backed by Qadhafi
  4210. Rashid Khalidi held a fundraiser for Obama and his wife was president of the Woods Fund
  4211. Khalidi was a paycheck-receiving PLO agent and was supportive of terrorism against Israel
  4212. Admitted communist Alice Palmer hand-picked Obama for the Illinois Senate seat she had held
  4213. Iraqi-born billionaire and Baathist Nadhmi Auchi was a financer and “political fixer” in Chicago
  4214. US-Syrian citizen Antoin “Tony” Rezko worked as a fundraiser and “political fixer” in Chicago
  4215. Tony Rezko was portrayed as having “permanent indebtedness” to billionaire Nadhmi Auchi
  4216. Nadhmi Auchi met with Obama, Tony Rezko, and Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) in Chicago
  4217. Millionaire Tony Rezko was involved in the rapid rise of Obama’s early political career in Chicago
  4218. Rezko was an early-money fundraiser in Obama’s state Senate Campaigns and failed House bid
  4219. Tony Rezko worked as a top fundraiser and adviser to then-Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-IL)
  4220. Rezko extorted millions of dollars from firms seeking state business or regulatory approval
  4221. Rezko was convicted on 16 counts that included fraud, bribery and money laundering (June 2008)
  4222. Rezko was convicted in June 2008 and was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison in November 2011
  4223. Rezko also pleaded guilty to wire fraud over the bogus sale of his pizza restaurants (October 2010)
  4224. Tony Rezko’s wife gave Obama a sweetheart deal on some real estate property in Chicago
  4225. Rezko originally found the new residence for Obama when the Rezko family lived across the street
  4226. Obama paid $1.65 million for a Chicago mansion in 2005, on property listed at $1.95 million
  4227. Rita Rezko bought an adjacent vacant lot at the same time for $625,000 and sold part to Obama
  4228. Rezko divided the parcel and in January 2006 sold one-fifth of it to the Obamas for $104,500
  4229. Obama violated Senate ethic rules in a “boneheaded move” if the land purchases were coordinated
  4230. Obama committed tax fraud in the land deal since the property clearly was never assessed or taxed
  4231. William Miceli, an attorney for Tony Rezko, owns Obama’s Hyde Park mansion in Chicago
  4232. Miceli is a lawyer at the Chicago law firm Miner, Barnhill & Galland, which had employed Obama
  4233. In addition to Miceli, two other people are listed as taxpayers for Obama’s Chicago home
  4234. They are Chicago Probate Judge Jane L. Stuart and Obama’s accountant Harvey Wineberg
  4235. The alias “Harrison J. Bounel” shares the same SSN and home address as Barack H. Obama
  4236. Michelle Obama shows up as a relative of “Harrison J. Bounel” in Chicago database searches
  4237. Michelle Obama argued for race-based faculty hiring in a 1988 essay while at Harvard University
  4238. Michelle faulted her fellow students for being “racist” and “sexist” for perpetuating stereotypes
  4239. Michelle gushed praise for Professor Derrick Bell’s critical race theory – the view that law is an instrument of the powerful against the powerless, rather than an effort to seek justice
  4240. Michelle praised the teaching of several professors who didn’t use the Socratic method, including the far-left academics Martha Minow and Charles Ogletree
  4241. Minow’s father, Newton Minow, later recruited Michelle and Barack to Sidley Austin in Chicago
  4242. Michelle Obama worked at Sidley Austin starting in the summer of 1988 until 1991
  4243. Michelle Obama worked in Mayor Daley’s City Hall from September 16, 1991 to April 30, 1993
  4244. Michelle was hired by Valerie Jarrett, who served as Mayor Daily’s chief of staff at the time
  4245. Michelle Obama “disapproved of how closely Daley held power” in Chicago
  4246. Michelle Obama was reportedly “distressed” by how a small group of “white Irish Catholic” families – the Daleys, the Hynes, and the Madigans – “locked up” power in Illinois
  4247. Blagojevich felt that Obama was given a pass on his connections with convicted fundraiser Rezko
  4248. Obama surrounded himself with radical communists and socialists in his administration
  4249. Obama’s top advisers David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett were both linked to communist activists
  4250. Avowed Chicago socialist Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama’s senior White House advisor
  4251. Jarrett: Point of government is to give people livelihood so they can provide for their families
  4252. Jarrett’s father-in-law, Vernon Jarrett, was an associate of Frank Marshall Davis
  4253. Vernon Jarrett and Frank Marshall Davis worked together in 1940 in a Communist Party-dominated organization, the Citizen’s Committee to Aid Packing House Workers
  4254. Many of the organization’s leaders were tied to the Communist Party
  4255. Vernon Jarrett and Frank Marshall Davis both frequented the Southside Community Art Center in Chicago, which was dominated by communists
  4256. Vernon Jarrett and Frank Marshall Davis also worked together in the late 1940s on the communist-influenced, black-run Chicago Defender newspaper
  4257. Valerie Jarrett married Vernon’s son, William Robert Jarrett, in 1983
  4258. Valerie Jarrett, born in Iran, was reportedly leading secret talks with Iran (November 2012)
  4259. A communist confessed to mentoring Axelrod and helping the top Obama aide secure his first job
  4260. Obama then later worked with the same communist that had mentored advisor David Axelrod
  4261. Axelrod was born to a mother who wrote for a communist newspaper in New York City
  4262. Obama lost a congressional race to Bobby Rush, who unfortunately was not divorced (2000)
  4263. Axelrod later became Obama’s “hired muscle” and used sexual misbehavior to discredit opponents
  4264. David Axelrod destroyed the only two men who stood between Obama and the U.S. Senate
  4265. Axelrod used illegally obtained and lurid allegations from their pasts to discredit them with voters
  4266. Axelrod pulled sealed divorce records of Obama’s opponent during the Democrat Senate primary
  4267. The Chicago Tribune, where Axelrod used to work, published allegations against Blair Hull (D)
  4268. Hull was smeared up until election day as a “wife beater” and lost a large lead to Obama (2005)
    “The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece (on Hull’s sealed divorce records) later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had ‘worked aggressively behind the scenes’ to push the story.”
    ~The New York Times in 2007

  4269. Axelrod again pulled sealed divorce records of Obama’s Republican opponent for the U.S. Senate
  4270. The Chicago Tribune was able to get a California judge to release of the sealed divorce records
  4271. Jack Ryan (R) dropped out of the race under GOP pressure and was replaced by Alan Keyes (R)
  4272. Obama’s helpers threw a bomb in the GOP primary against conservative candidate Herman Cain
  4273. Although Cain had never lived or worked in Chicago, all of the sexual harassment allegations against him had all emanated from Chicago, the home of the Daley machine and David Axelrod
  4274. Chicago’s former fire commissioner, John Brooks, sued Daley over sexual harassment threats
  4275. Daley was accused of threatening Brooks with sexual harassment allegations if he didn’t resign
  4276. Brooks resigned and the sexual harassment allegations were later found to be completely false
  4277. Sheila O’Grady is close with David Axelrod and went straight from Chicago mayor Richard
  4278. Daley’s chief of staff to president of the Illinois Restaurant Association (IRA)
  4279. O’Grady denied digging up Cain’s records from the National Restaurant Association (NRA)
  4280. Strangely, Cain’s three year stint at the NRA was the only time he ever faced sexual allegations
  4281. Cain’s second accuser, Sharon Bialek, lived in the same Chicago building with David Axelrod
  4282. Sharon Bialek and David Axelrod both lived at 505 North Lake Shore Drive in Chicago
  4283. Sharon Bialek later admitted that she knew David Axelrod (2011)
  4284. Bialek’s friends and acquaintances stepped forward describing her as a “gold-digger” (2011)
  4285. Sharon Bialek was constantly in financial trouble and had already filed for bankruptcy twice
  4286. Herman Cain undermined the only argument for 2012: If you oppose Obama, you must be a racist
  4287. New Party founders are currently helping craft White House legislation and policy goals
  4288. W.H. Communications Director Anita Dunn turns to favorite communist Mao for inspiration
  4289. Demos was founded with input from Obama while serving as an Illinois state senator in 1999
  4290. Obama served on the working group that founded Demos, a radical far-left think tank, in 1999
  4291. Demos partnered with the community activist group ACORN and its election arm Project Vote
  4292. Demos was among the top defenders of ACORN when accused of rampant voter fraud in 2008
  4293. Demos proposed a “stimulus” that they said would create 8.2 million government jobs
  4294. Demos may have been instrumental in the Obama administration’s hiring of communist Van Jones
  4295. Chuck Collins was the director of the Tax Program for Shared Prosperity at Demos
  4296. Collins is an associate of George Soros and a longtime leftist activist linked to socialist causes
  4297. Collins crafted a report to Obama recommending Van Jones for the environmental advisor position
  4298. Obama’s former “Green Jobs Czar” Anthony Van Jones served on the board of Free Press
  4299. Van Jones founded Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM)
  4300. Van Jones’ STORM was a communist revolutionary movement fighting for Marxism in America
  4301. Van Jones served on the boards of the Apollo Alliance and other social justice organizations
  4302. Former domestic terrorist leader Jeff Jones was hired as consultant for the Apollo Alliance
  4303. Weather Underground terrorist Jeff Jones now heads Apollo Alliance’s New York branch
  4304. Van Jones, prior to becoming the “Green Jobs Czar,” was an avowed communist & “9/11 Truther”
  4305. Van Jones signed a statement accusing the Bush administration of involvement in the 9/11 attacks
  4306. Van Jones held a racist, hate-America rally the day after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks
  4307. Speakers at the rally cheered the 9/11 attacks and Van Jones himself said America deserved it
  4308. Van Jones told young people, “You are Gods” and forget respecting older people
  4309. Van Jones’ Maoist manifesto was scrubbed from the Internet after being discovered
  4310. At a 2005 conference in Berkeley, Van Jones characterized the U.S. as an “apartheid regime”
  4311. At the same conference Van Jones, an admitted black nationalist, said “white polluters and the white environmentalists are essentially steering poison into the people of color communities”
  4312. The conference was organized by radical liberal activist Michael Lerner
  4313. Michael Lerner is the founding editor of the far-left magazine Tikkun
  4314. House Democratic Caucus hosted communist revolutionary-group founder Van Jones in July 2011
  4315. Van Jones met with Democrats one day after he spoke to a student group funded by George Soros
  4316. Van Jones was a featured speaker at a two-day national conference for the group Campus Progress
  4317. Campus Project is a “project” of the Center for American Progress (CAP), funded by Soros
  4318. Van Jones was the keynote speaker at a rally marking the national launch of Not In Our Name
  4319. Not In Our Name is a Maoist, terrorist-supporting, anti-war group founded by C. Clark Kissinger
  4320. Kissinger served as the national secretary of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the 1960s
  4321. Kissinger also worked closely with Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party
  4322. Clark Kissinger is a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)
  4323. RCP calls for the overthrow of the U.S. government to be replaced with a communist dictatorship
  4324. Kissinger supported Mao’s Communist regime in China
  4325. Kissinger enjoys strong support from the Maoist Internationalist Movement (MIM)
  4326. MIM seeks to build public opinion “to seize power through armed struggle” and “revolution”
  4327. Kissinger backed Iran’s Islamic revolution and visited Ayatollah Khamenei when he seized power
  4328. In January 1984, the RCP newspaper Revolutionary Worker called for the assassination of Reagan
  4329. In 1987, Kissinger founded Refuse & Resist as a revolutionary movement to overthrow capitalism
    “The problem in this country,” says Kissinger, can be traced to one root cause: “the oppressive system of capitalism that exploits people all over the world, that destroys our planet, that oppresses minority people, that sends people to the death chambers in droves. That is a problem that has to be done away with. Revolution is the solution. And the Revolutionary Worker has put out a call to people to join with them in formulating a new program for revolution in this country, a blueprint to go forward.” ~C. Clark Kissinger

  4330. Kissinger defended prisoners arrested during the wake of the Rodney King verdict in Los Angeles
  4331. Kissinger’s RCP had been instrumental in triggering the violence that left 58 dead and 2,300 injured
  4332. Kissinger’s priorities include campaigning to “stop the legal lynching of Mumia Abu-Jamal”After
  4333. 9/11, Kissinger focused almost solely on stopping George W. Bush’s foreign interventions
  4334. Kissinger characterized Bush as a “Christian fascist” whose M.O. closely resembled that of Hitler
  4335. American socialist leader declared, “we are not pacifists, violence sometimes is necessary” (2011)
  4336. Revolutionary socialist group planned to recruit children in junior high school (April 22, 2011)
  4337. Democratic strategist Bob Beckel described communist Che Guevara as a freedom fighter
  4338. The Obama administration does not adequately vet their associations with other individuals
  4339. The administration is chalk full of communists, socialists, and extreme radical-left liberals
  4340. W.H. officials meet with those calling for the deliberate dismantling of the American economy
  4341. John Holdren is the head of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
  4342. John Holdren the “Science Czar” believes in mass sterilization and forced abortions
  4343. John Holdren had previously suggested that America should surrender to a “planetary regime”
  4344. Holdren has petitioned for a deliberate reduction in the stocks of U.S. weapons-grade plutonium
  4345. Holdren attempted to enter into new technology-sharing agreements with the Chinese government
  4346. Holdren spent 21 days in China on three separate trips in one year, more than any other country
  4347. White House chose to withhold information about the cooperate agreements made with China
  4348. W.H. cooperated with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to help develop its space program
  4349. Holdren intentionally chose not to follow a law, signed by Obama in April 2011, banning the use of appropriations to participate, collaboration or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China
    “OSTP’s activities in bilateral diplomacy with China on… issues fall under the president’s exclusive constitutional authority to conduct foreign diplomacy and thus cannot be precluded by Section 1340(a). In reliance on this advice, OSTP continued to engage in these activities.” ~Statement from “Science Czar” John Holdren prepared for an appearance before the House Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations subcommittee

  4350. Cass Sunstein the “Regulatory Czar” believes government should ban certain types of speech
  4351. Cass Sunstein administered the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA)
  4352. Cass Sunstein is also against hunting and believes in the extension of animal rights in court
  4353. Prior to becoming “Regulatory Czar,” Sunstein wrote a lengthy academic paper suggesting that the government should infiltrate social network websites, chat rooms, and message boards
  4354. Sunstein: “Cognitive infiltration” is needed to enforce a federal ban on “conspiracy theorizing”
  4355. Sunstein classified the theory of global warming being a deliberate fraud as a “conspiracy theory”
  4356. Cass Sunstein has maintained extensive ties to George Soros’ funding to redefine the Constitution
  4357. In April 2005, Sunstein opened a conference at Yale Law School aimed at the U.S. Constitution
  4358. Event was sponsored by Soros’ Open Society and Podesta’s Center for American Progress (CAP)
  4359. Yale event was also sponsored by the “progressive” American Constitution Society (ACS)
  4360. ACS has received over $2.2 million from George Soros’ Open Society since 2002
  4361. Eric Holder previously sat on the ACS board of directors and spoke at numerous ACS events
  4362. Sunstein’s goal of the conference was to change the interpretation of “the Constitution by 2020”
  4363. Cass Sunstein wrote a 2004 book where he pushed for a new socialist-style U.S. bill of rights
  4364. Sunstein resigned from his post in the Obama administration and returned to Harvard (August 2012)
  4365. Kevin Jennings is the “Safe School Czar” despite homosexual links to child statutory rape
  4366. Mark Lloyd the “Diversity Czar” wants to spread the wealth and curtail free speech
  4367. Socialist Carol Browner the “Global Warming Czar” worked on Cap & Trade legislation
  4368. Browner led the Commission for a Sustainable World Society of Socialist International (SI)
  4369. Socialist International (SI) is regarded as the world’s largest socialist umbrella group
  4370. Socialist International (SI) calls for “global governance” and a world socialist order
  4371. Sam Kass elevated to “Health Food Czar” to fight obesity as a “national security” threat
  4372. Jeffrey S. Crowley, chosen to serve as the White House “AIDS Czar,” is openly homosexual
  4373. Equal Opportunity Commissioner nominee Chai Feldblum is openly gay and endorses polygamy
  4374. Obama’s EPA administrator Lisa Jackson pushed global warming legislation that hurt the economy
  4375. EPA rules implemented by Jackson included banning the construction of new coal-fired power plants unless they capture carbon dioxide emissions, a technology so far unproven on a commercial scale
  4376. EPA’s inspector general opened an inquiry into Lisa Jackson’s use of a secondary email account to conduct business inside the agency
  4377. Jackson resigned as EPA administrator prior to the completion of the inquiry (December 2012)
  4378. Michelle Obama oversaw a patient dumping scheme for profit at University of Chicago Hospital
  4379. Michelle, a hospital vice president in Chicago, saw her salary triple to $317,000 by 2005
  4380. Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by Obama and approved for the U.S. Supreme Court
  4381. Justice Sonia Sotomayor upheld free “morning after” pills under Obamacare (December 2012)
  4382. Elena Kagan was nominated for the U.S. Supreme Court despite never having been a judge
  4383. Elena Kagan discriminated against the military yet accepted funding for Shariah studies
  4384. Gallup polling showed Elena Kagan with lowest confirmation support since polling began
  4385. Elena Kagan handled multiple eligibility cases for Obama while serving as solicitor general
  4386. Obama nominated leftist radical Jack McConnell to the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island
  4387. Jack McConnell extensively connected to and worked as an ACORN lawyer just like Obama
  4388. Bobby Titcomb has been often seen spending holidays and golfing with President Obama
  4389. Obama and Titcomb attended the Punahou School together and have been friends for decades
  4390. Titcomb was arrested for soliciting a prostitute in an undercover sting (police acting stupidly?)
  4391. Titcomb’s lawyer said “he’s going to take full responsibility for his actions in this matter”
  4392. Titcomb pled “no contest,” was released on $500 bail, and faced no further punishment
  4393. President Obama was again seen golfing with Bobby Titcomb on November 14, 2011
  4394. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney claimed it was simply a matter of loyalty for Obama
  4395. The Salihi’s party-crashed a White House dinner uninvited and took photos with Obama and Biden
  4396. Jay-Z and Beyonce were photographed in the W.H. “Situation Room” without security clearance
  4397. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were photographed meeting with Obama in the Oval Office (2012)
  4398. Communists expressed their intentions to retake the American holidays from the “right wing”
  4399. The White House Christmas tree had an ornamental image of communist Mao hanging from it
  4400. U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree honored President Obama, but not “Jesus” or “Christmas” (2011)
  4401. Obama’s 2011 Easter pastor preached about racism and compared Rush & Fox News to the KKK
  4402. Michelle Obama hosted a rapper at the White House who talks of killing cops and burning Bush
  4403. Rapper ‘Common’ was described as ‘a socially conscious rapper who has done good things’
  4404. Common bragged about how he spent many years in Rev. Wright’s pews since the age of eight
  4405. Common rap: “Tell the law my Uzi weighs a ton… I hold up a peace sign but I carry a gun…”
  4406. Common named his daughter after Assata Shakur, who the FBI recognizes as a domestic terrorist
  4407. Assata Shakur was a Black Panther convicted of first-degree murder in 1977 and fled to Cuba
  4408. Common advocates for the release of Mumia Abu-Jamal (convicted for killing a police officer)
  4409. Two of the invitees to the White House, including Common, oppose interracial dating & marriage
  4410. Artist Jill Scott: ‘When my friend told me his wife was Caucasian, I felt my spirit wince…’
  4411. Obama hired Laura Callahan, a liar and cheater, to a sensitive post inside the federal government
  4412. Callahan previously “lost” thousands of White House emails that were under federal subpoena
  4413. In 2004, Laura Callahan was forced to resign from Homeland Security for faking her credentials
  4414. Callahan resigned after committing resume fraud & lying about her computer credentials
  4415. Callahan paid a diploma mill for her bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees in computer science
  4416. Obama later hired Laura Callahan for a sensitive post at the U.S. Cyber Command in May 2011
  4417. CyberCom spokesman said Callahan could not be interviewed & that her job title was “personal”
  4418. Obama tapped economist Alan Krueger to the White House Council of Economic Advisers
  4419. Alan Krueger had served on the faculty of Princeton University for more than 20 years
  4420. Krueger is a labor economist and a proponent of big government solutions to repair the economy
  4421. While working for the Treasury Department, Krueger worked on the “Cash for Clunkers” program
  4422. Krueger suggested adding a $500 billion value-added-tax (VAT) in 2009 to aid economic recovery
  4423. White House Legal Counsel Bob Bauer was hired from the law firm Perkins Coie
  4424. Bob Bauer lobbied on behalf of America Votes Inc., funded by the AFL-CIO & ACORN
  4425. Bob Bauer has represented the DNC, John Kerry in 2004, & Obama during his campaign
  4426. Rahm Emanuel hired Bob Bauer to represent the DCCC while a representative of Illinois
  4427. Bob Bauer defended Emanuel’s offer of a job to Joe Sestak (D-Penn.) to drop Senate bid
  4428. Bob Bauer previously defended Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) for circumventing contribution limits
  4429. Bob Bauer’s wife is White House communications director and “Mao-lover” Anita Dunn
  4430. President Obama tapped oil mogul Kase Lawal to serve as a member of the White House’s Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (2010)
  4431. Kase Lawal was a prolific Democratic bundler and Clinton family confidante
  4432. Lawal donated $35,800 to the Obama Victory Fund and $30,800 to the DNC in 2011
  4433. Lawal has also donated varying amounts to several Democratic Congressional campaigns
  4434. Kase Lawal was accused of plotting to purchase $10 million in gold from a Congolese warlord
  4435. Lawal refused to detail his role in the plot, invoking the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times
  4436. Court depositions revealed that Kase Lawal had exploited his close ties to the White House to convince those around him that the gold deal was a legal transaction despite the warlord’s involvement
  4437. Obama and the DNC raised over $15.6 million from the financial industry for his 2012 reelection
  4438. Obama’s third-largest source of cash in Chicago-based Chopper Trading
  4439. Chopper Trading’s CEO Raj Fernando held a fundraiser in his home with Joe Biden
  4440. Chopper Trading raised at least $200,000 for Obama’s campaign and for the DNC
  4441. Chopper Trading employs a controversial high-frequency trading technique
  4442. A federal study of the 2010 “flash crash” placed the blame on high-frequency trading technologies
  4443. Other studies have cited high-frequency trading as contributing to stock market volatility
  4444. White House indicated that it would not nominate any person that the ABA deemed unqualified
  4445. American Bar Association: Significant number of Obama’s judicial nominees are “not qualified”
  4446. Many of the failed Obama suggestions are government lawyers and law professors
  4447. New York Times reported that the rejection rate of Obama’s judicial suggestions “is more than three and a half times as high as it was under either of the previous two presidencies” (2011)
  4448. Rahm Emanuel sat on the board of Freddie Mac prior to becoming Obama’s chief of staff
  4449. Obama’s second chief of staff, Bill Daley, was the top executive at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
  4450. Obama’s third chief of staff, Jacob Lew, made millions betting against homeowners at Citibank
  4451. Jacob Lew was a hedge fund executive at Citibank and made money off of mortgage defaults
  4452. Heather Higginbottom took over Lew’s role as director of the Office of Management and Budget
  4453. Higginbottom has a “nonexistent” budgetary resume and only served one month as deputy director
  4454. Higginbottom was a deputy adviser to Obama and worked on his campaign as a policy director
  4455. Obama chose Jeffrey Zients to serve as the new director of the Office of Management and Budget
  4456. W.H. highlighted Zients’ “twenty years as a CEO, management consultant, and entrepreneur”
  4457. Zients was previously a venture capitalist for Bain & Company from August 1988 to June 1990
  4458. During the GOP primaries, David Axelrod criticized Mitt Romney for having a “Bain mentality”
  4459. Zachary Edwards was an Iowa Democratic Party operative and former staffer for Obama
  4460. Zachary Edwards was the New Media Director for Obama’s Iowa team in 2007 and 2008
  4461. Edwards tried to steal the identity of a rival Republican in order to get the Republican in trouble
  4462. Edwards attempted to steal the identity of Iowa Secretary of State Matt Schultz (or his brother) in order to illegally obtain state benefits with the intent to frame the GOP for illegal or unethical behavior
  4463. Edwards was arrested and charged with Identity Theft, an Aggravated Misdemeanor in Iowa
  4464. Edwards is a member of a politically connected Democrat consulting firm in Iowa, Link Strategies
  4465. Link Strategies’ website scrubbed all mentions of Zachary Edwards following the incident (2012)
  4466. Link Strategies is a political campaign management, research, and communications firm in Iowa
  4467. Link Strategies has long-standing ties to powerful Iowa Democrat Senator Tom Harkin
  4468. Link Strategies was founded by Jeff Link, an actively engaged Democrat political strategist
  4469. Jeff Link was Harkin’s chief of staff (1997 to 1999) and directed his 2008 re-election campaign
  4470. Link Strategies has worked on projects and campaigns for SEIU and other labor unions
  4471. Jeff Link also served as “media consultant to the Obama for President Campaign”
  4472. Jeff Link coordinated branding, all paid media, and polling operations in 25 states (2008)
  4473. Anti-bullying advocate Dan Savage bullied high school kids with a profane Bible rant (2012)
  4474. Dan Savage bullied the Christian teenagers at the National High School Journalism Conference
  4475. Dan Savage described students who walked out during his anti-Bible rant as being “pansy asses”
  4476. One student said she “felt put down and bullied because of my faith” following Savage’s rant
  4477. Dan Savage was Obama’s guest at the LGBT Stonewall reception held at the White House
  4478. Savage visited the White House for their “Pride Reception” held on June 29, 2011
  4479. In his podcast, Dan Savage bragged about having President Obama as an ally
  4480. Obama administration lent significant support to Dan Savage’s ‘It Gets Better Project’
  4481. President Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Kathleen Sebelius, Tom Vilsack, Hilda Solis, Nancy Pelosi, and many other administration officials took part in Dan Savage’s ‘It Gets Better Project’
  4482. Savage said he does not need parents’ permission to talk to their kids about explicit, sexual issues
  4483. Dan Savage told Bill Maher that he wanted to “f--- the s---“ out of GOP candidate Rick Santorum
  4484. Savage infiltrated the Gary Bauer (R) presidential campaign in order to try to spread the flu virus
  4485. Savage licked door knobs, phones, keyboards, staplers, pens, etc. throughout Bauer’s office
  4486. Savage even handed Gary Bauer a saliva-soaked pen hoping to infect him with the flu virus
  4487. Dan Savage sent out a Tweet describing pro-Romney gays as “faggots” (June 2012)
  4488. Harvard Law Professor Roberto Unger is a respected author and Brazilian politician
  4489. Roberto Unger taught Obama about ‘reinventing democracy’ at Harvard Law School
  4490. Professor Roberto Unger was an adviser during the 2008 election campaign
  4491. Roberto Unger turned against Obama and publicly urged voters NOT to re-elect him in 2012
    “President Obama must be defeated in the coming election. He has failed to advance the progressive cause in the United States.” ~Harvard Law Professor Roberto Unger (June 2012)

  4492. Obama was introduced at an Ohio rally by Daniel Potkanowicz, who says he once lost his job
  4493. Daniel Potkanowicz had been accused of stealing trade secrets from a former boss (2012)
  4494. Daniel Potkanowicz and a business partner were ordered to pay $500,000 to Clearview Window & Door after a judge ruled in 2009 that they had violated trade secrets, which they have not paid back
    “I’m wondering who put him up there. He was involved in a scandal, and he’s introducing the president.” ~Richard Albright, owner of Clearview Window & Door (July 2012)

  4495. South Korean pop star PSY has been involved in several anti-American protest performances
  4496. PSY smashed a model U.S. tank while onstage in 2002 to oppose 37,000 U.S. troops that descended on the Korean Peninsula
    “Kill those f---ing Yankees who have been torturing Iraqi captives -- Kill those f---ing Yankees who ordered them to torture -- Kill their daughters, mothers, daughters-in-law and fathers -- Kill them all slowly and painfully.”
    ~South Korean PSY rapping in his song “Dear American”

  4497. PSY performed at an anti-American concert in 2002 following the death of two South Korean schoolgirls
  4498. PSY later performed a rendition of “Gangnam Syle” for U.S. troops on “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno, in which everyone in the audience was a U.S. Service Member (November 23, 2012)
  4499. PSY was slated to perform for President Obama for a Christmas in Washington special on TNT
  4500. A White House petition was created by outraged Americans for PSY’s anti-American song lyrics
  4501. Obama tapped a lifetime political staffer, Jack Lew, to revive the private sector economy (2013)
  4502. Obama picked Jack Lew to take over for Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary (January 2013)
  4503. Jack Lew, as former director of OMB, has displayed ignorance over how the budgetary process operates
  4504. Lew claimed that Obama had failed to pass a budget because they were being filibustered in the Senate
  4505. However, budgets are considered “privileged” and can be passed with a simple majority vote
  4506. Jack Lew repeated the false claim “that it takes 60 votes” to pass a budget to NBC’s David Gregory
  4507. In 2009, Jack Lew received a $950,000 bonus working as chief operating officer of Citigroup’s Alternative Investment unit – a group that bet billions against homeowners paying their mortgages
  4508. President Obama had previously castigated Wall Street bonuses from bailout recipients, calling them “obscene” examples of “fat cats who are getting awarded for their failure” (2010)
  4509. Jack Lew received the bonus prior to a massive $301 billion commitment to rescue Citigroup
  4510. Obama railed against “obscene” Wall Street bonuses wherein “fat cats” get “awarded for their failure”
  4511. Jack Lew testified to Congress that President Obama’s budget would pay down the national debt (2011)
  4512. Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said that Jack Lew produced “the worst budget maybe in history” (2013)
    “Jack Lew must never be Secretary of Treasury. His testimony before the Senate Budget Committee less than two years ago was so outrageous and false that it alone disqualifies.” ~Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee (2013)

  4513. President Obama nominated Senator John Kerry (D-MA) to serve as the next Secretary of State (2012)
  4514. John Kerry was a frequent visitor with Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad
  4515. John Kerry has investments in companies accused of violating the sanctions against Iran
  4516. John Kerry declared that “global warming” is the next 9/11
  4517. John Kerry previously accused U.S. soldiers of committing atrocities and “terrorizing” children (2005)
  4518. Kerry also testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the Vietnam War (1971)
    “They relive the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do. They told me stories of times that they had personally raped, cut off the ears, cut off the heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Kahn, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam, in addition to the normal ravage of war.” ~John Kerry testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the Vietnam War (1971)

  4519. John Kerry quoted people whom were later proved never to have been in Vietnam or in the military
  4520. John Kerry testified that he would work to implement “President Obama’s vision for the world” (2013)
  4521. Kerry told the Senate that “American foreign policy is not defined by drones” (January 2013)
  4522. President Obama nominated Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to serve as the next Secretary of Defense (2013)
  4523. In 2003, Chuck Hagel claimed that Israel keeps “Palestinians caged up like animals”
  4524. In 2007, Chuck Hagel argued that the Palestinians have been “chained down for many, many years”
  4525. Chuck Hagel claimed that Congress was controlled by the “Jewish lobby”
  4526. Chuck Hagel agreed with an observation presented on Al Jazeera that America is the “world’s bully”
  4527. Chuck Hagel supports paring down the Pentagon and gutting of the United States’ nuclear arsenal (2011)
  4528. Chuck Hagel has endorsed calls for an 80 percent reduction in America’s nuclear arsenal
  4529. Hagel serves on the board of a George Soros-funded group that advocates for a “nuke-free world”
  4530. Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK) asked Chuck Hagel why Iran had endorsed him (January 2013)
  4531. Chuck Hagel stated to Congress that Iran has an “elected, legitimate government” (January 2013)
  4532. Election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iran’s president was widely suspected of being rigged (2009)
    “[T]he Iranian authorities managed to process all 39.2 million paper ballots between the close of polls at 10 p.m. local time and the next morning, when Iran’s Interior Ministry officially proclaimed Ahmadinejad the winner with 63 percent of the vote.” ~Vanity Fair

  4533. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) denounced the Iranian election as “clearly a corrupt election” (2009)
  4534. Washington Post article pointed out vast evidence of fraud that swayed the election towards Ahmadinejad
  4535. White House spokesman Jay Carney wouldn’t say if Iran’s government is “legitimate” (January 2013)
  4536. Chuck Hagel refused to answer John McCain on whether the surge in Iraq worked or not (January 2013)
  4537. Hagel once called the surge the “most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam”
  4538. In 2007, Hagel slammed the U.S. and said we must “reverse the optics” on Israel and the Middle East
  4539. Hagel announced his support for Obama’s “strong position on containment” of Iran’s nuclear program
  4540. Hagel couldn’t name one Senator that had been “intimidated” by the “Jewish lobby” (January 2012)
  4541. Hagel couldn’t name one “stupid” thing the Senate as done due to pressure from the “Jewish Lobby”
  4542. Hagel refused to disclose his sources of foreign funding, which reportedly included “Friends of Hamas”
  4543. Senate panel postponed the vote on Hagel’s nomination after he refused to release more information
    “The committee, and the American people, have a right to know if a nominee for secretary of defense has received compensation, directly or indirectly, from foreign sources. Until the committee receives full and complete answers, it cannot in good faith determine whether you should be confirmed as secretary of defense.”
    ~Letter signed by more than two dozen Senate Republicans

  4544. The Ploughshares Fund is a partner of the Marxist-oriented Institute for Policy Studies (IPS)
  4545. IPS has urged the defunding of the Pentagon and massive decreases in U.S. defense capabilities
  4546. The Ploughshares Fund has also partnered with Code Pink, the pro-Palestinian J Street, United for Peace & Justice, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, and the progressive group Demos
  4547. The Ploughshares Fund was founded in 1981 by San Francisco philanthropist and activist Sally Lilienthal
  4548. The Ploughshares Fund is financed for a small number of foundations, including Soros’ Open Society Institute, the Tides Foundation, the Buffett Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Rockefeller Foundation
  4549. Ploughshares Fund identifies itself as a “publicly supported foundation that funds, organizes and innovates projects to realize a world free from the threat of nuclear weapons”
  4550. Ploughshares Fund has awarded hundreds of grants “whose aggregate value exceeded $60 million”
  4551. Fenton Communications is a far-left public relations firm closely partnered with the Tides Foundation
  4552. Fenton routinely crafts the public relations for Tides grantees, including J Street and MoveOn.org
  4553. In 2007, Ploughshares hired Fenton Communications to help with an online “Peace Primary” contest
  4554. Anti-Israel activists and journalists engaged in a coordinated campaign to stifle opposition to Hagel
  4555. Fenton Communications chief executive officer David Fenton participated in the email exchanges along with other progressive activists
  4556. Former Fenton executive Jeremy Ben Ami directs J Street, which partnered with Ploughshares
  4557. J Street supports talks with Hamas, is heavily critical of Israeli military actions aimed at curbing terrorism, and is staunchly opposed to a military strike against Iran
  4558. Ploughshares donated $25,000 to J Street to urge against military force targeting Iran’s nuclear program
  4559. Ploughshares is critical of U.S. foreign policy and opposes development of a missile defense system
  4560. Ploughshares is directed by Joseph Cirincione, who served as an advisor on nuclear issues to Obama’s 2008 campaign and also served as director of nuclear policy at the Center for American Progress
  4561. Ploughshares donates to the anti-Israel Americans for Peace Now, the Arms Control Association, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Center for Policy Alternatives, the Soros-funded Center for Public Integrity, Citizen Action, Citizens for Environmental Justice, the Coalition for New Priorities, and the Institute for Policy Studies
  4562. Ploughshare’s other grantees include New America Foundation, Nonviolent Peaceforce, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Nuclear Freeze Foundation, Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign, Peace Studies Association, Physicians for Human Rights, and Physicians for Social Responsibility and Peace Action
  4563. Ploughshares has also funded the Soros-financed Connect US Fund and Center for American Progress
  4564. Ploughshares also granted money to The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which has long petitioned for the U.S. to reduce its nuclear stockpiles
  4565. According to Pavel Sudoplatov, a former major-general in Soviet intelligence, the work by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine editors was for the benefit of the Soviet Union
  4566. Two of the magazine’s founding sponsors, Leo Szilard and Robert Oppenheimer, were accused of passing information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviets
  4567. Ploughshares also funds the International Crisis Group (ICG)
  4568. Another Ploughshare grantee is the Institute for Policy Studies, which it considers a partner organization
  4569. IPS and CAP release an annual “Unified Security Budget” which has influenced W.H. military policy
  4570. Recommendations from the Unified Security Budgets have been adapted by the Obama administration
  4571. President Obama nominated Mary Jo White as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
  4572. If confirmed by the Senate, ex-federal prosecutor Mary Jo White would be tasked with enforcing and fine-tuning the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (January 2013)
  4573. Gary Aguirre, a former SEC investigator and whistleblower, described Mary Jo White as “Wall Street’s protector-in-chief” for the past few years (January 2013)
  4574. White spent the past decade as a leading white-collar defense lawyer at Debevoise & Plimpton
  4575. Mary Jo’s husband, John White, is a partner at the law firm Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP
  4576. President Obama nominated adviser John Brennan to serve as director of the CIA (January 2013)
  4577. Brennan, deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism and homeland security, argued that the enemy is not “terrorism,” since terrorism is a “tactic” and not terror, because terror is a “state of mind”
  4578. Ironically, John Brennan’s own job title included the word “terrorism” in it
  4579. When questioned by The Washington Times about jihad, Brennan lost his patience and left an interview
  4580. Counterterrorism adviser John Brennan defended Jihad as a “legitimate tenet of Islam”
  4581. Brennan argued that “jihadists” was the wrong term to be used to describe America’s enemies
  4582. Brennan said that those plotting attacks on the U.S. should not be described in “religious terms”
    “Nor do we describe our enemy as ‘jihadists’ or ‘Islamists’ because jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam, meaning to purify oneself or one’s community, and there is nothing holy or legitimate or Islamic about murdering innocent men, women and children.” ~John Brennan

  4583. Brennan publicly defended drone strikes as “consistent with the inherent right of self-defense” (2012)

    4584. Obama: “One of the things you’ve got in Jon Corzine is somebody who tells it to you straight” (2009)

  4584. Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D) was the CEO and chairman of MF Global Holdings
  4585. MF Global was one of the top sources of contributions for Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign
  4586. Employees of MF Global had given $108,650 combined to Obama’s campaign and the DNC
  4587. Jon Corzine personally raised at least $500,000 for Obama and the DNC as a “bundler”
  4588. Records show that Jon Corzine has contributed $69,300 to Democratic candidates in 2011
  4589. President Obama held his first re-election fundraiser at Corzine’s home in New York City
  4590. Obama praised Jon Corzine while stumping for him during his re-election bid in October 2009
  4591. President Obama said New Jersey “had an honorable man, a decent man, an honest man…”
  4592. Obama: Corzine was “cleaning up after somebody else’s mess” and “didn’t do it for the paycheck”
  4593. Obama said, “One of the things you’ve got in Jon Corzine is somebody who tells it to you straight”
    “You’ve had an honorable man, a decent man, an honest man, at the helm of this state… He’s fought for what matters to ordinary folks… People… say, ‘You know, I was saving up all my life… Suddenly, because of this financial crisis, I may have to go back to work.’… Jon knows these are challenging times. This is why he got into public service. He didn’t do it for the paycheck… This crisis… came about because of the same theories, the same lax regulation, the same trickle-down economics that the other guy’s party has been peddling for years… Jon’s got the mop and he’s cleaning up after somebody else’s mess… One of the things you’ve got in Jon Corzine is somebody who tells it to you straight.” ~Obama speaking in October 2009 while stumping for Jon Corzine’s losing re-election bid as the Democratic governor of N.J.

  4594. Vice President Biden praised Jon Corzine as the “smartest guy I know in terms of the economy”
  4595. Jon Corzine was even on President Obama’s list as a potential nominee for the Treasury post
  4596. SEIU’s Andy Stern praised Corzine’s strong economic credentials and government experience
  4597. President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden (literally) called Jon Corzine for economic advice
    “I literally picked up the phone and called Jon Corzine and said Jon, what do you think we should do? The reason we called Jon is that we knew that he knew about the economy, about world markets, how we had to respond, unlike almost anyone we knew. It was because he had been in the pit – because he had been in the furnace. And we trusted his judgment.”
    ~Vice President Joe Biden (October 2009)

  4598. After losing his re-election bid, Jon Corzine left office and ran the brokerage firm MF Global
  4599. Corzine transformed MF Global into a full-service investment bank in the mold of Goldman Sachs
  4600. Jon Corzine took risky bets, including aggressively buying up European sovereign debt
  4601. MF Global engaged in speculating on the bonds of Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain (PIGS)
  4602. MF Global hedged their bets with derivatives called Credit Default Swaps (CDS)
  4603. MF Global Holdings, under CEO Jon Corzine, had recklessly leveraged their assets 40 to 1
  4604. Like he did at Goldman Sachs, Corzine placed bets on who would receive government bailouts
  4605. MF Global was a major international broker within the $1.14 quadrillion derivatives market
  4606. With world GDP at only $62 trillion, derivatives leveraged the entire world nineteen times
  4607. MF Global filed for bankruptcy in 2011 as the seventh-largest bankruptcy by assets in U.S. history
  4608. MF Global is under FBI investigation for illegal activity, including misusing clients’ money
  4609. Court-appointed trustee said that at least $1.2 billion was missing from customer accounts
  4610. Regulators investigated MF Global for tapping client’s accounts in violation of securities rules
  4611. Jon Corzine immediately resigned as CEO and chairman of MF Global Holdings (2011)
    “It was probably the right thing to do considering he was the architect of their strategy… If they did what the papers are speculating they did it was a lack of integrity. If they didn’t do it, then it’s stupidity. Either way they don’t come out of this good.” ~Venture capitalist Ken Lagone told CNBC in November 2011

  4612. Corzine was subpoenaed by Congress to testify about his role and the missing $1.2 billion (2011)
  4613. Jon Corzine was the first ex-senator to be subpoenaed by Congress is more than a century (2011)
  4614. Corzine feigned ignorance to Congress saying, “I simply do not know where the money is…”
  4615. While serving as a Senator, Jon Corzine was a co-sponsor for the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
  4616. Sarbanes-Oxley was dubbed the ‘Public Company Accounting Reform & Investor Protection Act’
  4617. As CEO of MF Global, Jon Corzine was required to certify financial statements of the company
  4618. MF Global illegally tapped into their clients’ segregated accounts to help stave off the collapse
  4619. Corzine told Congress that he never “authorized the misuse of customer funds” (December 2011)
  4620. Terry Duffy testified that Corzine “was aware” that MF Global made use of customer funds
  4621. Terry Duffy is chief executive of CME Group, the futures exchange operator that supervised MF Global’s handling of customer money
  4622. MF Global employee: “Mr. Corzine was aware of the loans being made from segregated accounts”
  4623. Corzine said during a Senate hearing, “I’m certainly not an accounting expert” (December 2011)
  4624. Bradley I. Abelow was chief of staff for former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine
  4625. Bradley I. Abelow oversaw MF Global’s $1.2 billion in missing funds
  4626. Abelow, as chairman of the EPA’s Financial Advisory Board, advised the $8.6 billion EPA
  4627. Bradley Abelow donated $5,000 to Obama and $30,800 to the DNC in June and July 2011
  4628. EPA Administrator Lisa Smith also previously served as Governor Jon Corzine’s chief of staff
  4629. Lisa Smith may have assisted Abelow’s appointment to the EPA’s Financial Advisory Board
  4630. Former President Bill Clinton reportedly received $50,000 a month from MF Global (2011)
  4631. Bill Clinton’s new firm Teneo Strategy was hired to boost CEO Jon Corzine’s image
  4632. President Obama and the DNC planned to return $71,600 donated to them by Jon Corzine (2011)
  4633. Department of Justice has refused to go after Jon Corzine for $1.6 billion in clients’ missing funds
  4634. Jon Corzine’s MF Global was a client of Eric Holder’s law firm, Covington & Burling
  4635. MF Global retained Morrison & Foerester as the trustee for the Chapter 11 bankruptcy (2012)
  4636. Associate Attorney General Tony West originally came to the DOJ from Morrison & Foerester
  4637. The trustee overseeing MF Global’s bankruptcy is former FBI Director Louis Freeh
  4638. Louis Freeh served as a character witness for Eric Holder at his Senate confirmation hearing
  4639. Eric Holder has previously worked for Louis Freeh
    “As general counsel, I could have engaged any lawyer in America to represent our bank. I chose Eric.” ~Former FBI Director Louis Freeh at Eric Holders Senate confirmation hearing

  4640. MF Global treasurer Edith O’Brien sought immunity from federal prosecutors in the Corzine case
  4641. Edith O’Brien is represented by Reid Weingarten, who was previously an attorney for Eric Holder
  4642. The website of Reid Weingarten’s law firm, Steptoe & Johnson, notes that Mr. Weingarten “is the chairman and co-founder, along with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, of a non-profit program, See Forever Foundation, which is designed to assist juvenile offenders in rehab to prevent recidivism”
  4643. The Main Justice website also notes that Reid Weingarten is “one of Holder’s best friends”
  4644. Four of the top officials at the Department of Justice (Eric Holder, Thomas Perrelli, Karol Mason, and Tony West) were big money bundlers for Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign
  4645. At least 65 members of Congress signed a letter to Eric Holder requesting that he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate MF Global’s collapse and the loss of $1.6 billion in customer money (2012)
  4646. Even progressives, such as at the Huffington Post, began to wonder whether Holder’s Covington & Burling connection explains why the Department of Justice has not charged, prosecuted, or jailed a single Wall Street executive after the biggest financial collapse in American history (July 2012)
  4647. Justice Department inspector general issued a report finding widespread nepotism at the DOJ (2012)
  4648. No one was charged with a crime for the collapse of MF Global (2012)

    4649. Obama picked Elizabeth Warren to head his new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

  4649. The Frank-Dodd Act created a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
  4650. The new agency is an “independent entity” housed under the United States Federal Reserve
  4651. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s power is concentrated in a single director
  4652. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was given the power to create new rules on credit cards, mortgages and other financial products that do not require the approval of the Senate
  4653. Obama chose Elizabeth Warren to launch the law’s new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  4654. Warren was a Harvard law professor and head of a watchdog panel overseeing the bank bailouts
  4655. Elizabeth Warren basically argued that everyone owes everything to the government (2011)
  4656. Warren then challenged Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) for a Senate seat in Massachusetts
  4657. Critics charged that Warren claimed minority status in order to help advance her career
  4658. Warren checked the “Native American” box on her academic credentials for a 10-year period
  4659. Warren listed herself as a Native American based on her claim of being 1/32nd Cherokee
  4660. Evidence suggests that the Boston Globe purposely misled on Warren’s genealogy claims
  4661. Sen. Scott Brown suggested that Harvard lied to the Feds about Warren’s Cherokee ancestry
  4662. Obama also claimed to have Cherokee roots in Dreams from My Father (1995), but can’t prove it
  4663. Elizabeth Warren completed her undergraduate work at George Washington University
  4664. There is no mention of Cherokee background from her George Washington University records
  4665. Elizabeth Warren, who graduated from the Rutgers School of Law in 1976, wrote “No” on a form that asked if she wished to apply for admission under the Program for Minority Group students
  4666. Elizabeth Warren worked at the University of Houston from 1978 to 1983
  4667. There is no mention of Cherokee background in records released from the University of Houston
  4668. Elizabeth Warren worked at the University of Texas School of Law from 1983 to 1987
  4669. When asked on an application from the University of Texas School of Law asked which “racial category or categories” she identified with most, Elizabeth Warren checked off only ‘white’
  4670. Elizabeth Warren worked at the University of Pennsylvania from 1987 to 1994
  4671. University of Pennsylvania listed Warren as a minority in its “Minority Equity Report” (1994)
  4672. AALS and ABA were pressing all of the law schools on diversity, both in admissions and hiring
  4673. Colin Diver, Dean of Pennsylvania Law School, said that gender played a role in her hiring
  4674. Harvard Law School Dean Robert C. Clark acknowledged that gender played a role in her hiring
  4675. Warren was ranked 82nd by Top-Law-Schools.com following her graduation from Rutgers Law
  4676. Among approximately 100 professors and assistant professors during her time spent at Harvard, Warren was the only person admitted to Harvard who hadn’t graduated from a Top 10 law school
  4677. Elizabeth Warren was listed as a “woman of color” by the Harvard Journal in 1993
  4678. Warren was falsely listed as Native American in federal filings for the 1992-1993 academic year
  4679. Warren was accused of “repeated instances of scientific misconduct” before Harvard hired her
    “In my opinion, the authors have engaged in repeated instances of scientific misconduct...” ~Philip Schuchman

  4680. Harvard University bragged about Warren’s minority standing and as a diversity hire in 1996
  4681. Harvard University even trumpeted Elizabeth Warren as their “first woman of color”

       Professor Elizabeth Warren, Harvard University’s “first woman of color”



  4682. Warren suddenly stopped touting her Native American roots once she got to Cambridge
  4683. Warren refused to answer ‘why she claimed to be a minority and then stopped’
  4684. At first, Warren lied that she didn’t know anything about Harvard Law listing her as a minority
  4685. Warren later confessed that she told Harvard that she was a “woman of color” (May 2012)
  4686. Warren herself provided the “woman of color” status during her Visiting Professorship (1992-1993), before her promotion to a full-times tenure position at Harvard Law School on February 5, 1993
  4687. Warren then claimed, “I misunderstood the question” about Harvard listing her as a minority
  4688. Warren listed herself as a minority in the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) directory
  4689. Warren said she signed up as ‘Cherokee’ on the AALS directory in order to meet friends
  4690. Warren hoped that by checking the box “it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon”
  4691. Elizabeth Warren stated in her own defense, “I am very proud of my Native American heritage”
  4692. Warren said her heritage included Native American ‘because her mother told her so’
  4693. Warren’s proof was that her grandfather “had high cheekbones like all of the Indians do”
  4694. Warren offered the Pow Wow Chow cookbook as further “evidence” of her Cherokee ancestry
  4695. Elizabeth Warren appears to have plagiarized at least three of the five recipes she submitted
  4696. Warren’s husband also contributed a plagiarized recipe to the Pow Wow Chow cookbook
  4697. In an interview with the Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren claimed that in the 1930s her father’s family so objected to her mother’s Native American heritage that her mother told her they had to elope
  4698. A marriage certificate shows that Warren’s parents were actually married in a religious ceremony
  4699. Warren said that her mother’s Native American heritage was an issue raised at her funeral in 1995
  4700. Harvard University’s Native American Program said that Warren never participated in any events
  4701. Elizabeth Warren herself has no formal tribal membership or proof to substantiate her claim
  4702. Warren’s great-great-great grandmother’s husband rounded up Cherokees for the Trail of Tears
  4703. Warren’s great-great-great grandfather was a member of the Tennessee Militia who rounded up Cherokees from their homes in the Southeastern U.S. and herded then into government-built stockades
  4704. Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes caught Elizabeth Warren in yet another lie about her false claims of Native American heritage
  4705. Elizabeth Warren was listed as the “informant” on the death certificate that identified Warren’s “Aunt Bea” Bess A. Reed Veneck, who died in 1999 at the age of 98, as being “white”
  4706. Warren was presented with the option of selecting “American Indian,” “Black,” or “White”
  4707. The December 5,1997 obituary of Elizabeth Warren’s father, Donald J. Herring, listed “sister-in-law, Bess A. Veneck of OKC” as a survivor in the Daily Oklahoman
    “My Aunt Bea has walked by the picture [of her father] at least a thousand times, remarked that her father, my papaw, had high cheekbones like all of the Indians do because that’s how she saw it and she said and your mother got those same great cheekbones and I didn’t. She thought that was the bad deal she had gotten in life.” ~Elizabeth Warren (May 2012)

  4708. Elizabeth Warren’s mother, Pauline Reed Herring (sister to Bess A. Reed Veneck) was listed in the 1940 census as White, not American Indian
  4709. Elizabeth Warren’s mother was white in 1940, her Aunt Bea was White in 1999, but by 2012 Aunt Bea had become Indian in Elizabeth Warren’s eyes
  4710. Muskogee (Oklahoma) Times Democrat article from August 17, 1906 states that John H. Crawford, the “white” great-grandfather of Elizabeth Warren, shot an Indian who attacked his son
  4711. John H. Crawford was the grandfather of Elizabeth Warren’s mother, Paula Reed Herring
  4712. Elizabeth Warren’s mother, Bethania (“Hannie”) Crawford Reed, was John H. Crawford’s daughter and Rosco Crawford’s sister
  4713. Black ministers blasted Elizabeth Warren’s apparent abuse of affirmative action (June 2012)
  4714. Elizabeth Warren snubbed Cherokees who traveled to Massachusetts for a meeting (June 2012)
  4715. Netroot Nation claimed that skepticism of Warren’s Native American claims is “racism”
  4716. Warren was described by her apologists as a victim of the “right-wing smear machine” (2012)
  4717. Governor Deval Patrick (D-MA) endorsed Warren even though she lied about her heritage
  4718. Concerned Cherokees protested Warren at the Massachusetts Democrat convention (June 2012)
  4719. Elizabeth Warren introduced Obama in Boston during his New England swing (June 2012)
  4720. Warren ran an Olympic television ad saying we should be more like communist China (July 2012)
  4721. Elizabeth Warren’s staffer roughed up a Republican cameraman at a public event (August 2012)
  4722. Elizabeth Warren said that we’re not better off after four years and blamed it on Republicans (2012)
  4723. Elizabeth Warren practiced law in Massachusetts without a law license
  4724. Warren admitted that she is not licensed to practice law in Massachusetts (September 2012)
  4725. For a decade, Warren provided legal services to clients using a Massachusetts mailing address
  4726. Law firm of Simpson, Thacher, and Bartlett listed Elizabeth Warren as “of counsel” in the 2009 brief they submitted to the United States Supreme Court on behalf of their client, Travelers Insurance
    “Warren represented not just Travelers, but numerous other companies starting in the late 1990s working out of and using her Harvard Law School office in Cambridge, which she listed as her office or record on briefs filed with various courts.” ~Professor William A. Jacobson, an Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School (September 2012)

  4727. Union member said that members had to attend rallies and were fined for not supporting Elizabeth Warren
  4728. An estimated $16 million of Warren’s donations were from sites lacking foreign donor protections (2012)
  4729. Federal Election Commission records show that Warren set a Massachusetts record with more than half (50.5%) of her $36.2 million in donations from websites vulnerable to fraud and foreign donations
  4730. Elizabeth Warren raised $18.3 million from online sites vulnerable to fraud and foreign donations, the most money in a single election cycle by a candidate for the United States Senate
  4731. Donations to Warren included at least $2.5 million (6.8%) from the liberal conduit site ActBlue.org
  4732. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) was not listed as a minority on the Senate’s official website (2013)
  4733. Warren had previously claimed both Cherokee and Delaware Indian heritage to advance her career
  4734. Elizabeth Warren said during the campaign that she would be the first Massachusetts senator that she knew of with Native American heritage (2012)

    4735. President Obama engages in crony capitalism and Pay-to-Play politics (“The Chicago Way”)
    “I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over…” ~Candidate Barack Obama speaking in Des Moines, Iowa (November 10, 2007)

  4735. Corporatism is the policy of using government to enhance market share of a few favorite firms
  4736. Crony capitalism favors the politically active and the manipulative, and does not favor one party
  4737. Obama received more money ($18 million) from Wall Street than any other politician since 1989
  4738. The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) has accepted more than $40 million from Wall Street, their biggest contributor (over lawyers and labor unions) over the last 7 years (2012)
  4739. DSCC has already received more than $1.5 million from Wall Street for the 2012 election cycle
  4740. Obama supporter Cornel West described Obama as “a black mascot of Wall Street” in 2011
  4741. Senator Obama left a long trail of earmarks during his short state and federal legislative career
  4742. Obama’s earmarks included subsidies for a variety of state and local special interest groups
  4743. Obama arranged for a $1 million earmark for the University of Chicago Hospital, where Michelle Obama’s salary more than doubled after her husband took office in the U.S. Senate
  4744. Obama criticized McCain during the 2008 elections, arguing that by voting against a pork-filled flood relief bill in 2007, McCain had left cities along the Mississippi River defenseless against rising waters
  4745. A review of Obama’s own “flood relief” earmarks found that most were nowhere near the Mississippi River and that many merely funneled cash to local authorities, often in the most affluent areas of Illinois
  4746. Obama obtained a $100,000 state grant for an community garden in Englewood, on Chicago’s South Side
  4747. The Chicago Sun-Times noted the Englewood project had never been completed (2008)
  4748. Two non-profit groups not connected with Obama’s earmark completed the project for under $10,000
  4749. Attorney General Lisa Madigan investigated and determined that the state should recover the funds
  4750. Senator Obama unwittingly invested in two relatively obscure companies, whose backers happened to include generous contributors to his political action committees (2005)
  4751. Obama bought more than $50,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies in 2005
  4752. Both companies’ other major investors included some of Obama’s political donors
  4753. Obama invested money in AVI BioPharma which was starting to develop a drug to treat avian flu
  4754. Two weeks later, Obama led in a legislative push for more federal funding to battle the disease
  4755. Obama initiated what he called “one of my top priorities since arriving in the Senate,” a push to increase federal financing to fight avian flu (2005)
  4756. Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved Obama’s request for $25 million to fight avian flu
  4757. Obama and Tom Harkin (D-IA) amended a bill to provide $3.8 billion for battling the avian flu
  4758. AVI BioPharma said it was likely to develop a treatment for avian flu “in a relatively short time”
  4759. Obama sold roughly 2,000 shares of AVI BioPharma stock a week later for a small profit
  4760. Obama invested $90,000 in SkyTerra, a satellite communications business
  4761. Principle backers included donors who had raised more than $150,000 for his political committees
  4762. Tejas Securities, a regional brokerage in Texas handled the investment banking for Skyterra
  4763. Tejas and people associated with it were major donors to Obama’s political committees
  4764. The company’s chairman, John J. Gorman, has held fund-raisers for Obama in Austin, Texas
  4765. Gorman also arranged for Obama to use his private plane for several political events in 2005
  4766. Jared Abbruzzese was the vice chairman of Tejas and a principle investor in Skyterra
  4767. Jared Abbruzzese and his wife contributed $10,000 to Obama’s political action committee
  4768. Obama claimed that he did not know he invested in either company until fall 2005
  4769. Obama’s spokesman said that after learning of it he sold the stocks at a net loss of $15,000
  4770. Obama declined to be interviewed about the stock deals during the 2008 campaign
    “I thought about going to (billionaire investor) Warren Buffett, and I decided it would be embarrassing that I only had $100,000 to invest.” ~Barack H. Obama

  4771. Obama put up to $100,000 in an account at UBS, recommended to him by George W. Haywood
  4772. Haywood, a wealthy friend of Obama, was also a major investor in Skyterra and AVI BioPharma
  4773. Haywood and his wife Cheryl contributed close to $50,000 to Obama’s campaigns and committees
  4774. SkyTerra, the company Obama invested $90,000 into in 2005, changed its name to LightSquared
  4775. Air Force General William Shelton told Congress that the W.H. tried to pressure him to change his testimony to favor a company that turns out to be a major donor to the Democratic Party
  4776. Air Force General William Shelton is the Commander of Air Force Space Command (2011)
  4777. Anthony Russo is the director of the National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning
  4778. Russo also confirmed that the Obama administration tried to alter his testimony to Congress
  4779. LightSquared, a Virginia-based broadband satellite company, has been vying for permission to operate in a frequency band in the vicinity of our nation’s Global Positioning System (GPS)
  4780. LightSquared is funded by Harbinger Capital, a hedge fund owned by billionaire Philip Falcone
  4781. Falcone owns a majority stake in LightSquared and is a major donor to the Democratic Party
  4782. Falcone denied asking for special favors during his meeting(s) with White House officials
  4783. Emails surfaced showing LightSquared executives discussing donations to Obama’s campaign in policy conversations with White House officials
  4784. CEO Sanjiv Ahuja donated money to the Democrats during the FCC regulatory review process
  4785. Ahuja wrote a $30,400 check to the DNC on the same day Obama officials met with executives
  4786. Ahuja abruptly resigned following the revelation of his proximity to the Obama administration
  4787. LightSquared’s main lobbying firm is owned by Norman Brownstein, a major donor to Obama
  4788. Billionaire progressive puppet-master George Soros is reportedly an investor in LightSquared
  4789. Soros’ Public Interest Spectrum Coalition filed a petition with the FCC backing Harbinger Capital
  4790. Soros’ Public Interest Spectrum Coalition also met with the FCC commissioner on the matter
  4791. All four groups on the coalition also received six-figure gifts from Soros’ Open Society Institute: Free Press, Media Access Project, the New America Foundation, and Public Knowledge
  4792. All four Soros-funded groups filed a joint comment backing LightSquared in a regulatory matter
  4793. Lightsquared filed for bankruptcy after its high-speed wireless network was rejected by the FCC
  4794. Lightsquared’s founder was sued by the SEC for fraud (June 2012)
  4795. ShoreBank Corp., founded in 1973, served Obama’s South Side Chicago Kenwood neighborhood
  4796. Democrats, led by Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), tried to bail out ShoreBank using any means necessary
  4797. ShoreBank’s had close ties to the Obama administration and its closure was delayed several times
  4798. ShoreBank was eventually closed by the FDIC, “bought,” and (re)named Urban Partnership Bank
  4799. ShoreBank’s management was permitted to buy ShoreBank’s serviceable assets and reconstitute
  4800. Taxpayers were forced to cover the cost of dispensing with the debt that was left from ShoreBank
  4801. $145 million in funding was provided by Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and GE
  4802. Each company received bailouts from the Obama administration using federal taxpayer dollars
  4803. Urban Partnership in return committed itself to focusing on low-income South Side communities
  4804. Seven publicly traded U.S. corporations on Obama’s jobs council are shifting operations overseas
  4805. GE and Intel are among seven U.S. corporations on Obama’s jobs council betting against the U.S.
  4806. Two union officials and two academics are also on Obama’s Council on Jobs & Competitiveness
  4807. Eastman Kodak Company Chairman and CEO Antonio Perez serves on Obama’s jobs council
  4808. Eastman Kodak lost money every year but one since Antonio Perez took over in 2005
  4809. Pension and health-care obligations for retirees cost Kodak hundreds of millions of dollars per year
  4810. Antonio Perez’s strategy of using patent lawsuits and licensing deals to raise cash ran dry
  4811. Eastman Kodak Co. announced they were preparing to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2012
  4812. General Electric (GE) gave $2,252,727 to Democrats and candidate Obama in 2008
  4813. Over the last ten years, General Electric (GE) gave at least $10,160,333 to Democrats
  4814. Jeffrey Immelt (GE / NBC / MSNBC / CNBC) has an office in the Obama White House
  4815. General Electric (GE), under CEO Jeffrey Immelt, received TARP funds despite showing profits
  4816. Obama expanded the TARP funds to include GE as top recipient despite it not being a bank
  4817. GE became the largest beneficiary of TARP funds without the rules & regulations banks faced
  4818. GE was never subject to the same stress tests and limits facing other banks following the crash
  4819. General Electric filed a 57,000-page tax return for 2010 using every loophole available to them
  4820. GE pulled in $14.2 billion in 2010, including $5 billion in profit, but paid $0 in U.S. taxes
  4821. GE claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion for 2010 from the I.R.S. (known as corporate welfare)
  4822. GE made $26 billion in profits, yet received a net tax benefit of $4.1 billion from 2005-2010
  4823. GE reported a 21.6% increase in profits up to $3.8 billion for the second quarter of 2011
  4824. GE has cut a fifth of its work force in the U.S. since 2002, while increasing overseas employment
  4825. Over half of GE’s employees worked outside the U.S. by 2010 (opposite was true back in 2005)
  4826. GE’s lending division, GE Capital, generates more than half of the company’s profit
  4827. GE benefits from offshore tax shelters and aggressive lobbying of lawmakers for tax breaks
  4828. N.Y. Times: GE uses “innovative accounting that enables it to concentrate its profits offshore”
  4829. Reagan’s 1986 Tax Reform Act had once cracked down on such offshore profit-shifting loopholes
  4830. Tax changes under Bill Clinton allowed GE to gain massive tax credits, write-offs, & depreciation
  4831. General Electric’s tax department is often referred to as the world’s best tax law firm
  4832. GE’s tax department (975 employees) includes former officials from the Treasury and the I.R.S.
  4833. GE’s tax department includes officials from virtually all of the tax-writing committees in Congress
  4834. GE spent more than $200 million on lobbyists, many of the tax-law specialists, to ghostwrite laws
  4835. Immelt baffled many by declaring no core inflation in the U.S. & supported Obama’s big spending
  4836. Obama designated GE’s CEO, Jeffrey Immelt, as his personal liaison to the business community
  4837. Jeffrey Immelt was chosen to be the chairman of Obama’s Council on Jobs & Competitiveness
  4838. Obama: Jeffrey Immelt “understands what it takes for America to compete in the global economy”
  4839. GE moved the headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray business to Beijing, China in 2011
  4840. GE Healthcare announced it was cutting jobs in the United Stated in August 2011
  4841. GE responded to charges of crony capitalism: “We are not receiving special treatment” (2011)
  4842. Obama’s EPA issued global warming rules in January, gave GE an exemption in February (2011)
  4843. Jeffrey Immelt was later added to an Obama economic advisory board on jobs and the economy
  4844. GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt vacationed with Obama in Brazil during the Libyan-Japanese disasters
  4845. Immelt’s compensation package doubled to $15.2 million for 2010 as he pushed GE jobs offshore
  4846. Jeffrey Immelt told business owners in America to “stop complaining about government” (2011)
  4847. Immelt was invited to sit with the first lady and listen to Obama’s 2011 job address to Congress
  4848. GE likely to avoid any legal liability over the Japanese nuke crisis in Fukushima (March 11, 2011)
  4849. Fukushima reactors’ flawed Mark 1 design caused the GE scientist to quit in protest back in 1975
  4850. The original design, which lacked a proper safety factor, has been in dispute for decades since
  4851. The caesium-137 radiation leak from Fukushima was equaled to 168 Hiroshima bombs
  4852. Federal government pushing the use of compact fluorescent bulbs containing toxic mercury vapor
  4853. EPA: Mercury in one bulb enough to contaminate 6,000 gallons of water past safe drinking levels
  4854. In 2005, Congress passed a law banning mercury vapor streetlights “to protect the environment”
  4855. In 2007, a Democrat-led Congress passed a bill outlawing all incandescent bulbs by 2014
  4856. GE lobbied for new federally-mandated LED light bulbs that are expected to cost around $50 each
  4857. The FCC approved the merger of GE-owned NBC/Universal and Comcast during the same week
  4858. General Electric (GE) chairman Jeffrey Immelt called for lower corporate tax rates (October 2011)
  4859. Obama administration orchestrated an $85 billion auto industry bailout to benefit the UAW
  4860. Bankruptcy law was eviscerated to illegally benefit the unions at the expense of bondholders
  4861. UAW unsecured claims were upheld over those of secured bondholders, violating their legal rights
  4862. Internal emails show that the Treasury Department, led by Geithner, was the driving force behind terminating the pensions of 20,000 retirees at Delphi because they were non-union workers (2009)
  4863. Internal government emails contradict sworn testimony in federal court and before Congress
  4864. Emails indicate that Obama administration officials violating federal law by misleading lawmakers and the courts about the sequence of events surrounding the termination of the non-union pensions
  4865. White House and the Treasury Department had consistently maintained that the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) independently made the decision to terminate the pension plans
  4866. PBGC is a federal government agency that handles private-sector pension benefit issues
  4867. Former Treasury official Matthew Feldman and former White House “Car Czar” Ron Bloom, were both key members of the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry during the GM bailout (2009)
  4868. Both testified under oath that the PBGC had led the effort to terminate the non-union pension plans
  4869. Obama gutted Delphi non-union pensions, but fully upheld United Auto Worker union pensions
  4870. Obama’s “Car Czar” Steve Rattner quoted Rahm Emanuel saying “F*** the UAW” (2009)
  4871. Steve Rattner fired GM CEO Rick Wagoner, something he had no right to do (2009)
  4872. Rattner forced out GM’s acting chairman and recruited a new chairman, Ed Whitacre
  4873. Rattner’s task force hand-picked staff, micromanaged GM’s relationship with its suppliers and foreign subsidiaries, chose the facilities it would close, chose the brands it would kill, set the pace at which it would shed dealerships, and even considered moving GM from its iconic Detroit headquarters
  4874. Obama administration never expected taxpayers would get any of the auto bailout money back
  4875. Steve Rattner said, “we never said that the taxpayer was going to get paid back” (2011)
  4876. President Obama replaced Steve Rattner with Ron Bloom in July 2009
  4877. Obama hired someone, Ron Bloom, who doesn’t believe in the free market and placed him in charge of restructuring a private company in our American free market system
  4878. Ron Bloom had been a union leader and admittedly did not believe in the U.S. free market system
  4879. Ron Bloom gave a speech to union leaders in 2008 at the Union League Club in New York City
  4880. Bloom’s 2008 speech was about a union’s role in bankruptcy and restructuring
  4881. Ron Bloom told the audience: “we know that the free market is nonsense” during the 2008 speech
  4882. Bloom said “we” agreed with Mao “that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun”
  4883. Bloom described using a “dentist chair bargaining technique” at another speech in Arizona (2006)
  4884. While working as Obama’s auto bailout chief Bloom said, “I did this all for the unions” in 2009
  4885. Approximately $26.5 billion of the $40+ billion auto bailout was a straight payoff to the UAW
  4886. Ron Bloom took the bondholder’s money and handed it directly to the unions during bankruptcy
  4887. Rattner and the Detroit News independently quoted Bloom as saying, “I did this all for the unions”
  4888. Rattner said that the statement occurred at a “celebratory dinner” at Rosa Mexicano in July 2009
  4889. Ron Bloom denied making the statement to a Congressional oversight committee in June 201
  4890. When leaving the White House, Bloom said “let the great thousand flowers bloom in America”
  4891. Chairman Mao once said “let the hundred flowers bloom” before executing Chinese dissidents
  4892. GM sponsored a propaganda film celebrating the 90th anniversary of China’s Communist Party
  4893. General Motors Co. (GM) received a $49.5 billion bailout from the Obama administration
  4894. Obama administration has a 26.5% stake in General Motors (GM) as of December 2011
  4895. Obama administration gave GM a $45 billion tax break courtesy of the American people
  4896. President Obama exempted Government Motors (GM) for years from paying federal taxes
  4897. Obama administration forced the closure of private-owned GM dealerships across the U.S.
  4898. Taxpayer losses from the GM bailout were substantially larger than Democrats owned up to
  4899. Federal government initially forecasted losses of $44 billion on its auto industry bailout (2009)
  4900. The losses were then revised down to $30 billion, and then again to as low as $13.9 billion
  4901. President Obama once promised taxpayers that they would make money on the auto bailout
  4902. Obama: “Taxpayers are now positioned to recover more than my administration invested in GM”
  4903. Treasury Department boosted its estimates for GM losses up $9 billion to $23.6 billion (2011)
  4904. Estimated losses were increased by another $170 million (up to $23.77 billion) in January 2012
  4905. Obama administration argued that any losses on the auto bailout were worth the (union) jobs saved
  4906. Obama touted GM’s ‘record profits,’ yet GM paid a negative income tax rate (-1.5%) in 2011
  4907. ‘Government’ Energy (GE) made arrangements to purchase 50,000 Chevy Volts from GM
  4908. Obama administration proposed a $7,500 tax rebate for the purchase of a plug-in electric vehicle
  4909. Chevy Volt caught on fire 3 weeks after side-impact test for its five-star crash safety rating (2011)
  4910. GM recommends draining the energy from the Volt’s battery following a crash as a safety step
  4911. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) kept the Volt fires secret for months
  4912. Former NHTSA administrator said part of the reason for the delay was the “fragility of Volt sales”
  4913. President Obama invited a GM plant manager as a prop to appear at his SOTU speech (2012)
  4914. NHTSA began an investigation after a second Chevy Volt caught on fire following crash-testing
  4915. White House denied any role in delaying the disclosure of the Volt crash-test fires (2012)
  4916. NHTSA administrator David Strickland, an Obama appointee, and General Motors (GM) CEO Dan Akerson, also appointed by Obama, testified before Congress about the June Volt fire (2012)
  4917. GM offered to buy back Chevy Volts from owners who worried it might catch on fire (2011)
  4918. GM announced that it may recall the entire fleet of Chevy Volts due to growing fire concerns
  4919. Two more Chevy Volt battery fires occurred in November 2011 following crash testing
  4920. Three other fires have been reported with private-owned Chevy Volts not involved in crashes
  4921. AUDI’s chief described the Chevy Volt as “a car for idiots…” (2011)
  4922. Chevy Volt sales were inflated with taxpayer fleet purchases
  4923. Chevy Volt sales cost taxpayers $250,000k per vehicle
  4924. General Motors (GM) ceased production of the Chevy Volt due to poor sales (2012)
  4925. Multiple GM executives claimed that “there is little to no profit being made on each Volt” (2012)
  4926. Development, production, and subsidies are costing taxpayers an estimated $250,000 per Volt sold
  4927. GM refused to repair more than 400,000 Chevrolet Impalas sold prior to being rescued by Obama
  4928. GM argued that the cars were made by General Motors Corp., or “Old GM” prior to 2009
  4929. Following its 2009 bankruptcy and federal bailout, the company changed its name to “New GM”
    “New GM did not assume responsibility for Old GM’s design choices, conduct, or alleged breaches of liability under the warranty”
    ~Benjamin Jeffers, a lawyer for GM

  4930. Obama had personally guaranteed to uphold the warranties in a speech to the American people
    “Let me say this as plainly as I can. If you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired just like always. Your warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it has ever been. Because starting today, the United States will stand behind your warranty.” ~President Obama following the rescue and bailout of GM

  4931. American taxpayers still own 500 million shares (26.5%) of a GM stock that is tanking in value
  4932. ‘Government Motors’ (GM) stock hit another all-time low of 21.71 USD on August 19, 2011
  4933. Taxpayer losses on General Motor’s bailout rose to a record $35 billion on July 2, 2012
  4934. ‘Government Motors’ (GM) stock fell to a fresh low of 19.57 USD on July 2, 2012
  4935. ‘Government Motors’ shares would have to reach $53 USD for taxpayers to break even
  4936. ‘Government Motors’ inflated their sales by selling their vehicles to the government
  4937. Government purchases of GM vehicles rose by 79% in June 2012
  4938. General Motors reportedly loses $49,000 of taxpayer money on each Chevy Volt sold (2012)
  4939. Obama campaigned on the success of GM after the government bought cars with taxpayer money
  4940. GM ramped up their approval of risky subprime loans to drive vehicle sales (July 2012)
  4941. GM’s profit plunged 41% from the period of April to June 2012, compared to a year earlier
  4942. GM received more clean (non-energy) energy patents than any other organization
  4943. Morgan Stanley rated GM as their #1 auto stock pick, while ranking bailout-refusing Ford sixth
  4944. Ford Motors did not receive any bailouts from the Bush or Obama administrations
  4945. Ford pulled an anti-bailout ad after receiving pressure from the Obama White House (2011)
  4946. Obama cited Ford Motors’ success during his SOTU speech to prop up his bailout “achievements”
  4947. GM’s OnStar system collected and sold customer information even after the service was cancelled
  4948. GM recalled its new 2012 Chevrolet Sonics because of possible missing brake pads (2011)
  4949. GM also recalled 475,418 Chevy Cruze sedans due to a risk of trapped engine fluids causing fires
  4950. GM unloaded $26 billion of its $109 billion U.S. pension liability to a third party (2012)
  4951. Microsoft's Bill Gates, the second-richest man in the world, has been an avid supporter of Obama
  4952. Bill Gates said that he had no use for money as he spent billions on charitable contributions (2013)
  4953. Microsoft gave 60% of its nearly $1.3 million in contributions to elect Democrats into office
  4954. MSNBC gets its name from the merging of “Microsoft” and “NBC,” which is owned by GE
  4955. Microsoft “accidentally” tweeted an anti-Ann Coulter message to nearly 300,000 followers (2012)
  4956. Lincolnton Furniture Company, praised by Obama for bringing jobs back to the U.S., closed (2013)
  4957. Owner Bruce Cochrane, sat with Michelle Obama during the 2012 State of the Union Address
  4958. Bruce Cochrane also joined Obama and other business leaders to discuss job creation in the U.S.
  4959. Obama backed a lobbyist-drafted climate bill that was filled with corporate welfare provisions
  4960. During the U.S. auto bailout of 2009, Obama altered bankruptcy law to benefit union-ally UAW
  4961. Obama’s Transport Secretary investigated rival Toyota and told Americans not to buy Toyotas
  4962. After Obamacare passed, Obama praised Congress for “standing up to the special interests”
  4963. Obamacare waivers were given to unions and businesses to avoid the burdensome cost of the law
  4964. After a Philip-Morris-drafted tobacco bill passed, Obama called it a victory over the tobacco lobby
  4965. Google gave 75% of contributions to Democrats, but yet only paid a 2.4% tax rate to the Treasury
  4966. Google takes advantage of “Double Irish” and “Dutch Sandwich” legal techniques to avoid taxes
  4967. As a result, Google has cut its worldwide tax bill by about $1 billion a year using the strategies
  4968. Google avoided about $2 billion in worldwide tax income by funneling profits into Bermuda (2012)
  4969. Google shifted $9.8 billion in 2011 revenues into a Bermuda shell company to avoid paying taxes
  4970. Obama travelled to Google’s company headquarters in 2007 to proclaim his shared vision
  4971. Google company executives donated over a million dollars to the 2008 Obama campaign
  4972. At least six Google executives donated $25,000 each to President Obama’s inaugural committee
  4973. Deputy chief technology officer, Andrew McLaughlin, was Google’s former V.P. for gov’t affairs
  4974. McLaughlin, using a personal email account, cooperated with Google lobbyists on “net neutrality”
  4975. Obama “reprimanded” McLaughlin for lobbying a pro-regulation position favored by Google
  4976. Obama vowed to veto any bill that would scuttled the FCC imposed “net neutrality” Internet rules
  4977. Google began receiving government contracts in areas ranging from national security to NASA
  4978. Google lobbyists convinced the Department of Justice to approve the purchase of ITA Software
  4979. Vint Cerf, an unregistered-lobbyist for Google, sits on a federal advisory board
  4980. Google’s outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt was considered for the role of Commerce Secretary
  4981. Schmidt serves as chairman of Google and was an informal adviser and supporter of Obama
  4982. Former CEO Eric Schmidt sat on Obama’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology
  4983. Google chairman Eric Schmidt declined a cabinet post offered by President Obama (December 2012)
  4984. Schmidt helped oversee a $700,000 donation from Google to President Obama 2012 re-election campaign
  4985. Google’s Super PAC campaign committee gave $2.1 million to Democrats in 2012
  4986. Obama administration purchased ad space so that “obamacare” searches lead to their propaganda
  4987. Google denied giving Obama’s re-election campaign special access to a new advertising program
  4988. IRS began auditing how Google shifted its profits offshore to avoid taxes in October, 2011
  4989. FTC halted their investigation of Google less than a week after executive hosts Obama fundraiser
  4990. Google later hired 12 lobbying firms to help combat a FTC federal antitrust probe in 2011
  4991. Obama took a question from an “Occupy” protester at a Google+ Hangout web event (2012)
  4992. Google admitted that the Obama administration agencies routinely request user data (June 2012)
  4993. Google complies with government requests for user data 88% of the time (January 2013)
  4994. Google Shopping began censoring all gun, ammo, and gun accessories search results (2012)
  4995. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg attended a closed-door dinner with President Obama
  4996. Obama launched political attacks at the GOP at a Facebook HQ town hall event in April 2011
  4997. Robert Gibbs was seeking a senior executive position to manage communications for Facebook
  4998. Facebook removed a post by Arizona’s governor that criticized Obama’s new immigration policy
  4999. Facebook sided with Greenpeace to ‘unfriend coal’ by switching to an alternative source of energy
  5000. Facebook went public on May 18, 2012 as the most hyped initial public offering (IPO) in history
  5001. Underwriters were forced to prop up the IPO and it almost ended its first day with a loss (+0.61%)
  5002. Underwriters for Morgan Stanley ($6.16 billion), JP Morgan Chase ($3.2 billion), and Goldman Sachs ($2.4 billion) purchased $11.76 billion of the estimated $16 billion raised from the Facebook IPO
  5003. Morgan Stanley cut its revenue forecasts for Facebook in the days before the initial public offering
  5004. Morgan Stanley told its major clients of its forecast changes just prior to the initial public offering
  5005. Underwriters like Morgan Stanley are restricted from issuing research on a company for 40 days
  5006. UBS announced they made have a trading loss of $350 million related the Facebook’s stock losses
  5007. Facebook stock fell to below $18 from its initial public offering price (September 4, 2012)
  5008. Facebook lost $50 billion in market value in just three months (September 2012)
  5009. Morgan Stanley cut its price target for Facebook to $32 from $38 for the next twelve months
  5010. JP Morgan Chase also cut its price target drastically to $30 from $45 (September 2012)
  5011. Facebook has been criticized by a number of users for blocking conservative content
  5012. Facebook threatened to shut down a “Chicks on the Right” fan page because it was critical of Obama
  5013. Yahoo hired a new CEO, Marissa Mayer, who has bundled thousands of dollars for Democrats
  5014. Marissa Mayer contributed $35,800 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2011
  5015. Marissa Mayer gave another $30,800 to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in 2011
  5016. Marissa Mayer gave two donations of $30,400 to the DNC in 2010
  5017. Marissa Mayer has hosted a fundraiser for President Obama in her home
  5018. Mayer bundled $100,000-$200,000 for Obama for America and the Obama Victory Fund 2012
  5019. ‘Stimulus’ grant of $490,000 handed out to grow trees in Nevada yielded just 1.72 permanent jobs
  5020. Obama gave Brazil’s Petrobras $2 billion of taxpayer money for oil exploration off of Brazil
  5021. Regarding free markets, President Obama said, “We tried it. It’s not like we did not try” (2012)

    5022. Obama described Warren Buffett as a source for economic advice during the 2008 campaign

  5022. Obama described Warren Buffett as a source for economic advice during the 2008 campaign
  5023. Buffett made millions from bank stock while advising Obama administration on banking policy
  5024. Buffett helped shape the Wall Street bailout rules and then made massive profits from them (2009)
  5025. Buffett met with Treasury Sec. Paulson and laid out a plan for a “public-private partnership fund”
  5026. Buffett then purchased 12.4 million shares of Wells Fargo and 1.5 million shares of U.S. Bancorp.
  5027. Treasury Sec. Tim Geithner then tweaked and unveiled the “Public-Private Investment Program”
  5028. As a result, bank stocks jumped resulting in large profits for Warren Buffett’s investments
  5029. Buffett also used intense private lobbying efforts and well-timed stock buys to leverage TARP bailout monies to create up to $3.7 billion in windfall profits for Berkshire Hathaway
  5030. Buffett invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs and $3 billion in GE during the 2008 collapse
  5031. Warren Buffett invested another $5 billion in “too big too fail” Bank of America in 2011
    “I’m not brave enough to try to influence the Congress...”
    ~Billionaire Warren Buffett told the New York Times

  5032. Buffett made a private conference call with then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats
  5033. Warren Buffett strongly urged Democratic lawmakers to pass the $700 billion TARP bill (2008)
  5034. Buffett warned of “the biggest financial meltdown in American history” if TARP wasn’t passed
  5035. Many members of Congress are members of Berkshire Hathaway
  5036. Berkshire Hathaway has contributed $30,800 to the Democratic National Committee for 2012
  5037. President Obama awarded Warren Buffett the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 2011
  5038. Buffett urged Americans to pay higher taxes and demanded that he himself should be taxed more
  5039. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway owes more than a billion dollars in back taxes since 2002
  5040. GE announced in 2011 that it was buying back the $3 billion shares from Warren Buffett
  5041. Warren Buffett stands to profit from the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline
  5042. Warren Buffett’s Burlington Northern railroad benefited from Obama’s Keystone denial (2012)
  5043. Burlington Northern railroad operations rose 15 percent to $701 million in the first quarter of 2012
  5044. Buffett’s stake in Bank of America increased in value by $154 million after President Obama and the Justice Department announced a $25 billion foreclosure abuse settlement (February 2012)
  5045. President Obama argued that the so-called Buffett Rule was “not some socialist dream” (2012)
  5046. Tax returns released for 2011 show that Obama doesn’t even qualify for the “Buffett Rule”
  5047. “Buffett Rule” was ultimately derailed in the Democrat-controlled Senate (April 16, 2012)
  5048. Berkshire Hathaway’s profits doubled in the first quarter of 2012 thanks to its derivatives portfolio
  5049. Berkshire Hathaway saw a nearly four-fold increase in the gains on its portfolio of derivatives
  5050. Derivatives were one of the major components that led to the 2008 housing market crash
  5051. “President Obama proposed raising taxes on the rich to put America’s fiscal house in order (2012)
  5052. “The size of the federal government is way bigger than even the capacity of the rich to sustain it
  5053. “Tom Price (R-GA): Obama’s proposed tax increases would only fund the government for eight days
    “The president’s plan to increase taxes on the upper two percent covers the spending by this federal government not for eight years, not for eight months, not for eight weeks, but for eight days. Eight days only. It’s not a real solution. So, again. I’m puzzled by an administration that seems to be more interested in raising tax rates than in gaining economic vitality.” ~Congressman Tom Price (R-GA) (November 2012)
    “If the IRS grabbed 100% of income over $1 million, the take would be just $616 billion. That’s only a third of this year’s deficit. Our national debt would continue to explode.” ~John Stossel (2012)

  5054. “Warren Buffett proposed a minimum tax for America’s top earners (November 2012)
  5055. Buffett essentially conceded that his and Obama’s “soak the rich” proposals were more of an act of political theater designed to generate an emotional response rather than serious solutions to our debt
  5056. “Buffett told Matt Lauer that his proposal would boost the “morale of the middle class” (November 2012)

    5057. Obama pledged to “close the revolving door between K Street and the executive branch”

  5057. Obama pledged to “close the revolving door between K Street and the executive branch”
  5058. Fannie Mae alumnus Damon Munchus left Obama’s Treasury for a firm representing Citigroup
  5059. Former campaign aide and Labor Department staffer Oscar Ramirez joined the Podesta Group
  5060. The Podesta group represents organizations such as Bank of America, Google, and BP
  5061. Former White House Counsel Greg Craig took a job at Obama-ally Goldman Sachs
  5062. A senior adviser, Grant Leslie, joined the Glover Park Group, representing DuPont & Coca-Cola
  5063. During his first SOTU, Obama declared, “we have excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs”
  5064. Obama admin. has hired over 45 former lobbyists to policymaking jobs, including 5 Cabinet jobs
  5065. A former lobbyist for the Swiss Bankers Association is the general counsel at the IRS
  5066. The chief of staff at the Treasury is a former Goldman Sachs lobbyist
  5067. The FDA’s deputy commissioner for foods is Monsanto’s former chief lobbyist
  5068. After getting rid of his ethics czar, Obama gave transparency duties to former lobbyist Bob Bauer
  5069. HHS’s Liz Fowler was vice president of public policy at WellPoint, the nation’s largest insurer
  5070. Tax-cheats, lobbyists, and many former Goldman Sachs employees work in his administration
  5071. Tom Daschle was nominated for Health & Human Services Secretary, but he didn’t pay his taxes
  5072. Obama instead nominated Kathleen Sebelius to serve as Health & Human Services Secretary
  5073. Kathleen Sebelius disclosed that she had made “unintentional errors” after being nominated (2009)
  5074. Tim Geithner was confirmed for Treasury Secretary despite not paying his taxes (2009)
  5075. Geithner didn’t pay social security or Medicare taxes for several years working at the IMF
  5076. Geithner also employed an immigrant housekeeper that briefly lacked proper work papers
  5077. Obama nominated Hilda Solis to serve as the Secretary of Labor despite outstanding tax issues
  5078. Hilda Solis’ husband paid $6,400 to settle tax liens against his business, some sixteen years old
  5079. IRS reported that 36 of President Obama’s aides owe $833,970 in delinquent back taxes (2010)
  5080. IRS also reported in 2010 that 98,000 federal employees owed a combined $1 billion in back taxes
  5081. Budget Director Peter Orszag was an acolyte of Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin
  5082. Peter Orszag took a job at recently bailed-out Citigroup after leaving the Obama administration
  5083. Tim Geithner counselor Gene Sperling was an acolyte of Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin
  5084. Deputy assistant of the president Michael Froman worked with Rubin at Treasury and Citigroup
  5085. National Economic Council official Jason Furman was an acolyte of Robert Rubin
  5086. Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Donilon was an acolyte of Robert Rubin
  5087. Community Futures Trading Commission head Gary Gensler was an acolyte of Robert Rubin
  5088. Obama’s Economic Advisor Larry Summers failed under Clinton & has links to Wall Street
  5089. Numerous campaign contributions from Goldman Sachs employees to the Obama campaign
  5090. Goldman Sachs gave Obama nearly seven times more money than Enron employees gave to Bush
  5091. Goldman Sachs paid the largest penalty ever by a Wall Street firm amid fraud allegations (2010)
  5092. Goldman Sachs paid $550 million to resolve SEC charges alleging fraud in mortgage securities
  5093. Goldman Sachs’ Gary Gensler is Obama's Commodity Futures Trading Commission head
  5094. Goldman Sachs kept White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on a $3,000 monthly retainer
  5095. Federal Reserve gave Goldman Sachs and CEO Lloyd Blankfein $30 billion in “emergency” loans
  5096. CEO Lloyd Blankfein received a $68 million bonus in 2007 before the financial crisis began
  5097. Blankfein’s total compensation in 2010 rose to $14.1 million, up from about $1 million in 2009
  5098. Compensation for G.S.’s top five executives rose to $69.6 million in 2010 as profits declined
  5099. Former Goldman Sachs lobbyist Mark Patterson serves as top deputy and overseer of TARP funds
  5100. Larry Summers reaped nearly $2.8 million in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs and others
  5101. Robert Rubin (Larry Summers’ former boss) was former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs
  5102. Larry Summers currently serves as the head of the White House National Economic Council
  5103. Summers had oversight of JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, and Goldman Sachs
  5104. Federal Reserve and Treasury Department ‘saved’ Bear Stearns sold it to JP Morgan (2008)
  5105. Obama administration allowed Goldman Sachs to change status in order to receive TARP funds
  5106. In 2011, a Senate panel released a 639-page report on the role of Wall Street in the 2008 crash
  5107. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) claimed that Goldman Sachs misled Congress and investors (2011)
  5108. The Senate panel accused Goldman Sachs of misleading clients and manipulating markets
  5109. Senate panel condemned Goldman Sachs’ greed, weak regulation and conflicts of interest
  5110. Levin concluded that Goldman Sachs “clearly misled their clients and they misled Congress”
  5111. Goldman Sachs profited “from the same products that caused substantial losses for its clients”
  5112. Carl Levin asked the DOJ to investigate Goldman Sachs for their role in the financial crisis
  5113. Carl Levin and the subcommittee he leads spent several years looking into Goldman Sachs
  5114. Justice Department declined to prosecute Goldman Sachs (August 2011)
  5115. Obama administration and Justice Department officials have deep ties to Goldman Sachs
  5116. Financial system churned out abusive loans, toxic securities, and big fees for lenders and Wall Street
  5117. Washington Mutual embraced a high-risk loan strategy in 2005 despite warnings from executives
  5118. The U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision logged 500 serious deficiencies at Washington Mutual
  5119. Washington Mutual became the largest failed bank in U.S. history in 2008
  5120. Moody’s and Standard & Poor downgraded mortgage-related investments in July 2007
  5121. This action constituted “the most immediate cause of the financial crisis” as markets panicked
  5122. Investment banks charged huge fees to construct, underwrite & sell mortgage-backed securities
  5123. Emails from Wall Street executives described these mortgage-backed securities as “crap” & “pigs”
  5124. Obama administration allowed Morgan Stanley to change status in order to receive TARP funds
  5125. Obama denied competitor Lehman Brothers the right to become a bank-holding company
  5126. $182 Billion in federal bailouts were provided to American International Group (AIG)
  5127. Congressional watchdogs show that 43 of the 87 banks benefiting from AIG were foreign
  5128. AIG posted its biggest loss since 2009 after reporting a $4.1 billion third-quarter loss in 2011
  5129. AIG disclosed its exposure of about $2 billion to troubled European economies Spain, Italy, Ireland, and Greece (2011)
  5130. AIG also revealed that they had an additional $2.2 billion exposure to French lenders (2011)

    5131. Obama expanded crony socialism with risky ‘green’ energy venture projects doomed to fail

  5131. Obama requested billions of dollars for “shovel-ready projects” to revive a struggling economy
  5132. Obama asked for billions of taxpayer dollars to expand broadband internet access in the U.S.
  5133. President Obama called for the creation of a “smart grid” for our future energy consumption
  5134. Obama also called for billions of taxpayer dollars for developing alternative-energy projects
  5135. Obama administration artificially manipulated market demand by subsidizing ‘green’ pet projects
  5136. More than $4.2 billion in preferential taxpayer grants and loans were given to companies that either lobbied for or had conflicts of interest with the Obama administration
  5137. Obama promised that allocation of federal stimulus money would be nonpartisan, ethical, and fair
    “Decisions about how Recovery Act dollars are spent will be based on the merits. Let me repeat that: decisions about how recovery money will be spent will be based on the merits. They will not be made as a way if doing favors for lobbyists.” ~Obama referring to how “stimulus” money would be handed out (2009)

  5138. Candidate Obama pledged in 2008 that he would add 5 million “green jobs” to the economy
  5139. Obama administration manipulated the definition of a “green job” to pad their numbers politically
  5140. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis struggled to explain why the driver of a vehicle powered by “green” or “renewable” energy is classified by the Obama administration as holding a “green job” (2011)
  5141. Sweeping the floor in a solar panel facility is classified as a “green job” by the Labor Department
  5142. A college professor teaching classes about environmental studies is classified as a “green job”
  5143. Salvation Army employee qualifies as a “green job” for recycling used materials
  5144. Antique dealers and bicycle repair shop clerks are considered “green jobs”
  5145. Any school bus driver is considered a “green job” by reducing the number of cars on the road
  5146. A full-time employee at a used record shop is classified as a “green job” for recycling materials
  5147. Train car manufacturers are counted as “green jobs” for creating mass transit systems
  5148. Interestingly, an oil lobbyist is even counted as a “green job” by the Labor Department
  5149. Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office doled out billions in taxpayer-guaranteed loans
  5150. Department of Energy administers the Title XVII Section 1703 and Section 1705 loan programs
  5151. The 1705 Loan Guarantee Program and the 1603 Grant Program were both run by crony partisans
  5152. DOE also administers the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing (ATVM) loan program
  5153. Those responsible for raising money for Obama’s campaign later sought taxpayer loans and grants
  5154. At least 10 members of Obama’s finance committee were big winners receiving taxpayer money
  5155. More than a dozen of Obama’s campaign bundlers received taxpayer money for ‘green’ projects
  5156. Politicians who supported Obama began their own alternative-energy companies to obtain grants
  5157. Obama administration provided tax breaks, stimulus grants, loan guarantees and government endorsements that gave credibility to a firm’s untested products
  5158. Obama promised that a $38.6 billion loan guarantee program would ‘create or save’ 65,000 jobs
  5159. Obama spent nearly $17.2 billion to create only 3,545 ‘green’ jobs, or $4.853 million per job
  5160. Obama continued pushing green energy initiatives in his 2011 State of the Union Address
  5161. Officials rushed approval of $9 billion more in loans before the stimulus program expired (2011)
  5162. Obama administration spent billions of taxpayer dollars on failing ‘green energy’ ventures
  5163. Obama’s Energy Department handed out more than 20 loan guarantees to companies with an average credit rating of BB-, or “junk status,” meaning they were vulnerable to default
  5164. Obama administration picked winners and losers based on political considerations
  5165. ‘Green’ energy loans were mostly given to companies with strong ties to Obama and Democrats
  5166. Department officials gave $40 billion in loans to more than 40 clean energy projects in the U.S.
  5167. $16.4 billion of the $20.5 billion in loans granted (roughly 80%) went to companies either run by or primarily owned by Obama financial backers – individuals who were bundlers, members of Obama’s National Finance Committee, or large donors to the Democratic Party (as of September 2011)
  5168. On average, for every dollar committee members raised, they received $24,783 in return in the form of DOE sweetheart loans
  5169. Steven J. Spinner was appointed to the Department of Energy after bundling donations for Obama
  5170. Spinner joined the DOE as the “chief strategic operations officer” for the loan programs (2009)
  5171. Spinner was responsible for parceling out more that $100 billion in “stimulus” grants and loans
  5172. Spinner’s responsibilities also included fundraising and recruiting more bundlers for Obama
  5173. Spinner handed out taxpayer dollars to many of the same wealthy donors that gave to Obama
  5174. Spinner pushed for Solyndra’s loan despite having recused himself due to a conflict of interest
  5175. Steve Spinner’s wife’s law firm, Wilson Sonsini, did work for Solyndra prior to its bankruptcy
  5176. Under an ethics agreement, Spinner said he would recuse himself from Solyndra’s loan application
  5177. Correspondence showed that Spinner defended Solyndra, worked to get the president or vice president to visit its factory, and pushed for a final decision on approving Solyndra’s loan
    “Any word from OMB? I have the OVP [Office of the Vice President] and WH [White House] breathing down my neck on this.”
    ~Department of Energy stimulus advisor Steven Spinner
    “How [expletive] hard is this? What is he waiting for? Will he have it by the end of the day?” ~Steven Spinner wrote to a career staffer on August 28, 2009

  5178. Rahm Emanuel’s aide asked Spinner if he could discuss any concerns among the investment community, and Spinner replied, “I haven’t heard anything negative on my side”
  5179. Steve Spinner forwarded to the White House chief of staff’s aide a list of Solyndra’s main investors and attached a published profile of billionaire and Democrat donor George Kaiser
  5180. Steve Spinner, an Obama bundler, served on the Obama campaign’s National Finance Committee
  5181. Spinner was the campaign’s “liaison to Silicon Valley” and managed Obama’s wealthy donors
  5182. Steve Spinner also sat on the President Obama’s White House Business Council
  5183. White House Business Council is made up of Obama-supporting corporate executives
  5184. Spinner is now a fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a Democratic think tank
  5185. Steve Spinner was joined at DOE by another Obama fundraiser, Sanjay Wagle
  5186. Jonathan Silver, a Democrat donor, served as executive director of DOE’s loan program
  5187. President Obama defended the loan programs, arguing that we needed to compete with China (2011)
  5188. Since then, China showed that massive government subsidies are no guarantee of business success
  5189. Many of China’s solar manufacturers are fighting huge financial losses, debt, and bankruptcy (2013)
  5190. More than 80% of China’s 43 polysilicon companies have stopped production (January 2013)
  5191. LDK Solar, the largest maker of solar wafers in the world, was $3.6 billion in debt (January 2013)
  5192. Suntech, the world’s largest solar panel maker, faced more than $2 billion in debt (January 2013)
  5193. Steven Westly was a major contributor to Obama and a promoter of “alternative energy”
  5194. Westly received half a billion dollars in federal aid for his venture capital firm, The Westly Group
  5195. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu appointed Westly to the Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board
  5196. Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that the loan process lacked proper documentation
  5197. GAO: Loan program “treated applicants inconsistently, favoring some and disadvantaging others”
  5198. Steven Westly wrote Jarrett warning that Obama shouldn’t visit Solyndra fearing embarrassment
  5199. White House refused to turn over records to the House Committee on Energy & Commerce
  5200. Most grant and guaranteed-loan recipients were early backs of Obama before he ran for president
  5201. Grant and guaranteed-loan recipients were given to people who continue to give to Obama’s campaign and exclusively to the Democratic Party in the years leading up to 2008
  5202. Federal government seal of approval created a “halo effect” around young unprofitable companies
  5203. Strategy was to invest some money, secure taxpayer grants and loans, go public, and then cash out
  5204. Amyris Biotechnologies received $24 million in taxpayer money to build a pilot energy plant
  5205. The $24 million grant created 40 jobs, according to the government website recovery.gov
  5206. Amyris’ bio-fuel pilot plant was designed to use altered yeast to turn sugar into hydrocarbons
  5207. The investors of Amyris Biotech included several of Obama’s campaign bundlers and fundraisers
  5208. After receiving the loan, Amyris went public with an IPO one year later, raising $85 million
  5209. Kleiner Perkins found that its $16 million investment was now worth $69 million as a result
  5210. Kleiner Perkins is a firm that backed by Obama financier John Doerr and his partner Al Gore
  5211. Regardless, Amyris Biotechnologies continues to lose money on its march towards bankruptcy

  5212. Solyndra Inc. was praised by Obama and given $535 million of “stimulus” cash in 2009
  5213. Solyndra was selected as the Obama administration’s first “stimulus” loan guarantee recipient
  5214. President Obama touted the company as “leading the way” in the green jobs future he envisioned
  5215. Obama said “the true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra…”
  5216. Obama stated, “The future is here,” while visiting Solyndra to promote renewable energy
  5217. George W. Bush’s administration voted against giving Solyndra the loan on January 9, 2009
  5218. Dept. of Energy officials were concerned that Solyndra would run out of cash by September 2011
  5219. Administration and outside analysts warned for months that Solyndra was not a sound investment
  5220. Solyndra incurred a net loss of $114.1 million in fiscal year 2007
  5221. Solyndra reported another net loss of $232.1 million in fiscal year 2008
  5222. Solyndra reported a loss of another $172.5 million in fiscal year 2009
  5223. Solyndra reported incurring an accumulated deficit of $557.7 million by January 2, 2010
  5224. Energy Sec. Steven Chu continued giving taxpayer money to Solyndra after company defaulted
  5225. Obama administration emails warned that giving more taxpayer money to Solyndra was risky
  5226. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was in charge of assessing Solyndra’s risk default
  5227. OMB emails warned of a Solyndra default likely coinciding with the 2012 campaign season
  5228. DOE officials pushed to release an additional $67 million to Solyndra without input from OMB
  5229. GOP in Congress called the investment “a bad bet” and said it “put taxpayers at unnecessary risk”
  5230. Solyndra’s majority owner, billionaire George Kaiser, was a top bundler for Obama and Biden
  5231. George Kaiser also personally donated $53,500 to Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008
  5232. Solyndra’s executive vice president Ben Bierman of operations donated $5,500 to Obama
  5233. Solyndra’s senior vice president of marketing Karen Alter gave $23,000 to Obama’s campaign
  5234. George Kaiser made at least 17 visits to the W.H. in the months prior to the $535 million loan
  5235. George Kaiser met with Former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Adviser Valerie Jarrett
  5236. Kaiser bragged in 2009 that he was trying to get as much of the “stimulus” payout as possible
  5237. Solyndra officials made at least 20 trips to the White House from March 2009 to April 2011
  5238. Officials included Chairman and founder Christian Gronet and two of their board members
  5239. House Energy and Commerce Committee investigated the loan, issued a statement saying the
    correspondence showed a “disturbingly close relationship between President Obama’s West Wing inner circle, campaign donors, and wealthy investors”
  5240. Emails show Kaiser discussed Solyndra with the W.H., directly contradicting earlier accounts
  5241. Kaiser and the White House previously denied Solyndra was ever discussed during the 17 visits
    “BTW, a couple of weeks ago, when Ken and I were visiting with a group of Administration folks in DC who are in charge of the stimulus process (White House, not DOE) and Solyndra came up, every one of them responded simultaneously about their thorough knowledge of the Solyndra story, suggesting it was one of their prime poster children.” ~George Kaiser’s email sent to Steve Mitchell on March 5, 2010 at Kaiser’s venture capital firm Argonaut
    Kaiser has “said publicly that Solyndra was not discussed at these meetings, and we have no reason to dispute that,” the White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he had not been given approval to discuss the matter. “We understand that the conversations in these meetings were focused on the general policy priorities of the George Kaiser Family Foundation, including early childhood education and poverty, health care policy and energy policy.” ~ABC reporting in October 2011

