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Introduction: The dark side of Obama -- Prologue: As Bill sees it -- pt. I. Chicago, that toddlin town. Hollow at the core -- A ghostly presence -- You keep out of this! -- You should know better when politicians make promises -- The man who prepared Obama for the Presidency -- pt. II. Amateur hour at the White House. Drinking the Obama Kool-Aid -- Bungler-in-chief -- Clark Kent -- Ground Zero -- Valerie v. Rahm -- The wrath of Michelle -- Out to lunch -- pt. III. With friends like these. Oprahs sacrifice -- Snubbing Caroline -- The Jewish problem with Obama -- All in the family -- pt. IV. The Obama doctrine. The war on General Jones -- Mind-meld -- The rise of the humanitarian vulcans -- pt. V.A one-term proposition? The new Obama -- In search of the real Obama -- The low road.;Its amateur hour at the White House. So says New York Times bestselling author Edward Klein in his new political expos The Amateur. Tapping into the publics growing sentiment that President Obama is in over his head, The Amateur argues that Obamas toxic combination of incompetence and arrogance have run our nation and his presidency off the rails. Obama was both completely inexperienced and ideologically far to the left of Americans when he entered the White House, says Klein. And he was so arrogant that he didnt even know what he didnt know. Klein, who is known for getting the inside scoop on everyone from the Kennedys to the Clintons, reveals never-before-published details about the Obama administrations political inner workings and about Barack and Michelles personal lives. From Obamas conceited and detached demeanor, to his detrimental reliance on Michelle Obama and Valerie Jarretts advice, to the Obamas extravagant and out-of-touch lifestyle, The Amateur reveals a president whose blatant ignorance and incompetence is sabotaging himself, his presidency, and America.

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ALSO BY EDWARD KLEIN
NONFICTION

All Too Human:
The Love Story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy

Just Jackie:
Her Private Years

The Kennedy Curse

Farewell, Jackie

The Truth about Hillary

Katie:
The Real Story

Ted Kennedy:
The Dream That Never Died

NOVELS

If Israel Lost the War
(With Robert Littell and Richard Z. Chesnoff)
The Parachutists

The Obama Identity
(With John LeBoutillier)
For Dolores, my courageous companion
INTRODUCTION
THE DARK SIDE OF OBAMA
Every man is a moon and has a [dark] side which he turns toward nobody; you have to slip around behind if you want to see it.

Mark Twain

This is a reporters book.
During the past year and a half, I have interviewed nearly two hundred people, both inside and outside the White House. Many of these people have known Barack Obama for more than twenty yearsfrom his earliest days in Chicago. Some of them were positive about Obama, others were negative, but the stories they told me had a remarkable consistency.
Bound in dozens of four-inch-thick three-ring notebooks, my transcribed notes run for almost a thousand pages and tell the story of a man who is at bottom temperamentally unsuited to be the chief executive and commander in chief of the United States of America. Here in these interviews we come face to face with something new in American politicsThe Amateura president who is inept in the arts of management and governance, who doesnt learn from his mistakes, and who therefore repeats policies that make our economy less robust and our nation less safe. We discover a man who blames all his problems on those with whom he disagrees (Washington, Republicans, the media), who discards old friends and supporters when they are no longer useful (Democrats, African-Americans, Jews), and who is so thin-skinned that he constantly complains about what people say and write about him. We come to know a strange kind of politician, one who derives no joy from the cut and thrust of politics, but who clings to the narcissistic life of the presidency.
This portrait of Obama is radically at odds with the image of a centrist, pragmatic, post-partisan leader that his political handlers have tried to create. And it is a far cry from the Obama most Americans remember from four years ago. Many of the people I interviewed, including Republicans who voted against him, wondered what had happened to that Obamathe young, articulate African-American senator who burst upon the political scene by presenting himself as a new kind of politician, a peacemaker, a mediator, and a conciliator who promised to heal the rift between red and blue America?
Where did he vanish?
Did he ever exist?
Was he a figment of his own imagination, or of our imaginationor of both?
How did he turn out to be the most divisive president in recent American history?
Will Americans finally come to recognize the dark side of Barack Obama in the presidential election of 2012?
These are some of the critical questions I set out to answer in this book. My job as a reporter was complicated by the fact that Obama and his advisers have gone to elaborate lengths to hide his dark side. However, I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, most truths are discoverable. As you will see in the pages that follow, I chose to launch my investigation in Chicago, where Obama first donned his disguise as an ideological wolf in sheeps clothing.
Ever since Ive known him, Obama has had delusions of grandeur and a preoccupation with his place in history, one of his oldest Chicago acquaintances told me. He is afflicted with megalomania. How else can you explain the chutzpah of an obscure community organizer who began writing his autobiography before he was thirty years oldand before he had any accomplishments to write about? And how else can you explain the chutzpah of a first-term United States senator, who believed he was qualified for the most difficult job in the worldthe presidencyeven though he had never held a real job in his life?
You can explain it with any number of words: arrogance, conceit, egotism, vanity, hubris, this person continued. But whatever word you choose, it spells the same thingdisaster for the country he leads.
Obamas supporters claim that he has been falsely charged with being a leftwing ideologue. But based on my reporting, I concluded that Obama is actually in revolt against the values of the society he was elected to