  5242. Emails showed evidence that venture capitalists had access to senior White House decision makers
  5243. Solyndra spent nearly $1.9 million on lobbying activities over 43 months from 2008 to 2011
  5244. Goldman Sachs acted as the exclusive financial advisor to Solyndra for the loan application
  5245. Obama administration restructured the loan to put security of private investors ahead of taxpayers
  5246. DOE officials were warned that restructuring the $535 million loan could violate the law
  5247. Emails: Assistant Treasury secretary wrote the deputy OMB director expressing concern
  5248. Treasury Department officials asked DOE for information of Solyndra “with no response”
  5249. Treasury Department complained that the DOE wasn’t providing enough information on Solyndra
  5250. Officials ignored warnings and renegotiated the loan guarantees in 2011 to give private investors, including some of Obama supporters, a priority over taxpayers if the company were to collapse
  5251. Interest rate on the Solyndra loan was at least 50% less compared to other “stimulus” recipients
  5252. Obama’s officials sat in on board meetings as an observer as part of the loan restructuring
  5253. Treasury Department’s general counsel had concluded that the renegotiated loan violated the law because it allowed private investors to be first in line for repayment in case of a default
  5254. Treasury Department officials testified that they’d never in their careers seen a government loan handled quite like the way the Energy Department handled Solyndra’s restructured loan (2011)
  5255. Internal emails suggested that a strategy was in place to rush the loan approval in order to meet the scheduled timeframe for a photo-op for the administration
  5256. Obama administration emails from 2009 showed that W.H. officials pushed for a quick decision
  5257. Officials hoped the timing would allow Joe Biden a photo-op at the facility in September 2009
  5258. Solyndra received photo-op visits from Obama, Joe Biden, and Energy Secretary Steven Chu
  5259. V.P. Joe Biden visited Solyndra and touted the new jobs as those that couldn’t be shipped overseas
  5260. Solyndra announced in November 2010 that they were sending half of their workforce to China
  5261. Solyndra announced it was declaring bankruptcy in August 2011 and fired its 1,100 employees
  5262. Solyndra Inc. had never shown a profit and failed to create the promised 4,000 “green jobs”
  5263. FBI agents descended on Solyndra at the request of the DOE’s inspector general (September 2011)
  5264. Emails show that the Obama administration was poised to give Solyndra another $469 million loan
  5265. Taxpayers would later pay another $13,000 per person to retrain the fired Solyndra employees
  5266. Democrats voted against subpoenaing the White House budget office for records on the loan
  5267. John Dingell (D-MI) on Solyndra: “I’m still waiting to see something that makes me concerned”
  5268. Former employee for Solyndra admitted that, “Everyone knew the plant wouldn’t work” (2011)
  5269. White House Spokesman Jay Carney claimed that Obama was not briefed on Solyndra (2011)
  5270. Spokesman Jay Carney told White House reporters that, “There’s nothing much to brief him on”
  5271. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) claimed he had no recollection of the fast-tracked loan to Solyndra
  5272. Rahm’s assistant to OMB had asked if “there is anything we can help speed along on OMB side”
  5273. Oversight and Government Reform Committee opened an investigation into Solyndra’s loan
  5274. Solyndra’s top executives pled the ‘fifth amendment’ to avoid testifying at Congressional hearing
  5275. President Obama defended the Solyndra loan, calling it a “good bet,” on October 3, 2011
  5276. Solyndra’s CEO resigned as the scandal grew and threatened to further tarnish the White House
  5277. Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the Energy & Commerce Committee for documents on Solyndra
  5278. President Obama’s attorney said the White House would not cooperate with the subpoena (2011)
    “I can only conclude that your decision to issue a subpoena, authorized by a party-line vote, was driven more by partisan politics than a legitimate effort to conduct a responsible investigation…” ~Obama’s counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, wrote in a letter to the GOP on the House Energy and Commerce Committee
    “We have been reasonable every step of the way in this investigation, and it is a shame that the Obama Administration and House Democrats continue to put up partisan roadblocks to hide the truth from taxpayers. Solyndra was a jobs program gone bad, and we must learn the lessons of Solyndra as we work to turn our economy around and put folks back to work. Our judicious and methodical work over the last eight months has garnered tens of thousands of pages of documents from DOE and OMB that have proven we are on the right track. Now, we need to know the White House’s role in the Solyndra debacle in order to learn the full truth about why taxpayers now find themselves a half billion dollars in the hole. The White House could have avoided the need for subpoena authorizations if they had simply chosen to cooperate. That would have been the route we preferred, and frankly, it would have been better for the White House to get the information out now, rather than continue to drag this out. Our request for documents is reasonable - we are not demanding the President’s blackberry messages as we are respectful of Executive Privilege. What is the West Wing trying to hide? We owe it to American taxpayers to find out.” ~Committee chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) in response to the White House refusing to cooperate with the subpoena

  5279. Energy Secretary Steven Chu: “I did not make any decision based on political considerations”
  5280. Secretary Chu testified that he wished that they hadn’t given Solyndra the loans (November 2011)
  5281. President Obama said he had no regrets about loaning the taxpayer money to Solyndra (2011)
  5282. Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) said that “Solyndra was a mistake” (2011)
  5283. Solyndra handed out large bonuses to persuade key employees to remain during the restructuring
  5284. Solyndra was caught on video destroying millions of dollars worth of brand new parts (2012)
  5285. Energy Secretary Steven Chu fought to secure a $1.4 billion taxpayer loan for Project Amp
  5286. Project Amp was a large-scale rooftop energy generation project using commercial solar panels
  5287. The solar panels were to be sole sourced from Solyndra as a effort to prop up the failing company
  5288. Obama blamed Congress and China for Solyndra failing: “This was not our program…” (2012)
  5289. Solyndra lied about the number of employees it laid off when it closed (claimed 1,100 employees)
  5290. According to the Labor Department, Solyndra actually laid off 1,861 employees when it closed
  5291. IRS urged a bankruptcy judge to reject Solyndra’s bankruptcy plan, which was designed to avoid taxes
  5292. Attorneys with the IRS said that as far back as 2010, Solyndra owners had “planned meticulously” to be able to use Solyndra’s net operating losses to offset future tax liabilities (October 2012)
    “The only reason for the shell corporation to exist post-confirmation is to enable its owners to exploit these tax attributes, which would be lost in liquidation.” ~IRS argued in court papers


  5293. Serious Energy was handed millions of taxpayer dollars through Obama’s 2009 “stimulus”
  5294. The story of Serious Energy’s history features strong-arm union tactics, corrupt Chicago politicians, crony capitalism, and left-wing media propaganda
  5295. Shorebank received $35 million in stimulus credits as part of the “green jobs” initiatives
  5296. Shorebank required low-income borrowers to conduct an energy audit of their homes in exchange for a “free,” energy-efficient refrigerator, and also required borrowers to “weatherize” their homes
  5297. Republic Windows and Doors was a producer of “green” windows that failed in 2008
  5298. Workers, with the support of SEIU, staged an illegal strike inside the factory in December 2008
  5299. President-elect Obama endorsed the illegal strike along with many prominent Chicago politicians
  5300. At the time, Governor Rod Blagojevich (D-IL) threatened that the State of Illinois would withdraw all of it business from Bank of America if it did not bail out Republic Windows and Doors (2008)
  5301. Serious Energy eventually purchased Republic Windows and Doors in 2009
  5302. Obama’s White House made Serious Energy a symbol of “green jobs” and the stimulus
  5303. Serious Energy was hyped by President Obama, Joe Biden, and Senator Roland Burris (2009)
  5304. Joe Biden described Serious Energy as a “potentially thriving business that can lead this country”
  5305. MSNBC’s Rachael Maddow touted Serious Energy as a victory for unions and “green collar jobs”
  5306. FTC found that Serious Energy made false claims about the energy efficiency of its products
  5307. Assistant Secretary of Energy, Cathy Zoi, was married to a senior executive of Serious Energy
  5308. Cathy Zoi was the official responsible for the stimulus-funded weatherization program
  5309. Serious Energy closed its factories and laid off its workers (July 2012)

  5310. Engineering firm CH2M HILL cut thousands of jobs after receiving $1.961 billion in “stimulus”
  5311. CH2M HILL has a history of fraud, poor conduct, and even contaminating their own workers
  5312. In 2004, the Energy Department withheld $300,000 from the firm for poor conduct
  5313. CH2M HILL was fined $400,000 for the radiological contamination of workers (2005-2006)
  5314. In 2007, a “major spill” resulted in $683,000 in both fines and settlements to local agencies
  5315. CH2M HILL recently agreed to pay a $1.5 million settlement for false claims and paid kickbacks
  5316. CH2M HILL has given thousands of dollars in campaign finances to Democrats
  5317. CH2M HILL gave over $512,000 to Democrats during the 2007-2008 election cycle
  5318. CH2M HILL gave over $380,000 to Democrats during the 2009-2010 election cycle
  5319. CH2M HILL also gave $45,337 to President Obama’s 2008 campaign
  5320. CH2M HILL spent another $455,000 to lobby their special interests
  5321. CH2M announced layoffs were coming in September 2011 due to the end of “stimulus” funding
  5322. CH2M was given $9.6 million from the Solyndra loan to design their solar manufacturing plant
  5323. CH2M has ties with “Green Energy Czar” Van Jones, who helped write the “stimulus”
  5324. Apollo Alliance seeks to destroy the economy by having the government fund green jobs scams
  5325. Van Jones received recognition at the Aspen Institute award ceremony
  5326. Aspen Institute award ceremony is co-sponsored by CH2M
  5327. Van Jones has been the keynote speaker at events co-sponsored by CH2M
  5328. Van Jones served on the San Francisco Clean Tech Advisory Council with Jill Sideman of CH2M

  5329. RockPort Capital is the firm responsible for Solyndra
  5330. In 2009, another RockPort investment, Satcon Technology Corp. partnered with SunPower Corporation and Exelon Energy to build a 41-acre solar array in Chicago
  5331. SunPower also worked with Satcon Technology on another government-funded project in Hawaii

  5332. Satcon Technology Corp. received a $3 million grant from the Department of Energy (January 2012)
  5333. Satcon manufactured the power conversion devices for solar energy collection and distribution
  5334. Satcon also received smaller federal payments for various solar initiatives at the DOE
  5335. Satcon Technology Corp. announced it was declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy (October 2012)

  5336. Energy Department gave Exelon Energy a $646 million taxpayer loan
  5337. Exelon Energy owns the SunPower/Satcon 41-acre solar array project in Chicago
  5338. First Solar Energy had missed the DOE’s loan payment deadline and was denied an extension
  5339. First Solar announced it was cutting its workforce by thirty percent, or about 2,000 jobs (2012)
  5340. Exelon Energy then bought out the Antelope Valley Project from First Solar Energy
  5341. GE Energy Financial bought out First Solar’s Desert Sunlight project after receiving a DOE guarantee for a portion of their $1.46 billion loan
  5342. Exelon Energy arose out of an $8.2 billion merger advised by Rahm Emanuel in 1999
  5343. White House political strategist David Axelrod is a former consultant for Exelon Energy
  5344. Exelon executives were major contributors and bundlers to Obama’s 2008 campaign

  5345. Beacon Power was a major recipient of investment funding from “The Beacon Group”
  5346. The Beacon Group is a division of bank bailout recipient JP Morgan Chase
  5347. The Beacon Group invested in RockPort Capital’s PowerSpan Energy
  5348. PowerSpan CEO Frank Alix was a White House guest for a December 2009 Jobs Summit
  5349. Frank Alix testified to Congress in favor of carbon sequestration regulations in March 2009

  5350. Obama’s clean-energy pet project Evergreen Solar received $58 million in “stimulus” money
  5351. Evergreen Solar listed $485.6 million in debt, filed for bankruptcy in 2011, & sold off their assets
  5352. Evergreen Solar announced in January 2011 that they were moving all the jobs to China
  5353. Evergreen Solar cited that much higher government support was available in China
  5354. Evergreen Solar abandoned their $450 million “green tech” plant to avoid paying property taxes
  5355. Evergreen Solar originally received around $50 million in taxpayer funds to build the plant

  5356. SpectraWatt Inc. was a solar cell company based in Hopewell Junction, New York
  5357. SpectraWatt received a $500,000 grant from the “stimulus” package in June 2009
  5358. SpectraWatt was one of 13 companies to receive “stimulus” money to improve solar cells
  5359. SpectraWatt filed for bankruptcy in August 2011 citing their inability to compete with China

  5360. Obama sold his jobs plan to the American electorate at a company that outsources jobs (2011)
  5361. Obama touted his American Jobs Act in a speech at WestStar Precision, based in North Carolina
  5362. WestStar Precision is a business run by Ervin Portman, a donor to Obama’s inauguration fund
  5363. Ervin Portman also donated to democrat(s) through Act Blue, a progressive fundraising PAC
  5364. WestStar is a company “that will benefit from the bipartisan proposals in the American Jobs Act”
  5365. WestStar Precision outsourced half of its workforce to San Jose, Costa Rica

  5366. Mountain Plaza Inc. received “stimulus” money despite having previously filed for bankruptcy
  5367. Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) received $2 million in “stimulus” from the EPA
  5368. Mountain Plaza received $424,000 from TDOT to install “truck stop electrification” systems
  5369. Mountain Plaza again filed for bankruptcy protection in June 2010

  5370. Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Co. received $10 million from the “stimulus”
  5371. The payout was part of a $64 million “stimulus” package to nine rural businesses in Wisconsin
  5372. Taxpayer loan was given after it had filed for bankruptcy for defaulting on a $60 million bank loan

  5373. Mojave Solar received $1.2 billion of taxpayer money for their Mojave Solar Project (2011)
  5374. Department of Energy hoped that the new solar energy project would create 900 jobs
  5375. Obama fundraiser benefited from a $107 million federal tax credit to develop a wind power facility
  5376. Tom Carnahan hosted a $25,000-per-person fundraiser for Obama in St. Louis on October 4, 2011
  5377. Carnahan’s energy development firm, Wind Capital Group, got the credit as part of the “stimulus”

  5378. Obama gave the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) stimulus funding to create ‘green jobs’
  5379. NREL, based in Colorado, shed jobs after receiving $200 million from the “stimulus” in 2009
  5380. Energy Secretary Steven Chu visited NREL in May 2009 to promote it as a “stimulus” beneficiary
  5381. NREL has enjoyed at least a 64% increase in their funding during the Obama administration
  5382. NREL is technically a private non-profit organization, therefore its records aren’t made public
  5383. Despite public funding, the NREL is exempt from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests

  5384. Obama administration gave SunPower, a failing solar company, a $1.2 billion taxpayer loan
  5385. The $1.2 billion taxpayer loan was finalized just hours before the “stimulus” program expired
  5386. The loan is expected to create 15 permanent jobs at a cost of $80 million per created job
  5387. SunPower had announced that they were building a new manufacturing plant in Mexico (2011)
  5388. Despite carrying $820 million in debt, SunPower received twice as much money as Solyndra
  5389. George R. Miller III (D-CA) is the senior Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee and the co-chair of the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee
  5390. Congressman’s son lobbied for the solar firm that received a $1.2 billion federal loan
  5391. Miller’s son, George Miller IV, worked as a lobbyist for SunPower, but was not registered
  5392. SunPower PAC donated $14,650 to Democrats in the House and Senate in the 2010 midterm
  5393. SunPower PAC gave $4,000 to Harry Reid (D-NV) and $2,900 to Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
  5394. SunPower also gave money to George Miller III (D-CA) and hired his son as a lobbyist
    “The path to a clean energy economy starts here, in places like SunPower’s research and development facility.” ~Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar promoting SunPower during a tour hosted by CEO Thomas H. Werner (October 14, 2010)

  5395. BrightSource Energy received a $1.4 billion federal loan guarantee from the “stimulus”
  5396. John Bryson served as chairman of the board of a solar energy company, BrightSource Energy
  5397. President Obama appointed John Bryson to become the 37th Secretary of Commerce (June 2011)
  5398. Bryson resigned as Commerce Secretary following a series of hit-and-run car accidents (2012)
  5399. The loan was used primarily to build the Ivanpah Solar Electrical Plant on federal lands
  5400. Ivanpah solar power station costs $3 billion to build using more expensive photovoltaic cells
  5401. Most of the equipment used for the new solar plant was to be manufactured in China and Germany
  5402. Robert Kennedy, Jr. (D) netted a $1.4 billion bailout for his green company BrightSource Energy
  5403. Sanjay Wagle was one of the principals in Kennedy’s firm who raised money for Obama (2008)
  5404. Sanjay Wagle was later installed at the Department of Energy to advise on energy grants (2009)
  5405. Investing taxpayer money in BrightSource was a risky proposition at the time of the loan
  5406. BrightSource Energy’s largest shareholder is Robert Kennedy Jr.’s VantagePoint Partners
  5407. VantagePoint Partners had $1.8 billion of debt obligations and lost tens of millions in 2010
    “A billion dollars in taxpayer money being sent to wealthy investors to bail them out of risky investments – does this sound familiar to anyone?”
    ~Peter Schweizer wrote in Throw Them All Out (2011)

  5408. John Podesta’s sister-in-law served as a lobbyist for Brookfield Asset Management (BAM)
  5409. Since 2009, Brookfield has been represented by the lobby firm Heather Podesta & Partners, LLC
  5410. The wind power firm was awarded a $135.8 million loan guarantee from the Energy Department
  5411. Seventy-five percent of the new wind project is owned by BAIF Granite Holdings
  5412. BAIF Granite Holdings was created by Brookfield Renewable Power, a subsidiary of BAM
  5413. Heather Podesta is a top financial bundler for Democrat politicians
  5414. Heather Podesta is the wife of lobbyist Tony Podesta, who is the brother of John Podesta
  5415. John Podesta is director of the Center for American Progress and helps craft White House policy
  5416. Heather and Tony Podesta topped the FEC’s lobbyist bundler database during first half of 2011
  5417. Heather and Tony raised more money than any other lobbyist by far during that six-month period
  5418. Heather Podesta visited the White House eight times in Obama’s first six months alone in 2009
  5419. Records show that Tony Podesta has visited the Obama White House at least 27 times (2012)

  5420. Nevada Geothermal Power (NGP) received a $98.5 million taxpayer-funded loan guarantee
  5421. NGP received hearty endorsements from Energy Sec. Steven Chu and Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)
  5422. Harry Reid, who pushed for the “stimulus,” predicted that NGP would “put Nevadans to work”
  5423. Harry Reid even declared that Nevada was the “Saudi Arabia of geothermal energy” (2012)
  5424. The taxpayer loan did not finance any new construction and “did not help to create a single job”
  5425. Due to financial problems, NGP’s auditors have questioned whether it can stay in business (2012)
  5426. NGP has incurred $98 million in net losses over the past several years and holds substantial debt
  5427. Congress raised questions about NGP’s finances and the timing of the DOE’s loan guarantee
  5428. Darrell Issa (R-CA) pointed out the NGP would have defaulted on a prior loan from TCW Asset Management Co., “had DOE not swooped in to save the failing company with taxpayer money”
  5429. NGP’s credit rating was BB+, which is considered speculative or junk and below investment grade
  5430. Jim Jordan (R-OH): The loan guarantee “essentially served to prop up an already-faltering firm”
    “The company was in danger of defaulting on its financial obligation, and the [Department of Energy’s] assistance served as a de facto bailout. After receiving a taxpayer-backed $98.5 million loan guarantee, the company is still struggling.” ~Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on regulatory affairs, stimulus oversight and government spending

  5431. Ormat Inc. was paid $80 million to build NGP’s Blue Mountain plant in Nevada
  5432. Ormat has “strong ties” to Senator Harry Reid (D-NV)
  5433. Two of Reid’s staffers, Kai Anderson and Paul Thomsen, work for Ormat Inc.

  5434. Energy Secretary Steven Chu touted GE PrimeStar and took a tour of their solar plant in Colorado
  5435. Energy Department claimed the GE PrimeStar’s latest technology was “creating jobs in the U.S.”
  5436. GE PrimeStar announced they were laying off about half of their current employees (July 2012)
  5437. GE PrimeStar, formerly PrimeStar Solar, postponed building a new production plant in Colorado

  5438. “Stimulus” included a $25 billion Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan program
  5439. GAO audit criticized the Energy Department for not keeping close enough tabs on its auto loans
  5440. Tesla Motors and Fisker stood in rare company in securing their ATVM loans
  5441. Audit warned not enough being done to ensure Tesla and Fisker were meeting benchmarks (2011)

  5442. Fisker Automotive received a $529 million federal “stimulus” taxpayer loan (2010)
  5443. Fisker is a start-up electric car company that manufactures their electric cars in Finland
  5444. Biden proclaimed that the half-billion-dollar DOE loan would transform an idled Delaware plant into a production line for electric cars
    “The story of Fisker is a story of ingenuity of an American company, a commitment to innovation by the U.S. government and the perseverance of the American auto industry…” ~Vice President Joe Biden announcing the $529 million loan closing in April 2010

  5445. Majority of DOE funding for Fisker was earmarked for a mass market sedan, called Project Nina
  5446. More than two years after receiving the loan, no information about the Nina has been released
  5447. Fisker recalled all of its 2012 Karma plug-in hybrids due to a potential fire hazard (2011)
  5448. Fisker’s biggest financial support is from venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  5449. Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers supports numerous green-tech firms
  5450. Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr hosted President Obama at a secluded February dinner (2011)
  5451. John Doerr is a California billionaire who made his fortune investing in Google
  5452. Doerr & Kleiner Perkins executives have contributed more than $1 million supporting Democrats
  5453. Billionaire John Doerr serves on President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness
  5454. Former Vice President Al Gore (D) is another Kleiner Perkins investor and senior partner

  5455. Tesla Motors was given a $465 million taxpayer loan from the Obama Energy Department (2011)
  5456. Tesla’s prime backers included PayPal’s Elon Musk and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin
  5457. Tesla Motors’ SEC filings revealed that the start-up has lost money every quarter (2011)
  5458. Tesla Motors reported accumulated total net losses of $522.8 million (ending June 30, 2011)
  5459. Former Tesla board member Steve Westly was an Obama bundler for 2008 and 2012 campaigns
  5460. Westly Group was a financial supporter of Tesla Motors until it went public in 2010
  5461. Tesla’s founder and CEO, Elon Musk, is a political contributor to Obama and other Democrats
  5462. Tesla investor Nick Pritzker is a donor to President Obama and a cousin of Penny Pritzker
  5463. Penny Pritzker was the national finance chair of President Obama’s 2008 campaign

  5464. Beacon Power Corp. received a $43 million taxpayer loan from the Obama administration
  5465. Beacon Power was the second Energy Department-backed company to go bankrupt
  5466. Beacon Power filed for bankruptcy in October 2011, just a year after receiving the taxpayer loan
  5467. Beacon Power used the loan to build a 20-megawatt flywheel energy storage plant in New York

  5468. Ener1, an advanced battery manufacturer, awarded a $118.5 million grant to expand its operations
  5469. Ener1 is run by a subsidiary EnerDel, which received a visit from Joe Biden in early 2011
  5470. Ironically, while touting Ener1, Vice President Joe Biden accidentally called it “Enron1”
  5471. Department of Energy was watching the company after it was pulled from NASDAQ trading
  5472. Ener1 failed to file its quarterly report and also let go of its chairman, Charles Gassenheimer
  5473. Obama touted Ener1 as a shining example of his vision for taxpayer-subsidized clean energy
  5474. Ener1 declared bankruptcy in January 2012 costing taxpayers $118.5 million

  5475. Abound Solar received $400 million in taxpayer-funded loans from the Energy Department
  5476. The loan guarantee was for a project expected to create 1,600 permanent jobs
  5477. Russell Kanjorski is the nephew of Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski (D-CO)
  5478. Russell Kanjorski works as part of the management team of Abound Solar Manufacturing
  5479. In 2002, Russell Kanjorski’s company received approximately $9 million in federal grants
  5480. Paul Kanjorski reportedly tried to bully others into supporting his nephew’s company
  5481. Russell Kanjorski’s company, Cornerstone Technologies, filed for bankruptcy in 2006
  5482. Russell Kanjorski also secured a $3 million federal grant while working for AVA Solar Inc.
  5483. Billionaire and Obama bundler Pat Stryker founded Bohemian Companies
  5484. Bohemian Companies invested in Abound Solar in 2008 during a second round of financing
  5485. Stryker visited the White House after investing in Abound Solar and before the loan was approved
  5486. W.H. officials refused to confirm the visitor logs and wouldn’t provide details about the meeting
  5487. In 2006, Stryker gave $500,000 to the Coalition for Progress, which heavily supports Democrats
  5488. N.Y. Times reported that Stryker attended an April 2005 meeting of the Democracy Alliance
  5489. Pat Stryker gave $50,000 to Obama’s inauguration and raised another $87,500 for his inauguration
  5490. Pat Stryker has since donated another $35,800 to the 2012 Obama Victory Fund
  5491. Pat Stryker visited the White House three more times after the loan to Abound Solar was approved
  5492. Abound Solar announced it was filing for bankruptcy (June 2012)
  5493. Abound Solar was investigated for knowingly selling defective panels to customers, and also for asking investors to invest in the company without telling them about the defective products (October 2012)

  5494. Peter L. Corsell is the founder of GridPoint Inc.
  5495. Corsell served as GridPoint’s CEO until transitioning to non-executive chairman in October 2010
  5496. Peter Corsell contributed $50,000 to President Obama’s inauguration in 2009
  5497. GridPoint partnered with Electric Transportation Engineering Corporation (eTec), Nissan, the Idaho National Laboratory and others in a project to deploy electric vehicles (EV) in five states
  5498. Energy Department gave eTec almost $100 million in stimulus funds to support the EV project
  5499. GridPoint also benefited from stimulus funds from services provided to a project in Kansas City
  5500. GridPoint helped Sacramento’s Municipal Utility District (SMUD) manage solar panel power
  5501. SMUD received $127.5 million in stimulus funds from the Department of Energy for the project
  5502. Energy Department gave Argonne National Laboratory nearly $2.7 million in stimulus funding
  5503. Argonne shared another $5 million in stimulus projects with GridPoint and other companies
  5504. GridPoint won a $28 million contract with the United States Postal Service in 2010
  5505. Obama adviser T.J. Glauthier played a key role in developing the energy provisions of the stimulus
  5506. Glauthier served on President Obama’s 2008 White House Transition Team
  5507. Glauthier is tied to several energy companies that benefited from the stimulus he helped craft
  5508. T.J. Glauthier was appointed to the board of GridPoint Inc. in March 2008
  5509. The stimulus provided $4.5 billion for smart grid projects, which GridPoint benefited from

  5510. T.J. Glauthier served on the advisory board of SunRun, a solar financing company
  5511. SunRun received a $6.73 million grant from the Treasury Department stimulus program in 2010
  5512. SunRun was the ninth largest recipient of such programs through December 2010

  5513. California-based Solazyme received a $21.8 million grant from the 2009 stimulus package
  5514. T.J. Glauthier was also reportedly a “strategic adviser” to Solazyme
  5515. Solazyme gouged the Navy for biofuel at four times the price of the standard marine fuel

  5516. Range Fuels, a wood-to-ethanol factory based in Georgia, received $65 million in taxpayer money
  5517. Georgia officials pledged another $6.2 million of taxpayer money, only for Range to go bankrupt
  5518. Treutlen County offered 20 years worth of tax abatements and 97 acres of land for the project
  5519. Private investors reportedly invested $158 million, raising the total to more than $320 million
  5520. Vinod Khosla, a California entrepreneur, funded Range Fuels and secured its government loans
  5521. Range, unable to turn wood into ethanol, didn’t come close to creating the 70 jobs it had promised
    “It was too damn big a risk for an apparently unproven technology and the due diligence I personally performed on Range would not entice me to invest in it… Government should not be in the venture capital business selecting technologies.” ~Sam Shelton, director of research programs at Georgia Tech’s Strategic Energy Institute (January 4, 2012)

  5522. Range Fuels was then sold to another bio-fuel maker, LanzaTech, for just $5.1 million
  5523. LanzaTech, a New Zealand-based biofuel company, is also funded by Vinod Khosla
  5524. Vinod Khosla is listed as “a key investor” in LanzaTech and sits on the board of directors
  5525. LanzaTech received $7 million from the U.S. departments of Energy and Transportation
    “[Vinod Khosla] takes government money, builds the place and takes the money and runs… and now he’s double dipping on government funds for round two. That’s taxpayer money that could go towards schools or hospitals or be given back to taxpayers.” ~Jeb Simon, an engineer in Savannah, Georgia who does not expect much of the taxpayer investment to be recouped

  5526. Willard & Kelsey Solar Group received millions of dollars in government loans and tax breaks
  5527. Willard & Kelsey laid off 40 workers in order to improve “efficiency of the assembly line” (2012)
  5528. Vice President Biden and Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis both toured Solar Group’s plant
  5529. Obama doubled-down on his decision to use taxpayer dollars to prop up clean energy companies

  5530. Energy Conversion Devices (ECD) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February 2012
  5531. Energy Conversion Devices received $13.3 million in taxpayer funding from the DOE

  5532. Democratic convention co-chair’s company received millions from Obama for “green” projects
  5533. Jim Rogers is the CEO of Duke Energy Corp., which received $230.4 million from the “stimulus”
  5534. According to Recovery.org, Duke Energy created 196.6 jobs as a result of the “stimulus” grants
  5535. Duke Energy also received a $350,000 grant to help General Motors develop the Chevrolet Volt
  5536. Jim Rogers was considered for the job of Energy Secretary in the Obama administration
  5537. Rogers is the co-chair and lead fundraiser for the Democratic National Convention host-committee
  5538. Rogers and his wife contributed more than $210,000 to Democrat candidates and committees since 2008, including $19,200 to Obama and $150,000 to the Democratic National Committee (DNC)
  5539. Jim Rogers is co-chairing the host committee with Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx (D-NC)
  5540. Rogers and his wife contributed the maximum $8,000 to Foxx’s 2011 re-election campaign
  5541. Charlotte Observer reported that Rogers was “quietly raising” as much as $15 million for the DNC
  5542. Rogers and Duke Energy also offered a $10 million line of credit to help finance the convention
  5543. Duke Energy spent more than $26 million lobbying the federal government since 2007
  5544. In 2009, Duke Energy enlisted the Podesta Group to help lobby in Washington D.C.
  5545. Since 2009, Duke Energy paid the Podesta Group $860,000 for energy-related lobbying efforts
    “Payoffs on these public investments don’t always come right away. Some technologies don’t pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy.”
    ~President Obama during the State of the Union Address (2012)
    “We’re not going to cede the wind industry or the solar industry or the battery industry to China or Germany because we’re too timid to make that same commitment here in the United States. We’ve subsidized oil for a very long time, long enough. It’s time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that’s never been more profitable. We’ve got to double down on a clean-energy industry that’s never been more promising.”
    ~President Obama at Buckley Air Force Base (January 26, 2012)

  5546. Obama’s Energy Department awarded Solar Trust of America $2.1 billion in taxpayer loans
  5547. Solar Trust’s CEO, Uwe T. Schmidt, reportedly thought that the loan was “too risky”
  5548. Solar Trust of America was building the world’s largest solar power plant in southern California
  5549. Citigroup Global Partners and Deutsche Bank invested $6 billion in the solar power project
  5550. Vice chair of Citigroup Global Partners, Louis Susman, sat on the National Finance Committee for Obama’s campaign in 2008
  5551. Louis Susman later left Citigroup to become President Obama’s ambassador to Britain
  5552. Another partner in the project was Chevron, who favored Obama over John McCain in 2008
  5553. Solar Trust of America filed for bankruptcy on Monday, April 2, 2012
  5554. Solar Trust’s bankruptcy filings indicated that they employed only nine people at the time

  5555. NextEra committed to providing financial assistance to Solar Trust during their bankruptcy
  5556. NextEra Energy’s CEO, Lewis Hay, sits on President Obama’s jobs council

  5557. A123, a maker of lithium-ion batteries for electric cars, threatened to go bankrupt (June 2012)
  5558. A123 received a $249.1 million grant to build a factory to make electric car batteries (2009)
  5559. A123 was forced to recall potentially defective batteries planned for use in the Fisker vehicle
  5560. A123 was intended to be a “centerpiece” of Obama’s $2 billion effort to push for more electric cars
  5561. Predictions by Obama that a market for their product would exist by 2015 are now “unattainable”
  5562. A123 declared for bankruptcy after failing to sell the company to the Chinese (October 2012)
  5563. A123 showered Democrats with campaign donations before declaring bankruptcy (2012)
  5564. A123 wanted to pay bonuses of more than four million dollars to their top executives during bankruptcy
  5565. Obama administration approved the sale of most of A123’s assets to a Chinese firm (January 2013)

  5566. Amonix Inc. began manufacturing solar panels in North Las Vegas, Nevada in 2011
  5567. Amonix was selected for a grant under the Bush administration’s Department of Energy in 2007 and eventually received a total of $15.6 million under the grant
  5568. Amonix received more than $20 million in federal tax credits and grants
  5569. Amonix received $5.9 million from the “stimulus” for a solar manufacturing plant in Las Vegas
  5570. Obama lauded the Amonix plant during a Nevada visit to support Reid’s re-election (July 2010)
  5571. Obama cited Amonix to claim that the “stimulus” had already made an “extraordinary impact”
    “Now, the only problem we have is these credits were working so well, there aren’t enough tax credits to go around. There are more worthy projects than there are tax credits. When we announced the program last year, it was such a success we received 500 applications requesting over $8 billion in tax credits, but we only had $2.3 billion to invest. In other words, we had almost four times as many worthy requests as we had tax credits.”n~President Obama speaking at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (July 2010)

  5572. Amonix’s plant was touted by political leaders and economic development officials (May 2011)
  5573. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), Congressman Shelley Berkley (D-NV), and Governor Brian Sandoval (R-NV) were among those who lauded Amonix when it announced its plans for a new plant
  5574. Amonix had promised to employ as many as 300 assembly line workers
  5575. Amonix cut two-thirds of its workforce only seven months after opening a new factory in Nevada
  5576. Amonix closed its 214,000-squre-foot manufacturing facility just 14-months after it opened (2012)
  5577. Harry Reid blamed the death of Amonix CEO Brian Robertson, who was killed in a tragic plane crash, for the failure saying, “unfortunately the company was unable to recover from this difficult time”
  5578. Amonix was about $100 million in debt, including $34 million owed to Flextronics

  5579. California-based Twin Creek Technologies received $26 million in taxpayer-funded loans
  5580. Twin Creek Technologies closed their firm and liquidated their assets without repaying the taxpayers

  5581. Department of Energy is “unable to locate” $500,000 in equipment bought with “stimulus” money
  5582. Department of Energy official called the energy loan program an “enormous success” (July 2012)
  5583. Internal audit found that Obama’s green jobs training program failed on most key jobs measures
  5584. Green jobs training program was training workers who already had jobs and failed to place new enrollees in jobs once they finished the training (38% got jobs and only 16% kept those jobs at least 6 months)
  5585. Labor department’s inspector general said grantees who received the green jobs-training money, which the government earmarked more than $400 million, did a poor job of reporting their results (2012)
  5586. Green jobs money “served as a slush fund” for the Obama administration to dole out payments to allies “like the National Council of La Raza, the Blue Green alliance, and the U.S. Steelworkers Union”

    5587. “We thought Obama is a trained orator and skilled in the art of mass address with his continuous eye contact”

  5587. Obama uses a teleprompter every time he speaks even for the simplest and shortest of speeches
  5588. Obama was the first person ever to install and use a teleprompter in India’s Parliament House
  5589. Parliament official in India was surprised that a teleprompter was needed saying, “We thought Obama is a trained orator and skilled in the art of mass address with his continuous eye contact” (2010)


    Reuters (Tuesday, August 21, 2012)


  5590. Obama hired an “extraordinary media coach” who had helped Hillary to master the teleprompter
  5591. Sheehan Associates was hired under three contracts since 2009 for “speech preparation training”
  5592. Former Vice President Walter Mondale (D) said that Obama relies too much on teleprompters
    “What they’ll say is, ‘Well it costs too much money,’ but you know what? It would cost, about… It -- it -- it would cost about the same as what we would spend… It… Over the course of 10 years it would cost what it would costs us… (nervous laugh) All right. Okay. We’re going to… It… It would cost us about the same as it would cost for about -- hold on one second. I can’t hear myself. But I’m glad you’re fired up, though. I’m glad...” ~Obama flubbing a telepromptered speech in Bristol, Virginia (June 5, 2008)

  5593. Obama flip-flopped and opted out of the public financing system for the 2008 elections
  5594. Obama was the first major party candidate to opt out since it was established following Watergate
  5595. Obama has consistently lied and has been willing to say anything for political expediency
  5596. Obama follows Saul Alinsky’s counsel to do and say whatever it takes to gain power
    “You know what your problem is. You have to tell the truth…”
    ~Barack Obama speaking to Jeremiah Wright

  5597. President Obama told thousands of supporters, “you know I tell the truth” (November 2012)
  5598. Obama lied when he stated he hadn’t heard inflammatory speech sitting in Rev. Wright’s pews
  5599. Obama lied about his past ties with former domestic terrorist and Chicago associate Bill Ayers
  5600. Obama lied when he said he would use public funding for the 2008 presidential campaign
  5601. Obama lied when he claimed his parents met as a result of the Selma civil rights marches
  5602. Obama lied when he claimed during a 2007 speech that J.F.K. had helped his dad come to the U.S.
  5603. Obama lied when he said he had an uncle who was with first American troops into Auschwitz
  5604. American troops never went into Auschwitz during World War II, but the Russian Red Army did
  5605. Obama lied about Life magazine featuring a story of a black man bleaching his skin in America
  5606. Obama claimed to have applied for a non-existent “transfer program” from Occidental to Columbia
  5607. Obama lied when he said he campaigned “in all 57 states” (note: there are 57 Islamic states)
  5608. Candidate Obama lied when he promised to be out of Iraq by the end of 2009
  5609. Obama lied when he said he wouldn’t have lobbyists in his administration during the campaign
  5610. Obama lied when he promised, “we are going to ban all earmarks,” then signed hundreds into law
  5611. Obama lied when he promised to focus on deficit reduction
  5612. Obama lied when he promised to abolish the Patriot Act
  5613. Obama lied when he promised to put an end to data mining and eavesdropping
  5614. Obama lied when he promised to post bills online for five days prior to signing them into law
  5615. Obama lied when he promised to close the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention center
  5616. Obama lied when he said 10,000 people died from a tornado in Kansas back in 2009
  5617. Obama lied when he said he could see fallen American heroes in the audience
  5618. Obama lied when he pledged he wouldn’t sign bills filled with “pork” spending projects
  5619. Obama lied when he pledged to not use ‘special signing statements’ as an end-run around Congress
  5620. Obama lied when he promised that healthcare negotiations would be held on C-SPAN
  5621. Obama lied when he claimed surgeons pocket from $30,000 to $50,000 to amputate a foot
  5622. Obama lied when he repeatedly described his healthcare takeover plan as “budget neutral”
  5623. Obama lied when he claimed that illegal immigrants wouldn’t be covered under Obamacare
  5624. Obama lied when he claimed the Supreme Court ruling would allow foreign campaign money
  5625. Obama lied when he claimed to not want a single-payer system despite clear video evidence
  5626. Obama lied when he claimed Obamacare would reduce health insurance premiums by 3000%
  5627. Obama lied when he stated “more than 90% of guns recovered in Mexico come from the U.S.”
  5628. Obama lied when he told his supporters that the border fence was “basically complete”
  5629. Department of Homeland Security said that the border fence was only 5% completed
  5630. Obama lies about the amount of taxes paid by the wealthiest Americans to push class warfare
  5631. Obama lied when he claimed there was an American flag draped over his father’s coffin in Kenya
  5632. Obama falsely claimed his grandfather was detained and tortured by the British in Kenya
  5633. Obama lied when he promised to filibuster a law giving phone companies legal immunity
  5634. Obama lied when he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia and then denied it ever happened
  5635. Obama lied when he stated he visited gulf oil spill before “talking heads” were paying attention
  5636. Obama lied when he claimed he would tackle immigration reform during his first year in office
  5637. Obama lied when he claimed ‘Recovery’ Act funds were used for a police crime lab in Ohio
  5638. Obama lied saying Mexico (1810) was around “long before America (1787) was even an idea”
  5639. Obama lied when he claimed Citizens United ruling would allow “foreign-controlled” elections
  5640. Existing FEC laws (11 CFR 110.20(i)) still blocks foreign contributions to political campaigns
  5641. Obama lied when he pledged to put on a “comfortable pair of shoes” & walk with union protesters
  5642. Obama lied for political expediency when he campaign in 2008 against same-sex marriage
  5643. Obama campaign on the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, but then stopped defending it as president
  5644. Obama lied when he claimed, “if I forgot keys to the White House & tried to jigger in I’d get shot”
  5645. Obama lied when he claimed U.S. land leases in the oil exploration phase are “inactive leases”
  5646. Obama lied when he declared there would be no more warrantless wiretaps during campaign
  5647. Obama lied when he said he supported the exploitation of U.S. resources while stifling drilling
  5648. Obama lied when he inferred that insufficient federal funding led to the Minnesota bridge collapse
  5649. Obama lied to AIPAC when he said the “1967 lines” has always been the policy of the U.S.
  5650. Obama lied when he claimed his administration had defended Israel strongly at the United Nations
  5651. Obama lied when he said that Social Security checks may not go out if debt ceiling isn’t raised
  5652. Obama lied when he said that 80% of Americans support the Democrat’s demand for tax increases
  5653. Obama lies each time he repeats the claim that his father “left when I was 2 years old”
  5654. Obama lied when he claimed the Bush administration gave money to the auto companies and demanded “nothing in return” (2012)
  5655. Obama lied when he claimed to be quoting GOP Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) (2012)
  5656. Obama lied and misrepresented Todd Akin’s (R-MO) ‘stage-three cancer of socialism’ analogy
  5657. Obama planted over 38 falsehoods in his autobiography Dreams from My Father
  5658. Obama admitted to fabricating a girlfriend in his autobiography Dreams from My Father
  5659. Obama lied about a fight about race he had with a “composite” girlfriend in New York City
  5660. Obama twice lied that his ‘jobs plan’ would repair unsafe bridges spanning Ohio and Kentucky
  5661. Obama lied when he claimed that government employment has gone down during his presidency
  5662. Obama lied when promised to eliminate the Export-Import Bank during the 2008 campaign
  5663. Obama lied to supporters when he said he would “make sure that we renegotiate” NAFTA (2008)
  5664. Obama lied when he pledged to keep the Janesville GM factory open for “another 100 years”
  5665. Obama mistakenly said that he wants “wind turbines manufactured here in China” (October 2012)
  5666. Obama lied by saying that “40% of all gun purchases are conducted without a background check” (2013)
  5667. Obama misrepresented his mother’s battle with cancer as a campaign pitch for national health care
  5668. Obama suggested that his mother was denied health coverage because of a pre-existing condition
  5669. Stanley Ann Dunham in fact had health insurance that paid for her cancer treatment
  5670. Stanley Ann Dunham was actually only denied disability coverage from her new employer
  5671. Obama falsely claimed that the Constitutional Convention lasted through the spring of 1787
  5672. Obama lied when he claimed at a fundraiser that a whole GOP debate audience booed a gay soldier
  5673. President Obama lied that he was outspent by his opponent in the 2008 campaign
  5674. Obama lied that Paul Ryan was against the Farm Bill, which he voted for and had passed the House
  5675. Obama to the CBC: “If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew, uh, as a janitor…”
  5676. Obama gaffed, “we’ve created 22 million jobs over the last… er… 3 million jobs…” (2012)
  5677. Obama mistook a fallen soldier for a living one when he spoke to troops at Fort Drum (2011)
  5678. Obama: Jared Monti (dead) was his first Medal of Honor recipient “who actually came back” alive
  5679. Obama apologized to a soldier’s family after mistaking their dead son for another living soldier
  5680. Obama described an untrue and exaggerated account of a medal of honor recipient Dakota Meyer
  5681. Obama referred to Admiral William McRaven, a former Navy SEAL, as a “general” (August 2012)
  5682. Obama claimed that Abe Lincoln built an “intercontinental railroad” in the midst of the Civil War
  5683. Obama again claimed that the U.S. built an “intercontinental railroad” while selling his jobs plan
  5684. Obama made reference to the non-existent “Austrian language” while visiting Austria
  5685. Obama misrepresented Caterpillar’s position to gain support for passing his “stimulus” plan
  5686. Obama referred to “Cinco de Cuatro” to the Mexican ambassador instead of “Cinco de Mayo”
  5687. Obama referred to military corpsman as “corpse-man” twice during a telepromptered speech
  5688. Obama twice described his daughter Malia as being 13 years old when she was still only 12
  5689. Obama said, “I’ll be turning 50 in a week,” when he really turned 50 three weeks later
  5690. Obama told an audience off-prompter that a breathalyzer was used to treat asthma
  5691. Obama stated that the special Louisiana special deal “will help with the earthquake in Hawaii”
  5692. Obama’s baseball pitches either bounce or go wide left and out of control... just like his policies
  5693. Obama couldn’t name a historic Chicago White Sox player despite being his “beloved” team
  5694. Obama calls it Comminskey Park when making references to Chicago’s old Commiskey Park
  5695. Obama suggested it was Emperor Hirohito “coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur”
  5696. Obama implied that the Constitution was written more than 20 centuries ago (2009)
  5697. Obama falsely claimed that Abraham Lincoln was the founder of the Republican Party
  5698. Lincoln joined the Republican Party in 1856, two years after the party held its first convention
  5699. Obama broke diplomatic protocol by waving during a United Nations photo-op (2011)
  5700. As a result, President Obama’s right hand blocked the face of the Mongolian president (2011)
  5701. Obama joked that his approval rate was dropping but is still “very high in the country of my birth”
  5702. Obama described his location as, “here in Asia,” during a press conference in Hawaii (2011)
  5703. President Obama: “I’m trying to figure out what time zone I’m in here…” (2011)
  5704. Obama at an economic speech in Kansas: “It is great to be back in the state of Texas” (2011)
  5705. President Obama gaffed when he referred to the Falkland Islands as the “Maldives” (2012)
  5706. President Obama, speaking from a teleprompter, referred to ‘my sons’ twice in two days (2012)
  5707. Obama confused the “NCAA” with the “NAACP” at a Medal of Freedom ceremony (2012)
  5708. Obama suggested that people buy a “thingamajig” for their furnaces to stimulate the economy
  5709. Obama referred to “MY White House” while speaking at the G8 summit on May 21, 2012
  5710. Obama apologized, “I understand, my mistake,” after being booed at a Boston fundraiser for commenting on a trade between the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago White Sox (June 2012)
  5711. President Obama referred to the 2012 NBA champions as the “Miami Heats” (June 2012)
  5712. President Obama lied when he claimed that the average student with federal student loans will rack up an additional $1,000 in debt if Congress had failed to prevent the interest rate from doubling
  5713. DOE said if rates doubled, the borrower paying back the average Stafford loan would owe an additional $1,041 over the 12-year life of the loan, which would be $87 annually, or $7 more a month
  5714. Obama told supporters that “paralegals” were available to help those who fainted (July 2012)
  5715. Obama said that “AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals” (July 2012)
  5716. AK-47s are primarily and historically used by the soldiers of communist countries
  5717. Obama administration lied about returning a bust of Winston Churchill to the British (2012)
  5718. Obama lied when he claimed that “nobody accused Mr. Romney of being a felon” (August 2012)
  5719. During an education swing in Ohio, Obama misspelled the state as “O-I-H-O” (August 2012)
  5720. Obama was unable to figure out how to dial on an iPhone to call his campaign volunteers (2012)
  5721. In 2008, Obama attacked John McCain for not using email, which was due to a war injury
  5722. Obama made jokes about the Special Olympics to describe his poor bowling skills
  5723. Obama joked about Michelle’s eating: “You do not want to be between Michelle and a tamale”
  5724. Michelle enjoyed a 1,556-calorie lunch while lecturing others on how and what to eat (2011)
  5725. TV Chef Paula Deen confessed that First Lady Michelle Obama likes fried foods too, and “probably ate more than any other guest I’ve had – she kept eating during commercials” (2011)
  5726. First Lady Michelle Obama said that her favorite meal was “arugula and steak” (2011)
  5727. Michelle slipped out of the W.H. for swordfish sliders and ‘edible chocolate sculpture’ (2011)
  5728. Michelle said that children need to “get their palates adjusted” so they will begin eating properly
  5729. Obama set off the W.H. metal detector, “I just wanted to see what it was like getting in here”
  5730. As a candidate, Obama halted a local news interview because flies were bothering him
  5731. Newly-elected president Obama killed a fly that was interrupting an interview (June 2009)
  5732. While announcing healthcare reform, Obama was interrupted by a fly that landed on his face (2010)
  5733. A fly landed on Obama’s forehead as he announced new members of his administration (January 2013)
  5734. Michelle described Obama’s work ethic as “tireless” saying “this man doesn’t take a day off”
  5735. First Lady Michelle Obama told an audience that being married to Obama was “scary” (2011)
  5736. Michelle Obama encouraged Barack’s supporters to “get to the polls on November the 2nd” (2012)
  5737. Obama used Michelle’s shopping habits as an analogy for reigning in the federal budget deficits
  5738. Michelle Obama said her fantasy was to walk out of the White House “and just keep walking”
  5739. Michelle got her husband’s biography wrong while on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2012)
  5740. Michelle claimed that the death of Barack’s father inspired him to transfer to Columbia
  5741. Barack transferred to Columbia in 1981, but his father did not die until 1982
  5742. Obama even described getting the call that his father died in his New York City apartment
  5743. Oval Office rug has an 1853 Theodore Parker quote falsely cited to Martin Luther King Jr.
  5744. Obama makes times for music parties but skips commemoration of D-Day anniversary
  5745. Obama again failed to commemorate the 68th D-Day anniversary for the third straight year (2012)
  5746. Obama didn’t lay the Memorial Day wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier in 2010
  5747. Obama omitted “by their Creator” in three speeches when citing the Declaration of Independence
  5748. A liberal legal advocacy organization omitted “under God” when citing the Gettysburg Address
  5749. President Obama did not include any reference to God during his Thanksgiving message (2011)
  5750. “Hope” poster creator was beaten up in Copenhagen for spreading pro-government propaganda
  5751. Obama tripped during his introduction at a campaign event in Tampa, Florida (June 2012)
  5752. UT book store stopped selling Obama ‘DisappointMINTS’ after complaints from a Democrat
  5753. The St. Louis social club ‘Yes We Can’ was busted for drugs and prostitution in August 2011
  5754. Obama misspelled ‘Lybia’ on his White House Twitter feed regarding the violence in Libya
  5755. Obama signed the year 2008 instead of 2011 in the guest book at Westminster Abbey in London
  5756. Obama gave a toast to the Queen of England during the playing of the British national anthem
  5757. Obama arrogantly claimed he would make the sea levels lower and make the planet heal itself
  5758. Candidate Obama described commissions as “Washington-speak for we’ll get back to you later”
  5759. Obama publicly mocked McCain’s suggestion for a commission to study the Wall Street meltdown
    “We don’t need a commission to tell us how we got into this mess, we need a president who will lead us out of this mess, and that’s the kind of president I intend to be.” ~Candidate Obama in 2008

  5760. Obama mocked the need for study commissions, but then established dozens while president
  5761. The economics practiced by Obama is an economic philosophy based on Marxist moralism
  5762. If a president wanted to destroy the economic stability of America, what would he do different?
  5763. Spend the country into financial ruin much like the Soviets did countering Reagan’s initiatives
  5764. Do nothing in the face of crisis and hire those responsible into your administration to cover it up
  5765. Undermine a culture by disregarding the traditions, such as Arlington Memorial Day speeches
  5766. Assault the religious foundations that helped foster American prosperity and world influence
  5767. Disregard and diminish the rule of law by not reading new laws and not enforcing existing laws
  5768. For Thanksgiving, President Obama decided not to kill ‘Liberty’ and ‘Peace’ (2011)
  5769. Ohio restaurant owner died just hours after hosting President Obama for breakfast (July 2012)
  5770. Obama told stories of struggles during his first campaign where he ran unopposed for state senate
  5771. Obama said he entered politics because the middle-class lifestyle was “slipping away” (July 2012)
  5772. Obama entered politics in 1996, during good economic conditions under President Bill Clinton
  5773. President Obama flashed a wad of cash at a Wisconsin diner (September 2012)
  5774. In Dreams from My Father, Obama describes himself as an unfocused high school student
  5775. Obama claims his mother scolded him for being a “loafer” (p.142)
  5776. Obama described his attitude toward his studies at Occidental as “indifferent” (p.146)
  5777. Obama said he was notorious for partying all weekend during high school (p.165)
  5778. Obama described himself as a “bum” in high school who abused drugs (p.138)
  5779. Obama admitted to smoking “dope” and snorting “blow” during his early school years
  5780. Obama was part of “the Choom Gang,” a marijuana smoking group at Occidental High School
  5781. Obama thanked his drug dealer, not his mother, in a high-school yearbook
  5782. Of the 9 criminals first pardoned by Obama, 4 had been convicted on cocaine charges
  5783. Obama pardoned five people convicted of distributing marijuana and illegal gambling (Nov. 2011)
  5784. Obama issued a commutation for a woman serving a 22-year sentence for cocaine distribution
  5785. Obama pardoned Martin Kaprelian, a Chicago jewel thief, with no explanation given (2011)
  5786. Obama told an African-American audience that he wanted to lower penalties for crack possession
  5787. President Obama blamed the media for creating a “cold and aloof” image of him (January 2012)
  5788. President Obama insulted George W. Bush at his own portrait hanging in the White House (2012)
  5789. President Obama said, “sometimes I do boneheaded things, I make mistakes…” (July 2012)
  5790. Obama sneezed while defending Obamacare, and then blamed it on Republicans (August 2012)
    “It gives me a cold just thinking about what they might do.”~President Obama blaming Republicans (August 2012)

  5791. Like Bush, Obama couldn’t name one thing he would have done differently during his presidency
  5792. Obama blames Bush (and “folks”) for everything that has gone wrong during his presidency
  5793. Obama takes personal credit for anything that goes right during his presidency (i.e. killing Osama)
  5794. Michelle Obama said in an interview with CNN, “Barack doesn’t have a big ego” (October 2012)
  5795. During a trip to Asia after his re-election, President Obama gaffed as he repeatedly mispronounced the name of Aung San Suu Kyi, the most prominent human rights activist in the world (November 2012)
  5796. Obama botched his greeting of Burma’s new reformist president, Thein Sein (November 2012)

    5797. Pentagon report revealed suspicion that financial terrorists are sabotaging our economy (2009)

  5797. Kevin Freeman, of Cross Consulting and Services, authored an analysis for the Department of Defense’s Irregular Warfare Support Program (IWSP) in 2009
  5798. Freeman argued that a run-up of speculation by sovereign-wealth funds created a bubble in the oil industry that allowed for bear raids on American financial institutions, using credit swaps and other non-regulated investment instruments to crash the U.S. financial system
  5799. A “bear raid” is analogous to a run on the banks, but with stocks instead of money
  5800. Financial subversion may have been carried out by terrorists or nations hostile to the United States
  5801. Freeman stated that “a three-phased attack” was planned and being executed against the economy

  5802. First, oil prices rapidly increased even as the economy was weakening and demand was decreasing
  5803. Speculative run-up in oil prices generated as much as $2 trillion of excess wealth for oil-producing nations, filling the coffers of Sovereign Wealth Funds, especially those that follow Shariah compliant finance (appears to have begun in 2007 and lasted through June 2008)
  5804. Muslim Brotherhood’s founder created Shariah compliant finance, calling it “financial jihad”
  5805. Rapid run-up in oil prices made the value of OPEC oil in the ground worth roughly $137 trillion
  5806. Proven OPEC reserves were then valued at almost three times the total market capitalization of every company on the planet traded in all 27 global stock markets

  5807. The second phase began in 2008 with a series of bear raids targeting U.S. financial services firms
  5808. Bear raid against Bear Stearns was successful in forcing the firm to near bankruptcy (2008)
  5809. Someone was selling fake Bear Stearns stock and selling them in the marketplace to create panic
  5810. JP Morgan Chase acquired Bear Stearns which temporarily averted the systemic risk generated
  5811. Bear raids were conducted against various other firms in 2008, each ending in an acquisition
  5812. Bear raid against Lehman Brothers caused the firm to fail and froze the credit markets (2008)
  5813. Lehman’s failure caused a system-wide crisis and nearly collapsed the global financial system
  5814. Bear raids were perpetrated by naked short selling and manipulation of credit default swaps
  5815. Short selling and credit default swaps were virtually unregulated at the time of the crisis
  5816. Short selling was actually enhanced by recent regulatory changes including rescission of the uptick rule and loopholes such as the Madoff exemption
  5817. Substantial and unusual trading activity was identified, but the source of the bear raids has not been traceable due to serious transparency gaps for hedge funds, trading pools, sponsored access, and sovereign wealth funds
  5818. Unusual trading occurred in Citigroup for two days in October 2008 creating market panic
  5819. Short selling, borrowing shares from another person and selling them for profit, jumped 23 fold
  5820. Two relatively small broker dealers emerged virtually overnight to trade trillions of dollars worth of U.S. blue chip companies
  5821. They are the number one traders in all financial companies that collapsed or are now financially supported by the U.S. government
  5822. Trading by the firms grew exponentially while the markets have lost trillions of dollars in value

  5823. The third phase is a direct coordinated economic attack on the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. dollar
  5824. A focused effort to collapse the dollar by dumping Treasury bonds was discussed by finance ministers in emerging market nations such as China, Russia, Iran and the Arab states
  5825. Such an event would trigger a downgrading of U.S. debt forcing rapidly rising interest rates
  5826. Bear raid against the U.S. financial system would result in the collapse of the American economy
  5827. Pentagon began war gaming the increasingly likely scenario(s) of America’s financial collapse
  5828. Federal government’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission blamed the crash on economic factors such as high-risk mortgage lending practices and poor federal regulation and supervision
  5829. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission did not even consider “outside forces” in their analysis
  5830. Freeman pointed to the seizure of $134 billion in counterfeit U.S. bonds as a potential clue
  5831. In 1999, the PLA referred to George Soros as a financial terrorist along with Osama bin Laden
  5832. George Soros warned that the United States financial system may soon collapse (2012)
  5833. LAPD and the Pentagon conducted military drills in downtown Los Angeles (January 2012)
  5834. Homeland Security began monitoring Internet for anti-government sentiment and social unrest

    5835. Marxist Billionaire George Soros: “The main obstacle to a stable and just world is the U.S.”

  5835. George Soros gave large sums of money to groups that support the destruction of America
  5836. Soros’ stated goal for over a decade has been to burst the “bubble of American supremacy”
  5837. George Soros: the housing crisis would signal the end of the dollar as the world’s default currency
  5838. Soros insisted that the U.S. can take on even more debt and to stop obsessing about budget cuts
  5839. Soros purchased eleven tons of gold and stands to profit handsomely from the fall of the dollar
    “When you try to, let’s see, improve society, you affect different people and different interests differently and they are not actually commesurate. So you very often have all kinds of unintended adverse consequences. So I had to experiment, and it was a learning process. The first part was this subversive activity, disrupting the oppressive regimes. That was a lot of fun, and that’s actually what got me hooked on this whole enterprise. Seeing what works in one country, trying it in the other countries, so it was like a kind of, what developed a matrix in fact, if we have national foundations and then we had certain specialized activities.” ~Marxist Billionaire George Soros

  5840. During World War II, Soros lived in Hungary under false papers working for the Nazi government
  5841. Soros was tasked with identifying and expropriating the property of wealthy fellow Jews
  5842. By his own admission, Soros helped confiscate the homes of fellow Jews in Hungary in 1944
  5843. Soros had previously crashed foreign countries’ financial systems by generating market panic
  5844. George Soros became known as the man who broke the Bank of England in 1992
  5845. Soros nearly collapsed Thailand & Malaysia’s economies during the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
  5846. Malaysian Prime Minister accused Soros of causing the collapse with monetary machinations
  5847. Thailand branded Soros as an “economic war criminal” who “sucks the blood from the people”
  5848. Soros was involved in the Russia-gate scandal that almost collapsed the Russian economy
  5849. The Russia scandal was described as “one of the greatest social robberies in human history”
  5850. France convicted George Soros for felony insider trading and fined him $2.9 million
  5851. George Soros won an appeal to lower the fine from $2.9 million down to $940,507
  5852. Soros lost his appeal at the European Court of Human Rights to overturn his conviction (2011)
  5853. Hungary’s financial watchdog fined George Soros $2.2 million for “illegal market manipulation”
    “I became concerned with the problems of globalization, where you have global markets, but your politics based on the sovereignty of states. So how do you deal with that issue? And then I came to the realization that Open Society is endangered by our current leadership in this country, and that is when I refocused my attention on the United States.” ~George Soros

  5854. Soros spent $27 million in 2004 in an unsuccessful effort to defeat President George W. Bush
  5855. George Soros ‘bought’ the Democratic Party and has been replacing moderates with radicals
  5856. Soros spent more than $20 million on Democratic advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts for 2004
  5857. George Soros gave substantial money and support to the Obama campaign for the 2008 elections
  5858. Soros invested millions of dollars into super PACs focused on grassroots organizing, voter registration, and Democratic turnout in support of President Obama’s re-election (2012)
  5859. Soros gave $1 million to Priorities USA Action, Obama’s chief super PAC (September 2012)
  5860. Soros also gave $500,000 to two other super PACs backing Democrats for Congress
  5861. Announcement came at a luncheon headlined by former President Bill Clinton, and attended by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) (September 2012)
  5862. Schumer released plans to investigate whether super PACs work with campaigns (February 2012)
  5863. Nancy Pelosi has pushed legislation in the House aimed at super PACs (February 2012)
  5864. George Soros gave $1 million to American Bridge, which does contracting work for super PACs
  5865. American Bridge is run by a Media Matters’ founder David Brock, a favorite of George Soros
  5866. While not yet as deep, Soros has tentacles spreading throughout the Republican Party as well
  5867. An anonymous investor or hedge fund made billions betting on the U.S. credit rating downgrade
  5868. Starting in 2006, Soros sank money into a project called the Secretary of State Project (SOSP)
  5869. The goal of the project was to elect Democrats into the offices of Secretary of State
  5870. Secretaries of State are responsible for adjudicating all of the vote-fraud cases within each state
  5871. The project is so far credited with helping elect (11) “reform-minded” progressive Democrats
  5872. In 2006, SOSP helped elect leftist secretaries in Ohio, Nevada, Iowa, New Mexico and Minnesota
    “They helped to elect Saul Alinsky-inspired community organizer Mark Ritchie, the ACORN-loving Minnesota secretary of state who presided over Al Franken’s theft of incumbent Republican Norm Coleman’s U.S. Senate seat in the 2008 election cycle.” ~Matthew Vadum at the American Spectator

  5873. In 2008, SOSP backed winning candidates in Montana, West Virginia, Missouri and Oregon
  5874. In 2010, just two of SOSP’s candidates won their elections, in Minnesota and California
  5875. The project is a 527 political group, therefore benefits from a soft-money loophole
  5876. Internal Revenue Code: 527 political groups have no upper limit on contributions and no restrictions on who may contribute in seeking to influence the selection, nomination, election, appointment or defeat of candidates to federal, state or local public office
  5877. Many of SOSP’s founders and supporters have long-standing ties to George Soros
  5878. George Soros helped craft the “stimulus” bill and then invested in companies that stood to benefit
  5879. Soros met with Obama’s top economist and officials 3 times as the “stimulus” was being crafted
  5880. George Soros later participated in discussions on financial reform
  5881. George Soros doubled his holdings in medical manufacturer Hologic, a “stimulus” recipient
  5882. Soros tripled his holdings in Emulus, a big recipient of taxpayer infrastructure spending
  5883. George Soros bought 210,000 shares of Cisco Systems, a taxpayer “stimulus” recipient
  5884. Soros bought shares of Extreme Networks, which became part of Obama’s “broadband strategy”
  5885. Soros bought 1.5 million shares of AEP, which Obama gave $1 billion to in June 2009
  5886. Soros bought shares in Ameren, which received a $540 million Energy Department taxpayer loan
  5887. Soros bought 250,000 shares of Public Service Enterprise Group, a recipient of a DOE loan
  5888. Soros bought 500,000 shares of NRG Energy, a recipient of an Energy Department taxpayer loan
  5889. Soros bought a million shares of Entergy, a recipient of an Energy Department taxpayer loan
  5890. Soros bought into BioFuel Energy, a company that benefited from EPA regulation of ethanol
  5891. Soros bought Powerspan in April 2009, a few weeks before it landed a $100 million DOE loan
  5892. Soros bought Blackboard, which became a large recipient of education “stimulus” money (2009)
  5893. Soros bought Burlington Northern Santa Fe & CSX, parts of Obama’s plan to revitalize railroads
  5894. Soros bought Cognizant Technology Solutions, a recipient of Obama’s “stimulus” plan
  5895. Soros bought 300,000 shares of Constellation Energy Group, a stimulus recipient of $200 million
  5896. Soros bought 4.6 million shares of Covanta, a recipient of taxpayer “stimulus” money from Obama
  5897. George Soros may also benefit from the White House’s natural gas proposal (2012)
  5898. Soros’ hedge funds owns 3,160,063 shares of Westport and stands to reap the predicted windfall
  5899. Democrats offered a transportation bill worth billions for companies owned by George Soros
  5900. Forbes 400 ranked George Soros as the second biggest financial gainer during the year 2010

    5901. George Soros has spent well over $48 million on progressive political media and advertising organizations

  5901. Soros-funded leftist media reaches more than 300 million people every month around the world
  5902. George Soros now has financial ties to over 30 major news organizations
  5903. Soros is tied to the New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press (AP), NBC, ABC, etc.
  5904. Soros funds media’s infrastructure, such as journalism schools and investigative journalism projects
  5905. Soros funds both the Columbia School of Journalism and the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)
  5906. Columbia is headed by President Lee Bollinger, a vocal supporter of government funded media
  5907. A 2009 study by Columbia’s journalism program also called for “a national fund for local news”
  5908. Bollinger sits on the Pulitzer Prize board and the board of directors of The Washington Post
  5909. Washington Post’s Vice President Len Downie serves on a board funded by George Soros
  5910. Len Downie sits on the board of the Center for Investigative Reporting, funded by George Soros
  5911. Soros funds The National Federation of Community Broadcasters
  5912. Soros funds The National Association of Hispanic Journalists
  5913. Soros funds the Committee to Protect Journalists
  5914. Soros funds Project Syndicate and Public News Service, both claiming to reach millions of readers
  5915. The Organization of News Ombudsmen is devoted to “monitoring accuracy, fairness and balance”
  5916. Organization of News Ombudsmen is funded and supported by Soros’ Open Society Institute
  5917. Organization’s members include those from the L.A. Times, USA Today, & the Washington Post
  5918. Organization of News Ombudsmen is directed by NPR’s Alicia Shepard & PBS’s Michael Getler
  5919. Soros’ Open Society Foundation gave $1.8 million to fund additional political “reporters” for NPR
  5920. George Soros’ Open Society Institute funds the Investigative News Network (INN)
  5921. INN: composed of 32 non-profit news organizations producing “non-partisan investigative news”
  5922. Obama’s FCC ordered NBC newsrooms to partner with the non-profit Voice of San Diego
  5923. Voice of San Diego is a member of INN news network funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute
  5924. INN includes the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, the liberal web start-up MinnPost, National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting, National Public Radio (NPR), and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
  5925. INN had previously included the liberal Huffington Post investigative operation among its grants
  5926. Huffington Post investigations later merged with the Center for Public Integrity (CPI)
  5927. Center for Public Integrity’s (CPI) received $651,650 from Soros’ Open Society Institute in 2009
  5928. ABC’s Amanpour and Arianna Huffington (Huffington Post/AOL) sit on CPI’s board of directors
  5929. Amanpour: tax cuts are “giveaways,” the Tea Party is “extreme” yet Obama is “very Reaganesque”
  5930. Arianna Huffington: “Nobody believes that” the American military should be “so powerful that no one can challenge it” and argued that it was out of touch with the American people (February 2012)
  5931. NBC’s Paula Madison, NPR’s Matt Thompson, and ABC’s Ben Sherwood also sit on the board
  5932. CPI’s reporting features attacks on the coal industry, payday loans, and detailed investigations of conservative politicians and funders like David and Charles Koch and their “web of influence”
  5933. The James L. Knight Foundation, a well-known journalism foundation, also backs the INN
  5934. James L. Knight Foundation CEO Alberto Ibarguen is on the board of directors for ProPublica
  5935. ProPublica describes itself as an “independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest” and as championing the values of the “weak” against the “strong”
  5936. ProPublica won a second Pulitzer Prize for reporting a liberal agenda, including attacks on oil and gas companies, the health care industry, for-profit schools, and the evils of the foreclosure industry
  5937. ProPublica is just one of many Soros-funded organizations with members of the “neutral press”
  5938. ProPublica received donations from George Soros in 2010 and 2011 to push the leftwing agenda
  5939. ProPublica was given millions of dollars to “strengthen the progressive infrastructure”
  5940. ProPublica was founded with a $10 million yearly grant from Herbert and Marion Sandler
  5941. Herbert and Marion Sandler were former chief executives of the Golden West Financial Corp.
  5942. Golden West Financial Corp. was one of the U.S. largest mortgage lenders and savings and loans
  5943. The Sandlers sold the business to Wachovia in 2008 for $26 billion right before the financial crisis
  5944. The Sandlers are major donors to the Democratic Party and top funders of ACORN, MoveOn.org, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Human Rights Watch and other far-left groups
  5945. The Sandlers donate heavily to the Center for American Progress (CAP) think tank
  5946. In 2008, the Sandlers were behind two controversial PACs, Vote Hope and PowerPac.org
  5947. Vote Hope and PowerPac.org spent about $5 million in pro-Obama ads in California
  5948. Both of the PACs were run by Herbert and Marion Sandler’s son-in-law, Steve Phillips
  5949. Steve Phillips was a former president of the San Francisco School Board
  5950. Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., a friend of Obama, sits on the board of ProPublica
  5951. 14-person Journalism Advisory Board is stacked with leftwing mainstream media representatives
  5952. CNN’s David Gergen and representatives from top newspapers sit on the advisory board
  5953. Wall Street Journal’s former publisher & the editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster sit on the board
  5954. Jill Abramson, a managing editor of the New York Times sits on the advisory board
  5955. Kerry Smith, the senior vice president for editorial quality of ABC News sits on the board
  5956. Cynthia A. Tucker, the editor of the editorial page of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  5957. NBC-owned television stations in cities across the nation teamed up with ProPublica (2011)
  5958. ProPublica will contribute to the news operations of all NBC-owned-and-operated stations
  5959. Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) received nearly $1 million from Soros from 2003-2008
  5960. Center for Investigative Reporting’s board of directors and the advisory board features names such as San Francisco Chronicle President Phil Bronstein, David Boardman of The Seattle Times, Washington Post V.P. Len Downie, and CBS News Producer George Osterkamp
  5961. CIR’s media partners include the Washington Post, Salon, CNN, and ABC News
  5962. CIR reports many stories on climate change, illegal immigration, and the evils of big companies
  5963. George Soros’s latest attempt in new media was creating the American Bridge 21st Century
  5964. American Bridge 21st Century is a super PAC that focuses on “election-oriented research”
  5965. The project aimed to follow GOP candidates and officials with videographers in 2011 and 2012
  5966. The hope is to capture gotcha moments to derail political ambitions and create advertisements
  5967. Soros donated another $1 million to American Bridge 21st Century to help re-elect Obama in 2012
  5968. PBS’ Mill Moyers described George Soros as a “victim” of Glenn Beck and Fox News “assassins”
  5969. Moyer: Soros is “deeply troubled by the Orwellian power of the right-wing in this country today
  5970. Bill Moyer was on the board of George Soros’ Open Society Institute prior to joining PBS
  5971. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) is funded by George Soros
  5972. Analysis of CREW’s “watchdog” activities reveals a systematic effort to disproportionately target Republicans and conservative-leaning groups with frivolous lawsuits, ethics complaints, and petitions for investigations by law enforcement agencies
  5973. CREW called on Julius Genachowski and the FCC to revoke Fox News’ broadcast licenses
  5974. POLITICO’s ex-Soros employee, Kenneth Vogel, attacked GOP super PACs (June 2012)

    5975. George Soros’ Open Society Institute provides funding for a vast network of Marxist front groups

  5975. Soros has spent over $400 million on ‘Open Society’ education at colleges and universities
  5976. All of the Ivy League universities, along with a variety of state schools, private institutions, and even religiously-affiliated institutions, were also funded by George Soros
  5977. Koch brothers were vilified by the political left for donating almost $7 million to universities
  5978. Soros has given over 50 times more money to universities than the despised Koch brothers
  5979. Center for American Progress (CAP) was founded in 2003 by John Podesta and funded by Soros
  5980. John Podesta was co-chairman of the Obama-Biden Transition Project in 2008
  5981. Think Progress is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF)
  5982. The CAPAF is a sister advocacy organization of John Podesta’s Center for American Progress
  5983. Think Progress bills itself as a “nonpartisan organization” advancing progressive ideas & policies
  5984. Think Progress’ political blog boasted about being named the “Best Liberal Blog” in 2006
  5985. Think Progress has a track record of generating reams of dubious & fabricated Leftist propaganda
  5986. George Soros, Theresa Heinz Kerry and The New World Foundation fund the Tides Foundation
  5987. 1970’s Anti-war protester Drummond Pike founded the Tides Foundation in 1976
  5988. Tides Foundation gives funds to thousands of far-left charities, lobby organizations, & “projects”
  5989. Tides’ “projects” include People for the American Way, Social Venture Network, Women Donors Network, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, and many other liberal non-profit groups
  5990. Tides Center has partnered with the Ford Foundation and the Gates Foundation
  5991. Tides Foundation funded ACORN and other leftist groups in exchange for federal grant money
  5992. Tides Foundation also funds Media Matters for America and the Center for Constitutional Rights
  5993. Tides Foundation has given 14,246 grants totaling $630.6 million between 1999 through 2008
  5994. Tides’ new CEO, Melissa Bradley, previously founded the far-left group New Capitalist
  5995. Melissa Bradley was selected as a ‘Soros Justice Fellow’ for her innovation in criminal justice
  5996. America Coming Together (ACT) was founded in 2003 and funded by SEIU and George Soros
  5997. In 2004, George Soros was the largest individual donor to America Coming Together (ACT)
  5998. Soros and Taco Bell heir Rob McKay created ACT to help defeat George W. Bush in 2004
  5999. McKay, now chairman of Democracy Alliance, gave $245,000 to ACT and $35,000 to SOSP
  6000. Democracy Alliance was founded in 2005 with major financial backing from George Soros
  6001. Democracy Alliance is billed as a network of leftist think-tanks and advocacy groups
  6002. Democracy Alliance’s membership includes some of the country’s wealthiest Democrats
  6003. Democracy Alliance funds political infrastructure aimed at pushing America to the left
  6004. Democracy Alliance has helped direct nearly $150 million to progressive organizations
  6005. Robert McKay, chairman of Democracy Alliance, also sits on the board of Priorities USA
  6006. Priorities USA (P-USA) was co-founded by Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney
  6007. Bill Burton was President Obama’s first deputy press secretary in the White House
  6008. Sean Sweeney served as senior adviser to Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s first chief of staff
  6009. Priorities USA’s sister organization was also founded, Priorities USA Action (P-USAA)
  6010. Both organizations’ stated goal was to raise $100 million to help re-elect President Obama in 2012
  6011. Priorities USA (P-USA) is registered as a 501(c)(4) organization and therefore permitted to accept donations of any amount from corporations, labor unions, and individual contributors
  6012. IRS rules state that 501(c)(4) organizations are not required to disclose the identity of its donors
  6013. Priorities USA Action is run by Bill Burton, former White House deputy press secretary
  6014. Priorities USA Action is also run by Democrat strategist Paul Begala
  6015. Priorities USA consistently echoes Democratic Party talking points in its ads and communiques
  6016. America Votes 2006 was another Soros-backed liberal group that sought to elect Democrats
  6017. Soros gave an additional $1 million to America Votes to help re-election President Obama in 2012
  6018. Soros was the largest donor, giving $3.5 million, to the Fund for America in late 2007
  6019. Fund for America was created to do voter outreach and finance attack ads for the 2008 elections
  6020. Four of the fund’s nine donors who gave $200,000 or more also contributed to the SOSP
  6021. ActBlue was founded in 2004 as a committee that helps elect liberal Democratic candidates
  6022. ActBlue founders seek to “nationalize local races” with a national grassroots donor base
  6023. SOSP used ActBlue to help raise funds for itself and its candidates from Democrats nationwide
  6024. ActBlue said it raised more than $190 million online for Democratic candidates since 2004
  6025. ActBlue funneled money into campaigns of six Democratic state Senate candidates in Wisconsin
  6026. Media Matters for America is a Democrat party front group that spreads false propaganda
  6027. Media Matters is funded by Soros as the activist arm for the Congressional Progressive Caucus
  6028. Media Matters is breaking the law by lying and participating in partisan political activity
  6029. Media Matters was founded by chairman David Brock as a 501(C)(3) tax-exempt foundation
  6030. 501(C)(3) tax-exempt organizations must obey IRS laws restricting political and lobbying activity
  6031. David Brock revealed his campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at Fox News
  6032. Media Matters attempted to coordinate Democratic opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline
  6033. Media Matters offered their purported “analysis” to provide “leverage” to “allies” in Congress
  6034. Media Matters is closely connected to Hillary Clinton and funded by the Democracy Alliance
  6035. Media Matters is a George Soros-backed legion of liberal activist shock troops based in D.C.
  6036. George Soros donated an another $1 million to Media Matters just prior to the 2010 elections
  6037. Media Matters hired an executive from MoveOn.org to develop campaigns against News Corp.
  6038. Emails revealed that the Justice Department regularly enlists Media Matters to spin the press (2012)
  6039. Soros used propaganda to promote treaties that give the U.N. control over gun ownership (2012)
  6040. Haydn Price-Morris, a staffer at Media Matters, committed numerous felonies in Washington, D.C. and across the country by carrying a firearm to defend Media Matters’ founder, David Brock
  6041. Brock became increasingly concerned by late 2010 that he was being targeted by right-wing assassins
  6042. David Brock reportedly struggles with mental health problems and has been hospitalized in the past
  6043. Media Matters commissioned hundreds of pieces supportive of gun control and restrictions on firearms
    “George Soros and a lot of groups connected to gun control are funding this group, and they wouldn’t be too happy that an employee of Media Matters was carrying a gun, especially when it was illegal in D.C.” ~Anonymous source within Media Matters

  6044. MoveOn.org received early funding in the tune of millions of dollars from George Soros
  6045. MoveOn.org founded by liberal elites in response to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton
  6046. MoveOn.org challenged the personal integrity of American military and the civilian leadership
  6047. The New York Times gave MoveOn.org a sweetheart advertising deal prior to 2004 elections
  6048. Drummond Pike serves as a board member and treasurer of the Democracy Alliance
  6049. Pike is also a chairman of the board of the Environmental Working Group, a green activist group
  6050. George Soros’ new ‘green energy’ investment fund hired Cathy Zoi, a top Obama energy aide
  6051. Cathy Zoi, an Al Gore acolyte, was Obama’s point-woman on subsidizing the green tech industry
  6052. Cathy Zoi’s husband, Robin Roy, is a top executive at a private green-tech firm, Serious Materials
  6053. Serious Materials pocketed federal stimulus money and was being regulated by Cathy Zoi
  6054. The White House regularly held up Serious Materials as a “poster child of green industry”
  6055. Defense policy advisor Rosa Brooks is a George-Soros trained ideologue and is anti-military
  6056. Obama Technology advisor Lawrence Lessig founded a group that spreads Al Jazeera propaganda
  6057. Lessig works with a Marxist activist who argued for the dismantling of the U.S. capitalist system
  6058. Lessig works with a George Soros group that petitions for more government control of the media
  6059. George Soros’ International Crisis Group is seeking hard-line Islamic states in the Middle East
  6060. Soros’ team told Algerian officials that those supporting Islamic caliphate should be ‘empowered’
  6061. Soros’ Open Society Institute funds opposition groups across the Middle East and North Africa
  6062. International Crisis Group (ICG) petitioned the Algerian government supporting Islamists
  6063. ICG was tied to uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, and other parts of the Middle East and North Africa
  6064. Soros’ ICG petitioned the Libyan government to normalize ties with the Muslim Brotherhood
  6065. Muslim Brotherhood want the theocracy of Shariah law, not the democracy of Thomas Jefferson
  6066. George Soros wrote that Israel is the “main stumbling block” to democratic progress in Egypt
  6067. The Soros-funded organization Free Press founded by avowed Marxist Robert W. McChesney
  6068. Robert W. McChesney advocates dismantling capitalism & replacing with socialism (2009)
  6069. Robert W. McChesney advocating a government-run U.S. media system to spew propaganda
  6070. Susan P. Crawford the “Internet Czar” spoke at Free Press “Change Media” summit (2009)
  6071. Susan P. Crawford’s project OneWebNow lists Free Press & ACORN as participating groups
  6072. Free Press Policy Director Ben Scott named a policy adviser for innovation at the State Dept.
  6073. Soros-funded group Public Knowledge has Obama transition team members on advisory board
  6074. Public Knowledge advisory board member Timothy Wu is chairman of the board for Free Press
  6075. Soros is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
  6076. Bilderberg Society, G8, G20, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Trilateral meet regularly
  6077. Bilderberg Club meets secretively and is composed of hundreds of the world’s financial elite
  6078. Obama and Progressive Democrats are supporting global governance of the financial industries
  6079. Obama was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which seeks global governance
  6080. Barack H. Obama and Hillary R. Clinton had both secretly attended a Bilderberg meeting in 2008
  6081. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke attended the meeting in 2008 and possibly again secretly in 2010
  6082. Agenda 21: abolition of private property, global citizenship education, & control of human actions
  6083. Agenda 21’s “sustainable development” concepts incorporated into the Obama administration
  6084. Obama signed Executive Order #13575 in order to control rural populations and development
  6085. White House Rural Council was created in 2011 to establish control over 16% of the population
  6086. Obama’s EPA is seeking new regulatory power in the name of “sustainable development” (2011)
  6087. Maurice Strong proposed intentionally collapsing rich countries of the world to save the planet
  6088. John Bryson co-founded the activist group Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 1970
  6089. NRDC was founded with a $400,000 seed grant from the Ford Foundation
  6090. NRDC is also funded by George Soros and the Tides Foundation
  6091. NRDC is a major proponent of stopping global warming and endorsed the Earth Charter
  6092. Earth Charter blames capitalism for the world’s environmental, social, and economic problems
    “The dominant patterns of production and consumption are causing environmental devastation, the depletion of resources, and a massive extinction of species. The benefits of development are not shared equitably and the gap between rich and poor is widening.” ~The Earth Charter

  6093. Natural Resources Defense Council is a member and funder of the controversial Apollo Alliance
  6094. NRDC’s president, Frances Beinecke, is on the Apollo Alliance’s board
  6095. Jeff Jones, founder if a domestic terrorist group, boasted of doing work with John Bryson’s group
  6096. Jeff Jones, Mark Rudd, and Bill Ayers signed an infamous statement calling for a revolution against the American government inside and outside of the country to defeat U.S. imperialism
  6097. Jeff Jones: Apollo’s mission is a “sort of a grand unified field theory for progressive left causes”
  6098. Jeff Jones boasted on his website that he has done consulting work for the NRDC
  6099. John Bryson was the former chairman, CEO, and president of Edison International
  6100. Edison International is the parent company of Southern California Edison
  6101. Bryson serves on the U.N. secretary-general’s advisory group on energy and climate change
  6102. Bryson was co-chair of the globalist organization Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP)
  6103. PCIP was founded in 1995 in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
  6104. Members of globalist organizations PCIP & CRF are found throughout the Obama administration
  6105. Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP) is funded by the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
  6106. President Obama’s ambassador to France, Charles Rivkin, is a member of the PCIP
  6107. Charles Rivkin invited a 29-member delegation from the PCIP to a conference in France (2010)
  6108. Rivkin proposed that the U.S. “engage” and help to “empower France’s Muslim minorities”
  6109. Deputy secretary of state James B. Steinberg serves on the PCIP board of directors
  6110. Steinberg serves on the science and security board of the journal Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
  6111. Journal argued for the U.S. to hand over its nuclear weapons to an international organization
  6112. Journal was founded by scientists accused of spying for the Soviets during the Cold War
  6113. U.S. ambassador to Argentina Vilma S. Martinez is chairman of the PCIP’s Mexico Study Group
  6114. Obama’s former ambassador to China, Jon M. Huntsman Jr. (R), is a PCIP founding director
  6115. Obama’s U.S. ambassador to Australia, Jeffrey L. Bleich, is a PCIP member
  6116. Diana Farrell, deputy director of the National Economic Council, is a member of the PCIP
  6117. Farrell is also a member of the CFR and the Bretton Woods Committee
  6118. Byron Auguste, a member of the W.H. Council for Community Solutions, is on the PCIP board
  6119. Auguste also serves on the board of trustees of the Center for American Progress (CAP)
  6120. Center for American Progress (CAP) is funded by George Soros and led by John Podesta
  6121. John Podesta served as co-chairman of Obama’s transition team
  6122. Steven Myers is a Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP) member
  6123. Myers joined the State Department’s advisory committee on international economic policy (2010)
  6124. John B. Emerson is a member of both the PCIP and the CFR
  6125. Emerson was an appointee for Obama’s advisory committee for trade policy and negotiations
  6126. Obama nominated PCIP member Janet Yellen to serve as vice chair of the Federal Reserve
  6127. PCIP member Alan D. Bersin was appointed commissioner of U.S. Customs & Border Protection
  6128. Obama appointed PCIP member Michael Camunez to assistant secretary for market access and compliance in the Department of Commerce (2011)
  6129. Ernest James Wilson was elected chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (2009)
  6130. E.J. Wilson is a member of the PCIP board and was a policy advisor on Obama’s transition team
  6131. Jonathan Greenblat is chairman of the PCIP’s energy and environment committee
  6132. Jonathan Greenblat was also on Obama’s presidential transition team
  6133. Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist and writer and a consultant for Human Rights Watch
  6134. Rashid, a PCIP fellow, is a member of the advisory board of Eurasia Net of the Soros Foundation
  6135. Rashid is also a scholar of the Davos World Economic Forum
  6136. Rashid became the first journalist to address the U.N. General Assembly in New York (2002)
  6137. Rashid was also the first journalist to address NATO ambassadors in Brussels (2003)
  6138. Professor Kent Wong of UCLA is the director of the Center for Labor Research & Education
  6139. Center for Labor Research & Education received funding from Soros’ Open Society Institute
  6140. Center for Labor Research & Education also received funds from Tides and the Ford Foundation
  6141. Wong spoke at a pro-illegal immigration rally where he endorsed the DREAM Act in racist terms
  6142. Wong called on future DREAM Act beneficiaries to replace the “old white men” in Congress
  6143. Professor Wong served as a staff attorney for the SEIU in Los Angeles prior to joining UCLA
  6144. Wong was the founding president of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO
  6145. Wong served as the president of the union organization United Association of Labor Education
  6146. Campaign for America’s Future was co-founded in 1996 primarily by Robert Borosage
  6147. Robert Borosage previously worked as director of the Marxist-oriented Institute for Policy Studies
  6148. Campaign for America’s Future is funded by Marxist billionaire George Soros
  6149. Roger Hickey is a co-founder and co-director of Campaign for America’s Future (CAF)
  6150. Roger Hickey also co-founded the George Soros-funded Economic Policy Institute (EPI)
    “We think Obama should go ahead and take the opportunity to appoint a number of NLRB people and Cordray as well and it would be a disappointment if he did not.” ~Roger Hickey calling on President Obama to break precedent on recess appointments (which he did) despite a 1993 Justice Department finding cited by Obama’s solicitor general in 2011 arguing that a recess must be longer than three days
    (January 2012)

  6151. Center for Community Change (CCC) has its board filled with radicals and socialist activists
  6152. Center for Community Change is funded by Marxist billionaire George Soros
  6153. Jewish Fund for Justice (JFSJ) is a social justice charity funded by Soros’ Open Society Institute
  6154. JFSJ promotes social justice, “green” jobs, immigration reform, & was a champion of Obamacare
  6155. JFSJ runs a Selah Leadership Program which provides local community organizing training
  6156. Selah Leadership Program grads included Heather Booth, founder of radical Midwest Academy
  6157. As of mid-2007, more than 200 leaders from 165 organizations had completed the program
  6158. JFSJ was listed as an endorsing organization for the D.C. One Nation rally in October 2010
  6159. JFSJ has a “proud” working association with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
  6160. Extremist and self-described Saul Alinsky disciple Heather Booth founded Midwest Academy
  6161. Midwest Academy’s methods were adopted by the AFL-CIO’s “Union Summer” training camp
  6162. Booth stated building a “progressive majority” would help for a “fair distribution of wealth”
  6163. Booth’s husband, Paul Booth, founded Students for a Democrat Society (SDS) in the 1960s
  6164. SDS was a radical 1960s anti-war movement spun-off from Bill Ayers’ Weather Underground
  6165. The Woods Fund provided capital to the Midwest Academy while Obama served as director
  6166. Jackie Kendall was an executive director of the Midwest Academy founded in the 1970s
  6167. Jackie Kendall helped train volunteers to aid Obama’s campaign prior to the 2008 Iowa primary
  6168. Citizen Action of Illinois spun off from the Midwest Academy to perform work in Chicago
  6169. In late 2006, George Soros bought 2 million shares of Halliburton stock for $62 million
  6170. George Soros sponsored the founding of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)
  6171. INET allows George Soros to bring together the “world’s top economists and financial thinkers”
  6172. The goal of George Soros and INET is “to remake the world’s economy as they see fit”
  6173. More than two-thirds of the slated speakers for the 2011 event have direct ties to George Soros
  6174. Jeffrey Sachs is founder and co-president of the Soros-funded Millennium Promise Alliance
  6175. Millennium Promise Alliance promotes a global economy and a new international tax structure
  6176. Sachs sits on INET’s advisory council and is a special adviser to U.N. Sec.-General Ban Ki-moon
  6177. Jeffrey Sachs directs Columbia’s Earth Institute promoting the theory of global warming
  6178. Sachs is the engineer of a “shock treatment” economic doctrine that leads to economic failure
  6179. George Soros funds the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), a Marxist-oriented think-tank
  6180. IPS “serves as an intellectual nerve center” for issues including “support for Marxist insurgencies”
  6181. IPS undermined our national security and was closely linked to the Soviet’s KGB spy agency
  6182. FBI called IPS a “think factory” that helps to “train extremists who incite violence in U.S. cities”
  6183. FBI said that IPS’s “educational research serves as cover for intrigue, and political agitation”
  6184. IPS was accused of serving as a propaganda arm of the USSR and a place where Soviet agents met
  6185. Congressman Leon Panetta was on IPS’s official 20th Anniversary Committee on April 5, 1983
  6186. Panetta’s voting record in Congress from 1977-1993 showed an affinity for IPS’s agenda
  6187. Panetta supported IPS’s “Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy Line” in 1983
  6188. Panetta commissioned the IPS to produce an ‘alternative’ budget during the 1980s
  6189. IPS’s budget drastically cut defense spending while increasing the spending for social welfare
  6190. Panetta voted against the reaffirmation of the Mutual Defense Treaty with Taiwan
  6191. Panetta voted in favor of continuing foreign aid to the Sandinistas of communist Nicaragua
  6192. Panetta supported extending most-favored nation status to the Soviet Union during the Cold War
  6193. Panetta voted to cede control of the Panama Canal to the pro-Soviet Panamanian government
  6194. Panetta endorsed the IPS-supported bill to terminate our efforts to resist communism in Nicaragua
  6195. Panetta slammed President Reagan’s “illegal and extraordinary vicious wars” in Latin America
  6196. Panetta supported Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and opposed Chile’s anti-communist government
  6197. Panetta issued a Congressional statement of praise for anti-war activist Lucy Haessler in 1984
  6198. CIA Director Leon Panetta was later nominated by Obama to serve as secretary of defense in 2011
  6199. CIA Director Panetta was tied to the IPS, a pro-Marxist think tank accused of anti-CIA activity
  6200. Other members of the IPS committee included Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Tom Harkin (D-IA)
  6201. Sen. Tom Harkin’s (D-Iowa) largest political donor stands to benefit from a bill he sponsored
  6202. Harkin took at least $137,916.00 from a company called Herbalife International since 1989
  6203. Herbalife is a global nutrition & supplement company that specializes in “healthy” weight loss
  6204. Harkin sponsored the Federal Response to Eliminating Eating Disorders, or F.R.E.E.D. Act
  6205. F.R.E.E.D. continues to re-write The Social Security Act of 1935 and Obamacare passed in 2010
  6206. Removes exclusion of payments for “agents when used for anorexia, weight loss, or weight gain”
  6207. Herbalife sells a wide range of products tied to weight gain, weight loss, and eating disorders
  6208. The bill authorizes our federal government to pay for the Herbalife International’s products
  6209. Authorizes Medicare and Medicaid to pay for OTC drugs used in the “treatment” of eating disorders
  6210. Herbalife International has been Tom Harkin’s biggest political contributor over the last 22 years
  6211. Harkin has been the loudest advocate for alternative medicine and prevention for the last 20 years
  6212. Lucy Haessler co-founded the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF)
  6213. WILPF was named by the U.S. State Department as a “Soviet front” group
  6214. Karen Dolan, director of Cities for Progress & Cities for Peace, is a fellow at Soros’ IPS
  6215. Dolan: “Progressives won in the 2010 mid-term elections” and “our work is now finally beginning”
  6216. Dolan urged progressives to “throw our support unabashedly behind the Progressive Caucus”
  6217. Dolan wants “to do the right thing through as many Exec. Orders as we can present to [Obama]”
  6218. George Soros held two concurrent conferences in March 2011, nicknamed Bretton Woods 2.0
  6219. The first four-day conference, billed as “a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order”
  6220. The second Soros four-day conference aimed at remaking the world by changing the media
  6221. New Economic Thinking (INET), an organization with Soros ties, sponsored the events
  6222. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) headlined the George Soros’ ‘Change The World’ event in April 2011
  6223. Pelosi skipped all votes and negotiations over the potential 2011 shutdown to attend the events
  6224. George Soros dumped his investors in order to avoid new financial regulations of his hedge fund
  6225. Soros terminated his hedge fund to avoid reporting requirements under the Dodd-Frank reform act
  6226. George Soros promotes an “Open Society,” except for when it comes to his own shady dealings
  6227. Washington Post cited the so-called “nonpartisan” Tax Policy Center in a tax policy piece
  6228. Tax Policy Center is an arm of the Brookings Institute and supported by the Urban Institute (UI)
  6229. In 2001, Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution began collaboration on a Tax Policy Center (TPC) to discredit President George W. Bush’s tax cut plans, which they argued was for ‘the wealthy’
  6230. Brookings has been involved in a variety of internationalist and state-sponsored programs
  6231. Brookings Institute has been involved with the Global Governance Initiative (GCI)
  6232. GCI aspires to facilitate the establishment of a U.N.-dominated world government
  6233. Brookings Fellows have also called for additional global collaboration on trade and banking, an expansion of the Kyoto Protocol, and nationalized health insurance for children
  6234. Nine Brookings economists signed a petition opposing President Bush’s tax cuts in 2003
  6235. Brookings Institution’s President since 2002 has been Strobe Talbott
  6236. Strobe Talbott previously served as President Clinton’s Deputy Secretary of State
  6237. Brookings Institute’s Board of Trustees features Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of John Kerry (D-MA)
  6238. Brookings’ Board of Trustees includes Zoe Baird, Clinton’s failed appointee for Attorney General
  6239. In 1980, the Urban Institute called for socialized health care in the United States
  6240. Urban Institute critiqued the Reagan administration with research paid for by the Ford Foundation
  6241. Urban Institute similarly critiqued the George H.W. Bush’s administration in 1990
  6242. Urban Institute became a leading policy center apologist for urban black violence following the Los Angeles riots in 1992, focusing on societal and economic factors, rather than moral and criminal
  6243. Ford Foundation is funding Van Jones’ attacks on free speech and intimidation of ALEC
  6244. Ford Foundation gave Color of Change at least $1.8 million to fund its campaign against ALEC
  6245. ALEC is a membership association of state legislators, including both Democrats and Republicans, and various businesses and associations that provide their perspective on policy issues
  6246. ALEC conducts research and promotes free-market economic policies and individual liberty
  6247. Since members of ALEC have a long history of supporting Second Amendment rights, Color of Change ran paid radio ads essentially blaming ALEC for the death of Trayvon Martin (June 2012)
  6248. ALEC is under attack from a loose coalition of 7 organizations: Color of Change, Common Cause, Center for Media and Democracy, Progressive States Network, People for the American Way, Brave New Foundation, and States Voices
  6249. Ford Foundation gave these seven organizations almost $6 million in grants in 2010 and 2011

    6250. Big Labor in America have been plotting to “destabilize the country” and crash Wall Street

  6250. American Leftists are working to destroy America’s financial system and create a revolution
  6251. Big Labor spent $2.2 billion on political activities during the 2008 and 2010 election cycles
  6252. Since 2005, unions spent over $4.4 billion on politics activities, nearly all on behalf of Democrats
  6253. Unions have the power to force workers to pay union dues and fees as a condition of employment
  6254. AFL-CIO and SEIU promotes socializing America by way of organizing unions
  6255. Unions contributed $400 million to Democrats during the 2008 election cycle
  6256. SEIU spent $28 million on Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign
  6257. SEIU was “the organization that spent the most to help Barack Obama get elected president”
    “Everybody... There’s not a presidential candidate, a gubernatorial candidate, a congressional candidate, who won’t tell ya, that they’re pro-union, when they’re looking for their endorsements. They’ll all say, ‘Oh we love SEIU.’ But the question you gotta ask yourself is, do they have it in their gut, do they have a track record of standing alongside you on picket lines? Do they have a track record of going after the companies that aren’t letting you organize? Do they have a track record of voting the right way? But also helping you organize to build more and more power?

    And some of you know I come from an organizing background, so — I’ve been working with the SEIU before I was elected to anything. When I was a community organizer, SEIU Local 880 and myself we organized people, to make sure that healthcare workers had basic rights; we organized voter registration drives, that’s how we built political power on the South Side of Chicago….and now the time has come for us to do it all across this country, and then we’ll paint the nation purple, with SEIU!

    I would not be a United States Senator had it not been for the support of your brothers and sisters in Illinois. Those folks, they supported me early, they supported me often. I’ve got my purple windbreaker from my campaign in 2004.

    And so, we’ve just got, what, four more days? Four more days of knocking on some doors. Four more days of working the precinct. Four more days of making sure all your co-workers are caucusing.

    SEIU, I am glad you are with me, let’s together change the country! SEIU! SEIU! SEIU! SEIU! SEIU!”
    ~Barack Obama speaking at a SEIU rally (January 15, 2008)

  6258. Obama bragged on video how he spent his entire adult life working with SEIU
  6259. Obama told SEIU, the 2nd-largest union, “Your agenda has been my agenda in the Senate”
  6260. Obama told an audience that he wanted to establish a civilian security force that rivals our military
  6261. 2009 Most Frequent Visitor to the White House: former SEIU labor leader Andy Stern
  6262. Andy Stern: checks and balances “have become an impediment to making the changes necessary…”
  6263. SEIU and AFSCME promoted their unions through the White House tax-paid email system
  6264. SEIU, AFSCME, and other unions donated to the leftist House Majority PAC for 2012 elections

  6265. Judicial Watch: “[H]ard to tell where big labor unions end and the Obama administration begins”
  6266. AFL-CIO lobbyist Bill Samuel visited the Obama White House more than 50 times (2012)
  6267. Samuel met four times with chief of staff William Daley and three times with Gene Sperling
  6268. AFL-CIO President John Sweeney endorsed Obama’s Housing Plan and redistribution policies
  6269. John Sweeney a well known member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
  6270. Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and DSA-controlled unions helped get Obama elected
  6271. CPUSA stated in 2007 that they “actively supported Obama during the primary election” in 2004
  6272. CPUSA’s official magazine lauded the important role of labor unions in electing Obama in 2008
  6273. Sam Webb, chairman of the Communist Party USA, endorsed Obama again for the 2012 elections
  6274. CPUSA scrubbed its website of references that stated it “actively supported” Obama’s re-election
  6275. SEIU organize a May Day rally in Los Angeles (2011) in conjunction with communist groups
  6276. SEIU and the AFL-CIO marched side-by-side with PLP and the Communists Party U.S.A
  6277. SEIU rally included signs stating “Workers of the World Unite” and “Smash Capitalism”
  6278. Leftist plotted to wage war on American capitalism in order to redistribute the nation’s wealth
  6279. SEIU official Stephen Lerner made plans to “destabilize the country” and crash Wall Street
  6280. Stephen Lerner is widely considered a revered strategist & organizer in the labor movement
  6281. On March 19, 2011 Stephen Lerner was introduced at the Left Forum conference as “SEIU”
  6282. Lerner caught on tape revealing secret plans to crash the stock market and redistribute the wealth
  6283. Francis Fox Piven (of Cloward & Piven) was in attendance at the Left Forum Conference (2011)
  6284. Piven said that past welfare rights protests taught her that people needed to “really make trouble”
  6285. Piven said poor people “had to be noisy, had to get people’s attention, and had to make trouble”
  6286. Piven concluded that “lots of people only have real power when they make trouble”
  6287. Video showed Frances Fox Piven and fellow professors indoctrinating college students to get involved and be ready for violent street battles and breaking down capitalism
  6288. Lerner’s plan was to conduct a coordinated “strike” on mortgages, student loans, & debt payments
  6289. Lerner’s plan was to use civil disobedience & riots to shut down banks, transportation, & services
  6290. Lerner urged leftist community organizations to manage the attacks instead of the labor unions
  6291. Lerner said since the attack would benefit labor unions, it couldn’t be seen as being the organizers
  6292. Lerner avoided giving the specific details of his plan fearing that police agents may be in the room
  6293. SEIU refused to comment if Lerner was still an employee, although later it was confirmed he was
  6294. ACORN founder Wade Rathke verified that Stephen Lerner had not been “fired” by SEIU
  6295. SEIU placed Stephen Lerner on “paid leave” to “think through his contribution to the union”
  6296. Wade Rathke confirmed that Lerner did attend the recent international executive board meeting
  6297. While with SEIU, Lerner spent millions of dollars in union’s dues to pursue a similar devious plan
  6298. Lerner used similar disruptive demonstration tactics on a much smaller scale during the 1970’s
  6299. In the 1980’s, Lerner worked with Justice for Janitors through SEIU’s building service division
  6300. Lerner expanded his strategies, writing in 2005, “There was literally a worldwide plan to win”
  6301. When local SEIU officials refused to support a new globalized union focus, they were replaced
  6302. Lerner said it’s “our moment to be part of making history” on the eve of Obama’s 2008 election
  6303. SEIU organizers are taking marching orders directly from Steve Lerner’s protester ‘playbook’
  6304. Busloads of SEIU demonstrators descended on a Bank of America executive’s front yard in 2010
  6305. SEIU members invaded bank offices to harass and intimidate executives on March 16, 2011
  6306. National People’s Action joined in on the “Showdown in America” campaign against big banks
  6307. Hundreds of protesters converged on JP Morgan Chase’s annual shareholders meeting (May 2011)
  6308. Tactics like blocking bridges were suggested by anti-capitalist SEIU organizer Stephen Lerner
  6309. Create an economic and social situation that is so bad that it becomes essentially ungovernable
  6310. SEIU infiltrates government and politics at the expense of its own rank and file
  6311. Employees and employers have detailed being abused by SEIU’s ruthless tactics
  6312. SEIU has corrupt political connections to the pay-to-play Obama administration
  6313. SEIU came out in support of Obama for re-election saying he is for the 99% (November 16, 2011)
  6314. Disgruntled SEIU members staged an anti-rally against the SEIU during ‘Occupy Sacramento’
  6315. Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is led by a radical former SEIU attorney
  6316. Craig Becker attempted to achieve EFCA by shortening union election times (November 2011)
  6317. SEIU’s Andy Stern published an article in the Wall Street Journal in support of Obama and his economic vision by praising China’s superior economic model (December 1, 2011)
  6318. Connecticut schemed with SEIU to unionize day care providers and others without a vote
  6319. Lerner spoke at a progressive summit in September 2011 following the failed Wall Street protests
  6320. Lerner told unions, community organizers, and students that they need to escalate the protests
  6321. Suggested breaking laws, occupying abandoned houses, and creating a crisis across the U.S.
  6322. Leo Gerard is the president of United Steelworkers International (USI) and an adviser to Obama
  6323. Leo Gerard called for “more militancy” in the Occupy movements across the U.S. (2011)
  6324. Leo Gerard serves on a number of groups funded by billionaire Marxist George Soros
  6325. Gerard sits on the boards of Campaign for America’s Future and the Economic Policy Institute
  6326. Groups include those who reportedly helped craft Obama’s “stimulus” and health-care laws (2009)
    “I think what we need is, we need more militancy… I think we’ve got to start a resistance movement. If Wall Street occupation doesn’t get the message, I think we’ve got to start blocking bridges and doing that kind of stuff.”
    ~Union president and Obama adviser Leo Gerard speaking with progressive radio host Ed Schultz (October 31, 2011)

  6327. Tactics like blocking bridges were already used by OWS to hold up the Brooklyn Bridge (2011)
  6328. Community agitator Leo Gerard has a history of direct-action protests
  6329. During the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle that turned violent, Gerard and United Steelworkers Vice President Tom Conway were caught on film dragging two large concrete planters into an intersection
  6330. Leo Gerard called for an “uprising of hope and anger. There’s plenty of anger out there.”
    “[Francis Fox Piven] counsels in her book… that hope is crucial, that constructive change arises from the mix of hope and anger”
    ~Leo Gerard quoting Francis Fox Piven in his writings (August 2011)
    “It’s time to stand up and be heard. It’s time to mobilize online and in the streets. Together, let’s tweet, facebook and text. Let’s rally, vote and, where necessary sit-in.” ~People’s Weekly World, the official newspaper of the Communist Party USA, quoting Leo Gerard and another United Steelworkers leader, Fred Redmond
    (February 2010)

  6331. Gerard was appointed to Obama’s Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations (2010)
  6332. Leo Gerard also serves as a vice president of the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest union
  6333. Gerard also serves as co-chairman of the BlueGreen Alliance, a partner of the Apollo Alliance
  6334. Leo Gerard also serves as an Apollo Alliance board member
  6335. Apollo Alliance changed their name following investigations and publicity of their radicalism
  6336. Apollo Alliance changed their name to BlueGreen Alliance, merging with their partner group
  6337. W.H. and Democrat leaders enabled, encouraged and empowered radicals to overthrow the economy
  6338. Lerner, a Leftist encouraging economic terrorism, has had direct access to Obama’s White House
  6339. Obama’s White House visitor logs show “Stephen Lerner” made as least (4) visits in 2 years
  6340. In May 2010, Lerner met with a presidential personnel officer who manages economic agencies
  6341. Lerner met with those responsible for recruiting personnel to the government’s economic agencies
  6342. On October 16, 2010, Lerner met with Tara Corrigan, execute assistant to Patrick Gaspard
  6343. Patrick Gaspard was the Director of the Office of Political Affairs in the Obama White House
  6344. Patrick Gaspard was on the advisory board for President Obama’s transition team
  6345. During the presidential campaign, Patrick Gaspard was Obama’s National Political Director
  6346. Director of political affairs Patrick Gaspard served as ACORN’s man in the Obama White House
  6347. Like Lerner, Patrick Gaspard was a lobbyist and executive vice president for SEIU Local 1199
  6348. New York’s SEIU Local 1199 is one of the union’s most powerful & notoriously militant chapters
  6349. Patrick Gaspard previously worked for Howard Dean and Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns
  6350. In 2004, Patrick Gaspard was the National Field Director for America Coming Together
  6351. Patrick Gaspard served as the acting political director for SEIU International during 2006 elections
  6352. Patrick Gaspard, “a Saul Alinsky-inspired ACORN operative,” was chosen to head the DNC
  6353. Gaspard announced his departure from the W.H. in 2011 to focus on Obama’s 2012 campaign
  6354. Patrick Gaspard now serves as executive director of the Democratic National Committee (DNC)
  6355. Steve Lerner was recruited to the SEIU at the same time as now-former president Andy Stern
  6356. Steve Lerner’s wife, Marilyn Sneiderman, worked as the AFL-CIO’s director of field mobilization
  6357. Both worked to unite unions, religious & civil/immigrant rights groups to fight for “social justice”
  6358. Marilyn Sneiderman now works as executive director of AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps
  6359. AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps is a group that is dedicated to social justice
  6360. Sneiderman & Lerner now host an annual Yom Kippur Break Fast event for unionized Jews
  6361. Annual guests include union leaders Andy Stern, Paul Booth, Anna Burger, and John Sweeney
  6362. Paul Booth is a top official at the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees
  6363. Anna Burger works as chair of the Change To Win coalition of unions
  6364. Sweeney is president of the American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations
  6365. SEIU local president Tyrone Freeman was convicted of embezzling money from union workers (2013)
  6366. In addition to misdirecting funds to cover thousands in personal expenses, Tyrone Freeman also had the union paying his American Express bills and the monthly payment on his Land Rover
  6367. Freeman directed more than a half a million dollars in consulting fees to a firm run by his wife
  6368. Public-employee unions extract mandatory union fees to pay campaign contributions to Democrats
  6369. Government unions use their power to campaign for higher taxes and more government employees
  6370. When these Democrats are elected, collective bargaining principles morph into political patronage
  6371. Public-sector unions hold a monopoly on key services allowing them to force extra concessions
  6372. Obama’s 2011 directive permitted employees of the TSA to unionize to placate organized labor
  6373. Obama administration reversed a provision that blocked collective bargaining rights for screeners
  6374. Federal investigators tracked cost overruns to recruiting sessions held at swank hotels and resorts
  6375. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were charged for cash withdrawals, valet parking and beverages
  6376. One TSA executive received a $5.4 million salary for just nine months of work
  6377. TSA caused security gaps by failing for years to keep track of lost uniforms and security passes
  6378. TSA screeners at LAX and Chicago’s O’Hare airports failed to find more than 60% of fake explosives during checkpoint security tests
  6379. Despite billions in cost overruns, the TSA has “failed to actually detect any threat in 10 years”
  6380. Screeners have been accused of committing crimes, from smuggling drugs to stealing luggage
  6381. One screener confessed that he was trying to steal enough items to buy a big-screen television
  6382. TSA’s creator, John Mica (R-FL) suggested dismantling and privatizing the agency in 2011
  6383. Report from June 2011 determined that privatization would result in a 40% savings for taxpayers
  6384. TSA wouldn’t allow a woman to fly because no female agents were available for patdowns (2012)
  6385. Under the Alien Flight Student Program, foreign nationals are supposed to be subjected to a TSA security threat assessment to determine if a security threat exists prior to receiving flight training
  6386. TSA approved flight training for 25 illegal aliens at a flight school that was owned by an illegal
  6387. Six of the illegal aliens at the Boston-area flight school were actually able to obtain pilot’s licenses
  6388. American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) won the right to represent TSA screeners (2011)
  6389. TSA screeners formed a labor union and ratified their first collective bargaining agreement (2012)
  6390. Franklin D. Roosevelt called the idea of public-sector unions “unthinkable & intolerable”
  6391. Former AFL-CIO President George Meany called public-sector unionization “impossible”
  6392. 1950’s socialist Milwaukee mayor, Frank Zeidler, warned it was too difficult to protect taxpayers
  6393. Government-employee unions spend more than any other outside group on U.S. elections
  6394. In 2008, AFSCME’s national headquarters spent $63.3 million on political activities & lobbying
  6395. The giant union of government workers, AFSCME, spent $91 million in the midterm elections
  6396. U.S. union membership is decreasing as jobs continue to move overseas where wages are cheaper
  6397. Construction industry dropping the most due to the housing crisis caused by socializing mortgages
  6398. Union membership has fallen from 20.1% (17.7 mil.) in 1983 to just 12.3% (14.7 mil.) by 2010
  6399. J.F.K. signed executive order #10988 giving permission for government employees to unionize
  6400. First time in history: there are more union workers in the public sector than in the private sector
  6401. 7.9 million public-sector union members is more than the 7.4 million in the private sector (2009)
  6402. 6.9% of private-sector workers belong to a union, and 36.2% of public-sector is unionized (2011)
  6403. California, N.Y., Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and N.J. account for about 50% of all union workers
  6404. In California, total pension liabilities are 30 times larger than its annual budget deficit (2012)
  6405. Annual public-sector pension costs in California rose by 2,000% from 1999 to 2009
  6406. In Illinois, annual public-sector pension costs are already 15% of general revenue and growing
  6407. In Ohio, pension liabilities are now 35% of the state’s entire GDP
  6408. Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), a U.S. pension insurer, warned of rising deficits (2013)
  6409. PBGC is a publicly created but privately funded body that insures U.S. occupational pension schemes
  6410. PBGC released a report warning that their chances of going bust had risen to 90% by the end of 2012
  6411. In November 2012, the PBGC reported a record $34 billion shortfall between assets and liabilities
  6412. Democrats bailed out the United Auto Workers union that helped cause GM’s financial insolvency
  6413. Obama violated contract law by cutting stakeholders and giving UAW partial ownership of GM
  6414. Ford is at greater risk of strike after they avoided taking bailout money from the government
  6415. Ford is the only one of the Big Three domestic automakers where, legally, workers can still strike
  6416. Obama further corrupted the electorate by expanding the entitlement base for Democratic votes
  6417. Obama changed rules allowing for expansion of the airline and railroad worker unions
  6418. Obama cut the 200 day waiting period to increase government hiring before the 2010 elections
  6419. Obama pushed card check to further unionize all American business by removing the secret ballot
  6420. Connecticut Democrats changed their bylaws on union election rules to ratify new union contracts
  6421. Proposing Immigration Reform as a plan to further expand the Democrat entitlement base
  6422. Obama promised comprehensive immigration reform would be a “top priority” during his first year
    “The idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you, not just on immigration reform.” ~President Obama

  6423. Democrats tailored bailouts to kill off the competitors of Goldman Sachs and other allies
  6424. Wall Street firms that competed against Obama’s ally Goldman Sachs were left to fail
  6425. Federal Reserve bailouts for California to feed their expanding entitlement spending appetite
  6426. Obama asked for $50 billion more in “emergency funds” to bailout more government jobs
  6427. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) introduced a $165 billion bailout to unions and pensions across the nation
  6428. Democrat Party continues to use children as pawns to advance their pro-union agenda
  6429. Unions have been caught paying temporary workers to attend union picket lines and rallies
  6430. Democrats cut billions from food stamps to pay for a $26.1 billion state teacher’s union bailout
  6431. Democrats killed the successful DC school voucher program that benefited minority students
  6432. The Child Nutrition Act being pushed by liberals as a taxpayer payout to the SEIU
  6433. Proposing additional food stamp cuts to pay for Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative
  6434. Obama proposed $50 billion for union jobs to boost enthusiasm right before the 2010 elections
  6435. The National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) both endorsed President Obama for re-election without bothering to see who his eventual opponent would be
  6436. NEA passed an additional $10 assessment on its members to fund the re-election of Obama
  6437. Teacher’s union leader declared that the NEA was not about the kids, but about having power
  6438. President Obama proposed a third teacher’s union bailout in 2011 as part of his jobs plan
  6439. White House claimed their plan would save up to 285,000 dues-paying teaching jobs
  6440. NLRB was designed to operate as an independent outfit that ensures fair labor practices in the U.S.
  6441. Under Obama, the NLRB has become hyper-politicized and an advocate and tool for union bosses
  6442. Obama stacked the board with former union lawyers, including former SEIU lawyer Craig Becker
  6443. Craig Becker is a former SEIU union lawyer highly endorsed by ACORN’s Wade Rathke
  6444. Obama appointed Becker to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) during Congress recess
  6445. Even the Democratic Senate refused to confirm Craig Becker following the recess appointment
  6446. NLRB tried to block a Boeing plant in S.C. because workers were not forced to be unionized
  6447. NLRB said that Boeing had to assemble the 787 Dreamliner planes in a non-right-to-work state
  6448. Obama administration said that NLRB move is “an independent agency’s enforcement action”
  6449. The White House responded that they do “not get involved in particular enforcement matters”
  6450. Nancy Pelosi wanted the NLRB to shut down the new non-union Boeing plant in South Carolina
  6451. Pelosi said that Boeing’s S.C. plant should simply unionize and remain open, or else be shut down
  6452. Boeing’s S.C. plant had voted resoundingly (199-68) to decertify their union just two years prior
  6453. NLRB dropped their lawsuit once it became apparent they were charging businesses to create jobs
  6454. NLRB proposed new rules to drastically shorten the period workers have to consider a union
  6455. The new NLRB rules, known as the “Union Quickie,” were vocally supported by SEIU
  6456. John Kline (R-MN): NLRB pushing “an activist agenda at the expense of our nation’s workforce”
  6457. NLRB required all employers to post union notices advising the unionization of their companies
  6458. Card Check Forced Unionism (EFCA) was unable to pass through a Democrat-controlled congress
  6459. NLRB bypassed Congress eliminating secret ballot union election protections for workers (2011)
  6460. Obama’s National Mediation Board (NMB) is aggressively pushing Big Labor’s agenda (2011)
  6461. NMB is a board that focuses specifically on labor relations between railroad and airline industries
  6462. NMB overturned nearly a century of precedent and issued new pro-union rules for union elections
  6463. The new NMB rules only require a majority of votes cast for unionization (as of July 2011)
  6464. A small minority of workers can now bring about forced unionization of a large company
  6465. Union boss Richard Trumka admitted his goal is massive “progressive” social change in America
  6466. AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka boasted “we drove (Obamacare) down the Republican’s throats”
  6467. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka is calling for the left to take control of private industry
  6468. Trumka suggested that “we need to…re-establish popular control over the private corporations”
  6469. AFL-CIO formed a super PAC to target lawmakers who would weaken collective bargaining
  6470. Union boss Richard Trumka claimed “Obama created more jobs than Bush did in eight years”
  6471. Trumka joined Obama in the Oval Office two days after the “One Nation Working Together” event
  6472. Trumka: the Tea Party is “trying to make the government dysfunctional so they can tear it down”
  6473. Trumka said that he had met and spoken President Obama about his second term agenda (2012)
  6474. AFL-CIO workers in Washington stormed a port, damaged tracks, and held guards hostage (2011)
  6475. International Longshore and Warehouse Union workers damaged railroad cars and dumped grain
  6476. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was awarded “the Best Friend of American Worker” by the U.S. International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA), an affiliate of the AFL-CIO (2012)
  6477. AFL-CIO endorsed President Obama for re-election in 2012
  6478. Several hundred AFL-CIO union workers returned to their union hall after cutting brake lines, etc.
  6479. A federal restraining order was issued the previous week due to assaults and death threats
  6480. Trumka was invited to sit with the First Lady and listen to Obama’s 2011 job address to Congress
  6481. SEIU and former union boss Andy Stern were reportedly under FBI investigation for corruption
  6482. SEIU steward Joe Iosbaker was under investigation by the FBI for supporting terrorist groups
  6483. Obama spoke at the March 29, 1998 memorial service for Chicago DSA member Saul Mendelson
  6484. DSA activist Timuel Black worked with Obama in the 1990’s and during his 2004 Senate race
  6485. “One Nation Working Together Rally” held as a response to the 8/28 Glenn Beck Rally
  6486. Major Labor Unions, the NAACP, and Democratic political organizations sponsored the rally
  6487. Speakers included Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Richard Trumka, Van Jones, and Harry Belafonte
  6488. Federal prosecutors probed the public union snow cleanup slowdown that paralyzed NYC
  6489. Utility Workers of America union threatened to strike during a historic heatwave (June 2012)
  6490. Federal government threatened to sue states over laws preserving secret-ballot union elections
  6491. Alinsky Rule #1: hide your numbers and make everyone think you have more people than you do
  6492. Busloads of activist protesters were brought into Arizona from California to protest their new law
  6493. Private intelligence companies were offered contracts to create software to manage “fake people”
  6494. Fake identities on social media sites would create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues
  6495. Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa threatened the GOP at a labor rally in Detroit Michigan (2011)
  6496. “President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these sons of bitches out”
  6497. President Obama said he was “proud” of Hoffa immediately following the union leader’s remarks
  6498. Joe Biden at an AFL-CIO Rally said, “You are the only folks keeping the barbarians from gates”
  6499. DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz and Obama’s White House refused any comment
  6500. DNC’s Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) dismissed the controversy as an argument over “language”
  6501. White House’s Dan Pfeiffer: Obama will not “serve as the speech police for the Democratic party”
  6502. Hoffa’s thugs campaigned “to mail their feces to [Tea Partier] Justen Charters” through Facebook
    “We got to keep an eye on the battle that we face: The war on workers. And you see it everywhere, it is the Tea Party. And you know, there is only one way to beat and win that war. The one thing about working people is we like a good fight. And you know what? They’ve got a war, they got a war with us and there’s only going to be one winner. It’s going to be the workers of Michigan, and America. We’re going to win that war… President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march. Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to America where we belong.”
    ~Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa warming up a crowd for President Obama in Detroit, Michigan on Monday, September 5, 2011

  6503. Union leaders showed teachers how to promote socialism and Marxism in the classroom (March 2011)
  6504. Kids are being taught to sing raps about anti-capitalist themes like “boycott big business,” etc.
  6505. Union official and professor taught college course on violent union tactics (Thuggery 101)
  6506. Government construction projects were delayed by a union carpenters strike (May 2011)
  6507. University of Missouri ‘Labor Studies’ course teaches how to shut down non-union companies
    “Folks, you fired the first shot. It’s not about Barack Obama. It’s not about Joe Biden. It’s about whether middle-class people are going to be put back in the saddle again – because you are the people who make this country move.” ~Joe Biden at a campaign event in Ohio (November 15, 2011)

  6508. International Brotherhood of Teamsters was founded in 1903 and has a crime-riddled past
  6509. Crimes include bribery, embezzlement, extortion, labor rackets, beatings, vandalism, and bombings
  6510. Teamsters were once tied to organized crime leading to a pair of congressional investigations
  6511. Four of the last eight Teamsters union presidents have been indicted for crimes
  6512. There have been 43 guilty pleas and 22 officials have been sentenced for various crimes
  6513. There were 300 allegations of threatening statements filed with the NLRB against the Teamsters
  6514. More than 200 allegations of coercion were also filed against the Teamsters and its locals
  6515. SEIU organizers banned its members from answering questions at a union rally in Ohio (2011)
  6516. Teamsters gave $18.5 million to Democrats federally and another $14.9 million at the state level
  6517. 2012 DNC Convention discriminated against Charlotte businesses and demanded they unionize
  6518. Tonya Dixon-Neely teaches Social Study at North Rowan High School in North Carolina
  6519. Dixon-Neely was caught on video verbally abusing students while comparing Obama and Romney
  6520. Dixon-Neely was suspended after suggesting that a student could be arrested for criticizing Obama
  6521. Tonya Dixon-Neely also claimed on video that people were arrested for being critical of Bush
  6522. South Carolina AFL-CIO president Donna Dewitt battered a piñata of Gov. Nikki Haley’s face
  6523. AFL-CIO and SEIU protested against JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, and other big banks
  6524. Through the “Union Plus Mortgage Program,” the AFL-CIO and SEIU have secured over 80,000 home mortgage loans totaling $15.2 billion through JP Morgan Chase for more than 12 years
  6525. AFL-CIO encourages its members behind the scenes to sign up for union credit cards
  6526. AFL-CIO received more than $28 million from credit card revenue in fiscal year 2011
  6527. SEIU’s LM-2 report showed that they had a $71 million mortgage with Bank of America in 2011
  6528. SEIU union bosses confiscated money from workers’ paychecks for political spending sprees
  6529. In 2005, SEIU imposed a “special assessment” to raise $12 million from state employees in California, regardless of their union membership status, in order to defeat four ballot proposals
  6530. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 against SEIU, siding with non-member state employees (June 21, 2012)
    “Today, the United States Supreme Court upheld workers’ First Amendment rights and struck down another union boss scheme to confiscate and spend state workers’ hard earned money for politics without their permission.”
    ~Mark Mix, President of National Right to Work

  6531. Undercover video showed union bosses wasting taxpayer dollars to create more union jobs (2012)
  6532. James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas created a non-existent company called Earth Supply and Renewal
  6533. Earth Supply and Renewal is dedicated to digging and filling in holes in order to create union jobs
  6534. John Hutchings is the director of the Laborers’ International Union of North America (LIUNA) New York State Laborers’ Organizing Fund (NYSLOF)
  6535. Hutchings liked the idea, comparing it a union sponsored program ‘Green Jobs, Green New York’
  6536. ‘Green Jobs, Green New York’ was a $112 million state plan that was designed to create environmentally-friendly jobs
    “You know, the Green Jobs, Green New York, between us, a lot of it is bullshit… even if it’s bullshit, I think as long as people are working, that’s not bull, you know what I mean?” ~John Hutchings, director of LIUNA NYSLOF (2012)

  6537. Anthony J. Tocci is the business manager of the Local 601 for LIUNA AFL-CIO
  6538. Tocci said he’s be willing to help find public funds just to dig and fill ditches
  6539. Hutchings and Tocci compared the idea to the sort of stuff that happened under FDR in the 1930s with the Works Progress Administration, with Tocci saying, “They dug the roads up, put ‘em back!”
    “What we do is we have, uh, three, we have three, um, lobbying firms. We have, in the city, we have Tom McMahonn, who his brother used to be the Congressman, in Staten Island. We have upstate, we have one for the Democrats, we have Tom Harnet, who works for Meyer Suozzi, he used to be the Commissioner of Labor, I believe…

    And so we have them for the Democrats, he usually takes care of the assembly. On the Senate side, we have Powers and Company, who used to be the Republican chairman of New York State, so he takes care of the Senate and that’s controlled by the Republicans. So that’s what we kind of, so when we go for a bill, you know, you’ve got to get approval of the Senate and Assembly and then the Governor’s got to sign it, well, we have a lobbyist for the Republicans and we have a lobbyist for the Democrats, and that’s how we try to push our agenda through, so we tap into people like, uh, Citizens for Democratic, um, Citizen’s Action, Foundation for Working Families, those types of groups that are pretty much believe in you the kind of things we do, work programs and things like that, so you, like for Green Jobs, Green New York, we needed a huge lobby.”
    ~John Hutchings, director of LIUNA NYSLOF (2012)

  6540. New York union members refused help from non-union utility crews helping with Hurricane Sandy
  6541. Teachers flocked to Northwestern University for the “Midwest Marxist Conference” (November 2012)
  6542. Teacher in South Carolina threw down the U.S. flag and stomped on it as a lesson to the students (2013)
  6543. Hostess Brands was forced into bankruptcy by a third of their unionized workforce who went on strike
  6544. Teamsters Union crossed the picket line, but failed to save the Twinkie after a strike by the Bakers’ Union, which only represented 30% of Hostess Brands’ total workforce
  6545. Hostess, the maker of Twinkies and Wonder Bread, laid off around 18,500 workers (November 2012)
  6546. Richard Trumka blamed Hostess and claimed that their leaders and polices are “wrecking America”

    6547. Vote Early, Vote Often: Democrats undermine our election system by allowing for voter fraud
    “Any serious commitment to wrestling control of the country from the Republican Party must include removing their political operatives from deciding who can vote and whose votes will count.” ~Secretary of State Project (SOSP) co-founder Rebecca Bond
    “The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” ~Joseph Stalin

  6547. Leftist groups and the Obama administration targeted voter ID laws prior to the 2012 elections
  6548. United States Attorney General Eric Holder blocked South Carolina’s new voter ID law
  6549. Attorney General Eric Holder claims that voter fraud is not a major problem in the United States
  6550. James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas was able to obtain Eric Holder’s voter ballot without ID (2012)
  6551. Video shows a young white man who was offered Eric Holder’s D.C. primary ballot (2012)
    “You don’t need it. It’s all right. As long as you’re in here, you’re on our list, and that’s who you say you are, you’re okay.”
    ~D.C. poll worker’s response when offered identification

  6552. D.C. Board of Elections chose to investigate James O’Keefe rather than the flawed voting system
  6553. Project Veritas was also able to obtain ballots for ‘Ben Jealous,’ ‘Bill Maher,’ and ‘David Brock’
  6554. NAACP President Ben Jealous: Voter ID laws mean “we’re still dealing with Jim Crow” (2012)
  6555. Wisconsin Tea Party group study found a 33.7% error rate in same-day election registrations
  6556. In 1,425 cases the election Registrar failed to annotate Proof of Residency of the voter (2011)
  6557. In Milwaukee, a voter used only a magazine subscription invoice as proof of residence
  6558. This same voter in Milwaukee then vouched for someone else’s residency in order to vote
  6559. 1,021 Election Day Registration forms in Milwaukee had the proof of residency left blank
  6560. One voter used their Ohio drivers license and a passport as proof that they lived in Wisconsin
  6561. The same voter then corroborated for someone else with the same last name and same address
  6562. One voter used a Traffic Citation from the State of Illinois to prove Wisconsin Residency
  6563. Several citizens moved to Milwaukee and used out of state drivers license for proof of residency
  6564. Three individuals in Milwaukee used hotel receipts to substantiate their proof of residency
  6565. One citizen registered once using a Wisconsin drivers license and then returned to the polling location later in the day and registered a second time using a utility bill, allowing him to vote twice
  6566. Some completed their voter registration forms with no indication that eligibility was verified
  6567. Numerous corroborators failed to list their address on the registration form as required
  6568. New Hampshire does not require voters to present photo identification at polling places
  6569. New Hampshire’s GOP legislature led an effort to pass a voter ID law in 2011
  6570. Democrat Governor John Lynch vetoed the measure, and the senate failed to override the veto
  6571. New Hampshire House and Senate passed a new version of the voter ID law in June 2012
  6572. Democrat Governor John Lynch again vetoed the law, but it was overridden by the Legislature
  6573. Justice Department pre-approved New Hampshire’s new voter ID law (September 2012)
  6574. Project Veritas citizen journalists recorded poll workers from both parties providing election ballots in the names of recently deceased voters at multiple polling places across the state (2012)
  6575. Leftists accused the whistleblowers of committing fraud, yet deny that voter fraud is a problem
  6576. Gov. Lynch called for the citizen investigators to be “prosecuted to the full extent of the law, if in fact they are found guilty of some criminal act” (usually you are prosecuted and then found guilty)
  6577. Paul Bergeron was once a Democratic candidate for public office in 1994
  6578. As of 2006, Paul Bergeron was the second highest paid city official in New Hampshire
  6579. Bergeron currently serves as the city clerk of Nashua, New Hampshire overseeing elections
  6580. In the city of Nashua, you can even use an out-of-state I.D. when you register to vote
  6581. In New Hampshire, state election laws allow voters to register to vote on the same day
  6582. If unable to prove your identity, you can sign an affidavit, but those signatures are never checked
    “[T]here’s nobody checking these affidavits… they’re just open invitation to fraud.” ~Fred Teebom, a former alderman and candidate for mayor

  6583. Paul Bergeron claimed that his staff confirms the deaths of Nashua voters once a month (2012)
  6584. Project Veritas was able to obtain ballots for Nashua voters Reynold Caron and Joseph Boucher
  6585. Reynold Caron (October 14, 2011) and Joseph Boucher (November 26, 2011) had both been deceased for well over a month prior to the New Hampshire primary, showing the system is flawed
  6586. Bergeron said “you don’t prove that there’s been voter fraud by committing it yourself”
  6587. As a result, the New Hampshire state senate passed a new voter identification law (2012)
  6588. Celebrity names like ‘Tim Tebow’ and ‘Tom Brady’ could be used to vote in Minnesota
  6589. Minnesota’s state legislature put voter ID on the ballot as a constitutional amendment (2012)
  6590. Two Iranian non-citizens in Illinois were prosecuted after voting fraudulently for years
  6591. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) claimed that the GOP wants voter ID laws mainly “because we elected the first African American President” (2012)
  6592. James Clyburn (D-SC) compared voter ID laws to segregation era “Jim Crow” laws
  6593. NYT: U.S. voter rolls are in disarray, including listing more than 1.8 million dead people (2012)
  6594. Democrats planned boycotts of Coke and Walmart over support of new voter identification laws
  6595. Color of Change boycotted supporters of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
  6596. Center for American Progress released a report condemning new voter identification laws
  6597. Florida’s own investigation found that thousands of non-citizens were registered to vote (2012)
  6598. Florida election officials fear that as many as 180,000 non-citizens may be registered to vote
  6599. Election officials also said as many as 53,000 dead people are registered to vote in Florida alone
  6600. Eric Holder’s Justice Department demanded that Florida halt its non-citizen voter purge
  6601. James O’Keefe and Project Veritas exposed the ease of committing voter fraud in North Carolina
  6602. Video showed how non-citizen and even dead people could vote in North Carolina elections
  6603. Eric Holder told black preachers that their ‘sacred’ right to vote was under attack (May 2012)
  6604. Democrats in Massachusetts required a photo ID to enter their own convention (2012)
  6605. Election observers in Wisconsin complained of “electioneering” and union intimidation
  6606. Observers in Racine, Wisconsin also reported an extraordinary high number of voters were showing up at the polls for same-day registration, using change of address forms to obtain ballots
  6607. Wisconsin election observers warned that there was no mechanism in place to prevent people from casting multiple ballots at a different polling location where they have previously been registered
  6608. One election observer reported seeing the same woman vote three times at the MLK polling place
  6609. One female election observer at Festival Hall received a threat from a thug inside the polling place who was entering and exiting with groups of voters who had been bused to the location to vote
  6610. The thug was reportedly issued a $400 citation for threatening to smash her head into the ground
  6611. Wisconsin Jobs Now shuttled voters in a van with “cash money” painted on the window
  6612. Mozart, a dead dog in Bedford County, Virginia received voter registration forms (2012)
  6613. Well-known Florida felon Kevin McCarty was sent a new voter ID card in the mail (2012)
  6614. Wisconsin election “watchdog” assumed all recall signatures were valid unless they are contested
  6615. Signatures of Mickey Mouse and Adolf Hitler were counted on the recall petitions in Wisconsin
  6616. Wisconsin election officials chose not to make checking for recall fraud easier (2011)
  6617. Dan Shansky, a union official from California, fraudulently voted in the Wisconsin recall election
  6618. Shansky boasted about voting absentee and thanked Matthew Finnell for keeping him out of jail
  6619. Matthew Finnell works for Wisconsin Jobs Now!, an SEIU-front group
  6620. Wisconsin Jobs Now! illegally offered food and prizes for anyone willing to vote absentee early
  6621. Wisconsin Jobs Now! scrubbed their site to hide their connection to Citizen Action of Wisconsin
  6622. Democrat Senate candidate Sandy Pasch (D-WI) sat on the Board of Directors of Citizen Action
  6623. Sandy Pasch provided a direct line relationship to the illegal ‘prize give-a-way’ scheme
  6624. The group Shansky worked for, Community Action Now, has ties to Citizen Action of Wisconsin
  6625. Citizen Action of Wisconsin was also implicated in the barbecue-for-votes scandal
  6626. NAACP’s Benjamin Jealous compared the “fight” against voter ID to “Selma and Montgomery”
  6627. NAACP required a photo ID to see Eric Holder speak in a state being sued over voter ID (2012)
  6628. NAACP required two forms of ID from the media to see Holder say that voter ID laws are racist
  6629. Joe Biden claimed, “Republicans have changed law so you get arrested if you vote” (July 2012)
  6630. Michelle Obama told supporters that they needed to “multiply” in order to re-elect Barack (2012)
  6631. Mason-Dixon poll: 82% of Florida voters support showing photo IDs at the polls (July 2012)
  6632. Washington Post polling found that 74% of American adults support voter ID laws (August 2012)
  6633. SEIU was investigated and subpoenaed for voter fraud suspicions in Wisconsin
  6634. SEIU senior organizer Clarence S. Haynes, and two other SEIU organizers, Austin Thompson and Todd Stoner, registered to vote in the April 5, 2011 election with out-of-state IDs and by claiming residence at a Glendale, Wisconsin hotel on their voter registration applications
  6635. SEIU documents revealed that union guests spent $146,000 at the Glendale Residence Inn in 2011
  6636. Court affidavit indicates that as many as 50 SEIU employees lived there in 2010 and 2011
  6637. Romney’s campaign asked Virginia to investigate voter-registration forms being sent out and addressed to deceased relatives, children, family pets and others that are ineligible to vote (July 2012)
  6638. Voter Participation Center (VPC) was caught mass-mailing registration forms to primarily Democratic-leaning voting blocs such as young adults, unmarried women, blacks and Latinos
  6639. Virginia’s State Board of Elections asked VPC to cease pre-populating their forms
  6640. Virginia’s Constitution and state code requires that voters fill out their own forms
  6641. ‘Non-partisan’ Voter Participation (VPC) Center has ties to John Podesta and top Democrats
  6642. VPC was originally called “Women’s Voices, Women Vote (WVWV)” when created in 2004
  6643. “Women’s Voices, Women Vote” (WVWV) changed its name to Voter Participation Center (VPC) in 2011 and registered with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as a “non-profit and non-partisan group”
  6644. VPC is run by Amy Young, a top-level operative who has worked with SEIU and the AFL-CIO
  6645. Voter Participation Center sent out registration forms to felons, animals, children, and dead people
  6646. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) claimed that the GOP was trying to steal people’s right to vote (2012)
  6647. Nonpartisan election integrity watchdog group, True the Vote, sent legal notices to 160 counties across the U.S. who have more registered voters than actual live, eligible voters (August 2012)
    “We are deeply concerned by our discovery of voter rolls across America that contain substantial numbers of ineligible voters, possibly resulting in the disenfranchisement of eligible voters and the subversion of our nation’s electoral process.” ~Nonpartisan election integrity watchdog group True to Vote

  6648. Author George R.R. Martin described anyone who supports voter ID laws as “racists” (2012)
  6649. Pennsylvania Judge Robert Simpson upheld a new voter ID law (August 2012)
  6650. D.C. Federal court ruled that Texas’ voter ID law imposed “strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor”
  6651. Despite some “legitimate concerns,” Al Gore called for an end to the Electoral College (2012)
    “We oppose the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact or any other scheme to abolish or distort the procedures of the Electoral College. We recognize that an unconstitutional effort to impose “national popular vote” would be a mortal threat to our federal system and a guarantee of corruption as every ballot box in every state would become a chance to steal the presidency.” ~2012 Republican National Convention platform

  6652. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) sponsored legislation that would provide for direct election of the president, but it hasn’t made it out of committee despite attracting 29 Democratic co-sponsors (2012)
  6653. Voter Integrity Project found that 30,000 dead North Carolinians are registered to vote
  6654. DNC delegate compared voter ID laws to “rape” and are stripping people of the “right to vote”
  6655. Democrats at the DNC required attendees to show photo ID three times to enter the convention
  6656. Democrat Wendy Rosen (D-MD) withdrew from her congressional race amid allegations that she voted in elections in both Maryland and Florida during the 2006 and 2008 elections
  6657. Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson estimated that 4,000 noncitizens were on their voter rolls
  6658. House Democrats introduced a bill to nullify the state-level voter ID laws (September 2012)
  6659. The Cleveland Plain Dealer tacitly encouraged voters to commit voter fraud (October 2012)
  6660. Registered Republicans in Florida received hoax letters questioning their voter eligibility (October 2012)
  6661. Chairman of the Florida Republican Party, Lenny Curry, also received the bogus voting letter
  6662. FBI began investigating, focusing on letters received in 18 counties in central and southwest Florida
  6663. Voting machines in Florida and Ohio recorded votes for “Obama” -- when “Romney” was touched
  6664. James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas captured on video a regional director of the voter mobilization group launched by Obama helping an undercover reporter vote for the president in two states
  6665. Democrats petitioned for the removal of billboards that read, “Voter fraud is a felony! Up to 3 1/2 years & 10,000 fine,” because they claimed that they were racist and attempting to suppress the minority vote
  6666. North Carolina found 2,214 registered voters over the age of 110 on their voter rolls, most of which are Democrats and seem to live in four Democrat-controlled counties (October 2012)
  6667. Two voters (154-year-old in Gaston County and a 160-year-old in Granville County) voted in early voting
  6668. Colorado secretary of state found hundreds of noncitizens on their voter rolls (October 2012)
  6669. James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas captured the son of Jim Moran (D-VA) advising voter fraud (2012)
  6670. Jim Moran’s son, Patrick Moran, served as the field director for his father’s campaign
  6671. Patrick Moran was caught on video advising an undercover reporter how to fraudulently cast ballots in the name on registered voters by forging utility bills and relying on the assistance of Democrat lawyers
  6672. Patrick Moran warned the undercover reporter that the forged utility bill has “got to look good”
  6673. Patrick Moran advised the reporter to contact the registered voters first to make sure they aren’t voting
  6674. Patrick Moran suggested to the undercover reporter to obtain the information by posing as a pollster
  6675. Patrick immediately resigned from his father’s campaign after the video was released (October 2012)
  6676. Jim Moran (D-VA) has been criticized for his collaboration with Islamic leaders with ties to terrorism
  6677. In 2003, Jim Moran suggested that Jews were responsible for the push for war against Iraq
  6678. NAACP took over a Houston polling place, cut in line, gave out water, and advocated for Obama (2012)
  6679. In 13 Philadelphia wards, President Obama received 99 percent of the vote or more (November 2012)
  6680. Mitt Romney did not receive a single vote in 59 divisions within Philadelphia (November 2012)
  6681. In Ohio, Mitt Romney did not receive a single vote in 12 wards of Cleveland’s Cuyahoga County
  6682. In Ohio, two election judges were removed by order of the Director of the Hamilton County Board of Elections after Republicans observers reported that unregistered voters were allowed to cast ballots
  6683. Gilpin County in Colorado had more registered voters than were eligible to vote
  6684. Poll watchers in Virginia and Maryland claimed that they witnessed voter fraud (November 2012)
  6685. Exit polling found that a majority (including all minorities) favors photo ID laws for voting (2012)
  6686. Corrupt Progressive Democrats pushed to make voting and registration even easier (February 2013)
  6687. Hamilton County Board of Elections investigated alleged voter fraud that occurred in Ohio (2013)
  6688. Melowese Richardson, a Democrat poll worker, admitted to voting twice in Ohio in the last election
  6689. Richardson had been an official poll worker for many years and registered thousands to vote in 2012
  6690. Richardson’s absentee ballot was accepted on November 1, 2012 along with her signature
  6691. On November 11, 2012 Melowese Richardson told an official she also voted at a local precinct because she was afraid her absentee ballot would not be counted in time
  6692. Documents also state that Richardson was allegedly disruptive and hid things from other poll workers on
  6693. Election Day after another female worker reported she was intimidated by Richardson
  6694. During the investigation, it was discovered that Melowese Richardson’s granddaughter, India Richardson, who was a first time voter in the 2012 election, also cast two ballots in November
    “I’ll fight it for Mr. Obama and for Mr. Obama’s right to sit as president of the United States.” ~Melowese Richardson (2013)

    6695. Community Organizations have aligned with Unions to promote the destruction of Capitalism

  6695. Leftist have been designing a socialist framework to replace the American economy after collapse
  6696. ACORN, America’s largest poor people’s group, was founded on political violence & intimidation
  6697. ACORN grew out of another group called the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO)
  6698. Marxist academics Cloward & Piven’s article “The Weight of the Poor” was published in 1966
  6699. NWRO was also founded in 1966 as an organization representing mostly black welfare recipients
  6700. Cloward-Piven Strategy: double welfare rolls in order to destabilize our system of government
  6701. NWRO grew and prospered out of the organizing efforts of Cloward, Piven, and Saul Alinsky
  6702. Saul Alinsky is considered the father of modern community organizing and a favorite of Obama’s
  6703. In the late 1960s Wade Rathke signed on as an organizer for NWRO’s chapter in Massachusetts
  6704. “Reinforced his belief that one important resource for poor people was their ability to disrupt”
  6705. Rathke moved to Arkansas and founded ACORN, where he served as CEO for almost 40 years
  6706. From 1960 to 1969 the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program grew 107%
  6707. Obama organized ACORN’s voter drives, represented it in court, & trained & mentored its leaders
  6708. Obama headed the Chicago operations of Project Vote in 1992 on the city’s South Side
    “I’ve been fighting alongside ACORN on issues that you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drives in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.” ~Barack Obama during the 2008 campaign

  6709. Obama trained ACORN workers in south-side Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN
  6710. Obama represented ACORN in Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank Federal Savings Bank case
  6711. Obama again represented ACORN when he sued the state of Illinois on behalf of ACORN
  6712. DSA documents show how the New Party worked with ACORN to promote candidates
  6713. Obama paid over $800,000 to ACORN’s Citizens Services Inc. to “get out the vote” in 2008
  6714. Obama provided ACORN with a “donor list” to solicit contributions from maxed out donors
  6715. Obama reassured ACORN officials that he was still a steadfast ally during the 2008 campaign
  6716. FBI documents were obtained in 2010 detailing ACORN corruption & fraud in Connecticut
  6717. FBI notes stated that ACORN headquarters was “working for the Democratic Party”
  6718. FBI notes stated that ACORN workers were “poverty pimpin” on Election Day for votes
  6719. ACORN accepted fraudulent cards to cause Election Day confusion & keep polls open longer
  6720. ACORN accepted fraudulent cards that allowed anybody to vote and vote multiple times
  6721. ACORN’s Project Vote paid canvassers for voter registration cards regardless if faked or not
  6722. ACORN instructed their staff to avoid the FBI and coached them on what to say if required
  6723. Eight ACORN workers pleaded guilty to registration fraud months before the 2008 elections
  6724. Obama administration shut down the FBI and DOJ investigation of ACORN back in 2009
  6725. Associated Communities Organized for Reform Now (ACORN) was founded by Wade Rathke
  6726. Wade Rathke had previously worked as Secretary-Treasurer of the New Orleans AFL-CIO
  6727. Service Employees International Union (SEIU) was also founded by Wade Rathke
  6728. Drummond Pike also has close ties to ACORN and its former chief organizer Wade Rathke
  6729. Wade Rathke was a former Tides Foundation trustee & a chairman of the Tides Center
  6730. Wade left ACORN after his brother, Dale Rathke, was caught embezzling $1 million as CFO
  6731. Wade Rathke continues serving as a “senior adviser” to Tides and several of its project entities
  6732. Wade Rathke also maintains his position as “chief organizer” at SEIU Local 100
  6733. Rathke also retained his position at ACORN’s spinoff, Community Organizations International
  6734. The ACORN network had taken in around $79 million total in federal funding
  6735. At least 54 individuals associated with ACORN have been convicted of voter fraud
  6736. The organization ACORN itself was convicted of felony voter registration fraud in Nevada
  6737. ACORN pleaded guilty to felony voter fraud in Los Vegas in April 2011
  6738. ACORN illegally offered cash bonuses to its voter registration canvassers within Project Vote
  6739. ACORN’s upper management had full knowledge of the scheme, known as “Blackjack”
  6740. Massive voter fraud by ACORN also occurred in Colorado
  6741. ACORN settled a racketeering lawsuit in Ohio out of court and agreed to leave the state in 2010
  6742. ACORN was stripped of its federal funding in 2009, a measure upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court
  6743. No funds can be awarded to ACORN “or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, or allied organizations”
  6744. ACORN filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2010 citing “the ongoing political onslaught”
  6745. ACORN splintered into difficult-to-track spinoff community organizations across the country
  6746. CEO Bertha Lewis described the spinoffs as “bullet-proof community-organizing Frankensteins”
  6747. ACORN Housing changed their name to Affordable Housing Centers of America (AHCOA)
  6748. Obama’s Housing & Urban Development (HUD) illegally issued a $79,819 grant to AHCOA
  6749. Obama administration claimed the grant did not violate the ban because the two community organizations were separate and distinct, despite the two being virtually indistinguishable
  6750. Obama administration awarded more than $700,000 in taxpayer funds to AHCOA despite the ban
  6751. HUD report: ACORN misappropriated funds from a $3,252,399 federal grant (September 2010)
  6752. ACORN/AHCOA continued paying their counselors even after they were terminated
  6753. ACORN/AHCOA allegedly destroyed documents to conceal fraudulent activity
  6754. ACORN “inappropriately expended more than $3.2 million from its fiscal years 2004 and 2005 grants for the elimination of lead poisoning in its housing program” (November 2010)
  6755. Misappropriations included “campaign services” and “grant fundraising activities”
  6756. Obama’s HUD provided multiple large grants to “ACORN Housing Corporation Inc.” (2011)
  6757. ACORN’s spinoff received Tides Foundation grants and works with many far-left political groups
  6758. ACORN remains engaged in destroying American capitalism and subverting our democracy
  6759. ACORN officials openly acknowledged that they are restructuring and plan to help re-elect Obama
  6760. Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) directed big portions of cash settlements from its civil rights lawsuits to various organizations not officially connected to the discrimination cases (2010)
  6761. Obama administration agreed to a $335 million discrimination settlement with Countrywide
  6762. Bank of America’s Countrywide Financial Corporation caved to the government to more quickly resolve allegations that it discriminated against qualified black and Hispanic borrowers, which it denied
  6763. Settlement recipients include “non-profit community organizations that provide education, counseling and other assistance to low-income and minority borrowers,” such as ACORN and La Raza
  6764. Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) is a new ACORN front group
  6765. New York Communities for Change (NYCC) is a reconstituted version of ACORN in New York
  6766. Congress demanded a probe of NYCC (ACORN) due to their ties to ‘Occupy Wall Street’ (2011)
  6767. Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment is another ACORN front group
  6768. Action United is another ACORN front group operating out of Pennsylvania
  6769. Left-wing ACCE astroturfers were behind a garbage-dumping stung at a Wells Fargo bank
  6770. Predatory lenders Herb and Marion Sandler paid ACORN $11 million to attack Wells Fargo
  6771. Herb and Marion Sandler’s lending institution, World Savings Bank, competes with Wells Fargo
  6772. Herb and Marion Sandler are left-wing radicals and belong to Soros’ Democracy Alliance
  6773. Maya Wiley is on the Tides Center board of directors and founded the Center for Social Inclusion
  6774. Wiley was a civil rights attorney for the ACLU and NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund
  6775. Wiley works with Rathke’s Social Policy magazine promoting labor and community organizing
  6776. Left-wing professor and author Noam Chomsky is a board member for Social Policy magazine
  6777. Occidental College professor Peter Dreier is also a board member for Social Policy magazine
  6778. Frances Fox Piven, co-originator of the “Cloward-Piven Strategy” is also a board member
  6779. Piven proposed destroying capitalism by inflating local welfare rolls to the point of bankruptcy
  6780. Tides board member, Dan Carol, is a political strategist and co-founded the Apollo Alliance
  6781. Apollo is an alliance of unions and environmental groups seeking government funds for “green jobs”
  6782. Apollo Alliance helped draft the Obama stimulus package channeling $60 billion to leftist-causes
  6783. Harry Reid credited the Apollo Alliance with helping to write the $821 billion “stimulus” act
  6784. In 2004, Dan Carol and two former founders of the New Party met with Leo Gerard & Andy Stern
  6785. Apollo’s board of directors included self-described communist and former “Green Czar” Van Jones
  6786. Admitted Marxist and “9/11 Truther” Van Jones founded the social justice group Color of Change
  6787. Color of Change seeks to suppress conservative commentary across the entire media spectrum
  6788. Color of Change used a debunked race-baiting charge to censor Andrew Breitbart from MSNBC
  6789. Color of Change claimed credit for censoring Breitbart from ABC News and the Huffington Post
  6790. Color of Change pressured MSNBC to suspend Pat Buchanan and his “white supremacy ideology”
  6791. Obama paid Citizens Services Inc. nearly a million dollars to assist with his 2008 election
  6792. ACORN and Project Vote shared the same offices and employees were convicted of voter fraud
  6793. Project Vote and the Obama DOJ are working in tandem in the lead-up to the 2012 elections
  6794. Project Vote is attacking election security reforms to register Obama’s “Food Stamp Army”
  6795. Estelle Rogers is a former ACORN attorney
  6796. Rogers serves as the Director of Advocacy for the ACORN-connected organization Project Vote
  6797. Obama’s U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is in communications with Estelle Rogers
  6798. Obama’s DOJ and Project Vote are partnering in a national campaign to grow public assistance
  6799. Using the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA) to register more individuals on public assistance
  6800. By threatening lawsuits under Section 7 of the NVRA, Project Vote has aggressively sought to force election officials in various states to increase the registration of people receiving public assistance
  6801. According to FOIA documents, “civil rights groups” met with the DOJ regarding the NVRA
  6802. Groups included Project Vote, American Association of People with Disabilities, Demos, League of Women Voters, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Brennen Center for Justice, Fair Elections Legal Network, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Paralyzed Veterans of America
  6803. DOJ invited the groups to help provide guidance to states regarding enforcement of the NVRA
    Estelle Rogers sent Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli detailed recommendations for strengthening “compliance with the NVRA.” The recommendations stated that “we are grateful that you have invited us to continue this dialogue on the Department’s [DOJ’s] role in providing guidance to states, and we would be happy to supply any additional information you need.”
    (March 29, 2011)

  6804. Estelle Rogers attempted to secure jobs for at least three different applicants for positions with the Civil Rights Division’s Voting Section, which handles the NBRA within the Department of Justice
    “I want to heartily recommend two candidates to you…” ~Estelle Rogers writing to T. Christian Herren, Chief of the Justice Department’s Voting Section (February 23, 2010) – The candidates’ names were redacted in the FOIA release

    “I look forward to continuing to work with you, Chris. And please let me know if you need any more feedback regarding hires.” ~Estelle Rogers writing to T. Christian Herren, Chief of the Justice Department’s Voting Section (April 20, 2010)

    “I’d still love to talk for real, but in the meantime, the main reason I called is that you have an applicant for the [REDACTED] position [REDACTED] qualifies her beautifully for your position, and I hope you will give her every consideration. [REDACTED] So she would be a great fit, and I recommend her without reservation. Please let me know if I can tell you more. And give me a call if you possibly can.” ~Estelle Rogers writing again on December 7, 2010

  6805. Rogers and the ACLU asked the DOJ to block Florida’s new election integrity law (June 2011)
  6806. ACLU lobbyist Laura Murphy and Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights lobbyist Nancy Zirkin each visited the Obama White House nearly 50 times
  6807. Robert Rabin, who represents many liberal causes, has visited the White House at least 47 times
  6808. Project Vote and the DOJ are creating a joint litigation strategy on the run-up to the 2012 elections
  6809. Employee in the Department of Justice (DOJ) Voting Section committed perjury three times
  6810. From 2005-2007, Stephanie Celandine Gyamfi obtained numerous attorney-client privileged documents, confidential personnel information, and other sensitive legal materials from within the Voting Section of the DOJ and leaked them to the Washington Post and various left-wing blogs
  6811. The leaked confidential material was intended to politically harm the Bush administration
  6812. Gyamfi lied about her knowledge of the leaks three times to the Inspector General investigators
  6813. Project Vote did public agency registration in Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Georgia, and New Mexico
  6814. Project Vote in partnership with the NAACP sued Louisiana alleging violations of the NVRA
  6815. DOJ’s Civil Rights Division/Voting Section sued Louisiana less than three months later on the same grounds that Louisiana allegedly violated the NVRA (July 12, 2011)
  6816. DOJ previously sued Rhode Island on March 11, 2011 alleging violations of the NVRA
  6817. Project Vote posted a press release on their website promoting the lawsuit(s)
  6818. ACORN and Project Vote successfully pressured Colorado officials into implementing new policies for increasing the registration of public assistance recipients for the 2008 and 2010 elections
  6819. Following the policy changes, the percentage of invalid voter registration forms from Colorado public assistance agencies was four times the national average
  6820. Project Vote also sought a “legislative fix” to allow people without a driver’s license or state identification to register and vote online
  6821. Obama campaign announced it would run its own voter registration campaign, also named “Project Vote,” in August 2011 for the upcoming 2012 elections
  6822. Hillary was endorsed by an ACORN front group, Working Families Party (WFP) in 2000
  6823. Former ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis was the WFP co-chair and N.Y. ACORN Executive director
  6824. Former SEIU Secretary Anna Burger sits on President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board
  6825. Anna Burger chaired Change to Win and vice-chaired with Democracy Alliance
  6826. Anna Burger and Andy Stern teach people to despise “free markets” and to “kill capitalism”
  6827. Union labor leader Andy Stern was most frequent visitor to White House while running SEIU
  6828. Radical activist organization Code Pink co-founded by Obama-supporter Jodie Evans
  6829. Jodie Evans and Code Pink have worked with many other state sponsors of terrorism including: Saddam Hussein, Cuba’s Castro brothers, Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Syria’s Bashar Assad, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, & Bolivia’s Evo Morales
  6830. Jodie Evans and Code Pink have also worked with terrorists including: Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, Sunni terrorists in Iraq, and the father of Islamic terrorism, the Muslim Brotherhood
  6831. Code Pink gave cash and humanitarian aid to terrorists who murder Americans, Israelis, and Iraqis
  6832. Jodie Evans was a “bundler,” a high-level fundraiser, for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign
  6833. Jodie Evans visited Cuba and expresses sympathy in a radio interview for Osama bin Laden
  6834. Jodie Evans stole people’s identities to crash the RNC and rushed the stage during Palin’s speech
  6835. Jodie Evans met with terrorist sponsors and Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran
  6836. Jodie Evans delivered a letter from terrorist group Hamas to Obama at the White House
  6837. Jodie Evans met with the Taliban in Afghanistan and delivered a propaganda package to Obama
  6838. Socialist La Rouche supporters caught infiltrating a Tea Party event with ‘Obama-is-Hitler’ signs
    Democrats are pushing for amnesty for millions of illegal aliens to expand their electorate

    “We need tougher border security, and a renewed focus on busting up gangs and traffickers crossing our border… that begins at home, with comprehensive immigration reform. That means securing our border and passing tough employer enforcement laws.” ~Candidate Barack Obama speaking in Miami on May 23, 2008
  1. Obama: “America is a nation of laws… I, as the president, am obligated to enforce the law”
  2. Obama on non-criminal illegal aliens: We don’t want to deport them; “We want them to succeed”
  3. Obama said his administration won’t be deporting illegal aliens who “do the right thing”
  4. Obama administration’s deportations of non-criminal illegal aliens have decreased during his term
  5. Federal agents were told to reduce and stop border arrests during specific reporting time periods
  6. Obama administration allegedly “falsified” deportation numbers to artificially boost numbers
  7. Border Patrol apprehensions were mixed with the deportation statistics from ICE
  8. When the Border Patrol numbers are subtracted, the new results show that illegal immigrant deportations have gone down each year under President Obama, from 395,000 in 2009 to 330,000 in 2011
    9. “It is dishonest to count illegal immigrants apprehended by the Border Patrol along the border as ICE removals. These ‘removals’ from the Border Patrol program do not subject the illegal immigrant to any penalties or bars for returning to the U.S. This means a single illegal immigrant can show up at the border and be removed numerous times in a single year – and counted each time as a removal.”
    ~Lamar Smith (R-TX), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
  9. Obama and Big Labor seek amnesty for millions of illegal aliens to ensure their “Progressive” rule
  10. Obama to a Spanish-language network: “I have been such a strong proponent of the DREAM Act”
  11. The DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors) is amnesty for minors
  12. Democrats attempted to ram the DREAM Act through during the lame-duck session of Congress
  13. Obama’s DOJ partnered with the ACLU to attack Arizona over its illegal immigration law
  14. Eric Holder and the Justice Department sued the state of Arizona for enforcing their borders
  15. Hillary Clinton’s State Department named Arizona in a U.N. Human Rights Council report
  16. Supreme Court of the United States agreed to consider Arizona’s illegal immigration law (2011)
  17. Polling found that voters (61%) prefer an Arizona-style immigration policy (November 2012)
  18. Mexico urged the Obama administration to block the Arizona immigration law (December 2012)
  19. Obama administration also challenged Alabama’s tough new anti-illegal immigration law (2011)
  20. Similar anti-illegal immigration laws were passed in Utah, Indiana, and Georgia
  21. Obama’s DOJ sued to stop South Carolina from checking a suspects’ immigration status
  22. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel blocked sections of the South Carolina’s new immigration law
  23. Judge Richard Gergel was appointed by President Obama
  24. Obama administration challenged Texas’ redistricting plan alleging violations of voting rights laws
  25. The Supreme Court threw out judicially drawn interim maps supported by the Democrats (2012)
  26. Department of Homeland Security helped an illegal alien felon who voted to become a citizen
  27. Homeland Security lost track of nearly 6 million immigrants who entered the U.S. legally on visas
  28. Food stamp benefits, cash assistance, and welfare are being provided to illegal alien lawbreakers
  29. Free medical care is provided to illegal aliens using our hospital emergency rooms
  30. Housing is being provided to illegal aliens through section (8) without immigration checks
  31. Citizenship is given to the children of law breaking parents who cross the border illegally
  32. Free education and scholarships are given to children of law breaking illegal alien parents
  33. Affirmative action privileges are being provided to “undocumented aliens” in our universities
  34. Obama administration began including Obamacare to immigrant welcome packets (2013)
  35. Eliseo Medina and SEIU are top supporters of the bill giving amnesty for up to 12 million illegals
  36. Eliseo Medina, SEIU’s international executive vice-president, was honored by the DSA
  37. Medina was a chief lobbyist that changed the AFL-CIO policy now calling for amnesty for illegals
  38. Obama boasted: “Before immigration debates took place…, I talked to Eliseo Medina and SEIU”
  39. Medina wanted to give an estimated (12) million illegals citizenship to ensure “progressive” rule
  40. Eliseo Medina served on Obama’s National Latino Advisory Council during his 2008 campaign
  41. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) served on Obama’s National Latino Advisory Council during 2008
  42. Sponsored the ‘Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America’s Security and Prosperity Bill’
  43. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) also served on Obama’s council and co-sponsored Gutierrez’s bill
  44. Gutierrez served on the board of Illinois Public Action alongside other DSA members
  45. Obama’s health-care advisor Quentin Young also served on the board of Illinois Public Action
  46. DHS Sec. Janet Napolitano scrapped the ‘virtual fence’ designed to detect illegal immigrants
  47. Janet Napolitano claimed that protection of the border “is better now than it ever has been”
  48. Obama reiterated Napolitano’s false claim that the border was more safe and secure than ever
  49. Obama to El Paso voters: GOP won’t be happy until there’s a moat with alligators along the border
  50. FBI stats deemed El Paso, Texas as the safest border city in the U.S. for three years in a row (2013)
  51. El Paso is located directly across from Ciudad Juarez, one of the most dangerous cities in the world
  52. The bloody drug war has claimed an estimated 10,000 lives in Cuidad Juarez in the last five years
  53. San Diego and El Paso both hosted major security operations in the 1990s
  54. Many other areas along the border, like in the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, are like war zones where drug cartels have a dominating presence on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border
  55. Two border patrol agents were killed while chasing illegal immigrants in Arizona in 2011
  56. More than 50,000 people have died in drug-related killings in Mexico in just five years (2012)
  57. Killings reached their highest level in 2010 with 15,273 deaths, up from 9,616 deaths in 2009
  58. Northern Mexico: mass graves, corruption, beheadings, police executions, and hanging bodies
  59. Fifteen decapitated bodies were found near the resort town of Acapulco in January 2011
  60. Five more headless bodies were found again in Acapulco in August 2011
  61. Mexican drug cartels have routinely been employing children as drug traffickers and assassins
  62. Americans have been killed and kidnapped in the drug-related violence along the Mexican border
  63. Fed auditors say we can only stop illegal entries along only 129 of the 1,954 mile Mexican border
  64. According to the federal audit, the 3,918-mile-long border with Canada is virtually wide open
  65. Janet Napolitano stated that Homeland Security works to protect Americans 364 days of the year
  66. Napolitano admitted that terrorists enter the U.S. from Mexico “from time to time” (July 2012)
  67. Mexican drug-cartel members plotted to kill Texas Rangers and ICE agents within the U.S
  68. State Department extended a travel warning to Mexico due to the spreading violence against U.S. citizens, including “homicide, gun battles, kidnapping, carjacking, and highway robbery” (2012)
  69. 130 Americans were reported murdered in Mexico in 2011, up from 111 in 2010 and 35 in 2007
  70. Nine bodies were found hanging from a bridge 6 miles from the border in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
  71. Fourteen headless bodies were also discovered stuffed in black bags and left inside a van (2012)
  72. The fourteen heads were later found outside city hall in Nuevo Laredo, preserved in ice boxes
  73. Dismembered bodies of three Mexican journalists were discovered in Veracruz, Mexico (2012)
  74. Forty-nine headless mutilated corpses were dumped in a pile on the highway in northern Mexico
  75. Thousands of Mexico’s drug war victims have never been identified
  76. Drug cartels dumped seventeen mutilated bodies near the U.S. border (December 2012)
  77. Mexican government estimated that there had been more than 30,000 cartel-related deaths
  78. Human rights groups estimated the number of missing to be over 25,000 in the conflict
  79. Tourists were tied up with bikinis and gang raped by masked robbers in Acapulco (February 2013)
  80. Federal documents reveal that hundreds of terrorism-linked illegal aliens caught entering U.S
  81. Former U.S. intelligence agent: terrorist group Hezbollah has infiltrated our U.S. southern border
  82. Dozens of foreign terrorists overstayed visas and were convicted of terrorism since the 2001 attacks
  83. Over 10,000 Saudi students were granted visas in 2008, four times greater than the pre-9/11 rate
  84. Obama spent tax-payer dollars to relocate Hamas Palestinian immigrants to the U.S. from Gaza
  85. Obama’s illegal immigrant aunt Zeituni Onyango was given asylum after ignoring U.S. laws
  86. Aunt Zeituni lived on public housing in South Boston despite a previous deportation order
  87. Obama’s illegal alien uncle ‘Omar’ Onyango Obama was arrested for drunk driving in August 2011
  88. Arrested and detained ‘Uncle Omar’ tried to use his telephone call to contact the White House
  89. ‘Uncle Omar’ Onyango Obama was featured in Obama’s Dreams from My Father in 1995
  90. Obama wrote that he was “the uncle who had left for American 25 years ago and never come back”
  91. ‘Uncle Omar’ Onyango has been a fugitive from deportation since 1992 after he failed to leave
  92. ‘Uncle Omar’ reportedly has a valid Social Security ID and driver’s license despite being illegal
  93. Onyango Obama retained the same immigration attorney used by Zeituni to avoid deportation
  94. Spokesman Jay Carney said Obama was “completely unaware” of his illegal alien uncle’s arrest
  95. Carney said that ‘Uncle 0mar’ would not be treated differently than anyone else under U.S. laws
  96. Plymouth County jail released “Omar” Obama from custody without any explanation (2011)
  97. U.S. immigration officials refused to comment on “Omar” Obama’s status citing privacy concerns
  98. ‘Uncle Omar’ demanded constitutional rights to fight his DUI traffic stop and arrest (2011)
  99. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) misled the public on Onyango’s immigration status
  100. Emails show that ICE delayed deporting Onyango (they should have deported him immediately)
  101. Emails also showed that ICE deliberately stonewalled and misled reporters and Congress (2012)
  102. Abongo Malik “Roy” Obama benefited from political favoritism as the brother of the president
  103. “Roy” Obama runs the Barack H. Obama Foundation, which collects funds here in the U.S.
  104. The foundation was set up in 2008 and has solicited tax-deductible contributions on the Internet
  105. The foundation’s website homepage features a photograph of Barack H. Obama Sr. and a statement that the foundation is “a fully tax-exempt (501(c)3) charitable organization” (2011)
  106. Barack H. Obama Foundation’s founder and director, Alton R. Baysden, stated publicly in May 2011 that the foundation had not even yet applied for 501(c)3 tax-exempt status
  107. The foundation violated the postal and tax laws by soliciting donations without filing with the IRS
  108. The foundation first submitted an application for tax exemption in May 2011 and granted in June
  109. “Roy” was able to get approval of a request for tax-exempt status from the IRS in just 30 days
  110. IRS’s approval to operate the tax-exempt organization was also made retroactive for 3 years
  111. The Barack H. Obama Foundation runs out of a commercial drop in Arlington, Virginia
  112. Foundation broke Virginian laws by soliciting donations without proper registration with the IRS
  113. The foundation has wrongfully solicited tax-deductible contributions on the Internet since 2008
  114. Abongo Malik “Roy” Obama is the founder and president of the Barack H. Obama Foundation
  115. The foundation listed addresses and telephone numbers both here in the U.S. and in Kenya
  116. Abongo Malik “Roy” Obama, a convert to Islam, was featured in Dreams from My Father
  117. “Roy” Obama (aged 52) caused a scandal in Kenya when he took a 19-year-old girl as his 3rd wife
  118. “Roy” Obama claimed at the time that the mother of the teenager had given her permission
  119. The mother said that her daughter abandoned her “to live with a man old enough to be her father”
  120. “Roy” Obama has a valid Social Security number, issued in Washington D.C. between 1985-1987
  121. “Roy” Obama has also been identified since 1988 with 22 different rental addresses in the U.S.
  122. Rev. Al Sharpton joined Obama’s immigration reform effort in 2011 to boost their voting base
  123. Ex-NAACP President C.L. Bryant said that Al Sharpton and Ben Jealous are welfare pimps
  124. Audit of the IRS showed that illegal workers received $4.2 billion in refundable tax credits (2011)
  125. Obama equated those who crossed the Rio Grande illegally to those who came through Ellis Island
  126. Obama quoted scripture to push the ‘moral imperative’ of immigration reform
  127. DNC Chair denounced Republicans for believing illegal immigration “should in fact be a crime”
  128. Leftists push voting-rights for non-citizens and a borderless, one-world, anti-capitalist government
  129. “Supporters of comprehensive and targeted amnesties for illegal aliens have consistently failed to win approval by Congress or gain support from the American public”
  130. Immigrant rights activists had been protesting Obama’s policies on illegal alien deportation
  131. Activists warned Obama that his policies could cost him votes from the Hispanic community
  132. Obama’s approval rating among Hispanics fell from 85% (May 2009) to 49% (August 2011)
  133. Obama picked an amnesty lobbyist, Cecilia Munoz, to serve as White House policy director (2012)
  134. Cecilia Munoz is a former senior vice president of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR)
  135. Federal funding for La Raza skyrocketed after Cecilia Munoz got a job in the White House
  136. Cecilia Munoz said that Obama is “not afraid” to act on budget proposals if Congress won’t (2012)
  137. Obama gave a speech telling La Raza that he was tempted to bypass Congress on amnesty (2011)
  138. Obama told a Hispanic group: “I’d like to work my way around Congress” on immigration (2011)
    139. “There are times where – until Nancy Pelosi is speaker again – I’d like to work my way around Congress...” ~President Obama speaking to a Hispanic group in Washington (September 14, 2011)
  139. Obama administration ignored the Constitution by usurping a power only Congress should have
  140. DHS announced the halt of deportation proceedings against illegal immigrants in August 2011
  141. Arrests of illegal immigrants trying to cross the southern U.S. border plummeted under Obama
  142. Number of arrests along the southern border has fallen to levels not seen since the early 1970s
  143. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency unilaterally instituted the DREAM Act (2011)
  144. “Having failed in the legislative process, the Obama administration has simply decided to usurp Congress’s constitutional authority and implement an amnesty program for millions of illegal aliens”
    145. “Obama’s backdoor amnesty plan violates American standards of following the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution.” ~Arizona Governor Jan Brewer (August 2011)
    “Today’s announcement shows that this president is willing to put muscle behind his words and to use his power to intervene when the lives of good people are being ruined by bad laws.” ~Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL)
  145. Congress told the Homeland Security Department to give a list of all immigrants whom the Obama administration has flagged under its Secure Communities program but failed to arrest for deportation
  146. Secure Communities identified 318,308 foreigners potentially eligible for deportation in the first half of fiscal year 2011, but only 73,466 were arrested by immigration authorities (2011)
  147. DHS declined to pursue deportation cases against more than 250,000 illegal aliens during that time
  148. House Republicans were forced to subpoenaed the list after DHS missed its deadline (2011)
    149. “Why would DHS want to keep this information from the committee? If there is nothing to hide, why wouldn’t they provide Congress with these documents? Are administration officials concerned that the requested information will show that illegal and criminal immigrants intentionally released by ICE have gone on to commit more crimes?” ~Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX)
  149. Catholic nun was killing in Prince William County by an illegal immigrant who was driving drunk
  150. Illegal drunk driver had been charged with drunk driving twice before and released by ICE (2011)
  151. House Democrats went to Alabama to protest a law cracking down on illegal immigrants (2011)
    152. “When it is considered a felony and a deportable offense for a mother without immigration papers to sign her U.S. citizen children up for a library card, clearly we have a national civil rights emergency.” ~Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez (D-IL)
  152. Citing budget cuts due to the Supercommittee’s failure, the Obama administration said it will cut the number of National Guard troops patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border by at least half in 2012
  153. Democrats wanted the Supercommittee to fail and haven’t produced a budget in over four years
  154. New Haven, Connecticut approved a program providing ID cards to illegal immigrants (2007)
  155. New Haven Mayor John DeStefano (D) announced that he would ask the state legislature to allow illegal immigrants to vote in municipal elections (2011)
  156. Obama’s Justice Department accused Sheriff Joe Arpaio of violating federal law and the Constitution in his department’s handling of Hispanics it arrested and held in its jail system (2011)
  157. Department of Homeland Security stripped Sheriff Arpaio and his deputies of their authority to determine whether inmates in county jails are in the country illegally and restricted the agency’s use of a federal fingerprint program to identify illegal immigrants
    158. “By their actions today, President Obama and a band of his merry men might as well erect their own pink neon sign at the Arizona-Mexico border saying, ‘Welcome all illegals to your United States. Our home is your home.” ~Sheriff Joe Arpaio (December 2011)
  158. Federal officials ended their probe of Arpaio’s office without filing any charges (September 2012)
  159. DOJ blocked South Carolina’s voter I.D. law saying it discriminated against minorities (2011)
  160. President Obama’s ICE launched a free hotline for suspected illegal immigrants to get help (2011)
  161. DHS proposed new hardship rules making it easier for some illegal immigrants to stay in the U.S.
    162. “Who is the president batting for – illegal immigrants or the American people?” ~House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX)
  162. Obama administration halted all deportations to Haiti due to an earthquake (January 2010)
  163. Kelser Dufrene was a twice-convicted felon who was ordered to be deported back to Haiti in 2006
  164. ICE officials released Kelser Dufrene, who went on to kill 3 Americans in North Miami (2011)
  165. Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina refused to apologize for his ‘chimichanga’ tweet (2012)
  166. DHS halted the deportation of certain illegal immigrants by issuing “unlawful presence waivers”
  167. New State Department video caption read, “Visit America. It’s easier than you think” (2012)
  168. Obama repeatedly said that he didn’t have the authority to unilaterally change immigration policy
    169. “The fact of the matter is there are laws on the books that I have to enforce. And I think there’s been a great disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things. It’s just not true.” ~President Obama speaking in 2011
  169. Obama enacted parts of the DREAM Act through executive fiat by announcing that he would stop deporting certain young illegal immigrants and grant them the right to work in the U.S. (June 15, 2012)
  170. Obama was interrupted by a reporter, “Why do you favor foreigners over American workers?”
  171. POLITICO asserted that President Obama’s policy strategy is to ignore laws they don’t like
  172. President Obama bowed to Mexican President Felipe Calderon at the G20 Leaders Summit (2012)
  173. SEIU and Obama’s Super PAC launched a $4 million Spanish TV ad campaign (June 2012)
  174. President Obama had the Secret Service confiscate all of the dinner forks at the National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) luncheon prior to entering the room (June 22, 2012)
  175. Photos show of the many times Obama had been in the room with “fork wielding strangers”
  176. Immigrant-rights groups are pressuring Obama to reduce the number of people it is deporting
  177. Obama announced a halt to deportations for most illegal immigrants under the age of 30 who were brought here as children
  178. Supreme Court ruled that state and local police in Arizona could check the legal status of those they have reasonable suspicion to believe are in the United States illegally (June 25, 2012)
  179. Supreme Court ruled that Arizona may not impose its own penalties for immigration violations
  180. Afterwards, Homeland Security suspended their immigration agreements with Arizona police
  181. Obama administration issued a directive telling federal authorities to decline many of the calls reporting illegal immigrants that the Homeland Security Department may get from Arizona police
  182. Obama officials announced they would only pursue reported illegals with a felony conviction
  183. Obama administration ended the seven 287(g) task force agreements with Arizona law enforcement, which proactively had granted some local police the powers to enforce immigration laws
  184. California passed the so-called “anti-Arizona” immigration law (AB1081), which exempts local police from checking immigration status of anyone not already convicted of a serious felony (July 2012)
  185. Joe Biden told La Raza, “Mitt Romney wants you to show your papers, but he won’t show us his”
  186. Obama administration closed (9) of its border patrol stations located across four states (July 2012)
  187. Top immigration officials described border chaos resulting from Obama’s amnesty policy (2012)
  188. House Judiciary Committee report revealed that the Obama administration released illegal immigrants who went on to commit 19 murders, 3 attempted murders, and 142 sex crimes (2012)
  189. Illegal immigrant “Undocu-bus” rolled into Charlotte for the 2012 Democratic National Convention
  190. Federal health officials reported that the federal government paid $120 million in Medicare services for prisoners and illegal immigrants from 2009 to 2011 in violation of federal law (January 2013)
  191. ACLU recommended reducing our border security following the 2012 elections (January 2013)
  192. Senator Marco Rubio, “Gang of Eight” unveiled bipartisan immigration reform (January 2013)
  193. Obama spent eight years preventing any attempt at sensible immigration reform
  194. As a senator, Obama sat in on meetings about legislation only to demand changes on behalf of unions
  195. Obama later helped kill a second attempt in 2007 by sponsoring amendments designed to damage the bill
  196. Obama casted a decisive vote against a guest worker program that sunk the effort (2007)
  197. In 2001, Obama accused Republicans of racism for wanting tougher border security
  198. President Obama claimed that he had fortified the border so much that it could now be deemed secure
  199. Obama urged Congress to turn its attention to passing an overhaul of the broader immigration system
  200. U.S. Border Patrol apprehended 327,577 individuals illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in 2011
  201. Flow of illegal immigrants across the southwest border (356,873 arrests) jumped by 9% in 2012
  202. According to their own estimates, the U.S. Border Patrol only catches 30% of illegal crossers
  203. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said “border security” would not be used as a “barrier” to citizenship (2013)
  204. President Obama used a failing high school as a backdrop for an immigration speech (January 2013)
  205. President Obama said he was opposed to linking a path to citizenship to border security
  206. In 2008, Obama said that undocumented immigrants should be “required” to learn English
  207. Concerns for the rule of law is the driving motivation behind most Tea Party opposition to amnesty
  208. Plan proposed by the Senate would let Napolitano trigger citizenship for illegals (2013)
  209. ICE ex-chief said that the administration’s non-deport rules would have spared the 9/11 hijackers
  210. Political influence of “illegal alien” interest groups prohibits agents from properly enforcing the law
  211. Chris Crane is president of a local chapter within the union that represents 7,600 ICE border agents
  212. Crane told Congress that agents were being prevented from enforcing law by special interest influences
    213. “Most Americans would be surprised to know that immigration agents are regularly prohibited from enforcing the two most fundamental sections of United States immigration law. According to ICE policy, in most cases, immigration agents can no longer arrest persons solely for entering the United States illegally.”
    ~Chris Crane, president of the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council (February 2013)
  213. John Conyers (D-MI) scolded Congress for using the term “illegal immigrant” (February 2013)
  214. Amnesty for illegal immigrants would add $2 trillion to the long-term (75 year) cost of Obamacare

    215. Obama described the Muslim call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset”

  215. Progressive liberals routinely dismiss a dangerous, violent ideology striving for world domination
  216. Discussion of Muslim terrorism, Islamists or jihadists is rejected to protect emerging Muslim alliances
  217. Obama’s wedding ring, which he wore before he was married, has inscribed “There is no god but Allah”
  218. President Obama said in his speech in Cairo, Egypt that it was his “responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear” (2009)
  219. Advisor John Brennan relabeled terrorists as “victims of political, economic, and social forces”
  220. Obama administration changed the War on Terrorism to “Overseas Contingency Operations”
  221. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano renamed terrorist acts “man-caused disasters”
  222. National Security Director James Clapper was unaware of the recent London terror arrests
  223. Obama’s intel chief described the Muslim Brotherhood as “largely secular” and against violence
  224. In 2009, Obama cancelled the 21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House
  225. Obama’s reason for cancelling the ceremony was that of “not wanting to offend anyone”
  226. On September 25, 2009 Obama held a National Day of Prayer for the Muslim religion
  227. More than 50,000 Muslims attended the Obama’s Muslim National Day of Prayer in D.C.
  228. President Obama invited the Muslim Brotherhood to visit the White House (April 2012)
  229. Senior official in the Obama State Department said, “The war on terror is over” (April 2012)
  230. Obama administration worked to back popular violent uprisings during the ‘Arab Spring’
  231. Muslim Brotherhood elements have aligned with the opposition in Syria
  232. Joe Biden praised the ‘Arab Spring’ on the same day that Egypt dissolved its parliament
  233. Obama skipped giving a statement on Easter, but has commemorated all Muslim holidays
  234. White House has released statements recognizing the observance of all major Muslim holidays
  235. Obama administration released statements in 2010 on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha
  236. The Obama White House also failed to release a statement marking Good Friday (2011)
  237. President Obama’s weekend radio address failed to mention either Good Friday or Easter
  238. However, Obama administration did release an eight-paragraph statement heralding Earth Day
  239. W.H. skipped releasing a First Family photo in the Christmas card in 2010, but resumed to in 2011
  240. First Family received some flack for not even including the word ‘Christmas’ on their card (2010)
  241. House members were told they couldn’t say ‘Merry Christmas’ in their frankable mailings (2011)
  242. Obama scheduled a fundraiser in NYC creating traffic jams for the Christmas tree lighting (2011)
  243. Obama celebrated Hanukkah two weeks early and mistakenly lit all of the menorah candles at once
  244. U.S. State Department gave a grant to Al-Quds television network, owned by Hamas terrorists
  245. State Department officials also invited the network to the U.S. to produce a propaganda film
  246. Hamas condemned a Palestinian advisor to Mahmoud Abbas who visited Auschwitz (July 2012)
    247. “It was an unjustified and unhelpful visit that served only the Zionist occupation… a marketing of a false Zionist alleged tragedy.” ~Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum condemning Mahmoud Abbas’ advisor, Ziad al-Bandak, for visiting Auschwitz (August 2012)
  247. Hamas has always denied that the Holocaust occurred, including in a press release from 2000
    248. “This conference bears a clear Zionist goal, aimed at forging history by hiding the truth about the so-called Holocaust, which is an alleged and invented story with no basis… The invention of these grand illusions of an alleged crime that never occurred, ignoring the millions of dead European victims of Nazism during the war, clearly reveals the racist Zionist face, which believes in the superiority of the Jewish race over the rest of the nations.” ~Hamas press release (2000)
  248. Mahmoud Abbas also denied the history of the Holocaust while writing in his 1983 book The Other Side: The Secret Relations Between Nazism and the Leadership of the Zionist Movement
  249. Mahmoud Abbas’ own Holocaust denials originated with his doctoral dissertation
  250. Abbas holds a doctorate in history from the Moscow Oriental College where he studied “Zionism”
  251. Abbas helped fund the PLO attacks in the 1972 Munich Olympics that murdered 11 Israelis
  252. Part of Obama’s “stimulus” went to the Betty Shabazz International Charter Academy in Illinois
  253. Betty Shabazz Academy was founded by and named after Nation of Islam activists and black radicals
  254. Betty Shabazz, a Muslim convert, was the wife of black nationalist leader Malcolm X. Shabazz
  255. Obama recognized the “Nowruz” (Persian New Year), but ignored the Jewish Holiday “Purim”
  256. Obama marked Ramadan in 2011 by hosting an Iftar dinner to celebrate the Muslim holy month
  257. Obama’s 2011 Iftar dinner remarks: “Islam has always been part of our American family”
  258. Obama hosted his fourth Iftar dinner at the White House to celebrate Ramadan in 2012
    259. “And some of you, as you arrived tonight, may have seen our special display, courtesy of our friends at the Library of Congress – the Koran that belonged to Thomas Jefferson. And that’s a reminder, along with the generations of patriotic Muslims in America, that Islam – like so many faiths – is part of our national story.” ~President Obama speaking at the 2012 Iftar dinner at the White House (2012)

  259. Thomas Jefferson had a Koran because in 1786 he was the U.S. ambassador to France and the Muslim Barbary pirates kept taking over our ships and enslaving or murdering the crews
  260. Jefferson was given a Koran by the ambassador to the Dey of Algiers, who explained that Muslim pirates were expected to plunder, enslave, and murder as commanded by their prophet Allah
  261. Eric Holder refused to admit that radical Islam played a role in terrorist attacks on our nation
  262. White House’s 9/11 anniversary guidelines asked officials to ‘minimize references to al-Qaeda’
  263. Anyone who opposes Shariah law in the U.S. are labeled as “Islamophobes” by the leftwing media
  264. Obama administration described the Islamic terrorist Fort Hood shooting as “workplace violence”
  265. Obama tapped Islamist Yusef al-Qaradawi to help negotiate the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
  266. Yusef al-Qaradawi is an informal Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader and a famous Shariah jurist
  267. Yusef al-Qaradawi’s television show “Shariah and Life” is watched by millions of Muslims
  268. Qaradawi’s Ireland-based European Council for Fatwa and Research is a think tank for the M.B.
    269. “They are not suicide operations… These are heroic martyrdom operations… The martyr operations is [sic] the greatest of all sorts of jihad in the cause of Allah.” ~Yusef al-Qaradawi on suicide bombings
    “Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the Jews people who would punish them for their corruption… The last punishment was carried out by [Adolf] Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue – he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them… Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers.” ~Yusef al-Qaradawi on Jews
  269. Obama administration sanctioned the building of a Taliban embassy in U.S. ally Qatar (2011)
  270. Vice President Joe Biden told Newsweek that, “The Taliban, per se, is not our enemy” (2011)
  271. Qatar is also home to al-Jazeera, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Islamist Yusef al-Qaradawi
  272. Sec. Clinton said Al-Jazeera is “real news” and is changing the heart and minds of the Middle East
  273. Taliban gunmen killed aid workers in Pakistan for administering polio vaccinations to children (2013)
  274. President Obama invited Egypt’s new Islamist leader, Mohamed Morsi, to visit the U.S. (2012)
  275. Democrats embraced radical Islamists at the Democratic National Convention (2012)
  276. Democrats created an event, “Jumah at the 2012 DNC,” led by Jibril Hough and Siraj Wahaj
  277. Siraj Wahaj said that “if 6-8 Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us” (1991)
  278. In 1995, Siraj Wahaj was a character witness for Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh, who was found guilty of conspiracy to overthrow the American government
  279. U.S. listed Wahaj as an “unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators” in the case
  280. Muslim-led nations called for a global ban on insults of Prophet Muhammad (September 2012)
  281. Obama: “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam” (September 2012)
  282. Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan rallied in support of speech prohibition (September 2012)
  283. Investigation of records discovered that radical Islamists fronting for Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood have “made hundreds of visits to the Obama White House” and “met with top administration officials” (2012)
  284. Muslim Brotherhood said Obama’s foreign policy must include “accepting the will of the Arab people”
  285. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA): Obama can’t say the words “Muslim terrorist attack” (November 2012)
  286. Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) held a “Symposium on Defamation of Islam” (2012)
  287. Obama’s U.S. Consul General in Jeddah, Anne Casper, attended the symposium held in Saudi Arabia
  288. OIC’s ultimate goal is to ban any criticism of Islam or the Prophet Mohammed
  289. OIC officials began by trying to ban any speech that “associates Islam or Islamists to violence”
  290. OIC’s resolution for “religious tolerance” was adopted by the U.N. with support from Obama (2011)
  291. Islamic terrorists have carried out over 19,000 deadly attacks in the name of Islam since the 9/11 attacks
  292. Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point released a study warning against the dangers of “far right” groups and limited-government activists (January 2013)
  293. The CTC ignored Islamists, Occupy Wall Street, the NBPP, or any political violence from the Left
  294. CTC cited 350 “attacks initiated by far-right groups and individuals” that supposedly occurred in 2011
  295. Hillary Clinton said that her “great hope” is to one day work with the terrorist group Hamas (2013)
  296. Inner-city Muslim Action Network (IMAN) helps other Muslim organizations launch around the country
  297. Chicago’s “#MyJihad” Muslim outreach campaign spread across the U.S. (February 2013)
  298. There are about 400,000 Muslims in Chicago, and 15 new mosques have been built in the last 10 years
  299. More than 500 mosques have been built in the U.S. in the last ten years (February 2013)

    300. Those who point out the violent origins of Islam are dismissed as being bigots and “Islamophobes”

  300. The 1993 truck bombing of the World Trade Center was devised and carried out by Muslims
  301. The massive 1994 Bojinka Philippine Airlines bomb plots were hatched and carried out by Islamists
  302. Muslims carried out the November 13, 1995 car bombing killing U.S. servicemen in Saudi Arabia
  303. Muslims plotted in 1995 to assassinate Pope John Paul II and fly a plane into CIA headquarters
  304. The June 25, 1996 truck bomb that killed Americans in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia was by Muslims
  305. Osama bin Laden declared an Islamic Jihad on the United States on tape starting back in 1998
  306. U.S. embassy bombings in Africa on August 7, 1998 was carried out by Muslims killing hundreds
  307. The October 12, 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen carried out by Muslims
  308. The Y2K Millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport was hatched by Islamists
  309. Muslims planned attacks against U.S. and Israeli tourists visiting Jordan for millennial celebrations
  310. Hassan Abujihaad attempted passing military secrets about naval movements to al-Qaeda in 2001
  311. Nineteen Muslims hijacked the four planes used to carry out the September 11, 2001 attacks
  312. Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg were beheaded by men exclusively identifying themselves as Muslims
  313. Muslim “shoe bomber” Richard Reid tried to blow up a transatlantic AA Flight 63 in Dec. 2001
  314. The June 14, 2002 bombing of an American consulate in Pakistan was carried out by Muslims
  315. LAX shooting massacre on July 4, 2002 was carried out by a Muslim, Hesham Mohamed Hadayet
  316. In October 2002, Beltway Sniper and Islam convert, John Allen Muhammad, murdered ten people
  317. The bombing of a Bali nightclub in October 2002 were carried out by Islamist terrorists
  318. The four 2003 truck bombing attacks killing 57 civilians in Istanbul, Turkey were by Muslims
  319. The May 12, 2003 suicide bombings targeting Westerners in Saudi Arabia were by Muslims
  320. Nuradin Abdi, a Muslim, was caught in November, 2003 plotting to bomb a Columbus, Ohio mall
  321. The Al-Khobar massacres in Saudi Arabia were carried out by seventeen Islamists in May 2004
  322. The March 11, 2004 coordinated train bombings in Madrid, Spain were carried out by Muslims
  323. The June 2004 terrorist attacks against Americans in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia were by Muslims
  324. The August 2004 Financial buildings plot was led by Dhiren Barot, a U.K. convert to Islam
  325. The NYC Herald Square bomb plot on August 28, 2004 by Islamists, including Shahawar Siraj
  326. The December 6, 2004 terrorist attack on a U.S. consulate in Saudi Arabia conducted by Muslims
  327. The July 7, 2005 coordinated suicide bombings in London, England were carried out by Muslims
  328. The November 9, 2005 Amman hotel coordinated suicide bombings were carried out by Muslims
  329. In March 2006, Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar attacked pedestrians at UNC to avenge Muslims
  330. The “Toronto 18” Islamic terrorist cell plotted attacks against targets in Toronto, Canada in 2006
  331. In July 2006, Jihadists were caught plotting to bomb New York City train tunnels to cause a flood
  332. An Islamist, Omeed Aziz Popal, engaged in a San Francisco civilian vehicle attack in August 2006
  333. Twenty-four British Muslims were caught in 2006 trying to blow up 7 airliners bound for the U.S.
  334. Islamist Derrick Shareef was convicted in the December 2006 Rockford, Illinois mall bomb plot
  335. Islamist Sulejman Talovic killed 5 in a Salt Lake City mall shooting spree on February 12, 2007
  336. The May 2007 terrorist plot by six men to attack Fort Dix soldiers in New Jersey were all Muslims
  337. Two Muslim men were convicted of plotting to blow up the fuel dumps at JFK airport in 2007
  338. The two December 11, 2007 bombings in Algiers, Algeria were carried out in the name of Islam
  339. The September 16, 2008 car bombing and rocket strike on a U.S. embassy in Yemen by Muslims
  340. The coordinated 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India were carried out by Pakistani Muslims
  341. The June 2, 2008 Danish-embassy suicide car bombing in Islamabad was carried out by Muslims
  342. The 2009 Little Rock, Arkansas Army recruiting office shooting was carried out by an Islamist
  343. Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a Muslim, was caught plotting to bomb a Dallas skyscraper in 2009
  344. The 2009 Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Hasan, a Muslim, was a self-described “Soldier of Allah”
  345. Colleen LaRose (Jihad Jane) was arrested for conspiring with and aiding Muslim terrorists overseas
  346. The 2009 Christmas Day Northwest Flight 253 underwear bomb plot was carried out by a Muslim
  347. Underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab said he was “proud to kill in the name of God”
  348. The May 2010 Times Square bombing plot was carried out by Faisal Shahzad, a “Muslim soldier”
  349. Sami Samer Hassoun, a Muslim, plotted to bomb nightclubs outside of Wrigley Field in 2010
  350. Farooque Ahmed, a Muslim, caught plotting attacks on D.C. Metrorail stations in October 2010
  351. Ibrahim al-Asiri, a Muslim, attempted to mail bombs to two Chicago synagogues in October 2010
  352. Mohamed Osman Muhamud plotted a Portland, Oregon tree-lighting bombing in November 2010
  353. Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, a Muslim, caught plotting to blow up targets in Texas in February 2011
  354. A Muslim jihadist opened fire on a bus killing U.S. airmen in Frankfurt, Germany in 2011
  355. Three Middle Eastern men tried to enter Camp Pendleton in a suspected terrorist probe mission
  356. Gunman who opened fire in a Brazilian school in 2011, killing 12, was an Islamic fundamentalist
  357. Muslim extremists plotted to hijack the royal wedding in Britain and turn it into a “nightmare”
  358. Osama Bin Laden, a Muslim, plotted to derail U.S. train(s) scheduled for 10th anniversary of 9/11
  359. Bin Laden brainstormed a plot to shoot down Air Force One with President Obama on board
  360. Al-Qaeda was also making plans to target General David Petraeus during the 9/11 anniversary
  361. Yemeni Rageit Almurisi tried to storm an American Airlines cockpit shouting “Allahu Akbar”
  362. Islamists Mohammad Mamdouh and Ahmed Serhani plotted to attack a NYC synagogue in 2011
  363. Muslim Marine reservist fired shots at the Pentagon, Marine Corps Museum, and recruiting stations
  364. Muslim ex-convicts Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif and Walli Mujahidh plotted a Seattle grenade attack
  365. Saleh Ali S. Alramakh subdued on a flight from Chicago to Germany (diverted to Cleveland)
  366. Muslim U.S. soldier Naser Jason Abdo was arrested for plotting a second attack on Ft. Hood
  367. U.S. soldiers in the Middle East are killed exclusively by those identifying themselves as Muslims
  368. Muslims claim that the attacks are “justified according to Islamic Laws and the Islamic Religion”
  369. The Taliban and al-Qaeda both identify themselves exclusively as Muslims engaging in Jihad
  370. Turkey stopped an al-Qaeda plot to attack the U.S. embassy just as Sec. Hillary Clinton arrived
  371. Mohamed H. Dawod opened fire on bus passengers during the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks
  372. Islamist Rezwan Ferdaus caught planning to blow up the Pentagon in a ‘Jihad’ against the U.S.
  373. Five San Antonio Muslims were arrested with “photographs of infrastructure” in the U.S. (2011)
  374. Ali Reza Shahsavari, yelled “You’re all going to hell. You’re all going to die -- Allahu Akbar!”
  375. Islamist Mevlid Jasarevic waged a gun battle on the U.S. embassy in Bosnia (October 28, 2011)
  376. Jihadist and “al-Qaeda sympathizer” Jose Pimentel plotted to bomb NY police and post offices
  377. Hollywood shooter Tyler Brehm yelled “Allahu Akbar!” while shooting passing motorists (2011)
  378. Muslim ‘Santa’ Aziz “Bob” Yazdanpanah gunned down six family members on Christmas (2011)
  379. Sami Osmakac plotted a suicide terror attack in Tampa, Florida in order to “die the Islamic way”
  380. FBI agents busted a man heading for a D.C. suicide mission after praying at a mosque (2012)
  381. CIA derailed an Islamist plot by al-Qaeda to bring a new underwear bomb on a plane to the U.S.
  382. Al-Qaeda designed similar bombs that can be hidden in cameras, hard drives, and pets (2012)
  383. Al-Qaeda plotted to blow up U.S. passenger planes in the days leading up to the London Olympics
  384. Islamists planned to attack the London Olympic Games with a car filled with explosives (2012)
  385. Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis was caught plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve (2012)
  386. U.S. State Department granted the student visa to the Federal Reserve terror plotter (December 2011)
  387. Justice Department said that 126 terrorists were indicted between 2009-2010, all of them Muslim
  388. Obama administration tried to blame a deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi on an anti-Islam film (2012)
  389. Massive car bomb killed 8 in Beirut, which the White House immediately declared a terrorist attack
  390. Naeem Davis, a devout Muslim, pushed Ki Suk Han into the path of a subway train in New York (2012)
  391. Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents waged an attack on a BP joint-venture natural gas field in Algeria (2013)
  392. Americans were taken hostage during the attack, carried out by Islamist Mokhtar Belmokhtar (2013)
  393. Mokhtar Belmokhtar is a one-eyed jihadi leader nicknamed “Mr. Marlboro” for his smuggling skills
  394. Belmokhtar, fighting alongside the mujahideen in Afghanistan, lost an eye handling explosives (1990s)
  395. Mokhtar Belmokhtar has allegedly mounted multiple kidnappings of foreign nations in North Africa
  396. Belmokhtar is believed to have extorted $70 million or more over the course of a decade of kidnappings
  397. Al-Qaeda-linked militants called the Masked Brigade or the Khaled Abu al-Abbas Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack, claiming it was in retaliation for Algeria letting France use its airspace during its ongoing military operations against the Islamists who have taken partial control of neighboring Mali
  398. More than 40 U.S. Muslims joined the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic insurgency al-Shabab in Somalia
  399. Al-Shabab killed 76 people in terrorist bombings in Uganda in 2010 during the World Cup final
  400. Jehad Mostafa, from Wisconsin, was seen handing out food in an al-Shabab recruiting video
  401. Mostafa was the president of the now-defunct Muslim Youth Council of San Diego (MYCSD)
  402. Mostafa had met with Anwar al-Awlaki at a San Diego mosque and then went to Somalia in 2005
  403. Al-Shabab was designated as a terrorist organization in February 2008
  404. Mostafa was indicted terrorism charges for providing material support to al-Shabab (August 2010)
  405. Jehad Mostafa works in a leadership role within al-Shabab serving as a key liaison to al-Qaeda
  406. Al-Shabab’s spokesman said that al-Shabab and al-Qaeda were “brothers in Islam”
  407. Al-Shabab bombed a Kenyan church killing at least 17 people in Garissa, Kenya (July 2012)
  408. Omar Hammami, from Alabama, became a jihadist lecturer and Islamic scholar in Somalia
  409. Hammami is an influential English speaker known as Abu Mansour al-Amriki, or “the American”
  410. Al-Qaeda pledged “shocking” and “earth-shattering” attacks on the U.S. and the West (January 2013)
  411. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was co-founded in 1994 by Nihad Awad
  412. CAIR executive director, Nihad Awad, hailed Qadhafi as “the world Islamic popular leader”
  413. CAIR asked Muammar Qadhafi to underwrite the distribution one million Qurans in the U.S.
  414. Nihad Awad also asked Qadhafi for money to help launch the U.S. Muslim Peace Foundation
  415. Nihad Awad during a 2000 speech to ISNA: “Who better can lead America than Muslims?”
  416. CAIR Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper revealed his intentions before CAIR was formed
  417. Ibrahim Hooper wants the “government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future”
  418. Hooper has misled Washington reporters about the source of majority of CAIR’s financial support
  419. Hooper lied as he repeatedly denied that CAIR receives foreign support despite clear evidence
  420. CAIR launched a secret “strategy” memo in 2007 outlining plans to undermine anti-terror efforts
  421. CAIR sought to “influence” intelligence, justice, and homeland security committees in Congress
  422. CAIR’s plan included the strategic placement of interns in “congressional offices”
    423. “It shouldn’t need to be said in 2009, and after the historic election of our first African-American president, but let me remind my colleagues that patriotic Americans of all races, religions, and beliefs have the right – and the responsibility – to participate in our political process, including by volunteering to work in Congressional offices. Numerous Muslim-American interns have served the House ably and they deserve our appreciation and respect, not attacks on their character or patriotism.” ~Congressman John Conyers (D-MI) strongly opposing the accusation that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) sought to plant Muslim “spies” in Capitol Hill in 2009 (Andre Carson (D-IN) and Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) also joined efforts to condemn the allegations)
  423. Congressman Andre Carson (D-CT), one of two Muslims serving in Congress, encouraged his followers to “imagine” the first female Muslim president wearing “a hajib” in the White House (2012)
  424. CAIR’s founding chairman, Omar Ahmad, argues that Shariah law should replace the Constitution
  425. Shariah law is a barbaric and bigoted 7th century legal system that enslaves women, punishes shoplifters by amputating limbs, stones women to death for adultery, and burns homosexuals alive
  426. Islamic Middle-East culture believes it’s okay to acquire sex slaves from non-Muslim countries
  427. Omar Ahmad: “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant”
  428. Anwar al-Awlaki was interviewed at least four times by the FBI in the first eights after 9/11
  429. Al-Awlaki had ties to 9/11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hazmi, Khalid al-Mihdhar and Hani Hanjour
  430. Four months after the 9/11 attacks, Anwar al-Awlaki was invited to lunch at the Pentagon “as part of the military’s outreach to the Muslim community” following the attacks (February 5, 2002)
  431. Since September 2009, twenty-six terrorism cases had been tied to Anwar al-Awlaki
  432. Anwar al-Awlaki was associated with Omar Abdel-Rahman, also known as the blind sheik
  433. Anwar Al-Awlaki was also in contact with Major Nidal Hasan, including 19 email exchanges
  434. Nidal Hasan was charged with 13 murders during the Fort Hood massacre (November 5, 2009)
  435. FBI Director Robert Mueller’s agency cut ties with CAIR citing terror concerns with its leaders
  436. CAIR and its founding chairman were named as unindicted terror finance co-conspirators (2007)
  437. Evidence from the Holy Land Foundation terror-finance case showed Awad meeting with Hamas
  438. Nihad Awad, meeting with Hamas, plotted to disguise payments to Hamas terrorists as charity
  439. Wiretaps also record them stating the need to deceive Americans about their true aims (Taqiyya)
  440. Ahmad and Awad appear in a secret phone book alongside key Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk
  441. Mousa Abu Marzouk directed Hamas terrorist attacks killing Israelis and at least (17) Americans
  442. Muslim Peace Foundation was cofounded in 2008 by Nihad Awad and CAIR Chairman Larry Shaw
  443. Larry Shaw, a longtime North Carolina state senator, lavishly praised Qadhafi in 2009
  444. Winslow Seale (a.k.a. Johari Abdul Malik) was a third cofounder of the Muslim Peace Foundation
  445. Johari Abdul Malik is the Dar al-Hijrah mosque outreach director
  446. DHS describes the Dar al-Hijrah mosque as considered “associated with Islamic extremists”
  447. DHS says Dar al-Hijrah “has been linked to numerous individuals linked to terrorism financing”
  448. CAIR official, Nihad Awad, denied three times any linkage between the 9/11 attacks and Islam
  449. CAIR, a front for Hamas, supports terrorist organizations and is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood
  450. CAIR’s number one financial contributor is Iran, a state-sponsor of Islamic terrorism
  451. CAIR’s national office has failed to file financial records since 2007 as required by federal law
  452. CAIR was (until June 2011) registered as a 501(c)(3) organization providing tax-exempt status
  453. IRS stripped CAIR of its tax-exempt status after withholding donor records from the government
  454. CAIR continued to collect tax-exempt donations despite losing its tax-exempt status
  455. CAIR received millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and other terror-tied Arab states
  456. Obama administration sold $3.48 billion worth of missiles and technology to the UAE (2012)
  457. Mainstream media outlets provide CAIR open access as a “Muslim civil rights group” in the U.S.
  458. CAIR failed to register with Congress as a federal lobbying organization as required by law
  459. CAIR lobbied Congress heavily in 2005 to repeal the USA Patriot Act in violation of the law
  460. CAIR sued the state of Oklahoma to block a constitutional measure banning Shariah law
  461. Nihad Awad told Muslim-Americans to demand that the U.S. cut aid to both Israel and India
  462. Awad told Muslim-Americans they are, first and foremost, citizens of the global Islamic nation
  463. Awad urged U.S. Muslims, “We should talk about Kashmir, and we should talk about Palestine”
  464. Department of Justice listed CAIR as a member of the radical Muslim Brotherhood in America
  465. Terrorist organizations Hamas and al-Qaeda are violent offshoots of the Muslim Brotherhood
  466. Department of Justice officials mysteriously abandoned terror finance prosecutions of CAIR
  467. Federal judge asked Holder’s Justice Department to investigate an author critical of CAIR
  468. DOJ’s Eric Holder pushed to hold the 9/11 trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York City
  469. Holder reluctantly announced that KSM will be tried by military commission at Guantanamo Bay
  470. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has yet to be prosecuted more than a decade after the 9/11 attacks
  471. Obama halted the prosecution of U.S.S. Cole bombing mastermind, Abd Al-Rahim al-Nashiri
  472. Michael Posner compared treatment of Muslim-Americans after 9/11 to post Pearl Harbor
  473. Obama administration helping Feisal Abdul Rauf build a Mosque within the shadows of 9/11 site
  474. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf stated “the U.S. policies were an accessory to the crime” of 9/11
  475. Audio from 2005 shows Imam Rauf stating overseas that America is worse than al-Qaeda
  476. Ground Zero Mosque Imam tells the Muslim world: America is a fully “Shariah compliant state”
  477. Faiz Khan, a close associate of Imam Rauf, was a board member of a “9/11 Truther” organization
  478. Obama said he supported the right to build a mosque near Ground Zero in New York City
  479. Feisal Abdul Rauf was accused of taking $3 million from the Mosque fund (February 2013)
  480. Imam Rauf’s expenditures included “lavish trips, luxury sports cars, and personal real estate”
  481. Cordoba Initiative, led by Robert Leslie Deak, filed a lawsuit against Feisal Abdul Rauf
  482. The nonprofit group’s funds were supposed to be “used to counter anti-Islamic sentiment”
  483. Deak charged that Rauf “falsified” the fund’s “tax returns for 2008, 2009, and 2010”
  484. Rauf did this by “failing to report receipt of funds from foreign sources and transfer of funds”
  485. A group dedicated to the destruction of the U.S. is advising and coaching the president of the U.S.
  486. U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leadership had outlined plans to “destroy” America “from within”
  487. Former FBI special agent testified that MB operatives have penetrated the Obama administration
  488. Guandolo revealed that Obama administration ties with MB agents are even more extensive
  489. MB’s own strategy for change “from within” includes installing loyal Brothers into political office
  490. Obama administration developed extensive relationships with allies of the Muslim Brotherhood
  491. Rashad Hussain is the American ambassador to the 52-nation Organization of Islamic Conference
  492. Organization of Islamic Conference is based in Saudi Arabia and is closely aligned to the MB
  493. Hussain, who regularly spoke at MB front groups, first joined the White House as a lawyer
  494. Rashad Hussain defended Muslim Brotherhood leaders like Sami al-Arian, a convicted terrorist
  495. Hussain believes that promoting the Muslim faith is “key” to the Obama administration’s strategy
  496. Rashad Hussain helped to draft Obama’s conciliatory Cairo speech to Muslims given in 2009
  497. Official attitudes towards Middle East Christians are dictated by “Muslim Brotherhood friends”
  498. Dalia Mogahed is on the W.H. Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships
  499. Mogahed, who comes from the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, helps write Obama’s speeches
  500. Dalia Mogahed also serves on the advisory council of the Department of Homeland Security
  501. Mogahed is a senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies
  502. Mogahed worked on a project to craft the “perfect Islamic state” prior to her appointment
  503. The project was founded and directed by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, a supporter of Sharia law
  504. Mogahed provided Rauf with key data used for his “Sharia Index Project” to define a caliphate
  505. The project was featured on Rauf’s Cordoba Initiative website only to be scrubbed after discovery
  506. Dalia Mogahed called bin Laden a “revolutionary” and compared him to liberal-icon Che Guevara
  507. Dalia Mogahed tried to argue that the jihadist bin Laden was not primarily motivated by religion
  508. CAIR and Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) attempted to downplay anti-Christian violence
  509. Obama’s Muslim advisers blocked Middle Eastern Christians’ access to the White House
  510. Mogahed succeeded in blocking a meeting between Obama and the Maronite Patriarch of Lebanon
  511. The Maronite Patriarch is the spiritual head of a prominent Middle East Christian community
  512. Obama officials have cut the Maronites, Copts and Chaldo-Assyrians from White House meetings
  513. Obama and his administration refused to meet with the Maronite Patriarch at the White House
  514. Coptic Solidarity International were not granted access to discuss the horrors committed in Egypt
  515. Meeting requests by the Assyro-Chaldeans were not granted by the Obama administration officials
  516. Obama’s officials declined invitations to speak at the annual Assyrian Christian convention (2011)
  517. Obama appointed Azizah al-Hibri to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
  518. Al-Hibri is a Muslim professor and served on the advisory board of the American Muslim Council
  519. The American Muslim Council (AMC) was a front group for the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood
  520. Al-Hibri made joint appearances with Abdurahman Alamoudi, the MB’s top leader in the U.S.
  521. Abdurahman Alamoudi is now behind bars as one of al-Qaida’s top fundraisers in America
  522. Azizah Al-Hibri also made appearances at Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) conferences
  523. Al-Hibri had proclaimed that “Islamic figh (law) is deeper and better than Western codes of law”
  524. Arif Alikhan was assistant Homeland Security secretary for policy development
  525. Alikhan is now a distinguished visiting professor of homeland security and counterterrorism at the National Defense University
  526. Syrian Kareem Shora is Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s senior policy adviser
  527. Youssef Aboul-Enein teaches at colleges with the National Defense University
  528. Jocelyne Cesari is a Muslim convert who previously worked with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
  529. Jocelyne Cesari also teaches as colleges with the National Defense University
  530. FBI records show that they have been sued by at least (14) Arab and Muslim employees since 9/11
  531. FBI has come under pressure to hire more Arab and Muslim agents and to promote existing ones
  532. Some of the lawsuits were aided by CAIR, a Muslim Brotherhood front group in the United States
  533. An Iranian-born Muslim has taken over the FBI’s weapons of mass destruction program
  534. Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) closely linked to Hamas and other terrorist groups
  535. CAIR posted a flier that read: “Build a Wall of Resistance,” and “Don’t Talk to the FBI”
  536. Mohammad Majid is the Exec. Director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) mosque
  537. CAIR caught on tape warning Muslims against cooperating with the FBI at the ADAMS mosque
  538. Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough spoke at ADAMS on 3/6/2011
  539. The Muslim Brotherhood called Majid the “nucleus for the Islamic Movement in North America”
  540. Muslim Brotherhood By-laws state their purpose is to “establish Allah’s (Shariah) law in the land”
  541. Majid is also president of Muslim Brotherhood-founded Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
  542. Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is a radical Muslim group and associated with Hamas
  543. A May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood document named ISNA as a “likeminded” organization
  544. ISNA is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terrorism finance trial of 2008
  545. ISNA’s Sayyid Syeed met with the directors of Obama’s transition team prior to his inauguration
  546. Sayyid Syeed is the national director of the ISNA Office for Interfaith and Community Alliances
  547. ISNA President Ingrid Mattson represented American Muslims at Obama’s 2009 inauguration
  548. ISNA President Ingrid Mattson has also represented ISNA at Obama’s annual Ramadan dinners
  549. In June 2009, Valerie Jarrett invited Mattson to work on the W.H. Council on Women and Girls
  550. Jarrett addressed the ISNA’s 46th annual convention as part of Obama’s outreach to Muslims
  551. In July 2009, the Justice Department sponsored an information booth at an ISNA bazaar in D.C.
  552. ISNA sponsored a Q&A session with Obama’s top adviser on counter-terrorism, John Brennan
  553. Both ISNA and CAIR were named as co-conspirators in schemes to fund Hamas suicide bombers
  554. The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) was founded by a former PLO operative
  555. The Woods Fund provided a grant to the Arab American Action Network under director Obama
  556. In 2003, Obama was an honored guest at a dinner sponsored by the AAAN and Rashid Khalidi
  557. Khalidi was tied to the PLO and described Israel as a “racist” state with an “apartheid” system
  558. The L.A. Times will not release the video of Khalidi toasting Obama at his going away party
  559. The L.A. Times provided a forum for Mousa Abu Marzook, a senior Hamas operative
  560. The leader of the AAAN, Hatem Abudayyeh, is a friend of both Obama and Rashid Khalidi
  561. FBI recently raided the home of the AAAN leader Hatem Abudayyeh in a terrorism sweep
  562. The U.N. took the side of rebel Muslims to oust an illegal Christian president in the Ivory Coast
  563. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said, “Freedom of speech is a great idea, but we’re in a war”
  564. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) suggested there may have to be hearings on U.S. Quran burnings
  565. President Obama’s Islamic Envoy to the Middle East includes Rashad Hussain
  566. Muslim Student Association is a group that resides under the Muslim Brotherhood umbrella
  567. Rashad Hussain spoke to the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at an event in 2004
  568. Rashad Hussain expressed support for convicted Islamic terrorist fundraiser Sami al-Arian
  569. Obama chose Eboo Patel, a Muslim activist from Chicago, to serve as a faith adviser
  570. Patel joined Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships (2010)
  571. Eboo Patel, blasted the “myth” that American is “a land of freedom and equality and justice”
  572. Patel compared al-Qaeda to “totalitarian” Christians and Jews in the U.S. and Israel (October 2009)
  573. Patel is the founder and executive director of Chicago-based Interfaith Youth Core
  574. Patel told NPR how he used a “faith-based movement” to channel his rage toward America
  575. Eboo Patel, much like Obama, is deeply tied to former domestic terrorist William Ayers
  576. In 2005, Eboo Patel co-authored a book with William Ayer’s adopted son, Chesa Boudin
  577. The book was titled: “Letters from Young Activists: Today’s Rebels Speak Out”
  578. Another co-author was Ismail Khalidi, the son of Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi
  579. The preface of the 2005 book was written by Ayer’s wife and former terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn
  580. The book boasts an endorsement from Mumia Abu-Jamal, a Black Panther and convicted cop-killer
  581. Eboo Patel and co-authors thanked William Ayers for “guidance” and “encouragement”
  582. Patel implied that had he grown up in the 1960s, he may have joined the Weather Underground
  583. Eboo Patel is part of the official speaker’s bureau of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
  584. Based on his own comments in August 2007, Patel is apparently a member of the ISNA
  585. Patel said, “I’m proud to have her elected as my president,” referring to ISNA’s Ingrid Mattson
  586. Patel also served on a panel at ISNA’s annual convention in Washington D.C. in 2010
  587. Patel has written columns for the Washington Post and Huffington Post promoting ISNA events
  588. Patel is tied to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who proposed the 9/11 Ground Zero mosque in NYC
  589. Patel is listed as one of the 15 “Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow” on a website led by Imam Rauf
  590. In Patel’s 2007 book, he recounts discussions with Rauf regarding the future of Islam in the U.S.
  591. Patel wrote a Huffington Post piece calling former “green jobs” czar Van Jones a “faith hero”
  592. Patel called Van Jones an “American patriot,” despite calling for “resistance” against the U.S.
  593. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) is worried that “Christian militants might bring down the country”
  594. Sheila Jackson Lee requested a hearing on “right-wing extremism” during a radical Islam hearing
  595. Congressman Al Green (D-TX) repeatedly called for hearings on “the radicalization of Christians”
  596. Pew Polling: African-American Muslims hold the most violent views among all U.S. Muslims
  597. Mother of 9/11 ‘20th hijacker’ blamed racism for pushing her son to embrace radical Islam
  598. Obama helped leftists and Islamists combine forces to overwhelm a constitutional democracy
  599. While U.S. Senator, Obama spent six days campaigning for Raila Odinga, violating the Logan Act
  600. Obama and Odinga developed a strategy during a 2006 senatorial “fact-finding” trip to Kenya
  601. The strategy called for Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) to exploit tribal tensions within Kenya should Odinga lose the 2007 presidential election in order to gain power
  602. Evidence shows Obama gave the ODM nearly $1 million in support of Odinga’s 2007 campaign
  603. Also listed as financial contributors to Odinga’s 2007 campaign was former Libyan dictator Qadhafi and his second oldest son, Saif el-Islam Qadhafi
  604. Obama also gave speeches accusing the sitting Kenyan president of being corrupt and oppressive
  605. Kenyan government spokesman went on television and objected to Obama’s political meddling
  606. Raila Odinga lost the 2007 elections and Muslims responded by rioting and killing Christians
  607. Luo tribe members charged that their candidate, Raila Odinga, was a victim of voter fraud in 2007
  608. More than 1,000 people were killed and 800 churches were destroyed or burned to the ground
  609. Not a single mosque was damaged during the riots by the machete-wielding Muslims (2008)
  610. Tribal rioting and violence left 500,000 of the Kiduyu tribe homeless (January-February 2008)
  611. Creation of an extra-constitutional “co-head of state” position of prime minister for Odinga was devised by Obama, U.N. Sec. General Kofi Annan, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (2008)
  612. Odinga became prime minister in Kenya through a power-sharing deal to appease the rioters
  613. Odinga attracted Muslim votes through a secret memo with Muslim Sheik Abdullah Abdi
  614. Sheik Abdullah Abdi is the chief of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya
  615. Kenyan Prime Minister Odinga promised to impose Shariah law in “Muslim declared regions”
  616. Prime Minister Raila Odinga promised to elevate Islam as “the only true religion”
  617. Raila Odinga also promised to give Islamic leaders oversight over the other religions
  618. Odinga wants to rewrite the Constitution to establish Shariah courts and ban Christian proselytism
  619. Raila Odinga named one of his children after Fidel Castro and is close to the Obama family
  620. Odinga has strong Muslim support and did business with a wealthy Saudi donor to bin Laden
  621. Odinga hired a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm, to help win the 2012 presidency (2011)
  622. Greenberg Quinlan Rosner (GQR) is a Democratic Party-oriented consulting firm
  623. GQR’s sister-company is GCS, a political campaign research and consulting firm
  624. GCS is named after Stanley Greenberg of GQR, James Carville, and Bob Shrum
  625. Stanley Greenberg’s wife is Congresswoman Rosa De Lauro (D-CT)
  626. Rahm Emanuel lived for five years rent-free in an apartment owned by Greenberg and his wife, despite the extensive ties between Greenberg’s firm and the Democratic Party
  627. James Carville was an adviser to President Bill Clinton
  628. Bob Shrum was an adviser for John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign
  629. GQR played a role in creating the Democratic Party’s attack strategy for the 2010 elections
    630. “For Democrats who need research and advice that shows them how to win, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner has the answer.” ~GQR website in 2010
  630. Iraqi official with ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was welcomed to the W.H.
  631. Iranian-backed terrorist Hadi Farhan al-Amiri is now serving as Iraq’s transportation minister
  632. Al-Amiri was commander of the Badr Corps, defectors and refugees who fled Saddam’s regime
  633. The Badr Corps was the armed wing of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq
  634. The Badr Corps received military and financial support from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard
  635. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard was linked to the terrorist attack on the Khobar Towers (1996)
  636. White House Spokesman Jay Carney dodged the question about al-Amiri visiting with Obama
  637. Obama’s officials pledged to reach out to Islamist political parties that arise from the Arab Spring
  638. Muslims were convicted in the U.K. for distributing pamphlets advocating the murder of gays
  639. German bank WestLB began offering new “Islam-compliant” investment products (2012)
  640. U.S. military instructor was suspended for a course portraying Islam in a negative way (2012)
  641. Muslim U.S. Congressman Andre Carson (D-IN) lamented that “9/11 was tough on Muslims”
  642. Carson claimed that Islam in America is “under attack” and that Islam “must not retreat” (2012)
    643. “Now, it is unfortunate that there are those who are thinking that at this convention right now we’re having secret meetings, that we’re plotting to destroy this country, but I say to those who are here under-cover, Allah will not allow you to stop us.” ~Andre Carson (D-IN) speaking at the Icna Mosque in Hartford, Connecticut (July 2012)
  643. Teenager shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he tried to grab the Olympic torch from a female torch bearer
  644. Saleha Mahmood Abedin is the mother of Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, Huma Abedin
  645. Saleha Abedin helped found the Muslim Sisterhood, a division of the Muslim Brotherhood
  646. Saleha Abedin is a long-time chairperson of the “International Islamic Committee for Woman and Child” (IICWC), which seeks to impose Sharia law on Egypt and the West
  647. Saleha Abedin served alongside Najla Ali Mahmoud, the wife of Mohamed Morsi
  648. Saleha Abedin represented a Muslim charity known to have spawned terror groups, including one declared by the United States government to be an official al-Qaeda front group
  649. Hillary Clinton spoke at Abedin’s Saudi women’s college and was introduced by Abedin
  650. Hillary Clinton was introduced by Saleha Abedin and Huma Abedin
  651. Hillary Clinton praised Abedin’s “pioneering work”
  652. Saleha Abedin is the mother-in-law of disgraced former Congressman Anthony Weiner (D-NY)
  653. Rocky Mountain High School students in Colorado read the Pledge of Allegiance in Arabic
  654. Instead of reciting “one nation under God,” the students recited “one nation under Allah”

    655. Obama engages in outreach to Muslims, but remains silent about anti-Christian violence

  655. Obama’s foreign policies ultimately supports radical Islamists as they rape and kill Christians
  656. Obama was silent about anti-Christian violence in Egypt as he renewed his outreach to Muslims
  657. Obama did nothing while protesters in Iran were murdered for simply wanting fair elections
  658. Two men linked to Iran’s security agencies plotted to assassinate Saudi ambassador Adel al-Jubeir
  659. Twelve Christians stood trial on Easter Sunday in Iran for being “apostates” to the Muslim religion
  660. There are no longer any Christian churches left in Afghanistan after the last one was razed in 2010
  661. There is only one synagogue left in Afghanistan, but it is no longer in use today
  662. State Department said that there was only one known Jewish resident living in Afghanistan (2011)
  663. Afghanistan is currently comprised of 99 percent Muslim residents (80% Sunni and 19% Shiite)
  664. Taliban rule forced all non-Muslim populations to either flee Afghanistan or else be eliminated
  665. Under the Taliban, who ruled from 1996 to 2001, all music and film was banned for being un-Islamic, and women were barred from leaving their homes without a male family member as an escort
  666. Seventeen Afghans were beheaded for attending a dance party in Helmand province (August 2012)
  667. Islamists in Somalia reportedly beheaded a teen as they tried to wipe Christianity from the country
  668. Egypt’s ElBaradei: “If Israel attacked Gaza we would declare war against the Zionist regime”
  669. Egyptian Islamists rioted trying to force their new Christian governor, Emad Mikhail, to resign
  670. Egyptian court stripped a Christian man of his citizenship for ‘insulting Islam’ and supporting Israel
  671. Egyptian sheikh called for worldwide Sharia law and threatened Christian extermination (2011)
  672. Egyptian military vehicles crushed and killed 25 Christians protesting an attack on their church
  673. Radical Egyptian preacher declared that if a man leaves Islam “the ruling upon him is death”
  674. Sword-wielding Muslims who attacked a Christian-owned Egyptian school escaped prosecution
  675. Muslims rioted and burned down churches as Nigerian voters elected a Christian president
  676. Muslim radicals in Malaysia want to outlaw the conversion from Islam to Christianity (2011)
  677. Muslims in Turkey beheaded a Catholic bishop while actively oppressing its Christian minority
  678. Christian girl (age 12) was kidnapped, repeatedly raped, and forced to convert to Islam in Pakistan
  679. Radical Islamists Boko Haram in Nigeria bombed Catholic churches on Christmas (2011)
  680. Boko Haram has links to an al-Qaeda affiliate, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
  681. A young man dressed as Father Christmas was stabbed to death by Muslims in Tajikistan (2012)
  682. Muslims in Nigeria issued a three-day ultimatum for Christians in Nigeria’s north to leave
  683. Bomb blasts in Maiduguri and Damaturu were claimed by the Islamist group Boko Haram (2012)
  684. Islamist Boko Haram gunmen massacred twelve Christians in a church in northern Nigeria (2012)
  685. Radical Muslim sect Boko Haram killed 143 people in northern Nigeria in coordinated attacks
  686. Boko Haram has repeatedly vowed to cleanse northern Nigeria of minority Christians
  687. Obama official claimed that “religion is not driving extreme violence” in Nigeria one day after Islamists slaughtered more than forty Christians during an Easter-day attack (April 2012)
  688. Documents showed that Boko Haram was in communication with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda
  689. Boko Haram went on a 12-town rampage killing Christians and razing churches (July 2012)
  690. Fifty members of a northern Nigeria church were burned to death in their pastor’s house (2012)
  691. Boko Haram declared that all Christians must convert to Islam or die
  692. Church of Christ of Nigeria reported that all of their buildings were burned to the ground
  693. Gunmen killed 19 Christians during a church service in Nigeria (August 2012)
  694. Dearborn, Michigan hosted its annual Arab International festival on Father’s Day (June 2012)
  695. The Muslim crowd chanted ‘Allahu Akbar!” as they attacked peacefully protesting Christians
  696. The Muslim mob threw bottles, cans, eggs, chunks of concrete, and even milk crates at Christians holding signs in protest, injuring some and damaging property without consequence (June 2012)
  697. Police officials threatened to cite the Christian protesters for “disorderly conduct”
  698. Egyptian Coptics formed the ‘Christian Brotherhood’ to combat discrimination and domination
  699. Egyptian Coptic Christian teacher Bishoy Kamel was jailed for six years for posting cartoons on Facebook deemed insulting to Islam, Prophet Mohammed, and President Morsi (September 2012)
  700. Albert Saber was arrested after allegedly posting an anti-Islamic film on his Facebook page
  701. Islamist group released a 23-page booklet titled, “The Global Islamic Civilization: The Power of a Nation Revived,” that lays out plans to “wipe Christianity from the face of the earth” (July 2012)
    702. “Christianity should be destroyed and wiped from the face of the earth [because] it is evil, demonic and Anti-Christ system. The Revived Global Caliphate has set eyes on the West to once and for all rid the world of Christianity and there is nothing you can do about it.”
    ~Sheik Farook al-Mohammedi
  702. Islamists Boko Haram have slaughtered thousands of Christians in Nigeria (December 2012)
  703. In January 2012 alone, Boko Haram killed more people in Nigeria than those killed in Iraq
  704. Tens of thousands of Coptic Christians reportedly began fleeing Egypt as Islamic extremism flourished
  705. Iran sentenced American Christian pastor Saeed Abedini to 8 years in prison (January 2013)
  706. Iranian government charged that Saeed Abedini worked to create a network of Christian house churches thirteen years ago and that he was attempting to sway Iranian youth away from Islam



    707. Radicals, socialists, communists, and Islamists have aligned to work together against Israel

  707. Iran’s leaders have repeatedly called for the literal destruction of the “Zionist regime” of Israel
  708. Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Israel must “vanish from the page of time” (2005)
  709. Ahmadinejad: “Anybody who recognized Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury”
  710. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that any Islamic leader “who recognizes the Zionist regime means he is acknowledging the surrender and defeat of the Islamic world”
  711. Iranian General Mohammad Reza Naghdi expressed the need to wipe Israel “off of the map”
  712. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naghdi: “the filthy Americans and the Zionists should not think that with killing our scientists, they can divert our nation from its path of Jihad and scare us” (2011)
  713. Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that Iran was determined to eradicate Israel
  714. Ahmadinejad urged Muslim nations worldwide to hold rallies to dispose of this “infectious tumor”
    715. “Iran’s warriors are ready and willing to wipe Israel off the map.” ~Iran’s Deputy Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi speaking at a ceremony honoring past Hezbollah commanders
  715. Iran released a propaganda video in 2011 which predicted the coming of The Twelfth Imam soon
  716. Iran planned to distribute the video with the goal of instigating further uprising in the Middle East
  717. Iran is trying to acquire nuclear weapons to use against Israel and United States’ interests
  718. Iranian agents arrested in Bangkok, Thailand were planning to attack Israeli diplomats (2012)
  719. Iran was accused of committing a terrorist act in New Delhi targeting an Israeli diplomat (2012)
  720. Carbomb plot targeting the Israeli Embassy in the former Soviet republic of Georgia was foiled
  721. Egyptian security forces prevented Iranian agents from bombing an Israeli ship in the Suez Canal
  722. U.N. sanctions on Iran were much less than the “crippling” sanctions Obama officials promised
  723. Obama received endorsements from Louis Farrakhan, Muammar Qadhafi, and Hugo Chavez
  724. Ahmed Yousef, chief political adviser to Hamas, also endorsed Obama for president
  725. Obama (or ghostwriter Ayers) wrote in his book that he would ultimately side with the Muslims
  726. First foreign leader Obama called after becoming president was Palestinian Mahmoud Abbas
  727. Abbas told a Palestinian community in the U.S. that “We shall not recognize a Jewish state”
  728. U.N. group cut funding of a Palestinian kids magazine after it published a pro-Hitler story (2011)
    729. “I try not to pat myself too much on the back, but this administration has done more for the security of the state of Israel than any previous administration.” ~President Obama speaking to prominent Jewish supporters at a New York City fundraiser on November 30, 2011
  729. Obama purposely straining tensions with Israel in favor of those seeking Israel’s destruction
  730. Obama travelled to Cairo, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, but has never travelled to Israel as President
  731. Obama snubs Israel and makes demands on them in public that should be made in private
  732. Obama publicly demanded the halting of Jewish residential construction in Israel
  733. Obama predicted to the U.N. assembly that a country of Palestine would exist by September 23, 2011
  734. Obama administration scolded Israel for plans to build 930 new housing units in East Jerusalem
  735. Obama courts favor with our enemies while his conciliatory actions just embolden them further
  736. Obama encouraged revolutionary movements gripping the Middle East creating vast uncertainty
  737. Pew polling showed that most Egyptians want to see the 1979 Israeli peace agreement annulled
  738. Obama’s Department of Homeland Security “erroneously” placed Israel on a terror watch list
  739. Obama refused to hold a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Prime Minister
  740. Obama insulted the Israeli prime minister by keeping him waiting for two hours in the West Wing
  741. Obama left town for Ireland while Benjamin Netanyahu was in the U.S. to address Congress
  742. Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were caught on mic trash talking Netanyahu (2011)
  743. Sarkozy told Obama that he could not “stand” Benjamin Netanyahu and thinks that he is a “liar”
  744. Obama replied to Sarkozy, “You’re fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!”
  745. White House declined Netanyahu’s request to meet with President Obama (September 2012)
  746. Obama said his schedule was full, but he was able to make time for a Jay-Z and Beyonce fundraiser and an appearance on David Letterman during the annual U.N. General Assembly in New York
  747. President Obama invited Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to meet with him in the White House, but was unwilling to meet with Netanyahu
  748. Morsi: We must “nurse our children and grandchildren on hatred towards Zionists and Jews” (2010)
  749. Morsi promised to sue the U.S. filmmakers who produced a movie that insulted Mohammad
  750. Obama stood silent as Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood backed Hamas over Israel (November 2012)
  751. Morsi pledged no negotiations with “Zionist” “blood-suckers,” “descendants of apes and pigs” (2012)
    752. “No reasonable person can expect any progress on this track. Either [you accept] the Zionists and everything they want, or else it is war. This is what these occupiers of the land of Palestine know – these blood-suckers, who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, the descendents of apes and pigs.” ~Mohamed Morsi speaking about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process (2010)
  752. Morsi claimed that his previous anti-Semitic comments were taken out of context (January 2013)
  753. Obama waited a week to call Netanyahu and congratulate him on an election win (January 2013)
  754. For comparison, it took Obama only hours to phone Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi
  755. Fathi Shihab is a senior Muslim Brotherhood official who used to head its labor department
  756. Fathi Shihab claimed that the Holocaust was fabricated by the United States (2010)
  757. Shihab wrote that six million Jews were never murdered, but rather moved to the U.S.
  758. Shihab quoted well-known Holocaust deniers and called the Holocaust “the greatest lie in human history”
  759. Fathi Shihab now chairs the Culture, Tourism and Information Committee in the Egyptian parliament
  760. Shihab also heads the Supreme Press Council and chooses editors for the state-owned newspapers
    761. “The myth of the Holocaust is an industry that America invented. U.S. intelligence agencies in cooperation with their counterparts in allied nations during World War II created it to destroy the image of their opponents in Germany, and to justify war and massive destruction against military and civilian facilities of the Axis powers, and especially to hit “Hiroshima and Nagasaki” with the atomic bomb.” ~Fathi Shihab writing on the Muslim Brotherhood’s website, Ikhwan Online (2010)
    “The victorious [Allies] operated according to the law of the jungle in trying their adversaries for crimes they themselves had invented. [The Allies] exploited the illegal immigration of millions of Jews from Europe to the U.S. during the war years by claiming they had disappeared in the Nazi prison camps. This was despite the fact that Germany’s registry data show that the number of German Jews [prior to the war] was between 600,000 and 700,000, half a million of whom remained [alive] after [the war]. Add to this the fact that the number of Jews who died of ‘natural causes, road accidents, and Allied attacks’ amounted to several thousand. How [then] can it be claimed that the Nazis killed six million Jews, when there weren’t more than 700,000 [to begin with]?...” ~Fathi Shihab, as translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) (2010)
  761. Obama administration hired Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to represent America in the Muslim world
  762. Imam Rauf was tied to the flotilla that tried to break Israel’s blockade of Hamas-run Gaza
  763. Obama administration didn’t support the Israeli military that was attacked boarding the flotilla
  764. Activists from Obama’s circle of friends were top supporters of the violent anti-Israel protest ships
  765. William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Jodie Evans were top supporters of Free Gaza flotilla
  766. Counterterrorism and Homeland Security Advisor John Brennan was linked to the flotilla organizers
  767. John Brennan declared himself a “citizen of the world,” tilts toward Islam, and supports terrorists
  768. Democratic Party think tanks and media machines are attempting to disrupt U.S. support for Israel
  769. Center for American Progress (CAP) even used bigoted language to display their anti-Semitism
  770. Twitter posts from one CAP writer referred to “Israel-firsters,” a phrase that has its roots in the anti-Semitic charge that American Jews are more loyal to Israel than to the United States
  771. Another CAP staffer described Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) as (R-AIPAC) for showing more fealty to Israel and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) than to his own constituents
  772. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said that some of the statements from CAP staffers “are anti-Semitic and borderline anti-Semitic”
  773. J Street is a radical pro-Palestinian group that lobbies Congress to oppose Israeli policies
  774. J Street’s president, Jeremy Ben-Ami, defended the anti-Semitic rhetoric by claiming that pro-Israel Americans are using false charges of bigotry to silence debate on Israel
  775. CAP, Media Matters, and J Street have the favor of the Obama administration
  776. Billionaire George Soros sits on the executive board of the International Crisis Group (ICG)
  777. Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, is the ICG’s senior advisor
  778. Brzezinsky is famous for inventing anti-Israel conspiracies and spewing anti-Semitic rhetoric
  779. Brzezinsky helped create al-Qaeda and the Taliban by luring the USSR into invading Afghanistan
  780. Brzezinsky criticized Israel for defending itself against Hamas terrorist missile-strikes
  781. Brzezinsky said that Bush should shoot down Israeli airplanes if they attack Iran’s nuclear sites
  782. Brzezinsky claimed in an interview that rich Jews are bribing Congress to prevent peace (2012)
  783. Brzezinsky also believes that “the Jews control foreign policy” of the United States
    784. “Brzezinsky is someone I have learned an immense amount from” and is “one of our most outstanding scholars and thinkers.” ~Senator Barack Obama
  784. Obama’s National Security Council advisor described the U.S. presence in Iraq as an “occupation”
  785. Obama’s advisor openly favored sending U.S. troops to Israel to forcibly impose a Palestinian state
  786. Democrat Congressman Robert Andrews (D-N.J.) said that Obama is “tilting toward Hamas”
  787. Congressman Louie Gohmert said that the Obama administration is materially supporting terrorists
  788. BBC accused of being part of a “possible propaganda media network” for al-Qaeda
  789. BBC (publicly funded) has an “abnormally large number of young people” and “ethnic minorities”
  790. Thousands of protesters invaded Israel from neighboring Arab countries in May 2011
  791. Obama called for a Palestinian state based on the “1967 lines” that existed before the 1967 war
  792. Jewish Democratic support for Obama fell after his call for 1967 borders with “land swaps”
  793. Obama administration made headlines by refusing to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel
  794. Obama broke his promise to AIPAC in 2008 where he had insisted on an “undivided Jerusalem”
  795. Obama’s White House website ‘errantly’ removed the “Israel” designation from “Jerusalem”
  796. Obama’s State Department refused to acknowledge that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel (2012)
  797. Joe Biden did not applaud when Netanyahu called for Jerusalem to never be divided again
  798. Jay Carney refused to identify whether Tel Aviv or Jerusalem was the capital of Israel (July 2012)
  799. Pro-Israel language was removed from the Democratic Party platform (September 2012)
  800. Jerusalem was unmentioned in the Democratic Party platform, unlike in 2004 and 2008
  801. Democrats removed language regarding Palestinian refugees in their 2012 party platform
  802. Democrats removed language regarding the terrorist group Hamas from their 2012 party platform
  803. Previous Democrat Party platforms contained promises to maintain Israel’s “qualitative military edge” in the region, but the 2012 version of the party platform made no commitment to doing so in the future
  804. BBC refused to list Jerusalem as Israel’s capital during their Olympic coverage (July 2012)
  805. BBC later tweeted that Tel Aviv is the capital if Israel, not Jerusalem (November 2012)
  806. Associated Press (AP) edited a story after describing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel (November 2012)
  807. Code Pink activist Rae Abileah heckled Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
  808. U.S. threatened to cut off aid to the Palestinian government due to ties to the Hamas terror group
  809. Obama administration pushed back against threats to cut off funding to the Palestinian government
  810. Hamas stated that “resistance” against Israel is the only option left for the Palestinians (2011)
  811. Obama and Democrats raced to save the Jewish vote following the NY-09 special election debacle
  812. Jonathan Pollard was convicted of spying for Israel in 1986 and is currently serving a life sentence
  813. Many within the Jewish community believe that Pollard’s life sentence is disproportionately harsh
  814. V.P. Joe Biden bragged to Jewish voters that he blocked clemency for Jonathan Pollard (2011)
    815. “President Obama was considering clemency, but I told him, ‘Over my dead body are we going to let him out before his time.’ If it were up to me, he would stay in jail for life.” ~Vice President Joe Biden said while meeting with rabbis in Florida while trying to shore up the Jewish vote
  815. Jay Carney threw more cold water on the prospects of Pollard receiving clemency (June 2012)
  816. Terrorist released in the Gilat Shalit exchange: ‘I would’ bomb Israelis again ‘in the same manner’
  817. President Obama literally embraced an anti-Israel, pro-Iran Islamist on the world stage (2011)
  818. Russia’s foreign minister warned against an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities (2011)
  819. IAEA said Russian scientists assisted Iran to overcome key hurdles in acquiring a nuclear weapon
  820. Iran promised a “street war” in Tel Aviv, the U.S., and in Europe if its nuclear program is attacked
  821. GQR Poll: 52.3% of Americans rate Netanyahu positively, compared to 51.5% for Obama (2011)
  822. Howard Gutman was a major fundraiser for President Obama’s 2008 election campaign
  823. Howard Gutman bundled $500,000 for Obama along with personally giving at least $2,300
  824. President Obama picked Howard Gutman to serve as the United States ambassador to Belgium
  825. Howard Gutman recently placed the blame on Israel for growing anti-Semitism among Muslims
  826. Gutman: “Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty will significantly diminish Muslim anti-Semitism”
    827. “A distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, which should be condemned and Muslim hatred for Jews, which stems from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.”
    ~U.S. Ambassador Howard Gutman (2011)
  827. Sec. Hillary Clinton angered Israeli ministers by criticizing their democratic processes (2011)
  828. Hillary Clinton compared Israel’s treatment of women to that of the Islamic regime in Iran
  829. L.A. Times cited Obama’s “logical,” “intellectual” and “moral” approach to dealing with Israel
  830. Iranian newspaper called for retaliation against Israel after a nuclear scientist was killed (2012)
    831. “The heinous acts of America and the criminal Zionist regime will not disrupt our glorious path…” ~Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (January 2012)
  831. Rev. Wright, Obama’s spiritual advisor of twenty years, routinely preached anti-Semitic slurs
  832. In sermon after sermon, Rev. Wright’s radical black nationalist ideas were clearly stated
  833. Rev. Wright spreads conspiracy theories that Jewish doctors in the U.S. created HIV/AIDS
  834. Ignoring genetic evidence, Wright argued that African Jews were different from European Jews
  835. Wright taught anti-Semitic views that European Jews descended from Khazars in Eastern Europe
    836. “The Israelis have illegally occupied Palestinian territories for over 40 years now…” ~Reverend Jeremiah Wright attacking Israel’s right to exist
  836. Rev. Jeremiah Wright claimed “them Jews” were “controlling” President Obama (2009)
    837. “Them Jews ain’t going to let [Obama] talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in five years when he’s a lame duck, or in eight years when he’s out of office.” ~Reverend Jeremiah Wright speaking to the Daily Press of Hampton Roads, Virginia (June 2009)
    “[T]he Jewish vote, the A-I-P-A-C vote, that’s controlling him, that would not let him send representation to the Darfur Review Conference, that’s talking this craziness on this trip, cause they’re Zionists, they would not let him talk to someone who calls a spade what it is.” ~Reverend Jeremiah Wright on why Obama wouldn’t send a delegation to the Durban Review Conference in Geneva on racism
  837. Anti Defamation League condemned Rev. Wright’s remarks as “inflammatory and false.” (2009)
    838. “The state of Israel is an illegal, genocidal… place. To equate Judaism with the state of Israel is to equate Christianity with [rapper] Flavor Flav.” ~Reverend Jeremiah Wright speaking to an audience in Baltimore (June 2011)
  838. President Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, called news reports depicting the man once called an Obama “confidant” as anti-Semite and racist were “ninety seconds of vitriol plucked from thirty years of sermons by some enterprising opposition researcher” (January 10, 2012)
  839. Obama’s campaign earned a “Pants-on-Fire” after attacking GOP contenders on funding to Israel
  840. Obama’s campaign used old, unrelated footage to try to convince voters that he is pro-Israel (2012)
  841. Penn State held a conference promoting a campaign to ‘boycott, divest, and sanction’ Israel (2012)
  842. BDS stands for the National Conference of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement
  843. BDS’ 2012 conference included Code Pink, LGBT activists, and pro-Palestinian activists
  844. Social and racial justice advocates, self-proclaimed “queer” activists, socialists, and anti-Zionists joined together to “bring an end to Israel’s system of oppression, segregation and dispossession”
  845. Opening night of the conference included a screening of the film “Roadmap to Apartheid”
  846. The film was narrated by novelist and “Free Gaza Flotilla” supporter Alice Walker
  847. Ali Abunimah was the keynote speaker for the BDS conference at Penn State University
  848. Ali Abunimah is a Palestinian American journalist and co-founder of Electronic Intifada
  849. Abunimah advocates a “One State Solution” that would spell an end to the Jewish state of Israel
  850. Ali Abunimah declared that “ending the occupation does not solve the problem” (2005)
  851. In 2007, Abunimah wrote that he met Obama half a dozen times before he became president
  852. ‘Occupy Oakland’ voted 135-1 to support ‘boycott, divestment, and sanctions’ against Israel
  853. Israel was not invited to NATO’s summit in Chicago in 2012
  854. Obama administration excluded Israel from a new Global Counterterrorism Forum (2012)
  855. Israel was left off of a list of nations recognized by the U.S. for their efforts to deal with terrorism
  856. Rabbi Alam (D-MO) chairs the National Democratic Party Asian American Caucus (NDPAAC)
  857. Alam doesn’t think that a single Jew died during the 9/11 attacks and is also a “9/11 Truther”
  858. Alam claimed that planes were “not solely responsible” for the 9/11 buildings’ collapse
  859. State Department debunked this claim, estimating that at least 200 to 400 Jews died on 9/11
  860. Alam has in the past “speculated about Jewish involvement” in the 9/11 attacks
  861. Alam also participated in an event with a Muslim cleric who has accused Israel of committing terrorism and who also alleged that the United States invented the HIV disease
  862. Alam’s pro-Obama advocacy earned him an invite to the White House in December 2011
  863. Alam sees himself as an ally of Joe Biden and Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  864. Wasserman Schultz couldn’t name a reason for Jews to support Obama except for abortion
  865. Obama’s campaign misspelled Israel as “Isreal” on an event invitation to a synagogue (2012)
  866. Lynn Gottlieb, a ‘Rabbi for Obama,’ had dinner with Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2008)
  867. Lynn Gottlieb is a devotee of J Street and sits on the board of the group Jewish Voice for Peace
  868. Jewish Voice for Peace was described as one of the “Top Ten Anti-Israel Groups in America”
  869. Jewish Voice for Peace advocates in favor of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement
  870. BDS wages economic warfare on Israel by boycotting goods produced in the country
  871. BBC listed Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine
  872. Sinai pipeline in Egypt built to supply Israel and Jordan with gas was blown up (July 2012)
  873. Gunshots were fired from Egypt across the border at Israeli troops (July 2012)
  874. Hezbollah MP Walid Sakariya said that Iran’s nuclear program is designed to “finish off” Israel
  875. Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei spoke during Al-Quds Day, an anti-Israel event initiated by Iran (2012)
  876. Khamenei insisted that “the fake Zionist (regime) will disappear from the landscape of geography”
  877. Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali said destroying Israel was the only way to liberate Palestine
    878. “[Al-Quds Day] is a reflection of the fact that no other way exists apart from resolve and strength to completely eliminate the aggressive nature and to destroy Israel.” ~Gholamreza Jalali, head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization and a former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
  878. Benjamin Netanyahu shouted at Ambassador Dan Shapiro, “Time has run out!” (August 2012)
  879. U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) called for a boycott of U.S. companies that do business with Israel
  880. George W. Bush refused to participate in the U.N.’s HRC, but Obama joined it soon after taking office
  881. Obama supporters celebrated his re-election, declaring “no more Israel… Kill those mother f--kers”
    882. “It really means to me, no more Israel… Mitt Romney would go to war with Iran… Obama said f--k that sh-t. Kill those mother f---kers.” ~Obama supporter celebrating his re-election (November 2012)
  882. British textbook used to teach English in the U.K. replaced “Israel” with “Occupied Palestine” (2013)
  883. President Obama had argued repeatedly that “Israel doesn’t know what its own best interests are”
  884. Under Netanyahu, December 2012 was the quietest month is southern Israel since January 2001
  885. Netanyahu hit back at Obama by declaring, “Yes I do” know what’s best for Israel (January 2013)
  886. Iran’s President Ahmadinejad said that Muslims should mobilize to uproot Zionism (January 2013)
  887. Ahmadinejad made his call to uproot Zionism on International Holocaust Remembrance Day (2013)
    888. “World Muslims should forge unity in their struggle with bullying powers and by the time that the Zionist usurpers commit crimes through occupation and vandalism. It is not advisable to sit idle and take no action… All differences and discords among Muslims have roots in our misunderstanding of Holy Quran and guidelines of Prophet Mohammad. Today we need leadership similar to the Prophet to get the Muslim World united.” ~Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (January 27, 2013)
  888. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed that Israel exploits the Holocaust to extract world sympathy
  889. Ahmadinejad described the extermination of six million Jews during World War II as “a myth”
  890. Henry Kissinger, a Nobel Peace laureate, warned that a crisis involving a nuclear Iran is close (2013)
  891. Kissinger warned that a nuclear war in the Middle East would be a “turning point in human history”
  892. Ahmadinejad claimed that Iran was already a nuclear state, but had no intention of attacking Israel (2013)

    893. Democrats celebrated Osama bin Laden’s death made possible by the very techniques they opposed

  893. SEAL team that killed bin Laden was described by the left as “Dick Cheney’s personal kill squad”
  894. The left, including Obama, railed against “enhanced interrogation techniques” for many years
  895. Obama moved to prosecute those who engaged in the techniques that lead to killing bin Laden
  896. Obama said those who participated in interrogation practices had “lost their moral bearings”
    897. “The information that eventually led us to this compound was the direct result of enhanced interrogations; one can conclude if we had not used enhanced interrogations, we would not have come to yesterday’s action.”
    ~U.S. Senator Richard Burr in a telephone interview with CNBC
    “The trail that led to the doorstep of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan began years earlier with aggressive interrogations of al-Qaida detainees at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and CIA “black site” prisons overseas, according to U.S. officials. It was those sometimes controversial interrogations that first produced descriptions of members of bin Laden’s courier network, including one critical Middle Eastern courier who along with his brother was protecting bin Laden at his heavily fortified compound in Abbottabad on Sunday. Both the courier and his brother were among those killed, along with bin Laden, in the dramatic raid by U.S. special forces.” ~MSNBC reporting
  897. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed water-boarded terrorists provided the info
  898. Obama “slept on in,” waiting 16 hours to decide on mission as military chiefs awaited his decision
  899. DNC’s Debbie Wasserman-Shultz (D-FL): Obama deserves credit for the killing of bin Laden
  900. Wasserman-Shultz praised Obama and specifically credited him for “refocusing” U.S. efforts
  901. Joe Biden: Osama raid “boldest undertaking any president has undertaken in modern history”
  902. Not D-Day… Not Hiroshima… Not calling on Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall…
  903. Liberals charged that Bush stopped caring about catching Osama based on dismissive comments
  904. George W. Bush routinely asked the CIA about bin Laden during Thursday morning briefings
  905. Democratic communications operatives stressed the need to be sure Obama comes out on top
  906. Christiane Amanpour back in 2008: Bin Laden is living in a “nice comfortable villa in Pakistan”
  907. Osama bin Laden’s own stated goal was to force America into bankruptcy, which is well underway
  908. Obama refused to release the photo of a bin Laden and equated it to photos of our dead troops
  909. Muslim ‘sensitivities’ trumped transparency when it came to releasing a photo of a dead bin Laden
  910. In May 2009, Obama planned the release of up to 2,000 pictures of Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse
  911. In 2009, Obama lifted the photo ban on U.S. military coffins returning from Iraq and Afghanistan
  912. Regarding the bin Laden photo non-release, Obama said “we don’t need to spike the football…”
  913. Obama did not allow media coverage of the returning caskets of elite U.S. Navy Seals (2011)
  914. Obama utilized an excessive use of personal pronouns during the announcement on May 1, 2011
  915. Obama deserves credit for his decision to send in special forces instead of bombing the compound
  916. Both Bush and Clinton declined invitations to join Obama’s plans to lay a wreath at Ground Zero
  917. George W. Bush felt that Obama was withholding “credit from people Bush believes deserved it”
  918. George W. Bush saw the wreath ceremony as a “victory lap” (think “mission accomplished”)
  919. Bush deserves credit for using the interrogation practices that learned the courier’s non de guerre
  920. This clue was the lynchpin that the CIA and military used to track bin Laden to his compound
  921. Bush struck a secret deal with Pakistan in late 2001 that made the bin Laden unilateral raid ‘legal’
  922. The deal was renewed in early 2008 during the “transition to democracy” to a civilian government
  923. Obama attended the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Sunday, May 1st, 2011
  924. Day 3 (5/4): Obama declared he wouldn’t “spike the football” by releasing proof of Osama’s death
  925. Day 4: Obama “danced in the end-zone” through New York’s Ground Zero to lay a wreath
  926. Day 5: Obama met with the Navy SEAL team responsible for the mission success and killing Osama
  927. Day 6: White House released behind-the-scenes video of Obama and Biden just after the raid
  928. The domain name “www.GutsyCall.com” rerouted web traffic to Obama’s campaign website
  929. Father of a 9/11 victim Todd Beamer said that Obama was “putting too much spotlight on himself”
  930. Obama vowed to help a 14 year-old daughter of a 9/11 victim meet Canadian prince Justin Bieber
  931. Walked away from a 9/11 family member who asked about the investigation of CIA interrogators
  932. Ex-CIA director criticized the White House for bragging about the seized bin Laden intelligence
  933. Some lawmakers opposed a resolution commending Obama and others for getting bin Laden
  934. Osama bin Laden’s corpse was provided an honorable “burial” to comply with Islamic customs
  935. Osama, whom the Left insists was not a Muslim, was given a 45-minute Muslim burial ceremony
  936. Jerusalem Imam vowed revenge saying, “dogs should not rejoice too much for killing lions…”
  937. Pakistanis protested and shouted “death to America” following the bin Laden raid
  938. Pakistanis burned United States flags as the Muslim backlash grew over bin Laden’s death
  939. Pakistan’s media broadcasted the name of our CIA’s Islamabad station chief following the raid
  940. Pakistan arrested the CIA informants who had assisted in finding the location of Osama bin Laden
  941. Pakistan allowed the Chinese military to examine the stealth-modified Blackhawk helicopter
  942. Majority of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were traced to Pakistan (2011)
  943. Michael Moore told CNN he was unhappy with the U.S. “execution” of Osama bin Laden
  944. Massive protests took place in the Philippines against the killing of Osama bin Laden
  945. Osama bin Laden supporters raged on the streets of London vowing revenge over his death
  946. Turkish demonstrators burned Israeli and American flags during a mock bin Laden burial
  947. United Nation experts wanted bin Laden raid details to determine if the raid was “legal”
  948. Osama bin Laden cost the United States of America at least $3 trillion over the past 15 years
  949. Sony planned a release of a ‘classified’ Bin Laden movie three weeks before the 2012 elections
  950. Sony hosted an Obama fundraiser on their studio’s premises in California in April 2011
  951. Joe Biden said he told President Obama not to approve the raid to get Osama bin Laden
  952. Biden boasted that killing Osama bin Laden was the most ‘audacious’ plan in 500 years (2012)
    953. “[E]ven if [Osama bin Laden] is caught tomorrow, it is five years too late. He has done more damage the longer he has been out there. But, in fact, the damage that he has done… is done. And even to capture him now I don’t think makes us any safer.” ~Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on September 7, 2006
    “The death of Osama bin Laden marks the most significant development in our fight against al-Qaida… I salute President Obama, his national security team, Director Panetta, our men and women in the intelligence community and military, and other nations who supported this effort for their leadership in achieving this major accomplishment… [T]he death of Osama bin Laden is historic…” ~Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on May 2, 2011
    Guidance from the DNC: “In your day jobs, do not let Republicans turn this into continuing the Bush legacy. This has to be about Obama’s decisive leadership,” the guidance said. “He is the one who oversaw bringing bin Laden to justice, much like how Bush failed to do so at Tora Bora and then claimed Osama wasn’t a priority.” Democrats were worried that their credibility on national security issues might slip back into their post-Vietnam home and felt the need to fight the insinuation, fed by recent NATO action in Libya that one official characterized as “leading from behind,” that Obama is a weak leader.
  953. Admiral William McRaven, a former SEAL, actually made the ‘gutsy call’ to take bin Laden out
  954. William McRaven was head of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) during the raid
  955. Obama administration reportedly drafted a “highly lawyered” memo to shield president Obama from blame politically if the mission to kill or capture Osama bin Laden failed
  956. Memo would have shifted the blame to Admiral William McRaven if things went wrong
  957. U.S. intelligence officer claimed that Obama knew of bin Laden’s whereabouts in October 2010
  958. Former U.S. general claimed that Obama knew of Osama’s hideout since the summer of 2010
  959. Obama administration chose to delay taking action and risked letting Osama bin Laden escape
  960. President Obama was dragged off the golf course in time to be in the Situation Room photo op
  961. Senator Obama: “I’ve had enough of using terrorism as a wedge issue in our politics” (2006)
    962. “And let me tell you something else that I’ve had enough of. I have had enough of using terrorism as a wedge issue in our politics. I have had enough of that. I have had enough of that. You know, I uhh… I don’t know about you, but I think that the war against terrorism isn’t just suppose to just crop up between September and November of even numbered years, and yet that seems to be the pattern. There’s a sudden burst of activity, a sudden urgency about this whole thing, three months before an election every other year.”
    ~Senator Barack Obama speaking to Iowa in 2006
  962. Obama’s campaign released an ad entitled ‘One Chance’ designed to criticize Mitt Romney
  963. Obama’s campaign implied that GOP contender Mitt Romney would not have killed Bin Laden
  964. Serving and former Navy SEALs slammed Obama for taking the credit for killing Bin Laden
  965. Navy SEALs: Obama is using Special Forces operations as “ammunition” for his re-election
  966. White House hosted a NBC special report from the Situation Room for the one year anniversary
  967. White House Situation Room briefings and interviews were designed to highlight the ‘gutsy call’
  968. Watchdog claimed that Obama aides gave classified information on bin Laden raid to filmmakers
  969. Former Navy SEAL Ryan Zinke launched a PAC to fight against President Obama (2012)
  970. Zinke was a member of SEAL Team Six from 1990 until 1993 and from 1996 until 1999
  971. Ryan Zinke held several titles, including Task Force Commander
    972. “Navy SEAL’s, Special Operations Personnel and Veteran’s across America have been outraged since Barack Obama conveniently took credit for killing Osama bin Laden for political gain. The active duty military has no voice as they are forbidden to publicly engage in the political campaign process and it is career suicide for senior military leaders to speak out against the President.” ~Statement announcing the launching of Special Operations for America (SOFA)
  972. In 2004, Ryan Zinke was named “Deputy and acting Commander, Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Arabian Peninsula in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom
  973. Ryan Zinke “led a force of over 3,500 Special Operations personnel in Iraq in the conduct of 360 combat patrols, 48 Direct Action missions, and hundreds of sensitive operations” and “was responsible for killing or capturing 72 known enemy insurgents and terrorists”
  974. John Brennan: Obama’s decision to get Osama was “one of the most gutsiest calls of any president”
  975. Obama reportedly ‘canceled the bin Laden raid three times’ at the urging of adviser Valerie Jarrett
  976. Obama canceled the “kill” mission in January, February, and again in March of 2011
  977. Obama delayed the raid for a fourth time on May 1, 2011 before finally approving it the next day
  978. White House cited poor weather for the delay, despite meteorological data showing ideal conditions
  979. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had reportedly signed off on the “kill Osama” mission and didn’t tell Obama until the choppers were already over Pakistani airspace
  980. Clinton and Panetta feared that Valarie Jarrett would again stop Obama from approving the mission
  981. Obama “remained clueless on the mission” until he was notified “at the golf course” (May 1, 2011)
  982. Leon Panetta “was the key player who organized and supported this daring raid,” not Obama
  983. Leon Panetta “signed the ‘execute order’ with only a few people aware: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Admiral Bill Mullen, and General David Petraeus”
  984. Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund attacked Obama over bin Laden bragging and leaks
  985. Navy SEAL book contradicts Obama’s account of the Osama bin Laden raid (August 2012)
  986. Family of killed SEAL Team 6 member warned that Obama’s rules are getting our warriors killed
  987. In the deadliest single loss of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, (17) members of the elite Navy SEALs were killed when a CH-47 Chinook helicopter crashed in Wardak province (August 6, 2011)
  988. President Obama honored fallen SEALs by sending parents a form letter signed with an auto-pen
  989. President Obama sent the same form letter to the parents of all fallen soldiers, Marines, SEALs, etc.
  990. The one-page typed condolence letters were identical other than names, ranks, and service branches
  991. By comparison, the late rapper Heavy D’s family received a personal note from Obama (2011)
    992. “There are two kinds of people in this world: ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person. I think that our president is an ‘I’ person. He speaks as though he killed Osama bin Laden himself.” ~Clint Eastwood speaking to Esquire magazine (September 2012)
  992. Harvey Weinstein is a devoted donor to Barack Obama and other Democratic candidates
  993. Weinstein’s film about the killing of Osama was timed to air two days before the 2012 elections
  994. Weinstein’s film cast Romney as a villain, “appearing to oppose the raid,” a politically fabricated lie
  995. Michael Vickers released “restricted information” to the creative team behind “Zero Dark Thirty”
  996. Judicial Watch found documents implicating the White House, the CIA, and the Pentagon in the leaks
  997. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) described “Zero Dark Thirty” as a “dangerous” combination of “fact, fiction, and Hollywood” by linking waterboarding to tracking down Osama
    998. “We believe the film is grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the location of Osama bin Laden.” ~Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), John McCain (R-AZ), and Carl Levin (D-MI) in a letter to Sony Pictures (December 2012)
  998. Leon Panetta reconfirmed that information obtained from waterboarding led us to Osama (2013)

    999. World public opinion of the United States has dropped precipitously under President Obama

    “As somebody who myself lived overseas for a time, the world would see me as a different kind of president, somebody who could see the world through their eyes. If I convened a meeting with Muslim leaders around the world to discuss how they can align themselves against terrorism, I’d do it with the credibility of someone who has lived in a Muslim country. All these things can make a difference.”
    ~Candidate Barack Obama speaking to a Daily Telegraph reporter (2008)
  999. Obama engaged in a grand apology tour through the capitals of Europe and to the Muslim world
  1000. Obama travelled around the world apologizing for (rather than celebrating) America’s greatness
  1001. Obama decried America’s moral failures and our arrogance and insensitivity to the world
  1002. Obama displayed his view of American subservience by bowing to multiple foreign leaders
  1003. Obama had wanted to apologize to Japan for using nuclear bombs to end World War II
  1004. Japanese Prime Minister convinced Obama not to apologize to ‘protect their nuclear industry’
  1005. Obama sent back the bust of Winston Churchill from the White House that was a gift
  1006. Obama arrogantly gave the Queen of England an Mp3 player with his own speeches on it
  1007. Obama gave England’s prime minister DVD movies that weren’t formatted for British players
  1008. Obama joked to the press that he was stopping Air Force 1 in South America to see Hugo Chavez
  1009. Hillary Clinton called Obama “irresponsible and frankly naïve” for saying he’d meet with Chavez
  1010. President Obama greeted Chavez warmly at the Summit of the Americas (April 2009)
  1011. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez was shipping fuel to the murderous Syrian regime (2012)
  1012. Chavez helped the Iranians build a missile base in Venezuela that can target the U.S. directly
  1013. Chavez supported Qadhafi, supported terrorism in Columbia, and incited hatred against Israel
  1014. President Obama said that Hugo Chavez was not a “serious” threat to the United States (2012)
  1015. Hugo Chavez claimed that his own political challenger and Mitt Romney share the same agenda
  1016. Chavez described Romney as a “selfish capitalistic elite,” while describing Obama as “a good guy”
  1017. Venezuelan actress Maria Conchita Alonso warned that reelecting Barack Obama would move the United States towards becoming Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela “in the near future” (2012)
  1018. Chavez: Obama as a “clown” and an “embarrassment” who has turned the U.S. into a “disaster”
  1019. Obama declared “this summit was not as exciting as other summits” after meeting with EU leaders
  1020. Obama administration attempted to “reset” the United States relationship with Russia (2009)
  1021. Obama gave in to Russia’s demands on the European missile defense shield with nothing in return
  1022. Defense shield announcement was given on the 70th anniversary of Russia invading Poland
  1023. Former Vice Admiral Jerry Miller said Obama was “outmaneuvered” by the Russians with START
  1024. START treaty prohibits the conversion of existing ballistic missile systems into a defense system
  1025. Obama dismantled plans for an Eastern European missile defense shield against allies’ wishes
  1026. Russia threatened to target U.S. missile defense sites on the EU borders (November 2011)
  1027. Obama was captured on a hot mic telling Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he’ll have “more flexibility” to deal with controversial issues such as missile defense “after my election” in 2012
    1028. President Obama: “On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.”

    President Medvedev: “Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…”

    President Obama: “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.”

    President Medvedev: “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.”
    ~March 26, 2012
  1028. Obama later joked to reporters, “Feel free to transmit any of this to Vladimir if you see him”
  1029. CBS reported that Putin and Obama “barely looked at each other” after a long private discussion
    1030. “…Apparently President Obama got a bit of a lecture from Putin about some other failed transitions that are going on around the world.”
    ~CBS News reporting (June 2012)
  1030. Democrats are reducing our nuclear arsenal reserved for deterrence and national defense
  1031. Obama compromised peace through deterrence by weakening our nuclear defense posture
  1032. In 2009, President Obama promised to pursue the elimination of nuclear weapons
  1033. Obama announced possible nuclear weapons cuts of up to 80% of the arsenal in the U.S. (2012)
  1034. Obama committed to reducing stocks of U.S. weapons-grade plutonium and signed an agreement that will lower the United States’ deployed nuclear arsenals
  1035. Russia’s military threatened to strike NATO missile-defense sites in Eastern Europe (May 2012)
  1036. Russian President Vladmir Putin rejected Obama’s offer for bilateral talks at the White House
  1037. Democrats cut $400 billion from our national defense as part of the August 2011 debt deal
  1038. Obama proposed cutting the military by 500,000 personnel (~30%) over the next decade (2012)
  1039. Defense cuts includes reducing the size of the Army and Marines, cutting back on shipbuilding, delaying the purchase of some fighter jets and weapons systems, and more domestic base closures
  1040. Pentagon cutting 100,000 ground forces to accommodate $487 billion in defense cuts (2012)
  1041. Obama administration said that soldiers in Afghanistan must be fired upon to receive combat pay
  1042. Obama proposed cutting healthcare benefits for active duty and retired military service members
  1043. By 2016, defense spending will increase by $50 billion and other spending by $7 trillion
  1044. Obama administration was seen as “bowing to Chinese pressure” on a Taiwanese arms sale in 2011
  1045. Taiwan sale would have created more than 16,000 jobs and $768 million in federal tax revenue
  1046. Taiwan Ministry of National Defense: “We are disappointed in the United States”
  1047. Chinese state media slammed Obama over his remarks about currency manipulation (2011)
  1048. Obama snubbed the Dalai Lama to placate the communist Chinese, financiers of our debt (2010)
  1049. Obama met the Dalai Lama again in the White House without press coverage (July 2011)
  1050. Obama administration supported the Marxist Zelaya coup attempt in Honduras in 2009
  1051. Obama declared that “the French people” were America’s strongest ally, causing anger in Britain
  1052. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sided with Argentina instead of Great Britain over the Falklands
  1053. Obama ignored the Anglo-American alliance and undermined British influence in NATO
  1054. Obama supported a federal Europe and has been undercutting England’s sovereignty
  1055. Obama betrayed Britain to appease Moscow over the New START Treaty
  1056. Obama placed a “boot on the throat” of BP following the Gulf Oil Spill
  1057. Obama removed a bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office soon after taking office
  1058. Obama gave improperly formatted DVDs to the British Prime Minister
  1059. Obama administration insults our allies, such as saying “there’s nothing special about Britain”
    1060. “Barack Obama and Joe Biden believe the United States has to be frank with the Chinese about such failings and will press them to respect human rights.”
    ~Fact sheet distributed by the Obama campaign during the 2008 campaign
  1060. Human rights activist Chen Guangcheng escaped captivity and fled to the U.S. embassy in China
  1061. Obama’s State Department abandoned Chen Guangcheng in China after pleas to leave the country
  1062. General McChrystal described disappointing first meeting and felt that Obama was unprepared
  1063. McChrystal’s aide described National Security Advisor Jim Jones as a “clown” stuck in 1985
  1064. Press secretary Robert Gibbs relished Gen. McChrystal’s downfall saying, “Like a pig in sh*t”
  1065. The Pentagon later cleared General McChrystal and his senior officers of any personal wrongdoing
  1066. Bob Woodward released, “Obama’s Wars,” his 16th book giving insight into the Obama admin
  1067. Security adviser Jim Jones privately called Obama’s political aides the “Mafia” and “Politburo”
  1068. General Petraeus told an aide that he considered David Axelrod to be “a complete spin doctor”
  1069. Biden called U.S. Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke “the most egotistical bastard I’ve ever met”
  1070. Sec. Clinton’s convey was attacked with red paint by anti-U.S. protesters in the Philippines (2011)
  1071. Protesters in Pakistan burned an effigy of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2011)
  1072. Hillary Clinton apologized to Pakistan for the accidental death of Pakistani troops (2012)
    1073. “How can you apologize to a country that is providing through some parts of its government tacit support to the Haqqani network, which is actively attacking our guys? This isn’t about politics. This is about the message that would send to our troops and that’s what no one in the military or the White House could countenance.” ~Senior administration official
  1073. U.S. ambassador Karl Eikenberry said that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is manic depressive
  1074. Karzai said in 2011 that Afghanistan would back Pakistan if a war occurred with the United States
  1075. Afghanistan protesters torched an Obama effigy as Westerners were being beheaded in 2011
  1076. Russian anchorwoman Tatyana Limanova flipped President Obama the bird (November 2011)
  1077. Arabs liked Saddam Hussein and Hugo Chavez more than President Obama (November 2011)
  1078. Arabs also preferred Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Nicolas Sarkozy over Obama
  1079. Most Arabs believe that the United States’ only focus in the region is only oil and protecting Israel
  1080. Russia scolded the U.S. for human rights abuses and for keeping open Guantanamo Bay (2011)
  1081. Obama’s ‘drone-warfare rulebook’ was condemned by peace and human-rights groups (2012)
  1082. Russian State television launched an assault on new U.S. Ambassador Mike McFaul (2012)
  1083. Obama administration condemned an attack that killed an Iranian nuclear scientist (2012)
  1084. Thousands of Iranians chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” at the scientists funeral
  1085. Germany said the S&P downgrade of the euro was part of an American “currency war” (2012)
  1086. Sec. Hillary Clinton wore lime green for an all-white G20 ‘family photo’ in Mexico (2012)
  1087. Afghans protested with anti-U.S. slogans and burned an effigy of ‘Black Dog’ Obama (2012)
  1088. Obama apologized after Qurans used by prisoners to hide “extremist inscriptions” were destroyed
  1089. U.S. personnel inadvertently put the books into a rubbish incinerator at Bagram air base (2012)
  1090. Muslims consider the Quran the literal word of God and treat each book with deep reverence
  1091. Afghanistan protesters responded the by killing four U.S. service members within Afghanistan
  1092. President Obama claimed that his apology “calmed things down” in Afghanistan (2012)
  1093. American colonel and major were both shot and killed within the interior ministry in Afghanistan
  1094. Afghanistan protesters tried to burn down the United Nations building (February 2012)
  1095. Obama angered Poland by describing a Nazi German Holocaust site as a “Polish death camp”
  1096. Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski blamed the error on “ignorance and incompetence”
  1097. Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble rebuffed President Obama’s advice on the euro crisis, telling him to focus on getting the American deficit under control instead (June 2012)
    1098. “Mr. Obama should first of all take care of reducing the American deficit, which is higher than in the eurozone.” ~Germany finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (June 2012)
  1098. Europeans, led by Germans, are increasingly becoming disillusioned with President Obama (2012)
  1099. Pew Research global survey showed a drop in international approval for President Obama (2012)
  1100. Egyptians chanted “Monica, Monica” and pelted Clinton’s motorcade with shoes and tomatoes
  1101. Turkey felt insulted after Obama spoke to Prime Minister Erdogan while holding a baseball bat
  1102. Britain faced a legal challenge over Obama’s secret “kill list” in Afghanistan (August 2012)
  1103. Bill Richardson insisted that “the international community wants to see this president reelected”
  1104. Pew Global Attitudes Project survey found that U.S. favorability ratings were lower in 2012 than they were in 2008 in all four of the Muslim countries surveyed – Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon
  1105. Zogby International poll found that U.S. favorability ratings had dropped by more than half in six Arab countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia) over two years, dropping from 33% in 2009 to 15% in 2011
  1106. Pew found that 79% of Egyptians viewed the U.S. unfavorably in 2011 (compared to 69% in 2006)
  1107. Obama snubbed meeting with world leaders in order to appear on “The View” (September 2012)
  1108. Aide to President Obama: “If he met with one leader, he would have to meet with ten” (2012)
  1109. President Obama likes to proclaim that his administration forwards liberty around the globe
  1110. Freedom House reported that democracy has declined across the globe for the 7th consecutive year
  1111. Report found that 27 countries experienced further cutbacks on the right to assemble and free speech
  1112. According to the report, just 43% of people around the world had “full political rights and civil liberties”
  1113. Obama administration has condemned millions around the globe to generations of Islamism
  1114. President Obama promoted his own political career by borrowing from dictatorial China
  1115. U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights launched an investigation into drone strikes and reviewed the resultant civilian casualties to determine whether the attacks constitute a war crime (January 2013)
  1116. The U.N. human rights inquiry was launched in response to requests from Russia, China, and Pakistan
  1117. U.N. requested “before and after” videos of the U.S. drone strikes and internal reports of those killed
  1118. Chris Woods, a senior journalist in London, claimed that “more than 400 U.S. covert drone strikes have taken place in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia which have killed at least 3,000 people” (January 2013)
  1119. Spokesman Jay Carney described the drone strikes as “legal,” “ethical,” and “wise” (February 2013)
    1120. “These strikes are legal, they are ethical and they are wise.”
    ~White House spokesman Jay Carney (February 2013)
  1120. Senator Angus King (I-ME) argued that drones are a “more humane way of waging war” (2013)
    1121. “One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world, a belief that we are not just defined by the size of our military.” ~President Obama (February 2012)

    President Obama further expanded the United States’ involvement in the Middle East & Africa

  1121. Obama chose to stay in the “graveyard of empires” becoming America’s longest war in our history
  1122. Obama doubled down and sent in an additional 33,000 troops as reinforcements into Afghanistan
  1123. Obama provided fewer troops than the generals said they needed to secure victory in Afghanistan
  1124. General David McKiernan’s was denied a request for 30,000 additional troops in Afghanistan (2009)
    1125. “We have to have enough troops that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians.” ~Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) (2007)
  1125. Obama only agreed to send 17,000 troops to fight in a war Obama had described as a “war of necessity”
  1126. Pentagon wanted 4,000 additional troops to reserve gains made by the Taliban before the elections
  1127. Obama refused to define what “victory” was in Afghanistan when asked during a TV interview
  1128. Obama crafted a six-page “terms sheet” to limit U.S. involvement in Afghanistan as a war strategy
  1129. The “terms sheet” took the unusual step of stating what the military was not allowed to do there
  1130. Obama demanded, “This needs to be a plan about how we’re going to… get out of Afghanistan”
  1131. Obama said that he only had two years left to get out of Afghanistan before he’s up for re-election
  1132. The talk of victory in Afghanistan was completely avoided as Obama described his war objectives
  1133. Obama stated, “I can’t let this be a war without end, and I can’t lose the whole Democratic Party”
  1134. Rahm Emanuel saw political headaches for Obama if he sent more troops to fight in Afghanistan
  1135. Obama warned Generals Mullen, Petraeus, and Secretary Gates not to ask for more help in 2010
  1136. After many inquiries from the Pentagon, Obama asked, “Why do we keep having these meetings?”
  1137. President Obama decided to draw down forces faster than Petraeus and the military recommended
  1138. Obama’s timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan coincided with his election calendar
  1139. Retired General Jack Keane: Obama’s decision “not only protracts the war but risks the mission”
  1140. When asked if he should consider resigning, Petraeus refused noting that “the troops can’t quit…”
  1141. Rules of engagement in Afghanistan were changed dramatically increasing American casualties
  1142. More than 70% of U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan have occurred since Obama was inaugurated
  1143. More than 1,405 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan since Obama was inaugurated (May 2012)
  1144. Single worst day of loss-of-life for U.S. troops in Afghanistan occurred in early August 2011
  1145. August 2011 was also the deadliest month ever for the United States military in Afghanistan
  1146. Each of the three deadliest years in Afghanistan have been during Obama’s presidency
  1147. Obama’s Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said “we’re winning” in Afghanistan (December 2011)
  1148. Revenue from opium production in Afghanistan soared by 133% in 2011 compared to 2010
  1149. Obama claimed that “the tide has turned” in Afghanistan over the last three years (May 2012)
  1150. At least 33 U.S. service members were killed in Afghanistan in April, the bloodiest month of 2012
  1151. Obama visited Kabul, Afghanistan to meet with Karzai and deliver a campaign speech to the U.S.
    1152. “Over the last three years, the tide has turned. We broke the Taliban’s momentum. We’ve built strong Afghan security forces. We devastated al-Qaeda’s leadership, taking out over 20 of their top 30 leaders.” ~President Obama declaring ‘mission accomplished’ in Afghanistan
  1152. Taliban forces killed seven people in Kabul, Afghanistan just after President Obama’s visit
  1153. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Mike Rogers (R-MI) said “that the Taliban is stronger” just days after Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan and touted the progress made in the war on terror
  1154. Feinstein pointed to increased attacks and the geographical spread of the Taliban’s influence
  1155. Feinstein also highlighted madrassas in Pakistan that “are fueling a new generation of fighters”
  1156. Afghan police commander gunned down three U.S. Marines (August 2012)
  1157. Two gunmen wearing Afghan army uniforms killed a U.S. soldier and wounded two others (2012)
  1158. Obama administration claimed that the last U.S. combat brigade left Iraq on August 18, 2010
  1159. Obama pledged in 2008: “I intend to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of 2011”
    1160. “Most of you know that I opposed this war from the start. I thought it was a tragic mistake.” ~Candidate Obama speaking about the Iraq War (February 10, 2007)
    “Today we grieve for the families who have lost loved ones, the hearts that have been broken and the young lives that could have been. America it is time to start bringing our troops home. It’s time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else’s civil war. That’s why I have a plan that will bring our combat troops home by March of 2008.” ~Candidate Barack Obama speaking about the Iraq War
  1160. Defense Sec. Robert Gates said in 2011 that U.S. troops could remain in Iraq for years to come
  1161. President Obama trumpeted the pullout of Iraq as a “promise kept” regardless of the consequences
  1162. As anticipated, violence in Iraq surged after American troops were pulled out by President Obama
  1163. Waves of bombings in Iraq killed dozens of Shiites and raised the specter of a civil war (2012)
  1164. Days after the U.S. pullout, a wave of 14 bombs blew up in Iraq killing at least 60 civilians (2011)
  1165. Gunmen detonated a car bomb and entered a government compound killing 7 Iraqi policemen
  1166. Coordinated wave of bombings in cities across Iraq killed at least 53 people (June 2012)
  1167. Obama gave approval for U.S. drone military aircraft to conduct lethal attacks in Somalia
  1168. U.S. also expanding predator drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, and Yemen
  1169. CIA has conducted more than 240 drone strikes in Pakistan since 2009 (killing 1,350 to 2,250)
  1170. Human rights and international law experts have been critical of the secrecy behind the program
  1171. Federal judge ruled that Obama does not have to publicly disclose the justification used for drone attacks
  1172. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and the Pentagon sent U.S. troops to Jordan (October 2012)
  1173. U.S. pledged to aid France’s military assault against Islamist rebels in Mali (January 2013)
  1174. Obama administration’s counterterrorism “playbook” exempted CIA drone strikes in Pakistan (2013)

    1175. The War on Libya: “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine was used to justify the bombing of Libya

  1175. Billionaire George Soros sits on the executive board of the International Crisis Group (ICG)
  1176. President emeritus of ICG was a principle author of the “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine
  1177. President emeritus Gareth Evans and activist Ramesh Thakur are the original founders of the doctrine, with the duo even coining the term “responsibility to protect”
  1178. George Soros’ Open Society Institute is one of only three nongovernmental funders of the Global Centre for Responsibility to Protect
  1179. White House aide Samantha Power credited Obama with triggering the Libyan uprising
  1180. Samantha Power (Mrs. Cass Sunstein) adopted a policy funded by Soros as the excuse for war
  1181. Samantha Power was appointed by Obama as a special adviser to his National Security Council
  1182. Samantha Power was later appointed to be President Obama’s new “atrocities czar”
  1183. Power was picked by Obama to head the new White House Atrocities Prevention Board (2012)
  1184. Samantha Power once referred to the American troop presence in Iraq as an “occupation”
  1185. Samantha Power favored sending U.S. troops to Israel to forcibly impose a Palestinian state
  1186. Samantha Power advocated creating a “mammoth” security force to protect the Palestinians
  1187. Samantha Power is a champion of Soros-funded doctrine entitled, “Responsibility to Protect”
  1188. Doctrine was defined at a 2001 International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty
  1189. Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi served on the advisory board of the commission
  1190. Ashrawi’s father, Daoud Mikhail, was a co-founder of the PLO along with Yasser Arafat
  1191. PLO was involved in dozens of terrorist attacks and declared a terrorist group by the U.S. in 1987
  1192. Hanan Ashrawi joined the 1988 Intifada Political Committee seeking to advance Palestinian goals
  1193. Islamic regimes in Iran and Syria have killed far more of their citizens than the Libyan regime
  1194. Bashar al-Assad’s military regime massacred more than 6,000 Syrian civilians and activists (2011)
  1195. Arab League “suspended” Syria due to the brutality of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime
  1196. Arab League had previously expelled Egypt in 1979 for signing a peace treaty with Israel
  1197. Syrian security forces killed up to 70 army defectors near the Turkish border (December 2011)
  1198. More than 130 demonstrators were killed by Assad’s military in Syria on February 9, 2012
  1199. Attacks by Assad’s government forces intensified against the cities of Homs, Idlib and Daraa
  1200. More than 400 people were killed by government forces in Homs in just 6 days (February 2012)
  1201. Syria’s military prepared for their use of chemical weapons against the citizens of Homs (2012)
  1202. Secret State Department cable claimed that chemical weapons were used in Homs, Syria (2012)
  1203. The use of Agent-15 by the Assad regime on its people should have crossed the “red line” set by Obama
  1204. Assad’s forces massacred at least 92 people, a third of them children, in the town of Houla
  1205. Obama predicted that the youth revolution in Tahrir Square would be pro-Israeli and pro-Western
  1206. Egyptian youth instead channeled their frustrations into anti-Israel and anti-Western sentiment
  1207. Obama did nothing for months while protesters in Syria were murdered for advocating for ‘reform’
  1208. Obama did not call for helping the freedom movements in Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan, and Ivory Coast
    1209. “What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt… of weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and hardships borne.” ~Barack Obama (2002)
    “The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” ~Senator Obama (December 20, 2007)
    “If the (Bush) administration wants to use force against Iran they better get Congressional approval” ~Senator Hillary Clinton, 2007
    “I want to make it clear! And I made it clear to the President if he takes this nation to war with Iran without Congressional approval. I will make it my business to impeach him.” ~Senator Joe Biden, 2007
    “It’s a good thing we didn’t elect John McCain in 2008. A McCain victory would have meant an escalation in Afghanistan, a third war in the Middle East and a president sending U.S. forces into harm’s way heedless of public opinion or Congressional power.” ~Liberal columnist Steve Chapman, writing for his online blog, Townhall.com
  1209. “Responsibility to Protect” doctrine was cited many times by those urging intervention in Uganda
  1210. Soros recommended that the U.S. deploy a special advisory military team to Uganda in 2011
  1211. Billionaire investor George Soros has close ties to the oil industry and other interests in Uganda
  1212. Africa Institute of Energy Governance (AIEG) is a grantee of the Soros-funded Revenue Watch
  1213. AIEG helped establish the Publish What You Pay Coalition (PWYP) of Uganda in 2008
  1214. PWYP was launched to promote transparency and accountability in Uganda’s emerging oil sector
  1215. PWYP is directly funded by George Soros’ Open Society Institute and Revenue Watch Institute
  1216. PWYP international is hosted by the Open Society Foundation in London, England
  1217. President Obama dispatched U.S. troops to Uganda to help combat the Lord’s Resistance Army
  1218. Critics have questioned whether U.S. military involvement in Uganda advances U.S. interests
  1219. Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) does not pose any known threat against the U.S. homeland

    1220. Obama went to war in Libya with approval from the U.N., but not from the U.S. Congress

  1220. Military intervention in Libya started on March 19 and Congress was notified on March 21, 2011
  1221. Obama refused to admit that the situation was a “war,” referring to it as “kinetic military action”
  1222. White House claimed no “hostilities” in Libya, but yet troops received “imminent danger” pay
  1223. Obama pledged that the United States’ active involvement in Libya would last “days, not weeks”
  1224. Obama took weeks to make up his mind on Libya, but then wouldn’t explain our end-game there
  1225. Obama asked his speechwriter for his opinion on intervening in Libya since he’d have to explain it
  1226. Obama refused to deliver an Oval Office speech explaining to Americans his policy on Libya
  1227. Obama waited nine days to speak to the American people about the Libyan intervention
  1228. After his speech, just 21% of voters thought Obama had clearly defined the mission in Libya
  1229. Obama waited 12 days after the no-fly zone began to brief lawmakers on the scope of the mission
  1230. Obama administration chartered a boat too small to rescue stranded Americans fleeing Libya
  1231. Obama administration cited the 1973 War Powers Act as the legal basis for military use in Libya
  1232. 1973 War Powers Act required Obama to seek a declaration of war from Congress after 60 days
  1233. Obama ignored the legal opinion of two of his top lawyers calling U.S. involvement “hostilities”
  1234. Obama said he was committed to helping install a democratic system in Libya (i.e. nation building)
  1235. U.N. had limited the goals of the U.S.-led coalition to not include removing Qadhafi from power
  1236. U.N.-sanctioned peacekeeping mission in Libya morphed into coordinated strikes to oust Qadhafi
  1237. President Obama claimed, “I don’t even have to get to the Constitutional question…” (2011)
  1238. Obama said the ‘limited’ U.S. role in Libya meant there was no need to get authorization from Congress
  1239. Brad Sherman (D-CA): Obama cannot continue Libya operations “without congressional approval”
  1240. Obama trying to “bring democracy to Libya while shredding the Constitution of the United States”
  1241. Democrats suggested impeaching Obama for not consulting the United States Congress beforehand
  1242. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) slammed military action in Libya using Obama’s own anti-war rhetoric
  1243. Obama in 2007: “President does not have the power… to unilaterally authorize a military attack”
  1244. Obama said, “no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other”
  1245. Senator Obama in 2007: Americans “have a right to know” before U.S. takes military action”
  1246. Joe Biden: “If he gives authorization to war… without Congressional approval… impeach him!”
  1247. In 1998, Senator Joe Biden (D) called military actions based on U.N. resolutions “monarchist”
  1248. Defense Sec. Robert Gates said the Libyan conflict was “not a vital national interest” of the U.S.
  1249. Tom McClintock (R-CA): Obama “crossed a very bright Constitutional line” by attacking Libya
  1250. Ed Markey (D-MA), along with other Democrats, stated that “we’re in Libya because of oil”
  1251. Europe received over 85 percent of Libya’s crude oil exports, most going to Italy and France
  1252. Hillary Clinton said the war was in “vital national interest” of “U.K., France, Italy,” and EU allies
  1253. IEA deputy head Richard Jones: loss of oil in Libya was a “bigger disruption than Katrina”
  1254. U.S. House of Representatives voted “NO” on continuing Obama’s war in Libya (June 24, 2011)
  1255. U.S. Air Force and Navy continued flying hundreds of strike missions in “limited role” over Libya
  1256. Obama attempted to spin the U.S. role in the Libyan civil war as mainly a supporting backup role
  1257. Pentagon claimed that more than 90% of action against Libya was conducted by the U.S. military
  1258. Sec. Robert Gates confirmed that Obama approved the use of armed predator drones in Libya
  1259. Obama claimed “our military mission is narrowly focused on saving lives” while helping the rebels
  1260. Despite claims of a narrow mission, the airstrikes were undeniably helping the rebels to advance
  1261. Obama dismissed concerns of links to al-Qaeda and gave Libyan rebels $25 million in April 2011
  1262. A reported Libyan draft constitution regarded Sharia law as the “principle source of legislation”
  1263. Obama approved CIA missions to provide assistance to the Libyan Transitional National Council
  1264. Obama relinquished U.S. military authority to a “Multi-National Political Steering Committee”
  1265. Obama’s Libyan War was handed over to NATO, which is still run primarily by the United States
  1266. NATO only agreed to help enforce the no-fly zone, but ground attacks were still led by the U.S.
  1267. A Canadian three-star general was selected to be in charge of all NATO operations in Libya
  1268. The commander of NATO’s Allied Join Force Command Naples, is an American admiral
  1269. The admiral’s boss is the supreme allied commander Europe, a post always held by an American
  1270. U.S. fighter jets continued striking Libyan targets even after turning the mission over to NATO
  1271. Defense Sec. Gates said, “We haven’t done something like this kind of on-the-fly before…”
  1272. Democrat accused the W.H. of “dramatically underestimating” the cost of the operations in Libya
  1273. After airstrikes accidentally hit rebel forces NATO argued, “we didn’t know the rebels had tanks”
  1274. NATO’s secretary general admitted at the time that there was no strategy for Libya
  1275. Obama declared, “Under NO circumstances will there be American boots on the ground”
  1276. 2,200 marines from the U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit from Camp Lejeune deployed to Libya
  1277. CIA teams engaged in covert missions in Libya to help guide the Libyan rebel fighters
  1278. Troops were deployed on the ground in Tripoli to assist in rebuilding the U.S. Embassy (2011)
  1279. U.S. deployed 12,000 troops in Libya to take control of key oil fields and strategic ports (2012)
  1280. Qadhafi’s Libyan regime had raw nuclear materials and deadly chemicals in storage
  1281. Obama administration failed to hunt down and secure Qadhafi’s weapons arsenal
  1282. President Obama said he will keep his Nobel Peace Prize despite launching strikes against Libya
  1283. Obama had accepted the “aspirational” Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo for his campaign rhetoric (lies)
  1284. Michael Moore tweeted that Obama should return his Nobel Peace Prize for his actions in Libya
  1285. Bolivian President Evo Morales asked the Nobel Committee to strip Obama of his Peace Prize
  1286. Obama’s said of Energy Secretary Steven Chu, “He actually deserved his Nobel Prize”
  1287. Russian leaders joined the world opposition calling U.S. airstrikes a “shocking act of aggression”
  1288. Germany pulled their forces out of NATO as the Libyan “coalition of the unwilling ” fell apart
  1289. Obama’s Libyan “coalition” enforcing the U.N. resolution initially consisted of only (12) nations
  1290. By contrast, George H.W. Bush’s 1991 Gulf War coalition consisted of more than (40) countries
  1291. George W. Bush’s liberation of Iraq had a coalition of (30) nations assisting with the operation
  1292. Qadahi shouted at the rebels, “What you are doing is forbidden in Islam,” prior to being executed
  1293. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez said Qadhafi was a “martyr,” and said his killing was an “outrage”
  1294. Russian foreign minister said that Geneva Conventions were breached with the killing of Qadhafi

    1295. Obama’s foreign policy seems to include helping form a sixth Caliphate from Tunisia to Pakistan



    “I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world; one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect; and one based upon the truth that America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition.” ~President Obama speaking in Cairo, Egypt (2009)
    Afghanistan
  1295. Obama escalated the Afghanistan War having previously been against a smaller surge in Iraq
  1296. Obama planned troop withdrawal from Afghanistan to coincide with the 2012 election calendar
  1297. A record number of civilians were killed in Afghanistan in 2010, up 15 percent from 2009
  1298. A rogue Stryker “kill team” was caught posing for Abu Ghraib-style photos of murdered civilians
  1299. American soldiers under Obama’s command desecrated the dead bodies of three Afghans (2011)
  1300. U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan were caught posing with the bodies of Taliban suicide bombers
  1301. Eight U.S. troops were killed in “insider attacks” over the span of three days (September 2012)
  1302. Pentagon was forced to suspended joint patrols with Afghans after more U.S. troops were killed
  1303. Taliban attacked Camp Bastion, killing Marines and destroying jet fighters, causing “arguably the worst day in [U.S. Marine Corp] aviation history since the Tet Offensive of 1968” (September 2012)


    1304. Iraq
  1304. Obama failed to establish a long-term troop deployment in Iraq thereby ceding Iraq to the Islamists
  1305. Iran’s supreme leader hailed the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq as a “golden” victory (2011)
  1306. Vice President Joe Biden said that “we’re not claiming victory” by leaving Iraq (December 2011)
  1307. Hundreds in Fallujah burned a U.S. flag to celebrate troops pulling out of Iraq (December 2011)
  1308. Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign created an ad touting the Iraqi pullout as “a promise kept”
  1309. Al-Qaeda and Sunni militants have killed more than 170 people in Iraq since the U.S. pullout
  1310. Al-Qaeda spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani: “America has been defeated in Iraq” (2012)
  1311. Thousands of Iraqis took to the streets in Basra to protest an anti-Muslim film made in the U.S.
  1312. Protesters in Iraq burned American flags and demanded the closure of the U.S. Embassy (2012)


    1313. Tunisia
    “One thing I think Americans should be proud of: when Tunisians began to protest, this nation, me, my administration, stood with them earlier than just about any other country.” ~Obama during the third presidential debate (October 22, 2012)
  1313. Islamist party Al Nahda won the Tunisian elections following the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings
  1314. Al Nahda party is now dominant in the national assembly tasked with writing a new constitution
  1315. Al Nahda party (Muslim Brotherhood) were previously banned from participating in elections
  1316. Protesters burned American flags and chanted slogans outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia
  1317. The next day, protesters smashed windows and set more fires at the embassy (September 2012)
  1318. U.S. Embassy was breached by rioters who replaced the American flag with a black al-Qaeda flag
  1319. At least three Tunisians died when security forces opened fire in an effort to disperse the crowd
  1320. Tunisian opposition leader critical of the Islamist-led government was shot to death (February 2013)
  1321. Tunisia’s government, ruled by the Islamist Ennahda Party, was dissolved (February 2013)


    1322. Egypt
  1322. Obama administration initially supported the brutal Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011
  1323. Mubarak was regarded as a key leader who had brought peace and stability to the region
  1324. Hosni Mubarak had hosted Obama’s speech to the Islamic world in Cairo back in 2009
  1325. Vice President Joe Biden said Egypt’s 29-year President Hosni Mubarak was NOT a dictator
  1326. Mubarak cut off the Internet and cell phone services as police killed pro-“democracy” protesters
  1327. Obama belatedly distanced himself from Mubarak and demanded that he leave office “yesterday”
  1328. President Obama instead supported the Arab Spring uprising which led the Islamists taking power
  1329. Top officials of the Egyptian government felt betrayed after Obama acted against U.S. interests
  1330. Obama urged Egypt’s Mubarak to resign, which likely gives power to the Muslim Brotherhood
  1331. Muslim Brotherhood’s 2007 charter called for the imposition of Shariah Law in Egypt
  1332. Obama told the Egyptian army to remove Mubarak or else U.S. aid to Egypt would be cut off
  1333. Obama’s support for unrest in Egypt mimics Carter’s support of the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran
  1334. Some Muslim clerics described the riots in Egypt as an extension of 1979’s Islamist conquests
  1335. Obama administration dispatched Frank Wisner to Egypt to inform Mubarak that he must resign
  1336. Frank Wisner secretly met with the senior leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Issam El-Erian
  1337. Brotherhood’s new supreme guide Muhammad Badi delivered an anti-U.S. sermon in Nov. 2010
  1338. Muhammad Badi stated that the U.S. is “withdrawing from Iraq, defeated and wounded”
  1339. Badi said the U.S. “has been defeated by Islamist warriors” in Afghanistan and will withdraw soon
  1340. Badi declared that the U.S. is easy to defeat through violence and “is heading toward its demise”
  1341. Muslim Brotherhood members were invited to Obama’s 2009 Cairo address to the Muslim world
  1342. Obama met with U.S. and European-based representatives of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood in 2009
  1343. Muslim Brotherhood implied that if they took power they would continue peace treaty with Israel
  1344. Egypt’s cancelled an annual Jewish festival in the Nile Delta at the tomb of holy man Abu Hassira
  1345. Al-Gama’a al-Islamiya serves as the de facto “military” wing of the Muslim Brotherhood
  1346. The group is suspected of involvement in the murder of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in 1981
  1347. Al-Gama’a al-Islamiya took credit for the 1995 attempted murder of president Hosni Mubarak
  1348. Al-Gama’a al-Islamiya has a long history of carrying out terrorist attacks in Egypt
  1349. Brotherhood’s new leader Muhammad Badi serves as a de facto lead spiritual guide for Hamas
  1350. U.S. State Department issued a visa to Hani Nour Eldin, a member of Gama’a al-Islamiya
  1351. Historical leader of Gama’a al-Islamiya is Omar Abdel Rahman, known as the “blind sheikh”
  1352. Omar Abdel Rahman was convicted in 1995 of plotting terrorist attacks on New York City targets
  1353. Gama’a al-Islamiya is formally designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. government
  1354. Gama’a al-Islamiya, under successor Refai Ahmed Taha, is one of the five signatories of Osama bin Laden’s February 1998 “World Islamic Front Statement Urging Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders”
    1355. “The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies – civilians and military – is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do it in any country in which it is possible to do it. We – with Allah’s help – call on every Muslim who believes in Allah and wishes to be rewarded to comply with Allah’s order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it.”
    ~Osama bin Laden’s “World Islamic Front Statement” (February 1998)
  1355. Egypt’s “democratic” revolution set the stage for Islamic fundamentalism to take hold there
  1356. Pew Research polling showed that most Egyptians want the Quran as the source of their laws
  1357. Poll: Egyptians had a higher preference for Osama bin Laden (21%) than President Obama (12%)
  1358. Muslim Brotherhood called for ‘modesty police’ as start of an extremist Islamic state in Egypt
  1359. Islamists protested in front of the U.S. embassy demanding the release of Omar Abdel Rahman
  1360. Omar Abdel Rahman, known as the “blind sheik,” plotted to blow up NYC landmarks
  1361. Western female journalists were assaulted and gang-raped during Egypt’s Tahrir Square protests
  1362. CBS News’ Lara Logan was sexually assaulted by a gang of Egyptians while chanting “Jew”
  1363. Egyptian-American journalist Mona Eltahawy was a victim of grotesque sexual assault by police
  1364. French television reporter Caroline Sinz was violently sexually assaulted by a gang of protesters
  1365. Several other women, both Egyptian and foreign, have complained of sexual aggression
  1366. Obama pledged money that we don’t have to Egypt during his second address to the Muslim world
  1367. U.S. State Department began training Islamist parties in Egypt for their transition to power (2011)
  1368. Egyptian presidential candidate praised Bin Laden for speaking “the word of truth with power”
  1369. Egypt’s Abu Ismail asked Allah to accept Bin Laden “with the righteous and the martyrs” (2011)\
  1370. Egypt fell back into chaos as violence erupted and cabinet members resigned in November 2011
  1371. Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces retained their ruling power while protests raged on
  1372. Muslim Brotherhood won control of Egypt with 47% of the seats in the new parliament (2012)
  1373. Two Islamist parties ultimately secured nearly three-quarters of the Egyptian parliament (2012)
  1374. Egypt detained Americans, including Secretary Ray LaHood’s son, from leaving the country
  1375. Muslim Brotherhood insisted that it should govern following the deadly soccer riots (2012)
  1376. Islamists halted the production of a television series due to the “indecent” clothing of the actresses
  1377. The series, adapted from a novel, took place in the 1970s, “when women wore short clothing”
  1378. Egypt’s Islamists vowed to install a global Islamic caliphate with its capital in Jerusalem (2012)
  1379. Dr. Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate, nodded in agreement
    1380. “The Koran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader, jihad is our path and death in the name of Allah is our goal. Today we can establish Sharia law because our nation will acquire wellbeing only with Islam and Sharia. The Muslim Brothers and the Freedom and Justice Party will be the conductors of these goals.”
    ~Egyptian presidential candidate Mohamed Morsi during an election speech at Cairo University (May 12, 2012)
  1380. Egypt’s Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of the new Islamist-dominated parliament (2012)
  1381. Mohamed Morsi defeated Ahmed Shafiq, giving the Muslim Brotherhood the presidency
  1382. Israeli officials blamed Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood for a Hamas rocket attack (June 15, 2012)
  1383. Israel warned of “security problems” from Egypt and moved tanks closer to the border (2012)
  1384. Newly-elected Mohamed Morsi said our capital “shall be Jerusalem, Allah willing” (June 2012)
  1385. Morsi said that abroad there is child abuse, separated couples, and cohabitation… Not in Egypt
  1386. Obama congratulated Mohamed Morsi calling it a “milestone in their transition to democracy”
  1387. Iran also heralded Mohamed Morsi’s election, calling it an “Islamic awakening” in Egypt
  1388. Egyptian university student was fatally stabbed by Islamists for being too close to his girlfriend
  1389. Two musicians were murdered by Islamists who consider music a distraction from religious duties
  1390. Muslim clerics are calling for the demolition of the Great Pyramids as “symbols of paganism”
  1391. Iran’s Ahmadinejad called for stronger ties between Iran and Egypt after Morsi’s election victory
  1392. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad invited President Mohamed Morsi to a summit in Tehran (July 2012)
  1393. Morsi consolidated power by unilaterally forcing Egypt’s military leadership into retirement (2012)
  1394. Egypt began considering violating its treaty with Israel by sending tanks and troops to the border
  1395. Egyptian cleric Abd Al-Rahman: ‘Husbands, beat your wives so they will mend their ways’ (2012)
    1396. “A good woman, even if beaten by her husband, puts her hand in his and says: ‘I will not rest until you are pleased with me.’ This is how the Prophet Muhammad taught his women to be… Islam instructs a man to beat his wife as a last resort before divorce, so that she will mend her ways, treat him with kindness and respect, and know that her husband has a higher status than her.”
    ~Egyptian cleric Abd Al-Rahman (August 2012)
  1396. Protesters stormed the U.S. embassy in Cairo, Egypt and tore down the American flag and replaced it with a black flag with Islamic emblems on the eleven year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks (2012)
  1397. The black Islamic flag read: “There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his prophet”
  1398. Muslims claimed to be protesting a video that they said mocked the prophet Muhammad, claiming it had been made by Egyptian Coptic immigrants in the United States (September 2012)
    1399. “The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims… We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.” ~U.S. Embassy in Cairo
  1399. Obama administration took 16 hours to disavow the apology given by the Cairo Embassy
  1400. Protesters chanted “Islamic, Islamic. The right of our prophet will not die” and “We are all Osama”
  1401. Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi asked the Egyptian embassy in Washington to take legal action in the United States against makers of a film attacking the Muslim Prophet Mohammad (September 2012)
  1402. Obama’s State Department denied U.S. Marines from carrying live ammo in the Cairo embassy
  1403. President Obama admitted that his policies lost Egypt as an American ally (September 2012)
  1404. Obama previously described Mubarak’s Egypt as a “stalwart ally” and a “force for good” (2009)
  1405. Obama conceded that the Muslim Brotherhood’s Egypt is “not an enemy” and “not an ally” (2012)
  1406. Spokesman Jay Carney claimed that the protests were not directed at U.S. policy in the Middle East
    1407. White House spokesman Jay Carney told the world that the violent protests in Cairo and Benghazi and elsewhere were a “response not to United States policy, and not obviously the administration or the American people,” but were “in response to a video, a film we have judged to be reprehensible and disgusting. This is not a case of protests directed at the United States at large or at U.S. policy, but in response to a video that is offensive to Muslims.” ~White House Spokesman Jay Carney (September 2012)
  1407. Jay Carney: “We’re very proud of the president’s record on foreign policy” (September 2012)
  1408. Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi said that the United States must change (September 2012)
  1409. Mobs at the United States Embassy in London burned an American flag
  1410. Saad al-Katatny was elected chairman of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood political wing (2012)
  1411. Chairman Katatny was quoted as saying that the Muslim Brotherhoods Freedom and Justice Party’s (FJP) goal is to “institute Islamic Shariah law”
  1412. Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Muhammad Badie called on Muslims worldwide to liberate Jerusalem by means of jihad (October 2012)
  1413. Badie told supporters, “The jihad for the recovery of Jerusalem is a duty for all Muslims” (2012)
  1414. Badie stressed that Jerusalem’s conquest “will not be done through negotiations or at the United Nations”
  1415. Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide previously vowed that they would sever relations with Israel
    1416. “We are certainly not happy with the illegitimate marriage between Cairo and Tel Aviv.” ~Muslim Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide
  1416. President Morsi announced that henceforth all of his decisions would be beyond legal challenge (2012)
  1417. Morsi also unilaterally cancelled legal challenges to the committee drawing up Egypt’s new constitution
  1418. Morsi blocked legal challenges to the upper house of parliament dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood
  1419. As a result, Morsi’s decree gave him stronger powers than those of his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak
  1420. Morsi insisted, “I won’t be another dictator,” after issuing a decree that granted him absolute power
  1421. Morsi rebuilt his cabinet and installed more Islamists to head major economic ministries (2013)
  1422. Muslim Brotherhood broke many promises about the role it would play in representative government
  1423. Muslim Brotherhood’s flip-flops and power grabs angered many Egyptians into distrusting them
  1424. Egypt marked the second anniversary of their uprising with mass protests against Morsi (January 2013)
  1425. Sign in Tahrir Square read, “Obama you jerk, Muslim Brotherhoods are killing the Egyptians” (2013)
  1426. After six days of rioting and violence, army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi warned that Egypt might collapse
  1427. Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Qandil warned that women’s unclean breasts causes diarrhea (2013)


    1428. Libya
  1428. Obama jumped into the Libyan civil war on the side of rebels who have direct ties to Islamists
  1429. By engaging in military strikes and intervening in a civil war in Libya, we gave aid to the Islamists
  1430. Top NATO commander claimed he saw “flickers” of al-Qaeda and Hezbollah among the rebels
  1431. Libyan rebel commander, Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, admitted that his fighters have al-Qaeda links
  1432. Some front-line fighters battling Qadhafi were Jihadists who fought against U.S. troops in Iraq
  1433. British Islamists backed the rebellion and called for “Islam, the Shariah and jihad from Libya”
  1434. Al-Hasidi noted that “members of al-Qaeda are also good Muslims and are fighting the invader”
  1435. Al-Hasidi admitted he had earlier fought against “the foreign invasion” in Afghanistan (the U.S.)
  1436. Al-Hasidi was captured in 2002 in Pakistan, handed to the U.S., and then held in Libya until 2008
  1437. U.S. and British sources say al-Hasidi was part of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
  1438. LIFG members made up the 2nd-largest cohort of foreign fighters in Iraq, behind Saudi Arabia
  1439. Libyan rebels freed hundreds of al-Qaeda members that had been jailed by Qadhafi (2011)
  1440. Earlier in March 2011, al-Qaeda issued a call for supporters to back the Libyan rebellion
  1441. Al-Qaeda said the Libyan rebellion would lead to the imposition of “the stage of Islam”
  1442. Former head of the banned al-Muhajiroun proclaimed that the rebellion had inspired jihad
  1443. Shook Islam’s enemies “more than the tsunami that Allah sent against their friends, the Japanese”
  1444. Mustafa Abdul-Jalil is the chairman of the National Transitional Council in the new Libya
  1445. Mustafa Abdul-Jalil declared that new Libyan laws would have Shariah as its “basic source”
  1446. Following Qadhafi’s death, Libya ended their ban on polygamy and interest charges from banks
  1447. Chad’s president, Idriss Deby Itno, said al-Qaeda pillaged surface-to-air missiles from the rebels
  1448. Stolen rocket launchers and other dangerous weapons were sent to Hamas in the Gaza strip
  1449. Libyan rebels salvaged their Islamic honor by murdering the women raped by Qadhafi’s forces
  1450. The Muslim Brotherhood was “energized” to be an “important player” in Libya, just like in Egypt
  1451. Muslim Brotherhood’s 1995 playbook preaches about jihad and a revitalized Muslim caliphate
  1452. The man credited with capturing Qadhafi was abducted, tortured, and later killed (2012)


    1453. Syria
  1453. United Nations peacekeeping chief declared that the Syrian conflict was a “civil war” (June 2012)
  1454. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta appeared at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing and argued that ‘international permission’ trumps congressional permission for military action in Syria
  1455. McCain described the Obama administration’s handling of Syria as ‘shameful and disgraceful’
  1456. White House refused Syrian rebel requests for heavy weapons and intelligence support (2012)
  1457. Obama administration warned its western allies and Syria’s opposition groups that the U.S. would do nothing to intervene in the country’s crisis until after the November presidential election (July 2012)
  1458. Jordan’s King Abdullah II expressed fears that al-Qaeda may get chemical weapons in Syria
  1459. Muslim Brotherhood formed an Islamic political party in Syria for the post-Assad era (July 2012)
  1460. CIA raced to locate and determine the threat level of Syria’s chemical and biological weapons
  1461. Syria never signed the 1992 Chemical Weapons Convention and maintains “massive” stockpiles
  1462. Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri called on all Muslims to support the rebels in Syria (2012)
  1463. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard commander acknowledged that Iranian troops were in Syria
  1464. Iran also sent arms and personnel to Syria using civilian aircraft via Iraqi airspace (2012)
  1465. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta: U.S. has lost track of some of Syria’s chemical weapons (2012)
  1466. Syrian rebels claimed to have taken control of a military base that contains chemical weapons


    1467. Lebanon
  1467. Protesters in Lebanon torched a KFC following the protests in Egypt and Libya (September 2012)
  1468. Hezbollah organized a large rally in Baalbek, attended by both Sunni and Shia Muslims
  1469. Israeli navy intercepted a ship carrying advanced weaponry that was destined for Lebanon (2013)
  1470. The ship, registered to a Qatari company, contained advanced weapons, including anti-aircraft missiles
  1471. Israeli fighter jets bombed targets along the Syrian-Lebanese border, including weapons caches and senior members of the Iranian Quds Force, an elite unit tasked with exporting Iran’s Islamic revolution (January 2013)


    1472. Yemen
  1472. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh agreed to step down after an ‘Arab Spring’ uprising (2011)
  1473. President Saleh was seriously wounded in June 2011 during a bombing of his palace mosque
  1474. Protesters in Yemen stormed the U.S. Embassy, two days after similar attacks in Egypt and Libya
  1475. Muslim cleric Abdul Majid al-Zandani urged followers to emulate the protests in Egypt and Libya
  1476. Al-Zandani, a “specially designated global terrorist,” was a onetime mentor to Osama bin Laden
  1477. Protesters tore down and burned an American flag, replacing it with an Islamic one (2012)
  1478. Obama administration announced they were releasing one-third (55) of the prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, a large percentage of which are scheduled to be released to Yemen (September 2012)
  1479. Obama had halted the release of Yemeni inmates in 2010 due to “unsettled” conditions in Yemen
  1480. Masked gunmen on motorcycles killed a U.S. embassy employee in Yemen (October 2012)


    1481. Morocco
  1481. Morocco’s Islamists party won the most seats in the country’s parliamentary election (2011)
  1482. Election results were credited to surging faith-based movements since the Arab Spring uprisings
  1483. Morocco has been under the rule of Islamist Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane since 2011
  1484. Prominent Islamic clerics in Morocco demanded that the editor of the daily al-Ahdath al-Maghribia, Mokhtar el-Ghzioui, be executed for favoring greater sexual freedom (July 2012)


    1485. Kashmir (Indian-controlled)
  1485. Students in Indian-controlled Kashmir chanted “down with America” and “Long Live Islam,” while carrying a placard that read, “There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger” (2012)


    1486. Bangladesh
  1486. Protesters in Dhaka, Bangladesh clashed with police over an anti-Muslim film made in the U.S.
  1487. Bangladesh cabinet minister offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the filmmaker (2012)
  1488. Minister Ghulam Ahmad Balor urged the Taliban and al-Qaeda to perform the “sacred duty”
  1489. Thousands of protesters marched and burned an effigy of president Obama (September 2012)


    1490. Pakistan
  1490. Pakistanis burned a U.S. flag and an effigy of President Obama following NATO air strikes (2011)
  1491. Pakistanis protested a U.S. film depicting Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer, and a child molester
  1492. United States embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan came under siege by protesters (September 2012)
  1493. Pakistani protester reportedly died after inhaling fumes from a burning U.S. flag (September 2012)
  1494. In Lahore, Pakistan students from an Islamic school marched and chanted anti-American slogans
  1495. In Muzaffarabad, hundreds of protesters set fire to an effigy of President Obama (September 2012)
  1496. Pakistan’s government created an impromptu public holiday called “Love the Prophet Day”
  1497. Violence erupted in Pakistan in Pakistan as protesters burned cinemas, banks, a KFC, etc.
  1498. Obama administration spent about $70,000 to run an apology commercial in Pakistan (2012)


    1499. Turkey
  1499. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan supports terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah
  1500. Turkish government is also closely aligned with the IHH, an Islamist terrorist group
  1501. Turkish government supported the IHH’s Gaza Flotilla in order to create an international crisis
  1502. Obama and Hillary Clinton selected Erdogan to co-chair the new Global Counterterrorism Forum
  1503. Prime Minister Erdogan offered to give $300 million the Hamas-run government in Gaza (2011)
    1504. “The United States and Turkey are on a honeymoon, with President Obama and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan having formed what is probably the best relationship between a U.S. president and a Turkish prime minister in decades… Obama and Erdogan seem to have really hit it off: Turkish medial outlets reported that after Erdogan’s mother died last month, Obama was among the world leaders who called him and that the two “spoke for 45 minutes about their feelings.” This personal rapport is the foundation of the new U.S.-Turkish relationship.” ~Washington Post (November 11, 2011)
  1504. Turkey retaliated against Syria following a barrage of cross-border shelling from Syria (2012)
  1505. Turkish F-16 jets forced down a Syrian airliner traveling from Moscow to Damascus (October 2012)
  1506. Turkey suspected that the plane was transporting weapons from Russia to the Assad regime


    1507. Saudi Arabia
  1507. Obama sealed a deal with Saudi Arabia for a $60 billion arms deal, the largest arms deal in history
  1508. Obama reportedly asked Saudi Arabia to supply Libyan rebels with weapons to defeat Qadhafi
  1509. Obama did nothing in Bahrain, after Saudi Arabia sent in troops to put down a freedom rebellion
  1510. Saudi Arabia follows a strict version of Sunni Islamic law, referred to as Wahhabism
  1511. Saudi Arabia doesn’t allow women to drive, and blasphemy against Islam can be punishable by death
  1512. Saudi Arabia studied new regulations to criminalize insulting Islam, including in social media
  1513. Saudi Arabia sent two women to the London Olympics, but only with proper Islamic attire


    1514. Sudan
  1514. Gunfire was reported in Sudan as protesters set the German Embassy on fire (September 2012)
  1515. At least one person was killed in Sudan during riots on the U.S. Embassy (September 2012)
  1516. Sudan rejected a request from the U.S. to send Marines to guard the U.S. Embassy there
  1517. Sudan armed Hamas militants with sophisticated Iranian-made rockets (November 2012)


    1518. Indonesia
  1518. Protesters screaming ‘F--- America!’ attacked the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia (2012)
  1519. U.S. temporarily closed their consulate in Indonesia following more anti-American protests (2012)
    1520. “What happened in Libya can be replicated. Punishment for defaming God and the Prophet is death… There is no excuse.” ~Abu Bakar Bashir (September 2012)

    Sri Lanka
  1520. Sri Lankan Muslims beat and stomped on an Obama effigy in protest against the Libyan war (2011)
  1521. Sri Lanka called for those who created an anti-Muslim film in the U.S. to be hanged (2012)


    1522. Iran
    “If countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us.” ~President Obama (2009)
  1522. Two men linked to Iran’s security agencies plotted to assassinate a Saudi ambassador in the U.S.
  1523. Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri, of Iran’s Quds Force, conspired to kill Adel al-Jubeir
  1524. Quds Force is the covert operations arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)
  1525. Quds Force and IRGC played a major role in quashing peaceful democratic protests in 2009
  1526. Iran arrested 3 Americans hiking along the border of Iraq and accused them of espionage (2009)
  1527. Iran claimed that 12 CIA agents were arrested for targeting Iran’s nuclear program (2011)
  1528. Iranian protesters stormed two British Embassy compounds in Tehran (November 2011)
  1529. Iranians smashed windows, hurled petrol bombs, and burned the British flag to protest sanctions
  1530. Iran’s armed forces claimed they had electronically brought down an unmanned CIA drone (2011)
  1531. Iran planned to give Obama back a 1:80 scaled pink plastic model of the hijacked RQ-170 drone
  1532. The toy drones included a quote from Ayatollah Khamenei: “We will put America under our feet”
    1533. “[Obama] said he wanted it back, and we will send him one.”
    ~Reza Kioumarsi, the head of cultural production at the Ayeh Art group in Iran
  1533. Iran also extracted and released the footage from the captured CIA RQ-170 Sentinel drone (2013)
  1534. U.S.S. John C. Stennis aircraft carrier left the Persian Gulf because of Iranian naval exercises
  1535. Iran threatened to take action if the U.S. aircraft carrier returned to the Persian Gulf (2012)
  1536. USS Abraham Lincoln completed a routine passage through the Strait of Hormuz without incident
  1537. The Navy ship USS Kidd rescued 13 Iranian sailors from 15 pirates in the Arabian Sea (2012)
  1538. Ironically, the USS Kidd destroyer was assigned to the USS Stennis carrier strike group
  1539. U.S. Navy Coast Guard Cutter Monomoy rescued six more Iranian sailors in the Persian Gulf
  1540. United States sent two aircraft carriers and a squadron of F-22 fighters to the Persian Gulf (2012)
  1541. Pentagon is also maintaining two U.S. army brigades in Kuwait
  1542. U.S.S. John C. Stennis was ordered back to the Persian Gulf four months ahead of schedule
  1543. Iranian court convicted an American man of working for the CIA and sentenced him to death
  1544. Tehran Revolutionary Court described Amir Mirzaei Hekmati as a “mohareb” and a “mofsed”
  1545. “Mohareb” is an Islamic term that refers to someone that is a fighter against Allah
  1546. “Mofsed” is an Islamic term that refers to one who spreads corruption on earth
  1547. U.S. enacted new sanctions targeting Iran’s central bank and its ability to sell oil abroad (2011)
  1548. Iran threatened the United States and Persian Gulf cities with ballistic missile attacks (2012)
    1549. “Iran will not repeat its warning… the enemy’s carrier has been moved to the Sea of Oman because of our drill. I recommend and emphasize to the American carrier not to return to the Persian Gulf… I advise, recommend and warn them (the Americans) over the return of this carrier to the Persian Gulf because we are not in the habit of warning more than once.” ~Iranian army chief Ataollah Salehi (January 2012)
  1549. Iran claimed that President Obama proposed talk in a secret letter sent to the Islamic Republic
  1550. Iran threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz due to sanctions over their nuclear program (2012)
  1551. V.P. Joe Biden blamed America for Iran’s progress on its nuclear weapon program (2012)
  1552. United States exempted China and Singapore from sanctions over purchases of oil from Iran
  1553. Iran test-fired dozens of long range missiles and threatened to destroy 35 U.S. bases if attacked
    1554. “All of occupied territories (Israel) and all U.S. bases in the region are within our (missile) range and, in case of war, within the first minutes all will be destroyed.” ~General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace division (July 2012)
  1554. United States sent more ships and planes to the Persian Gulf as tension mounted (July 2012)
  1555. USA moved dozens of underwater craft to the Persian Gulf to prevent closure of the strait
  1556. Ships from 30 nations began sweeping for mines in the Persian Gulf as a warning to Iran (2012)
  1557. Iran deployed a Russian-made Kilo class submarine in the Persian Gulf (September 2012)
  1558. Counter-Terrorism Center director Matt Olsen: Iranian Quds poses a threat to the U.S. Homeland
  1559. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp. brigadier general Amir Ali Hajizadeh warned that Iran may launch a pre-emptive strike on Israel and American bases in the region if threatened (September 2012)
  1560. Iranian Supreme Leader said that the Arab Spring means more Islamic governments in the region
  1561. Al-Qaeda’s Anwar al-Awlaki said that the revolts sweeping the Arab world helped Islamists
  1562. Osama bin Laden supported the Arab Spring and saw it as an ‘Islamic awakening’
  1563. Sparks of freedom in the Middle East were hijacked and turned towards creating a sixth Caliphate
  1564. With each Middle East uprising, Obama consistently takes the side of the Muslim Brotherhood
  1565. Many of President Obama’s key advisers are Muslim Brotherhood operatives
  1566. Obama administration always supported the radical Shiite Muslims over the Sunni leadership
  1567. Arab Spring uprisings essentially swapped the secular despots for Islamist despots (2011)
  1568. Joe Biden: U.S. is ready for one-on-one talks “when the Iranian leadership, supreme leader, is serious”
  1569. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, shut down the possibility of talks with the U.S.
  1570. Khamenei argued, “Negotiations will not solve the problems” between Iran and the U.S. (2013)
  1571. Khamenei has the official title of “God’s deputy on earth” and has the final say in Iran


    1572. “You [Americans] are pointing the gun at Iran and say either negotiate or we will shoot. The Iranian nation will not be frightened by the threats.” ~Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (February 2013)
    Palestinians
  1572. Palestinian Authority Chief Judge Tayseer Al-Tamimi: “Jerusalem will be the capital of the caliphate”


    1573. Mali
  1573. Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic militants took over much of the country of Mali in central Africa (2013)
  1574. France airstrikes targeted fuel depots and bases of Islamist extremists in Northern Mali (February 2013)


    1575. Somalia
  1575. Islamic militant group Al-Shabab controls wide swaths of rural southern Somalia
  1576. Al-Shabab once controlled all of south-central Somalia, including the capital, Mogadishu
  1577. African Union troops were successful in pushing al-Shabab out of Mogadishu in 2011
  1578. Denis Allex, a French intelligence agent, was taken hostage by al-Shabab militants (July 2009)
  1579. Al-Shabab said that they had killed Denis Allex following a botched rescue attempt (January 2013)

    1580. President Obama on Benghazi: “If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal” (September 11, 2012)

  1580. Islamic terrorists stormed the U.S. Consulate in Libya on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks (2012)
  1581. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three U.S. government employees were killed by the Islamists
  1582. Two former Navy SEALs were killed while helping rescue the besieged diplomats in Benghazi
  1583. The supposed “safe house” in the city where officials fled to came under sustained mortar attack
  1584. One day before, al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri made a direct threat against Americans in Libya to avenge the death of Abu Yahya al-Libi, a high-ranking al-Qaeda official taken out by a drone strike
  1585. Christopher Steven’s diary, found in the consulate by CNN reporters, revealed that he was worried about what he called the security threats in Benghazi and a rise in Islamic extremism in the area (2012)
  1586. Obama administration initially linked the attack to an anti-Islam Youtube video created months earlier
  1587. Obama claimed for several days that the attack was a “spontaneous” reaction to an anti-Islamic film
  1588. Obama administration claimed that a film trailer for “The Innocence of Muslims” inspired the attack
  1589. U.N Ambassador Susan Rice went on Sunday morning political talk shows and blamed the video
    1590. “What sparked the violence was a very hateful video on the Internet. It was a reaction to a video that had nothing to do with the United States… What happened initially was that it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo as a consequence of the video. People gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent. And those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons, which unfortunately are quite common in post-revolutionary Libya, and that then spun out of control.” ~Ambassador Susan Rice falsely blaming the attack on a video (September 16, 2012)
    “This is what we saw play out in the last two weeks, as a crude and disgusting video sparked outrage throughout the Muslim world.” ~President Obama speaking at the United Nations (September 2012)
  1590. U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice claimed that security had been increased at the Benghazi consulate
  1591. NBC News reported that “multiple” U.S. officials and other sources contradicted Rice’s account
  1592. Anti-Islam filmmaker Mark Basseley Youssef was sentenced to one year in prison (November 2012)
  1593. Hillary Clinton blamed the abuse of free speech against a “great religion” like Islam for the attack
    1594. “How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction?” ~Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (September 12, 2012)
  1594. Ambassador Stevens warned Clinton about the security at Benghazi in a cable sent on the day he died
  1595. State Department website acknowledged that the threat in Egypt and Libya “remains great”
  1596. U.S. State Department had credible information 48 hours before the attack on the consulate
  1597. U.S. State Department deleted their “global” terrorist warning memo issued on September 6, 2012
  1598. Despite clear threats, there were no Marines guarding the U.S. Consulate in Libya on 9/11
  1599. Secretary Clinton signed the State Department Rules of Engagement for Libya document
  1600. Under those rules of engagement signed by her, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton prohibited U.S. Marines from providing security at any American diplomatic installation in Libya (2011)
  1601. State Department repeatedly asserted to the public that there was “strong” security at the consulate
  1602. State Department initially reported to Congress that the security personnel at the embassy consisted of an unarmed local security force and six armed Libyan government personnel
    1603. “There were definitely people from the security forces who let the attack happen because they were themselves offended by the film; they would absolutely put their loyalty to the Prophet over the consulate. The deaths are all nothing compared to insulting the Prophet.” ~Wissam Buhmeid, commander of Libya’s Shield Brigade, the effective police force for Benghazi
  1603. Documents were taken from the consulate in Benghazi identifying those who worked with the U.S.
  1604. Libyan president said that the attack was premeditated and there were no protests before the attack
  1605. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) said it looked like a planned attack
  1606. There was no evidence of any protests or demonstrations outside the consulate prior to the attack
  1607. Asked whether the State Department agreed with the White House conclusion that the attack was sparked by the video instead of a planned terror attack, one official stated “that is the question you’d have to ask others, that was not our conclusion”
  1608. Obama administration reluctantly admitted that the Benghazi attack was a “terrorist attack”
  1609. Obama campaign official Stephanie Cutter stated that the “entire reason that [Libya] has become the, you know, political topic it is because of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan” (October 2012)
  1610. Romney responded to Cutter at a rally in North Carolina, saying that the attack in Libya is an issue “because this is the first time in 33 years that a United States ambassador has been assassinated”
  1611. Officials ignored repeated requests for increased security in Libya despite threats from al-Qaeda
  1612. Former Libyan security chief for the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi testified to Congress that the U.S. State Department asked him to stop asking for increased security prior to the 9/11 attacks (October 2012)
  1613. The embassy in Austria received a budget increase to buy Chevy Volts while funding for security was being cut for the embassy in Libya
  1614. Obama administration falsely claimed that two slain Ex-Navy SEALs were part of the security team
  1615. Democrats called for an investigation into the Benghazi attack, albeit after the election (2012)
  1616. McCain called Obama blaming the film for the attack “unbelievable” and “disgraceful” (2012)
  1617. During the debate, Joe Biden contradicted the State Department on the security at Benghazi and blamed the intelligence community for changes in the story following the attack (October 2012)
  1618. Lt. Col. Andy Wood was head of a 16-person Special Forces team that left Benghazi in August 2012
  1619. Lt. Col. Andy Wood and State Department regional security officer Eric Nordstrom both testified before Congress that they repeatedly asked for beefed up security but were turned down (October 2012)
  1620. One day before hearings before Congress, the State Department released details of the attack
  1621. Five U.S. agents and four local militiamen were providing security for the consulate in Benghazi
  1622. As the consulate came under attack, one agent took Ambassador Christopher Stevens and State Department computer specialist Sean Smith to a safe room within the compound (September 11, 2012)
  1623. DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz argued that wrong statements about Libya doesn’t mean they were false
  1624. State Department official Charlene Lamb refused to characterize the attacks as “terrorism” (2012)
  1625. Intelligence sources said that al-Qaeda and an ex-Guantanamo detainee were involved in the attack
  1626. Sufyan Ben Qumu is thought to have been involved or even led the attack on the U.S. consulate
  1627. Qumu, a Libyan, was transferred from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Libya in 2007
  1628. Qumu was then released by the Qaddhafi regime as reconciliation with Islamists in 2008
  1629. Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee asked to see Chris Steven’s diplomatic cables
  1630. SEAL Team 6 commander: Obama administration ignored explicit warning ahead of the Benghazi attack
  1631. CIA found militant links within 24-hours of the attack on the consulate in Benghazi (2012)
  1632. Pat Smith, mother of U.S. diplomat Sean Smith, described Obama as “disrespectful” (October 2012)
  1633. Pat Smith responded to Obama by saying, “My son is not very optimal – he is also very dead”
  1634. Obama described the deaths of Americans as “not optimal” and as “bumps in the road,” but yet he had no problem describing the YouTube video that he falsely linked to the attack as “bigotry,” “blasphemy,” “crude and disgusting,” an “insult,” and “inhuman” (2012)
  1635. Obama administration repeatedly ignored Steven’s security concerns, even on the day of the attack
  1636. Emails show that President Obama knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack within two hours
  1637. At least thirteen documents show that the White House knew it was a terrorist attack within hours
  1638. White House Situation Room was notified via email that Ansar al-Sharia, a militant group with connections to al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility just over two hours after the attack on the U.S. consulate
  1639. Pentagon defended its position, saying that they knew too little to deploy troops to Benghazi (2012)
  1640. CIA operatives were denied requests for help three times during the Benghazi attack (September 2012)
  1641. Father of slain SEAL: Obama “could not look me in the eye… like shaking hands with a dead fish”
    1642. “When [Obama] came over to our little area, he kind of just mumbled, you know, ‘I’m sorry.’ His face was looking at me, but his eyes were looking over my shoulder like he could not look me in the eye. And it was not a sincere, ‘I’m really sorry, you know, that your son died,’ but it was totally insincere, more of whining type, ‘I’m sorry…’ It just didn’t feel right. And now that it’s coming out that apparently the White House situation room was watching our people die in real time, as this was happening… Well, this is what Hillary did. She came over and, you know, did the same thing – separately came over and talked with me. I gave her a hug, shook her hand. And she did not appear to be one bit sincere – at all. And you know, she mentioned that the thing about, we’re going to have that person arrested and prosecuted that did the video. That was the first time I had even heard about anything like that.” ~Charles Woods, father of slain former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, revealing details of meeting Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton at the publically broadcast memorial service at Andrews Air Force Base (September 2012)
  1642. General David Petraeus resigned just prior to testifying to Congress about Benghazi (November 9, 2012)
  1643. Patraeus was scheduled to testify before Congress about Libya before his prompt resignation
  1644. Petraeus resigned as Director of the CIA following an affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell
  1645. Petraeus’ mistress suggested that the Benghazi attack was aimed at a secret CIA prison in Libya (2012)
  1646. Former CIA officer insisted that the White House was “lying” about the Petraeus investigation (2012)
  1647. President Obama said there was no indication that classified information had been disclosed
  1648. Broadwell’s seized computer was found to contain substantial classified information (November 2012)
  1649. Tampa Bay socialite Jill Kelley initiated an FBI investigation that ultimately unveiled Petraeus’ affair
  1650. Kelley dined at the White House three times in 2012 and was a member of “Friends of MacDill” A.F.B.
  1651. Obama administration denied Americans on the ground in Libya the security help they requested
  1652. Navy SEALs in Libya who wanted to help Ambassador Stevens were ordered to “stand down”
  1653. White House was accused of holding an affair over Petraeus’ head for favorable Benghazi testimony
  1654. Petraeus testified that references to “Al Qaeda involvement” were “edited” from the CIA talking points
  1655. Intelligence officials were unable to say who changed the memo so that it downplayed terrorism
  1656. CIA analyst specifically told lawmakers that the Al Qaeda affiliates line “was taken out”
  1657. Petraeus previously described the attack as a protest that spun out of control (September 14, 2012)
  1658. John Bolton: “Only explanation” was that the White House took out the “Al Qaeda” reference(s)
  1659. Obama admitted sending Susan Rice to the Sunday morning talk shows where she blamed a video
  1660. Susan Rice has access to both classified and unclassified information surrounding Benghazi
  1661. Obama defended Susan Rice, saying if GOP “want to go after somebody, they should go after me”
  1662. President Obama knew that Benghazi was terrorism well before deploying Susan Rice to blame a video
  1663. Democrats defended Susan Rice, even describing her as an “American treasure” (November 2012)
  1664. Susan Rice has an anti-Israel bias, once rejecting “the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity”
  1665. Susan Rice listened intently as Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad belittled the United States at the U.N., yet left the U.N. when Benjamin Netanyahu spoke (September 2012)
  1666. As John Kerry’s chief foreign policy adviser during his presidential campaign, Susan Rice suggested appointing James Baker and Jimmy Carter as negotiators between the Israelis and the Palestinians
  1667. Rice played a primary role in scuttling the deal where Sudan could have turned over Bin Laden (1997)
  1668. Susan Rice falsely stated that we had “substantial security presence” at the consulate in Benghazi
  1669. Rice told the Sunday talk shows that the attacks were spontaneous, not a pre-planned terrorist assault
  1670. Rice falsely stated that the attack was the result of “a small handful of heavily armed mobsters” and was “a direct result of a heinous and offensive video that was widely disseminated” (September 2012)
    1671. “We do not have information at present that leads us to conclude that this was premeditated or preplanned.” ~U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice (September 2012)
  1671. Obama blamed the intelligence community for having incorrect information (November 2012)
  1672. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta fled to Australia to sample wine
  1673. Obama administration knew that the Libyan Islamic terrorists had U.S.-provided weapons
  1674. Secretary Clinton’s Accountability Review Board concluded that nobody should be held responsible
  1675. Accountability Review Board completely ignored Hillary Clinton’s “rules of engagement” in Libya
  1676. Review Board concluded that the Benghazi facility was “grossly inadequate” to deal with an attack
  1677. Review Board concluded that the Intelligence Community knew there was no protest before the attack
  1678. Three State Department officials resigned following the report on “systematic failures” at Benghazi
  1679. Secretary Hillary Clinton was accused of faking an illness in order to avoid testifying on Benghazi
  1680. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testified before Congress 135 days after the attack in Benghazi (2013)
  1681. When she testified, Clinton angrily defended the handling of the Benghazi attack (January 23, 2013)
  1682. Hillary Clinton shouted, “What difference, at this point, does it make” why the attack occurred?
  1683. Clinton claimed that she had not seen requests from U.S. officials in Libya seeking additional security
  1684. Classified State Department cable sent on August 16, 2012 warned that the Benghazi consulate could not defend itself against a “coordinated attack”
    1685. “I think that ultimately, with your leaving, you accept the culpability for the worst tragedy since 9/11… Had I been president at the time and I found that you did not read the cables… I would have relieved you of your post. I think it’s inexcusable.” ~Senator Rand Paul (R-KY)
  1685. Hillary distanced herself from Susan Rice by saying, “I wasn’t involved in the talking points process”
  1686. Clinton lamented a lack of State Department funding and implied that it was the Republican’s fault
  1687. Hillary Clinton referred to the Hollywood movie Argo to explain her point about Benghazi
  1688. Hillary Clinton claimed to Congress in her testimony, “I did not say it was the video” (January 2013)
  1689. Hillary Clinton described Benghazi as her biggest regret as secretary of state (January 2013)
  1690. Obama equated Benghazi as nothing more than “someone in the federal government screwing up”
  1691. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) believes that Obama was covering up a gun-running scheme in Benghazi
  1692. Rand Paul likened the mistake to the Obama administration giving F-16s and Abrams tanks to Egypt
  1693. During congressional hearings, Rand Paul asked Hillary Clinton about weapons transfer operations (2013)
    1694. “I will have to take that question for the record. Nobody has ever raised that with me.” ~Secretary of State Hillary Clinton responding to Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) about whether weapons transfer operations took place in Benghazi, Libya (January 23, 2013)
  1694. Ambassador Stevens played a role in recruiting jihadists to fight Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria
  1695. The U.S. mission in Benghazi was set up without the knowledge of the new Libyan government
  1696. The Benghazi facility may have violated the terms of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
  1697. Article 2 of the 1961 United Nations convention makes clear that the host government must be informed about the establishment of any permanent foreign mission on its soil
    1698. “The establishment of diplomatic relations between States, and of permanent diplomatic missions, takes place by mutual consent.” ~Article 2 of the United Nations Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961)
  1698. State Department made the decision “to treat Benghazi as a temporary, residential facility”
  1699. Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, testified to the Senate that Benghazi was not an “intelligence failure,” but that the U.S. has an “intelligence gap” in North Africa (February 2013)
  1700. General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, testified to Congress on Benghazi and declared, “we never received a request for support from the State Department” (February 2013)
  1701. Leon Panetta testified that Obama was AWOL on the night of the Benghazi attack (February 2013)
  1702. Obama was not present nor did he communicate with the Secretary of Defense during the attack
  1703. When asked whether Obama called to check in as the attack unfolded, Leon Panetta said, “No”
  1704. When asked whether anyone from the White House called that night, Panetta replied, “No”
  1705. Senator Dick Durbin on misinformation: ‘I have five words: Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction”

    1706. President Obama’s re-election prompted regional conflict in the Middle East (November 2012)

  1706. Obama’s “empty-chair” foreign policy incentivized anti-American regimes to be more aggressive
  1707. Obama embraced the Arab Spring, fractured relations with Israel, and refuses to stand up to Islamism
  1708. Hamas began firing rockets at southern Israeli cities just four days after Obama was re-elected
  1709. One day later Hamas began firing rockets, Syria began shelling Israeli positions in north Israel
  1710. Hamas is effectively at war with the more moderate Palestinian Authority
  1711. Two days later, the Palestinian Authority announced they would make a bid for statehood at the U.N.
  1712. On the same day, riots began in Jordan over gas price increases (November 2012)
  1713. The 70% Palestinian population in Jordan has threatened to overthrow the current regime
  1714. Israel pulled settlers out of Gaza in 2005, and the Islamist movement Hamas has ruled Gaza since 2007
  1715. Hamas attempted to stop the Palestinian Authority from garnering the sympathy of other Arab states
  1716. Hamas reportedly received help from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to arm and fire their rockets
  1717. Hamas used a month-old photo of a dead Syrian boy and claimed he had been killed by Israel, which was ironic since the boy was killed by the Assad regime which hosted Hamas for years before the Syrian civil war
  1718. Israel conducted an air strike in Gaza that killed Hamas’ military chief, Ahmed Jabari (November 2012)
  1719. Hamas-run Gaza responded by launching hundreds of rockets into Israel, killing innocent civilians
  1720. Palestinians faked injuries caused by Israeli attacks in order to play to the world press for sympathy
  1721. Hamas released “triumphant” footage of Israeli civilian casualties from a Fajr 5 rocket (November 2012)
  1722. Hamas began shoring up its relationship with the regional Arab states, especially Iran and Egypt
  1723. Egypt sent their Prime Minister and intelligence chief to the Gaza Strip to show solidarity with Hamas
  1724. Egypt had been looking to violate the Camp David Accords since ally Hosni Mubarak was ousted
  1725. Insiders within the Egyptian parliament began calling for an end to the Egypt-Israel treaty
  1726. Hezbollah-run Lebanon became a terrorist stronghold after Israel pulled out from the territory
  1727. Terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula launched rockets from Egypt that hit Israel (November 2012)
  1728. Israel retaliated with 200 missile strikes on Gaza targeting Hamas government buildings
  1729. Israel’s cabinet authorized the mobilization of up to 75,000 IDF reservists (November 2012)
  1730. Tunisia’s foreign minister travelled to Gaza in a show of Arab solidarity with Hamas
  1731. Jerusalem was the target of a Palestinian rocket for the first time in 42 years (November 16, 2012)
  1732. Hamas placed missile launch pads next to a mosques and playground (November 2012)
  1733. Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said they “stand with our brothers in Gaza and their just cause”
  1734. Hamas celebrated a bomb that ripped through a bus in Tel Aviv during ceasefire talks (November 2012)
    1735. “God willing, we will soon see black body bags.”
    ~Hamas TV reporting after the Tel Aviv bus bomb (November 2012)
  1735. Syrian defector claimed that Assad’s forces transferred lethal sarin gas chemicals to Lebanon (2012)
  1736. Israel warned of a possible pre-emptive strike on chemical weapons within Syria (January 2013)

    1737. Louis Farrakhan: the ‘Arab Spring’ Middle East Islamic uprisings will soon come to the U.S.

  1737. Louis Farrakhan said “his god” will “wipe” America “from the face of the earth”
  1738. Farrakhan denigrated the American the pledge of allegiance and the Star Spangled Banner
  1739. Louis Farrakhan embraced the anti-American forces in Iraq and the Middle East
  1740. Nation of Islam was reportedly spawned in prison and comprised of hardened ex-convicts
  1741. Nation of Islam tenet states that white men were “created in a lab” by a “mad scientist”
  1742. Ahmadinejad met with Farrakhan and the leader of the New Black Panthers in New York (2010)
  1743. Much of the New Black Panther’s growth and power is directly tied to the Nation of Islam
  1744. Khalid Abdul Muhammad, a protégé of Farrakhan, became a leader of the New Black Panthers
  1745. Muhammad, who’s real name is Harold Moore Jr., became Farrakhan’s personal assistant
  1746. “Khalid,” meaning “warrior,” was a name given to Harold Moore Jr. by Louis Farrakhan himself
  1747. Muhammad gave a speech at a New Jersey college where he called Jewish people “bloodsuckers”
  1748. Muhammad criticized the pope and accused Jews of being responsible for the slave trade (1993)
  1749. Khalid Abdul Muhammad was forced to step down and then joined the New Black Panthers
  1750. Khalid Abdul Muhammad became the national chairman of the New Black Panther Party
    1751. “…I just want to be on the team with Farrakhan. I just want to be… a hard-nosed pulling guard on the line looking the enemy straight in his eyes ready to pull down the line, breaking crackers’ legs and backs so the Farrakhan can move for the touchdown so that that Farrakhan can run the touchdown… Breaking crackers legs and breaking crackers necks, breaking crackers backs so that Farrakhan can make it to the goal line and run the touchdown. We also say leave Farrakhan alone tomorrow. If you touch Farrakhan, we will kill everything white that ain’t right that’s in sight. We will kill everything. Leave Farrakhan alone.”
    ~Khalid Abdul Muhammad
    “Today, they are upset with us because we have aligned ourselves with the Nation of Islam and because one of the great warriors and helpers of the Nation of Islam, Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad, was the former national chairman of the New Black Panther party. So, in that sense, in this present time, the Nation of Islam has given birth to the New Black Panther party on a national level, because there was only one or two chapters of the New Black Panther party until Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad was appointed the national chairman in 1998 and spread the New Black Panther party into now, over 40 cities including London, England and into Germany.” ~New Black Panther Party’s (NBPP) Malik Zulu Shabazz writing in the Nation of Islam’s Final Call newspaper
  1751. Nation of Islam’s Final Call is the most widely circulated independent black newspaper in the U.S.
  1752. Malik Zulu Shabazz was previously mentored by Louis Farrakhan
  1753. Malik Zulu Shabazz is the chairman of the militant New Black Panther Party (NBPP) in America
  1754. Shabazz defended Obama as his “man” and urged everyone to support his plans for “change”
  1755. Shabazz said that black Americans alive today are the real holocaust victims and are the true Jews
  1756. Shabazz threatened the Tea Party with “serious consequences” from the NBPP and Nation of Islam
  1757. New Black Panther Party members teach children about “crackers” and preach Black Power
  1758. Shabazz spoke about his hatred for white people and called on blacks to “kill cracker babies”
  1759. “King” Samir Shabazz accused “Fox Jews” of using “little black babies” as “alligator bait” (2010)
  1760. New Black Panther Party teaches “black survival” tactics to kids using guns and machetes (2011)
  1761. King Samir Shabazz demonstrated decapitating a white victim as the audience says “black power”
  1762. Photos show Obama appearing and marching with the New Black Panther Party (March 2007)
  1763. Malik Shabazz and the NBPP marched behind Obama with raised fists in the “Black Power” salute
  1764. Malik Shabazz said that Obama evoked tenets of black liberation theology in Selma, Alabama
  1765. Panther’s “Minister of War,” Najee Muhammed, was also present and marching with Obama
  1766. Najee Muhammed previously called for the murder of Georgia state police officers with AK-47’s
  1767. Candidate Obama’s campaign website posted an endorsement by the NBPP in March 2008
  1768. Obama’s Justice Department dismissed a 2008 voter-intimidation case against the NBPP (2009)
  1769. “Malik Shabazz” visited the private White House residence two months later on July 25, 2009
  1770. Shabazz said that Obama and Holder “held out” long enough and showed them “mercy”
  1771. After bombing Libya, Malik Zulu Shabazz accused Obama of being co-opted by the “white man”
  1772. Malik Zulu Shabazz: “...you should have listened to Farrakhan when you were at his table...”
  1773. Farrakhan called action in Libya hypocrisy and blamed ‘demons’ for altering Obama’s conscience
  1774. Farrakhan blasted Obama, “Who the hell do you think you are?” for asking Qadhafi to step down
  1775. Louis Farrakhan said, “That’s a murderer in the White House” referring to President Obama
    1776. “We voted for our brother Barack, a beautiful human being with a sweet heart, and now he’s an assassin. They turned him into them.” ~Louis Farrakhan
  1776. Farrakhan condemned the “assassination” of Qadhafi and said he “died in honor” (October 2011)
  1777. Farrakhan blamed Obama’s advisers, which he called “wicked demons,” for flawed U.S. policies
  1778. Farrakhan said American and its allies are “in for a shock” if they think that the new ‘Arab Spring’ governments in Libya, Egypt, and other North African and Middle Eastern counties will be pro-U.S.
  1779. Qadhafi carried out a clandestine lobbying operation to stop NATO’s bombardment of Libya
  1780. Qadhafi sent a message, “To my Dear Obama, our son” defending the decision to attack the rebels
  1781. Qadhafi’s letter to Obama: “Our dear son, Excellency, Baraka Hussein Abu oumama,…”
  1782. Qadhafi promised that Obama would “always remain a son” and his “picture will not be changed”
  1783. Qadhafi’s son was on an Obama State Department approved tour of the U.S. when uprisings began
  1784. Obama supported the removal of Mubarak, but was initially silent about Libya’s Qadhafi
  1785. Qadhafi, as recent at 2009, had an American PR firm working to rehabilitate his world image
  1786. Cass Sunstein, George Soros, and Harvard University also tried to rehabilitate Qadhafi’s image
  1787. Qadhafi had tried to persuade Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) to visit Tripoli on a “peace mission”
  1788. Captured documents showed that Kucinich sought information aimed at discrediting the rebels
  1789. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch offered advice to Qadhafi’s regime to counter its critics
  1790. Welch urged Qadhafi’s officials to highlight the double standard of not intervening in Syria
  1791. American CIA and British MI6 spy agencies helped Qadhafi persecute the Libyan dissidents
  1792. Obama dithered on calling on Qadhafi to leave office despite having killed hundreds of protesters
  1793. Muammar Qadhafi, a Libyan dictator and terrorist, praised Obama describing him as a “friend”
  1794. Qadhafi regarded Obama, an African from Muslim descent, as a blessing to the Muslim world
  1795. Qadhafi had been tied to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s spiritual advisor for more than 23 years
  1796. Rev. Jeremiah Wright went with Louis Farrakhan to visit Qadhafi in Libya back in 1984
  1797. Wright’s Trinity United Church was openly in alliance with Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
  1798. Qadhafi spoke to Farrakhan’s supporters during a Saviour’s Day Convention in Chicago in 1985
  1799. Nation of Islam’s international HQ in Chicago was purchased with a $3 million loan from Qadhafi
  1800. Obama and Rev. Jeremiah Wright reportedly attended the Million Man March in Washington
  1801. Qadhafi spoke to Farrakhan and congratulated him on the success of his Million Man March
  1802. Farrakhan visited Libya in 1996 and was the recipient of the Qadhafi Human Rights Award
  1803. Qadhafi addressed Nation of Islam members in 1997 via satellite to praise Louis Farrakhan
  1804. Qadhafi called Farrakhan a “courageous freedom fighter” while criticizing the United States
  1805. Louis Farrakhan claimed after election that Obama was “selected” before he was “elected”
  1806. Rev. Wright also made the claim that Obama was “selected” before he was “elected”
  1807. Rev. Wright also routinely bragged about his trips to Castro’s Cuba and Ortega’s Nicaragua
  1808. Wright remained loyal to Malcolm X (Trinity United celebrates his birthday) and Louis Farrakhan
  1809. Malcolm X was one of the Nation of Islam’s “leading lights” before breaking from the movement
  1810. After a Hajj in Mecca, Malcolm X saw that the Nation of Islam was not following true Islam
  1811. Malcolm X’s house was subsequently firebombed and he was later assassinated
  1812. Many believe that Farrakhan was the one behind the murder and he has never denied a role
  1813. Louis Farrakhan rejoiced following Malcolm X’s death and openly called him a traitor
  1814. Farrakhan wanted to provide weapons to a black army in the U.S. to destroy “white America”
  1815. Farrakhan and Qadhafi agreed to mobilize “oppressed blacks, Arabs, Muslims, and Red Indians”
  1816. Farrakhan said America is not filled with “human-beings,” but rather it is filled with “beasts”
  1817. Farrakhan speaking in America, said America is the anti-Christ from the Book of Revelations
  1818. Farrakhan denigrates Jews, reducing them to “dogs,” “leeches,” and spawns of “Sodom”
  1819. Farrakhan also argues that “the Black Holocaust” is far worse than the “Jew Holocaust”
  1820. Farrakhan: 9/11 attacks were orchestrated by the U.S. in order to launch a war against Islam
  1821. Obama was endorsed for president by Louis Farrakhan and has ties to his controversial group
  1822. Farrakhan delivered many guest lectures at Rev. Wright’s Trinity United Church in Chicago
  1823. Farrakhan was given a 2007 Empowerment Award
  1824. Wright labeled Farrakhan as “one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century”
  1825. Obama has appeared multiple times on the cover of Trumpet magazine, founded by Rev. Wright
  1826. In 2010, Obama gave an exclusive interview with Trumpet, which regularly hails Farrakhan
  1827. Obama’s face was featured on the cover of a 2006 issue of Trumpet alongside Farrakhan’s image
  1828. Rev. Willie Barrow is a close friend of Farrakhan and a staunch Nation of Islam supporter
  1829. Rev. Willie Barrow is also a member of Obama campaign’s official Faith Outreach Team
  1830. A photo shows Michelle posing with Farrakhan and Willie Barrow at a leftwing luncheon (2004)
  1831. Marxist activist Cornel West advises Farrakhan and was an adviser to Obama’s 2008 campaign
  1832. Obama considers Marxist activist Cornel West to be a close associate and a personal friend
  1833. Cornel West admitted he was “proud to be a threat” to our American society and described Obama as “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats”
  1834. David Axelrod, Obama’s chief political strategist, was closely associated with Michael Pfleger
  1835. Axelrod sits on the finance committee of St. Sabina, the Chicago Catholic parish led by Pfleger
  1836. Michael Pfleger is an outspoken Farrakhan supporter and hosted him at his parish several times
  1837. Pfleger enlisted Farrakhan’s support for several initiatives, including an anti-gun protest in 2007
  1838. Rev. Michael Pfleger was one of President Obama’s three self-described spiritual mentors
  1839. Pfleger preached on Sunday, May 25, 2008 that “America is the greatest sin against God”
  1840. Obama’s campaign brought Pfleger to Iowa to host one of campaign’s several interfaith forums
  1841. Michael Pfleger gave money to Obama both as a legislator and for his campaign to be president
  1842. Chicago Tribute: Obama directed at least $225,000 towards social programs at St. Sabina’s
  1843. Pfleger was scrubbed from Obama’s campaign website featuring the testimony of faith leaders
  1844. Pfleger was later suspended by the Catholic Church from St. Sabina in Chicago on April 27, 2011
  1845. Farrakhan said that ‘people will kill their leaders in a few days’ for selling them out (April 2012)
  1846. Farrakhan warned white people that, “unless you change, your end has come” (April 2012)
  1847. Louis Farrakhan gave a hate-filled speech at the United Center in Chicago on February 23, 2012
  1848. Louis Farrakhan described America as being part of a “Synagogue of Satan” (2012)
  1849. Farrakhan said Obama is the spokesperson for the “Synagogue of Satan” and does its bidding
  1850. Farrakhan claimed that Obama was “really not in favor of the attack on Qadhafi”
  1851. Farrakhan said Colin Powell was “a black man in front of a policy to kill black people”
  1852. In a 1994 NPR interview, Obama himself implied that Powell is acceptable to “white America”
  1853. Colin Powell was photographed with Louis Farrakhan while celebrating Jamaica’s independence
  1854. Colin Powell claimed that the Republican Party is racist and ‘looks down on minorities’ (January 2013)
  1855. Farrakhan: Obama and Powell want a “pat on the back” from their “former slave-masters”
  1856. Farrakhan said that deciding to join the U.S. military is fighting “for the enemy”
  1857. Farrakhan: There are “bombs coming” our way that are self-inflicted due to our foreign policy
  1858. Farrakhan: America’s wars are “engineered by Zionists who love Israel more than America”
  1859. Farrakhan: The southern “Red States” are the same as the Confederate States in the Civil War
  1860. Farrakhan said that if you did not vote for Obama, “you didn’t want a black man” as president
  1861. Farrakhan claimed that “Hardcore racists, the Tea Party zealots and the Republicans” are planning President Obama’s assassination (2012)
  1862. Farrakhan said that Republicans “want a Muslim to kill President Obama” and they “already have somebody in mind that they’re working on”
  1863. Farrakhan slammed Israel and lamented Mexico’s loss of land at the hands of American “trickery”
  1864. Farrakhan said that whites will soon “be the minority” in a country that they “took” from natives
  1865. Farrakhan derided President Obama for his endorsement of same-sex marriage
  1866. Farrakhan praised Shariah law and said that Allah will “bring down” America’s skyscrapers
  1867. Farrakhan warned that if the U.S. bombs Iran, Allah will “take out” U.S. cities “with earthquakes”
  1868. Farrakhan promised that Allah will “kill a lot” and bring calamity until “America submits” (2012)
  1869. New Black Panther Party: “We will not sit back passively like Jews and go to the gas chambers”
  1870. New Black Panther warned white America that the NBPP will “hunt” their “pink asses down”
  1871. General T.A.C.O. (which stands for ‘Take All Capitalists Out’) said that hunting white people down will serve to accomplish their other stated goal of “destroying white supremacy and capitalism”
  1872. NBPP blamed white people for their “history” of pushing “crack, AIDS and unemployment”
    1873. “Once [white people] die, we should dig ‘em up, and kill ‘em again, bury ‘em, dig ‘em up, and kill ‘em again, and again, and again!” ~General T.A.C.O speaking on New Black Panther Party (NBPP) Radio (June 23, 2012)
  1873. New Black Panther leaders praised the “Black God” for allowing them to fight (2012)
  1874. NBPP leaders even compared themselves to Jesus, King David, and Martin Luther King Jr.
  1875. Farrakhan: “You’re living now in the fall of the United States” and its “imperial designs” (2012)
  1876. Farrakhan joined Nation of Islam members for an “anti-violence” march in the streets of Chicago
  1877. Farrakhan handed out copies of his sermon titled, “Justifiable Homicide: Black Youth in Peril”
  1878. Despite past anti-Semitic remarks, Rahm Emanuel released a statement in support of the efforts
    1879. “They have decided, the Nation of Islam, to help protect [the] community and that’s an important ingredient like all of the other aspects of protecting a neighborhood.” ~Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (July 2012)
  1879. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emauel was previously mocked for telling “gang-bangers” they can “go to the alley” to perform their crimes, but they should “stay away from the kids”
  1880. NBPP chief of staff Michelle Williams claimed that Republicans “hate black people” (2012)
  1881. NBPP to the RNC convention: Our ‘feet will be on your motherf---ing necks’ (August 2012)
  1882. Farrakhan: “[E]very plague that is written in the Koran is going to come to pass in America” (2012)
  1883. Farrakhan enjoyed “Django Unchained,” interpreting it as “preparation for a race war” (January 2013)
    1884. “To me, the movie had a purpose. If a black man came out of that movie thinking like Django and white people came out of that movie seeing the slaughter of white people and they are armed to the teeth, it’s preparation for a race war.”
    ~Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan (January 2013)
  1884. Louis Farrakhan promised that God has an “execution” planned for America (January 2013)
  1885. Farrakhan delivered a sermon where he described the American people as “savage” and “brutal” (2013)
  1886. Farrakhan argued that the Second Amendment is obsolete and that we should trust our government

    1887. The New Civility: Liberal hypocrites falsely accuse others of doing things they themselves do
    “At a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized, at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do, it’s important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”

    “If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let’s make sure it’s worthy of those we have lost. Let’s make sure it’s not on the usual plane of politics and point scoring and pettiness that drifts away with the next news cycle.”     ~President Obama speaking in Tucson, Arizona following the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (January 2011)
  1887. Obama ridicules his political opponents according to the ‘Rules for Radicals’ by Saul Alinsky
  1888. Alinsky Rule #5: ridicule is man’s most potent weapon, since it infuriates and is hard to counter
  1889. Obama ridiculed his GOP opponents, saying ‘maybe they couldn’t understand’ the jobs bill (2011)
  1890. Obama slurs fellow Americans concerned about his policies as “extremists” and “tea-baggers”
  1891. Obama said when people “get bitter, they cling to guns or religion…to explain their frustrations”
  1892. Obama and his administration attacks private citizens by name based on their criticism of Obama
  1893. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said critics of Obama “ought to be drug tested”
  1894. Obama said that “Republicans just want black folks to stay home this election,” referring to 2010
  1895. Obama told DeFazio, “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother” prior to 2009 stimulus vote
  1896. Obama told a Philadelphia audience, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun”
  1897. Obama urged his Nevada audience, “I want you to argue with them and get in their face”
  1898. Obama described his supporters his “ambassadors” and “the ones who can make the case”
  1899. Obama declared, “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
  1900. Top White House officials told Democrats, “If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard”
  1901. Obama defended meeting with experts, “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick“
  1902. Obama compared banks to terrorists with a “bomb strapped to them” and a “hand on the trigger”
  1903. Obama threatened that a Republican majority in Congress would mean “hand-to-hand combat”
  1904. Obama urged Hispanic voters to help “punish our enemies,” referring to the GOP and Tea Party
  1905. Obama speaking to his liberal supporters instructed them, “It’s time to fight for it”
  1906. During the tax debate, Obama compared the GOP to “hostage takers” willing to harm Americans
  1907. Obama said he is “itching for a fight” when it comes to working with Republicans
  1908. Obama said he’d “keep fighting, every single day, every single hour, every single minute…”
  1909. Obama declared, “Republicans can go along with us, but they’re gonna have to ride in the back”
  1910. Obama in 2011: “If you were looking for a bunch of partisan rhetoric, I’m probably not your guy”
    1911. “I absolutely agree that everybody needs to try to tone down the rhetoric. Now…In fairness, since… since I’ve been called a socialist who wasn’t born in this country, who is destroying America and taking away its freedoms, because I passed a health care bill. Umm, you know… I am all for lowering the rhetoric.” ~President Obama giving an answer to the question: “How can you bring people together when your VP called the Tea Party terrorists?” at a town hall event (August 2011)
  1911. Obama said that the GOP pointing “guns at the head” of Americans during the debt ceiling debate (2013)
    1912. “What I will not do is have that [debt ceiling] negotiation with a gun at the head of the American people… They can act responsibly, and pay America’s bills or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis. But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy.” ~Obama speaking during the final press conference of his first term (January 2013)
  1912. Secretary Janet Napolitano described veterans and law-abiding Americans as ‘right-wing extremists’
  1913. Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, and the CBC paraded through the Tea Partiers during HCR debate
  1914. Joe Biden told a fundraiser he’ll “strangle” members of the GOP that complain about the budget
  1915. Obama told bankers, “My administration is the only think between you and the pitchforks”
  1916. Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel called liberal groups “f*#king retarded” during a strategy session
  1917. Obama commanded his Democratic base to “buck up” during the run-up to the 2010 elections
  1918. Joe Biden also thinks that the Democratic base is a bunch of whiners and need to “buck up”
  1919. John Kerry (D-MA) described the Democratic base as clueless voters with short attention spans
  1920. While looking for a new family dog, Obama said he wanted a shelter dog, or “a mutt, like me.”
  1921. During a 2010 campaign speech to unions, Obama claims critics “talk about me like a dog”
  1922. Obama joked about eating dogs at the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner (2012)
  1923. Obama’s twenty-year spiritual adviser repeatedly shouted “God Damn America” during sermons
  1924. Obama signed Financial Reform bill in the Ronald Reagan Building, a deregulation champion
  1925. Back in 2004, Claire McCaskill (D) had challenged Governor Bob Holden on the use of his plane
  1926. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) then failed to pay $287,273 in property taxes on her “damn plane”
  1927. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) improperly billed taxpayers $88,000 for the use of her personal plane
  1928. Claire McCaskill told people to use “pitchforks” on those, like Gifford, who voted to keep tax cuts
  1929. NYC Mayor Bloomberg blamed the Tea Party for a Times Square car bomb attempt by a Muslim
  1930. Left-wing media tried to blame the Tea Party for an IRS plane attack in Texas by a Democrat
  1931. Left-wing media tried to blame the Tea Party for the Ft. Hood shootings by a Muslim Jihadist
  1932. Bill Clinton and left-wing media errantly attempted blaming Oklahoma City bombing on talk radio
  1933. The left errantly attempted to link the 1999 Columbine High School massacre to conservatism
  1934. Leftists media mislabeled the socialist Nazi terrorist in Oslo, Norway as a “right-wing” extremist
  1935. “Right wing” accurately applies to total or increased government control (socialism, communism)
  1936. Media routinely misuses the term “right wing” to label conservatives in a negative way
  1937. The term “right wing,” derived from the French Revolution, actually describes socialist beliefs
  1938. Holocaust museum shooter was portrayed as a right-wing extremist despite being a ‘9/11 Truther’
  1939. Media falsely tried to blame the leftist AGW Discovery Channel hostage taker on the "right wing"
  1940. The left-wing establishment media profiled the Muslim D.C. Sniper as a right-wing skinhead
  1941. The 2010 Pentagon shooter was blamed on right-wing politics despite him being a ‘9/11 Truther’
  1942. President George W. Bush was often called names and depicted as a “war criminal” and a “Nazi”
  1943. The leftwing tried to paint the New York ‘cabbie stabber’ as an anti-Muslim right-winger
  1944. The black man who cited racial slights after killing eight co-workers was blamed on the right
  1945. Leftist Amy Bishop shooting three minority professors in Alabama was blamed on the Tea Party
  1946. The left tried to blame the Tea Party for the suicidal death of census-worker Bill Sparkman
  1947. Florida school board shooter Clay Duke hated the rich and favorite website included Media Matters
  1948. Leftist author wrote a hate-filled 115-page book describing how to assassinate George W. Bush
  1949. Anti-abortionist James Pouillon was shot while protesting abortion in central Michigan
  1950. The murder of Dr. George Tiller was falsely blamed on pro-life advocates by pro-abortion groups
  1951. Sen. Dick Durbin (D) spoke about Soviets, Nazis, etc. regarding American military personnel
  1952. Durbin later blamed Giffords’ shooting on inflammatory rhetoric from talk radio, Palin, etc.
  1953. State-run MSNBC runs a continuous and extreme vicious attack campaign against conservatives
  1954. The Hollywood Left pumps out non-stop vicious and violent entertainment without responsibility
  1955. Leftist media ignored a film depicting President George W. Bush being assassinated in Chicago
  1956. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews fantasized on air about seeing Rush Limbaugh shot in the head
  1957. At a W.H. Correspondence Dinner, Wanda Sykes hoped Limbaugh would have kidney failure
  1958. Sandra Bernhard said Sarah Palin would be “gang raped” if she campaign stops in New York
  1959. Craig Kilborn and CBS superimposed the words “Snipers Wanted” on the face of President Bush
  1960. Nobel “Peace Prize” winner Betty Williams publicly stating her desire to murder President Bush
  1961. Two left-wing terrorists were arrested by the FBI for conspiring to bomb a 2008 GOP Convention
  1962. Leftist Alec Baldwin urged the murder of Hyde and GOP in Congress on national television
  1963. Alec Baldwin attacked a photographer outside his Central Park West home in 2010
  1964. Baldwin was booted from an American Airlines flight after ignoring directions to turn off his iPad
  1965. Baldwin insulted his then-11-year old daughter, Ireland, as “a rude, thoughtless little pig”
  1966. Baldwin punched a Daily News photographer after obtaining a New York marriage license (2012)
  1967. Baldwin threatened two photographers, ‘I will break your f------ teeth,’ punching one in the chin
  1968. Baldwin used anti-gay slurs in Tweets lashing out at Daily News editor Colin Myler (2012)
  1969. Baldwin grabbed another photographer by his arm and called him a “little girl” (June 2012)
  1970. NPR commentator and ABC reporter Nina Totenberg wished death on Jesse Helms and his family
  1971. Julianne Malveaux publicly wished death on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
  1972. The View’s Joy Behar called Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas “demonic” (2011)
  1973. MSNBC’s Ed Shultz ranted, “We should rip the heart right out of the chest” of Dick Cheney
  1974. Shultz said, “I have no problem with Democrats cheating to win elections, I’d do it in a heartbeat”
  1975. Barney Frank joked with Maher about an assassination attempt on Vice President Dick Cheney
  1976. Bill Maher said the world would be a safer place if the Vice President of the U.S. was assassinated
  1977. MSNBC’s Ed Shultz claimed, “All Republicans are evil – period!”... wants to burn things down
  1978. The left remained silent when Holder failed to prosecute the New Black Panther voter intimidation
  1979. MSNBC’s Ed Shultz called Republicans “bastards” and said, “Republicans want to see you dead”
  1980. The left called the effigy of Sarah Palin hanging as part of someone’s Halloween decorations “art”
  1981. Liberal icon Sean Penn said he hoped his detractors “died screaming of rectal cancer”
  1982. Teacher’s Union President made a death threat against Gov. Christie (R-NJ) wishing him dead
  1983. Democrat Pollster Mark Penn thinks Obama needs an Oklahoma City-style disaster to “reconnect”
  1984. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) was shot in the head by a radical left-wing pot-smoking wacko in 2011
  1985. The mainstream media blamed Palin, Beck, Limbaugh,… for Gifford’s shooting without evidence
  1986. Left-wing media mistook surveyor marks for crosshairs on Sarah Palin’s 2010 campaign map
  1987. The Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas tweeted, “Mission Accomplished, Sarah Palin”
  1988. Progressive group 21st Century Democrats used Gifford’s shooting for a website fundraiser
  1989. 21st Century Democrats styles itself as “building a progressive majority from the grassroots up”
  1990. In 2009, the 21st Century Democrats joined SEIU and The Daily Kos in a new progressive PAC
  1991. The Daily Kos scrubbed entries encouraging Giffords “dead” just 48-hours prior to the shooting
  1992. Jared Loughner had been stalking Giffords long before Sarah Palin’s rise or the Tea Party existed
  1993. Loughner’s friend: “He did not watch TV. He disliked the news. He didn’t listen to political radio”
  1994. Typical Leftist: Jared Loughner’s anger would well up at the sight of President George W. Bush
  1995. Democrat operatives blamed the shooting on “Tea Party hate” and “violent rhetoric of the right”
  1996. Democrat strategist suggested that Obama needed to use this crisis and “pin this on the tea partiers”
  1997. Democrats attempted to use the Giffords shooting tragedy to recover from the 2010 election losses
  1998. Sheriff Dupnik blamed “talk radio” and television for inciting violence without any such evidence
  1999. Dupnik’s SWAT Team stormed a house and gunned down an innocent marine Iraq war veteran
  2000. Obama delivered a speech claiming it’s partly the political rhetoric that led to the Tucson shooting
  2001. Far-left media blamed Sarah Palin for using ‘target ads,’ despite Democrats using the same tactics
  2002. Palin’s campaign used a ‘unicode 2316’ symbol to highlight targeted districts, not “gun sights”
  2003. Palin’s response in March 2010 was, “when we take up arms, we’re talking about our vote”
  2004. Markos Moulitsas’ even included Giffords’ district on a list “bulls-eyed” for primary challenges
  2005. The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) used ‘bulls-eyes’ to target State races in 2004
  2006. The DLC’s 2004 map also included the caption “behind enemy lines” in their “targeting strategy”
  2007. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) also used targeting maps for 2010
  2008. James Clyburn (D-SC) tried to use the Tucson shooting tragedy to regulate freedom of speech
  2009. Sen. Hillary Clinton said, “we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration” (2003)
  2010. Ex-Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D) called for civility and respect following the Tucson tragedy
  2011. Kanjorski (D) recently stated that Gov. Rick Scott (R-FL) should be put against a wall and shot
  2012. Hillary Clinton compared the Arizona shootings to 9/11 and Jared Loughner to al-Qaeda hijackers
  2013. Sen. Bernie Sanders sent out a fundraising appeal attempting to profit from the Tucson tragedy
  2014. Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign began in earnest on January 12, 2011 at the Tucson memorial
  2015. Political themed T-shirts and pamphlets were handed out for Obama’s Tucson pep rally speech
  2016. “Together We Thrive” was taken from Obama’s 2008 Organizing for America campaign website
  2017. Obama hypocritically told the GOP, “there will be plenty of time to campaign for 2012 in 2012”
  2018. Obama denied that incivility had anything to do with the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords
  2019. James Eric Fuller was committed after shouting “You’re dead” to a Tucson Tea Party spokesman
  2020. Fuller is a liberal activist who previously campaigned against Beck and called him a “fascist”
  2021. Fuller was quoted saying, “It looks like Palin, Sharron Angle and the rest got their target first”
  2022. Fuller told The Post that top Republican leaders should be tortured and their ears severed
  2023. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) compared GOP health-care claims to ‘Nazi lies’ during repeal debate
  2024. New Hampshire House of Representatives democrat chair Ed Allard wants to “hang” Republicans
  2025. Joe Biden compared the then-expected November 2010 Republican Party opposition to Nazism
  2026. George Soros compared Rupert Murdoch to Adolf Hitler (Media Matters was silent on this)
  2027. Media silent as the tolerant Left wished death on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker
  2028. Mainstream Media ignored Wisconsin union protesters carrying signs threatening Tea Party rape
  2029. Newly elected Gov. Walker compared to Hitler for reforming Wisconsin state employee unions
  2030. Obama said that Wisconsin is launching an “assault on unions” by pursuing spending reforms
  2031. Rep. Mike Capuano (D-Mass.) told Boston union supporters that it was time to get “bloody”
  2032. Mike Capuano previously called for cooler political rhetoric after Giffords was shot in Tucson
  2033. Progressive Caucus co-chair Keith Ellison (D-MN) described Gov. Scott Walker as a “dictator”
  2034. Ian Murphy, a liberal blogger, was hailed for prank calling Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker
  2035. Ian Murphy previously wrote, “F**k the Troops… so 4,000 rubes are dead… Boo f**king hoo”
  2036. Ian Murphy also previously wrote many hateful radical-left articles about the Bush administration
  2037. Ian Murphy was highly praised and rewarded by MSNBC, CNN, and the leftist blogosphere
  2038. Media ignored a bomb threat made by a far left protester at a Gov. Scott Walker press conference
  2039. Media Matters Eric Boehlert said “you just have to laugh” about an assault on a FOX reporter
  2040. Eric Boehlert falsely claimed that the St. Louis Tea Party left a coffin on Russ Carnahan’s lawn
  2041. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) compared those who are anti-public-sector unions to Hitler and Stalin
    2042. “We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” ~Adolf Hitler
  2042. Chris Matthews said Obama is the American Dream, but Newt and Huckabee are ‘Un-American’
  2043. Chris Matthews called Gingrich “nasty” looking saying, “dogs walk away when they see him”
  2044. Ralph Nader and Jesse Jackson called on college students to rise up in revolution
  2045. MSNBC’s Ed Shultz and Al Sharpton claimed that school-choice vouchers are racist
  2046. Democratic Party staffers on Capitol Hill made fake calls into radio stations from their offices
  2047. Time magazine headline read, “Wisconsin’s Governor Wins, but Is He Now Dead Man Walker?”
  2048. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews claimed that Republican Mike Huckabee is using “racist” tactics
  2049. MSNBC’s Ed Shultz asked, ‘what makes Michele Bachmann’s rich, white voters so ignorant?’
  2050. In March 2011, all of the windows at a Washington D.C. Republican office were shot out
  2051. Progressives blamed Governor Scott Walker (R-WI) for a Wisconsin teacher’s suicide in 2011
  2052. Vice President Joe Biden likened GOP economics to rapists blaming their victims
  2053. Regarding union violence, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Editor said, “You reap what you sow”
  2054. Congressman Democrat Barney Frank (D-MA) called Republicans morally stupid bigots
  2055. Andy Stern: ‘when the power of persuasion does not work we should use the persuasion of power’
  2056. Mayor Gary Bruhn (R) of Windermere, Florida was assaulted by Roland Bernier, a democrat
  2057. Sen. Lautenberg (D-NJ): Republicans “don’t deserve the freedoms that are in the Constitution”
  2058. ‘We Are One’ labor rally speaker: reform will happen “over thousands of dead people’s bodies”
  2059. Democrats said a government shutdown would be equivalent to “bombing innocent civilians”
  2060. DNC Facebook event called for dumping trash at GOP House Speaker John Boehner’s D.C. home
  2061. Johan Goodman and Nolan Treadway sponsored the event (even if the shutdown hadn’t occurred)
  2062. Johan Goodman is listed in the Democratic National Committee (DNC) network
  2063. Nolan Treadway is the political and logistics director for the liberal group Netroots Nation
  2064. Loretta Sanchez (D) mocked the Tea Party and Constitutionalists with a ‘red-neck’ southern accent
  2065. Democrat strategist suggested that Obama should bash Republicans with baseball bats
  2066. Keith Olbermann tweeted inferring that S.E. Cupp, a female conservative, should’ve been aborted
  2067. Leftists booed during the singing of the National Anthem at a Madison Tea Party rally (2011)
  2068. Protesters screamed profanity at a 14-year old Tea party speaker at the same Tea Party rally
  2069. Leftists shouted “I wipe my @$$ with the American flag” at a Portland, Oregon Tea Party rally
  2070. Liberal radio-talker Mike Malloy: When will the Navy SEALs “drop in on George W. Bush?”
  2071. Malloy defended himself saying that right-wing freaks who defend mass-killer bush are sick pigs
  2072. Mike Malloy previously said he wanted to tear capitalism apart with his bare hands
  2073. Malloy: Ann Coulter is a “deeply closeted killer” who will enter a “suicide pact” with Glenn Beck
  2074. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that under Paul Ryan’s plan seniors would “die sooner”
  2075. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) declared that GOP stands for “Gas and Oil Party” and “Get Old People”
  2076. Alan Grayson on MSNBC: Bush might have been passed out drunk for the last 3 or 4 days
  2077. MSNBC Host asked Tancredo, ‘Would you have preferred Obama’s death over bin Laden’s?’
  2078. Former DNC leader Howard Dean: GOP far-right hates Muslims, gays and immigrants
  2079. MSNBC’s Ed Shultz called conservative talk show host Laura Ingraham a “right-wing slut”
  2080. Fred Clark (D-WI) was caught saying he wanted to “smack around” a woman Wisconsin voter
  2081. NJ union leader Chris Shelton: “It’s going to take World War III to get rid of Adolph Christie”
  2082. Keith Olbermann referred to Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann as pigs
  2083. Lindsey Piscitell harassed Glenn Beck’s family at a movie in New York City’s Bryant Park
  2084. Mark Halperin was suspended indefinitely for saying Obama was “kind of a dick” on live TV
  2085. Media, Democrats, and President Obama were in lockstep describing the Tea Party as “terrorists”
  2086. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) described conservative Andrew Breitbart as a “sleaze-bag”
  2087. Jan Schakowsky described Tea Party members as radical hostage-takers over the debt ceiling
  2088. MSNBC Matthews: GOP effort to lower spending and keep debt ceiling in place is “terrorism”
  2089. MSNBC Matthews likened the GOP, “Wahhabis of American government,” to Muslim extremists
  2090. Tina Brown called GOP leadership “suicide bombers” for not agreeing to raise taxes
  2091. Democrats and their media allies described the Tea Party as “hostage-takers” and “terrorists”
  2092. Liberal pundit Margaret Carlson said that the GOP “strapped explosives to the Capitol”
  2093. Obama: GOP should not use debt ceiling “as a gun against the heads” of the American people
  2094. Vice President Joe Biden (D) describing Tea Party Republicans: “They have acted like terrorists”
  2095. Mike Doyle (D-PA): “This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money”
  2096. Former Obama economic advisor Steve Rattner likened Tea Party members to suicide bombers
  2097. Milton “Skip” Ohlsen, a democrat, planted and exploded a parking garage bomb in Missouri (2008)
  2098. Milton, a party consultant, lunched at the governor’s mansion with then-governor Bob Holden (D)
  2099. Leftist Susan Feinberg failed at trying to embarrass Paul Ryan (R-WI) while dining at a restaurant
  2100. Bill Maher used the vulgar ‘MILF’ term to describe Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann on CNN
  2101. Maher said that voting for Republicans is akin to voting “not guilty” in the Casey Anthony trial
  2102. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) called Republicans “dead-beat debtors” and the Tea Party a “cult fringe”
  2103. Bill Press on MSNBC suggested that Speaker Boehner should be “struck dead by lightning”
  2104. “Unless things change and Obama can run on accomplishments, he will have to kill Romney”
  2105. Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa called for war on the Tea Party at an Obama Labor Day event
  2106. Illinois ‘Hate Crimes’ investigator was caught and reprimanded for sending Tea Party hate mail
    2107. Illinois Department of Human Rights employee Alvin Forbes’ sent out emails from a state-owned computer warning that “dangerous radical hate mongers called the ‘Tea Party’” took over the Republican Party and directed the recipients to vote Democrat because “these people [Tea Party] hate blacks. They hate Latinos. They hate Muslims and have at times made many anti-Semitic statements. They hate gays. They hate any moderate Republican who might be likely to cooperate with Obama.” (2011)
  2107. Democrats compared the candidacy of Bob Turner (R-NY) to the 9/11 terrorist attacks
  2108. DCCC’s anti-Bob Turner (R) ad featured an airplane ominously buzzing the Manhattan skyline
  2109. Keith Olbermann called Republicans the “leading terrorist groups” in the United States (2011)
  2110. MSNBC analyst Donny Deutsch said that ‘Occupy Wall Street’ needs a “Kent State” moment
  2111. V.P. Joe Biden cheered on Ohio unions at a campaign event: “You fired the first shot” (2011)
  2112. ABC’s Diane Sawyer showed videos of Tea Partiers and Sarah Palin while interviewing Giffords
  2113. Sawyer linked Tea Party activists, anti-Obamacare sentiment, and Sarah Palin to the shooting
  2114. Smears that falsely implicated the Tea Party, Sarah Palin, and conservatives in general caused the shooting was thoroughly discredited by the time of the Sawyer interview (November 2011)
  2115. Piers Morgan was amazed that Sarah Palin hadn’t called to apologize to Gabrielle Giffords (2011)
  2116. Jimmy Fallon welcomed Michele Bachman on his show with the song “Lying *ss B*tch“
  2117. NBC’s Chuck Todd was caught flipping someone off on national television (December 2011)
  2118. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA): GOP’s payroll tax bill “will kill 8,100” people for Christmas (2011)
  2119. Liberal Radio Host Bill Press told quarterback Tim Tebow to “S-T-F-U” about Jesus
  2120. Bill Press described Tebow, a Christian, as “a disgrace” and said, “I think he’s an embarrassment”
  2121. Daily Kos writer argued that North Korea is no worse than South Korea or the U.S. (2011)
  2122. Ed Schultz called Tea Party Republicans “sewer rats” during the payroll-tax-cut debate (2011)
  2123. Liberal commentator Alan Colmes mocked Santorum’s handling of his newborn son in 1996
  2124. NBC News contributor Eugene Robinson also mocked Santorum over his dead child Gabriel
  2125. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews declared that Newt Gingrich (R) “looks like a car bomber” (2011)
  2126. New York Times, NPR contributor Mark Allen compared Rick Santorum (R) to Dan White
  2127. Dan White was a notorious criminal who assassinated Harvey Milk in 1978
  2128. MSNBC gleefully discussed how Mitt Romney was going to “kill” any opponent who attacks him
  2129. Tom Brokaw: “You’ve got what appears to be a Republican equivalent of a jihad…” (2012)
  2130. Bill Press described Newt Gingrich as the “suicide bomber of the Republican Party” (2012)
  2131. DNC’s Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) falsely blamed the Tea Party for the Tucson shooting (2012)
    2132. “We need to make sure that we tone things down, particularly in light of the Tucson tragedy from a year ago, where my very good friend, Gabby Giffords -- who is doing really well, by the way, -- [was shot]…. The discourse in America, the discourse in Congress in particular… has really changed, I’ll tell you. I hesitate to place blame, but I have noticed it take a very precipitous turn towards edginess and lack of civility with the growth of the Tea Party movement… You had town hall meetings that they tried to take over, and you saw some of their conduct at those tea party meetings. When they come and disagree with you, you’re not just wrong, you’re the enemy… When they disagree with you on an issue, you’re not just wrong, you’re a liar.” ~DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) speaking in New Hampshire (January 11, 2012)
  2132. Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) repeatedly described Republicans as the “enemy” (2012)
  2133. Peter Smith, arrested by Secret Service at a Romney event, worked for the Democrat Party (2012)
  2134. MSNBC’s Martin Bashir and Ed Schultz attacked Mormons and Evangelicals (2012)
  2135. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called Speaker John Boehner and Eric Cantor “demons” (2012)
  2136. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) a “call girl” for big oil (2012)
  2137. POLITICO’s headline read, “Shots Fired,” while reporting on the Palin-Couric TV rivalry
  2138. “Moderate Caucus” chair Chuck Kruger (D-ME) urged for Dick Cheney’s execution (April 2012)
  2139. Kruger tweeted: “Cheney deserves same final end her gave Saddam. Hope there are cell cams”
  2140. Liberal Bob Beckel told a Tea Party woman, “You don’t know what the f--- you’re talking about”
  2141. Van Jones asked the GOP, “How many American children are you willing to kill for a job?”
  2142. Van Jones said that those opposed to his values should “sit down and shut up” (2012)
  2143. David Axelrod claimed that Republicans were part of a “reign of terror” on America (April 2012)
  2144. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL): GOP doesn’t think gays and illegal immigrants are ‘people at all’
  2145. David Axelrod described super PACs supporting Mitt Romney’s as “contract killers” (2012)
  2146. Howard Dean claimed on MSNBC that Republicans “don’t like Latinos” (2012)
  2147. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews claimed that conservatives want to “screw” poor people (May 2012)
  2148. Film company owned by an Obama supporter promoted violence against Bristol Palin (2012)
  2149. POLITICO “reporters” investigated private citizens in order to protect Obama’s failed policies
  2150. Jimmy Kimmel planned to mock Rick Santorum’s dead son at the W.H. Correspondence Dinner
  2151. Bill Maher described “bullying” accusations against Romney as being worse than molestation
  2152. Newark mayor Cory Booker (D) was referred to as “dead” by members of the Obama administration after he defended Mitt Romney from attacks on his Bain Capital record (2012)
  2153. Study showed that anti-Mormonism began spiking among liberals after Romney was nominated
  2154. NBC “Rock Center” aired a one-hour special on Mitt Romney’s Mormon religion (August 2012)
  2155. ABC “World News” aired two segments on the Mormon Church (August 2012)
  2156. Joy Behar told Mediaite that she wanted to see Mitt Romney’s house burn down (June 2012)
  2157. Netroots conference panelist Elisabeth Fernandez-Kimmel claimed that those on the Right have “crappy sex lives” and project their “forced, coerced, nasty” sex with “children” and “animals”
  2158. POLITICO journalist and White House correspondent Joe Williams argued that Obama’s poll numbers are low because the media has failed to report on Republican opposition (June 2012)
  2159. Juan Williams ridiculed Michelle Malkin, “I’m a real reporter, not a blogger…” (June 2012)
  2160. MSNBC fantasized about GOP candidate Mitt Romney’s bus exploding while on tour (2012)
  2161. White House senior adviser David Plouffe claimed that Republicans want “more war” (2012)
  2162. Plouffe accepted a $100,000 speaking fee in 2010 from a company doing business with Iran
  2163. Henry Waxman (D-CA) claimed that Republicans are “getting away – literally – with murder”
  2164. Retiring Congressman Gary Ackerman (D-NY) said, “I think the people have gotten dumber”
    2165. “I think the people have gotten dumber.”
    ~Retiring Congressman Gary Ackerman (D-NY), reflecting on 30 years of service (2012)
  2165. POLITICO WH correspondent Joe Williams pled guilty to assaulting his ex-wife (May 2012)
  2166. POLITICO reporter Joe Williams made penis jokes about Ann Romney (June 2012)
  2167. Joe Williams described POLITICO as a “shitburger” when it comes to diversity and race
  2168. Bill Maher said conservatism is not about an ideology, “It’s about being a dick” (June 2012)
  2169. Liberal talk show host Nicole Sandler screamed, “I hate this godd—n country…” (2012)
  2170. Democrat “campaign trackers” began stalking GOP candidates at home and while shopping
  2171. Slate blogger Matthew Yglesia compared Mitt Romney to Adolf Hitler (July 2012)
  2172. Harry Reid compared upstanding, hard-working Americans to a reality star with a sex tape
  2173. Liberal radio host Mike Malloy phoned Satan in hell to check on Andrew Breitbart (July 2012)
  2174. Bob Beckel described Mitt Romney as a “punk” during an airing of “The Five” (July 2012)
  2175. Kathy Griffin described 17-year-old Willow Palin as a dirty whore and a future porn star (2012)
  2176. Jonathan Alter warned on MSNBC that ‘if we elect Romney, a lot of people will die’ (August 2012)
  2177. Democrat campaign ad depicted Allen West (R-FL) punching a white woman and stealing money
  2178. Ellen Barkin hoped that a hurricane kills ‘every pro-life, xenophobic, gay-bashing SOB’ at the RNC
  2179. President Obama’s 2012 campaign morphed from ‘Hope and Change’ into ‘Hoax and Chains’
  2180. Joe Biden told black supporters that Romney would “put y’all back in chains” (August 2012)
  2181. Douglas Wilder (D-VA) criticized Biden’s comment, saying that “slavery is nothing to joke about”
  2182. Charlie Rangel (D-MI): “You bet your ass” Joe Biden was talking about slavery (August 2012)
  2183. Tampa police discovered bricks and pipes on top of a building near the GOP convention (2012)
  2184. RNC protester, Jason T. Wilson, was arrested with a machete strapped to his leg (August 2012)
  2185. “Kill Mitt Romney” Facebook page advocated for the murder of Mitt Romney (August 2012)
  2186. Juan Williams said that Ann Romney “looked like a corporate wife” at the RNC (August 2012)
  2187. MSNBC producer started a shoving match with hecklers of Chris “thrill-up-the-leg” Matthews
  2188. California Democratic Party Chair John Burton (D-CA) likened Paul Ryan to a Nazi propagandist
  2189. John Burton claimed that Ryan lied during his convention speech and called him a “horse’s ass”
  2190. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) refused to condemn John Burton’s comments comparing Ryan to a Nazi
  2191. Burton reportedly left the DNC and returned to California early for a “pre-scheduled root canal”
  2192. Top Kansas Democrat Pat Lehman (D-KS) likened Paul Ryan to Adolf Hitler (September 2012)
  2193. Massachusetts Democratic Party Chair John Walsh (D-MA) called Scott Brown a “girl” (2012)
  2194. Whoopi Goldberg falsely stated that Mormons were not allowed to serve in the military (October 2012)
  2195. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell taunted Romney’s son to punch him “anytime, anywhere” (2012)
    2196. “So, you want to take a swing at someone for calling your old man a liar? Take a swing at me. Come on. Come on. And don’t worry. There won’t be any Secret Service involved. Just us. And I’ll make it easy for you. I’ll come to you. Anytime, anywhere. Go ahead, Taggart. Take your best shot.” ~MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell taunting Mitt Romney’s son
  2196. Large amount of nails were dumped in the parking lot at a Tea Party “Rally for Jobs” (October 2012)
  2197. Vandals keyed “Obama” into cars and vandalized another outside a residence that had Romney signs
  2198. Bill Maher compared the GOP and Mitt Romney to Adolf Hitler (November 2012)
  2199. A dead pig wearing a Mitt Romney shirt was dropped off at a GOP campaign office (November 2012)
  2200. Michael Moore claimed that “things got better” when Reagan voters died (December 2012)
  2201. ‘Killing Lincoln’ producer Erik Jendresen: John Wilkes Booth “could be a poster child for the Tea Party”
  2202. Alan Grayson (D-FL): GOP “would rather eat your face off” than raise taxes on the rich (January 2013)
  2203. Leftists created an online video game that allows you to murder the president of the NRA (January 2013)
  2204. Buzzfeed’s Michael Hastings alleged that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel physically assaulted him (2013)
  2205. Bill Maher asked, are “really good friends” John McCain and Lindsey Graham really gay? (2013)
  2206. Hillary Clinton warned GOP lawmakers not to act like North African terrorists (January 2013)
  2207. Democratic strategist and MSNBC political analyst Karen Finney said that the “hateful language” from the “crazy crackers on the right” will “kill” Republicans’ chances of winning Latino votes (January 2013)

    2208. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Faith, Hope, and Love has been replaced with Fear, Bigotry, and Hate

  2208. Alinsky Rule #2: never go outside the experience of your people to avoid confusion and fear
  2209. For more than 200 years, the Democratic party had been a ferocious supporter of every race-judging idea imaginable, including slavery, segregation, and lynchings
  2210. Democrats erased their history from Jefferson leaving the White House in 1809 until the 1920s
  2211. The Democrat Party was founded by a slave owner and they are fixated on controlling blacks
  2212. The Democrat Party and progressives gave us the Civil War, Jim Crow, and the Ku Klux Klan
  2213. Democrats openly supported slavery in six of their party platforms from 1840-1860
  2214. Democrats passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 promoting slavery in the territories
  2215. Democrats elected openly segregationist candidates in the 1910s and 1930s
  2216. Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution that wiped out slavery and gave both legal rights and voting rights to black Americans
  2217. Democrats supported slavery actively or by silence in twenty party platforms from 1868-1948
  2218. Democrats opposed anti-lynching laws, which were specifically supported by the Republican Party, in four of their party platforms from 1912-1928
  2219. Democrats opposed the GOP-sponsored Civil Rights Act of 1866, blocking legal equality for blacks
  2220. Democrats opposed the GOP on giving voting rights to blacks in the District of Columbia in 1867
  2221. In 1868, Democrats nominated New York Governor Horatio Seymour and ex-Missouri Congressman Francis Blair, who pledged they would declare the Civil Rights laws passed by the GOP “null and void” and would refuse to enforce them (Democratic ticket lost to Ulysses S. Grant)
  2222. Democrats opposed the Enforcement Acts, three laws passed by the GOP between 1870 and 1871 targeting the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and making it a federal crime to block the rights of blacks to vote, hold office, serve on juries and have equal protection of the laws with that of whites
  2223. Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which prohibited discrimination of blacks in public
  2224. Democrats used the Ku Klux Klan as “a military force serving the interests of the Democrat Party”
  2225. Historians have described the Ku Klux Klan as the “terrorist arm of the Democratic Party”
  2226. Klan-written platform mixed the traditional Democratic message of progressivism and racism
  2227. Democrats repealed the Civil Rights laws enacted by the GOP Congresses and presidents
  2228. In 1892, the Democratic Party gained control of both Congress and the White House
  2229. Democrat President Grover Cleveland signed the repeal of the Civil Rights Act on February 8, 1894
  2230. Planned Parenthood was founded to ‘solve the problem of the negro man on this continent’
  2231. Margaret Sanger was a pioneer in racial eugenics, euthanasia, and abortion
  2232. Margaret Sanger was considered a darling of the Ku Klux Klan
  2233. Studies have shown that Planned Parenthood, as well as other independent abortion facilities in America, target both African American and Hispanic communities for their clinic locations
  2234. Abortionist Ashutosh Ron Virmani referred to black children that he kills as “ugly black babies”
  2235. Survey found that 83% of abortion-related clinics are located in minority communities (2011)
  2236. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg once remarked that abortion was useful for reducing the number of humans that we “don’t want too many of”
  2237. Minimum wages originally instituted by racists to prevent minorities from competing for jobs
  2238. Democrat’s Great Society paid black women to kick their men to the curb destroying families
  2239. Democrats fought the Civil War against their own fellow citizens trying to preserve slavery
  2240. Democrats voted in higher percentages against the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  2241. Democrats opposed the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court
  2242. GOP is only about 155 years old, and was derisively called the “Black Republicans” by Democrats at the time, because the Republican Party was so friendly to America’s blacks
  2243. GOP was founded on a pro-black agenda and the first blacks elected to Congress ran as Republicans
  2244. GOP fought the Civil War in order to abolish slavery for all blacks and assure them civil rights
  2245. For many decades after the Civil War and into the 1900s most black Americans were Republicans
  2246. If it weren’t for the Republican Party, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 could not have passed
  2247. Higher percentage of Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 compared to Republicans
  2248. For all Republicans in Congress, support never fell below 70% on any of the final vote counts
  2249. Both the House and Senate versions received 82% support each in the final vote counts
  2250. Democrats never saw higher than 69% of its membership in support of civil rights for blacks
  2251. One of the leading voices in favor of civil rights for blacks was Senator Edward Dirksen (R-IL)
  2252. One of the leading voices against giving blacks civil rights was Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV)
  2253. NAACP was originally founded by Republicans to fight against Jim Crow laws
  2254. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was the established as the militant arm of the Democrat Party
  2255. The KKK murdered thousands of Republicans, both black and white, following the Civil War
  2256. President Ulysses S. Grant (R) destroyed the KKK with the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
  2257. The Ku Klux Klan re-emerged in the 20th century under racist President Woodrow Wilson (D)
  2258. Woodrow Wilson worked with Congress to ban interracial marriages in Washington D.C.
  2259. Wilson barred blacks from becoming military officers and resegregated trains and streetcars
  2260. Democrats attempted to repeal the Fifteenth Amendment and nationalize their racial policies
  2261. President Woodrow Wilson (D) premiered Birth of a Nation in the White House
  2262. Birth of a Nation was a racist movie based on a racist book written by a college friend of Wilson
  2263. Birth of a Nation spawned the modern-day Klan, with its burning crosses and white sheets (1915)
  2264. Democrats in Georgia revived the Klan to again become a powerful force in the Democrat Party
  2265. KKK dominated the 1924 Democratic Convention and was called the Klanbake by the GOP
  2266. Calvin Coolidge (R) routinely spoke with blacks and often attended Negro League games
  2267. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) refused to ever be photographed with black Americans
  2268. Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) appointed a Klansman, Sen. Hugo Black (D-AL), to the Supreme Court
  2269. In the 1950s, those in the civil rights movement fought against Democrat Klansmen
  2270. Bull Connor was the a police commissioner who attacked blacks with dogs, clubs, and fire hoses
  2271. Bull Connor was a Klansman and the Democratic Party’s National Committeeman for Alabama
  2272. The Democratic Party elevated a recruiter for the KKK to third-in-line for the presidency (1980s)
  2273. Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) was an Exalted Cyclops and a leader of his local Ku Klux Klan
  2274. Robert Byrd refused to join the military out of deeply-held hatred for African Americans
  2275. Democrat Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) filibustered the Civil Rights Act for fourteen hours
  2276. Robert Byrd voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that prohibited discrimination
  2277. For years afterwards and until his death, Sen. Byrd was celebrated as the Democrat’s best man
  2278. Democrat-icon Robert Byrd became the longest serving member of Congress before his death
  2279. Al Gore’s father voted against civil rights and enrolled his son in all-white private schools
  2280. In 2011, Al Gore compared action on global warming to the Civil Rights movement
  2281. Al Gore described man-made global warming skeptics as this generation’s racists
  2282. Al Gore sold Current TV, the news network he founded, to Al Jazeera (January 2013)
  2283. After profiting for two decades by railing against oil companies, Gore sold the channel to oil barons
  2284. As a result, Al Gore ($300 million) is now richer than Mitt Romney ($230 million) (January 2013)
  2285. In 1995, Gore helped make sure Occidental Petroleum got the drilling rights to Elk Hills in California
  2286. By 2001, Occidental Petroleum finished destroying the 100 burial grounds and holy places of the Kitanemuk Indians in the Elk Hills of central California
  2287. Al Gore’s former campaign manager, Tony Coelho, was on the board of directors of the company hired to assess the environmental consequences of the sale
  2288. Al Gore owned stock in Occidental Petroleum and saw his stock value double following the sale
  2289. The New York Times tried to shame Time Warner for dropping Current TV / Al Jazeera (January 2013)
  2290. Former Governor Jennifer Granholm (D-MI) quit Current TV after it was sold to Al Jazeera
  2291. Media critic David Zurawik argued that conservative voices should be silenced and marginalized, yet the anti-American, anti-Semitic views of Al Jazeera provide a “different voice” to America
  2292. Joe Biden described Obama as a “clean and articulate black man” prior to the 2008 elections
  2293. Harry Reid described Obama as a “light skinned negro with no dialect, unless he wanted one”
  2294. Harry Reid (D-NV) said “I don’t know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be Republican”
  2295. Obama was sold to the 2008 electorate as basically a litmus test on modern-American racism
  2296. In Dreams from My Father, Obama distorted elements of his own life to fit into a racial narrative
  2297. Dan Rather said that Obama is articulate but “couldn’t sell watermelons” by the side of the road
  2298. Jesse Jackson was caught saying “n-----, I'd like to cut his nuts off” while talking about Obama
  2299. Louis Farrakhan referred to President Obama as a “n----- president” during an anti-Semitic speech
  2300. During the same speech, Farrakhan said Congress is controlled by Jews who assassinated M.L.K.
  2301. Farrakhan also defended Helen Thomas and ranted about “9/11 Truther” conspiracies
  2302. Bill Clinton was mentored by J. William Fulbright, the racist author of the Southern manifesto
  2303. Bill Clinton made M.L.K. Day into Robert E Lee day in Arkansas while serving as governor
  2304. Bill Clinton said of Obama: “a few years ago, this guy would have been getting us coffee”
  2305. Bill Clinton told Ted Kennedy, “a few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags”
  2306. Jacqueline Kennedy described Martin Luther King as a “tricky person” and “a phony”
  2307. Mrs. Kennedy could barely look at images of Martin Luther King, saying “that man’s terrible”
  2308. Alinsky Rule #8: always keep the pressure on to cause the opposition to react to your advantage
  2309. During the 2008 primaries, talking of racism and sexism were common on the Democratic side
  2310. Obama said in 2008, “you know I don’t look like all the other presidents on the dollar bill”
  2311. Obama supporters painted Bill Clinton as a racist after the South Carolina Democrat primary
  2312. Geraldine Ferraro was accused of being a racist and removed from Hillary Clinton’s campaign
  2313. Attorney General Eric Holder described America as a “nation of cowards” on racial matters
  2314. Eric Holder cited race as an explanation for the scrutiny of Justice Department’s actions (2011)
  2315. Holder answered Fast and Furious charges by saying that those asking the questions were racists
  2316. Former KKK Grand Dragon John Paul Rogers (Democrat) ran for mayor in Lake Wales, Florida
  2317. White supremacist David Duke endorsed Charles Barron (D) for a New York House seat (2012)
  2318. David Duke was once a leader of the Ku Klux Klan and describes Jews as the “real enemy”
  2319. Duke, a Democrat, established the National Association for the Advancement of White People
  2320. Journolist members discussed calling conservatives “racist” to diminish Rev. Wright videos
  2321. White liberals are always screaming “racist” based on any opposition to Obama’s liberal agenda
  2322. Liberals claim the Tea Party’s motivations were merely to protest Obama because he was black
  2323. Alinsky Rule #6: a good tactic is one your people enjoy, or else the tactic is very wrong
  2324. Liberal activists attempted to infiltrate Tea Party protests to display racist and hate-filled signs
  2325. Think Progress was caught using liberal-manufactured signs as ‘evidence’ of Tea Party racism
  2326. Alinksy Rule #9: the threat of something is more terrifying than the thing itself
  2327. In May 2010, Obama said there’s a “subterranean agenda” of racism with the Tea Party movement
  2328. Obama said racism was a key component in the rising opposition to his policies from conservatives
  2329. Dr. Joseph Lowery gave the benediction at President Obama’s inauguration in 2009
    2330. “Lord, in the memory of all the saints who from their labors rest, and in the joy of a new beginning, we ask you to help us work for that day when black will not be asked to get back, when brown can stick around… when yellow will be mellow… when the red man can get ahead, man… and when white will embrace what is right.” ~Dr. Joseph Lowery’s benediction at Obama’s inauguration (2009)
  2330. Lowery blasted blacks who didn’t bother showing up at the polls for Obama in 2008
    2331. “I don’t know what kind of n---er wouldn’t vote with a black man running. All that he did with the stimulus was genius. Nobody intelligent would risk this country with Romney.” ~Dr. Joseph Lowery speaking at St. James Baptist Church (October 2012)
  2331. Eric Holder criticized Arizonians as racist despite having not read the law (mirrored federal law)
  2332. Janet Napolitano admitted to not reading the Arizona bill prior to engaging in public criticism
  2333. Janet Napolitano’s DHS issued a report in 2009 warning of “right wing extremist groups”
  2334. DHS’s new promotional video characterizes white Americans as “the most likely terrorists”
  2335. The video features black, Asian, or Arab “patriotic” Americans turning in white citizens
  2336. DHS internal documents list predominantly white conservative groups as the most likely terrorists
  2337. Likely terrorists include Ron Paul supporters, gun owners, gold bullion enthusiasts, etc.
  2338. DHS released another video depicting an attempt to bomb a subway by well-dressed white people
  2339. One clip ends with commuters reporting the incident to a black security guard and police officer
  2340. DHS Chief Napolitano hinted that gun stores could be a prime breeding ground for terrorists
  2341. Opponents to Democrats open-border policies are being smeared as racists for upholding laws
  2342. DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) claimed Republicans want to “literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws” (2011)
  2343. Holder invoked the history of the civil rights movement to target state voter identification laws
  2344. John Lewis (D-GA) said that there was a “systematic attempt” to prevent minorities from voting
  2345. Federal government challenged Texas for failing to provide adequate representation for Hispanics
  2346. Eric Holder ignored Illinois, where Democrats have cut Hispanics out of redistricting
  2347. Inspector Gen. Neal M. Barofsky said car dealerships were closed based in part on race and sex
  2348. Alinsky Rule #3: go outside the experience of an opponent to cause confusion, fear, and retreat
  2349. The NAACP called the Tea Party “racist” because they oppose a black president’s liberal agenda
  2350. Michelle Obama spoke to the NAACP prior to them voting on their racist Tea Party resolution
  2351. Black Tea Party protested the 102nd NAACP National Convention in Los Angeles (2011)
  2352. Signs read: “Give Me Liberty, Don’t Give Me Debt” and “Spread My Work Ethic, Not My Wealth”
  2353. Other signs called the NAACP “Morally Bankrupt” and “Pro-Union, Anti-Black Citizens”
  2354. Shirley Sherrod sued the USDA for racial discrimination and then was later hired by the USDA
  2355. Ms. Sherrod resigned after video showed her making racist statements at an NAACP meeting
  2356. Obama administration forced her out fearing “she was going to be on Glenn Beck tonight”
  2357. Obama is hiding the identity of the person responsible for pushing Shirley Sherrod to resign
  2358. Judicial Watch uncovered evidence that the White House sought legal approval of Sherrod’s firing
  2359. The NAACP had the full tape and condemned Ms. Sherrod for the racist remarks in her speech
  2360. The NAACP president described the racist reactions from many in the audience as “disturbing”
  2361. NAACP president compared opposition to Obama to racism throughout our world history
  2362. Obama administration protected members of the Black Panthers who intimidated voters at polls
  2363. NAACP partnered with the Obama DOJ on the decision to drop the voter intimidation lawsuit
  2364. A Black Panther member involved in the case previously advocated killing white babies
  2365. FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn said free internet a civil right for ‘every nappy-headed child’
  2366. Eric Holder gave a speech at Columbia University in support of racial preferences (2012)
  2367. Holder: I “can’t actually imagine a time in which the need for more diversity would ever cease”
  2368. Photo of Obama’s 2012 re-election headquarters in Chicago features all white campaign workers
  2369. President Obama’s campaign began desperately searching for black campaign staffers (April 2012)
  2370. Obama’s campaign sent out emails to help them “find qualified, African American candidates”
  2371. Obama’s campaign contacted the CBC in hopes of transitioning CBC staffers into the White House
  2372. OOPS: Alinsky Rule #7: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag (think “race card”)
  2373. Obama, Clinton, and Charlie Crist tried to get the black Democrat out of the Florida Senate race
  2374. Michael Moore expressed his belief that people own guns because they are fearful and racist
  2375. Moore claimed that the United States was founded on “genocide and built on the backs of slaves”
  2376. Michael Moore lives in a Michigan township that has no black residents
  2377. Michael Moore claimed on MSNBC that Republicans hate African Americans and Detroit (2012)
  2378. Michael Moore claimed that “by watching Fox News you have de-evolved” (November 2012)
  2379. Michael Moore blamed fear and racism for mass shootings that take place in the United States (2012)
  2380. Michael Moore pleaded, “calm down, white people, and put away your guns” (December 24, 2012)
  2381. Moore’s bodyguard was previously arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon into JFK airport (2005)
  2382. Union thugs assaulted a woman, arbitrated ‘badness’ of Jews, and berated a conservative black man
  2383. School in Iowa prepared for a terrorist attack using gun-loving, white racists as mock shooters
  2384. Rev. Jesse Jackson, of the Rainbow Push Coalition, was the subject of a gay harassment complaint
  2385. Rev. Jesse Jackson compared the 2011 federal budget fight to the American Civil War
  2386. Black Caucus legislators sued the state of Georgia to dissolve ‘super-majority white cities’
  2387. Democrat-union stronghold of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the most segregated city in America
  2388. Milwaukee, New York, Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland ranked most segregated cities in the U.S.
  2389. Donna Brazil said racist fearful whites are why Democrats don’t do better with white voters
  2390. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network engaged in angry, racially divisive rhetoric (2011)
  2391. Former presidential candidate Al Sharpton himself has engaged in angry, racially divisive rhetoric
    2392. “White folks was in caves while we was building empires… We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.” ~Al Sharpton speaking at Kean College in 1994
  2392. Al Sharpton described N.Y. Mayor David Dinkins as a “n***er” and a “whore” in Harlem
  2393. MSNBC’s Al Sharpton tried to discourage an audience from buying fried chicken from Chinese-owned restaurants or watermelon from Korean-owned shops
  2394. Sharpton called someone a “punk faggot” during an appearance on the Morton Downey Jr. show
    2395. “No one, even in the name of creativity, should enjoy a large consumer base when they denigrate people based on race.” ~Al Sharpton in 2007 right after Don Imus was fired from CBS for making a racially insensitive remark about a Rutgers women’s basketball team
  2395. Sharpton lobbied companies to pull advertising from CBS and NBC until Don Imus was fired
  2396. Sharpton was hired by NBC News (2011) despite a long history of racially divisive rhetoric
  2397. NBC’s Al Sharpton reported that the GOP was in a “mad rush to its extreme white wing” (2012)
  2398. Al Sharpton told an audience that the GOP has declared a “war on black people” (2012)
    2399. “It’s a war on black people, it’s war on women, it’s war on immigrants… We have to turn this around and start targeting in Missouri those legislators that want to roll back our right to vote!” ~MSNBC’s Al Sharpton in Jefferson City, Missouri (May 9, 2012)
  2399. Al Sharpton claimed that the GOP was trying to throw blacks and Latinos over the fiscal cliff (2012)
  2400. Cornel West said that MSNBC made Al Sharpton sell his soul for Obama (November 2012)
  2401. PBS host Tavis Smiley predicted that 2012 will be “the most racist in the history of this Republic”
  2402. Tavis Smiley criticized Obama for ignoring blacks saying, blacks “ought to be looked out for”
  2403. CBS’s Bob Schieffer claimed that Donald Trump’s questions are “an ugly strain of racism”
  2404. The liberal wolf pack press knows that if blacks vote GOP the democrat party ceases to exist
  2405. James Clyburn (D-SC) blamed most of Obama’s political problems on “the color of his skin”
  2406. Clyburn likened an executive order to raise the debt ceiling to the Emancipation Proclamation
  2407. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) blamed the debt ceiling impasse on the color of Obama’s skin (2011)
  2408. Nancy Pelosi told a predominantly black audience that Sheila Jackson Lee was right to suggest that the GOP complicated the debt-ceiling debate because President Obama is black
  2409. Michael Eric Dyson: GOP is against more debt because the economy is “in the hands of the black”
  2410. President Obama compared himself and his agenda to that of Martin Luther King Jr. (August 2011)
  2411. Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) is an organization that excludes people based on skin color
  2412. CBC held town hall events across the country spewing violent rhetoric in 2011
  2413. CBC declared ‘war’ on the racist Tea Party and claimed that the Tea Party wants to lynch blacks
  2414. Andre Carson (D-IN) said that Tea Party members would like to see “us hanging on a tree”
  2415. Andre Carson defended his attack on the Tea Party: “I stand by the truth of what I said…”
  2416. Carson is the congressman who started the myth that Tea Party protesters hurled racial slurs at he and John Lewis (D-GA) on the day of the Obamacare vote
  2417. CBC also called for orchestrated bank runs and civil unrest in their neighborhoods and homes
  2418. Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D-FL) blamed the high black unemployment on “racism”
  2419. Frederica Wilson: “Let us all remember who the real enemy is. The real enemy is the Tea Party…”
  2420. Maxine Waters (D-CA) to SEIU: “As far as I’m concerned – the Tea Party can go straight to hell”
    2421. “After a good night sleep, I wake up the next day, and I say, ‘Come on, Tea Party, let’s get it on.’” ~Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) challenged the Tea Party to a fight at the 5th annual House District 7 Unity Dinner (June 2012)
    “A white president, frankly, could be pushed a great deal more than we would push President Obama because nobody would accuse him or her of having partiality towards African-Americans. So it’s a tough spot and it also means we still have a long way to go in terms of race relations in this country and the president has, I think, moved through these troubled waters about as well as any African-American could becoming the first black president.” ~Congressman Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) and Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus
  2421. Allen West (R-FL) joined both the Congressional Black Caucus and the Tea Party Caucus
  2422. Allen West: I’m here to lead blacks off of the Democratic Party “21st century plantation”
  2423. West: M.L.K. “would be appalled” and have a “tear in his eye” if he saw today’s black communities
  2424. West sent a letter threatening to leave the CBC over the constant Tea Party bashing (August 2011)
  2425. King’s memorial is next to the Lincoln Memorial, the cite of the 1963 “I have a dream” speech
  2426. The creation of a statue honoring Dr. King was outsourced to a Chinese sculptor, a Communist
  2427. The Chinese sculptor’s rendering of M.L.K. used white stone, appears angry, and slightly Asian
  2428. Maya Angelou said that the incorrect memorial inscription made Dr. King look “arrogant” (2011)
  2429. Interior Secretary Salazar ordered a quick fix to correct the misquote on the memorial (2012)
  2430. Bernice King said that ‘Lincoln is remembered for signing the Declaration of Independence’
  2431. MSNBC’s Ed Shultz and his team used deceptive editing to make Rick Perry look like a racist
  2432. Al Sharpton repeated the “black cloud hanging over America” racism charge on his MSNBC show
  2433. Sharpton said GOP candidates want to bring the country back to pre-1960’s segregationist times
  2434. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews said about Rick Perry, “this is going to be Bull Connor with a smile”
  2435. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews suggested that Rick Perry would have opposed school integration
  2436. MSNBC panelist: Gov. Chris Christie (R) is “less obviously racist” than rest of GOP candidates
  2437. MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe suggested that opposition to Obama is because of “the color of his skin”
  2438. MSNBC labeled AP as ‘inherently racist’ for an accurate translation of Obama’s campaign speech
  2439. Herman Cain (R) won the 2011 Florida GOP straw poll, beating both Perry and Romney combined
  2440. L.A. Times: “A black, threatening cloud hung low over the Orange County Convention Center…”
  2441. Garofalo: Cain is running for president to deflect the racism “inherent in the Republican Party”
  2442. Herman Cain (R) described black Americans who vote democrat in lockstep as “brainwashed”
  2443. Democrat Cornell Belcher described Herman Cain’s “brainwashed” remark as “racist, bigoted”
  2444. Lawrence O’Donnell (white) lectured Herman Cain on how black men are supposed to behave
  2445. CNN’s Candy Crowley picked up on MSNBC’s trial balloon by questioning Cain’s “blackness”
  2446. NBC News’ Martin Bashir attacked Herman Cain during a eulogy for a civil rights leader
  2447. Bashir: Republicans ‘Do not want to hear from a black man who’s aggressive, assertive, angry’
  2448. Joy Behar to Cain: GOP “hasn’t been black friendly over the many centuries in this country”
  2449. Entertainer Harry Belafonte said Herman Cain was a “bad apple” who was “denied intelligence”
  2450. MSNBC analyst Michael Eric Dyson said Herman Cain would say anything to ‘curry white favor’
  2451. Juan Williams said that Cornell West and Tavis Smiley are threatened by Herman Cain’s success
  2452. MSNBC’s Ed Shultz: Herman Cain panders to “white Republicans who don’t like black folks”
  2453. CNN guest Sean Penn said that the Tea Party is the ‘get the N-word out of the White House’ party
  2454. Penn insisted that, at the end of the day, the Tea Partiers ask themselves ‘can we just lynch him?’
  2455. MSNBC Analyst Karen Finney: GOP sees Herman Cain as a ‘black man who knows his place’
  2456. Washington Post Vice President Ben Bradlee: Herman Cain “had it coming to him” (2011)
  2457. NBC analyst Toure said that the GOP won’t accept Herman Cain harassing a white woman
  2458. Francis Fox Piven claimed that the Tea Party doesn’t “like the idea of a black president” (2011)
  2459. MSNBC guest said that Tea Party people think government does too much for black people (2011)
  2460. MSNBC Host Bill Press said that Republicans “refuse to give a black man credit” on Iraq (2011)
  2461. NBC’s David Gregory showed his own bigotry by associating “food stamps” with “black people”
  2462. NBC’s David Gregory likened the GOP to the KKK by saying, “There is no Grand Wizard in the party right now who can really force the issue,” regarding forcing Herman Cain out of the GOP race
  2463. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews described the GOP as the “Grand Wizard crowd” (2012)
  2464. New York Times book reviewer Kevin Boyle compared the Tea Party to the KKK (2011)
  2465. Joan Walsh claimed that people voted for Ronald Reagan because of his race (December 2011)
  2466. MSNBC compared Mitt Romney saying “keep America American” to the KKK (December 2011)
  2467. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell claimed that Iowa is “too white” to re-elect President Obama (2012)
  2468. Mitchell earlier stated that Iowa “established that Barack Obama could attract white voters” (2008)
  2469. MSNBC contributor Jimmy Williams accused Santorum of being “a homophobe and a bigot”
  2470. NPR and CBS falsely mischaracterized initially muffled audio from Santorum as a racist remark
    2471. While campaigning in Sioux City, Iowa Sunday, GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said if elected he plans to cut regulations and entitlements and he doesn’t want to “make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.” ~CBS News (mis)reporting (January 2012)
  2471. Michelle Obama complained about people trying to paint her as “some angry black woman” (2012)
  2472. Obama’s top adviser Valerie Jarrett used M.L.K.’s church pulpit to attack Republicans in Congress
  2473. Following Jarrett’s remarks to the congregation, the church held a voter registration drive (2012)
  2474. Valerie Jarrett compared Obama to Abraham Lincoln during an interview with CNN (January 2013)
  2475. Jim Clyburn (D-SC): Romney is reminiscent of racists who kept Rosa Parks in the back of the bus
  2476. Democrats criticized Republicans for having a debate on Martin Luther King Jr. Day (2012)
  2477. Democrats themselves had held a primary debate on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2008
  2478. Jimmy Carter said Gingrich “knows the subtle words to use to appeal to a racist group” (2012)
  2479. Geraldo said he ‘swears to God’ that Newt said Juan Williams’ name like it was a “racial epithet”
  2480. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said that Newt Gingrich was using racist “codewords” (2012)
  2481. MSNBC analyst Melissa Harris-Perry compared a confrontation between Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) and President Obama to segregation-era racists that screamed at black kids (January 2012)
  2482. MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry pondered the “imperialism,” “the genocide,” and “the slavery” of America on Independence Day, a holiday she described as “more aspirational than actual” (July 2012)
  2483. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry was upset over business owners calling themselves “risk takers”
  2484. High School teacher Al Levie refused to accept a M.L.K. award from Paul Ryan (R-WI)
  2485. Al Levie stated that “Paul Ryan had no business at a Martin Luther King event”
  2486. Al Levie described Paul Ryan as a hypocrite and as a “lackey for the 1 percent” (2012)
  2487. Black radio host Thaddeus Matthews refused to shake the hand of a black Republican congressional candidate because he didn’t want the “whiteness” to “rub off” on him (2012)
  2488. NAACP’s Ben Jealous claimed that Gov. Rick Scott wants to suppress the ‘darky’ vote in Florida
  2489. Ben Jealous suggested that America is more racist now than during the revolutionary times (2012)
  2490. Toure claimed that the election of President Obama has made white people violently mad
  2491. Obama implied that presidential candidate Mitt Romney supports racial profiling (2012)
  2492. A New York Times headline read, “4 years later, race is still issue for some voters” (2012)
  2493. House Democrats received training on how to use race to defend government programs (2012)
  2494. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews told Gingrich his messaging was ‘dog whistles’ about ‘poor blacks’
  2495. Attorney General Eric Holder, the IRS, and the liberal lawyers at the ACLU briefed African American pastors on how to participate in the 2012 presidential election and help Obama’s campaign
  2496. MSNBC contributor Karen Hunter said that Romney wants to be president of “Caucasia-stan”
  2497. Karen Hunter also mocked Romney by saying, “This time we’ll get it white” (instead of “right”)
  2498. New York Times’ Michael Shear falsely accused conservatives of racism for vetting Obama
  2499. Chris Rock said, “We ignore the President’s whiteness, but it’s there, it’s there” (June 2012)
  2500. MSNBC guest Julian Epstein suggested that Obama was heckled because he’s black (June 2012)
  2501. HBO’s Bill Maher wildly proclaimed, “the problem with racism is Matt Drudge” (June 2012)
  2502. Maher argued that the GOP was the “Party of the Apes,” using Allen West (R-FL) as an example
  2503. Sam Donaldson claimed that many on the right oppose Obama because he’s black (June 2012)
  2504. CNN anchor Don Lemon agreed that a reporter interrupted Obama because he’s black (2012)
  2505. BET columnist claimed on MSNBC that it is the white voters who vote based on color (2012)
  2506. MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry claimed that 9/11 gave America “post-traumatic stress disorder,” and that “Muslim terrorists” were a new imagined “racial enemy” for white America
    2507. “I’d like to point out that we clearly must have been having post-traumatic stress disorder because for about a year after September 11th, there were African-American men walking around the city of New York with NYPD hats on. That can only be explained as a PTSD response.” ~MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry
  2507. Al Sharpton blamed racism for Attorney General Eric Holder’s contempt charge (2012)
  2508. POLITICO’s Joe Williams claimed that Romney was only comfortable around ‘white folks’
  2509. Cher cited revolution as the solution against the racist Republican Party (June 2012)
  2510. Cher tweeted that we should let Todd Akin (R-MO) “get raped by man with HIV/AIDS” (2012)
  2511. Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said that Latinos won’t vote for Romney (June 2012)
  2512. NAACP Juanita Wallace demanded an end to the Lottery because it’s racist (June 2012)
  2513. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said that the Eric Holder contempt charges are racist (June 2012)
  2514. New York Times film critics, A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis, bashed the film “The Avengers” as a bunch of pre-feminist, pre-civil rights “white dudes” saving the day (July 2012)
  2515. Chris Rock tweeted, “Happy white peoples independence day…” (July 4th, 2012)
  2516. Democrats accused their own candidate, Congressman Hansen Clarke (D-MI), of “playing black”
  2517. Salon.com’s editor-at-large Joan Walsh claimed about the Republican Party that, “It’s a white, older base that doesn’t quite understand the way healthcare works” (July 2012)
  2518. The Message, a liberal group led by a former New York Times reporter and an ex-Media Matters executive, smeared Romney as being “so white” that he makes “Wonder Bread look like pumpernickel”
  2519. James Earl Jones described the Tea Party as racist on the Smiley and West show (July 2012)
  2520. James Earl Jones claimed he knows racism “better than anyone who has ever been a racist”
  2521. Tavis Smiley said that Obama won’t meet with negroes who disagree with him (July 2012)
  2522. David Letterman: Romney promising “he will put Anderson Cooper back in the closet”
  2523. Joe Williams said that race issues are “the favorite chew toy” of conservatives media organizations
  2524. Nancy Pelosi: Getting booed during his NAACP speech was a “calculated move” by Romney
  2525. MSNBC claimed that Romney spoke to the NAACP to appeal to racists (July 2012)
  2526. Obama skipped the annual NAACP convention citing a “scheduling conflict” as the reason he couldn’t attend, yet he spent the day in Washington D.C. with no major public events planned
  2527. NAACP’s Alvin Chambliss blamed Obama’s advisers, particularly Valerie Jarrett, for his absence
    2528. “I don’t think there’s anyone around the president who’s really, truly from the black community. We have to re-elect him, but I pray that his second term will be different from his first term... We can give him a pass. But to say it was a scheduling conflict, that’s bull. At the end of the day, it’s the NAACP; you schedule stuff around them. You’re supposed to know when there’s a convention, and you’re supposed to come.” ~Alvin Chambliss, a retired law professor at Texas Southern University and a lifelong member of the NAACP (July 2012)
  2528. Joe Biden spoke to the NAACP instead in Obama’s place, but to mostly empty seats (July 2012)
  2529. Chris Rock defended Obama by arguing, “Dude, being the first black anything sucks”
  2530. Francis Fox Piven said that the Tea Party chant, “Take it back,” is code for taking America “back from those dark skinned, foreign-looking people” (July 2012)
  2531. Harvard educated Labor activist Bill Fletcher, a former employee for SEIU and the AFL-CIO, suggested that poor whites shouldn’t support Romney, but if they do it’s because of racism (July 2012)
  2532. Harry Reid (D-NV) claimed that “angry old white men” are trying to buy the 2012 elections
  2533. Bob Herbert is a former opinion writer for the New York Times and an NBC correspondent
  2534. Herbert suggested it was absurd to think that white people ever supported civil rights for blacks
  2535. Herbert noted that “a majority of whites voted against Barack Obama for President” in 2008
  2536. Herbert claimed that “every time blacks move into a neighborhood, still whites flee”
  2537. Herbert also cites employment discrimination and the Tea Party as “evidence” of racism
  2538. Herbert said that a black hockey player getting “mocked” is a clear sign of societal racism
    2539. “A majority of whites have never favored equal rights in this country. Never, ever, ever, ever. It’s never even been close – it is a fantasy to talk about the idea of a majority of whites supporting the rights of blacks.” ~Bob Herbert, former opinion writer for the New York Times and NBC correspondent, speaking at Stony Brook University in New York (July 2012)
  2539. After being praised on gun rights, rapper Ice-T called Rush Limbaugh a “racist piece of sh-t”
  2540. NPR’s Cokie Roberts claimed that Mitt Romney’s trip to Poland was racially motivated (2012)
  2541. NBC apologized for airing a monkey commercial right after Gabby Douglas won Olympic gold
  2542. Russell Simmons tweeted that Romney and Paul Ryan “will destroy our people” (August 2012)
  2543. Burgess Owens warned blacks not to vote for Obama because he gives us “true in your face liberalism”
  2544. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell argued that making a joke about Obama’s golf game was racist
    2545. “Well, we know exactly what he’s trying to do there. He is trying to align to Tiger Woods and surely, the – lifestyle of Tiger Woods with Barack Obama. Obviously, nothing could be further from the truth…”

    “That’s the one they want for a very deliberate reason. That – there’s – these people reach for every single possible racial double entendre they can find in every one of these speeches…”

    “I know these people are insensitive. I know the way they work. They do not have the same sensitivity level that other speechwriters do. But when you get to the Tiger Woods reference, there were people in the speech writing room, I know this, without a shadow of a doubt, who said wait a minute, do we really want to go there? Do we really want to go to Tiger Woods and the vote in the room was yes, we do. Mitch McConnell agreed to do it.”     ~MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell arguing that a joking about Obama’s excessive golfing is a racist attempt to link President Obama to Tiger Woods’ infidelity (August 2012)
  2545. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews claimed that invoking the word “Chicago” is now racist (August 2012)
  2546. Chris Matthews suggested that Paul Ryan using the work “urban” was also racist (November 2012)
  2547. MSNBC’s Toure apologized after saying that Romney tried to “niggerize” Obama (August 2012)
  2548. Ben Akselrod (D-NY) said that using the word “negrohood” in his mailer was just a “typo” (2012)
  2549. MSNBC’s Chuck Todd asked L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa why there are more Republican women and Hispanic governors (August 2012)
  2550. Huffington Post misquoted Governor John Kasich (R-OH) to make a comment seem racist (2012)
  2551. Time’s Joe Klein suggested that Obama should start playing the race card (September 2012)
  2552. Maxine Waters claimed that the world hated the racist America until Obama was elected (2012)
  2553. Chris Matthews accused the Romney campaign of “race-baiting” and “encouraging white anger”
  2554. CNN’s Candy Crowley pushed the ‘racist Tea Party’ myth during her interviews (2012)
  2555. Alec Baldwin tweeted, “Romney will continue the GOP legacy of crippling the less powerful Americans in order to elevate rich, white, heterosexual, Christian males” if elected (2012)
  2556. Alec Baldwin tweeted, “If Obama was white, he’d be up by 17 points” (September 2012)
  2557. Black church in Indianapolis, Indiana used lynching photos to get out the vote for Obama (2012)
  2558. Snoop Dogg’s tweeted his #1 reason not to vote for Romney: “He a white nigga” (October 2012)
  2559. Snoop Doog’s #5 reason not to vote for Romney: “He looks like he says ‘nigger’ all the time”
  2560. Snoop Dogg’s #8 reason not to vote for Romney: “He’s a Mormom but he ain’t got no hoes”
  2561. Actress Stacey Dash was racially attacked for being black and endorsing Mitt Romney on Twitter
  2562. Dash said she chose Romney based “not by the color of his skin, but the content of his character”
  2563. Georgetown professor Marc Lamont Hill released a list titled, “The 15 Most Overrated White People”
  2564. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews claimed that Romney supporters were fueled by racial hatred (October 2012)
  2565. U.S. Bureau of Justice: Violent crime unexpectantly jumped 18% in 2011, the first rise in nearly 20 years
  2566. In 2011, property crimes rose 11%, household burglaries increased by 14%, and thefts jumped 10%
  2567. Obama’s supporters threatened to riot and assassinate Romney following the presidential debates (2012)
  2568. Sharmeka Moffitt set herself on fire and lied to police that she was attacked by the ‘KKK’ (2012)
  2569. Chicago store owner was labeled as a “racist” for displaying anti-Obama signs (October 2012)
  2570. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews cited “shuck and jive,” “watermelon,” and “monkeying” around with unemployment numbers as racist dog whistles and argued that whites should be ashamed of themselves
  2571. In Florida, vandal(s) painted a sign on a Vietnam-era veteran’s driveway that read, “Obama for Life,” and also torched American flags and campaign signs supporting Mitt Romney (October 2012)
  2572. Andrew Sullivan said that Obama might lose because Romney’s voters are like “the Old Confederacy”
    2573. “If you’re thinking about voting for Mitt Romney, I would like to make this one plea: black people know who you are and they will come after you.” ~HBO comedian Bill Maher (November 2012)
  2573. Police pepper sprayed Ole Miss students who were protesting President Obama’s re-election (2012)
  2574. Newsweek’s post re-election cover read, “GOP: You’re old, you’re white, you’re history” (2012)
  2575. After Obama’s re-election, MSNBC’s Toure said, “The White House is staying black!” (2012)
  2576. MSNBC’s Chuck Todd: Pelosi ran again because she didn’t want a white male running the caucus
  2577. Alec Baldwin: Secessionists should call their new country “United States of Caucasia”
  2578. Democrats said that the GOP was “battering” and “mugging” Susan Rice because she’s a black woman
  2579. Congressional Black Caucus accused John McCain (R-AZ) of “sexism and racism” (November 2012)
    2580. “It is a shame that anytime something goes wrong, they pick on women and minorities.” ~Congresswoman Marcia Fudge (D-OH) prior to taking over the Congressional Black Caucus (2012)
    “To batter this woman because they don’t feel they have the ability to batter President Obama is something we the women are not going to stand by and watch. Their feckless and reckless speculation is unworthy of their offices as senators.” ~Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI)
    “We will not allow a brilliant public servant’s record to be mugged to cut off her consideration to be secretary of state.” ~D.C. delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (November 2012)
  2580. James Clyburn (D-SC): Describing Susan Rice as “incompetent” is racial “code word” (2012)
  2581. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL): GOP “got whiter and more male” (November 2012)
  2582. Obama’s post-election “constituency groups” checklist offered no options for “whites” or “males”
  2583. Van Jones: Republicans want to let American “dead bodies pile up on the beach” (December 2012)
  2584. Tim Scott was appointed to fill the South Carolina Senate seat vacated by the retiring Jim DeMint
  2585. Radio host Amos Brown tweeted that Tim Scott (R-SC) was “Black only in skin color” (2012)
  2586. Professor Adolph L. Reed launched a racialist attack against Tim Scott in The New York Times (2012)
  2587. Professor Adolph L. Reed twice described Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) as a “token” black in the GOP
  2588. After the Sandy Hook massacre, CNN’s Don Lemon asked, ‘Should we start profiling white men?’
  2589. MSNBC claimed that people against gun control are scared of “black and brown people” rising up
  2590. Yvette Clark (D-NY) said that John Boehner is crazy just like Bush was during Hurricane Katrina
  2591. MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry argued that Justice Clarence Thomas doesn’t represent blacks
  2592. Colin Powell argued that calling President Obama “lazy” has racial roots (January 2013)
  2593. Danny Glover revised history by claiming that the Second Amendment was for protecting slavery (2013)
  2594. Five people were shot in a gun-free zone in New Orleans along a Martin Luther King parade route (2013)
  2595. Opponents of Bloomberg’s soda size limit in NYC questioned its racial fairness (January 2013)
  2596. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that obesity rates are higher among minorities
  2597. Lego was accused of racism with their Star Wars set because it resembled a Turkish mosque (2013)
  2598. Coke Super Bowl ad was called “racist” for depicting an Arab walking through the desert with a camel
  2599. In 1991, ADC complained that lyrics in Walt Disney animated film “Aladdin” were racist
  2600. Nine former black contestants sued FOX for racism after they were rejected from American Idol (2013)
  2601. Steven Spielberg’s movie “Lincoln” falsely claimed that Connecticut voted against outlawing slavery
  2602. In fact, all four Connecticut congressmen backed the amendment in a vote (January 1865)
  2603. Nkosi Thandiwe shot 3 white women because of anti-white ideas he learned at a university (July 2011)
    2604. “I was trying to prove that Europeans had colonized the world, and as a result of that, we see a lot of evil today. In terms of slavery, it was something that needed to be answered for. I was trying to spread the message of making white people mend.” ~Convicted killer Nkosi Thandiwe testifying in court

    Obama’s campaign claimed that he “has worked hard for the African American community”

  2604. Obama campaign claimed that Obama “has worked hard for the African American community”
  2605. Black unemployment rate under Obama is more than 50% higher than it was under President Bush
  2606. Unemployment rate for blacks in the U.S. is at the highest rate in 27 years (since 1984)
  2607. Percentage of black males without jobs is at the highest level since records first kept in 1972
  2608. Unemployment rate for blacks has rose from 14.7% to 16.7% since the “end of the recession”
  2609. Thousands lined up for jobs at a job fair in Georgia sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus
  2610. BLS data shows that black unemployment increased from 13.6% in May to 14.4% in June (2012)
  2611. For black youths aged 16 to 19, the unemployment rate was 39.3% by June 2012
  2612. CBC Chair Emanuel Cleaver: We’d be “marching on the White House” if not for Obama
  2613. Cleaver described Obama’s debt-ceiling compromise as a “sugar-coated Satan sandwich”
  2614. Obama told the Black Caucus: “Shake it off. Stop complaining. Stop grumbling. Stop crying”
  2615. CBC’s Maxine Waters (D-CA) said that Obama would never tell Jews or gays to stop complaining
  2616. Twenty-seven percent of black Americans now live in poverty, up two percent since 2009
  2617. Unemployment rate for black Americans stands at a staggering 14.1% (August 2012)
  2618. White Americans ($110,729) now have 22 times more wealth than black Americans ($4,995)
  2619. From June 2009 to June 2012, real median annual household income for black Americans fell 11.1% from $36,567 down to $32,498 (compared to a drop of 5.2% for whites and 4.1% for Hispanics)
  2620. Census shows that 26.4% of households receiving food stamps are African American, despite the fact that black Americans constitute just 13% of the total population in the United States
  2621. AARP found that home foreclosure rates for blacks over the age of 50 were almost double of whites
  2622. Study found that High School graduation rates for African American students was just 63.5%
  2623. Study found that black Americans felt less empowered under Obama than they once did (October 2012)
    2624. “Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.” ~Frederick Douglass, speaking on the 24th anniversary of Emancipation in Washington, D.C. (April 1886)
  2624. Residents of south and west Chicago complained that, “it is the black Democratic leadership implementing a liberal agenda” that is to blame for the ongoing plight in their community
  2625. NAACP President Benjamin Jealous admitted that blacks are doing worse under President Obama (2013)

    2626. Politicians and the media used Trayvon Martin to incite racial tension between blacks and whites

  2626. Trayvon Martin was shot to death in apparent self-defense by George Zimmerman in Florida
  2627. Witness said he saw Trayvon attacking Zimmerman “MMA style” just prior to the shooting
  2628. Medical evidence showed Trayvon with bruised knuckles and Zimmerman with a broken nose
  2629. Zimmerman, a Hispanic and registered Democrat, served as a neighborhood watch captain
  2630. Mainstream media outlets falsely reported George Zimmerman as being “white”
  2631. George Zimmerman is half-Hispanic and identifies himself as being Hispanic
  2632. George Zimmerman’s grandfather (on his mother’s side) is black
  2633. Reuters and others in the media later described George Zimmerman as being a “white Hispanic”
  2634. Gwen Ifill and PBS joined the racial mob with false references to Zimmerman as being “white”
  2635. NBC tried to make George Zimmerman look like a racist by deliberately distorting his 911 call
  2636. NBC maliciously edited audio from a 911 call and broadcasted that audio on “The Today Show”
  2637. NBC later apologized and announced an internal investigation of the edited 911 tape
  2638. NBC News president claimed that the Zimmerman audio was removed by ‘mistake, not deliberate’
  2639. NBC fired an anonymous producer late on Friday before the Easter holiday weekend (2012)
  2640. NBC fired two more employees in the wake of their Zimmerman audio-editing scandal
  2641. Zimmerman later sued NBC, saying the audio was edited to make him look racist (December 2012)
  2642. Washington Post tried to spin for NBC by arguing that Zimmerman should be tried as a “public figure”
  2643. New York Times falsely alleged that Zimmerman volunteered information about Trayvon’s race
  2644. ABC released distorted video of Zimmerman to make him look uninjured at the police station
  2645. ABC later released high-definition video showing a clear wound on Zimmerman’s head
  2646. CNN’s Anderson Cooper alleged that Zimmerman muttered “fu*king coons” on the 911 tape
  2647. After enhancing the audio, CNN changed their account to Zimmerman saying “fu*king cold”
  2648. Another CNN expert analyzed the audio and concluded that Zimmerman said the word “punks”
  2649. CNN’s response to their mistake was that, “Sometimes we hear what we want to hear”
  2650. Media released the name of the 13-year-old who witnessed Trayvon attacking Zimmerman
  2651. Sharpton and MSNBC falsely claimed that Trayvon Martin’s body was left in the morgue for three days without notifying his parents
  2652. Huffington Post repeated Sharpton’s claim that he was treated like “a worthless piece of meat”
  2653. CNN’s Soledad O’Brien predictably pushed the racial angle in the Trayvon Martin case
  2654. O’Brien previously tried to smother Obama’s relationship with Critical Race Theorist Derrick Bell
  2655. O’Brien had given a positive review of a radical speech delivered by Jeremiah Wright (2008)
  2656. Jeremiah Wright gave CNN’s Soledad O’Brien and Roland Martin a shout-out from the podium
    2657. “…An additional special thank you is offered to Soledad O’Brien for CNN’s outstanding Black in America [series], and my long-term friend, Roland Martin. I believe that change is going to come…” ~Rev. Jeremiah Wright (April 27, 2008)

  2657. AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker said that it is “conservative, right-wing policies that are to blame” for Trayvon Martin’s death (March 2012)
  2658. Media Matters’ MJ Rosenberg accused Matt Drudge of using a fake photo to incite racial tension
    2659. “Racist demagogue Drudge continues to run photo of some kid, not Trayvon for incitement purposes.” ~Tweet sent out by Media Matters blogger MJ Rosenberg
    “Matt Drudge has done more to debase American news coverage than anyone in history of country.” ~Message retweeted by Media Matters blogger MJ Rosenberg
    “Mixed up Drudge photo of Trayvon w Michelle Malkin’s. Malkin’s is an admitted fake. Drudge? Don’t know. Sorry.” ~Apology Tweet later sent out by MJ Rosenberg after he realized his mistake about the Drudge Report photo being a fake

  2659. When looked to for leadership President Obama said, “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”
  2660. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) claimed that “Trayvon was hunted down like a dog, shot in the street”
  2661. Hank Johnson (D-GA): Trayvon “was executed for walking while black in a gated community”
  2662. Maxine Waters (D-CA) told CNN: “I, personally, really truly believe this is a hate crime”
  2663. Ex-Black Panther Bobby Rush (D-IL) was removed from the House floor for wearing a hoodie
  2664. Democrats sponsored a resolution blaming “racial bias” for Trayvon Martin’s shooting
  2665. Democrat politicians pushed for new race and gun laws based on the Trayvon Martin case
  2666. Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI) blamed Republicans, yet signed ‘Stand Your Ground’ in 2006
  2667. Janet Napolitano signed ‘Stand Your Ground’ law for Arizona while governor in 2006
  2668. Joe Biden suggested that Trayvon Martin’s death should spark a national gun law debate
  2669. Van Jones referred to “Trayvon Williams” while trying to rip ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws
  2670. House Democrats offered a ‘Trayvon Amendment’ to punish states for ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws
  2671. House Democrats invited Trayvon’s parents to testify before Congress hoping for political gain
  2672. Spike Lee tweeted out the address of an elderly couple thinking it was Zimmerman’s address
  2673. Spike Lee helped raise $1.6 million for President Obama’s re-election campaign
  2674. Roseanna Barr tweeted out Zimmerman’s parents’ address and threatened to go to their house
  2675. Jesse Jackson said that Trayvon Martin’s death shows how “blacks are under attack” (2012)
  2676. Jackson also said that Trayvon was “murdered and martyred” and warned, “No justice, no peace”
  2677. Jesse Jackson: “Targeting, arresting, convicting blacks and ultimately killing us is big business”
  2678. Jesse Jackson called on black Americans to wear hoodies to polling places
  2679. Al Sharpton warned that protests will “move to the next level” if Zimmerman was not arrested
  2680. Former NAACP leader accused Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson of ‘exploiting’ Trayvon’s death
  2681. Louis Farrakhan predicted “retaliation” would come “soon and very soon”
  2682. New Black Panther chief of staff Hashim Nzinga was arrested on charges of gun possession
  2683. Hashim Nzinga was previously convicted for felony deposit account fraud
  2684. Hashim Nzinga announced a $10,000 reward for the “capture” of George Zimmerman (2012)
    2685. “Murdered in cold blood. Child killer of Trayvon Martin – Wanted dead or alive.” ~New Black Panthers flyer circulated during a press conference in Jacksonville, Florida

  2685. New Black Panthers organized a violent, hate-filled Trayvon Martin April 9th Day of Action
  2686. New Black Panther Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz discussed inciting racial tensions by picturing George Zimmerman with a noose around his neck on the cover of the NBPP newspaper (May 2012)
  2687. Protesters supporting Trayvon Martin ransacked a Walgreens store in North Miami Beach
  2688. Obama’s own Department of Homeland Security video featured a “terrorist” wearing a hoodie
  2689. Obama’s re-election campaign sold 2012 hoodies to “let everyone know whose team you’re on”
  2690. Attorney General Eric Holder invoked Trayvon’s name while speaking to the Detroit NAACP
  2691. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) described the Trayvon killing as “a modern-day lynching” (2012)
  2692. Congresswoman Corrine Brown (D-FL), unable to recall the name of a slain white murder victim in her district, responded to a reporter’s question by saying, “Always some bullsh*t”
  2693. Protesters wearing hoodies shut down the Sanford police department by blocking the entrance
  2694. George Zimmerman’s special prosecutor, Angela Corey, is up for re-election in Florida
  2695. Special prosecutor Angela Corey made a decision not to bring the case before a grand jury
  2696. Under pressure, Zimmerman was eventually arrested and charged with second-degree murder
  2697. Alan Dershowitz described Zimmerman’s arrest affidavit as “irresponsible and unethical”
  2698. Rev. Al Sharpton took a victory lap and compared the Trayvon case to Selma, Alabama
  2699. Trayvon was suspended from school twice, for graffiti and for the possession of a marijuana pipe
  2700. Trayvon was caught with a large flathead screwdriver described by police as a “burglary tool”
  2701. Trayvon possessed women’s jewelry, including silver wedding bands and earrings with diamonds
  2702. Trayvon told police that ‘it’s not mine. A friend gave it to me,’ but declined to name the friend
  2703. Zimmerman called 911 and reported Martin, saying he looks like he was “on drugs or something”
  2704. Trayvon’s autopsy showed that he had THC, which is found in marijuana, in his blood and urine
  2705. All evidence supports Zimmerman’s claim that Trayvon attacked him before defending himself
  2706. Waves of black mobs brutalized white victims in the aftermath of the Trayvon shooting (2012)
  2707. On March 17, a white man in Baltimore was beaten, stripped naked and robbed by a black mob
  2708. A man in the mob posted the video and tweeted, “me an my boys helped get justice fore trayvon”
  2709. On March 25, a former U.S. Marine in Georgia was beaten to death by a group of four black men
  2710. On March 24-25, seven white people in Michigan were beaten by blacks as revenge for Trayvon
  2711. On March 26, a Florida man was pulled from his car and killed with a hammer by two black men
  2712. On April 5, a white man from Ohio was assaulted by a group men yelling, “This is for Trayvon”
  2713. On April 9, a group of black men in Florida attacked a white man while screaming, “Trayvon!”
  2714. On April 14, a white man in Alabama was beaten by a black mob in the middle of the street
  2715. One witness to the attack said she heard one attacker yell, “Now that’s justice for Trayvon!”
  2716. On April 14, a white couple in Norfolk, Virginia was attacked by dozens of black teenagers
  2717. Local media buried the attack on the white couple for two weeks despite them being journalists
  2718. On April 17, two black teenagers beat and robbed a white 19-year-old in revenge for Trayvon
  2719. On April 28, two black men in West Virginia beat a white man unconscious in front of his family
  2720. An unoccupied police car in Sanford, Florida was shot up prior to George Zimmerman’s arrest
  2721. Vandalism and death threats occurred in places like Wisconsin, included one instance where a picture of Trayvon was plastered on mailboxes with the word ‘Revenge’ and ‘Kill Whitey’
  2722. On May 14, four black men brutally beat and robbed a white U.S. Army soldier in Tampa, Florida
  2723. Trayvon Martin’s mother, Sabrina Fulton, was introduced to the congregation of Baltimore’s Empowerment Temple AME Church as the ‘Mother of the New Civil Rights Movement’ (2012)
  2724. Polling showed that 40% say Trayvon was shot in self-defense, up 25% from March 2012
  2725. Polling showed that most of Florida’s voters (56% to 35%) support the Stand Your Ground law
  2726. D.C. school declared happy ‘Trayvon Martin Day’ to raise awareness for ‘social injustice’ (2012)
  2727. Obama “Hope” poster artist, Shepard Fairey, created a similarly-styled work in honor of Trayvon




  2728. Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) told an honorary graduate at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth commencement that, “you now have a hoodie you can wear and no one will shoot at you”
  2729. Town where Trayvon Martin was shot dismantled the memorial of his death (July 2012)
  2730. FBI released evidence showing that there was no racial bias in Zimmerman’s killing of Trayvon
  2731. Co-workers, neighbors, and friends of Zimmerman all said he didn’t have any racial bias
  2732. Documents also showed that politics played a role, such as Sanford Police Sgt. Arthur Barns saying that the black community “would be in an uproar” if George Zimmerman wasn’t charged
  2733. Prosecutors “mistakenly” released a photo of a dead Trayvon and Zimmerman’s college records
  2734. When unlocked, Trayvon’s cellphone revealed a treasure trove of information to state prosecutors
  2735. Defense attorney Mark O’Mara told a judge that the prosecution wasn’t forthcoming with evidence
  2736. Phone records given to O’Mara excluded the data from February 26, 2012, the date of the event
    2737. “Maybe it’s coincidence, but I’m way past [believing it’s] coincidence.”
    ~Defense Attorney Mark O’Mara
  2737. Trayvon’s cell phone records provided to O’Mara also had missing phone calls and text messages
  2738. Prosecutors failed to provide enough information about the young woman on the phone with Trayvon
  2739. Defense Attorney Mark O’Mara sough to subpoena her Twitter and Facebook records
  2740. Judge authorized subpoenas for the 18-year-old woman, but prosecutors stonewalled O’Mara’s efforts
  2741. O’Mara’s motion cited a long battle to get cleaner and more easily understood audio from a recording of the woman made by Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump and ABC News (March 2012)
  2742. O’Mara wrote the phone conversation lasted 26 minutes, but the recording was only 14 minutes
  2743. According to O’Mara’s motion, the phone recording also has “at least seven starts, stops and edits”
  2744. Zimmerman’s brother said that George supported Obama and wanted to end the “club of white men”
  2745. Robert Zimmerman said he felt that his family was bullied by President Obama (February 2013)
  2746. Zimmerman’s family required security for everyday tasks and had to move around to avoid targeting
    2747. “Here was this president, from the backdrop of the Rose Garden, making comments about someone based on his skin color. I think we felt bullied, we were a little let down initially, and that disappointment grew because if you don’t have the support of at least the law on your side, of the most powerful man in the Western Hemisphere reminding the world that it is entitled to watch, reminding Americans that the world is watching and that we will get through this with due process, but instead bringing up statements about his skin color… it was alarming to say the least.” ~Robert Zimmerman, brother of George Zimmerman (February 2013)

    Most Americans say they have little or no trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly

  2747. Repeated polling shows that Americans think the media is unethical and reports with a liberal bias
  2748. Most Americans believe that ABC, CBS, and NBC deliver news with a liberal bias (2007)
  2749. Gallup Polling showed that a record number of Americans (57%) say they have little or no trust in the media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly (September 2010)
  2750. Gallup: 60% of Americans, an all-time high, don’t trust mainstream media (September 2012)
  2751. Pew polling showed that the public opinion of the media has never been worse (September 2011)
  2752. The Hill poll showed most voters (68%) see the media as biased and unethical (July 2011)
  2753. Polling shows that Americans are more concerned about media bias than campaign contributions
  2754. Obama’s true past was intentionally obscured and deemed irrelevant by the state-run media
  2755. Nobody in the old establishment media wanted to cover Barack Obama’s Alinsky roots
  2756. State-media ignored the cause of the subprime meltdown that led to the deep recession in 2008
  2757. Obama became the vehicle for implementing a hidden radical agenda to transform the U.S.
  2758. Obama proudly said he planned to “fundamentally transform the United States of America”
  2759. Obama’s agenda and policies mirror liberal strategies to overwhelm the system for fundamental change
  2760. State-media ignored Obama’s constitutional eligibility to serve as president of the United States
  2761. State-media ignored Obama’s many czars, radical appointees, and shady associations
  2762. Media JournoListers plotted their media narratives together in a secret listserv Internet forum
  2763. Suggested calling right-wing opponents “racists” to deflect the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy
  2764. State-media ignored the exposure of ACORN’s criminality and ties to Democrats and Obama
  2765. The Society of Professional Journalists’ ethical code states: “avoid all conflicts real or perceived”
  2766. Obama, Democrats got 88% of their 2008 employee contributions from ABC, NBC, CBS, etc.
  2767. Cash came from on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and executives
  2768. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews: “I felt this thrill going up my leg” following a 2008 Obama speech
  2769. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann was suspended for donating money to help elect democrats
  2770. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, editor of the Nation, gave campaign donations to democrats
  2771. State-media ignored the true impact of Obama’s health-care agenda on Americans
  2772. State-media ignored the impact of the proposed Cap-and-Trade bill on U.S. and world economies
  2773. State-media ignored “Climategate” leaked emails showing scientists’ corruption and politicization
  2774. Obama and allies in the media routinely invoked Ronald Reagan and Abraham Lincoln comparisons
  2775. Newsweek Magazine printed a story entitled “We Are All Socialists Now” in February 2009
  2776. State-media ignored the Tea Party movement, including the 9/12 Washington D.C. rally
  2777. Tea Party movement was referred to by the media as some sort of derogatory sexual reference
  2778. Old establishment media slandered the Tea Party with untrue charges of racism and/or violence
  2779. Media attendance tallies for rallies were drastically underestimated to diminish the Tea Party
  2780. CBS and NBC refused to show a paid advertisement opposing the Ground-Zero Mosque
  2781. ABC produced propaganda to intentionally misinform Americans about Arizona’s SB1070 law
  2782. MSNBC admitted their liberal bias against the Tea Party while discussing union protest signs
  2783. MSNBC edited video of a black gun-carrying Obamacare protestor to make them look racist
    2784. “A man at a pro-health care reform rally… wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip… white people showing up with guns.”
    ~MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer reporting along with the edited video, failed to mention that the man she was describing was black (which was edited out)
    “There is tremendous anger in this country about government, the way government seems to be taking over the country, anger about a black person being president… we see these hate groups rising up and this is definitely part of that.” ~Pop culture analyst Toure discussing the supposed racism in the anti-Obamacare protests during MSNBC’s Morning Meeting program hosted by Dylan Ratigan
    MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan agreed: “…then they get the variable of a black president on top of all these other things and that’s the move – the cherry on top, if you will, to the accumulated frustration for folks.” ~August 18, 2009

  2784. NPR CEO declared that Juan Williams’ “views should stay between himself and his psychiatrist”
  2785. NPR CEO Vivian Schiller apologized for the handling of Juan Williams’ termination from NPR
  2786. NPR’s Ron Schiller said he was “very proud of” how NPR fired Juan Williams
  2787. NPR’s Vivian Schiller said that federal funding was very important for NPR to deliver news
  2788. NPR’s Ron Schiller claimed that NPR “would be better off without federal funding”
  2789. Vivian Schiller claimed NPR held no bias and sought examples of bias, of which there are many
  2790. NPR executive Ron Schiller spoke candidly to fake Muslim donors associated with the M.B.
  2791. NPR’s Ron Schiller lamented the lack of Muslim voices on the air and in our education system
  2792. NPR’s Ron Schiller trashed Republicans, Tea Partiers, and those “weird evangelical” Christians
  2793. NPR’s Ron Schiller claimed that the Tea Party was fanatically involved in people’s personal lives
  2794. NPR’s Ron Schiller claimed the Republican Party was taken over by radical, racist, Islamaphobes
  2795. NPR’s Ron Schiller claimed the Tea Party was “xenophobic,” “gun-toting,” and “racist people”
  2796. NPR’s Ron Schiller described liberals as more intelligent and informed than conservatives
  2797. Ron Schiller lamented “that the educated, so-called elite in this country” is too small a percentage
  2798. NPR’s Ron Schiller described liberals as “more educated, fair and balanced then conservatives”
  2799. Ron Schiller reassured the fake Muslims that you won’t find “Zionist or pro-Israel” ideas at NPR
  2800. Both Ron Schiller and Vivian Schiller were forced out of NPR in wake of the O’Keefe video sting
  2801. Vivian Schiller was later hired by NBC to run the new NBC News Digital platform (July 2012)
  2802. NPR broke the law by rallying audiences to contact Congress to fight the GOP’s spending cuts
  2803. NPR hired lobbyists to help protect their public funding stream from American taxpayers
  2804. NPR host Michele Norris stepped down after her husband joined the Obama campaign (2011)
  2805. Broderick Norris was an advisor to Obama’s 2008 campaign and to John Kerry’s 2004 campaign
  2806. State-media ignores evidence of Islamic terrorism as part of a larger, radical Islamic movement
  2807. State-media ignored Obama’s support for the exile of the Marxist Honduran president
  2808. State-media ignored Obama’s involvement to halt of Jewish residential construction in Israel
  2809. State-media made excuses for Obama’s inaction during the Iranian freedom protests
  2810. State-media argued that Obama could not interfere in another country’s politics (Libya, Israel…)
  2811. CNN wildly misquoted Senator Kyl while interviewing the Planned Parenthood president
  2812. CNN’s Piers Morgan said, “I’m quite an Obama fan,” yet dismayed at Guantanamo being open
  2813. Former CIA counterterrorism analyst told CNN, “You’re just carrying the water for Mr. Obama”
  2814. CNN’s reporting on past political sex scandals left out Eliot Spitzer (client #9), then a CNN host
  2815. POLITICO’s Roger Simon called (telepromptered) Obama the “greatest orator of modern times”
  2816. Time magazine editor: Quran is ‘directly the word of God,’ the Bible just a book ‘written by man’
  2817. Washington Post and CBS received six-figure sums from an Obamacare fund
  2818. MSNBC’s Matthews congratulated David Brock for “removing his competition” from Fox News
  2819. Media Matters had named MSNBC’s Chris Matthews “Misinformer of the Year” back in 2005
  2820. Bill Press admits: MSNBC could not do their shows without David Brock and Media Matters
  2821. Washington Post and CBS employees received thousands of dollars from an Obamacare’s ERRP
  2822. Old Media would be up in arms if a GOP president cast opposition’s budget as Un-American
  2823. CBS used old union protest footage to depict opposition to a Tea Party speech by Sarah Palin
  2824. Old media ignored the hypocrisy of Obama attacking Libya without approval from Congress
  2825. Old media ignored the hypocrisy of Obama using signing statements despite campaign promises
  2826. White House press neglected to report on the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ party to protect Obama
  2827. Donald Trump to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos: “Obama and his minions have co-opted you”
  2828. George Stephanopoulos said that he doesn’t believe that there’s a liberal bias in the media (2012)
  2829. George Stephanopoulos is the chief political correspondent for ABC News and the co-anchor of the ABC morning news program, “Good Morning America”
  2830. Prior to joining ABC, Stephanopoulos was a senior political adviser to Clinton’s 1992 campaign
  2831. Stephanopoulos later served as Clinton’s White House Communications Director for two years
  2832. From 1997 to 2000, Stephanopoulos and Barack Obama were part of a small group at Harvard University that met for three years purportedly to promote involvement with U.S. community institutions
  2833. Participants at the Saguaro Seminars research project included many individuals with ties to Obama
  2834. Saguaro Seminars’ signature effort was a study published in 2000 recommending Americans to participate more with community groups to build “civic trust among Americans and their communities”
  2835. Activists from the research project were later appointed to positions in the Obama administration
  2836. Harvard’s Saguaro Seminars consisted of individuals who have either been instrumental in promoting President Obama’s agenda or have used their positions of influence on his behalf
  2837. Obama to Ben Watson: “Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, all right?”
  2838. CBS editors refused to release the full audio of Obama’s offensive hot mic recording
  2839. Barbara Walters: I’d “hate to be a Republican” running against President Obama in 2012
  2840. Barbara Walters said only Obama “was the one who had the courage and the guts and the coolness”
  2841. Reuters and AP described staging Obama photos after the TV announcement of bin Laden’s death
  2842. NBC twice omitted part of the Pledge of Allegiance during it’s U.S. Open golf tournament
  2843. Michelle Obama: “Fortunately, we have help from the media,” including “support” and “kindness”
  2844. NBC News mentioned the jet tax loophole twice, but ignored that it was part of Obama’s stimulus
  2845. An executive at NBC’s parent company raised $1.2 million for President Obama
  2846. Richard Stengel of Time Magazine was presented as an expert on the U.S. Constitution on NPR
  2847. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in 2011: Nancy Pelosi was the “strongest House speaker in 50 years”
  2848. Soros-funded Media Matters fabricated a “right-wing media controversy” during debt talks
  2849. ABC News’ Stephanopoulos saluted Obama saying “He’s done remarkably well…” (July 2011)
  2850. CNN: Tea Party ‘hijacked’ GOP preventing Obama from becoming ‘transformational president’
  2851. MSNBC removed a host that was critical of Obama because Washington didn’t like his “tone”
  2852. MSNBC replaced the disgruntled host, Cenk Uyguy, with homophobic race-baiter Al Sharpton
  2853. Sharpton had supported Comcast as it sought FCC approval for the takeover of NBCUniversal
  2854. MSNBC hired a host who previously campaigned for the business goals of their parent company
  2855. Al Sharpton presented a National Action Network award to Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC
  2856. Black Journalist Association was upset that Sharpton is a liberal activist and not a journalist
  2857. Obama instructed the White House Press Corps: “When you go out there and write your stories…”
  2858. Reuters misused the term “right-wing” or “far-right” 25 times to describe the Oslo terrorist
  2859. N.Y. Times reporter advised the White House about Twitter usage during the debt-ceiling debate
  2860. MSNBC host and his guest psychoanalyzed Tea Party members as “delusional” and “addicts”
  2861. Thomas Friedman compared the Tea Party to Hezbollah
  2862. New York Times called the Tea Party terrorists waging a “jihad” on the American people
  2863. Newsweek used an unflattering photo of Michele Bachmann, calling her “The Queen of Rage”
  2864. NBC News’ Thomas Roberts called GOP opposition to government spending an “act of treason”
  2865. MSNBC held pep rally coverage favoring Democrats during the 2011 Wisconsin recall elections
  2866. CNBC analyst described Tea Partiers as “freaked out white men who are unemployed”
  2867. N.Y. Times published a character assassination article against Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA)
  2868. N.Y. Times article was full of blatant distortions, exaggerations, and outright lies
  2869. N.Y. Times article was intended to undercut Issa’s ‘Fast and Furious’ gun-running investigation
  2870. N.Y. Times, refusing to retract the story, issued at least four corrections on their Issa hit piece
    2871. “Like a lot of America, it basked a bit in the warm glow of Mr. Obama’s election in 2008. The Times needs to offer an aggressive look at the president’s record, policy promises and campaign operation to answer the question: Who is the real Barack Obama?” ~Arthur Brisbane hired by the New York Times to self-critique the New York Times (April 2012)

  2871. NBC fretted over Tea Party “in your face” tactics, but were silent on the Ohio union shooting
  2872. CBS was caught red-handed selling Barack Obama merchandise on its online store in 2011
  2873. Media reported Jesse Jackson’s Tea Party slam, but ignored his comments on President Obama
  2874. YouTube pulled an interview of Jesse Jackson by deceased gunman Shareef Allman (2011)
  2875. Media was silent on Obama’s ‘Uncle Omar,’ an illegal alien, being arrested for drunk driving
  2876. CBS’ Norah O’Donnell said Dan Rather was one of ‘the very best journalists in American history’
  2877. CNN’s John King neglected to ask Jimmy Hoffa about his “SOB” rant against the Tea Party
  2878. NBC News pollsters were “concerned” over President Obama’s negative poll numbers (2011)
  2879. MSNBC ran a SEIU attack ad on Republicans during the GOP debate at the Reagan Library
  2880. PBS omitted a major gaff from Obama in their transcript of his jobs speech (September 2011)
  2881. Progressive media was upset that CNN hosted a Tea Party debate for GOP candidates (2011)
  2882. Media was silent after a liberal activist Miles Kirstan assaulted GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin
  2883. Alan Cummings railed against ‘hatred,’ ‘homophobia,’ and ‘racism’ in the Tea Party (2011)
  2884. ABC News provided an infomercial for Obama’s “Buffett Rule” tax hike proposal
  2885. ESPN allowed Mike Tyson, a convicted rapist, to joke about raping Sarah Palin on its airwaves
  2886. ESPN canceled Hank William’s MNF introduction after negative comments about Obama
  2887. EPSN dropped a commercial for a South Carolina gun shop that it had aired for five months (2013)
  2888. ESPN analyst Rob Parker described Robert Griffin III as a “cornball brother” (December 2012)
  2889. Parker took issue with Robert Griffin III having a white fiancé and potentially being a Republican
  2890. Gallup: Most Americans do not trust the mass media to report news fully, accurately, and fairly
  2891. ABC News found and interviewed a ‘future president’ who wants to tax the “greedy” rich (2011)
  2892. MSM was more interested in Perry’s relationship with a rock than Obama’s racially-charged past
  2893. CBS News silenced one of their reporters investigating the Eric Holder ‘Fast and Furious’ scandal
  2894. President Obama gave his media a “little homework assignment” targeting the GOP (2011)
  2895. MSM: Halliburton crony capitalism was bad, but Solyndra crony capitalism is okay (2011)
  2896. ABC News selectively edited an ‘Occupy Wall Street’ mob to make them look like victims (2011)
  2897. CNN’s Amanpour stood silent as Pelosi lied that Congressmen were spit upon by the Tea Party
  2898. ABC, CBS, and NBC evening newscasts reported on Enron over Solyndra by a 24-to-1 disparity
  2899. ABC’s Diane Sawyer claimed that OWS protests had spread to “more than 1,000 countries”
  2900. Media ignored ‘Occupy Wall Street’ radicals in 88% of their media reports (2011)
  2901. POLITICO’s David Catanese essentially works as a Democrat Party press secretary (2011)
  2902. CNN’s Christine Romans said ‘admit it’ that OWS protests are ‘resonating’ in America
  2903. New York Times reporter Natasha Lennard was an ‘Occupy Wall Street’ activist and supporter
  2904. CNN suggested that Obama should bypass Congress on the economy and rule by executive fiat
  2905. Bloomberg’s Jonathan Alter claimed Obama is “honest” and the W.H. has been “free of scandal”
  2906. MSM was quick to cover the Herman Cain (R) allegations, but ignored John Edward’s (D) affair
  2907. Washington Post ignored sexual assaults that took place during the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests
  2908. Washington Post’s Aaron Blake played class warfare while misreading a chart (2011)
  2909. MSM networks devoted 50 stories to Herman Cain in four days, but ignored the Clinton scandals
  2910. “High-tech lynching:” POLITICO published 90 Herman Cain stories in just 5 days (2011)
  2911. NBC News Analyst: described Herman Cain as a “liar” who should “register as a sexual offender”
  2912. NBC News’ Martin Bashir described Herman Cain as a “dirty old man” (2011)
  2913. N.Y. Times omitted a widely-reported AP ‘Fast and Furious’ article from their drug sting coverage
  2914. Media consented to covering-up trash talking of Benjamin Netanyahu by Obama and Sarkozy
  2915. Washington Post’s Dana Milbank did not think that ‘Fast and Furious’ was a scandal (2011)
  2916. NBC’s First Read attempted to spin Ohio’s Obamacare loss into bad news for Romney, not Obama
  2917. CNN reporter asked Obama: Are the GOP “uninformed, out of touch, or irresponsible?” (2011)
  2918. Chelsea Clinton was hired by NBC Nightly News (November 2011) and then out after 90 days
  2919. POLITICO and AOL/Huffington Post attempted to defend insider trading among politicians
  2920. POLITICO reporter assured a CSPAN caller that congressman aren’t corrupt (November 2011)
  2921. AOL/Huffington Post: “HIT JOB FALLS FLAT” following “60 Minutes” investigative report
  2922. Washington Post’s liberal blogger Ezra Klein breached journalism ethics on numerous occasions
  2923. Ezra Klein was a member of the JournoList club and is an outright activist for progressive causes
  2924. Klein spoke before a group of Senate Democratic Chiefs of Staff before the supercommittee failed
  2925. Washington Post’s Daily Fix writer tweeted out a request for dirt on Newt Gingrich (2011)
  2926. The New York Times buried the White House shooter’s ‘Occupy’ connection in their story (2011)
  2927. POLITICO falsely claimed that new concealed carry legislation violates state’s laws (2011)
  2928. Media outlets avoided coverage of White Housing shootings due to a possible OWS connection
  2929. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews admitted that the media is Left-leaning (November 2011)
    2930. “The national media, which leans a little to the left I could argue…”
    ~MSNBC’s Chris Matthews (November 2011)

  2930. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews told David Axelrod, “This is called friendly territory…”
  2931. Iowa radio host to Chris Matthews: “You’re clearly working for the re-election of Barack Obama”
  2932. ABC journalist Jim Sciutto went to work for the Obama administration in December 2011
  2933. ABC World News reported on illegal gun sales in NYC on the anniversary of Brian Terry’s death
  2934. The New York Times painted Eric Holder as a victim of Fast and Furious (December 2011)
  2935. ’60 Minutes’ edited out President Obama’s claim that he’s the fourth best president (2011)
  2936. Former President Bill Clinton said he thinks the media favored Obama over Hillary in 2008
  2937. NBC’s Brian Williams refused to even say “Fast and Furious” or report on the scandal (2011)
  2938. MSNBC host asked Congressman Michael Grimm (R-NY), “Why are you protecting the 1%?”
  2939. POLITICO, Associated Press (AP), Reuters, AFP, Bloomberg, The New York Times, L.A. Times, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, and Fox News all failed to mention that the judge who blocked sections of South Carolina’s immigration law was an appointee of President Obama (2011)
  2940. Pew Research polling found that Afghanistan was barely covered at all by American journalists
  2941. Media Matters attacked Sarah Palin for her clothing costs, but defended Michelle Obama (2011)
  2942. CNN called for Romney to release his financial records, but yet ignores Obama’s academic records
  2943. NBC’s David Gregory defended Obama against Rick Santorum’s foreign policy criticism (2012)
  2944. New York Times’ David Brooks conceded that Obama was “more liberal than I thought” (2012)
  2945. MSNBC suspended conservative analyst Pat Buchanan (author of six New York Times best-sellers) in 2012 after releasing his book, “Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?”
  2946. Amazon readers were giving Pat Buchanan’s new book high marks by a 7-1 margin
  2947. An unscientific poll showed that 91% of respondents thought Buchanan should be allowed on MSNBC to talk about his book
  2948. AP and NPR defended Obamacare even after health care costs increased in 2010 and 2011
  2949. “Smiley and West” radio program edited out anti-Obama remarks made by Harry Belafonte (2012)
  2950. Politifact is a so-called “fact-checking” column created by the Tampa Bay Times
  2951. Snapshot of Politifact’s website showcased 18 GOP politicians and only one Democrat (2012)
  2952. Politifact attacked a conservative group for raising concerns about the privacy of information published on public recall petitions, but ignored the same concerns raised by the left-wing ACLU (2012)
  2953. After Politifact called Democrats claim that “Republicans voted to end Medicare” the biggest lie of year in 2011, NPR suddenly questioned the legitimacy of MSM fact-checkers (2012)
  2954. Politifact and NPR partnered for Message Machine, a year-long venture to highlight candidate’s exaggerations and falsehoods
  2955. Politifact rated an accurate figure used in a Romney ad as only being “half true” (June 2012)
  2956. Politifact falsely claimed that Obama had the slowest federal spending growth of any president
  2957. Politifact used an Obama donor as an expert to support a claim that women appear to have lost more jobs than men because the male job losses “had already taken place before Obama took office”
  2958. Politifact buried readers in context to avoid claiming as “true” that Obama ate a dog (2012)
  2959. In a Freudian slip, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews accidentally called his station “M-BS-NBC” (2012)
  2960. Oprah Winfrey described Obama as a “masterful leader” who she is 100% supportive of (2012)
  2961. MSNBC’s and Chris Matthews misread and aired wrong job figures to help defend Obama (2012)
  2962. Bill Maher admitted that his HBO audience are “brainwashed liberals” (2012)
  2963. HBO’s ‘Game Change’ creators donated $200,000 to Democrats and gave nothing to Republicans
  2964. Newsweek’s Andrew Sullivan asked on the cover, “Why are Obama’s critics so dumb?” (2012)
  2965. POLITICO used a fake unscientific Facebook poll in South Carolina to slam the Tea Party (2012)
  2966. An actual POLITICO headline posed the question, “Impromptu singing bolstered Obama?” (2012)
  2967. Washington Post’s ombudsman Deborah Howell admitted to being biased towards liberals (2012)
  2968. Media Matters serves as an unpaid investigative and research department for POLITICO
  2969. Despite personally using the same gesture with Bush, NBC’s Brian Williams condemned Gov. Jan Brewer for pointing a finger at Obama asking, “Who have you ever seen talk to the President like this?”
  2970. Michael Hastings admitted that ‘journalists are liberals not interested in facts and truth’ (2012)
  2971. Saying “tea bagging” and “cracker” on the air are okay, but soccer tweets are offensive (2012)
  2972. Daily Kos ousted their blogger, Eric Allen Bell, who cited concerns about radical Islam (2012)
  2973. More than a dozen people formerly employed by national news outlets now work for Obama
  2974. CBS News reporter Roberta Baskin was hired as a HHS senior communications adviser
  2975. Washington Post editor Warren Bass serves as a top official at the Obama State Department
  2976. Time Magazine bureau chief Jay Carney was hired as Joe Biden’s communication director
  2977. Jay Carney was later elevated to the role of President Obama’s White House press secretary
  2978. CBS/ABC/National Journal’s Linda Douglass joined the Obama campaign in 2008
  2979. Douglass led the administration’s communication efforts during the health-care reform debate
  2980. Washington Post’s Shailagh Murray was hired as Joe Biden’s communications director (2011)
  2981. Ex-Washington Post columnist Stephen Barr joined the Obama Labor Department (2012)
  2982. Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Gosselin was hired to write speeches for Timothy Geithner
  2983. Education Week reporter and blogger David Hoff was hired as the Education Department
  2984. CNN political producer Sasha Johnson was hired by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
  2985. ABC/CBS reporter/producer Beverly Lumpkin was hired by the DOJ to serve as press secretary
  2986. ABC newsman Geoff Morrell served as spokesman for Sec. Robert Gates under Obama and Bush
  2987. Washington Post’s Desson Thomson serves as a top aide and speechwriter under Hillary Clinton
  2988. Washington Post reporter Rick Weiss left journalism to for the Center for American Progress (CAP), and now serves as communications director and senior policy strategist for the White House
  2989. Chicago Tribune’s Jill Zuckman is communications director at the Department of Transportation
  2990. CNN/CBS reporter Dr. Sanjay Gupta was considered for the surgeon general job, but withdrew
  2991. Chicago Tribune reporter David Axelrod serves as President Obama’s senior adviser
  2992. Record 19 journalists and media executives joined the Obama administration and leftwing groups
  2993. NPR’s personality Garrison Keillor hosted an Obama campaign fundraiser (February 2012)
  2994. Garrison Keillor personally donated or raised at least $170,279 for Democrats since 2000
  2995. POLITICO editor John Harris argued that voters are stupid by citing anti-Obama polling (2012)
    2996. “POLITICO journalists have a clear and inflexible responsibility to cover politics fairly and free of partisan bias.” ~POLTICO founding editors John Harris and Jim VandeHei (June 2012)
  2996. POLITICO journalist Jonathan Martin does opposition research on private citizens for Obama
  2997. President Obama instructed journalists on how to report his positions on issues as being centrist
  2998. Associated Press (AP) board chairman Dean Singleton offered lavish praise for Obama (2012)
  2999. POLITICO media writer attributed a “Saturday Night Live” Tina Fey quote to Sarah Palin
  3000. Time Magazine listed Stephen Colbert as one of the ‘Most Influential People in the World’ (2012)
  3001. Washington Post journalist Elizabeth Flock falsely accused Mitt Romney of using a KKK slogan
  3002. Elizabeth Flock later “resigned” after stealing work from a peer mainstream media organization
  3003. PBS anchor Gwen Ifill emceed an event honoring HHS Sec. Kathleen Sebelius and Obamacare
  3004. NPR headline spun bad news by asking, “Is slow growth actually good for the economy?” (2012)
  3005. White House lamented, “We can’t do anything about Drudge,” when it comes to silencing media
  3006. MSM ignored the fact that April was the bloodiest month for U.S troops in Afghanistan in 2012
  3007. CNN’s Soledad O’Brien was duped by Brian Creekmur, a fake retired Navy SEAL sniper
  3008. NBC’s ‘SNL’ cancelled a skit mocking Obama for spiking the football on the Osama raid (2012)
  3009. Washington Post attempted to smear Romney with lies and falsehoods from his high school days
  3010. Washington Post ignored Obama admitting to physically shoving a little girl named Coretta
  3011. NBC commissioned Obama’s speechwriter Jon Lovett to make a new sitcom titled “1600 Penn”
  3012. Bill Maher said that we haven’t had a better president since Jimmy Carter (2012)
  3013. Fox News Chief Roger Ailes claimed that comedian Jon Stewart told him that he’s a socialist
  3014. WaPo/ABC poll assumed the lowest GOP turnout in modern history to boost Obama’s numbers
  3015. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes said he was “uncomfortable” calling fallen soldiers “heroes”
  3016. MSNBC host described Biden as “one of America’s most dignified and greatest political leaders”
  3017. Rachel Maddow said, “The less you talk about the election, the more your ratings go up” (2012)
  3018. New York Times preemptively spun the Wisconsin recall results in Obama’s favor (June 2012)
  3019. Washington Post described a 7-point victory by Scott Walker over Tom Barrett as a “close vote”
  3020. CBS chief executive Les Moonves attended a political fundraiser for President Obama (June 2012)
  3021. Les Moonves told the Los Angeles Times that political partisanship is a part of journalism now
    3022. “Ultimately journalism has changed… partisanship is very much a part of journalism now.” ~CBS chief executive Les Moonves
  3022. CBS spokesman Dana McClintock insisted that Les Moonves was not talking about CBS News
  3023. MSNBC allowed Ed Schultz to cover the Wisconsin recall even after he took money from unions
  3024. MSNBC let Al Sharpton cover Trayvon Martin even as he was hosting rallies with the parents
  3025. MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan privately emailed OWS organizers as he covered OWS on his show
  3026. Brian Williams and NBC Nightly News waited eighteen months after the scandal broke before first mentioning the investigation into the gunrunning operation ‘Fast and Furious’ (June 2012)
  3027. NBC distorted Attorney General Eric Holder’s testimony to focus on more recent national security leaks, rather than operation ‘Fast and Furious,’ which was the primary topic of the testimony
  3028. MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski said she was “hoping” that blaming Bush will work again in 2012
  3029. AP hammered Romney for his lack of military service, but ignored Obama’s lack of service
  3030. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell smeared Romney with a deceptively edited video clip (June 18, 2012)
  3031. MSNBC described Romney as “dangerous,” “scary,” and claimed that he “sold his soul” (2012)
  3032. MSNBC anchor mocked Ann Romney for riding horses to combat multiple sclerosis (2012)
  3033. Bloomberg forgot to remove “I’m making this up” note to editor before publishing article (2012)
  3034. NBC News to a GOP representative, “You’re not entitled to those [Fast and Furious] documents”
  3035. ABC World News with Diane Sawyer waited 18 months to first report on ‘Fast and Furious’
  3036. Unlike their aggressive reporting of the 2,000th U.S. troop death “milestone” in Iraq under Bush, ABC, NBC, PBS, and MSNBC did not even report on the 2,000th death in Afghanistan under Obama
  3037. CNN portrayed “Immigrant rights organizer” Mayra Hidalgo as a concerned “college student”
  3038. CNN’s Soledad O’Brien spouted White House spin while covering ‘Fast and Furious’
    3039. “So because the Attorney General does not support gun rights in the way you support gun rights, you believe he should be held in contempt.” ~CNN’s Soledad O’Brien’s biased and clueless summation of a detailed analysis she had just heard from Wayne LaPierre, the Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association (NRA) (June 2012)
  3039. White House and Washington Post coordinated three Romney hit pieces in a row (2012)
  3040. ABC News blasted an Obamacare critique that it used on the Paul Ryan budget plan (2012)
  3041. CNN and Fortune debated whether ‘Fast and Furious’ actually happened (June 2012)
  3042. POLITICO declared Obama falsely inflating $87 into $1,000 “a bit of hyperbole” (2012)
  3043. Washington Post accused Joe Walsh (R-IL) of saying something he never said (2012)
  3044. David Axelrod tweeted the media its marching orders to smear Mitt Romney (July 2012)
  3045. CNN’s Soledad O’Brien thinks that we shouldn’t blame Obama for the job numbers (2012)
  3046. Public radio spun the stagnant job numbers for Obama as “growth nonetheless!” (June 2012)
  3047. ABC News reporter Paula Faris said on “Good Morning America” that the “best news” is that the gas prices “might drop another 50 cents by Halloween, just before the election” (July 2012)
  3048. CNN aired false accusations that Romney broke U.S. tax laws without any evidence (July 2012)
  3049. Dan Rather, now a writer for the website Gawker, praised Aaron Sorkin’s “The Newsroom”
  3050. Fired POLITICO reporter Joe Williams denied that he is a liberal despite clear biased commentary
  3051. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell tried to defend debunked attacks used against Mitt Romney (2012)
  3052. New York Times slammed Romney for foreign finances, but ignored Democrats’ (July 2012)
  3053. AP changed one of its stories to help minimize embarrassment for Obama’s DOJ (July 2012)
  3054. New York Times and Huffington Post employees gave money to Obama’s re-election campaign
  3055. CNN played the song ‘Stupid Girls’ before airing a story about Sarah Palin (July 2012)
  3056. Obama’s deputy press secretary Matthew Jaffe married ABC reporter Katie Hogan (2012)
  3057. AP and NPR used Palestinian propaganda while lying about Romney’s speech to “Jewish donors”
  3058. Media praised Michelle Obama’s $6,800 shirt after bashing Ann Romney for wearing a $900 shirt
  3059. Washington Post/ABC skewed a poll by assuming that only 24% of voters identify as Republican
  3060. NBC released a poll in which Democrats were oversampled (+10) to boost Obama’s numbers
  3061. Quinnipiac and The New York Times released three swing state polls with skewed partisan samples
  3062. Pew Research Center oversampled Democrats (+19) in order to boost Obama’s poll numbers (2012)
  3063. CNN host Fareed Zakaria argued that the America has become “antiquated” and that the system our founding documents created is “dysfunctional” (2011)
  3064. Zakaria thinks that the United States needs to be more like a parliamentary system like in India
  3065. Fareed Zakaria suggested replacing the U.S. Constitution using Twitter and Facebook (2011)
  3066. Writing articles for Time magazine, Zakaria slammed conservatives and praised the Far Left (2011)
  3067. Fareed Zakaria tried to claim that terror group Hezbollah was a model of religious tolerance (2010)
  3068. Zakaria presented arguments suggesting that Obama needs to pass another massive stimulus (2012)
  3069. Zakaria asked Manny Pacquiao if sports stars should be making millions when people are starving
  3070. Zakaria gave Steve Rattner a pass on an ethics scandal so that he could smear Romney (2012)
  3071. Zakaria was schooled by Lawrence Kudlow after touting Obama’s green energy venture failures
  3072. Zakaria was suspended for plagiarizing a piece he wrote for Time magazine and reposted at CNN
  3073. Zakaria penned a column on gun control using material written by historian Jill Lepore
  3074. Zakaria apologized to Time magazine, its readers, and historian Jill Lepore (2012)
  3075. Zakaria writes a separate column for the Washington Post, which was also essentially suspended
  3076. More questions were raised about Zakaria’s 2008 book, “The Post-American World”
  3077. Zakaria used a quote from former Intel Corp. chief executive Andy Grove without attribution
  3078. CNN’s Soledad O’Brien quoted a left-wing blog to attack Paul Ryan’s budget plan (August 2012)
  3079. CNN’s Soledad O’Brien responded to critics, “I don’t think I show bias in my TV show” (2012)
  3080. NBC’s Brian Williams said of Paul Ryan, “Wait until people get a bite out of his voting record”
  3081. Media was obsessed with Valerie Plame, but uninterested in actual national security leaks (2012)
  3082. Mainstream media ignored or barely covered Eric Holder being sued by the House (August 2012)
  3083. Media was uninterested in the political motive of the Family Research Council shooter (2012)
  3084. Denver Post removed Joe Biden’s “chains” gaffe from their version of the AP story (August 2012)
  3085. Labor Department gave $495,000 of stimulus funds to a public relations firm, McNeely Pigott and Fox Public Relations LLC, which ran commercials touting Obama’s “green training” job efforts (2009)
  3086. The “questionable” commercials aired on just two MSNBC pro-Obama shows, “Countdown with Keith Olberman” and “The Rachel Maddow Show,” fourteen times per week for two months (2009)
  3087. The contract used taxpayer’s dollars and was reported as having created no jobs
  3088. ABC, NBC, and CBS refused to broadcast Ann Romney’s convention speech (2012)
  3089. CBS executives instead made plans to show a rerun of “Hawaii Five-O”
  3090. ABC, NBC, and CBS aired Michelle Obama’s speech at the 2008 Democratic Convention
  3091. NBC’s Chuck Todd said a “shadow of Bush and Katrina” hangs over the GOP convention (2012)
  3092. Old establishment media spun, shilled, and race-baited the GOP convention (August 2012)
  3093. CNN refused to broadcast speeches given by Republican governors in critical swing states
  3094. PBS’s Gwen Ifill pushed the false narrative that Republicans are against all regulations
  3095. CNN’s John Berman asked people on the floor of the GOP convention whether holding the convention during Hurricane Isaac was appropriate, but failed to mention Obama campaigning in Iowa
  3096. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Ari Fleischer if the GOP should have cancelled the convention
  3097. CNN’s Roland Martin felt that the Republicans should have cancelled the convention “while a portion of the country is being devastated,” despite no actual evidence of any devastation at the time
  3098. CNN’s Gloria Borger and a panel comprised of David Gergen, Piers Morgan, and John King all agreed that the GOP is too extreme for someone as “reasonable” as Jeb Bush to run for president
  3099. CNN covered Hurricane Isaac without mentioning Gov. Jindal’s complaints about Obama (2012)
  3100. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer pushed the claim that Romney is not “likeable” when interviewing his sons
  3101. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews launched into a racialist rant against Romney on “Morning Joe”
  3102. Chris Matthews was called out for automatically associating “welfare” with “black people”
  3103. MSNBC cut speeches made from minorities from their coverage of the RNC (August 2012)
  3104. NBC News posted clips of only the white speakers at the RNC on their website (August 2012)
  3105. L.A. Times David Horsey wrote that the RNC “puts a brown face on a white party” (August 2012)
  3106. Chuck Todd claimed that the GOP was putting minorities in front to appear diverse (August 2012)
  3107. L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D-CA) argued that the GOP “can’t just trot out a brown face”
  3108. Antonio Villaraigosa told Chris Wallace that the GOP platform “looks like the platform of 1812”
  3109. Antonio Villaraigosa’s appointee, Albert Abrams, was found guilty of stashing child porn (2012)
  3110. Mia Love (R-UT) had her Wikipedia page vandalized with racial slurs following her RNC speech
  3111. Yahoo! News Washington Bureau Chief David Chalian was caught on an ABC webcast saying that Romney and the GOP “are happy to have a party when black people drown” (August 2012)
  3112. Chalian did not comment on Obama campaigning in Iowa, Colorado, and Virginia during Isaac
  3113. David Chalian is a former political director with ABC News where he oversaw editorial content
  3114. Chalian created and co-anchored “Top Line,” a daily political webcast on ABCNews.com
  3115. David Chalian also provided political commentary and analysis for “World News with Diane Sawyer,” “Good Morning America,” “Nightline,” and ABC News Radio
  3116. David Chalian previously served as the political editor for PBS’s NewsHour
  3117. David Chalian helped produce Charlie Gibson’s ABS News interview with Sarah Palin
  3118. PBS’s Gwen Ifill stood behind David Chalian, calling him “God’s gift to political journalism”
  3119. David Chalian teaches a master journalism course at Georgetown University
  3120. Georgetown’s faculty page describes Chalian as a “Master of Professional Studies in Journalism”
  3121. POLITICO later hired David Chalian to serve as vice president of video programming
  3122. ABC News released a hit poll just at Ann Romney was about to speak at the RNC (August 2012)
  3123. PBS shamelessly race baited after the speech given by former Democrat Artur Davis at the RNC
  3124. PBS’s Mark Shields described the GOP as “increasingly a white party in a country that is not”
  3125. CNN only cut to Governor Nikki Haley’s speech after it was almost over
  3126. MSNBC and CNN reluctantly cut late to show the Artur Davis speech critical of Obama
  3127. CNN refused to show Ted Cruz’s speech to avoid showing a Cuban Republican
  3128. PBS’s Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff claimed only that white people were at the GOP convention
  3129. After Santorum’s speech, CNN could only discuss how the GOP was “out of touch” on abortion
  3130. ABC News aired less than two minutes of Condoleezza Rice’s speech at the convention (2012)
  3131. New York Times featured a “son of Satan” photo of Paul Ryan a day after his RNC speech
  3132. NBC’s Garrett Haake sent out a tweet in defense of Obama that mocked Mitt Romney for not believing that “man-made global warming” creates hurricanes (as if they didn’t exist pre-industrialization)
  3133. CBS News political director John Dickerson claimed that “people are better off” after four years
  3134. David Shuster described Media Matters as a “national ombudsman” (September 2012)
  3135. Media blacked out a litany of awful economic news to protect President Obama (September 2012)
  3136. Media savaged Ryan for telling the truth, but accepted Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s bald-faced lies
  3137. POLITICO buried evidence that Obama approved of the original DNC platform (September 2012)
  3138. Reporters used “fake” names to buy campaign merchandise and to donate to the DNC (2012)
  3139. NBC’s ‘Today’ show skipped a planned 9/11 moment of silence for a Kardashian interview (2012)
  3140. MSM reporters were caught on an open mic planning their coordinated attack on Romney (2012)
  3141. Media tried to turn Obama’s foreign policy bungle into a Mitt Romney gaffe (September 2012)
  3142. MSM ignored anti-Obama Democrats, such as those featured in “The Hope and the Change” (2012)
  3143. CBS News president David Rhodes denied that a liberal bias exists at CBS (September 2012)
  3144. MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell wouldn’t play the 1998 audio of Obama saying that he supports “redistribution” because it had not been “verified” by her network, despite having been confirmed by President Obama’s campaign the day before (September 2012)
  3145. CBS didn’t air President Obama admitting mistakes in campaign ads (September 2012)
  3146. AP reported an imaginary crowd in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as the “largest yet of Obama’s reelection campaign,” claiming a crowd of 18,000 in a venue that only held 5,000 people (September 2012)
  3147. Politico and the Wall Street Journal also used the bogus 18,000 figure without actually counting
  3148. Egyptian-American columnist Mona Eltahawy, a favorite of CNN and MSNBC weekend morning shows, was arrested for defacing an anti-Muslim ad in the New York subway system (September 2012)
  3149. Mona Eltahawy often smears together the Islamist “right wing” and the American right wing
  3150. MSNBC doctored a clip from a Romney rally and added false captioning to mislead viewers (2012)
  3151. Mainstream media ignored independent voters as they swung towards Romney (September 2012)
  3152. Under oath, pollster Harrison Hickman admitted that polling was used as “propaganda” (2012)
  3153. MSNBC president Phil Griffin said that he doesn’t think his network is a left-wing version of Fox
  3154. Griffin claimed that MSNBC doesn’t “put out talking points all day” or “lay down” on interviews
  3155. Marist’s poll oversampled Democrats +11 over Republicans in order to help Obama (October 2012)
  3156. Gallup changed their polling methodology weeks before the election to help the Obama campaign (2012)
  3157. Washington Post oversampled Democrats (D+9) in their poll to boost Obama’s numbers (October 2012)
  3158. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews argued that Romney challenging Obama is totally unconstitutional (2012)
  3159. CBS News affiliate in Arizona called the 2012 race for President Obama weeks ahead of the election
  3160. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews mocked a young Romney supporter, telling him to “read a newspaper”
  3161. Time magazine released a skewed poll of Ohio showing Obama with a 5-point lead with a D+9 sample
  3162. NBC floated a conspiracy theory that Mitt Romney campaign might try to rig the vote in Ohio
  3163. MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts instructed his viewers how to vote on gay marriage (October 2012)
  3164. Mainstream networks were silent on the Benghazi disaster during weekly Sunday shows (October 2012)
  3165. NBC’s Meet the Press with David Gregory did not mention Benghazi to protect Obama (October 2012)
  3166. ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos ignored Benghazi to protect Obama (October 2012)
  3167. CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley steered away from Benghazi to protect Obama
  3168. Journalists were overheard on POLITICO’s livestream speculating before a Mitt Romney campaign event that there’s a “40 percent chance he says something stupid” (October 2012)
    3169. “Looks like my snide comment, caught on livestream, was wrong: Romney got the tone just right at this event in Dayton.” ~BuzzFeed’s McKay Coppins seemingly taking responsibility for the remarks
  3169. MSNBC ridiculed Romney for collecting food and supplied for Hurricane Sandy victims (October 2012)
  3170. CBS released previously withheld portion of a ’60 Minutes’ interview that rook place on September 12, 2012 in which Obama refused to call the deadly siege in Benghazi an act of terrorism (November 2012)
  3171. Many journalists, editors, and news personnel have donated thousands to Obama’s re-election campaign
  3172. Exit polling found that 77% of voters agreed with the statement: “The press is more likely to favor one candidate for office over another at the expense of their journalistic objectivity” (November 2012)
  3173. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews suggested that Hurricane Sandy was good because it helped Obama (2012)
    3174. “I’m so glad we had that storm last week because I think the storm was one of those things. No, politically I should say. Not in terms of hurting people. The storm brought in possibilities for good politics.” ~MSNBC’s Chris Matthews
  3174. CBS Praised Obama for his post-Sandy visit (2012), but attacked Bush for the same with Katrina (2005)
  3175. CNN offered tips to post-election “depressed” conservatives who are driven by “fear” (November 2012)
  3176. Jay Leno said to Chris Matthews, “Obama was re-elected, you must be orgasmic” (November 2012)
  3177. CNN’s Sara Sidner was fooled by a faked image of a dead Palestinian child, created by Hamas, and strongly implied that an Israeli bomb attack had been responsible (November 2012)
  3178. BBC reporter helped spread a photo of a Syrian child depicted as a Gaza victim (November 2012)
  3179. MSNBC did not air any negative stories about Obama during the last week of the campaign (2012)
  3180. Pew found that Obama’s media coverage turned more favorable in the final week of the election (2012)
  3181. MSNBC analyst John Heilemann joked that Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was a woman (2012)
  3182. MSNBC host Alex Wagner said that Republicans “will stand on your neck,” “stab you in the eye” (2012)
  3183. ABC and CBS ignored the historic appointment of the only African American Senator (2012)
  3184. NBC reporters refused to cover Chicago Teachers Union’s ties to the International Socialist Organization
  3185. CNN’s Soledad O’Brien’s “round table” on gun control had no opposing viewpoints (December 2012)
  3186. CNN gave anti-gun talking points to Jim Moran (D-VA) during a broadcast of CNN’s News Room
  3187. Kathy Griffin dropped to her knees and kissed the crotch of co-host Anderson Cooper live on CNN
  3188. CNN host Howard Kurtz asked, “What was so awful about” crotch kissing on live television?
  3189. Fox MLB reporter Ken Rosenthal compared the sabermetrics community to the Tea Party (2013)
  3190. CNN’s Piers Morgan slammed down the Constitution, calling it “your little book” (January 2013)
  3191. CNN’s Piers Morgan was caught inflating gun homicide stats during the gun-control debate (2013)
  3192. The New York Times and Time Magazine both announced major layoffs (January 2013)
  3193. Mainstream media outlets placed the privacy of rapists above that of law-abiding gun owners
  3194. CBS’s Bob Schieffer likened Obama taking on the NRA to ‘defeating the Nazis’ in World War II
  3195. Schieffer also compared Obama’s cause to the ten-year hunt for 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden
  3196. Schieffer compared Obama’s gun-control speech to LBJ’s push for civil rights legislation in the 1960s
  3197. In the immediate aftermath of the Sandy Hook massacre, Bob Schieffer claimed, “If [shooter Adam Lanza] had had an Arab name, people would be going nuts about what we ought to do right now”
  3198. MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell argued that federal government can infringe upon American’s “inalienable rights,” including our freedom of speech and Second Amendment rights (January 2013)
    3199. “Well, they can be infringed, because the First Amendment is infringed, I have to obey all sorts of regulations from the FCC, there are things we can’t say in a crowded theater, so every right also carries with it responsibilities and obligations.” ~MSNBC Host Andrea Mitchell defending Obama’s gun grab (January 2013)
    “What’s interesting about that, though, is we don’t gag people before they go into the theater, we punish the lawbreakers. And in the same way, we would argue punish those who abuse the right, but don’t gag law-abiding citizens before they exercise their right. We shouldn’t be registering them like sex offenders, like they are in New York. We shouldn’t be in any way impeding them if they have not committed a crime.” ~Eric Pratt, of Gun Owners for America, responding directly to Andrea Mitchell
  3199. PolitFact’s 2012 “Lie of the Year” about Chrysler building Jeeps in China turned out to be true
    3200. [Mitt Romney] television ad said that Barack Obama “sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China” at the cost of American jobs (2012)
    “Fiat and its U.S. unit Chrysler expect to roll out at least 100,000 Jeeps in China when production starts in 2014 as they seek to catch up with rivals in the world’s biggest car market…” ~Reuters (January 2013)
  3200. Associated Press (AP) defended Obama by saying that he “doesn’t have control of day-to-day weather
  3201. CBS News’ political director John Dickerson said that Obama must “destroy” the GOP (2013)
  3202. John Dickerson said that Obama “must go for the throat,” “pulverize” and “declare war” on the GOP
  3203. Bill Maher argued that “a lot” of the U.S. Constitution is “bullsh*t,” including the Second Amendment
  3204. CNN’s Jim Acosta gushed over Obama’s re-election saying, “I fell like I should pinch myself right now”
  3205. ESPN aired a one-sided segment on Martin Luther King Day to advocate for same-sex marriage (2013)
  3206. ESPN’s Rick Reilly mocked Phil Mickelson for criticizing the high taxes in California (January 2013)
  3207. ABC Nightline’s Terry Moran mocked Rand Paul after Hillary’s Benghazi hearing (January 2013)
  3208. Salon.com posted an article defending conspiracy theorists, including 9/11 “Truthers” (January 2013)
  3209. Gawker writer Travis Oklski tweeted that “cold weather is far worse than the Holocaust” (2013)
  3210. Huffington Post partnered with Goldman Sachs after criticizing them for profiting from a food crisis
  3211. ABC gave Bob Menendez (D-NJ) an interview with no questions about a FBI hooker investigation (2013)
  3212. CBS ran a segment by Louis Michael Seidman called, “Let’s give up on the Constitution” (January 2013)
  3213. CBS’ Steve Kroft introduced Hillary 2016 with an Obama/Clinton lovefest on 60 Minutes (January 2013)
  3214. Steve Kroft on Obama: “I think he knows that we’re not going to play gotcha with him” (2013)
  3215. MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry: U.S. military is “despised as an engine of war by many progressives”
  3216. NBC Sports host Bob Costas argued that Rush Limbaugh was wrong about NBC’s perceived liberalism
  3217. New Republic magazine tweeted a fake picture of Obama skeet shooting and then deleted it (2013)
  3218. MSNBC and Martin Bashir were caught selectively editing another video to make it appear as if a father of a Sandy Hook victim was being heckled at a hearing before the Connecticut Legislature (2013)
  3219. UPI News Service posted the selectively-edited video hours after the heckling hoax was debunked
  3220. Longtime Boston Globe reporter Glen Johnson joined John Kerry’s staff at the State Department (2013)
  3221. Media outlets spun an increase in unemployment as good news to help Obama (February 2013)
  3222. MSNBC tweeted to its viewers to support “gun limits” and divest from gun companies (January 2013)
  3223. Al Gore, the man who created Current TV and sold it to al-Jazeera, called Fox News “propaganda”
  3224. ABC News’ Cynthia McFadden compared Hillary Clinton to Thomas Jefferson (February 2013)
  3225. New York Times “economist” Paul Krugman called for “death panels and sales taxes” (2013)

    3226. Obama to Hollywood: “You’re the ultimate arbiter of which direction this country goes” (2012)

  3226. Hollywood liberals, leftwing elitists, and adoring sycophants protect their “Messiah”
  3227. Child molester Woody Allen suggested Obama be given dictatorial powers (just for a few years)
  3228. Woody Allen confessed that he was eyeing First Lady Michelle Obama for a movie role (2011)
  3229. Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton threw a White House ‘Alive in Wonderland’ ball
  3230. George Lucas even sent over the original Chewbacca to mingle with invited guests (2009)
  3231. Alec Baldwin: financial crisis has “crippled” Obama preventing him from any “new spending”
  3232. George Clooney thinks Obama is the smartest, nicest, most compassionate person known (2011)
  3233. Clooney hosted a fundraiser that collected a record $15 million for Obama’s re-election (2012)
  3234. Hollywood actor Morgan Freeman attacked the Tea Party by describing them as racist (2011)
  3235. Morgan Freeman argued that Obama was “not America’s first black president” (July 2012)
    3236. “First thing that always pops into my head regarding our president is that all of the people who are setting up this barrier for him… they just conveniently forget that Barack had a mama, and she was white – very white American, Kansas, middle of America. There was no argument about who he is or what he is. America’s first black president hasn’t arisen yet. He’s not America’s first black president – he’s America’s first mixed-race president.”
    ~Morgan Freeman (July 2012)

  3236. Singer Tony Bennett: ‘They flew the plane in, but we caused’ the September 11, 2001 attacks
  3237. Actress Kathy Bates: I want Obama ‘to stand up on his hind legs and fight these rat bastards’
  3238. Obama warned Hollywood in 2011, “This election will not be as sexy as the first one”
  3239. Hollywood poured millions of dollars into re-electing Obama while trashing Mitt Romney (2011)
  3240. Chris Rock was giddy for Obama re-election: “He’s going to do some gangsta sh*t…” (2011)
  3241. Robert Redford ripped into GOP candidate Mitt Romney and conservatives (2012)
  3242. Robert Redford begged Obama to reject the “dirty” Keystone XL pipeline (February 2013)
  3243. Cher attacked Mitt Romney and his “racist homophobic women-hating tea-bagger masters”
  3244. Cher, an anti-Mormon bigot, called ‘Richy Rich Romney the whitest man in magic underwear”
  3245. HBO’s Game of Thrones used a severed head of George W. Bush in one of the scenes
  3246. Steven Spielberg was reportedly behind Obama’s failed Bain Capital attacks against Romney
  3247. Hollywood privately feared a backlash to President Obama celebrity fundraiser barrage (2012)
    3248. “You’re the tie-breaker. You’re the ultimate arbiter of which direction this country goes.” ~President Obama speaking to a room full of A-list Hollywood celebrities, including Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Meryl Streep, and Vogue editor Anna Wintour (June 2012)

  3248. Hollywood rebranded President Abraham Lincoln by turning him into a ‘Vampire Hunter’ (2012)
  3249. ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” star claimed southerners were racist, sexist, and homophobic
  3250. Morgan Freeman: “We’re going to be in a lot of trouble if we don’t re-elect” Obama (June 2012)
  3251. Morgan Freeman claimed that those against voter fraud want to “disenfranchise” minorities
  3252. Freeman, 74, is reportedly engaged in a 10-year affair with his step-granddaughter E’Dena, 27
  3253. HBO’s “The Newsroom” actress Emily Mortimer described the Tea Party as a “lunatic fringe”
  3254. Actress Emily Mortimer also described the American public as ‘dangerously uninformed’
  3255. Gwen Stefani hosted a re-election fundraiser for Obama at her Beverly Hills home
  3256. HBO’s “The Newsroom” trashed the Tea Party and those with conservative viewpoints (2012)
  3257. ‘Avengers’ director Joss Whedon ranted against capitalism while praising socialism (July 2012)
  3258. George Lopez to Sheriff Joe Arpaio: “F--k you. You fat mother f--ker. F--k you…” (July 2012)
  3259. Leftists tried to link Romney to the villain “Bane” in Hollywood’s “The Dark Knight Rises”
  3260. Mark Hamill (a.k.a Luke Skywalker) claimed that Romney is “not actually human” (July 2012)
  3261. Morgan Freeman gave $1 million to the Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action (July 2012)
  3262. President Obama’s campaign ramped up their use of celebrity surrogates (August 2012)
  3263. Chris Rock lamented, “I wish we didn’t have to stoop to this level” (August 2012)
  3264. Spike Lee said that Obama “was a savior, black Jesus,” but “expectations were too high” (2012)
  3265. Spike Lee said that he raised $1 million at his Obama fundraiser in January 2012
  3266. Spike Lee predicted that Obama will do whatever he wants in a second term (August 2012)
  3267. “American Pie” star Jason Biggs unleashed an ugly, mean-spirited attack on Janna Ryan on Twitter
  3268. Nickelodeon hired Jason Biggs’ for a cartoon version of the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ (2012)
  3269. Nickelodeon directed children to Jason Biggs’ Twitter account filled with sexist talk of bleached assholes, incest (complete with photos), “cock,” photos of dildos, and Chick-fil-A trashing (2012)
  3270. Nickelodeon stood by Jason Biggs, despite condemning his misogynist tweets (September 2012)
  3271. Colorado Rockies cancelled ‘Nickelodeon Day’ in the wake of Biggs’ misogynist tweets
  3272. Actress Jessica Alba asked voters to pledge their allegiance to President Obama (September 2012)
  3273. Madonna endorsed Obama, telling fans to vote for “the Black Muslim in the White House” (2012)
  3274. Obama apologized at a star-studded Hollywood concert fundraiser for his poor debate performance against Romney by saying that he can’t “perform flawlessly, night after night” like they do (2012)
  3275. Singer-actress Barbra Streisand emailed Democrats in a campaign plea for cash (October 2012)
  3276. Bruce Springsteen campaigned for Obama, but he dissed Clinton for talking too long (October 2012)
  3277. Halle Berry said that learning that she was related to Sarah Palin was the “worst thing you can imagine”
  3278. Lindsey Lohan endorsed Obama on Twitter following the third presidential debate (October 2012)
  3279. Madonna was booed loudly after telling her audience in New Orleans to vote for Obama (October 2012)
  3280. Obama campaign fundraiser and surrogate Beyonce tweeted, “Take that Mitches” (November 2012)
  3281. Beyonce lip-synced her performance of the National Anthem at Obama’s inauguration (2013)
  3282. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was upset after Beyonce did not apologize for lip-syncing the National Anthem
  3283. Beyonce admitted to lip-syncing, but said she did it because she didn’t want to disappoint Obama (2013)
  3284. Singer Usher was allowed to skip the voting line during the 2012 elections (November 2012)
  3285. Oscar-winning actor Jamie Foxx described President Barack Obama as “Our lord and savior” (2012)
  3286. Jamie Foxx joked about killing “all the white people” in his new movie, “Django Unchained” (2012)
  3287. Jamie Foxx said that “every single thing in my life is built around race” (December 2012)
  3288. Leonardo DiCaprio said that Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson encouraged him to say the “N-word”
  3289. Quentin Tarantino’s film, “Django Unchained,” used the “N-word” more than 110 times (2012)
  3290. Quentin Tarantino shocked the press by using the “N-word” backstage at the Golden Globes (2013)
  3291. Donnell Rawlings: “Django Unchained” is a “happy” movie because “we shootin’ white people”
  3292. Harry Belafonte’s advice to Obama was to imprison his opposition like a “third world dictator” (2012)
  3293. Belafonte had previously called Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world,” while praising Hugo Chavez
  3294. Jackie Chan described the United States as the “most corrupt” country in the world (January 2013)
  3295. Jerry Springer admitted,“I am the father of the destruction of Western civilization” (January 2013)
  3296. Roger Ebert falsely claimed that the Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery (January 2013)
  3297. Ebert cited radio show host Thom Hartmann, who once said “guns don’t kill people, inequality does”
  3298. Bette Midler falsely blamed America’s mental health problems on President Ronald Reagan (2013)
  3299. Jim Carrey said that after Sandy Hook, new gun owners’ lives are not “worth protecting” (2013)
  3300. Dave Foley described people who bought firearms after the Sandy Hook massacre as “loathsome”
  3301. Obama’s head speechwriter, Jon Favreau, departed the White House to work in Hollywood (2013)
  3302. ‘Hawaii Five-O’ added an anti-gun tirade against “gun nuts” in one of their episodes (February 2013)
  3303. Chris Rock claimed that Obama knows best when it comes to gun control (February 2013)
    3304. “The president and the first lady are kind of like the mom and the dad of the country. And when your dad says something, you listen. And when you don’t, it usually bites you in the ass later on.” ~Comedian Chris Rock at a press conference on gun laws in Washington, D.C. (February 2013)
  3304. Bradley Cooper met with Vice President Joe Biden on mental illness matters (February 2013)
  3305. DreamWorks Animation, part of the company co-founded by Steven Spielberg, slashed part of their staff

    3306. Americans are rejecting Obama’s and Democrats’ socialistic takeover and the destruction of our economy

  3306. A 2010 ABC/Washington Post showed 92% of people describe the nation’s economy as “bad”
  3307. Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected (70%) the federal mandate to buy health insurance
  3308. Following years of promises and an $814 billion “stimulus,” there was no “Recovery Summer”
  3309. Obama’s Gallup approval rating dropped from 70% down to the low-40’s in record time
  3310. Approval rating for the Democratic-controlled United States Congress hovered in the teens
  3311. Public opinion for Obama’s agenda items and legislative issues are overwhelmingly negative
  3312. 2010 Bloomberg National Poll numbers show most people think they are worse off under Obama
  3313. Recent major polls showed George W. Bush with a higher approval rating than Obama
  3314. Two-thirds (66%) of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction (2011)
  3315. First-term & conservative Democrats are distancing themselves from Obama & his policies
  3316. Scott Brown (R-Mass) elected to Kennedy’s old seat over Obama-backed Martha Coakley
  3317. Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) elected over Obama-backed John Corzine (D) in New Jersey
  3318. Bob McDonald (R-VA) elected handily over Obama-backed Creigh Deeds (D) in Virginia
  3319. Charles Djou (R-HI) elected to a U.S. House seat within Obama’s home district in Hawaii
  3320. A democrat won Murtha’s seat running as pro-gun, anti-abortion, anti-Obamacare and his agenda
  3321. Obama was the “kiss of death” when making endorsements for major elections while president
  3322. Mark Amodei (R-NV) defeated Kate Marshall (D) in 2011 in a district won by Obama in 2008
  3323. National Democrats deployed Bill Clinton and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to mobilize voters in NY
  3324. Bob Turner (R-NY) defeated David Weprin (D) in a district not held by the GOP since 1923
  3325. Turner won the ninth district by running as a staunch conservative and embracing the tea party
  3326. NY-9 was previously held by Geraldine Ferraro (D) and the liberal Senator Chuck E. Schumer (D)
  3327. DNC Chairwoman spun the loss saying that “NY-9 was a “very difficult district for Democrats”
  3328. Democratic donors and strategists commiserated over their disappointment in Obama (Sept. 2011)
  3329. Democratic Party leaders privately felt “betrayed, disappointed, furious, disgusted, and hopeless”
  3330. White House official insisted that the NY-9 loss had nothing to do with President Obama
  3331. Obama campaign had held well over 1,600 events in Virginia prior to the 2011 state elections
  3332. Voters gave Virginia Republicans their largest House of Delegates majority in their history (2011)
  3333. GOP also took control of the Virginia Senate despite extreme gerrymandering by Democrats
  3334. Every Virginia GOP incumbent (52 in the House and 15 in the Senate) won their re-election bids
  3335. Charlie Wilson (D-OH) attacked his GOP opponent for supporting a policy of President Obama
  3336. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA) blasted ‘Professor Obama’ as arrogant and alienating (December 2011)
  3337. Polls show that a majority of Americans do not have confidence in Obama’s decision-making
  3338. May 2010 Gallup polling showed Republicans with highest generic ballot ratings on record
  3339. Democrats scraped nearly all “town hall” events running up to the 2010 November elections
  3340. Two out of three Democratic lawmakers did not hold town hall meetings in August 2011
  3341. Democrats increasingly distanced themselves from Obama ahead of the midterm elections
  3342. Obama scrubbed his website of plans to commit $150 billion to clean energy R & D
  3343. Obama’s campaign promise for clean energy investment was supposed to create 5 million new jobs
  3344. Obama also abandoned his pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through Cap & Trade
  3345. Gallup polling showed Obama’s disapproval rating over 50% for the first time in August 2010
  3346. ABC/Washington Post poll showed Obama with a 52% disapproval rating in September 2010
  3347. Gallup and Rasmussen polls showed Republicans with a historic advantage heading into the fall
  3348. NBC/Wall Street Journal poll: most want Congress controlled by Republicans (9-point margin)
  3349. ABC/Washington Post poll gave Republicans a 13 point advantage among likely voters
  3350. Dissatisfaction with the federal government is at the highest level in 18 years
  3351. Rahm Emanuel, David Axelrod, Peter Orztag, Anita Dunn, and Van Jones fled the sinking ship
  3352. Frank Caprio, a Rhode Island Democrat, said Obama can “take his endorsement and shove it…”
  3353. Pete DeFazio (D-Ore.) said Obama is “going to have a very tough time getting re-elected” (2011)
  3354. Barney Frank (D-MA) became the 17th House Democrat to announce their retirement this cycle
  3355. Army placed on alert for civil unrest due to high unemployment, high food prices, and foreclosures
  3356. Congress set a new low record in the December 2010 Gallup Poll with a 13% approval rating
  3357. Gallup poll shows just 17% of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the U.S
  3358. Obama’s attempts to move to the political center have been more cosmetic than concrete
  3359. Obama’s approval rating dropped in all 50 states during his second year in office (2010-2011)
  3360. Approval rating fell 10.5% in 2010, 3rd largest drop for elected president since Eisenhower
  3361. Polling showed Obama’s approval rating dropping to 42% in March 2011, a new record low
  3362. After being “shellacked”, Nancy Pelosi said, “elections shouldn’t matter as much as they do”
  3363. Previously, Pelosi called the Democrat’s win in NY-23 a big win for health care
  3364. In April 2011, Nancy Pelosi told students that “Obama is what is right for our country”
  3365. Gallup polling in April 2011 showed Obama’s job approval at just 41%, a new record low
  3366. June 2011 Gallup polling again showed an unnamed generic Republican candidate beating Obama
  3367. Bloomberg News poll (June 2011): Only 3 in 10 voters say they will vote for Obama in 2012
  3368. July 2011 Gallup polling showed the generic “Republican candidate” beating Obama by 8%
  3369. July 2011 Gallup polling showed Obama with a 40% approval rating, another all-time record low
  3370. August 2011 Gallup polling showed Obama with an all-time record low 38% approval rating
  3371. Gallup showed Obama with a 26% approval on his handling of the economy (71% disapproved)
  3372. Gallup: American opinion of the federal government sank to an all-time low (August 2011)
  3373. Pew Research Poll showed Obama with a 70% approval, but only from Muslim Americans (2011)
  3374. CNN Poll (August 2011): One in four Democrats (27%) want to dump Obama for 2012
  3375. Half think government is an ‘immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens’
  3376. Gallup: President Obama’s average approval rating for all of Q3 of 2011 was just 41% (2011)
  3377. Obama’s job performance rating among active-duty military dropped from 70% to 25% (2011)
  3378. Obama has the worst approval rating of any president at this stage of his term (November 2011)
  3379. AP-GfK Poll: More than half of adults surveyed do not think Obama deserved re-election (2011)
  3380. A plurality of Democrats think ‘big government’ is more of a threat than ‘big business’ (2011)
  3381. Americans cited Obama being re-elected as their biggest fear for 2012 by a two-to-one margin
  3382. Democrats are voicing doubts of Obama’s re-election chances: “We should have picked Hillary…”
  3383. Some Democrats voiced their “buyer’s remorse” for selecting Obama over Hillary Clinton in 2008
  3384. CNN/ORC poll showed Hillary Clinton with an all-time high 69% approval rating (Sept. 2011)
  3385. Moderate Democrat pollsters suggested that Obama hand the party reins to Clinton (Nov. 2011)
  3386. Former President Bill Clinton described Obama as an “amateur” (2012)
  3387. Bill Clinton urged Hillary to quit her job as secretary of state and challenge Obama in the primaries
  3388. Bill Clinton said that Obama “doesn’t know how to be president” and is “incompetent”
  3389. Only 22% of the country said they were satisfied with the way things are going (February 2012)
  3390. Pew polling showed that only 33% of Americans hold a favorable view of the federal government
  3391. America’s favorability of the federal government fell to the lowest level in 15 years (2012)
  3392. “Saturday Night Live” comedic legend Jon Lovitz described Obama as “a f---ing a--hole” (2012)
  3393. Jon Lovitz is a self-proclaimed Democrat who voted for President Obama in 2008
  3394. Lovitz also tweeted, “The President is lying to get votes… it’s obvious and transparent”
  3395. Beach Boys singer Bruce Johnston described Obama as a socialist and “an a--hole” (2012)
  3396. In Ohio, Obama launched his 2012 re-election campaign in a half-empty Value City arena
  3397. Typically, campaigns never intentionally hold a campaign event in a room that isn’t full
  3398. ABC News reported that the Obama campaign had expected an “overflow” of people
  3399. Obama’s organizers had people move from seats to the floor to project a larger crowd on television
  3400. Anti-abortion protester Randall Terry got 18% of the votes against Obama in Oklahoma’s primary
  3401. In Alabama, 18% of Democratic primary voters chose “uncommitted” rather than vote for Obama
  3402. Texas inmate Keith Judd received 41% of the votes against Obama in West Virginia’s primary
  3403. Keith Judd, or Inmate No. 11593-051, earned a delegate to the Democratic Convention (2012)
  3404. John Wolfe, a lawyer from Tennessee, received 41% of the vote in Arkansas’ Democrat primary
  3405. In Kentucky, Obama lost more than 40 counties across the state to “Uncommitted” (May 2012)
  3406. Obama’s “undervote” was over 30% in many counties in Pennsylvania’s uncontested primary
  3407. Three people overheard New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I-NY) saying that he believed that Mitt Romney would be better at running the country than President Obama (June 2012)
  3408. Governor Earl Ray Tomblin (D-WV), Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Congressman Nick Rahall (D-WV) announced that they would not attend the national convention in September 2012
  3409. Congressman Mike McIntyre (D-NC) refused to endorse Obama for re-election (2012)
  3410. Congressman Larry Kissell (D-NC) refused to endorse Obama and voted to repeal Obamacare
  3411. Congressional candidate Hayden Rogers (D-NC) refused to endorse President Obama
  3412. Mitt Romney set the GOP fund-raising record in June 2012, raising more than $100 million
  3413. Brad Pitt’s mother, Jane Pitt, wrote an anti-Obama letter to a local newspaper (July 2012)
  3414. Adam Carolla predicted that Hollywood media won’t be able to save Obama’s job (July 2012)
  3415. Pat Sajak described Obama’s ‘You didn’t build that’ speech as the campaign’s ‘defining moment’
  3416. Polling showed that a majority of voters blame President Obama for the bad economy (July 2012)
  3417. Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski said that “there’s a war against the economy” (July 2012)
  3418. Gallup polling showed Obama with an approval rating below 50% in all major swing states (2012)
  3419. Clint Eastwood endorsed Mitt Romney saying, “I think the country needs a boost” (August 2012)
  3420. Virginia bakery refused to serve Joe Biden due to the owners’ disagreement with Obama’s policies
  3421. Former Obama campaign co-chair Artur Davis (D-AL) campaigned for Romney (August 2012)
  3422. Niall Ferguson of Newsweek articulated “why Barack Obama needs to go” (August 2012)
  3423. Newsweek’s “Hit the Road, Barack” issue ended up becoming one of Newsweek’s best sellers
  3424. ‘2016: Obama’s America’ shocked the film industry after becoming a box office success (2012)
  3425. ‘2016: Obama’s America’ debuted in the top-top despite being shown in far fewer theaters (2012)
  3426. ‘2016: Obama’s America’ had the highest per-theater average of any movie in the top-20
  3427. ‘2016: Obama’s America’ made more money than four of the major liberal documentaries: Michael Moore’s Sicko (2007 – $24.5 million), Bowling for Columbine (2002 – $21.5 million), Capitalism: A Love Story (2009 – $14.3 million), and Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (2006 – $24.1 million)
  3428. University of Virginia denied President Obama’s request to campaign on campus (August 2012)
  3429. Polling found that voters who identify themselves as Republican is the highest in eight years (2012)
  3430. More voters identify as GOP (37.6%) than Democrat (33.3%), the largest spread ever (GOP +4.3%)
  3431. Voters who identified themselves as Democrat hit a historic low of 32.4% in February 2012
  3432. John Cusack criticized Obama, “Is the president just another Ivy League A—hole shredding civil liberties and due process and sending people to die in some sh-thole for purely political reasons?” (2012)
  3433. Hill polling found that just 40% of voters said that Obama deserves reelection (September 2012)
  3434. Hill polling also found that 57% of married voters think that Obama doesn’t deserve reelection
  3435. ABC News/Washington Post polling found that 49% of registered voters rated Obama unfavorably, while only 47% of registered voters saw Obama favorably, down 7 points from April (September 2012)
  3436. Women registered voters turned against President Obama, falling from 57% favorable and 39% unfavorable in April 2012 to 46% favorable and 50% unfavorable in September 2012
  3437. ABC News/Washington Post poll: 69% believe the country is seriously off on the wrong track
  3438. Newspaper advertising revenue collapsed to 1950 levels
  3439. Plurality of Americans (42%) believe that the polls were skewed to help Obama win re-election
  3440. Lifelong Democrat supporter Lee Iacocca endorsed Mitt Romney for president (October 2012)
  3441. Dozens of newspapers flipped their endorsement from 2008 and endorsed Romney for president in 2012
  3442. The Orlando Sentinel, which backed Obama in 2008, switched and endorsed Romney in 2012
  3443. The Detroit News endorsed Mitt Romney for president (October 2012)
  3444. Florida Sun Sentinel flipped from 2008 and endorsed Mitt Romney for president
  3445. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which endorsed Obama in 2008, did not endorse him again in 2012
  3446. Four of the major newspapers in Iowa, including the Des Moines Register endorsed Romney
  3447. Los Angeles Daily News, which endorsed Obama in 2008, endorsed Mitt Romney for president in 2012
  3448. Chicago Daily Herald endorsed Mitt Romney for president (October 2012)
  3449. Iowa’s Quad City Times endorsed Mitt Romney for president (October 2012)
  3450. Wisconsin State Journal flipped their endorsement from Obama in 2008 to Romney in 2012
  3451. Exit polling from the election shows that Americans support core conservative values (November 2012)
  3452. Hillary Clinton’s former Senate state director, Gigi Georges, endorsed Mitt Romney for president (2012)
  3453. Obama lost the endorsement of the first elected black governor, L. Douglas Wilder (D-VA) (2012)
  3454. Polling found that Obama was dominating Romney -- in Russia (October 2012)
  3455. Polling found that an overwhelming percentage of Russians said the re-election of Obama would better serve Russia’s national interest, as opposed to GOP contender Mitt Romney (October 2012)
  3456. Washington Times ad featured 500 former admirals and generals endorsing Mitt Romney for president
  3457. U.S. military endorsements for Mitt Romney outnumbered those for Obama by 100 to 1 (2012)
  3458. Obama’s job approval rating in the January following re-election is the lowest in Gallup’s history (2013)
  3459. President Obama’s job approval following re-election was 7 points lower than President Richard Nixon
  3460. Viewership of Obama’s second-term inauguration was down almost 50% in 2013 compared to 2009
  3461. Bruce Willis defended our Second Amendment rights during the gun-control debate (February 2013)
    3462. “I think that you can’t start to pick apart anything out of the Bill of Rights without thinking that it’s all going to become undone. If you take one out or change one law, then why wouldn’t they take all your rights away from you?” ~Bruce Willis (February 2013)
  3462. “Hercules: he Legendary Journeys” actor Kevin Sorbo bashed Hollywood’s liberal hypocrisy and ripped President Obama for having “one of the worst records” in American history (February 2013)
    3463. “Hollywood screams tolerance, but they’re the least tolerant people you’ll ever meet in your life. The hypocrisy just reeks in this town. Why can’t we all have a point of view?” ~Actor Kevin Sorbo (February 2013)
  3463. Doctor Benjamin S. Carson slammed the political correctness, health care, and the national debt at the National Prayer Breakfast right in front of President Obama (February 2013)

    3464. Republican & Tea Party gains from the 2010 Elections were the largest since 1946

  3464. The Tea Party stands for fiscal responsibility, limited government, and free and open markets
  3465. The GOP gained a historic 63 House seats and 6 Senate seats following the 2010 elections
  3466. The GOP also gained control of 19 state legislative bodies and 12 more state governorships
  3467. Republicans also gained an unprecedented 680 seats within state legislatures (2010)
  3468. The only Democrat House member that Obama made a campaign appearance for lost his race
  3469. The Democrat running for Obama’s old Illinois Senate seat lost to his GOP challenger, Mark Kirk
  3470. Democrats who lost their seats blamed President Obama and former-speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
  3471. Obama believes Democrats lost because they failed to sell the massive expansion of government
  3472. Gingrich described Obama’s presidency as “the most passive and out-of-touch” in modern history
  3473. Nancy Pelosi was the most unpopular Speaker of the House in the history of Congress
  3474. The Progressive 110th and 111th Congresses are the most unpopular in the history of America
  3475. Pelosi’s bid for House Speaker in the 112th Congress was worst vote showing in 80 years (1923)
  3476. In 2011, voters identifying themselves as Democrats fell to the lowest level since 2003
  3477. Democrats were so shocked at the 2010 outcome that they didn’t have Boehner’s phone number handy
  3478. Reuters/Ipsos poll showed only 17% of Americans described Obama as a “strong decisive leader”
  3479. In March 2011, a Quinnipiac poll showed half of voters do not think Obama deserves re-election
  3480. Conservatives are increasingly outnumbering liberals even in the deep-blue states
  3481. Gallup: Self-professed conservatives (40%) outnumber self-professed liberals (21 percent) 2-to-1
  3482. House Republicans voted to repeal Obamacare, but failed to defund the law via the 2011 budget
  3483. House Republicans engineered the largest one-year spending cut in American history for 2011
  3484. Republicans successfully restored the Washington D.C. pilot school-voucher program
  3485. House Republicans voted to reject FCC rules to regulate the Internet via “net neutrality”
  3486. House of Representatives approved a bill to lift Obama’s drilling moratorium in May 2011
  3487. House GOP passed a bill barring the expenditure of money to enforce the light-bulb ban
  3488. GOP unveiled a job creating agenda including lower taxes, deregulated industry and boosted trade
  3489. House GOP passed ‘Cut, Cap, and Balance,’ a plan to balance the budget and grow the economy
  3490. House GOP passed the “Boehner Bill” as another option to begin reigning in our deficits and debt
  3491. GOP opposition forced the Obama administration to withdraw its $90 billion EPA smog regulation
  3492. Tea Party Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) cut $500,000 (nearly 15%) from his office budget in 2011
  3493. House GOP passed nearly 30 bills designed to grow jobs and the economy with bipartisan support
  3494. Senate Democratic leaders refused to act, resulting in the most futile legislative year on record
  3495. Democrat-controlled 112th Senate was ranked as the most laziest Senate in 20 years (2012)
  3496. House GOP rejected Obama’s request for another $1.2 trillion debt ceiling increase (2012)
  3497. In 2010, the Tea Party and their focus on fiscal issues helped to elect 17 Republican governors
  3498. All 17 states have seen their unemployment rates drop since January 2011 (as of June 2012)
  3499. These states are seeing their job markets improve 50% faster (1.35%) than the national rate (0.9%)
  3500. John Conyers (D-MI) arrogantly slammed the Tea Party as being “small” and “dismissible”
  3501. John Kerry thinks that the media has the “responsibility” to “not give equal time” to the Tea Party
  3502. Kerry said that the Tea Party doesn’t “deserve” equal time because their ideas aren’t “legitimate”
  3503. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) claimed that the Tea Party is “dying out” heading into the 2012 elections
  3504. James Carville sent out a campaign email blast titled: “The Tea Party is Over” (June 2012)
  3505. Al Gore suggested that we needed an “American Spring,” but against the Tea Party (2011)
  3506. Bill Clinton warned that the gun control push was bringing back the Tea Party (January 2013)


    3507. Marxists, Radicals, & Unions joined together to ‘Occupy Wall Street’ to be like the Tea Party

  3507. Community organizers, socialists, and union leaders discussed tactics and strategies to destroy the American economy at the Left Forum on March 19, 2011
  3508. Community organizations and unions pretended to be organizing just like “what the Tea Party did”
  3509. The Tea Party is about defending capitalism, whereas ‘Occupy Wall Street’ is about destroying it
  3510. Wade Rathke, co-founder of ACORN and SEIU, announced a ‘Day of Rage’ on March 25, 2011
  3511. Archived emails between the left’s anarcho-socialist activists detail the strategic planning of OWS
  3512. OWS’s leaders intended to broaden out and intertwine with the ‘Day of Rage’ global initiative
  3513. Purpose of the OWS movements is to create further economic and governmental destabilization
  3514. Van Jones unveiled plans for a progressive “October Offensive” against the Tea Party (2011)
  3515. Van Jones co-sponsored a MoveOn.org campaign titled ‘Rebuild the Dream’ to counter Tea Party
  3516. Van Jones described the United States deficit problem as “phony” and made up
  3517. Van Jones launched a new organization dubbed ‘The American Dream Movement’ in 2011
  3518. Themes: Americans are being lied to and the federal government is not running out of money
  3519. Van Jones’ movement partnered with two of the nation’s largest unions, AFL-CIO and SEIU
  3520. AFL-CIO Present Richard Trumka recorded a video for the Van Jones/MoveOn.org campaign
  3521. Trumka pledged 12 million union laborers to Van Jones’ American Dream Movement (2011)
  3522. Campaign for America’s Future & Center for Community Change joined Van Jones’ movement
  3523. Van Jones and MoveOn.org used kids video to push for universal health care and higher taxes
  3524. Unions and left-wing advocates staged astroturf “angry protests at home” against GOP lawmakers
  3525. Groups included SEIU, AFL-CIO, MoveOn.org, Campaign for America’s Future (CAF), etc.
  3526. CAF campaigns for universal health care, immigration reform, & progressive education initiatives
  3527. CAF routinely features progressive politicians from the Democratic Party at their events
  3528. Nancy Pelosi (D) was the featured speaker at CAF’s “America’s Future Now” conference (2010)
  3529. Jan Schakowsky (D) was honored at CAF’s annual dinner for her “advocacy in Congress” (2008)
  3530. Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) was co-founded by Robert Borosage, who previously served as director of the Marxist-oriented Institute for Policy Studies
  3531. Campaign for America’s Future’s board of directors includes MoveOn.org President Eli Pariser
  3532. MoveOn.org, also funded by the Tides Center, joined the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests (2011)
  3533. George Soros-funded Tides Center has been connected to ‘Occupy Wall Street’ since it began
  3534. Soros’ Open Society Institute provided $4.8 million in grants to the Tides Foundation in 2008
  3535. George Soros’ Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) advertised an ‘Occupy’ event in D.C.
  3536. Campaign for America’s Future (CAF) co-founder and director Roger Hickey wrote on CAF’s website, “They can’t evict the 99%. Tomorrow, come out in NY, DC and everywhere”
  3537. Roger Hickey advertised the ‘Occupy’ event with socialist Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
  3538. Bernie Sanders was a founder and chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus
  3539. Fenton Communications works closely with the George Soros-funded Tides Center
  3540. Fenton developed a communications plan for a campaign called the Al Fakhoora Project
  3541. Al Fakhoora Project sought to delegitimize Israel’s blockade and build support for Hamas
  3542. Fenton signed contracts with Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned, the wife of Qatar’s ruler
  3543. Contracts were worth more than $390,000 for “developing and managing” the campaign website
  3544. Fenton Communications helped represent the anti-Wall Street march past millionaire’s homes
  3545. Fenton unveiled an OWS press release titled “Community Groups and Progressive Organizations Join Together to Plan ‘Millionaires March’ with Occupy Wall Street Protesters” (2011)
  3546. Fenton’s press release detailed how a group calling itself ‘99 New York’ was joining OWS
  3547. Press release was sent to reporters and posted on various Occupy Wall Street-affiliated websites
  3548. The 99 organization is a coalition of unions and community organizations, including: United NY, Strong Economy for All Coalition, N.Y. Communities for Change, and the Working Families Party
  3549. The 99 New York group led the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ march on New York streets (2011)
  3550. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ organizers marched at the homes of Wall Street CEOs for their “willingness to hoard wealth at the expense of the 99%”
  3551. Press release listed Doug Forand and Doug Gordon as spokesmen and contacts for 99 New York
  3552. Doug Forand’s firm Red Horse Strategies has presented scores of Democrat politicians
  3553. Doug Gordon is the senior vice president of Fenton Communications
  3554. Prior to joining Fenton, Doug Gordon worked for years on Capitol Hill for the Democratic Party
  3555. Doug Gordon had also spent seven years as the top aide to Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
  3556. Tea v. Bread = Taxes v. Entitlements: Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said the Tea Party was about “tea,” whereas ‘Occupy Wall Street’ was about “bread,” referring to government entitlements
  3557. Another grantee of the Tides Center is Adbusters magazine, a Canadian-based progressive group
  3558. Adbuster’s website serves as a central hub for ‘Occupy Wall Street’s’ planning
  3559. Adbusters magazine originally came up with the idea for ‘Occupy Wall Street’
  3560. Adbusters admitted being inspired by the Arab Spring protests in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia
  3561. Adbusters urged ‘Occupiers’ to take to the streets of Chicago like it was the 1968 riots (2012)
  3562. Rioting and civil disobedience broke out during the 1968 Democrat Convention hosted in Chicago
  3563. Progressive radicals began by engaging in a ‘Cairo-style’ occupation of ‘Freedom Plaza’ in D.C
  3564. The Ruckus Society trains radical activists in “direct action” protest techniques
  3565. The Ruckus Society receives funding from the George Soros-funded Tides Foundation
  3566. Ruckus is listed as a “friend and partner” of the ‘Day of Action’ planned protests (2011)
  3567. Ruckus Society previously helped spark the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle that turned violent
  3568. Ruckus Society provided manuals to ‘Occupy,’ including: “Blockading for Beginners,” “Anonymous Riot Guide,” “Define White Supremacy,” “Uncle Sam and the Pusher Man,” “Imperialism the 2-Face Monster,” and the Communist Party-connected National Lawyers Guild’s “Legal Observer Manual”
  3569. SEIU’s Working Families Party helped organize ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests across the nation
  3570. SEIU and various progressive groups have funded and expanded the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests
  3571. Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the largest U.S. Marxist group, and its youth wing Young Democratic Socialists, were heavily involved in the “occupation” actions across the nation
  3572. DSA set up a dedicated website to keep their members informed about upcoming events
    3573. “The Occupy Wall Street protests have invigorated the American Left in a way not seen in decades, and DSA has long emphasized the important role social movements play in improving the quality of life of ordinary people. So we have urged our members to take an active, supportive role in their local occupations, something many DSAers had already begun doing as individuals, because they believe that everyday people, the 99%, shouldn’t be made to pay for a crisis set off by an out-of-control financial sector and the ethically compromised politicians who have failed to rein it in.

    This page contains examples of DSA members and members of our youth section, Young Democratic Socialists, participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests, including news articles, videos, and pictures featuring DSAers and DSA honorary chairs taking part in the protests, and personal accounts and analyses from DSAers themselves.”     ~DSA’s dedicated OWS website

  3573. ACORN played a key role in organizing the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests behind the scenes
  3574. Ex-ACORN staff members and current NYCC officials had planned protest events since February
  3575. New York Communities for Change (NYCC) was formed from disbanded ACORN offices (2009)
  3576. Former director of New York ACORN, Jon Kest, and top aides worked at NYCC protest events
  3577. Kest registered the website “Occupy the Boardroom” encouraging protests against bankers
  3578. NYCC employs much of the old ACORN staff and used the same controversial techniques to raise money, interest and awareness for the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests
  3579. NYCC hired former ACORN-affiliated staff members to attend and support ‘Occupy Wall Street’
  3580. Cash donations collected by NYCC from unions and other groups were spent on OWS
  3581. Fundraising donations for the United Federation of Teachers were diverted to the OWS protests
  3582. To help fund OWS, NYCC diverted money that was collected to test schools for deadly toxins
  3583. NYCC diverted non-related union-backed campaign donations to help fund the OWS
  3584. Those contributing to NYCC did not know the money was going to fund the OWS protests
  3585. NYCC was reportedly hiring people to carry signs and join the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests
  3586. NYCC engaged in “serious damage control” after being revealed as key OWS organizers
  3587. NYCC Executive Director Jon Kest called a series of emergency meetings following the reports
  3588. NYCC fired staff, shredded reams of documents, and removed supplies bearing the name ACORN
  3589. NYCC handed out photos of Fox News staff along with a stern warning not to talk to the media
    3590. “They give contributions because we say if they do we can fix things – whatever specific problem they’re having in their area, housing, schools, whatever… then we spend the contributions paying staff to be at the protests all day, every day. That’s where these contributions – the community’s money – is going.” “They’re doing the same stuff now that got ACORN in trouble to begin with. And yes, we’re still ACORN, there is still a national ACORN.”
    ~Anonymous NYCC source

  3590. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ organizers hired people from homeless shelters to help protest for OWS
  3591. Organizers admitted paying some of the OWS protesters, while others were volunteers
  3592. Left-wing emails instructed protesters on how to react to accusations of anti-police violence
  3593. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ organizers brought in left-wing celebrities to attack free-market capitalism
  3594. Michael Moore: “Ending capitalism” was more important than dealing with the Federal Reserve
  3595. Left-wing activist Roseanne wants to behead the wealthy who refuse to give up their wealth
  3596. Jay-Z sold ‘Occupy’ T-shirts, but would not share the profits with the actual protesters (2011)
  3597. Jay-Z: “I think most people with a conscience” wouldn’t have a problem paying more taxes (2011)
  3598. Actress Anne Hathaway (1%) joined an Occupy Wall Street pro-socialism rally (2011)
  3599. Leftist Danny Glover told an ‘Occupy Los Angeles’ mob that they’ve got to be ‘24/7 warriors’
  3600. Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans said she is “part of the 1% who supports the 99%” (2011)
  3601. Jodie Evans helped organize for ‘Occupy Wall Street,’ but travelled in first class during flights
  3602. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ was organized from day one by a SEIU/ACORN front group, the WFP
  3603. Working Families Party (WFP) was founded in 1992 by key members of The New Party, ACORN, SEIU, and a coalition of other labor unions and community organizations
  3604. Patrick Gaspard is the current executive director of the Democratic National Committee (DNC)
  3605. Patrick Gaspard was formerly the director of Obama’s Office of Political Affairs
  3606. Gaspard was an organizer for The New Party and executive vice president of SEIU Local 1199
  3607. Gaspard was also the political director for Bertha Lewis, the former president of ACORN
  3608. Patrick Gaspard also worked as co-chair of the Working Families Party (WFP)
  3609. Radical agitator William Ayers described the ‘Occupy’ movement as a “North American Spring”
  3610. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ released a list of demands on domestic terrorist William Ayer’s website
  3611. President Obama’s “pal” William Ayers held a “teach-in” for ‘Occupy Chicago’ protesters
  3612. Bill Ayers’ activist brother, Rick Ayers, praised ‘Occupy Wall Street’ for its militancy (2011)
  3613. Rick Ayers wants to see the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ tactics “applied to schools” (2011)
  3614. National Nurses United Union, an ally of the AFL-CIO, paid their members to protest at OWS
  3615. Union paid the expenses of more than 1,000 members to march with ‘Occupy D.C.’
  3616. Business partner of Wall Street giants blamed the “1%” for hoarding the nation’s wealth (2011)
  3617. GOOD Worldwide LLC began promoting ‘Occupy Wall Street’ and complained about the “1%”
  3618. GOOD previously was hired to lead marketing campaigns for many corporate giants, including: Apple, Aveda, BP, Ford, Gap, GE, IBM, Jet Blue Airways, Levi’s, Lexus, Kashi, Microsoft, MINI, NBC Universal, Pepsi, Ralph Lauren, Skyy Vodka, Starbucks, Toyota, Virgin Mobile and Whole Foods
  3619. GOOD’s website contained an abundance of pro-Occupy content, including articles in support
  3620. GOOD featured a series of “anti-1%” articles, including photos demanding, “Tax the rich”
    3621. “No plan that included raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans had a chance of earning Republican support.” ~GOOD managing editor Megan Greenwald
    (November 2011)

  3621. GOOD posted “A Step-by-Step Guide to Leaving Your Big Predatory Bank” on October 12, 2011
  3622. GOOD writer Curtis Walker instructed readers to “protest big banks with their own junk mail”
  3623. GOOD writers also wrote about their concerns about Occupy Wall Street’s political future
  3624. GOOD writer warned that “Occupy Wall Street Needs Democratic Friends in Congress”
  3625. Another GOOD writer declared, “Occupy Wall Streeters Aren’t Republicans – Or Democrats”
  3626. Another GOOD writer pondered, “How Will the Occupy Wall Street Protesters Vote?”
  3627. GOOD was originally founded by Benjamin Goldhirsh as a magazine “dedicated to social causes”
  3628. Goldhirsh serves on the board of directors of The Goldhirsh Foundation
  3629. Goldhirsh Foundation supports “social programs, environmental initiatives, innovative medical research and leading cultural institutions”
  3630. Benjamin Goldhirsh also serves on the boards of “Be the Change” and Millenium Promise
  3631. Millenium Promise Alliance is an organization that was founded in 2005 by Jeffrey Sachs
  3632. Jeffrey Sachs is the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University
  3633. Jeffrey Sachs penned a NYT op-ed deeming the Occupy movement as a “new era in America”
  3634. GOOD and Millenium Promise have worked together on multiple initiatives
  3635. Partners of Millenium Promise includes George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, the Soros Economic Development Fund, Soros Foundation Network, and the Goldhirsh Foundation
  3636. Jeffrey Sachs is a key member of Soros’ Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET)
  3637. INET holds an annual gathering of economic giants in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
  3638. ‘Occupy’ demonstrators turned to occupying Main Street during Black Friday shopping (2011)
  3639. Francis Fox Piven said ‘Occupy’ movement must bring about “upheaval of historic dimensions”
  3640. According to Francis Fox Piven, the ‘Occupy’ movement is made up of “All parts of the left”
  3641. Piven proudly stated that ‘Occupy’ included “democrats, socialists, communists, anarchists”
    3642. “We can work together because we have a really huge task before us, transforming America and the World.”
    ~Francis Fox Piven speaking at the Left Forum 2012

  3642. Piven laid out a strategy to illegally occupy foreclosed homes and default on student debt (2012)
  3643. Piven said she wanted Obama re-elected because he is “vulnerable” to Occupy, whereas she feared “repression” from the National Guard if Romney were elected (September 2012)
  3644. George Soros gleefully predicted that the ‘Occupy’ movement would turn violent (2012)
  3645. Soros told Newsweek’s John Arlidge that riots on the streets of American cities were inevitable
  3646. Soros described the ‘Occupy’ movement as “an inchoate, leaderless manifestation of protest”
  3647. Bill Maher made fun of Occupy while arguing, ‘We need Occupy to be our Tea Party’ (June 2012)
  3648. Study of the OWS movement in New York found that many protesters were highly educated (2013)
  3649. A third of the OWS protesters in New York lived in households earning more than $100,000
  3650. More than two-thirds of OWS protesters were actually employed professionals
  3651. OWS was mostly organized by experienced political operatives and 76% were college educated
  3652. Half of the college educated also had graduate degrees and 28% had attended elite universities
  3653. Survey took six months to complete and about 750 protesters were surveyed for the study
    3654. “Occupy Wall Street was not a spontaneous eruption but rather an action carefully planned by committed activists.” ~Conclusion from a study by CUNY’s Joseph A. Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies (2013)

    ‘Occupy Wall Street’ organizers endorsed President Obama for re-election in 2012

  3654. Obama and Democrats fed into the populist anger created by their own failed redistributive policies
  3655. Obama opened the door for ‘Occupy Wall Street’ by going after the ‘millionaires and billionaires’
  3656. Obama received over $18 million from Wall Street since 1989, more than any other politician
  3657. The Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) has accepted more than $40 million from Wall Street, their biggest contributor (over even lawyers and labor unions) over the last 7 years (2012)
  3658. DSCC has already received more than $1.5 million from Wall Street for the 2012 election cycle
  3659. Young Communist League USA organizer is Lisa Bergmann
  3660. Bergmann addressed an international communist front World Federation of Democratic Youth
  3661. Lisa Bergmann boasted of communist leadership within the ‘Occupy’ movement (2011)
  3662. Lisa Bergmann spoke of their desire to harness the movement to re-elect Obama in 2012
  3663. Bergmann and the YCLUSA remain firmly behind Obama and Democrats for 2012
  3664. Bergmann and the YCLUSA expressed their commitment towards guiding less politically active elements in the ‘Occupy’ movement to support President Obama and Democrats
  3665. The communist’s job is to force President Obama to do the things he really wants to, but can’t
    3666. “My name is Lisa Bergmann from the Young Communist League USA. On behalf of our organization I would like to thank WFDY and the Japanese Communist Party for hosting this inspiring, well-organized event and for ensuring that the YCLUSA could be here with all of you today. The Young Communist League USA stands firmly, as it always has, united with all of you against U.S. imperialism, greed, and war…

    Youth in the United States are shouting at the top of their lungs that the U.S. capitalist economic system has failed them… thousands of youth in the United States are taking to the streets to demand a better world.

    Inspired by the “Arab Spring” and other youth movements in Europe and Latin America, the Occupy Wall Street Movement began in the heart of the U.S. capitalist system, and has now spread to more than 300 cities in the United States. Occupy is predominantly a youth movement, calling attention to the unprecedented wealth inequalities that exist in our country… While the participants in the Occupy movement are members of a wide variety of groups, they all identify as part of the “99” percent of people who do not have access to the country’s wealth.

    The labor movement in the U.S. has been one of the strongest allies to the Occupy movement. Other participants in the Occupy movement include peace activist groups, veterans, elected officials, immigrant rights groups, and of course the Communist Party and the Young Communist League! The Young Communist League, even though we are in a re-building phase, has participated in Occupy in every city where we exist, and has even initiated the Occupy chapters in some cities. Leaders of the Young Communist League and leaders of the Communist party have been arrested in Chicago on two separate occasions during police raids on the Occupy movement...

    As I mentioned earlier, The Young Communist League is in a period of re-building in the United States, and has been for the last year and a half. We are making good progress. We held 5 YCL schools in the last year, in Los Angeles, New Haven, Chicago, Florida, and Texas. At the schools we taught classes about Marx and Lenin, the Labor movement, ending racism, and other topics. Also, hundreds of youth are joining the Young Communist League every month online.

    Because youth are so disillusioned with capitalism in the U.S. right now, this movement is a huge opportunity for building solidarity with and awareness of countries where socialism or communism exists as the dominant system. This includes Cuba and the growing anti-capitalist governments in Latin America. This past weekend the communist party and the YCL held a joint meeting on building solidarity with Cuba and the Cuban five.”

    I will speak briefly about the 2012 elections in the U.S. The election of Obama in 2008 was a tremendous victory for the people of the United States and indeed for the people all over the world. The election of our first African American President has been a huge blow to the entrenched racism in our country. Young people are the reason that Obama won the presidency, as he earned 66 percent of the youth vote. Obama continues to push policies that benefit working-class people in the United States. And Republicans continually block these policies to make Obama look ineffective.

    Youth in the United States also have major disappointments with the Obama administration that cannot be ignored. These include the large number of people who have been deported during his presidency due to immigration issues, which exceeds the number deported during Bush’s presidency. These also include his foreign policy towards Libya, Cuba, Afghanistan, and other regions where aggressive imperialist policy has continued. We in the Young Communist League USA look forward to working with all of you to push the U.S. government to reach a cooperative, rather than imperialist, approach to foreign policy around the world.

    That said, the fight for jobs and for real solutions MUST include re-electing Obama in 2012. It is the role of the YCL to emphasize this wherever we go, and to try to push youth in the Occupy movement and elsewhere who do not want to work with any politicians to understand that being absent from the political process is only allowing the ultra-right wing to build power. This is also so that working people can continue to focus on building a viable movement for themselves in the United States, that will be in a position to stand in solidarity with working people throughout the world. Angela Davis, when visiting Occupy Wall Street on October 31st, said that “It is up to US to build a movement. And it is up to Obama to respond to that movement. But he cannot do it on his own.”     ~Young Communist League USA organizer Lisa Bergmann speaking to the World Federation of Democratic Youth in Lisbon, Portugal on November 10, 2011

  3666. Communist parties did not offer a candidate for 2012 because their guy is already on the ballot
  3667. Communist Party writer John Case wrote that “re-electing Obama was absolutely essential”
    3668. “Every Republican governor is trying to do to the African-American and Latino vote that Walker has done to labor rights in Wisconsin: repress and suppress it by any means necessary…” ~People’s World writer John Case arguing for the Communist Party (2012)
  3668. Young Communist League collected signatures in support of Obama’s “American Jobs Act”
  3669. Young Communist League also collected signatures nation-wide in support of Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky’s “Emergency Jobs to Restore the American Dream Act”
  3670. The official ‘Occupy Wall Street’ website vehemently supports President Obama’s tax agenda
  3671. Protesters want to spread the wealth, ‘reboot the system,’ and rewrite the U.S. Constitution
  3672. ‘Occupy’ protesters called for the federal government to seize all housing from private citizens
    3673. “This is a personal possession. I am talking… I am more against private property, not personal property.” ~OWS protester when asked to share his iPad

  3673. Shepard Fairey, artist of the 2008 Obama “Hope” portrait, also created OWS invitations (2011)





  3674. President Obama and Democrat officials cheered on the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters as they shut down traffic and danced in the streets with signs about the supposed wonders of socialism
  3675. Obama told ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters, “You are the reason I ran for office” (2011)
    3676. “I think [Occupy Wall Street] expresses the frustrations that the American people feel… People are frustrated and the protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works.”
    ~President Obama speaking to Americans at the White House podium
    “Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I’m not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut out health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security.” ~President Obama openly mocking the Tea Party

  3676. President Obama and V.P. Biden ‘expressed understanding’ of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests
  3677. Obama said people were angry because Wall Street had not been “following the rules”
  3678. Obama’s progressive pastor Jim Wallis offered church as a sanctuary to ‘Occupy’ protesters (2011)
  3679. Jim Wallis praised the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters as inspirational ‘citizen economists’ (2011)
  3680. Wallis proudly proclaimed that the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters “stand with Jesus” (2011)
  3681. Jim Wallis suggested that all Christians should “embrace” the ‘Occupy’ movement (2011)
  3682. President Obama claimed that Martin Luther King would have supported ‘Occupy’ demonstrations
  3683. ‘Occupy Atlanta’ mob refused to allow Civil Rights hero John Lewis to speak (October, 2011)
  3684. Rev. Jesse Jackson compared the ‘Occupy Atlanta’ with the Civil Rights struggle (2011)
  3685. Martin Luther King’s family asked the U.S. Park Service to eject a group of ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters from a memorial center that was named after the civil rights leader in Atlanta (2012)
  3686. Al Sharpton urged the black community to join the OWS revolution to redistribute the wealth
  3687. Sharpton: “…but resist, we much… we must and we will much… about… that… be committed”
  3688. Jesse Jackson compared OWS to the Civil Rights Movement saying, “We are free but not equal”
  3689. Colin Powell defended OWS saying, “Demonstrating like this is as American as apple pie”
  3690. Colin Powell blamed the media and the Tea Party for the divisive tone in Washington D.C. (2011)
  3691. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on deaths and crimes at the ‘Occupy’ protests: “That’s life and it happens”
  3692. Both Obama and Joe Biden compared the ‘Occupy Wall Street” protesters to the Tea Party protests
  3693. Obama explained the protests saying, “I think people feel separated from their government…”
  3694. Obama previously organized events similar to ‘Occupy Chicago’ starting back in the late 1980’s
  3695. Obama helped organize against local businesses and banks to stop a landfill expansion deal (1988)
  3696. Obama maintained his ties to the radical activists that are organizing the recent ‘Occupy’ events
  3697. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) publicly praised and supported the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters
  3698. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) described the protests as “spontaneous” and “focused”
  3699. Pelosi authored a DCCC fundraising email and raised money off of ‘Occupy Wall Street’ (2011)
  3700. Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) is their campaign arm for the House
  3701. DCCC urged its readers to sign a petition supporting the growing “Occupy Wall Street” protests
  3702. Pelosi distanced herself and the Democratic Party from ‘Occupy’ for political expedience (2012)
  3703. Nancy Pelosi argued that ‘Occupy’ is largely nonpartisan, unlike the Tea Party
    3704. “As opposed to the Tea Party, which was practically a wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican Party, we don’t really have much of a connection with the Occupy [protesters]. In fact, they probably have some sentiments that overlap between the two [groups].” ~Nancy Pelosi during an interview with POLITICO (January 2012)

  3704. Pelosi said the Occupiers would be more effective if they coalesced around a common message
  3705. Pelosi suggested that the ‘Occupy’ movement should also include “the role of money in politics”
  3706. Ironically, the DCCC spent $66 million in the 2010 election cycle and does not disclose its donors
  3707. Pelosi blamed the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision for the disgust with Congress
  3708. John Larson (D-CT) serves as chairman of the House Democratic Caucus
  3709. John Larson declared in support of Occupy, “The silent masses aren’t so silent anymore…” (2011)
  3710. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) serves as the ranking Democrat on the House Rules Committee
  3711. Louise Slaughter joined in support of the ‘Occupy’ protests and placed blame on the banks
  3712. Slaughter said she was proud of OWS and that “it’s time for all Americans to pay their fair share”
  3713. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Keith Ellison (D-MN) co-chair the Congressional Progressive Caucus
  3714. Grijalva and Ellison jointly stated that they were “inspired” by the ongoing ‘Occupy’ protests
  3715. Russ Feingold (D), a liberal hero who lost his Senate seat in 2010, endorsed the ‘Occupy’ protests
  3716. Barney Frank (D-MA) supports the ‘Occupy’ protests, when he’s not raising Wall Street cash
  3717. DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz declared her support for the ‘Occupy’ protests
  3718. DCCC Chair Steve Israel circulated a petition saying he’s “standing with” ‘Occupy Wall Street’
  3719. ‘Occupy Rose Parade’ organizers made plans to disrupt the Rose Parade with a “human float”
  3720. ‘Occupy Rose Parade’ lead organizer is a former corporate lawyer that was busted for theft
  3721. Peter Thottam is the creator of ‘Occupy Los Angeles’ and the force behind ‘Occupy Rose Parade’
  3722. Peter Thottam is a self-described “progressive attorney, and community activist and organizer”
  3723. Peter Thottam pled guilty to the crime of petty theft in 2004 while working as a lawyer
  3724. Peter Thottam violated ethics rules by failing to report his criminal conviction to the state bar
  3725. Peter Thottam’s law license was then suspended by the California State Bar in 2008 as a result
  3726. Thottam is an ivy-league lawyer with a UCLA MBA, and a former employee of Goldman Sachs
  3727. Peter Thottam (D) lost a bid for state assembly in California’s 53rd district in 2010
  3728. Peter Thottam is now “seeking employment” whose “salary is negotiable”
  3729. Convicted fraudster and community organizer Robert Creamer led ‘Occupy’ protests
  3730. Creamer said that he hoped the ‘Occupy’ movement would “inspire the progressive base” (2011)
  3731. Creamer hoped the ‘Occupy’ movement would help Obama frame the issues for his re-election
  3732. FOIA documents show Creamer has visited the White House at least 60 times since January 2009
  3733. Obama administration records show that Creamer visited the W.H. five times in just August 2011
  3734. Robert Creamer accused the financial sector of having “vacuumed money out of the pockets of people who actually work for a living producing goods and services”
  3735. Robert Creamer previously worked on Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign in a senior capacity
  3736. Robert Creamer worked to train volunteers and activists at “Camp Obama” in 2008
  3737. Robert Creamer also ran the Democrats’ “field based rapid response” operation in 2008
  3738. Robert Creamer committed bank fraud, withheld taxes while heading Citizen Action of Illinois
  3739. Robert Creamer was convicted and sentences to prison in 2006 for bank fraud and tax evasion
  3740. Creamer wrote the Democrats’ political strategy on health care reform from federal prison
  3741. Creamer recently set up a nationwide political consultancy to boost Democrats’ 2012 campaigns
  3742. Creamer promoted efforts by Democrats and ‘Occupy Wall Street’ to single out Bank of America
  3743. Robert Creamer is the husband of Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a left-wing congresswoman in Illinois
  3744. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) said that American taxpayers “don’t deserve to keep” all of their money
  3745. Schakowsky: One reason that the “stimulus” did not succeed was because it was not large enough
  3746. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) marched with the Communist Party USA during ‘Occupy Chicago’
  3747. There weren’t any American flags among thousands of anarchists, union members, and Democrats
  3748. Jan Schakowsky said at ‘Occupy Chicago’ that a march with zero American flags is “patriotic”
  3749. Schakowsky addressed Democrats and Occupiers at “Occupy the Dream” on M.L.K. Day (2012)
  3750. Schakowsky, whose husband committed tax evasion, demanded that the rich pay their fair share
  3751. Jan Schakowski herself allegedly signed the errant tax returns, but she was never prosecuted
  3752. Chicago Teachers Union organized ‘Take Back Chicago’ and marched with ‘Occupy Chicago’
  3753. Obama’s former “Green Jobs Czar” Van Jones announced a second phase to OWS in late 2011
  3754. Van Jones revealed “phase two” of ‘Occupy Wall Street’ saying, “you haven’t seen anything yet”
  3755. Van Jones: OWS will “be recruiting 2,000 candidates to run for office under this 99% banner”
  3756. Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) engaged in a hunger strike to show solidarity with ‘Occupy’
  3757. Van Jones warned of a “turbulent” election year and tried to bring blacks into OWS
  3758. Van Jones invoked Martin Luther King as the “Original Occupier” in an email to his supporters
    3759. “What are you doing this weekend for MLK Day? It’s our only national holiday about social justice, yet too often, MLK Day feels like a Hallmark Card. This year, let’s do it differently. Rebuild the Dream members are hosting MLK Day Movement Meet-ups across the country to celebrate Dr. King – the original Occupier – and link the Civil Rights Movement with today’s struggle for an economy that works for all.” ~Anthony Van Jones (2012)

  3759. Van Jones slammed the Tea Party as “so-called patriots” that are out to destroy America (2012)
  3760. Van Jones said the Tea Party “are the ones who are smashing down every American institution”
  3761. Van Jones: Singing ‘America the Beautiful’ is ‘cheap patriotism’ if you’re not an environmentalist
  3762. Obama held fundraisers with the 1%, while partially footing taxpayers with the bill (June 2012)
  3763. Loyola University students said that their “environmental sustainability” professor required them to attend a Van Jones lecture, in which Van Jones encouraged students to embrace a “new patriotism” and recognize the “ugly-unequal founding” of America

    3764. Democrats were “silent” in the face of violence, criminal activity, and anti-Semitism within OWS

  3764. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters spewed anti-Semitism, such as ‘the Jews control Wall Street!’
  3765. ‘Occupy’ protesters used slogans like “Jews control Wall Street” and “Wall Street Jews”
  3766. ‘Occupy Chicago’ speaker: “Israel is beginning to be seen as the criminal pariah state that it is”
  3767. ‘Occupy L.A.’ teacher was fired for saying that ‘Zionist Jews need to be run out of this country’
  3768. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ supporters in New York City ranted and raged against Jews and Israel
  3769. Brooklyn subway sign was defaced to read “Avenue Jew” during ‘Occupy Wall Street’ (2011)
  3770. Cars were set ablaze and swastikas were spray painted all around the Jewish neighborhood
  3771. ‘Occupy Oakland’ burned an American flag while reciting an anti-Semitic ‘Pledge of Allegiance’
  3772. Thousands of protesters have been arrested during the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ events (2011)
  3773. Bank protesters were arrested trying to cash a $673 billion check at a Bank of America in N.Y.
  3774. Filthy ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters created sanitation problems in New York City
  3775. One protester was photographed while defecating on a New York City police car in Manhattan
  3776. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that unions hijacked the ‘Occupy’ protests
  3777. Mayor Bloomberg claimed that ‘Occupy Wall Street’ was hurting the New York City economy
  3778. NYPD Officer: Crime and sexual assault at OWS is “more widespread than even they think”
  3779. 26-year old protester was arrested for a sexual assault upon an 18-year old female in Zuccotti Park
  3780. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protester was charged with Grand Larceny, Menacing, Harassment and Criminal Possession of a Weapon after threatening a Fox News Channel 5 reporter
  3781. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters were arrested after occupying Goldman Sachs (2011)
  3782. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protester claimed that ‘cops were releasing criminals into the park’ as an explanation for the criminal activity, including sexual assaults and rapes (2011)
  3783. National Lawyers Guild obtained a court order stripping New York of power to enforce park rules
  3784. Hidden weapons were reportedly found during the Zuccotti Park clean-up (November 2011)
  3785. OWS protesters called for a ‘Day of Action’ following the loss of their camp in Zuccotti Park
  3786. Protesters planned three major actions starting with a “shut down” of Wall Street (Nov. 17, 2011)
  3787. Protesters chose a date that inspired a communist terrorist group that hated American capitalism
  3788. ‘Day of Action’ protests were coined “N17” in many of the movement’s promotional materials
  3789. ‘N17’ was a Marxist Greek terrorist group responsible for murders and kidnappings
  3790. Events started with a rally in Liberty Square to “put an end to Wall Street’s reign of terror”
  3791. OWS protesters then made plans to fan out to all five boroughs and begin ‘Occupy the Subway’
  3792. OWS protesters then planned to meet in Foley Square and march to the Brooklyn Bridge
  3793. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protester: “On the 17th, we’re going to burn New York City to the ground”
  3794. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protester: “You’re going to see what a Molotov cocktail can do to Macy’s”
  3795. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters were arrested after failing to shut down the stock exchange
  3796. OWS protesters blocked an ambulance that was taking a stabbed police officer to the hospital
  3797. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters resorted to camping out in New York City churches
  3798. Zuccotti Park protester Tonye Iketubosin was arrested on rape charges (November 2011)
  3799. ‘Occupy’ protesters dumped buckets of feces and urine inside a bank lobby (2012)
  3800. NYC ‘Occupy’ protesters smashed windows to a Starbucks with a metal pipe, spray painted anarchist signs on private property, and chanted “cops are murderers” and “all pigs must die”
  3801. DNA from a chain used at an ‘Occupy’ protest was linked to the 2004 murder of Sarah Fox
  3802. SEIU President Mary Kay Henry officially endorsed Obama for re-election (November 2011)
  3803. SEIU’s Mary Kay Henry was arrested during the ‘Day of Action’ protests a week later (2011)
  3804. Mary Kay Henry described the ‘Occupy’ movement as “an inspiring movement for change”
  3805. Protester(s) attending ‘Occupy Atlanta’ tested positive for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB)
  3806. ‘Occupy D.C.’ protesters were arrested after storming a Washington D.C. Senate office building
  3807. ‘Occupy D.C.’ protesters pushed an elderly woman down a flight of stairs in Washington D.C.
  3808. Obama’s Secret Service searched the ‘Occupy D.C.’ camp for a suspected White House shooter
  3809. White House shooter Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez was caught in Pennsylvania (2011)
  3810. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez described Obama as “the anti-Christ” and wanted to “hurt” him
  3811. Ortega-Hernandez was charged with an attempted assassination of President Obama (2011)
  3812. Man charged with child cruelty after his 13-month-old girl was left alone in an ‘Occupy D.C.’ tent
  3813. Washington Mayor Vincent Gray was concerned about the growing number of rats at ‘Occupy’
  3814. Two smoke bombs were thrown over the White House fence during ‘Occupy D.C.’ protests
  3815. ‘Occupy D.C.’ protesters were barred from camping in D.C. squares near the White House (2012)
  3816. ‘Occupy D.C.’ protesters rallied in support of Trayvon Martin and cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal
  3817. SEIU rented three offices that ‘Occupy D.C.’ protesters will use to plan and execute protests
    3818. “I would just like to ask, if I ever go locked up or incarcerated, please don’t march for me. Don’t rally for me. I want you to start killing Mother F---ers! It seems funny, but that’s the only thing a Government would listen to. I would want people who would effectively get the task at hand done.”
    ~Rapper Jay Sun kicking off a rally in Washington D.C.

  3818. ‘Occupy Boston’ protesters clashed with police and were arrested in Boston, Massachusetts
  3819. ‘Occupy Boston’ protesters spat on and a Coast Guard member and called her foul names
  3820. Protesters were arrested for selling heroin in the Tent City area of ‘Occupy Boston’
  3821. Police evicted ‘Occupy Boston’ and arrested at least 46 protesters (December 10, 2011)
  3822. ‘Occupy Chicago’ avoided police while investigating the disappearance of a 16-year old girl
  3823. ‘Occupy L.A.’ protesters were arrested after illegally occupying a Bank of America branch
  3824. ‘Occupy L.A.’ speaker insisted that violence will be necessary to achieve their goals
  3825. ‘Occupy L.A.’ protester said that “Zionist Jews” who run banks should be “run out of the country”
  3826. ‘Occupy L.A.’ shut down the downtown during rush hour traffic without a permit to march
  3827. ‘Occupy L.A.’ protester was arrested for exposing himself and masturbating in front of children
  3828. ‘Occupy L.A.’ protester entered a woman’s tent, called her “Satan,” and punched her in the face
  3829. ‘Occupy L.A.’ protester punched a man in the face and tried to grab a 2-year old child from a tent
  3830. ‘Occupy L.A.’ protester brandished a knife and tried to light a food vendor on fire with a lighter
  3831. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced an eviction due to health and safety concerns
  3832. L.A. riot police arrested protesters and shut down the “unlawful assembly” (November 2011)
  3833. ‘Occupy L.A.’ protesters left behind 30 tons of trash at the City Hall tent city (2011)
  3834. Los Angeles’ mayor asked for budget cuts to offset the million in ‘Occupy’ costs (2011)
  3835. ‘Occupy’ protesters hit female officers in the head with objects from behind (May Day 2012)
  3836. SEIU bused in union thugs in order to delay flights at LAX during May Day protests in L.A.
  3837. As many as 1,000 SEIU workers at LAX considered striking on Thanksgiving eve (2012)
  3838. ‘Occupy L.A.’ protesters vandalized property and clashed with police in riot gear (July 2012)
  3839. After it was destroyed by occupiers, Los Angeles unveiled a new $550,000 City Hall lawn (2012)
  3840. ‘Occupy Oakland’ protester(s) spoke against the U.S. military as ‘killers’ for imperial greed
  3841. ‘Occupy Oakland’ protester told an ABC reporter, “We shoot white bitches like you around here”
  3842. Women were attacked, including a teacher that was choked, at the ‘Occupy Oakland’ protests
  3843. ‘Occupy Oakland’ has been taken over by “bullies, the mentally ill, drunks, thugs and anarchists”
  3844. Drugs and drug dealers had been spotted at the ‘Occupy Oakland’ tent camp
  3845. Oakland’s Democrat mayor denied that illegal and unsafe activities were taking place (2011)
  3846. ‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters stormed, vandalized, and shut down a Chase bank
  3847. ‘Occupy Oakland’ vandalized a Whole Foods store and smashed Bank of America windows
  3848. ‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters left graffiti and destruction of property in their wake
  3849. Video shows that Mayor Jean Quan and media lied about the violence happening after the march
  3850. ‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters sparked violent clashes with police officers in Oakland
  3851. Protesters hurled rocks, explosives, bottles, and flaming objects at responding police officers
  3852. Oakland’s mayor described it as a “good day” for the protesters and the “99 percent movement”
  3853. 18% of teachers, and 5% of city workers joined in ‘Occupy Oakland’ protests (Nov. 2, 2011)
  3854. Union members from SEIU and the California Nurses Association (CNA) took part in the protests
  3855. ‘Occupy Oakland’ fatal shooting witness said that it was an “argument over a bag of weed” (2011)
  3856. City council held a no-confidence vote in response the mayors’ failure to uphold law and order
  3857. ‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters marched through the streets and disrupted traffic (January 2012)
  3858. ‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters attempted to occupy the Henry Kaiser Convention Center (2012)
  3859. More than 400 were arrested for tearing down fences and “destroying construction equipment”
  3860. ‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters attacked police officers (injuring at least three) with rocks and flares
  3861. Police surveillance video showed protesters breaking into Oakland City Hall (January 2012)
  3862. ‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters were arrested by police during planned May Day protests (2012)
  3863. ‘Occupy Oakland’ protested HEAT, an anti-child sex trafficking conference (June 2012)
  3864. Mayor of Richmond chose to attend ‘Occupy Richmond’ over Veterans Day memorial events
  3865. Mayor Dwight Jones marched with ‘Occupy,’ but refused to meet with the Richmond Tea Party
  3866. ‘Occupy Richmond’ protesters ‘occupied’ the four-acre lawn of the mayor’s neighbor (2011)
  3867. Richmond Mayor allowed ‘Occupy’ protesters to break the law and charged taxpayers for the cost
  3868. City of Richmond provided services such as portable toilets, trash pickup, etc. for ‘Occupy’ rallies
  3869. Taxpayers paid the costs for police, a helicopter, and 24-hour protection for the Mayor’s mansion
  3870. Seeing unfair treatment between the events, the Richmond Tea Party delivered an invoice to Mayor Dwight Jones for charges incurred during the last three Tax Day rallies at Kanawha Plaza (2011)
  3871. City of Richmond audited the Richmond Tea Party following complaints of unfair treatment
  3872. ‘Occupy San Francisco’ protesters blocked an entrance to a Wells Fargo bank (2011)
  3873. ‘Occupy San Francisco’ protesters were arrested after trying to ‘occupy’ a Bank of America
  3874. ‘Occupy San Francisco’ protesters threw bibles and bricks at cops (2012)
  3875. ‘Occupy San Francisco’ “comrades” smashed windows and threw paint balls (May Day 2012)
  3876. ‘Occupy San Diego’ protester played tug o’ war with a dog using an American flag
  3877. ‘Occupy San Diego’ protesters splattered urine and blood on a pair of coffee and hot dog carts
  3878. ‘Occupy San Diego’ held a moment of silence in solidarity for the White House shooter
  3879. ‘Occupy Seattle’ protester was arrested for exposing himself to children at least five times
  3880. ‘Occupy Seattle’ protester was caught on video defecating on public side walks (2011)
  3881. Police video showed ‘Occupy Seattle’ protesters throwing dangerous objects at police (2011)
  3882. Protesters threw sticks, bricks, flares, smoke grenades, paint and bags of steel at police officers
  3883. ‘Occupy Seattle’ protesters broke downtown windows and disrupted traffic (May Day 2012)
  3884. ‘Occupy Dayton’ protester ranted, “F--- the military, f--- your flag, and f--- the police”
  3885. ‘Occupy Madison’ was denied a renewal of its permit due to complaints of public masturbation
  3886. ‘Occupy Berkeley’ protesters taunted and clashed with campus police forcing arrests (2011)
  3887. Woman was charged for soliciting a 16-year old girl during ‘Occupy New Hampshire’ protests
  3888. ‘Occupy Denver’ protesters crashed a private conference of conservative bloggers
  3889. ‘Occupy Denver’ movement was evicted by riot police from their encampment (November 2011)
  3890. Convicted sex offender was arrested for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl at ‘Occupy Dallas’
  3891. Brian E. King, 38, was arrested at ‘Occupy St. Louis’ for sexually assaulting a woman in her tent
  3892. ‘Occupy Portland’ grounds were found littered with used needles and drugs (October 2011)
  3893. Official AFL-CIO ‘Occupy Portland’ protester said, “I don’t really care about the economy, I couldn’t care two f*cks about what happens if, you know, we have another Great Depression”
  3894. ‘Occupy Portland’ gathered weapons and fortified their encampment preparing for police eviction
  3895. ‘Occupy Portland’ organizer Wade Varner publicly exposed himself at a “family friendly” event
  3896. ‘Occupy Philadelphia’ protesters were arrested after marching on Comcast (2011)
  3897. ‘Occupy Philadelphia’ protester was arrested after raping a woman in a tent at City Hall
  3898. City officials ordered the protesters to clear out to make room for a $50 million renovation project
  3899. Philadelphia riot police shut down the local ‘Occupy’ camp and arrested dozens (November 2011)
  3900. ‘Occupy Burlington’ protesters in Vermont clashed with police officers (2011)
  3901. Protester was found dead in a tent at ‘Occupy Salt Lake City’ due to a possible drug overdose
  3902. ‘Occupy Denton’ protester Darwin Cox was found dead at the campsite due to drug overdose
  3903. 20-year old Utah man was arrested for hurling a Molotov cocktail at a Wells Fargo branch (2011)
  3904. Hawaiian musician with ‘Occupy Aloha’ T-shirt played a 45-minute protest song for Obama
  3905. Protester Jonathan David Brazell was murdered at the lawless ‘Occupy Savannah’ camp (2011)
  3906. ‘Occupy Pensacola’ protester was arrested for robbing a neighbor’s house for camp furniture
  3907. ‘Occupy’ organizers planned to hurt the economy by ‘occupying’ retailers on Black Friday
  3908. ‘Occupy’ protests have cost city taxpayers at least $13 million (as of November 23, 2011)
  3909. Police refused to confront ‘Occupy Santa Cruz’ protesters that took over a private building
  3910. ‘Occupy Iowa Caucus’ was headed by Ed Fallon, a former Democratic Politician in Iowa
  3911. ‘Occupy Pittsburgh’ man reportedly crashed a stolen SUV through the PNC building (2012)
  3912. ‘Occupy’ protesters mobilized to protest a fundraising event for President Obama (2011)
  3913. Protesters described Obama as a “corporate puppet,” a sell-out, and a war criminal (2011)
  3914. ‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters smashed windows at an Obama campaign office (August 2012)
  3915. MSM stopped covering the ‘Occupy’ movement once it was realized it was hurting the Left
  3916. Jon Stewart made jokes of the ‘Occupy’ movement on “The Daily Show” (November 17, 2011)
  3917. Stewart, born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, makes more than 300 times the median American salary
  3918. Stewart owns three opulent mansions purchased using private trusts named after his pets
  3919. Stewart and his wife sometimes don’t pay their taxes, resulting in a pair of “state tax warrants”
  3920. AP laughably pretended that Democrats never supported ‘Occupy’ (November 18, 2011)
  3921. Slate’s Libby Copeland freaked out over an ad connecting Elizabeth Warren (D) to ‘Occupy’
  3922. New Yorker featured a major report exposing the lie that ‘Occupy’ was a grassroots movement
  3923. Mayors of some of the most liberal cities in America evicted their local ‘Occupy’ movement
  3924. Hacker group known as ‘Anonymous’ hacked into the Florida Family Association website (2011)
    3925. “Your hatred, bigotry and fear mongering towards Gays, Lesbians, and most recently Muslim Americans has not gone unnoticed!” ~Anonymous hacker’s (nicknamed ihazcAnNONz) warning to the Florida Family Association (2011)
  3925. ‘Anonymous’ exposed personal information about police officers who evicted ‘Occupy’ protesters
  3926. ‘Anonymous’ hacker named ‘Exphin1ty’ posted the email and physical addresses, phone numbers and encrypted passwords of more than 2,400 police officers and corporate security executives
    3927. “We encourage all of our […] friends to deface and leak [the offices’] twitters, facebooks and private email accounts.” ~Exphin1ty wrote in 2011
  3927. Hacker ‘Abhaxas’ posted 18,000 emails, names and passwords of Specialforces.com customers
  3928. Hackers under the banner of ‘Operation Pig Roast’ posted the names, phone numbers, home addresses and salaries of nearly 70 senior members of the Houston Police Department (2011)
  3929. ‘Anonymous’ threatened to hack into the voting machines at the GOP Iowa caucuses (2011)
  3930. ‘Anonymous’ exposed the credit card numbers of 75,000 paying customers of Stratfor (2011)
  3931. ‘Anonymous’ spokesman Barrett Brown was taken into custody after threatening the FBI (2012)
  3932. Time Magazine named ‘Anonymous’ as one of the most influential groups in the world (2012)
  3933. Aaron Swartz, a critic of Obama’s “kill list,” was found dead in New York City (January 2013)
  3934. Swartz had openly criticized the U.S. and Israeli regime for launching joint cyber attacks against Iran
  3935. Aaron Swartz was a cofounder of Reddit and also helped develop the RSS standard
  3936. Swartz faced more than 30-years in prison for trying to steal research from MIT’s computer archive
  3937. Aaron Swartz’s death was ruled a suicide by hanging, but his family blamed the U.S. government
  3938. ‘Anonymous’ infiltrated the U.S. sentencing commission website to protest the treatment of Swartz
  3939. ‘Anonymous’ hacked into the Federal Reserve and stole information on 4,000 bankers (2013)
  3940. Charlotte’s 2012 Democratic National Convention moved to preemptively ban ‘Occupy’ protests
  3941. City officials feared a repeat of the 1968 Democratic National Convention held in Chicago
  3942. Protesters were arrested for burning American flags at ‘Occupy Charlotte’ (2011)
  3943. ‘Occupy Charlotte’ protesters dumped 500 lbs of coal in front of Bank of America’s headquarters
  3944. Albemarle County school students in Virginia were taught to sing the song “Part of the 99” (2011)
  3945. Yale released their best-of list for 2011 and their ‘top quote’ was, “We are the 99 percent”
  3946. Columbia announced they will offer a new course based on ‘Occupy Wall Street’ (2012)
  3947. Portland State University offered a new “Revolutionary Marxism: Theory and Practice” course, where “students will apply Marxist theory to local political and community organizing” (2012)
  3948. Students will be required to “apply a Marxist perspective” to a local community organization
  3949. Pre-approved community/political organizations include: Occupy PSU, Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights, Occupy Portland, Portland Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions Coalition (BDS), Jobs with Justice, and the May Day Coalition
  3950. Coast Guard was called in to protect ships from ‘occupiers’ and local labor groups (2012)
  3951. Kid Pan Alley encouraged students to ‘compose’ left-wing protest songs in support of ‘Occupy’
  3952. Kid Pan Alley visits elementary schools to supposedly help children learn to write their own lyrics
  3953. Kid Pan Alley’s fees come from school budgets, and schools are encouraged to seek government grants to cover the $1,200 cost per day
    3954. “Some people have it all, but they don’t think they have enough;
    They want more money, a faster ride;
    They’re not content, never satisfied;
    Yes, they are part of the 1 percent, I used to be part of the 1 percent;
    I worked all the time, never saw my family, couldn’t make life rhyme.”

    “Though I lost my yacht and plane, didn’t need that extra stuff;
    Could have been much worse, you don’t need to be first;
    Cause I’ve got my friends, here by my side;
    Don’t need it at all, I’m happy to be part of the 99.”
    ~Song written by third-graders at Woodbrook Elementary in Charlottesville, Virginia

  3954. Kid Pan Alley receives funding from the William and Mary Greve Foundation
  3955. The William and Mary Greve Foundation is headed by John Kiser III, author of a book titled “Communist Entrepreneurs: Unknown Innovators in the Global Economy”
    3956. “If I could change one thing, I would change all the rules; Freedom would be free. I’d be my own boss no matter the cost.”

    “What if kids could vote, it’s love that sets us free; When everyone has what they needed, there would be no more war. Yeah, that’s what kids are for.”
    ~Lyrics by elementary school kids with the guidance of Kid Pan Alley facilitators

  3956. William and Mary Greve Foundation also funds the American Society for Muslim Achievement
  3957. American Society for Muslim Achievement is reportedly headed by a 9/11 conspiracy theorist
  3958. Marxist-Leninist revolutionaries, such as the Workers World Party, expanded upon OWS
  3959. Larry Holmes, the leader of the communist Workers World Party, praised OWS as “the future”
  3960. Holmes described the Tea Party as a bunch of “racist bigots” and a thing of the “past” (2011)
  3961. DSA Marxists infiltrated the ‘Occupy’ movement and planned a ‘Spring Offensive’ in 2012
  3962. DSA leader Joseph Schwartz proposed connecting ‘Occupy’ to the rest of the mainstream left
  3963. Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) proposed a public-sector jobs program, nationalization of banks, Medicare for all, the forgiveness of student debt, the end of foreclosures, substantial investment in clean energy, a progressive income and corporate tax structure, a tax on all speculative financial transactions, and the immediate enactment of union-friendly labor law reform legislation
    3964. “[T]he principles of Occupy America are the principles this organization espouses… America is just now catching up to the Democratic Socialists of America.” ~Joslyn Williams, Metropolitan D.C. Central Labor Council President and longtime DSA member

  3964. Union members and ‘occupiers’ clashed with police outside of the CPAC conference (2012)
  3965. ‘Occupy CPAC’ was organized by the AFL-CIO union and the ‘Occupy D.C.’ movement
  3966. Protesters were paid $60 to protest the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)
    3967. “The tea party has much more effective than occupy. The people in the tea party do a much better job of organizing to get their policy views made part of this process than the occupy people. I think the occupy people do more to make themselves feel emotionally satisfied...”
    ~Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) in February 2012

  3967. UAW, SEIU, Moveon.org, etc. were caught planning a ’99% Spring’ astroturf movement (2012)
  3968. Moveon.org launched a massive recruiting and training program for a “99% Spring in America”
  3969. ‘Occupy’ groups kicked off the ‘Spring’ by organizing anti-capitalism protests on May 1st, 2012
  3970. Threatening letters containing white powder were sent to News Corp. and various banks
  3971. Another letter containing white powder was sent to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg
  3972. ‘Occupy’ anarchists were caught by the FBI trying to blow up a bridge in Cleveland (May 2012)
  3973. Men also plotted to blow up banks, the Republican National Convention, and other American sites
  3974. One of the five self-described anarchists, Anthony Hayne, signed the lease for a West Side warehouse where a dozen of the Occupy Cleveland group resided
  3975. Southern Poverty Law Center argued that the reason it doesn’t track Occupy as a ‘hate group’ is because the Southern Poverty Law Center is “not really set up to cover the extreme Left”
  3976. Protesters stormed Obama’s campaign building to kick off a “Week Without Capitalism” (2012)
  3977. Protest was reportedly organized by Dorothy Day, a journalist who wrote for Marxist newspapers
  3978. Obama used the annual National Prayer Breakfast to uphold Dorothy Day as a “great reformer”
    3979. “Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Day, Abraham Heschel – the majority of great reformers in American history did their work not just because it was sound policy, or they had done good analysis, or understood how to exercise good politics, but because their faith and their values dictated it, and called for bold action – sometimes in the face of indifference, sometimes in the face of resistance.”
    ~President Obama speaking at the annual National Prayer Breakfast (February 2012)

  3979. Radicals, some with ties to Obama, planned riots to coincide with the NATO summit (2012)
  3980. Occupiers celebrated the 4th of July by burning American flags and vandalizing police property
  3981. ‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters held a march that was dubbed, “F--- the Fourth” Day (July 2012)
  3982. ‘Occupy Oakland’ protesters painted “kill cops” on the doors of the police headquarters, and similar messages at City Hall, the police Internal Affairs Division, a clothing store, hotel, and a bank
  3983. Protesters spray-painted a police patrol car, punctured one of its tires, and broke a window
  3984. ‘Occupy Black Bloc’ member James E. Holmes shot up an Aurora, Colorado movie theater (2012)
  3985. James Holmes killed 12 people, including a 6-year-old girl, and wounded 58 more (July 20, 2012)
  3986. James Holmes was registered as a Democrat and was an avid supporter of President Obama
  3987. Holmes targeted U.S. military service members at a screening of a new Batman movie
  3988. The Batman movie, The Dark Knight Rises, portrayed the OWS crowd in a negative light
  3989. ‘OccupyGOP’ protester, an admitted Marxist and “classist,” argued we should “f--k the rich”
  3990. Homeless in Tampa said that they saw racism and classism in the ‘Occupiers’ protesting the RNC
  3991. ‘Romneyville’ protests ended in tears and frustration due to low turnout and being ‘silenced’
  3992. Jay-Z criticized ‘Occupy Wall Street’ and their demonization of the rich as un-American (2012)
  3993. ‘Occupy Wall Street’ cheered as Hurricane Sandy destroyed people’s lives in the northeast (2012)
  3994. FBI identified the ‘Occupy Movement’ as a potential terrorist threat to the United States (2012)
  3995. Two Occupy Wall Street activists were busted with a cache of weapons and bombmaking explosives
  3996. Occupy Wall Street activists Morgan Gliedman and Aaron Greene were found with instructions on making bombs, including a stack of papers with a cover sheet titled, “The Terrorist Encyclopedia” (2013)

    3997. Communists and Islamists are working together to bring down capitalism and Western society

  3997. Islamists seek to establish a caliphate, but can only do so through the annihilation of the West
  3998. Anarchists seek to realize utopia through the destruction of the Western government system
  3999. Socialists and communists consider the West as their public enemy number one
  4000. Muslims and Marxists joined together at peace protests in New York City (UNAC event)
  4001. Van Jones said his green jobs advocacy was part of a broader movement to destroy capitalism
  4002. Van Jones led a vigil expressing solidarity with Arabs and Muslims against “U.S. imperialism”
  4003. Iran’s leadership joined in support of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests to topple capitalism
  4004. Iranian demonstrators gathered in Tehran to show support for “the end of Wall Street”
  4005. Protesters held signs “we are the 99%,” and chanted “death to capitalism” and “death to the U.S.”
  4006. Communist China embraced the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement (2011)
  4007. Iran: Wall Street protests are evidence that the ‘American Spring’ revolution is coming (2011)
  4008. Communist Cuba allowed Hezbollah to establish a base for external regional terrorist operations
  4009. CAIR held Islamic prayers at Occupy Wall Street in New York City’s Zucotti Park (2011)
  4010. CAIR-New York’s ‘Occupy Wall Street’ prayer service was held in conjunction with the Islamic Leadership Council and the Arab-American Association of New York (November 2011)
  4011. “Many of the demands of Occupy Wall Street parallel those of the New York Muslim community”
  4012. Video shows men seated in front and women in the back, in accordance with Islamic tradition
  4013. Activists tied to OWS recently spearheaded campaigns to end Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza
  4014. Chicago Radicals leading ‘Occupy City Hall’ are under investigation by the FBI for terror links
  4015. ‘Occupy City Hall’ protests were led by radical anti-war activists Joe Iosbaker and Andy Thayer
  4016. Both were targeted for suspicion of providing material support to Hamas and other terror groups
  4017. Andy Thayer addressed the ‘Occupy Chicago’ crowd and called for “action” like we saw in Egypt
  4018. ‘Occupy Miami’ founder and spokesman Muhammed Malik is a former execute director of CAIR
  4019. In September 2010, Malik was appointed as executive director of the local chapter of CAIR
  4020. Malik had worked with a number of Islamic groups, including the Students for Justice in Palestine, the South Florida Palestine Solidarity Network, and the American Muslims for Emergency Relief
  4021. Malik left CAIR for the Florida ACLU, coordinating Racial Justice and Voting Rights projects
  4022. Muhammed Malik was also previously the co-chair of the Miami-Dade County Green Party
  4023. Malik organized a rally called Miami’s Third Intifada for Palestine calling for Israel’s destruction
  4024. Protesters at Malik’s rally chanted a slogan often used by Hamas and other Palestinian radicals
  4025. Third Intifada refers to a sequel of two previous uprising by Palestinians against Israelis
  4026. The last one took place in the year 2000, resulting in the murder of over 1,000 Israelis
  4027. Malik’s anti-Israel protests included chants such as “Nuke Israel” and “Go back to the oven”
  4028. Video of the December 2008 protests show rally-goers wearing Hamas logos on hats and scarves
  4029. Malik called Israel’s actions “collective punishment” and accusing Israel of “fueling terrorism”
  4030. In March 2010, Malik organized a CAIR dinner in Miami featuring keynote speaker Siraj Wahhaj
  4031. Siraj Wahhaj has repeatedly urged the United States of America to accept Islamic law
  4032. Wahhaj previously predicted that America will fall unless it “accepts the Islamic agenda” (1991)
  4033. Wahhaj expressed his desire to replace the U.S. government with an Islamic caliphate (1992)
  4034. Siraj Wahhaj was named a unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing
  4035. Wahhaj objected to the designation by noting in his defense that he had eaten “dinner with Secretary of State [Madeeleine] Albright – after the list” of co-conspirators had been released (1995)
  4036. Wahhaj defended the convicted WTC bomb plotters and urged the Islamic takeover of America
  4037. Wahhaj testified as a character witness for terrorist mastermind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman
  4038. Wahhaj said it was an honor to have the opportunity to host Abdel-Rahman at his mosque (1999)
  4039. Wahhaj said Abdel-Rahman was a “respected scholar… bold… [and] a strong preacher of Islam”
  4040. Communist China sold advanced missiles to Iran in violation of United Nations sanctions (2011)
  4041. China sold more than $312 million worth of arms to Iran, second only to Russia (from 2006-2011)
  4042. China sold C-802 missiles after promising the U.S. in 1997 they would not be exported to Iran
  4043. China built an entire missile plant in Iran to produce Nasr-1 anti-ship cruise missiles (2010)
  4044. Russia delivered anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria days after the U.N. called for an arms embargo
  4045. Syria’s Bashar Assad reopened its borders to jihadist insurgents to pressure the United States
  4046. Syria spent $550 million to purchase thirty-six Russian YAK-130 military jets (January 2012)
  4047. Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister reaffirmed their commitment to supplying arms to Syria (2012)
  4048. Syria uses Russian-made mines along its border to prevent citizens from fleeing
  4049. Russia warned Western nations against adding new sanctions or arming the Syrian rebels (2012)
  4050. Hugo Chavez warmly welcomed ally Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Venezuela in 2012
  4051. Chavez and Ahmadinejad hugged, beamed, held hands and showered each other with praise
  4052. Chavez and Ahmadinejad joked about having a “big atomic bomb” hidden under the palace steps
  4053. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended Daniel Ortega’s inauguration for another presidential term
  4054. Iran’s Ahmadinejad also toured communist Cuba and met with Fidel and Raul Castro (2012)
    4055. “Thankfully we are already witnessing that the capitalist system is in decay. On various stages it has come to a dead end – politically, economically and culturally. You see that when it lacks logic, they turn to weapons to kill and destroy.” ~Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (January 2012)

  4055. Palestinians used the Nazi ‘Sieg Heil’ salute during Fatah celebrations in Lebanon (2012)
  4056. American professors gathered in Tehran, Iran for an ‘Occupy Wall Street’ conference (2012)
  4057. The Nation of Islam, the New Black Panthers, and Iran’s Islamic regime gathered in New York
  4058. Russia sent weapons to assist Bashir Assad’s assault on their pro-democracy opposition in Syria
  4059. Russia’s Vladimir Putin met with Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Beijing, China (2012)
  4060. Russia sent attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime (June 2012)
  4061. U.S. asked Britain for assistance to stop the ship carrying Russian attack helicopters into Syria
  4062. Russia announced that they were prepared to send warships to Syria (June 2012)
  4063. Syria, Iran, Russia and China planned joint war games, the largest in Mideast history (2012)
  4064. Four countries are deploying 90,000 troops, 400 aircraft, and 1,000 tanks to the Syrian coast
  4065. Russian is sending “atomic submarines and warships, aircraft carriers and mine-clearing destroyers,” Iran is sending battleships and submarines, and China is sending 12 warships (2012)
  4066. China and Russia vetoed military intervention in Syria and expanded sanctions against Iran
  4067. Syria shot down a Turkish F-4 Phantom jet fighter flying over the Mediterranean (June 2012)
  4068. Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that the West was in decline (July 2012)
  4069. Syria began moving its chemical weapons stockpile out of storage, according to U.S. officials
  4070. Syria has arsenals of chemical weapons, including sarin nerve agent, mustard gas, and cyanide
  4071. Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions against Syria
  4072. Iran’s supreme ruler, the Ayatollah Khamenei, embraced the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement
  4073. Iran unveiled a “domestically produced” cruise missile capable of reaching any city in Israel
  4074. U.S. intelligence monitored a secret meeting between Egypt’s intelligence chief, Major General Murad Muwafi and a spy of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) (August 2012)
  4075. Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez endorsed Obama for reelection and would vote for him if able (2012)
  4076. Cuba’s communist Castro family endorsed President Obama for reelection (2012)
  4077. Vladimir Putin, who has eliminated most elections in Russia, monopolized all major media and destroyed the political party system, endorsed President Obama for reelection (2012)
  4078. Iranian fighter jets fired on an unarmed U.S. Predator drone in the Persian Gulf (November 2012)
  4079. Communist Chinese government called for Americans to be disarmed (December 2012)
  4080. The communist People’s Republic of China was established in a revolution led by Mao Zedong, who killed an estimated 40-70 million people with starvation, executions, and re-education camps
    4081. “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”
    ~Chinese Communist Mao Zedong
  4081. Chinese government routinely engages in forced relocations and executions of political dissidents
  4082. China warned Australia not to side with America and Japan in case of war (January 2013)
  4083. North Korea defied a United Nations resolution condemning a nuclear test on December 12, 2012
  4084. North Korea planned a third nuclear test as part of “upcoming all-out action” against America
  4085. North Korea’s National Defense Commission said that the new nuclear test would be part of its action against the “sworn enemy of the Korean people” (January 2013)
  4086. North Korea also vowed to push ahead with launches of more long-ranged rockets (January 2013)
  4087. Communist China insisted that U.N. retaliatory measures against North Korea be watered down
  4088. North Korea threatened war with South Korea over U.N. sanctions (January 2013)
  4089. Explosion at Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility killed at least 40, including two North Koreans (2013)
  4090. North Korea’s official website posted a video of a man dreaming about a city draped in Stars and Stripes with missiles raining down (footage of NYC taken from Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3)
  4091. The official North Korean video included Michael Jackson’s “We Are the World” as a soundtrack
    4092. “Somewhere in the United States, black clouds of smoke are billowing. It seems that the nest of wickedness is ablaze.” ~Korean-language caption from the North Korean dream video (2013)

    Governor Scott Walker’s recall victory in Wisconsin threatens public-sector unions across America

  4092. In 1959, Wisconsin became the first state to allow collective bargaining by government employees
  4093. The projected cost of supporting public-sector union retirees threatened to bankrupt Wisconsin
  4094. Scott Walker (R-WI) defeated Tom Barrett (D-WI) to win the Wisconsin governorship in 2010
  4095. Governor Scott Walker proposed pension and spending reforms to close a $3 billion budget gap
  4096. Reforms also prevent government from forcibly collecting union dues from workers’ paychecks
  4097. After union dues became voluntary, membership in Wisconsin’s AFSCME union dropped by half
  4098. Membership in Wisconsin’s American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union dropped by a third
  4099. Wisconsin unions attempted to protect their dues and the WEA Trust Health Insurance monopoly
  4100. Wisconsin union protesters ditched teaching students to protest the pension and spending reforms
  4101. Department of Education said that two-thirds of Wisconsin 8th-graders can’t read proficiently
  4102. Obama’s Organizing for America bussed in astroturf protesters to Wisconsin from out of state
  4103. Fake doctor’s notes were fraudulently handed out at union rallies to excuse teachers from class
  4104. Wisconsin officials said that the statehouse suffered $7.5 million in damages from union protesters
  4105. Democrat lawmakers in Wisconsin fled the state to avoid voting on the bills they opposed
  4106. E-mails revealed a plot to stall the budget repair bill in order to sign new union contracts
  4107. Milwaukee teachers union dropped a lawsuit seeking to include Viagra in their insurance plans
  4108. Milwaukee school board used Act 10 to cut labor costs and address their huge deficits (2011)
  4109. Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) had implemented Act 10 to help school boards save money for students
  4110. SEIU, the AFSCME, and the AFL-CIO teamed up with Marxists and socialists in Wisconsin
  4111. SEIU bragged about receiving help from Wisconsin’s local media smear Governor Scott Walker
  4112. AFSCME shamefully targeted a company that hires the developmentally disabled for their protests
  4113. AFL-CIO and AFSCME dumped over a million dollars into Wisconsin’s recall races in just 2 days
  4114. Big Labor spent more than $6.4 million in the recall efforts of just six Wisconsin GOP senators
  4115. AFL-CIO sent the ‘We are Wisconsin’ PAC monetary disbursements worth over $5.2 million
  4116. More than 90% of ‘We are Wisconsin’ PAC’s funds and key operatives were from out of state
  4117. AFSCME gave the ‘We are Wisconsin’ Super PAC over $2.9 million for the recall elections
  4118. SEIU gave the ‘We are Wisconsin’ Super PAC over $1.1 million for the recall elections
  4119. Wisconsin teacher indoctrinated 2nd and 3rd graders comparing Walker to a white segregationist
  4120. Wisconsin union protester stated that he would vote for Castro and wanted to clone Che Guevara
  4121. A Wisconsin union protester was arrested for trying to sabotage a Tea Party sound system
  4122. Wisconsin’s AFSCME public-sector union illegally threatened businesses with a boycott
  4123. Wisconsin teacher was charged with two felonies for sending death threats to GOP lawmakers
  4124. Wife of a Wisconsin state employee suggested that Gov. Walker’s wife and sons should be raped
  4125. Wisconsin election official David Buerger belittled GOP lawmakers via Twitter (2011)
  4126. Judge Maryann Sumi refused to order Wisconsin teachers back to work during the union protests
  4127. Uncovered emails show that Judge Sumi was tipped off that the anti-Walker lawsuit was coming
  4128. Judge Sumi then issued a temporary restraining order preventing implementation of the new law
  4129. Judge Sumi began the February 18th, 2011 high profile hearing without a court reporter present
  4130. Sumi’s son, Jacob Sinderbrand, runs a political campaign company called Left Field Strategies
  4131. Sumi’s son was formerly an AFL-CIO field manager & a data manager for the SEIU State Council
  4132. Jake’s Facebook page included a mock-up picture of Governor Walker captioned as a “Dope”
  4133. The picture was a sarcastic take-off of the Obama “Hope” picture from Obama’s 2008 campaign
  4134. Sumi’s husband, Carl Sinderbrand donated to (3) of the “Badger 14,” democrats who fled the state
  4135. Carl Sinderbrand donated to Tom Barrett (D) in his fight against Scott Walker (R) for governor
  4136. Carl Sinderbrand is currently Chairman of the environmental advocacy group Clean Wisconsin
  4137. Judge Sumi was sued for not recusing herself from the union battle despite conflict(s) of interest
  4138. Wisconsin’s nonpartisan legislative bureau published the law despite Judge Sumi’s court order
  4139. Judge Sumi then ordered a second court order preventing the implementation of the new law
  4140. Judge Sumi ruled to overturn the legislation on May 26, 2011 despite her clear conflicts of interest
  4141. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court overruled Judge Sumi and reinstated the law on June 14, 2011
  4142. The Supreme Court ruled that Judge Sumi’s ruling was void ab initio, or invalid from the outset
  4143. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court concluded that Sumi exceeded her jurisdiction, “invaded” the Legislature’s constitutional powers and erred in halting the publication and implementation of the law
  4144. Video shows Wisconsin protester Brian Rothgery verbally intimidating a female school employee
  4145. Rothgery: “We don’t want you in our neighborhood. Go back to where you came from”
  4146. Brian Rothgery was formerly co-president of American Federation of Teachers Local 2169
  4147. Brian Rothgery worked as a SEIU organizer prior to working for the teacher’s union
  4148. Rothgery currently serves as the “communication coordinator” for Wisconsin Citizen Action
  4149. Rothgery spoke at the leftist ‘Democracy Convention’ as an “expert in persuasive communication”
  4150. Wisconsin unions tried to ban GOP members from a Labor Day parade in September 2011
  4151. Marathon County Labor Council President Randy Radtke announced that the GOP weren’t invited
  4152. Radtke was upset that the GOP supported collective bargaining reforms for public-sector unions
  4153. Wausau Mayor Jim Tipple informed the unions that they would then have to pay for the parade
  4154. Labor Council President Randy Radtke ultimately reversed the politically-partisan decision
  4155. Miles Kristan was cited for pouring a beer over the head of a GOP member at a local bar (2011)
  4156. A speaker at a progressive rally was cheered after suggesting urinating on Republicans instead
  4157. Progressive Greg Palast suggested that protesters should pour urine on members of the GOP
  4158. Wisconsin high school was targeted by ‘union leaders’ following a pro-Scott Walker chant (2012)
  4159. Pro-Walker marine was arrested at a Wisconsin Democrat rally for Mayor Tom Barrett (D-WI)
  4160. Wisconsin thug threatened one poll watcher saying that he’ll ‘bang her head against the floor’
  4161. Vice Chair of Communist Party USA was shocked by the radicalization of Wisconsin Democrats
  4162. Communist Party USA Vice Chair Scott Marshall said, we “have to work with them” in the future
  4163. Unions lost after GOP won (4 of 6) recall elections to keep control of the Wisconsin Senate
  4164. Wisconsin Democrats were unable to defeat three GOP incumbent state senators in recall elections
  4165. Unions spent heavily trying to obtain control of one branch of one statehouse in one Midwest state
  4166. Democrats outspent the GOP $23.4 million to $20.5 million during the state senate recall elections
  4167. Dane County in Wisconsin is the political base of Wisconsin’s public sector unions
  4168. Kathleen Falk (D-WI) served as Dane County Executive for 14 years prior to running for governor
  4169. Big Labor’s Kathleen Falk was beaten by her home county by 31 points (62-31) by Tom Barrett
  4170. By comparison, Falk lost the overall state by “only” 20 points to her Democratic opponent
  4171. MoveOn.org claimed that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) “isn’t investing in the massive get out the vote effort in Wisconsin to recall Scott Walker” due to bad polling (May 2012)
  4172. Scott Walker again defeated Tom Barrett by an even larger margin (+6.9%) than in 2010
  4173. Walker’s victory, a win for taxpayers across the country, spells doom for public sector unions
  4174. Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch (R-WI) also won her recall bid handily
  4175. One recall protester threatened Rebecca Kleefisch and hoped that colon cancer kills her
  4176. Senator Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) defeated Lori Compas (D-Fort Atkinson) in his recall bid
  4177. Lori Compas received financial and organizational support of unions and money from ActBlue
  4178. Sen. Terry Moulton (R-Chippewa Falls) won her recall bid against Kristen Dexter (D-Eau Claire)
  4179. Jerry Petrowski (R-Stettin) was elected to fill the vacant seat left by Pam Galloway (R-Wausau)
  4180. John Lehman (D-WI) defeated Van Wanggaard (R-WI) to control an out-of-session state senate
  4181. Lehman admitted he evaded the draft during the Vietnam War and was convicted of draft evasion
  4182. Mainstream media outlets reported wildly flawed exit polls to spin positive news for Obama
  4183. MSNBC’s Ed Schultz ranted that “Scott Walker could very well be indicted in the coming days”
  4184. After their recall defeat, liberals flooded Twitter with death threats, such as ‘Kill Scott Walker’
  4185. Establishment media spun the Walker victory as being because he badly outspent Tom Barrett
  4186. Not one dollar spent in Wisconsin would have been illegal prior to the Citizens United decision
  4187. Overall, $63.5 million was spent on the recall effort by various parties, including the taxpayers
  4188. Governor Scott Walker (R) spent about $30 million, most of which came from out-of-state sources
  4189. Tom Barrett (D) spent about $4 million, but also received $21 million from labor unions
  4190. Walker’s donations were not mandated, whereas Big Labor’s came from mandatory union dues
  4191. President Obama avoided the Wisconsin recall race following a string of endorsement losses
  4192. Obama resorted to sending a last-minute Tweet in support of Tom Barrett (D-WI) (June 2012)
  4193. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) said Obama should have gone to Wisconsin to help Barrett and the unions
  4194. Paul Begala suggested that there would be ‘hell to pay’ for President Obama ignoring Wisconsin
  4195. Tom Barrett had previously endorsed then-Senator Obama against Hillary Clinton back in 2008
  4196. DNR chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz told CNN’s Piers Morgan that President Obama “deployed his entire grassroots machinery” on the ground in the Wisconsin recall race (June 2012)
  4197. Howard Dean told progressives at Netroots Nation: “We look at Wisconsin as a win” (June 2012)
  4198. Gallup polling showed that Obama’s union support in Wisconsin dropped dramatically since 2008
  4199. AFL-CIO cut direct funding to Democrats after Obama’s decision to avoid the recall election
  4200. Wisconsin’s economy is surging without tax increases (September 2012)
  4201. Seven of Wisconsin’s largest public sector unions filed suit seeking to overturn Walker’s reforms
  4202. Unions lost a court battle to roll back Governor Walker’s collective bargaining reforms (January 2013)
  4203. The 7th circuit Court of Appeals upheld Act 10, the collective bargaining reforms passed in 2011
  4204. Unions are suffering steep declines in membership (January 2013)
  4205. Obama’s tax and regulatory policies have discouraged business investment and job creation in the U.S.
  4206. Obama vetoed the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have provided thousands of unionized jobs
  4207. EPA regulations have resulted in the closure of more than 100 coal-fired power plants over 2 years
  4208. Obama’s auto bailouts have resulted in Chrysler expanding its Jeep production in China, not the U.S.
  4209. Under Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), businesses with more than 49 workers face a $2,000-per-worker tax if they do not offer the right kind of health insurance
  4210. The total unionization rate declined more in four years under Obama than eight years under Bush
  4211. Total unionization rate of wage and salary workers declined from 11.8% in 2011 to 11.3% in 2012
  4212. Private-sector unionization fell from 6.9% in 2011 to 6.6% in 2012
  4213. Public-sector unionization fell from 37% in 2011 to 35.9% in 2012
  4214. Obama’s stimulus package was directed at public-sector unionized workers
  4215. Obama’s executive order on project labor agreements required large construction projects to hire unionized workers
  4216. Obama supported the misnamed Employee Free Choice Act, which would have taken away workers’ right to a secret ballot in elections for union representation and would have imposed mandatory arbitration on employers and workers who could not agree on a contract
  4217. Obama “recess-appointed” three members to the NLRB when the Senate was not in recess
  4218. One member, Richard Griffin, was accused of using threats and extortion to cover up an embezzlement scandal while serving as general counsel for Local 501 of the International Union of Operating Engineers
  4219. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, the daughter of union activists, rolled back union financial transparency rules put in place by Bush Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao – rules designed to show union members what their union was doing with their dues
  4220. Right-to-work states have created more jobs than the forced unionization states
  4221. Over the past 25 years, the 22 right-to-work states (not including new right-to-work states Indiana and Michigan) created 1.5 times as many jobs as the forced unionization states
  4222. Illinois credit rating was downgraded by S&P from A to A-minus (January 2013)
  4223. Illinois has the worst credit rating in the nation, resulting in a higher cost to borrow money (2013)
  4224. Democrat lawmakers in Indiana fled the state to avoid voting on bills they opposed
  4225. 37 out of 40 of Indiana’s Democratic lawmakers fled to Illinois in 2011 to avoid voting on bills
  4226. Indiana “Fleebagger” Dave Cheatham (D) equated hiding in Illinois to serving in Afghanistan
  4227. Indiana Democrats were fined repeatedly for being no-shows on right-to-work legislation (2012)
  4228. Michigan union leader vowed to use public jobs as a “weapon and shut this state down” (2011)
  4229. A report from May 2011 shows that forty-seven percent of Detroit’s population can’t read
  4230. Only 7% of Detroit public-school eighth graders are grade-level proficient or better in reading (2012)
  4231. Statewide in Michigan, only 32% of public-school 8th graders are “proficient” or better in reading
  4232. Only 4% of Detroit public-school eighth graders are grade-level proficient or better in math (2012)
  4233. Statewide in Michigan, only 31% of public-school 8th graders are “proficient” or better in math
  4234. Michigan’s Cass elementary school played a fawning video tribute to President Obama (2012)
  4235. Michigan passed a ‘financial martial law’ bill authorizing the breaking of public union contracts
  4236. Michigan voters rejected Proposal 2, which would have allowed public sector unions to “challenge any law – past, present, or future -- limiting their benefits and power” (November 2012)
  4237. The initiative would also have permanently barred Michigan from becoming a right-to-work state
  4238. Unions raised $20 million to pass Proposal 2, but voters instead voted to preserve the state’s economy
  4239. Michigan’s governor would not rule out dissolving the city of Detroit (November 2012)
  4240. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and the City Council were stonewalled by employee unions at every turn, slow-walking needed reforms and cost-cutting while Detroit burned through cash at a frightening rate
  4241. “State of Detroit” report found that 60% of children within Detroit live in poverty (January 2013)
  4242. Economists have found that Michigan has suffered economically because it’s not a right-to-work state
  4243. Michigan has both the highest unionization and unemployment rates in the Midwest (December 2012)
  4244. Right-to-work laws passed in Michigan’s Republican-controlled House and Senate (December 2012)
  4245. Michigan union members were arrested while attempting to storm the Michigan State Senate
  4246. Michigan schools closed so that teachers could protest right-to-work laws
  4247. Michigan public school teachers were legally required to pay dues to the teachers’ union
  4248. School districts in Michigan closed due to teachers calling in sick to protest right-to-work (2012)
  4249. State Representative Douglas Geiss (D-MI) threatened, “There will be blood” (December 2012)
  4250. Retired California teachers make more per year than working teachers of most other U.S. states
  4251. Liberal-run California leads the country in the rate of home foreclosures (July 2012)
  4252. California Federation of Teachers union rallied behind cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamala
  4253. ‘We Are One’ Labor Rally on April 4th, 2011 warned: ‘Thousands of dead people’s bodies’
  4254. We Are One has ties to the AFL-CIO and their community organizing arm Working America
  4255. Voters in San Diego and San Jose passed pension reform initiatives in California (June 2012)
  4256. Supreme Court ruled in 2011 that overcrowding in California’s prison system violated the Eighteenth Amendment’s proscription on cruel and unusual punishment, prompting a release of 10% of prisoners
  4257. Property crimes in California jumped after Gov. Jerry Brown (D) released prisoners to save cash
  4258. Stockton, California became the most populous U.S. city to file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy
  4259. Stockton’s public-sector unions bargained for full healthcare for retirees back in 1996
  4260. Stockton gave free healthcare to retirees creating a “Ponzi scheme” and a $417 million liability
  4261. Mammoth Lakes, California filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy due to lack of funds (July 2012)
  4262. Union backed politicians pushed unsustainable pension obligations in San Bernardino, California
  4263. San Bernardino, California was the third city in less than a month to declare bankruptcy (2012)
  4264. Bankrupt city of San Bernardino cut $26 million in spending as it tried to stay afloat (November 2012)
  4265. In 2012, voters in California approved a ballot measure that raises their taxes (November 2012)
  4266. School districts in California use capital appreciation bonds (CAB) to borrow about $3 billion (2012)
  4267. In some cases, school districts will be required to pay back 10-20 times the amount they borrowed
  4268. San Diego’s Poway Unified School borrowed $100 million, but the cost to service the debt is $1 billion
  4269. Athletes are reportedly fleeing California due to high taxes (January 2013)
  4270. Phil Mickelson remarked that he might leave California because of the high tax rates (2013)
  4271. Tiger Woods admitted that he left California because of the high tax rates back in 1996
  4272. Outfielder Torii Hunter moved from California to Texas “because it doesn’t have state income tax”
  4273. Venus and Serena Williams learned to play tennis in Compton, California, but now live in Florida
  4274. Michelle Wie and her parents moved from California to Florida after she graduated from Stanford
  4275. Tennis player Sam Querry moved from Thousand Oaks, California to Las Vegas, Nevada
  4276. Pro golfer Nick Watney also left California for Nevada
  4277. Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) launched a series of ad buys recruiting businesses from California to Texas
  4278. Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA) said that Rick Perry’s business outreach was “not a burp… barely a fart”
  4279. Mayors in Massachusetts warned lawmakers of dire fiscal straits due to public employee benefits
  4280. Ohio unions spent heavily on dishonest class warfare ads to defeat the union reforms (2011)
  4281. Unlike Wisconsin, the Ohio GOP did not exclude police and firefighters from the union reforms
  4282. Ohio Education Association (OEA) imposed dues hike to defeat the collective bargaining reforms
  4283. OEA took an extra $54 from every member in Ohio to help defeat Senate Bill 5 (2011)
  4284. Unions spent more than $800,000 collecting signatures and bragged that it was “grassroots” support
  4285. Ohio Education Association (OEA) dumped more than $5.8 million into “We Are Ohio”
  4286. “We Are Ohio” claimed that passing Issue 2 would mean fewer firefighters and nurses
  4287. “We Are Ohio” released a radio ad saying Issue 2 would “take us back to the days of Jim Crow”
  4288. “We Are Ohio” lied that Republican politicians exploited a “loophole” in the bill for themselves, but yet elected officials have never been subject to collective bargaining (2011)
  4289. In 30 years, Ohio’s tax burden has gone from 5th lowest to 7th highest in the nation (as of 2011)
  4290. Government employee union bragged about how their donations scored a sweetheart contract
  4291. National Education Association (NEA) union staffers set sail on a 7-day Caribbean cruise (2012)
  4292. Striking SEIU janitorial workers attacked security guards at the Westfield Mall in San Francisco
  4293. Striking Verizon workers stole equipment and sabotaged telephone and cable lines in 2011
  4294. Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) both insisted that their strike was a “fight for middle class jobs”
  4295. Internal emails revealed the extent of the shady union tactics that were used against Verizon
  4296. Union officials discussed intentionally bending the interpretation of a court injunction
  4297. Unions picketed Verizon Wireless stores to keep customers out and decrease company profits
  4298. Homes of Verizon company executives were swarmed upon by CWA and IBEW union protesters
  4299. Striking union workers were bused to a Verizon executive’s home: “We’re here to fight!” (2011)
  4300. Newspaper Guild’s parent union is the Communications Workers of America (CWA)
  4301. Newspaper Guild endorsed ‘Occupy Wall Street’ and launched a Facebook page (2011)
  4302. John King owns one of the largest non-union electrical contracting businesses in Toledo, Ohio
  4303. King was shot in his driveway for owning a non-union electrical contracting business
  4304. King had been threatened and vandalized by IBEW union members several times in the past
  4305. Vandals slashed tires, broke windows with “kill” rocks, and even wrote “scab” on his SUV
  4306. In 2006, John King won a significant case against the IBEW at the U.S. Court of Appeals
  4307. American Crystal locked out 1,300 unionized workers in Iowa, Minnesota, and N.D. (2011)
  4308. Union workers directed racist slurs and symbols at replacement workers and security personnel
  4309. A monkey-like figure was hung outside an American Crystal plant in North Dakota (2011)
  4310. Some union workers were reportedly dressed in white sheets while picketing the plant

    4311. Obama engaged in scare tactics to manufacture a phony U.S. “default” debt-ceiling crisis

  4311. Treasury Secretary Geithner called for Congress to raise the debt ceiling in March 2011
  4312. Treasury later suggested a $2 trillion debt cap raise in May 2011 as the debt neared $14.3 trillion
  4313. Treasury Secretary Geithner predicted a double-dip recession if Congress failed to lift debt ceiling
  4314. Obama’s Treasury raided federal retiree pensions to fund government after hitting the debt limit
  4315. Federal Reserve official warned in March 2011 that the U.S. is on a fiscal path towards insolvency
  4316. Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher warned policymakers are at a “tipping point”
  4317. Previously, liberals voted against raising the debt limit due to “irresponsible GOP fiscal policies”
  4318. Obama said in April, 2011 that he regrets his own vote against raising the debt limit back in 2006
  4319. Minority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) called his past voting to raise the debt ceiling a “mistake”
  4320. In April 2011, Steny Hoyer described the debt-limit fight as “the next hostage event”
  4321. In 2007, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) opposed and voted against raising the debt ceiling
  4322. In 2011, with Democrats in charge, McCaskill called Republicans “profoundly irresponsible”
  4323. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) also voted against raising the debt ceiling
  4324. Reid’s spokesman said that Reid had previously stated that “he should have voted differently”
  4325. Liberal Senator John Kerry (D-MA), voted against the debt-ceiling limit increase in 2006
  4326. Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (D-SC) also voted against raising the debt ceiling
  4327. International Monetary Fund (IMF) said the U.S. lacks credibility on reducing our public debt
  4328. GOP to raise the debt limit from the level GOP leaders called ‘beyond comprehension’ in 2010
  4329. Standard & Poor lowered the U.S. credit rating outlook to “negative” in April 2011 due to our debt
  4330. Mason-Dixon poll: Most Americans support a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution
  4331. Obama said we don’t need a balanced-budget amendment to tell them how to do their jobs
  4332. Obama said “professional politicians” understand the debt crisis better than the general “public”
  4333. CBO issued an ominous report on U.S. debt warning of a “sudden fiscal crisis” (June 2011)
  4334. White House staffers received raises that were more than double the national average (2011)
  4335. Obama said that he would rather be talking about the NFL lockout than the debt crisis (2011)
  4336. Obama held senior and vets benefits hostage in exchange for job-killing tax increases
  4337. Obama threatened the withholding Social Security checks, veteran checks, and disability checks
  4338. Obama walked out of debt talks on deficit reduction, telling GOP leaders “enough is enough”
  4339. Standard & Poor’s (S&P) revised their U.S. debt outlook as negative on CreditWatch (July 2011)
  4340. Obama during debt-ceiling debate: “I always have hope. Don’t you remember my campaign?”
  4341. Obama blamed Bush for the debt-ceiling crisis and then warned of “Armageddon” (2011)
  4342. CBS polling showed that Americans opposed increasing the debt ceiling, by a 69% to 24% margin
  4343. Cain: Obama “allowed it to become a crisis so he could use it as leverage to get what HE wants”
  4344. Obama administration perpetuated many myths about the risks of not letting them spend more
  4345. Myth #1: Not increasing the debt ceiling means the U.S. government would default on its debt
  4346. Congress and the president have failed to agree on debt ceiling increases before without default
  4347. Past failures include December 1973, March 1979, November 1983, December 1985, August 1987, November 1995, December 1995 to January 1996, and September 2007
  4348. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution requires that debt payments come first before spending
  4349. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan: “we can always print money” to pay our debts
  4350. Alan Greenspan said there was “zero probability of default” since we can just print more money
  4351. Myth #2: Uncertainty over the payment of U.S. debts would create chaos in financial markets
  4352. President Clinton used revenues to pay interest on the debt from December 1995 to January 1996
  4353. Myth #3: Obama didn’t know if there was money to send off Social Security checks on August 3rd
  4354. Daily revenue includes enough money to pay the interest on the debt, cover all Social Security checks, Medicare, Medicaid and children’s health insurance, defense, federal law enforcement and immigration, all veteran benefits, and be capable of responding to natural disasters
  4355. Obama and Democrats tried to terrify elderly people who are dependent on their Social Security
  4356. Budget Director Jacob Lew wouldn’t answer if they would prioritize Social Security payments
  4357. Myth #4: Mortgage interest rates would rise dramatically if the debt ceiling isn’t increased
  4358. Stopping the government from borrowing more money frees up private lending resources
  4359. Mortgage interest rates may have lowered due to more lending available for potential homeowners
  4360. Governments charge lower interest rates for those countries with lower debt-to-income ratios
  4361. Myth #5: Time is running out getting a debt deal, therefore it must be done immediately
  4362. There have been many times over recent decades where negotiations extended past the debt limit
  4363. Myth #6: Democrats suggested there will be a second depression if government spending is cut
  4364. Obama promised that a “temporary” increase in federal spending would “stimulate” the economy
  4365. Obama’s prescription has been a 28% spending hike since 2008 and more than $4 trillion in deficits
  4366. Myth #7: The value of the dollar would plummet if the debt-ceiling wasn’t raised
  4367. Less government borrowing means lower future taxes, thus U.S. a more attractive place to invest
  4368. Increases in foreign investment could cause the value of the U.S. dollar to rise over time
  4369. GOP-controlled House passed $6 trillion in spending cuts in exchange for a debt ceiling increase
  4370. ‘Cut, Cap and Balance’ cuts spending by $111 billion with reductions in future spending growth
  4371. The bill would have required that a constitutional balanced budget amendment be sent to the states
  4372. Obama threatened to veto ‘Cut, Cap and Balance’ if it passed both the U.S. House and Senate
  4373. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Democrats “tabled” ‘Cut, Cap and Balance’ without debate
  4374. Obama declared: “I’ve got to get the debt ceiling raised. We’re going to keep working on that”
  4375. Obama & Democrats pushed for a debt ceiling increase of $2.4 trillion to get past the 2012 elections
  4376. Obama stood on the sidelines and tweeted while Boehner passed two bills through the House
  4377. Obama insisted that it will be Republicans’ fault if Social Security checks don’t go out (July 2011)
  4378. Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) enforced a filibuster on his own debt-ceiling bill (July 2011)
  4379. Budget Control Act of 2011 was signed by Obama raising the debt ceiling by trillions over time
  4380. Finalized 2011 debt deal represents the largest debt-limit increase, $2.4 trillion, in U.S. history
  4381. 95 House Democrats voted against raising the debt ceiling, compared to 66 House Republicans
  4382. 26 Democrat Senators also voted against the final deal to raise the debt ceiling
  4383. The two largest debt-limit increases in U.S. history came in back-to-back years under Obama
  4384. Democrats and Obama had previously raised the debt limit by $1.9 trillion on February 12, 2010
  4385. Debt-ceiling deal initially raised the ceiling by $400 billion up to $14.694 trillion in August 2011
  4386. U.S. debt spiked upward by a record $239 billion in one day, using up 60% of the increase (2011)
  4387. The previous one-day record increase in federal debt was $186 billion set on June 30, 2009
  4388. U.S. borrowing exceeded 100% of annual GDP one day after raised the debt ceiling
  4389. Debt-ceiling is scheduled to increase again by another $500 billion unless blocked by Congress
  4390. Another increase of $1.2 or $1.5 trillion relies on action taking by a new Congressional committee
  4391. Committee of 12 lawmakers must report cuts by Thanksgiving to avoid automatic trigger cuts
  4392. The cuts recommended by the super committee must be passed by Congress by Dec. 23, 2011
  4393. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said he intended to use the super committee to “close the wealth gap”
  4394. Treasury discussed printing more money (QE3) in August 2011 to prop up the stagnant economy
  4395. Credit ratings agencies warned the U.S. to reduce its debt-to-GDP ratio quickly or be downgraded
  4396. Moody’s: United States government must stabilize debt-to-GDP ratio at 73% by 2015 “to ensure that the long-run fiscal trajectory remains compatible with a AAA rating”
  4397. Fitch Ratings warned of a possible downgrade if more is not done to deal with our deficits
  4398. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said there was “no risk” of the U.S. losing its top credit rating
  4399. China’s Dagong Global Credit Rating agency downgraded the U.S. credit rating from “A+” to “A”
  4400. China’s rating agency said the U.S. currency will be “discarded” as the world’s reserve currency
  4401. China, the U.S.’ biggest foreign creditor, said that the “good old days” of borrowing were over
  4402. Standard & Poor’s downgraded United States’ credit rating to AA+ for the first time in history
  4403. S&P also issued a renewed “negative” outlook due to unstable “medium-term debt dynamics”
  4404. S&P executive stated that there was a 1 in 3 chance of a future downgrade within 6-24 months
  4405. S&P: the debt bill recently passed by Congress was not enough to stabilize the U.S. debt crisis
  4406. Obama administration: “A judgment flawed by a $2 trillion error speaks for itself”
  4407. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner: S&P showed “terrible judgment” by lowering the U.S. rating
  4408. Geithner: S&P has “shown a stunning lack of knowledge about the basic U.S. fiscal budget math”
  4409. Standard & Poor’s called the Obama administration’s criticism “complete misrepresentation”
  4410. S&P: “underlying debt burden of the U.S. is rising and will continue to rise over the next decade”
  4411. Obama’s former economic adviser said we’re “pretty darned f--ked” after credit rating downgrade
  4412. Geithner predicted that China and other investors would remain strong purchasers of U.S. debt
  4413. Sen. Allen West on Geithner: “When you open that refrigerator door the lights don’t come on”
  4414. John Kerry (D-Mass.) spun the downgrade of the U.S. credit rating as “the Tea Party downgrade”
  4415. Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod also spun the downgrade as a “Tea Party downgrade”
  4416. Barney Frank blamed excessive military spending as the primary reason for our credit downgrade
  4417. Standard & Poor’s also downgraded government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
  4418. Federal Reserve pledged to keep its key interest rate at a record low at least through mid-2013
  4419. The U.S. dollar tumbled the most in at least 40 years against the Swiss franc following the pledge
  4420. Vice President Joe Biden was tasked with selling the debt-ceiling deal to the Chinese (Aug. 2011)
  4421. Justice Department probed S&P’s 2008 mortgage product ratings following the U.S. downgrade
  4422. Critics are concerned over the timing of the announcement & that only S&P was named in reports
  4423. Study: 8 in 10 politicians in Congress lack economic studies in their educational backgrounds
  4424. GOP members of the “Super Committee” put forward two good-faith plans - both were rejected
  4425. Democrats denied “walking away from the table” during meetings on November 9, 2011
  4426. Economists warned that a super committee failure could trigger another U.S. credit downgrade
  4427. “Super Committee” was unable to agree on $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction (November 21, 2011)
  4428. Failure triggered $1.2 trillion in automatic sequestered cuts over 10 years starting in 2013
  4429. Federal debt is still forecast to rise more than $9 trillion over the next 10 years even with the cuts
  4430. Democrats and Obama made no effort to help the debt reduction committee come to a resolution
  4431. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) and Chris Dodd (D) visited Ted Kennedy’s grave during the negotiations
  4432. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said a prayer while Chris Dodd poured whiskey on the grave (2011)
  4433. The Obama 2012 re-election campaign decided it was better politics to let the committee fail
  4434. Failure of the “Super Committee” gave Obama an excuse for the faltering U.S. economy
  4435. President Obama immediately vowed to veto any effort to spare the Pentagon deeper cuts (2011)
  4436. Obama blamed Republicans in Congress, yet praised Democrats for being willing to compromise
  4437. Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) said that the super committee’s failure was “good news”
  4438. Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis: Debt-panel failure was a “self-inflicted wound to national security”
  4439. Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) blamed President Obama for setting the deficit panel up for failure
  4440. Obama had insisted that $450 billion of more failed stimulus policies must be included in the deal
  4441. Obama also issued a veto threat on any agreement that did not include job-killing tax increases
  4442. Democrats insisted on tax hikes on American job creators, which would make the economy worse
  4443. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said “millionaire job creators are like unicorns… they don’t exist” (2011)
  4444. Fitch Ratings placed the U.S. on “negative” watch following the Supercommittee’s failure (2011)
  4445. “Negative” outlook indicates a 50% chance that Fitch downgrades the U.S. over the next 2 years
  4446. Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ) asked President Obama, “What the hell are we paying you for?” (2011)
  4447. Obama requested another $1.2 trillion debt ceiling increase, putting the ceiling at $16.394 trillion
  4448. Treasury again raided federal pensions to fund the government after hitting the debt limit (2012)
  4449. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) sent a letter to Obama: You’re turning America into a ‘deadbeat nation’
  4450. Rubio: “I will oppose your request to continue borrowing and spending recklessly” (2012)



    4451. January 6, 2012

    President Barack Obama
    The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
    Washington, D.C.

    Dear Mr. President:

    Any day now, news reports suggest you will ask Congress to approve yet another increase in the debt ceiling. The expected request is another $1.2 trillion, adding to a three year debt binge that has totaled $4.5 trillion on your watch and that has enabled our overall debt to surpass $15 trillion. Your latest request will push the federal debt limit well above $16 trillion.

    This pending request will be the sixth time during your Presidency that Congress is being asked to keep allowing government and spending to grow at rates that are unsustainable. In other words, you have made it a routine part of your job to ask for more room to spend without any plan to reduce our debt.

    Instead of making debt ceiling increases a routine Washington exercise, we need to make it routine to actually spend no more than we take in. Until then, I will oppose your request to continue borrowing and spending recklessly.

    As I wrote in The Wall Street Journal in March 2011, I will oppose a debt ceiling increase unless such an authorization is accompanied by a real plan to tackle our debt. Ideally, such a plan would feature both pro-growth elements and spending restraints, including fundamental tax reform, regulatory reform, meaningful cuts to discretionary spending, a balanced-budget amendment, and reforms to save Social Security and Medicare.

    If we had done this in mid-2011 when we last debated the debt ceiling, we could have set America on a path to economic growth and prosperity. This would have led to more jobs and, in turn, to more duly employed taxpayers generating more growth-driven revenue to help us pay down our debt. Instead, you failed to lead, punted the tough decisions and, in doing so, our credit rating was downgraded for the first time in our history. It’s a tragic reality but, on your watch, more and more people have come to believe that America is becoming a deadbeat nation inevitably heading toward a European-style debt crisis.

    When you served in the Senate in 2006, you called raising the debt limit “a sign of leadership failure.” Using your own standard, this request will mark your sixth “sign of leadership failure” on the debt ceiling issue alone. Throughout our history, Americans have revered courageous leaders and celebrated them as profiles in courage. Unfortunately, the first three years of your presidency have been a profile in leadership failure. While you may choose to run your reelection campaign against a “Do-Nothing Congress,” your insistence on doing nothing to meaningfully tackle our debt poses a direct threat to America’s exceptional character and is leading us towards a diminished future.

    America deserves leaders who will stand front and center, level with the American people about our challenges and offer real solutions to solve them. Instead of simply asking for another debt ceiling increase, I urge you to come forward with a real plan to tackle our debt in 2012.

    Sincerely,

    Marco Rubio
    United States Senator

  4451. Marco Rubio (R-FL) noted that, “Tax increases will not solve our $16 trillion debt” (December 2012)
  4452. S&P downgraded the credit ratings of nine European Union (EU) nations (January 13, 2012)
  4453. France and Austria were stripped of their triple-A status, but Germany remained unscathed
  4454. S&P lowered its long-term rating on Cyprus, Italy, Portugal and Spain by two notches
  4455. S&P lowered its long-term rating on Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia by one notch
  4456. Italy has the same BBB+ level as Kazakhstan and Portugal was pushed into junk status
  4457. Portugal slipped into default territory after S&P downgraded the country to junk status
  4458. Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands were unchanged
  4459. Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Portugal, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain were all placed on “negative” outlook for further downgrade
  4460. Greece and Portugal are rated junk by the main credit rating agencies (S&P, Moody’s, and Fitch)
  4461. EU nations agreed to come up with a treaty requiring national laws to limit deficits
  4462. Fitch downgraded the credit ratings of five European nations, including Italy and Spain (2012)
  4463. Fitch downgraded Belgium (AA+ to AA), Cyprus (BBB to BBB-), and Slovenia (AA- to A)
  4464. Fitch Ratings also downgraded economic heavyweights Spain (AA- to A) and Italy (A+ to A-)
  4465. Credit ratings agency Egan-Jones downgraded our credit rating from AAA to AA+ (July 2011)
  4466. Egan-Jones further downgraded the U.S. credit rating from AA+ to AA (April 2012)
  4467. Debt per household has increased by more than $12,984 since the bipartisan 2011 spending deal
  4468. S&P kept the U.S. rating unchanged at AA+, but also kept the ‘negative’ outlook (June 8, 2012)
  4469. France began selling their bonds at negative interest rate for the first time ever (July 2012)
  4470. Moody’s warned that the U.S. credit rating could be cut due to our high debt/GDP ratio (2012)
  4471. Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve announced ‘QE Infinity,’ the purchasing $40 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities every month from the banks “to improve lending” (September 2012)
  4472. Quantitative easing from the Federal Reserve will hurt the U.S. economy and our credit quality
  4473. Egan-Jones downgraded the U.S. credit rating again from AA to AA- (September 2012)
  4474. Egan-Jones warned that issuing more currency and depressing interest rates through purchasing mortgage-backed securities does little to raise the U.S.’s GDP, but reduces the value of the dollar
  4475. Egan-Jones blamed Ben Bernanke’s implementation of ‘QE Infinity’ for the U.S. downgrade
  4476. Obama privately touted the sequester after denying responsibility in the third debate (October 2012)
  4477. Obama had falsely told Americans that the sequester was not his idea, rather an idea from Congress
  4478. German bank recalled some of their gold held by the Federal Reserve and France (January 2013)
  4479. France’s Labor Minister Michel Sapin embarrassed Socialist Party President Francois Hollande by claiming that the country is “totally bankrupt” (January 2013)
  4480. Obama’s Justice Department sued S&P over its mortgage bond ratings (February 2013)

    4481. President Obama campaigned for another bailout of his supporters disguised as a new ‘Jobs Plan’

  4481. Obama’s senior political adviser: people won’t vote in 2012 based on the unemployment rate
  4482. White House Spokesman Jay Carney: “The White House doesn’t create jobs…” (August 2011)
  4483. Obama blamed employers for ‘discriminating’ against the long-term unemployed (August 2011)
  4484. President Obama’s new “job plan” included “protective status” for the unemployed
  4485. Obama announced in early August that he would lay out a new jobs plan in September 2011
  4486. Obama scheduled a new jobs speech outlining his new plan, after his Martha’s Vineyard vacation
  4487. Obama had previously announced a new jobs plan in September of 2010 after his vacation
  4488. Obama’s plan was constructed in a way to guarantee that it could not pass Congress
  4489. Never knowing if the plan would work, Obama could then campaign against Congress for 2012
  4490. Obama non-plan allows him to blame the GOP next year for failing schools and rusting bridges
  4491. Carney: Obama’s “jobs plan” will cause unemployment will drop below 9% (September 2011)
  4492. White House said that Obama wouldn’t release his entire jobs plan during his speech to Congress
  4493. In order to downplay expectation, aides said Obama would not present the ‘be-all and end-all’ plan
  4494. Obama previewed his speech at a Labor Day AFL-CIO rally and urged Congress to ‘get on board’
  4495. Obama repeatedly urged Congress to pass his plan “right now” due economic and political “crisis”
  4496. The “urgent” jobs bill hadn’t actually been written yet, but would be ready in a week or two
  4497. Democrats in the Senate sat on Obama’s jobs bill for several weeks in favor of other priorities
  4498. Dick Durbin (D-IL) acknowledged that despite Obama’s urgent calls for his jobs bill to be “passed right away” the Democrat majority in the Senate did not bring it up until October 2011
  4499. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY): Democrats are treating Obama’s jobs bill “like an afterthought”
  4500. Obama’s job plan proposed $1.5 trillion in new tax increases to pay for new spending programs
  4501. Budget Director Jack Lew could not answer how Obama’s tax hikes would create jobs in America
  4502. Job plan proposed a new group of American Infrastructure Financing Authority (AIFA) czars
  4503. AIFA would be given authority to manage over a trillion dollars of federal infrastructure funding
  4504. Obama’s jobs plan calls for about $3 in tax increases for every dollar in additional spending cuts
  4505. McConnell (R-KY): “a massive tax hike, phantom savings, and punting on entitlement reform”
  4506. Obama falsely stated that Speaker Boehner did not support “any additional revenues whatsoever”
  4507. Obama touted his jobs plan at an Ohio bridge that wouldn’t qualify under his program (2011)
  4508. Obama repeated the lie that his ‘jobs plan’ would repair unsafe bridges in Ohio (April 2012)
  4509. Obama claimed while selling his jobs plan that the GOP would “fundamentally cripple America”
  4510. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL): Obama’s jobs bill can’t get through the Democrat-controlled Senate
  4511. Obama continued blaming the GOP for blocking his “jobs bill” right after Sen. Reid (D) blocked it
  4512. Democrats scrambled to rewrite Obama’s jobs bill to make it include tax increases on job creators
  4513. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) changed longstanding Senate rules to avoid voting on Obama’s job plan
  4514. President Obama lied and used an already employed teacher to try to sell his jobs plan (2011)
  4515. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said that the jobless rate would stay above 9% through 2012
    4516. “The other thing I’ve heard from my friends who oppose this… this whole jobs bill, and this… That this is just temporary. Well let me tell you. It’s not temporary when that 911 call comes in and a woman’s being raped, if a cop shows up in time to prevent the rape. It’s not temporary to that woman… I wish they had some notion of what it was like to be on the other side of a gun, or [to have] a 200-pound man standing over you, telling you to submit.”
    ~Joe Biden defending Obama’s “jobs” proposal (October 2011)

  4516. Vice President Joe Biden warned of rapes and murders if the jobs bill isn’t passed by Congress
  4517. Joe Biden told a reporter that was seeking clarification, “Don’t screw around with me” (2011)
  4518. Biden: “Murder will continue to rise, rape will continue to rise, all crimes will continue to rise”
  4519. V.P. Joe Biden wished that his stimulus opponents “had some notion” of what it’s like to get raped
  4520. Joe Biden performed a re-enactment of a 911 domestic abuse phone call to scare women for votes
  4521. Democrat-controlled Senate killed Obama’s jobs plan in its entirety on October 11, 2011
  4522. House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) blamed voters for the gridlock in Congress
  4523. Hoyer urged support for the December 2011 spending bill even though none “have read it” (2011)
  4524. President Obama threatened to veto a bill that would lower taxes and create jobs (December 2011)
  4525. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has blocked every job creating measure passed by the House
  4526. Senate Democrats killed a bill that would have required Congress to balance their budget (2011)

    4527. Obama’s re-election strategy was to blame Congress (and Bush) for the results of his own failed policies

    “The only thing preventing us from passing these bills is the refusal by some in Congress to put country ahead of party. That’s the problem right now. That’s what’s holding this country back.” ~President Obama in remarks during his campaign-style bus tour in Illinois (August 2011)
    “The problem is that we’ve got the kind of partisan brinksmanship that is willing to put party ahead of country, that is more interested in seeing their political opponents lose than seeing the country win. Nowhere was that more evident than in this recent debt-ceiling debacle.” ~President Obama speaking to a crowd Decorah, Iowa during his “non-political” three-day economic Midwest bus tour on August 15, 2011

  4527. After being president for 961 days, Obama again “pivoted” back to jobs while blaming Congress
  4528. Obama unveiled a new $447 billion “American Jobs Act” spending program in September 2011
  4529. Obama strongly urged Congress to pass his plan now due to the economic “crisis” we are in
  4530. Obama wouldn’t say how he planned to pay for the new spending until a couple of weeks later
  4531. Obama’s plan steals $240 billion from Social Security, rewards states that fail to maintain their own infrastructure, and rewards his union buddies that drastically inflate the cost of every project
  4532. Plan would penalize soup kitchens, hospitals, and churches that provide charitable services
  4533. AP’s ‘Fact Check’ hammered President Obama’s jobs plan by saying it makes ‘giant leaps’
  4534. Obama used false and inflated numbers from a report, “Teachers Jobs at Risk,” to sell his jobs plan
  4535. White House falsely claimed that “Michigan Governor Rick Snyder Backs American Jobs Act”
  4536. ABC News/Washington Post Poll: twice as many think Obama’s plan will make matters worse
  4537. Obama’s approval rating for all areas of his handling of the economy fell after releasing his plan
  4538. Obama urged Congress to pass his jobs plan, but Democrats failed to introduce it in the House
  4539. Obama claimed that there were 153 structurally-deficient bridges that need repaired (2011)
  4540. Obama using the politics of fear asked, “Why would we wait to act until another bridge falls?
  4541. Obama told his supporters, “If you love me, you gotta help me pass this bill” (September 2011)
  4542. Democrats, led by Obama, blamed consumer demand as the key inhibitor to economic growth
  4543. Republicans blamed the looming uncertainty that paralyzed investors and businesses from hiring
  4544. Obama: GOP is holding back the recovery by blocking “common sense” job creating measures
  4545. Obama told his union buddies: GOP needs to put country before party, ‘Show us what you got’
  4546. OOPS: Jay Carney told Bill O’Reilly that Obama wants to “put party ahead of country” (2011)
  4547. Obama and Democrats had control of Congress with a supermajority for nearly two years
  4548. Through 2010, Obama had signed 329 bills passed by the Democrats in the 111th Congress
    4549. “I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president -- with the possible exceptions of Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln -- just in terms of what we’ve gotten done in modern history.”
    ~President Obama during an interview with CBS News’ Steve Kroft (December 2011)

  4549. Speaker Boehner said Obama had given up on governing and already started campaigning (2011)
  4550. When not blaming Congress, Obama blamed hardworking Americans for our economic failures
  4551. President Obama said that “We have lost our ambition, our imagination” (October 25, 2011)
  4552. Obama: U.S. has been “a little bit lazy over the last couple of decades” (November 13, 2011)
  4553. Reporter Ed Henry asked the White House, has Obama ‘given up on hope and change?” (2012)
  4554. President Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan was blocked by the Democratic-controlled Senate (2011)
  4555. Gov. Bev Perdue (D-NC) called for ‘suspending elections’ to deal with political gridlock (2011)
  4556. Obama’s former budget director: We need less democracy to “counter the gridlock” (2011)
  4557. ‘Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20’ may give Obama the option of suspending elections
  4558. Homeland Security geared up for civil unrest prior to the 2012 presidential elections (July 2012)
  4559. Obama launched another three-day but tour through two battleground states in October 2012
  4560. Obama blamed the GOP for blocking his jobs bill without mentioning his democrat opposition
  4561. Obama claimed that Republicans want “dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance”
  4562. Obama said he believed that “all the choices we’ve made have been the right ones” (October 2011)
  4563. Michelle Obama warned supporters that the GOP would curb freedom of speech and religion
  4564. Michelle told kids to tell their grandparents that they were ‘wrong’ for not voting for her husband
  4565. Tim Geithner said that the economy is in “an early stage” of crisis, blaming “political dysfunction”
  4566. Asked whether he was afraid of being fired Geithner responded, “I’ve been hoping, for sometime”
  4567. Obama asked supporters to donate to his campaign for a chance to have dinner with him (2011)
  4568. First Lady Michelle Obama was later added to President Obama’s campaign dinner raffle (2011)
  4569. President Obama began raffling off “shout-outs” in exchange for campaign donations (2012)
  4570. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis slammed the Tea Party while campaigning in Florida (October 2011)
  4571. Hilda Solis told the convention that the Obama administration would take on the “teabaggers”
  4572. Hilda Solis told the audience that President Obama’s job plan was backed by 65% of Americans
  4573. Deputy chief of staff Jim Messina was the campaign manager for Obama’s re-election campaign
  4574. Jim Messina: “We are going to build the biggest grass-roots effort in American political history”
  4575. Jim Messina called talk of Obama having a billion dollar campaign war chest “bullsh*t” (2011)
    4576. “[W]e don’t take PAC money unlike our opponents. We fund this campaign in contributions of $3 or $5 or whatever you can do to help us.”
    ~Campaign manager Jim Messina (December 2011)

  4576. Campaign held 2,000 events in just one November 2011 weekend to push for campaign volunteers
  4577. President Obama said to his supporters, “I hope you still believe in me” (June 2012)
  4578. Obama’s campaign celebrated Independence Day by holding a fundraiser in Paris, France (2012)
  4579. Obama campaign held fundraisers in Switzerland, Sweden, France, and communist China (2012)
  4580. Obama marked Independence Day by peddling the Dream Act at a naturalization ceremony
  4581. For comparison, former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush spent Independence Day in Kabwe, Zambia helping to open a health clinic and visiting an orphanage (2012)
  4582. Obama’s campaign email warned that the GOP wants to drive the “economy into a ditch” (2012)
  4583. Obama’s campaign spent $2.6 million on polling in June 2012
  4584. Obama campaign and the Democratic National Party spent $15.3 million on polling (July 2012)
  4585. Obama described his money shortage as “critical” in a fundraising email to prospective donors
  4586. Obama’s campaign signaled to congressional Democrats that they’re on their own this time (2012)
  4587. To protect our sovereignty, United States has federal laws against foreign campaign donations
  4588. U.S. Supreme Court upheld these laws banning foreign contributions as constitutional (January 2012)
  4589. Eight-month investigation was conducted by the Government Accountability Institute (GAI)
  4590. GAI’s 108-page report found that nearly half of Congress, both political parties and presidential candidates, and third-party fundraising groups were vulnerable to fraudulent and foreign donations
  4591. New technologies allow foreign donors to anonymously circumvent U.S. campaign finance laws
  4592. Foreign donors are able to directly influence elections by donating repeatedly to candidates
  4593. GAI report found that ActBlue, which funnels money to progressive candidates, was vulnerable
  4594. Obama.com was found to be vulnerable to illegal foreign campaign donations (October 2012)
  4595. Obama.com is connected to an Obama campaign bundler, Robert Roche, who is from Chicago
  4596. Nearly 68% of Internet traffic to Obama.com was found to come from foreign locations
  4597. Robert Roche co-founded Acorn International, a corporation in China that has direct ties to China’s state-owned banking industry
  4598. Robert Roche made at least 19 visits to the White House since 2009, including being seated at the head table during a State dinner with Chinese president Hu Jintao in 2011
  4599. GAI study found that foreigners used “robo-donation” programs to automatically collect donations
  4600. FEC requires campaigns to make their “best efforts” to collect identifying information on those who donate more than $50.30, and even more specific information on those who donate over $200
  4601. Donations less than $50 can be reported as a lump sum without any information given about the donor
  4602. Obama’s campaign was found to be the most vulnerable to two types of fraudsters
  4603. Fraudulent high dollar donors can avoid detection by making unlimited donations under $200
  4604. Foreigners can easily and illegally donate to campaigns without maliciously intended to do so
  4605. Obama campaign “regularly and aggressively posts solicitations for donations and campaign memorabilia on Facebook,” but does not make clear that only U.S. citizens or permanent residents may contribute
  4606. Fundraising solicitations from the Obama campaign have gone out to foreigners, asking them to contribute in amounts of less than $200
  4607. Similar solicitations have been posted in Arabic, Taiwanese, and Chinese on Facebook and on Middle Eastern and Asian websites
  4608. Obama’s campaign suspiciously omits the use of the “CCV” feature on its donations pages, though it does use the feature on the merchandise pages where it sells campaign merchandise
  4609. Someone who donates $2,500 to Obama faces less security than someone who buys a campaign mug
  4610. BarackObama.com receives approximately 43% of its traffic from foreign IP addresses
  4611. Websites touting Obama’s campaign and linking to its donation page have been found in places like China, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, the Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Norway, Egypt, Hong Kong, and South Korea
  4612. According to the GAI’s report, in 2008 an individual using the name “Doodad Pro” made at least 791 contributions totaling $19,065 to the Obama campaign by exploiting the same vulnerabilities
  4613. Also in 2008, individuals named “Good Will,” “Test Person” from “Some Place, UT,” “gjtjtjtjtjtjr, AP,” and “QWERTTYYU” contributed to the Obama campaign
  4614. A “person” could make 1,000 donations of $49 and never be recorded on finance disclosure forms
  4615. Obama’s campaign surprisingly announced that it had raised over $180 million in September 2012
  4616. Using a Pakistani IP address and proxy server, a disposable credit card and a fake address, the name “Osama bin Laden” was able to successfully donate to Obama’s re-election campaign twice
  4617. New York Post reported that a British citizen made two $5 donations to Obama’s campaign website
  4618. Students lost their zeal for Obama due to the reality of a deadened job market after graduation
  4619. More than half of new bachelor-degree graduates (53.6%) are jobless or underemployed (2012)
  4620. Just 55% of American workers between ages 16 and 29 have found jobs (December 2011)
  4621. Americans’ student loan debt surpassed credit card debt for the first time in history (2011)
  4622. Shaker Heights students laughed at Obama when he told them that “you inspire me” (2012)
  4623. More than 7 in 10 teenagers in the United States are jobless in the summer of 2012
  4624. Employment for 16- to 19-year olds in 2012 fell to the lowest level since World War II (2012)
  4625. Obama experienced a 13-point drop in support from young people age 18-24 (June 2012)
  4626. Obama called on Congress to stop interest rates from doubling for more than 7.4 million students
  4627. As senator, Obama skipped votes on a student loan interest bill he now wants Congress to extend
  4628. Obama twice skipped the Senate vote on the College Cost Reduction and Access Act (2007)
  4629. Bill was passed with bipartisan support and lowered interest rates from 6.8% to 3.4% (2007)
  4630. Democrat-controlled Senate blocked a bill that would freeze rates at 3.4% (May 8, 2012)
  4631. In 2008, 66% of young voters 18-29 years old voted for Obama over John McCain
  4632. Zogby polling found that more than 40% of the youth supported Mitt Romney (August 2012)
  4633. Brevard Community College professor Sharon Sweet forced her class to sign a pledge that read, “I pledge to vote for President Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket” (2012)
  4634. Obama campaign courted girls with a ‘My First Time was with Obama’ campaign ad
  4635. N.Y. Times: Democrat political operatives are abandoning the white working class for 2012
  4636. Only three former presidents have has a worse average approval rating at this stage of their term
  4637. Between Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and Harry Truman, only Harry Truman won re-election
  4638. Harry S. Truman won his own re-election by blaming and campaigning against Congress
  4639. Obama’s 2012 campaign has resorted to using the Truman strategy as a model for re-election
  4640. Obama also is campaigning as a tax-cutter saying, “Since I’ve taken office, I’ve cut your taxes”
  4641. Obama told a high school audience “don’t make excuses,” but blames Bush, the media, etc.
  4642. Obama pleaded for patience saying, “I’m going to need another term to finish the job” (2011)
  4643. Obama lamented, “I just miss – I miss being anonymous,” explaining his love for walks and golf
  4644. President Obama: I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I’m playing golf” (March 2012)
  4645. Obama got snippy with a reporter: “Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview”
  4646. Obama told a campaign crowd: “Hear it in my voice… I am frustrated” (August 11, 2011)
  4647. Obama:“We’ve been spending the last three years cleaning” up Bush’s mess up (December 2011)
    4648. “Well look, what, what I’d say is that we’ve gone through the worst financial crisis and economic crisis since the Great Depression. The reason they still support me is they understand what an incredible mess had been made as I was coming into office and we’ve been spending the last three years cleaning it up. The good news is that the economy is starting to strengthen. We’ve seen some positive signs. The unemployment rate has ticked down…” ~President Obama speaking from Memphis, Tennessee in December 2011 when asked why those in poverty should support Obama for re-election in 2012

  4648. Obama said that the United States of America, as founded, “has never worked” (December 2011)
  4649. President Obama said that he knows his own kids will succeed, even if the USA doesn’t (2011)
    4650. “Our kids are going to be fine. And I always tell Malia and Sasha, look, you guys, I don’t worry about you… they’re on a path that is going to be successful, even if the country as a whole is not successful. But that’s not our vision of America. I don’t want an America where my kids are living behind walls and gates, and can’t feel a part of a country that is giving everybody a shot.” ~President Obama speaking to supporters at a campaign event (November 30, 2011)

  4650. Obama: “Michelle and I will be fine no matter what happens” in the election (October 2012)
  4651. Group tied to President Obama and Democrats engaged in a massive third party drive
  4652. Americans Elect (AE) is a group made to appear like a massive, grassroots effort involving millions of citizens acting to draft a third party candidate
  4653. AE has raised over $22 million so far and has been certified to be on at least 12 state ballots
  4654. Two of AE’s board members, Kellen Arno and Michael Arno, were paid by the group to run massive signature gathering drives through their firm, Arno Political Consultants
  4655. Michael Arno is a senior adviser to the Podesta Group, a lobbying and public relations firm
  4656. Podesta Group was founded by John Podesta, who directed Obama’s transition to the White House
  4657. Podesta is also director of the Center for American Progress, which helps craft White House policy
    4658. “Not since the Heritage Foundation helped guide Ronald Reagan’s transition in 1981 has a single outside group held so much sway.” ~Time magazine article profiling the influence of Podesta’s Center for American Progress (CAP) in the formation of the Obama administration

  4658. Americans Elect originally was associated with Unity08, which did not back a candidate in 2008
  4659. Unity08’s founders launched a national effort to draft Michael Bloomberg to run for president
  4660. Unity08’s founders even “registered the domain name draftmichaelbloomberg.com in 2007 at a time when Unity08 was insisting that it had no candidates in mind”
  4661. Americans Elect (AE) and Unity08 shared the same Washington, D.C., address
  4662. Unity08 had previously shared its address with the Draft Bloomberg Committee
  4663. Michael Bloomberg did not run, but endorsed Obama for re-election based on “climate change” (2012)
  4664. Americans Elect (AE) changed its tax status from tax-exempt to a 501(c)(4) in late 2010
  4665. A 501(c)(4), which is a social-welfare organization, is not required to show its donor list
  4666. Prior to the change, AE’s $1.5 million in funding came from one person, Peter Ackerman
  4667. Peter Ackerman is a venture capitalist, a Unity08 activist, and a donor to President Obama
  4668. Ackerman reportedly gave at least $5 million in reported money, while other donors are unknown
  4669. AE’s advisory board includes Peter Ackerman and Lawrence Lessig, an Obama technology adviser
  4670. Lessig has been mentioned as a future candidate to head the Federal Communications Commission
  4671. AE’s CEO formerly served as Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s communications director
  4672. Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s chief strategist was top Obama strategist David Axelrod
  4673. AE’s advisory board also includes Will Marshall, of the Progressive Policy Institute
  4674. Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent Hillary Clinton backer, sits on AE’s advisory board
  4675. Doug Schoen, a former pollster and adviser to Bill Clinton, also sits on AE’s advisory board
  4676. Schoen and Patrick co-wrote “The Hillary Moment,” an article in the Wall Street Journal (2011)
  4677. Schoen and Patrick wrote another article at POLITICO.com calling for Democratic voters nationally – particularly in New Hampshire – to organize a write-in campaign for Hillary Clinton

    4678. Democratic National Convention (2012) was held at “Bank of America” stadium in Charlotte, N.C.

  4678. Charlotte, North Carolina is the site hosting the 2012 Democratic National Convention
  4679. North Carolina Democrat official was caught sexually harassing an allegedly same-sex staffer
  4680. Both parties made a financial settlement with the party and signed a non-disclosure agreement
  4681. Democrats were worried about how the harassment might affect their immediate agenda
  4682. Statehouse candidate Watt Jones (D-NC) warned that the “Democratic Party, our candidates, and our credibility are doomed in this election,” if the alleged sexual harassment story is made public
    4683. “Even with an agreed non-disclosure statement and financial settlement, that appears to be short-lived. It’s making its rounds all over the state and beyond. Is the person responsible still employed? Many questions are unanswered. With a Democratic Party which is suppose to be fighting to defeat Amendment One [which describes marriage as between one man and one woman] on the May 8 ballot, yet we have this in Goodwin House? How does that look? Rest assured there is a statewide gathering (I am told) that are upset over this and want people held accountable. In all honesty, I am being told by several reliable sources that the Associated Press is itching to get this out. Thankfully, some are trying to stop it. Do we want the Republicans to get this information? They are also asking questions.” ~North Carolina Democratic statehouse candidate Watt Jones wrote during an email exchange

  4683. DNC struggled to meet a $36.6 million fundraising goal for the Democratic National Convention
  4684. Democrats moved President Obama’s speech to Bank of America Stadium to sell more tickets
  4685. Obama’s advisers warned against giving the speech in a stadium named after Bank of America
  4686. DNC host committee changed the name of Bank of America stadium to “Panthers Stadium”
    4687. “People have been using financial regulation as an excuse to charge consumers more.” ~Obama speaking at a White House news conference
    (October 6, 2011)

  4687. Bank of America considered imposing a debit card fee that would have “mistreated” customers
  4688. Bank of America nixed the planned monthly $5 debit card fee due to consumer backlash (2011)
  4689. Obama said that financial institutions did not have “an inherent right” to a certain level of profit
    4690. “I have an inherent duty as a CEO of a publicly owned company to get a return for my shareholders” ~Bank of America CEO

  4690. DNC downsized the convention from four days to three due to poor fundraising (January 2012)
  4691. DNC was again forced to downsize their convention further due to poor fundraising, moving their big kickoff event from the Charlotte Motor Speedway to downtown Charlotte (June 2012)
  4692. Democrats refused to disclose the names of the donors to the Democratic National Convention
  4693. Democrat campaign chair told their candidates to avoid the Democratic convention (June 2012)
  4694. National debt hit $16 trillion just at the Democrats gaveled in their convention (September 2012)
  4695. Democrats bussed in college students and churches over fears of low convention attendance
  4696. Democrats bussed in black church members from South Carolina to help fill the stadium
  4697. DNC held two-hour Islamic ‘Jumah’ prayers prior to meeting for their 2012 convention
  4698. Jibril Hough is the spokesman for the Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs (BIMA)
  4699. Jibril Hough’s mosque is owned by the North American Islamic Trust, which was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial as a “member of the Muslim Brotherhood”
  4700. ‘Jumah at the DNC’ speaker Jibril Hough claimed that “Muslims visited America prior to Columbus” and “It was a Muslim who guided Columbus on his voyage to the new world”
  4701. Drunken delegates were ejected after impersonating a congressman and hassling hotel staff
  4702. Record-high Labor Day gas prices greeted Democrats in Charlotte, North Carolina (2012)
  4703. AFSCME President Lee Saunders kicked and threw an empty chair in frustration
  4704. Nine of the hotels used for the DNC were reportedly infested with bedbugs
  4705. Democrats were banned from speaking with conservative media at the DNC
  4706. Gloria Allred was an Obama delegate at the Democrats’ National Convention in Charlotte (2012)
  4707. President Obama: ‘Everything that we fought for is now at stake in this election” (2012)
  4708. Obama told supporters that if they worked hard to re-elect him, “I promise you, change will come”
  4709. Obama’s re-election campaign accused “secretive oil billionaires” of the Solyndra attacks
  4710. Obama’s campaign ad claimed that his clean energy investments have created 2.7 million jobs
  4711. Ad also claimed that independent watchdogs described his record on ethics “unprecedented”
  4712. Another campaign ad falsely portrayed President Obama as a jobs creator (2012)
  4713. Obama defended criticism that he’s inciting class warfare saying, “Nobody envies rich people…”
  4714. White House adviser Rick Bookstaber defended class warfare by citing Karl Marx (May 2012)
  4715. Obama: “I second-guess constantly… I make a mistake, you know, every hour, every day” (2012)
  4716. Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign issued out Square mobile credit card readers to raise funds
  4717. Obama conceded to his supporters, “I’m not a perfect man. I’m not a perfect president” (2012)
  4718. David Axelrod urged voters NOT to choose “the road we’re on” regarding the economy (2012)
    4719. “The choice in this election is between an economy that produces a growing middle-class and that gives people a chance to get ahead and their kids a chance to get ahead and an economy that continues down the road we’re on.”
    ~Campaign adviser David Axelrod speaking on Fox News Sunday and seemingly making the case for Mitt Romney

  4719. Obama said his biggest mistake was that he didn’t “tell a story to the American people” (2012)
  4720. Obama said that the GOP convention was from the era of “black-and-white TV” (September 2012)
  4721. Obama blamed his family life for the gridlock and partisanship in Washington (September 2012)
  4722. When asked to evaluate himself, Obama gave himself a grade of “incomplete” (September 2012)
  4723. Obama’s campaign unveiled a new slogan, “Forward,” designed for his re-election campaign
  4724. Historically, “Forward” is a word that has a long association with European Marxism
  4725. Many Communist and radical publications and entities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries had the name “Forward!” or its foreign cognates
  4726. Daily newspaper of the Social Democratic Party of Germany was entitled “Vorwaerts,” or “Forward,” and whose writers included Friedrich Engels and Leon Trotsky
  4727. The 1844 biweekly reader of the Communist League was entitled “Forward,” with Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Mikhail Bakunin among the names associated with the publication
  4728. East Germany previously named its Army soccer club “ASK Vorwaerts Berlin”
  4729. In 1905, Vladimir Lenin founded the publication “Vpered,” the Russian word for “forward”
  4730. “Vorwarts! Vorwarts!” was a marching tune sung by Nazis and the Hitler youth
  4731. Wikipedia has an entire section called “Forward (generic name of socialist publications)”
  4732. Obama used ‘Forward’ slogan 3 times in 30 seconds at an official taxpayer-funded speech (2012)
  4733. Obama campaign rolled out a new typeface inspired by Cuban Communist propaganda (2012)
  4734. Mitt Romney: “Forewarned” is better than “forward”
  4735. Obama’s campaign collected an ‘Enemies List’ of people who donated to Mitt Romney’s campaign in order to intimidate, investigate, and bully private citizens who disagree politically
  4736. High-profile contributors and bundlers for the GOP have been targeted for audit by Obama’s IRS
  4737. Wayne Allyn Root, a classmate of Obama at Columbia, has been a relentless critic of Obama in more than 4,000 appearances on political talk shows on television and radio during Obama’s presidency
  4738. Wayne Allyn Root also writes columns and commentaries for many popular conservative websites
  4739. Wayne Allyn Root began his career as a network oddsmaker for the Financial News Network (CNBC)
  4740. Wayne Allyn Root is one of only 60 people to have a star on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars
  4741. Like Obama, Wayne Allyn Root was a pre-law and political science major at Columbia University
  4742. Wayne Allyn Root became the target of an IRS audit despite having a spotless tax record (January 2011)
  4743. An IRS agent called Root, described himself as a fan of his and considered it “an honor” to audit him
  4744. Root’s accountant dealt with the IRS agent, but then the accountant was also audited weeks later
  4745. Root hired a tax attorney, who said that the IRS agent was “taking an unusually aggressive stance”
  4746. Root won a complete victory in tax court, which found no taxes owed in his 2007 and 2008 filings
  4747. Just five days after winning in court, Wayne Allyn Root received a new audit for 2009 and 2010
  4748. Root’s tax attorney said that he had never heard of such a case in all his years practicing law
  4749. In both cases, the IRS agent treated Root’s attorney with disdain and simply ignored the facts and denied every legal deduction on Root’s tax return
  4750. Wayne Allyn Root argued that the “order had to come from the highest levels of government”
  4751. Root called for congressional hearings “to determine if the Obama administration is misusing its power to damage or ruin the lives, drain the finances, or just distract Obama’s critics and political opposition”
  4752. Root blamed Obama’s “Chicago style of politics – to persecute, intimidate and destroy the opposition”
    4753. “Obama is using the power of the IRS and other government agencies to punish his political opposition and intimidate and silence his critics.” ~Wayne Allyn Root (2012)
  4753. Wayne Allyn Root predicted that Obama would follow the radical, collectivist strategy of former Columbia professors Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven to overwhelm the welfare system for the purpose of collapsing it and replacing it with a system of guaranteed annual income
  4754. In 2008, Wayne Allyn Root warned that Obama “is going to try to badly damage the economy and bankrupt the business community,” sowing doubts about capitalism, addicting a record number of Americans to entitlements, exploding the debt, demonizing business owners, and then trying to convince the masses to redistribute the wealth with massive tax increases
  4755. Frank VanderSloot became the target of IRS and Labor Department investigations after he gave $1 million to a super PAC that supports Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney
  4756. Las Vegas Sands Corp. is controlled by chief executive and Republican donor Sheldon Adelson
  4757. Sheldon Adelson donated $10 million to the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC Restore Our Future
  4758. Sheldon Adelson indicated that his support for Mitt Romney was “limitless”
  4759. Sheldon Adelson reportedly believes that “no price is too high” to protect the United States from Obama’s “socialization” of America, as well as securing the safety of Israel
  4760. Justice Department began investigating Las Vegas Sands Corp. for money-laundering (2012)
  4761. Casino giant Steve Wynn also became the target of investigations from the Obama administration
  4762. Judicial Watch obtained IRS documents from 1999 showing that an audit of the non-partisan Western Journalism Center originated with a complaint forwarded to the IRS from the Bill Clinton White House
  4763. Judicial Watch found that the complaint had been faxed by a California resident directly to Clinton
  4764. Once the audit began, an IRS agent told representatives of the Western Journalism Center that the audit was “political” and that decisions on the audit were being made out of the “national office” (1999)
  4765. Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio reported that an unusually large numbers of organizations critical of the Clinton administration had been audited, while no liberal organizations had been examined
  4766. White House document, created by then-White House lawyer Jane Sherburne, showed that the Western Journalism Center was a concern of the Obama administration dating back as far as 1994
  4767. Obama’s camp condemned Romney before condemning the attacks in Egypt and Libya (2012)
  4768. Obama attended a campaign fundraiser in Las Vegas while the crisis in Egypt and Libya unfolded
  4769. Obama told a Seattle crowd, “Sometimes I forget” the magnitude of the recession (May 2012)
    4770. “It’s not surprising that a president who forgot to create jobs, forgot to cut the debt, and forgot to change Washington has now admitted that he’s forgotten about the recession. In fact, it seems that the President has forgotten that he’s been in office for the last three-and-a-half years. In November, the American people won’t forget.” ~Mitt Romney’s press secretary, Andrea Saul

  4770. Polling showed that more Americans view Obama (45%) as “extreme” than Mitt Romney (30%)
  4771. Rasmussen showed that 47% of voters say that Obama’s views are “extreme” (July 2012)
  4772. In 1994, uncovered C-SPAN video shows chief campaign strategist David Axelrod saying it’s bad to say the economy is improving, particularly from the ‘ninth hole’ of a golf course
    4773. “[A]s you cite these statistics that say the economy is improving, you almost do political damage to yourself. If you stand up and claim great progress you’re only frustrating this alienated middle class more.”
    ~President Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod on C-SPAN (1994)

  4773. Obama campaign allies were caught paying people to protest and heckle Mitt Romney (2012)
  4774. Obama campaign created the “Obama Event Registry” for birthdays, anniversaries, and weddings
  4775. Obama asked couples to forgo receiving gifts and have guests donate to his campaign instead
    4776. “It’s a great way to support the President on your big day. Plus, it’s a gift that we can all appreciate -- and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl.”
    ~Obama campaign fundraiser (June 2012)

  4776. Polling showed that Obama’s support from whites was down 8 points from 2008 (June 2012)
  4777. Obama’s campaign pleaded for funds in an e-mail, conceding “I will be outspent” (June 2012)
  4778. Obama’s 2008 campaign rejected federal matching funds and raised nearly $750 million, shattering fundraising records
  4779. McCain’s campaign was limited to just $84 million as a condition of accepting matching funds
  4780. Obama’s campaign sent out a new “urgent” email request for campaign donations (July 2012)
  4781. Obama shifted from ‘blame Bush’ to ‘blame Romney’s Swiss bank account’ (July 2012)
  4782. Polls showed Jimmy Carter with a 47-39 lead over Ronald Reagan in August 1980, with Reagan winning the actual election in November 1980 in a landslide
  4783. James Carville: “We’re gonna have to go through hell and high-water to win this damn thing”
  4784. Obama and the Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit targeting military voters in Ohio
  4785. Obama campaign and the DNC sued Ohio’s Attorney General and Secretary of State (2012)
  4786. Democrats sought to prevent military voters from being granted three extra days of early voting
  4787. Mitt Romney’s campaign described Obama’s lawsuit as “despicable” and “offensive”
  4788. Watchdogs found that the Pentagon failed to comply with a 2009 law to help overseas soldiers vote
  4789. Democrats disavowed their own nominee, Mark Clayton, for not being liberal enough (2012)
  4790. Mark Clayton (D-TN) won by campaigning against gay marriage, advocating strict adherence to the Constitution, pro-life policies, and preventing the U.S. from becoming “an Orwellian super state”
  4791. Tennessee Democrats accused their voters of being so stupid that they voted for the first name listed
  4792. Liberal website Daily Kos described Mark Clayton’s nomination as “a debacle”
  4793. Mark Clayton was criticized for his association with the Public Advocate of the United States
  4794. Left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) designated the Public Advocate of the United States as “an anti-gay hate group” for their desire to amend the U.S. Constitution to outlaw gay marriage
  4795. Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) attorneys “recklessly posted the home address of Public Advocate’s president, Eugene Delgaudio,” and had refused to remove the home address
  4796. Court motion argued that the SPLC knew that it “could expose his family to great personal danger”
  4797. SPLC routinely labels and tries to intimidate pro-family activists and those with whom they disagree
  4798. Federal court judge ordered the SPLC to conceal Dalgaudio’s home address in case filings (2013)
  4799. Family Research Council headquarters shooter had also been seen at Eugene Delgaudio’s office
  4800. Obama cancelled his campaign stops in order to follow Mitt Romney to survey hurricane damage
  4801. White House claimed that Obama was already going, despite having “no plans” earlier in the day
  4802. President Obama: “And the most important lesson I’ve learned is that: you can’t change Washington from the inside, you can only change it from the outside” (September 2012)
  4803. Chris Christie: “If he believes that, then what the hell is [Obama] doing asking for another four years?”
  4804. Chris Christie received backlash from conservatives after he lavishly praised and embraced Obama and FEMA’s response to Hurricane Sandy just days before Election Day (November 2012)
  4805. Chris Christie: “I wouldn’t call what I did an embrace of Barack Obama” after Sandy (November 2012)
  4806. Chris Christie congratulated Obama over the phone, but only sent an email to Romney (November 2012)
  4807. President Obama defended his poor debate performance saying, “I was just too polite” (October 2012)

    4808. Barack Obama was for same-sex marriage before
    he was against it... before he was for it again...

  4808. In 1996, as a state Senate candidate, Obama indicated support for gay marriage in a questionnaire
  4809. Obama’s aides later disavowed it and said it did not reflect candidate Obama’s position
  4810. In 2004, as a U.S. Senate candidate, Barack Obama said, “I don’t think marriage is a civil right”
    4811. “Well, what I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman…”
    ~Barack Obama in 2004

  4811. In 2010, President Obama said that his feelings on same sex marriage were “constantly evolving”
  4812. In 2012, Obama flip-flopped again in support of gay marriage to shore up support with his base
    4813. “I think same-sex couples should be able to get married…”
    ~President Obama in 2012

  4813. Ironically, Obama argued that it was best to ultimately leave the decision up to the states
  4814. President Obama sent out a fundraising email hours later asking for money because of his switch
  4815. Newsweek cover hailed Obama as “The First Gay President” after his flip-flop on gay marriage
  4816. Hilary Rosen: “Straight people don’t need any help tearing down the institution of marriage”
  4817. Senators Jon Tester (D-MT), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Bill Nelson (D-FL) all backed away from President Obama’s new stance on gay marriage
  4818. African-American church leaders condemned Obama for his gay marriage flip-flop (2012)
  4819. Al Sharpton slammed African-American pastors as “hypocrites” for dumping Obama
  4820. Phillip Goudeaux, a black pastor in Sacramento, received death threats for reversing support for Obama
  4821. NAACP’s national board of directors voted to support same-sex marriage (2012)
  4822. Coalition of African American Pastors demanded to meet with Obama over gay marriage
  4823. Artur Davis (D-GA), a former black caucus member, switched to the Republican Party (2012)
  4824. NAACP leader in Iowa resigned “due to the NAACP's position and support of same-sex marriage”
  4825. Pentagon designated June as gay pride month to recognize gay and lesbian troops (2012)
  4826. President Obama invited gay people to the White House for the first-ever gay pride reception
  4827. Gay activists invited to the White House flipped off a portrait of Ronald Reagan (June 2012)
    4828. “Yeah, f-ck Reagan. Ronald Reagan has blood on his hands. The man was in the White House as AIDS exploded, and he was happy to see plenty of gay men and queer people die. He was a murderous fool, and I have no problem saying so. Don’t invite me back. I don’t care.” ~Matthew “Matty” Hart, the national director of public engagement at Solutions for Progress

  4828. Obama’s DHS said it would no longer follow law and deport noncitizen spouses of gay Americans
  4829. One in six of President Obama’s top campaign bundlers openly identify themselves as being gay
  4830. Obama ally Dan Savage sent out a Tweet describing pro-Romney gays as “faggots” (June 2012)
  4831. Village Voice columnist Michael Musto wrote that the gay Republican group GOProud are like “Jewish Nazis” or “Black Klan members” because they endorsed Mitt Romney (June 2012)
  4832. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) disgraced the American flag at a gay pride parade (June 2012)
  4833. State Senator Mark Leno (D-CA) proposed a bill to allow a child to have more than two parents
  4834. NAACP cheered Mitt Romney’s opposition to same-sex marriage, but the media downplayed it
  4835. Democrats officially made gay-marriage part of their party platform for the 2012 election cycle
  4836. Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy told a news outlet that he supported traditional marriage
  4837. Gay advocacy groups took the admission to mean that he was anti-gay and boycotted Chick-fil-A
  4838. Washington Post and MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart claimed that Chick-fil-A wants to do harm to gay people based on their biblically-based support for traditional marriage (2012)
  4839. Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno vowed to block a new Chick-fil-A in Chicago (July 2012)
  4840. Mayors in Boston, San Francisco and Los Angeles also vowed to ban Chick-fil-A restaurants
  4841. Supporters turned out in massive numbers and waited in long lines for “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day,” which happened to be the most successful day of business in company history (2012)
  4842. LGTB activists staged a Chick-fil-A gay “kiss-in” rebuttal, which was not as successful
  4843. New York Times food reporter rejoiced after Chick-fil-A’s vice president died of a heart attack
  4844. Chick-fil-A ultimately gave in and stopped funding groups that support traditional marriage
  4845. Family Research Council (FRC) is pro-life and supports traditional marriage
  4846. Liberal activist shot a security guard at the Family Research Council headquarters (August 2012)
  4847. Floyd Corkins II posed as an intern and carried a bag from Chick-fil-A filled with 15 sandwiches
  4848. Corkins “walked in and started yelling about things they (FRC) supported and opened fire”
  4849. Corkins was a volunteer at a community center for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people
  4850. White House initially made no statement after the shooting at the Family Research Council HQ
  4851. Floyd Corkins II was indicted on charges of domestic terrorism, a first in U.S. history (October 2012)
  4852. Floyd Corkins II pled guilty to domestic terrorism (February 2013)
  4853. Corkins admitted to going to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) website to get his list of targets
  4854. Police charged that Charlie Rogers, a lesbian and a former women’s basketball star, faked an attack and carved anti-gay slurs into her own skin in hopes of “sparking change” (August 2012)
  4855. Charlie Rogers outlined her motive in a Facebook post four days before her alleged attack
  4856. Back in 1976, Al Franken (D-MN) told the Harvard Crimson, “I just don’t like homosexuals”
  4857. N.Y. Times reported on a growing underground subculture in the black community, known as being on the “Down Low,” where black men engage in homosexual activity while living “straight” lives in public
  4858. Reverend Jeremiah Wright ran a “matchmaking service” for members of Trinity United Church of Christ known as the Down Low Club, which allegedly included Barack Obama
  4859. Wright would help homosexuals find a wife in order to appear respectable in black society
  4860. To Trinity United insiders, the Down Low Club was simply known as “the program”
  4861. Openly homosexual author Keith Boykin, a former White House adviser to President Clinton, mentioned Wright in his 2005 book “Beyond the Down Low: Sex, Lies, and Denial in Black America”
  4862. Boykin described Wright as among a small group of ministers who are “coming to grips with sexuality and opening up a dialogue with heterosexuals, homosexuals, and bisexuals in the pews”
  4863. Chicago-based author and HIV/AIDS activist J.L. King wrote a controversial book in 2005 called “On the Down Low: A Journey into the Lives of ‘Straight’ Black Men who Sleep with Men”
  4864. J.L. King was a guest on Oprah Winfrey’s Chicago-based TV show in 2004 to discuss the topic
  4865. A prominent member of Chicago’s homosexual community claims that Barack Obama participated in the “gay” bar and bathhouse scene, a fact that was well known within the community
  4866. Many who were aware of his lifestyle were shocked when Obama ran for president and won
  4867. Former radical activist John Drew said that when he met Barack Obama at Occidental College, he thought Obama and his then-Pakistani roommate were “gay” lovers
  4868. Rumors have swirled around Obama and his personal aide and former “body man,” Reggie Love
  4869. Love resigned after compromising photographs of him as a college student were unearthed (2011)
  4870. Obama also wore a gold band on his wedding ring finger from the time he attended Occidental College through his student days at Harvard Law School
  4871. Larry Sinclair claimed that he and Obama used cocaine twice and engaged in gay sex acts in 1999
  4872. Sinclair made contact with the Obama campaign and requested that Obama correct claims he made about when he stopped using drugs to reflect their use of crack cocaine during their sexual encounters in November 1999, providing a callback number to the campaign if needed (September 2007)
  4873. Sinclair received a call back from a male identifying himself as “Mr. Young,” who stated he was responding to calls Sinclair had made to the Obama campaign (September/October 2007)
  4874. During the first call, “Mr. Young” asked Sinclair why he didn’t also ask Obama to disclose their sexual encounters, which surprised Sinclair since he had not mentioned that detail to the Obama campaign
  4875. Based on “the tone of the conversation” and by its “sexual nature” during a second call from “Mr. Young,” Sinclair began to suspect that the man had been sexually intimate with Obama
  4876. In late October 2007, Sinclair received a text message from “Mr. Young” stating that Young “was intimately involved with Senator Obama and that Obama was discussing with him and his pastor how to publicly acknowledge Senator Obama’s drug use in 1999”
  4877. The text message to Larry Sinclair also indicated that Obama wanted to make sure Sinclair had not discussed the sexual encounters or drug use with any media at that time
  4878. In November 2007, Sinclair received a second text message from “Mr. Young,” advising him that Obama himself would publicly correct his statements as to when he had last used drugs
  4879. In early December 2007, Sinclair received his last contact with “Mr. Young,” with Young making it clear that Obama had no intention of acknowledging publicly his use of crack cocaine in 1999
  4880. Sinclair told his story in “Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder”
  4881. Federal judge dismissed a libel case against Larry Sinclair, a homosexual who claimed that Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign had paid to rig a polygraph test
  4882. Donald Young, a 47-year-old homosexual choirmaster at Trinity United Church of Christ, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in his Chicago apartment (December 24, 2007)
  4883. Larry Sinclair has several contacts with Donald Young’s family following his murder
  4884. Two days after the murder of Donald Young, another openly “gay” member of Trinity United Church of Christ, Nate Spencer, reportedly died of septicemia, pneumonia, and AIDS
  4885. Larry Bland, another black gay member of Trinity United Church of Christ, was murdered execution-style in his home with multiple gunshot wounds (November 17, 2007)
  4886. The murders of Donald Young and Larry Bland remain open cases of unsolved homicide
  4887. Young’s mother, Norma Jean Young, expressed fear that her son was murdered to protect Obama
  4888. Chicago sources claim that Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright “arranged” the Obamas’ marriage
  4889. Michelle Obama “just about grew up in Jesse Jackson’s home” and is best friends with his daughter
  4890. Jesse Jackson and his daughter, Santita, refer to Michelle as “sis,” as in short for “sister”
  4891. Santita was maid of honor at Obama’s wedding and is godmother to Obama’s older daughter, Malia
  4892. Jesse Jackson Sr. served as the national co-chairman of Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign
  4893. Barack Obama’s retelling of how he met Michelle left historians confused
  4894. Michelle earned her degree from Harvard Law School in 1988, but Barack did not arrive at Harvard Law School until the fall, graduating three years later in 1991
  4895. Sources claim that the selection of Michelle for Obama was made by Jesse Jackson Sr.
  4896. Reverend Jeremiah Wright reportedly agreed that the two would be a good combination
  4897. Michelle Robinson and Barack Obama became engaged to be married (1991)
  4898. Jesse Jackson allegedly explained to Michelle that she would have a life of luxury once Barack Obama became president, and that she never again would have to worry about money
  4899. Michelle was hired by Valerie Jarrett, then deputy chief of staff to Mayor Richard M. Daley (1991)
  4900. Michelle was given one of those “Jesse hire” patronage positions that required no actual work
  4901. Michelle collected a paycheck while sitting at a desk reading newspapers and romance novels
  4902. Michelle followed Jarrett, who left to head Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development
  4903. Jarrett later became chairwoman of the Chicago Medical Center, once again with Michelle in tow
  4904. Michelle again got “a cushy job at the Chicago Medical Center with a salary of $317,000”
  4905. A long-term member of the Trinity United Church of Christ congregation insisted that Barack Obama remained sexually involved with men after his marriage to Michelle
  4906. Gallup study estimates that 3.4% of adults in the U.S. identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender
  4907. Gay Wisconsin man was brutally attacked for supporting a straight Republican over a gay Democrat
  4908. Preceding the brutal attack, Kyle Wood’s car was vandalized and painted with graffiti including, “house trained republican faggot,” “traitor,” and “ur like a jew 4 hitler” (October 2012)
  4909. Survey: Detroit was “the most dangerous U.S. city to visit for gay travelers” (December 2012)
  4910. Obama tried to bully the Supreme Court into ruling in favor of same-sex marriage (January 2013)
  4911. Democrats have pushed for those who are openly gay to serve as scoutmasters in the Boy Scouts
  4912. Pat Robertson wondered whether allowing gays to serve openly in the Boy Scouts would lead to “predators” and “pedophiles who come in as scoutmasters?” (February 2013)
  4913. Lesbian couple and a gay man were all listed as parents on a baby’s birth certificate (2013)

    4914. Democrats unveiled a ‘War on Women’ smear campaign against Republican candidates

  4914. Gallup: Obama’s job approval rating among women hit an all-time low of 41% (August 2011)
  4915. Obama campaign shifted their focus to courting more women voters to help Obama win re-election
  4916. DNC’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz said the GOP agenda is “anti-women” and “a war on women”
  4917. Harry Reid (D-NV) claimed that the GOP wants to keep “women from getting cancer screenings”
  4918. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) argued that Republicans “want women to die on the floor”
  4919. Keith Ellison (D): Michele Bachmann wants women barefoot, pregnant and back in the kitchen
  4920. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) said the GOP wants “to kill women,” comparing it to the Nazi regime
  4921. President Obama is cynically plotting a path to re-election through a phony “war on women”
  4922. Obama administration announced a plan “enabling women to have a voice alongside those of men”
  4923. Executive order would create “first-ever national action plan on women, peace, and security”
  4924. Democrats created a phony contraception debate to try to scare women into supporting them
  4925. Nancy Pelosi falsely claimed that 98 percent of Catholic women use birth control (2012)
  4926. Chief of staff Bill Daley and Vice President Biden reportedly opposed the contraception mandate
  4927. Bill Daley and Joe Biden both argued that the mandate breached the separation of church and state
  4928. President Obama gave a speech at “The White House Forum on Women and the Economy”
  4929. Obama laid the groundwork by saying, “We didn’t have the luxury for Michelle not to work”
  4930. Hilary Rosen claimed that Ann Romney “has actually never worked a day in her life” (April 2012)
    4931. “Guess what? His wife has actually never worked a day in her life.” ~Hilary Rosen speaking about Ann Romney during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper

  4931. Rosen said that Ann Romney is not an “expert” on women, because she was a stay-at-home mom
  4932. Hilary Rosen is an official Democratic National Committee (DNC) advisor
  4933. Rosen worked with the Recording Industry Association of America lobby from 1987 to 2003
  4934. Rosen served in different positions, including as president and then chairman and chief executive
  4935. Hilary Rosen once spoke candidly about her influence-peddling lobbying efforts
  4936. Rosen said that as an entertainment lobbyist she expected favors for her fundraising (May 2010)
    4937. “When I gave $1,000 or $2,000 to a lawmaker, I wanted him to listen to my business proposition. And when I helped organize an event that raised $50,000 or $100,000, you bet I expected their vote.” ~Hilary Rosen speaking to writer Jim Powell during an interview for the May 2010 issue of Freeman magazine, a publication of the Foundation for Economic Education

  4937. Hilary Rosen is also an Obama advisor and a frequent guest to the White House
  4938. FOIA records show a “Hilary Rosen” visiting the White House at least (35) times under Obama
  4939. White House Spokesman Jay Carney claimed that he knew three people named “Hilary Rosen”
  4940. White House visitor logs for 2012 have not been made available for public review
  4941. Hilary Rosen apologized and said, “Let’s declare peace on this faux war on women”
  4942. Since 2009, Hilary Rosen has held more than 30 meetings at the White House
  4943. Hilary Rosen met directly with President Obama at least five times at the White House
  4944. Hilary Rosen met with top White House advisor Valerie Jarrett on March 11, 2009
  4945. Rosen met with David Axelrod for a “communications message meeting” on March 12, 2009
  4946. In November 2009, CBS News described David Axelrod’s White House meeting with Hilary Rosen and eighteen other strategists as demonstrating “the political element of the health care debate”
  4947. Campaign strategist David Axelrod told CNN’s John King, Rosen is “your employee, not ours”
  4948. Hilary Rosen routinely appears as a regular commentator for CNN
  4949. Rosen also serves as the political director and Washington editor-at-large for the Huffington Post
  4950. Rosen is also on the board of the Center for American Progress Action Fund
  4951. Rosen serves on the board of the George Soros funded Human Rights Campaign Foundation
  4952. Rosen also serves on the board of the George Soros funded Creative Coalition
    4953. “Hilary Rosen is not an adviser to the DNC. Our contract for media services is exclusively with Anita Dunn.” ~DNC commenting to POLITICO regarding Hilary Rosen’s remarks

  4953. Hilary Rosen is a partner at Anita Dunn’s public relations and strategy firm, SKDKnickerbocker
  4954. SKDKnickerbocker handled strategy and public relations for Obama’s 2008 campaign
  4955. White House allowed Hilary Rosen back-door lobbying privileges without reporting it
  4956. Kaplan Education hired SKDKnickerbocker to help block Obama’s anti-college legislation
  4957. Win America, a lobbying campaign, hired SKDKnickerbocker to push for big tax breaks
  4958. Food manufacturers hired SKDKnickerbocker to help fight against food regulations
  4959. Investigations found that Sandra Fluke’s press relations were also run by SKDKnickerbocker
  4960. Fluke had testified before Congress on February 29 seeking free taxpayer-funded birth control
  4961. President Obama had personally called Sandra Fluke following her testimony (March 2, 2012)
    4962. “We are proud to provide pro-bono support to Sandra Fluke, an incredibly courageous young woman who is standing up for the rights of women everywhere in the face of sustained, personal attacks” ~Hilary Rosen
    “I am not the person who is working with her, although I would be happy and honored to do so!” ~Anita Dunn responding to SKDKnickerbocker’s involvement with Sandra Fluke

  4962. Congressman Scott Randolph (D-FL) also attacked Ann Romney for being a stay-at-home mom
  4963. Liberal radio host Randi Rhodes called for someone to “repossess” conservative women’s ovaries
    4964. “You know, these women, somebody really needs to go repossess their ovaries. Really, truly, they have no right to them. They are fabulous, little organs and they have absolutely no right to be estrogen-bearing beings. Okay? Just cut ‘em off, let ‘em go through the hot flashes, let ‘em just sit there and complain about hormone therapy, okay? Just take the ovaries and get it over with. Because they don’t deserve to have estrogen. They really don’t. It’s a privilege.” ~Liberal radio host Randi Rhodes (March 7, 2012)

  4964. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) described the GOP student loan bill as an assault on women (April 2012)
  4965. Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) claimed to Denver Democrats that Republicans are waging a war on women on issues ranging from health care to wage disparity (June 2012)
  4966. Obama campaign sent out an email asking, “Do you support equal pay for women?” (June 2012)
  4967. Obama had declared “problem solved” after signing equal pay legislation in January 2009
    4968. “We passed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act – the first bill I signed – so that equal pay for equal work is a reality all across this country.”
    ~President Obama in June 2009

  4968. Records show that Obama’s White House pays women 17% less than their male counterparts
  4969. Obama’s White House employs 74 men and only 48 women in senior positions
  4970. Obama administration has filed far fewer gender-based wage discrimination lawsuits than Bush
  4971. Obama criticized Augusta National for not allowing women to join their private club (2012)
  4972. Obama has routinely excluded women from participating in his own frequent golf outings
  4973. Women in the Obama White House previously complained of feeling excluded and ignored
  4974. A female senior aide to President Obama called the White House a hostile environment for women
  4975. Geithner: Women’s job loss numbers were a “meaningless way” to evaluating the economy
  4976. BLS data shows that 324,000 women dropped out of the labor force in March and April (2012)
  4977. Labor force participation by America women is at its lowest rate (57.6%) since April 1993
  4978. Democratic female senators also declared war on the so-called “gender pay gap”
  4979. However, Senate Democrats pay their female staffers less than their male staffers (2012)
  4980. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) repeatedly accused Republicans of waging a “war on women”
  4981. Murray’s female staff members made about $21,000 less in 2011 (35.2%) than male staffers
  4982. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) paid her female staffers $21,000 (41%) less than males in 2011
  4983. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) paid her female staffers about $5,000 less (7.3%) than males in 2011
  4984. Of the 50 members of the Senate Democratic caucus, 37 senators paid their female staffers less than male staffers in 2011
  4985. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) accused the GOP of “trying to roll back the clock on women’s rights”
  4986. Bernie Sanders paid his female staffers 47.6% less than his male staffers in 2011
  4987. The so-called ‘gender wage gap’ is actually a myth, since women tend to take jobs that are less lucrative, work less hours, and take more time off than men
  4988. Women earn less than men on average due to many factors, such as a greater percentage of women work part-time, leave work to bear children, and value family-friendly jobs
    4989. “[T]he differences in the compensation of men and women are the result of a multitude of factors and… the raw wage gap should not be used as the basis to justify corrective action. Indeed, there may be nothing to correct. The differences in raw wages may be almost entirely the result of the individual choices being made by both male and female workers.” ~Charles E. James, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Federal Contract Compliance (2009)

  4989. Democrats offered the Paycheck Fairness Act, which has stalled in the Democrat-led Senate
  4990. Paycheck Fairness Act places the burden on employers to show they are not being sexist
  4991. Paycheck Fairness Act also dedicates taxpayer money towards studying the mythical pay gap
  4992. Obama used the women of Barnard College as props to deliver a campaign speech (May 2012)
  4993. Barnard College is a historic all-women college located adjacent to Columbia University
  4994. A student at Barnard College complained that Obama “stereotypes, simplified, and used” them
  4995. Obama gave the speech at Columbia University without setting foot on Barnard College campus
  4996. Sandra Fluke officially endorsed President Obama for re-election (June 2012)
  4997. Fluke, an Obama campaign surrogate, drew about 10 people at a campaign stop in Reno (October 2012)
  4998. Hilary Rosen slammed Claire McCaskill’s skipping of the DNC as ‘a diss to the President’
  4999. Michelle Obama sent out a campaign email titled, “Being Married to Barack” (June 2012)
  5000. Women seeking a “sugar daddy” prefer Barack Obama (34%) over Mitt Romney (12%)
  5001. Eva Longoria is a national co-chair of President Obama’s re-election campaign
  5002. Eva Longoria said “If you’re a woman, there is no way you can vote Republican” (2012)
    5003. “Women will decide this election, and they are smart enough and concerned enough to know that future generations are at risk because of the failed policies of the Obama administration: healthcare policy that adds to debt, joblessness that adds to debt, foreign policy that scares our allies, and overall disrespect for the constitution of our country. To assure a better future, women must vote Republican.” ~Suzie Terrell, co-chair of She-PAC (a group that support conservative women running for elected office), responding to Eva Longoria’s comments

  5003. Longoria retweeted a vulgar message calling women and minorities “stupid” for supporting Romney
  5004. Longoria’s retweet described Mitt Romney as a “racist/misogynistic twat” (October 2012)
  5005. Longoria deleted the tweet and went Full-Weiner, blaming Twitter for a glitch in her timeline
  5006. Liberal Alan Colmes called for Eva Longoria to resign from the Obama campaign (October 2012)
  5007. Team Obama attacked Ann Romney, who rides horses for therapy as she battles Multiple Sclerosis
  5008. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) said that maybe Republicans “just don’t like their moms or their first wives”
  5009. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz on whether she misrepresented Romney’s position: “It doesn’t matter”
  5010. Democrats said that the female speakers at the RNC were nothing more than “shiny packaging”
  5011. Democrats (such as Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Sandra Fluke, and Jan Schakowsky) seek to devalue the accomplishments of women unless those women believe in dependency upon the government
  5012. Obama asked Bill Clinton, the leader of the War on Women, to speak at the 2012 DNC
  5013. Clinton allegedly raped Juanita Broaddrick in 1978 when he was attorney general of Arkansas
  5014. Bill Clinton used his power and authority to force women to capitulate and then to silence them
  5015. Obama campaign urged women to “Vote like your lady parts depend on it” (September 2012)
  5016. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) argued that the “right to free contraception” is more important than an employer’s right to practice their religion if it means not providing the contraception to female employees
  5017. Durbin: Employers who don’t provide free contraception to women are guilty of discrimination
  5018. Democrats and their media allies joked about Romney being given “binders full of women” resumes
  5019. David Axelrod criticized Mitt Romney for not having any women in senior positions at Bain
  5020. Axelrod’s own consulting firm has no women partners
  5021. Hillary Clinton told women who complain about the choices they’ve made to stop “whining”
  5022. MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski claims in her book that she almost left over the pay disparity problem
  5023. In her book, Brzezinski wrote about overcoming gender discrimination in the workplace (but hasn’t)
    5024. “We make less than our male counterparts. I found out on this show that I made a lot less than Joe. 14 times less…” ~MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski (2011)
  5024. Mika Brzezinski suggested that she was “lucky” to get paid half as much as her male co-host (2012)
  5025. Obama’s campaign ad equated voting to having sex for the first time to woo young female voters
  5026. Lena Dunham won Glamour’s “Woman of the Year Award” for the Obama campaign commercial
  5027. Luke Buchanan, a field organizer for Organizing for America, groped a woman while canvassing
  5028. Nine out of ten of President Obama’s top White House aides were white males (2012)
  5029. The Democrat’s strategy worked, as Gallup polling found that Obama won women by 12 points (2012)
  5030. White House Flickr account released a photo of Obama and his top advisers, none of them women
  5031. Obama campaign’s female employees earned an average of 5.3% less than the male employees
  5032. The New York Times ran a photo of Obama meeting with senior advisers, most of them white men
  5033. White House responded by releasing their own photo, which showed a more diverse crowd
  5034. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) criticized the Obama’s lack of diversity, calling it “embarrassing as hell”
  5035. President Obama failed to appoint a single woman to his second term cabinet (January 2013)
  5036. Washington, D.C. police were accused of “disturbing” failures to investigate rape cases (2013)
  5037. Pentagon chief Panetta removed the military’s ban on women serving in combat (January 2013)

    5038. “Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?” ~Mitt Romney (August 30, 2012)


    Democrats protect “gendercide,” or the sex-selective abortion of an undesired female child

  5038. Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Austin, Texas was caught aiding sex-selective abortions
  5039. Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger clinic in New York counsel women on the “how to” of committing gendercide, in most cases the sex-selective abortion of an undesired female unborn child
    5040. “If you find out it’s a girl and you decide that what you prefer is to terminate the pregnancy, that that’s your decision.” ~Social Worker and Planned Parenthood employee Randi Coun
  5040. Undercover video showed two abortion clinics in Phoenix and Tucson engaging in “gendercide”
  5041. Undercover footage captured two Planned Parenthood clinics in Hawaii advising a woman how best to procure a sex-selective abortion of her baby girl because she wanted a boy
  5042. Democrats in the House blocked a bill banning sex-selective abortions (May 2012)
  5043. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) claimed that women would be “dragged into the streets” (2012)
  5044. Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards defended spending cuts with lies and distortion
  5045. Richards claimed GOP budget cuts would cause millions of women to lose their mammograms
  5046. Planned Parenthood director, Abby Johnson admitted they don’t provide mammogram services
  5047. Planned Parenthood claims to provide “pregnancy options,” yet 90% of services are abortions
  5048. Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider and received roughly 46% of their annual revenue from taxpayers in the form of grants, contracts and Medicaid payments
  5049. Planned Parenthood topped $1 billion in total net assets for the first time ever in 2009-2010
  5050. Planned Parenthood makes $164 million per year from providing abortions (2012)
  5051. A woman in Chicago died after an abortion at a Planned Parenthood clinic (July 2012)
  5052. Obamacare funds are being used for abortions despite executive order assurances otherwise
  5053. Protect Life Act was passed by the House to stop taxpayer funding of abortions in Obamacare
  5054. President Obama threatened to veto the Protect Life Act if approved by the Senate (2011)
  5055. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) opposed it, arguing that Republicans “want women to die on the floor”
  5056. Obama voted twice for a bill that allowed the murder of any baby that survived an abortion
  5057. Obama co-sponsored the Bernardin Amendment to grant Illinois residents health care as a “right”
  5058. Obama promised to sign the “Freedom of Choice Act” to remove limitations on abortions (2008)
  5059. Colorado Christian University sued the federal government over abortions in Obamacare (2012)
  5060. In 2004, Michelle Obama endorsed partial-birth abortions in a fundraising letter for her husband
    5061. “[T]his ban on a legitimate medical procedure is clearly unconstitutional and must be overturned. Attorney General Ashcroft and President Bush believe so zealously in their cause that the privacy right of patients are under assault. They believe we have no federal right to privacy when it concerns our medical histories.”
    ~Michelle Obama endorsing partial-birth abortions (2004)
  5061. In 2007, the United States Supreme Court upheld the ban on partial-birth abortions
  5062. President Obama’s Justice Department has taken legal action against anti-abortion activists
  5063. Obama enforced the unconstitutional Clinics Act (FACE) limiting peaceful anti-abortion protests
  5064. Biden said he “fully understands” and is “not second-guessing” China’s forced abortion practices
  5065. The “one-child” policy was instituted by China’s Communist government in the late 1970s
  5066. Feng Jianmei, a woman in China, was forced to abort seven months into her pregnancy (2012)
  5067. Jianmei failed to pay a hefty fine for exceeding China’s “one-child” population control policy
  5068. One-child policy enforcer ran over and killed a 13-month-old baby boy with a car (February 2013)
  5069. Obama supports abortion, but requires unborn babies to be registered for White House visitor tours
  5070. Democrats’ 2012 platform endorsed taxpayer-funded abortions “regardless of ability to pay”
  5071. Quinnipiac polling found that 72% of voters oppose public funding of abortion (2009)
  5072. Although the Democratic party platforms in 2000 and 2004 stated the party’s goal to make abortion “rare,” the 2008 and 2012 Democratic party platforms made no such claims
  5073. Democratic platform 2012 also included taxpayer funding for 9th month, partial-birth abortions
    5074. “When Governor Romney says that we should eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood, there are millions of women all across the country who rely on Planned Parenthood for not just contraceptive care, they rely on it for mammograms.” ~Obama during the second presidential debate (October 16, 2012)
  5074. Thousands of pro-lifers called Planned Parenthood to try to schedule mammograms after President Obama falsely claimed that Planned Parenthood provides the service to women during the debate
  5075. Despite Obama’s claims, no Planned Parenthood in the country has mammography equipment
  5076. Planned Parenthood claims to improve access to mammograms and other health services through referrals to other clinics, a tactic which is often used to maintain taxpayer funding for the group
  5077. Planned Parenthood performed 332,278 abortions in 2009 and another 329,445 abortions in 2010
  5078. Planned Parenthood performed 333,964 abortions in 2011, a record year for the organization
  5079. Planned Parenthood received a record $542 million in taxpayer funding (45% of their annual revenue)
  5080. Planned Parenthood performed 995,687 abortions in just three years (2009-2011)
    5081. “While government subsidies to Planned Parenthood have reached an all time high, so too has the number of lives ended by this profit-driven abortion business. Destroying nearly one million children in three years is not health care and does not reflect a concern for vulnerable women and girls.” ~Susan B. Anthony List’s President Marjorie Dannenfelser (January 2013)
  5081. Contraception services provided by Planned Parenthood have dropped 12% since 2009
  5082. Cancer screenings and prevention services by Planned Parenthood have dropped 29% since 2009
  5083. Breast pump industry boomed thanks to Obamacare and insurance company mandates (2013)
  5084. Obama sent a video message to the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL), welcoming incoming NARAL president Ilyse Hogue
  5085. Hogue said the Tea Party is “racist and suggested that Romney wants rape victims thrown into the water
  5086. Deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter spoke at NARAL’s Pro-Choice America dinner (2013)
  5087. NARAL’s 2013 Pro-Choice America dinner celebrated the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade

    5088. Mitt Romney chose the smartest man in the House... Barack Obama chose the dumbest man in the Senate

  5088. Obama: “Everybody has got to make some sacrifices, everybody’s gotta take a haircut” (2011)
  5089. Obama said the deficit problem “starts by being honest about what’s causing our deficit”
  5090. Obama falsely blamed America’s fiscal trouble on the Bush tax cuts “for the wealthiest 2%”
  5091. The entire taxable income of everyone earning over $100,000 was $1.582 trillion in 2008
  5092. Taxing everyone making over $100,000 at 100% still would not cover Obama’s deficit for 2011
  5093. Obama’s political team convinced Obama to let Ryan lead on budget reform for political advantage
  5094. Obama cares more about being re-elected than he does about addressing our dire fiscal situation
  5095. Rev. Jim Wallis described Ryan as a bully and a hypocrite who’s never been around poor people
  5096. Obama gave a divisive 2012 campaign speech attacking Ryan’s budget proposal (April 2011)
  5097. Instead of presenting his own ideas, President Obama vilified Ryan’s plan as being un-American
  5098. Obama said Ryan favors a “different America than the one we’ve known” throughout our history
  5099. “Children with autism or Down’s syndrome” vs. “every millionaire and billionaire in our society”
  5100. Obama painted Paul Ryan’s budget plan as “a vision of our future that is deeply pessimistic”
  5101. Paul Ryan (R-WI) described Obama’s budget speech as “inaccurate” and “excessively partisan”
  5102. Ryan said that Obama “exploiting people’s emotions of fear, envy, and anxiety, is not hope…”
  5103. Obama later admitted that it was a “mistake” to criticize Ryan while he sat in the front row
  5104. GOP-controlled House of Representatives passed Ryan’s 2012 budget resolution in April 2011
  5105. Under Ryan’s budget plan, federal debt held by the public would decline from 77% of GDP in 2013 to 62% by 2022, 53% of GDP by 2030, 38% of GDP by 2040, and 10% of GDP by 2050
  5106. Under President Obama’s budget policies, federal debt held by the public rockets to 140% of GDP by 2030, 220% of GDP by 2040, and 320% of GDP by 2050, and over 700% of GDP by 2080
  5107. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) argued that the U.S. does not currently have a budget crisis (July 2011)
  5108. N.Y. Times called budget cuts “obfuscating nonsense… a scare tactic employed for political ends”
  5109. Filmmaker Michael Moore rallied Wisconsin protesters insisting that “America is not broke”
  5110. Moore said, “Wisconsin is not broke. Saying that the country is broke is repeating a Big Lie”
  5111. Moore said “the country is awash in wealth and cash” and “the rich have overplayed their hand”
  5112. Michael Moore (the 1%) owns an estate on Torch Lake in Michigan worth an estimated $2 million
  5113. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow told her viewers that there is no budget crisis and America is not broke
  5114. Obama was caught on a hot mic speaking candidly to supporters following a Chicago fundraiser
  5115. Thinking no reporters were listening, Obama complained of GOP efforts to kill Obamacare funding
  5116. Obama said the GOP tried to “sneak” agenda into budget and asked, “do you think we’re stupid?”
  5117. Obama suggested they needed to point out Ryan’s votes for “unpaid” Iraq and Afghanistan wars
  5118. Obama also suggested “shining a light” on Paul Ryan’s votes for the “unpaid” Bush tax cuts
  5119. President Obama repeats the myth that Ryan’s plan would “end Medicare as we know it”
  5120. In 2009, Obama pledged to veto any attempts to undo the Medicare cuts included in Obamacare
  5121. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that Medicare will help Democrats win back the majority in the House
    5122. “Mitt Romney isn’t going to be President of the United States. Everyone knows that.” ~House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told CNN (September 2012)
  5122. Ron Wyden (D-OR) praised Paul Ryan and teamed up with him on Medicare reform (2011)
    5123. “Paul Ryan shares my belief that we don’t hold election certificates to sit on the sidelines and that the only way to tackle some of the big challenges facing our nation is to work together on big solutions. Paul has also long-shared my view that the best way to hold down health costs is to give all Americans the ability to hire and fire their insurance company.” ~Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)

  5123. Former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles was a co-chair of Obama’s deficit commission
  5124. Erskine Bowles praised Paul Ryan during an event at the University of North Carolina (2011)
  5125. Bowles also criticized Democrats for describing Ryan’s Medicare reform as a “voucher plan”
    5126. “Have any of you all met Paul Ryan? We should get him to come to the university. I’m telling you this guy is amazing… He is honest, he is straightforward, he is sincere. And the budget that he came forward with is just like Paul Ryan. It is a sensible, straightforward, honest, serious budget and it cut the budget deficit just like we did, by $4 trillion… The president as you remember, came out with a budget and I don’t think anybody took that budget very seriously. The Senate voted against it 97 to nothing.” ~Clinton White House chief of staff Erskine Bowles speaking at University of North Carolina (September 2011)

  5126. Erskine Bowles said it was Obama who scuttled the deficit commission, not Paul Ryan
  5127. Congressman Dan Boren (D-OK) praised Paul Ryan as a man of impeccable character
    5128. “Paul has a firm moral compass and has always approached his job as a congressman with diligence and honesty. Having many friends on both sides of the aisle, he is an effective and talented leader. Although we belong in different political parties, I see Paul as a friend, a fellow hunter, and most importantly a family man.” ~Congressman Dan Boren (D-OK)

  5128. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said Ryan was right to demand an honest conversation about Medicare
    5129. “I don’t disagree with Paul Ryan saying we have got to look honestly at Medicare. If we don’t touch Medicare, in about 10 or 12 years, it goes broke. We can’t let that happen.” ~Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) writing in July 2011

  5129. Senator Joe Leiberman (D-CT) thanked Paul Ryan for proposing a plan to cut the national debt
    5130. “I thank Chairman Ryan for having the courage not just to talk frankly about the danger America’s national debt poses to the American people but also to propose a comprehensive program to cut the national debt. One does not have to agree with all or most of Chairman Ryan’s proposals to be able to applaud his serious commitment to reduce the debt that threatens our nation’s future. Most of us in Congress from both sides of the aisle need to step forward to embrace comprehensive solutions to address this problem. Now is not the time for half-measures or politics as usual, and Chairman Ryan has recognized this reality by offering his plan.” ~Senator Joe Leiberman (D-CT) (April 2011)

  5130. Bill Clinton met with Paul Ryan in May 2011 at a national debt forum in Washington D.C.
  5131. President Bill Clinton told Congressman Paul Ryan that he hoped Democrats would engage on Medicare reform shortly after Democrats had won a special congressional election in New York
  5132. Bill Clinton told Paul Ryan to “give me a call” if Ryan ever wanted to discuss the issue (2011)
    5133. “I’m glad we won this race in New York. But I hope Democrats don’t use this as an excuse to do nothing on Medicare.” ~Former President Bill Clinton speaking to Paul Ryan (May 2011)

  5133. Josh Gorman, healthcare consultant during the Clinton administration, described the Ryan-Wyden Medicare plan as a “reasonable compromise,” adding, “there’s a lot of precedent for it”
  5134. Obama praised Paul Ryan during a speech to Republican lawmakers in Baltimore (2010)
    5135. “Paul, for example, the head of the Budget Committee, has looked at the budget and has made a serious proposal. I’ve read it. I can tell you what’s in it. And there’s some ideas in there that I would agree with but there’s some ideas we should have a healthy debate about because I don’t agree with them.”
    ~President Obama speaking to Republican lawmakers in Baltimore (2010)

  5135. Obama described Ryan’s “Roadmap” proposal as “an entirely legitimate proposal” (2010)
  5136. Obama said that Ryan was one of two Republicans he trusted enough to work with on budget issues
  5137. Obama praised Ryan as a “sincere” “patriot” who “wants to solve a real problem” (April 2011)
  5138. At a Paul Ryan event in Lakewood, a gentleman shouted, “Look, no teleprompter!” (August 2012)
  5139. At his RNC speech, Paul Ryan said that Obama “borrowed, spent, and wasted” the stimulus (2012)
  5140. Biden praised Ryan as “a bright, handsome guy” and described him as “a fine guy” (June 2012)
  5141. Romney’s pick of Paul Ryan in 2012 was more popular than Obama’s pick of Joe Biden in 2008
    5142. “President Obama promised to slow the rise of the oceans and to heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family.” ~Mitt Romney speaking at the Republican National Convention (August 30, 2012)
  5142. Clint Eastwood described Joe Biden as the “intellect of the Democratic Party” (August 2012)
  5143. Joe Biden claimed that FDR warned about the Great Depression on television back in 1929
  5144. Joe Biden appeared on video to have fallen asleep during Obama’s budget speech (2011)
  5145. Joe Biden told Gabrielle Giffords, “now we’re both members of the Cracked Head Club”
  5146. Biden’s idea of diplomacy is declaring that “daddy’s taking the training wheels off” of Afghanistan
  5147. Joe Biden told a San Francisco crowd that “the Giants are on their way to the Super Bowl” (2012)
  5148. White House press release reported that Joe Biden was taking a trip to “Road Island” (2012)
  5149. Joe Biden criticized “Senator Romney” for opposing part of Obama’s health care reform law
  5150. Biden called Mitt “President Romney” and referred to Obama as “President Clinton” (2012)
  5151. Joe Biden, a “practicing” Catholic, said he was “absolutely” okay with same-sex marriage (2012)
  5152. Joe Biden told a sex joke about his parents and grandparents at a La Raza conference (2012)
  5153. Joe Biden described Afghanistan as a “God forbidden” country for its harsh environment
  5154. Biden claimed, “If I wanted to be president of the United States I could be” (May 2012)
  5155. Joe Biden calls himself “Middle Class Joe,” yet owns a mansion worth nearly $3 million
    5156. “My dad never worked in a Food Fair. My dad never wore a blue collar. Barack makes me sound like I just climbed out of a mine in Scranton, Pennsylvania carrying a lunch bucket. No one in my family worked in a factory.” ~Joe Biden

  5156. Joe Biden told supporters in Virginia “With you, we can win North Carolina again!” (2012)
  5157. Joe Biden said, “Folks, where’s it written we cannot lead the world in the 20th century in making automobiles,” despite the fact that we are more than 12 years into the 21st century
  5158. Joe Biden referred to vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan as “Governor Ryan” (August 2012)
  5159. Biden angered celebrities, including Russell Simmons (who left the event out of frustration), Nathan Lane, and Julianne Moore, by showing up more than two hours late to a fundraiser (2012)
  5160. Joe Biden tried to convince supporters that Romney was an “incumbent” just like Obama (2012)
  5161. City Council in Scranton, Pennsylvania blocked Mayor Chris Doherty’s (D-PA) tax increases
  5162. Scranton cut all of their city employees to minimum wage because they are broke (July 2012)
  5163. Doherty proposed a 29% tax hike, but the City Council voted to borrow the money instead
  5164. Biden mocked Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s name, ‘Can you pronounce it?’
  5165. Joe Biden said that the “great” cities are in China, not the United States of America (2012)
  5166. Joe Biden told supporters, ‘If it weren’t so hot, I’d go into detail’ on why America is better off
    5167. “My dad respected Barack Obama – would’ve respected Barack Obama if he’d been around.” ~Vice President Joe Biden speaking at the DNC (September 6, 2012)
  5167. Joe Biden described the eleventh anniversary of 9/11 as “bittersweet” (September 2012)
  5168. Joe Biden spoke about “Wayne State University” twice while at Wright State University (2012)
  5169. U-Haul carrying equipment for Joe Biden’s campaign event was stolen in Detroit (September 2012)
  5170. Biden asked a standing group at an event to sit down, but they didn’t have seats (October 2012)
  5171. Biden interrupted a woman’s story about breast cancer by trying to get the crowd to sit down (2012)
  5172. Biden asked, “How many of you know someone who served in Iraq or Iran?” (October 2012)
  5173. At Biden’s question, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) raised his hand twice (October 2012)
  5174. Biden referred to younger Republicans as “Young Guns,” but warned that the “bullets are aimed at you”
  5175. Joe Biden, speaking in Ohio, talked about all of the ads being run here in “Iowa” (October 2012)
  5176. Fomer aide: Biden is an “egomaniacal autocrat” who was “determined to manage his staff through fear”
  5177. Joe Biden accused Mitt Romney and Republicans of voting for a “$500 trillion tax cut” (October 2012)
  5178. Biden called the Cleveland Plain Dealer a major newspaper “in this state” -- while in Florida (2012)
  5179. Paul Ryan beat sitting Vice President Joe Biden in their only debate (October 2012)
  5180. Biden smirked, grunted, and acted like a bully as he interrupted Ryan (82) times during the debate
  5181. Biden tried to paint Ryan as a liar from the outset of the debate even though Ryan never lied
  5182. Biden falsely stated that the “death panel” argument came up during the debate with Sarah Palin
  5183. Biden lied that President Obama had met with Netanyahu a dozen times
  5184. Biden falsely claimed that Paul Ryan’s budget cut embassy security by $300 million
  5185. Biden lied when he claimed Iran was “not four years closer to a nuclear weapon”
  5186. Biden lied that religious institutions weren’t being forced to provide contraception and abortion through their insurance policies, which the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops described as a lie the next day
  5187. Biden lied when he claimed to have voted against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (which he voted for)
  5188. Biden lied when he claimed that they saved $716 billion from Medicare and applied it back to Medicare
  5189. Biden threw fire on the Benghazi scandal by declaring, “we weren’t told they wanted more security”
  5190. CNN focus group member said that she thought that Joe Biden acted like a “buffoon”
  5191. CNBC poll showed Ryan won by 20 points, but CNN only showed him winning by 4 points
  5192. The choice of Martha Raddatz as moderator was scrutinized after Obama attended her wedding in 1991
  5193. White House records show that Martha Raddatz visited Joe Biden at his residence in March 2012
  5194. Raddatz also visited the White House on December 18, 2009 for an unknown reason
  5195. CNN described Raddatz as “the third debater” after she attacked Ryan (9) times (and Biden just once)
  5196. Martha Raddatz also interrupted Paul Ryan at least thirty-one times during the debate
  5197. Martha Raddatz: Obama attending my wedding “had nothing to do with” her VP debate performance
    5198. “I didn’t do anything. I mean, I didn’t have to handle that. It was – and I’m really not going to comment about that. That was something that happened two days before the debate. It had been in The New York Times quite a while before that, I believe. I just got to put this out of my head. That had nothing to do with what I did at the debate. Nothing.” ~ABC’s Martha Raddatz responding when asked if given a second chance would she have handled the situation differently (January 2013)
  5198. Raddatz falsely implied that The New York Times had revealed that Obama attended her wedding
  5199. ABC tried to kill the story by leaking statements to Politico, the Daily Beast, and the Huffington Post
  5200. ABC described the deep personal ties between Raddatz and Obama ahead of a debate as “absurd”
  5201. The Huffington Post described ABC’s tactics as “unusual” since the story hadn’t yet been published
  5202. Martha Raddatz’ failure to disclose the conflict of interest violated the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics, a written body of rules by which journalists are suppose to abide
  5203. Ethics codes says journalists are to “act independently” and must “disclose unavoidable conflicts”
  5204. ABC News, the Commission on Presidential Debates, and many reporters defended Martha Raddatz
  5205. After winning re-election, Biden told Iowa, “I’m proud to be President of the United States” (2013)

    5206. Obama: ‘I don’t think anyone would suggest I’ve tried to divide the country’ (August 2012)

    “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America. There is a United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America, a Latino America, an Asian America, there is a United States of America.”
    ~Barack Obama’s 2004 DNC speech
    “I don’t want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be the president of the United States of America.” ~Barack Obama at the 2007 Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Iowa
    “You [voters] said the time has come to move beyond the bitterness and anger and pettiness that’s consumed Washington; to end the political strategy that’s been all about division. And instead make it about addition; to build a coalition for change that stretches through red states and blue states.” ~Barack Obama’s victory speech after the Iowa Caucuses (2008)
    “I believe we can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. We’re not as cynical as the pundits believe. We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions, and we remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America.” ~President Obama 2012 victory speech
  5206. Obama ran and won in 2008 on the idea of uniting the country and restoring the economy
  5207. President Obama has shown to be nothing more than a false prophet and an incompetent agitator
  5208. Obama ridicules his political opponents according to the ‘Rules for Radicals’ by Saul Alinsky
  5209. Alinsky Rule #5: ridicule is man’s most potent weapon, since it infuriates and is hard to counter
  5210. Obama slurs fellow Americans concerned about his policies as “extremists” and “tea-baggers”
  5211. Obama claimed when people “get bitter, they cling to guns or religion…to explain their frustrations”
  5212. Obama said that “Republicans just want black folks to stay home this election,” referring to 2010
  5213. Obama ridiculed his GOP opponents, saying ‘maybe they couldn’t understand’ the jobs bill (2011)
  5214. Obama and his administration attacks private citizens by name based on their criticism of Obama
  5215. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said critics of Obama “ought to be drug tested”
  5216. Obama told DeFazio, “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother” prior to 2009 stimulus vote
  5217. Obama told a Philadelphia audience, “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun”
  5218. Obama urged his Nevada audience, “I want you to argue with them and get in their face”
  5219. Obama described his supporters his “ambassadors” and “the ones who can make the case”
  5220. Obama declared, “I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
  5221. Top White House officials told Democrats, “If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard”
  5222. Obama defended meeting with experts, “We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick“
  5223. Obama compared banks to terrorists with a “bomb strapped to them” and a “hand on the trigger”
  5224. Obama threatened that a Republican majority in Congress would mean “hand-to-hand combat”
  5225. Obama urged Hispanic voters to help “punish our enemies,” referring to the GOP and Tea Party
  5226. Obama speaking to his liberal supporters instructed them, “It’s time to fight for it”
  5227. During the tax debate, Obama compared the GOP to “hostage takers” willing to harm Americans
  5228. Obama said he is “itching for a fight” when it comes to working with Republicans
  5229. Obama said he’d “keep fighting, every single day, every single hour, every single minute…”
  5230. Obama declared, “Republicans can go along with us, but they’re gonna have to ride in the back”
  5231. Obama claimed that Republicans will turn the United States into a “Third World” nation (2011)
  5232. Obama is presiding over the deliberate decline of a once great nation by forces on the far-left
  5233. Obama, “The Great Divider,” is polarizing America along racial, political, and ideological lines
  5234. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) said Obama is the most ‘divisive figure in modern American history’
  5235. Rubio: Obama and his party are on a “destructive, counterproductive, and very unfortunate” path
  5236. At his convention speech, Rubio noted that “hope and change” had become “divide and conquer”
  5237. Rubio: “Our problem is not that he’s a bad person… our problem is that he’s a bad president”
  5238. Rubio described Obama’s policies as “ideas that people come to America to get away from”
  5239. CNN Poll 2011: Whites disapproved of Obama (61%-36%); Non-whites approved (67%-32%)
  5240. Gallup Polling in 2011 showed President Obama with a 68-point partisan gap of those who approved of the job he was doing, the highest for any president’s third year in office ever
  5241. Obama told supporters “Don’t boo – vote. Vote! Voting is the best revenge” (November 2012)
  5242. Pew polling found that 98% of black women aged 18-29 voted for Obama in 2012
    5243. “After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.”
    ~Valerie Jarrett (2012)
  5243. Barack Obama has consistently been more of a “do as I say, not as I do” kind of president
  5244. The unalienable rights protected by our Constitution are being taxed and regulated into extinction
  5245. Democrats generally believe that government is best equipped to address the problems in a society
  5246. Liberals would like to manage a cradle-to-grave single-payer government health care system
  5247. Progressives and statists seek to expand government control over capitalism and wealth
  5248. Democrats are pushing class warfare, saying the rich should pay their fair share, and looking for more ways to redistribute the wealth according to their personal and/or political preferences, which almost always includes forcing more and more debt onto the backs of our children and grandchildren
  5249. Fantasy scenarios, like that of Obama’s Julia, demonstrate the government-entitlement society
  5250. Democrats waste taxpayer dollars on bankrupted green-energy ventures to benefit their cronies
  5251. America is becoming an socialist Oligarchy, with Marxism as the driving force for transformation
  5252. We live in an age of extreme politics where it’s rhetoric over reality and destruction over creation
  5253. A second civil war is playing out in this new age of information, where Tweets are the bullets
  5254. America is “in the midst of a civil war between two Americas – between traditional middle-class, hard-working, Judeo-Christian America and the angry, deluded, redistributionist, utopian left”
  5255. Chuck Norris: “Our country as we know it may be lost forever” if we don’t change course (2012)
  5256. Clint Eastwood: “President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people”
  5257. President Obama claimed that Harry Truman once said, “The buck stops with you” (July 2012)
  5258. After the 2012 elections, America was more divided than it had been in 70 years (November 2012)
  5259. In 46 states, the same political party now controls both chambers of their legislatures (November 2012)
  5260. Including governors, 38 of the states are controlled by a single party, and only 12 are divided
  5261. Democrats hold 31 of the 143 House seats where whites represent at least 80% of the voting population
  5262. Obama: Being nice to the GOP doesn’t stop them from calling me a “big spending socialist” (2013)
  5263. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) said that President Obama “chose to divide us as a people” (January 2013)
  5264. Obama’s fourth year in office tied as the most polarized ever with a (76) point gap in party ratings

Wake Up America!

The Trojan Horse is now within the gates...

Will enough Americans wake up in time to defend our “shining city on the hill?”...

Updated on February 21st, 2013

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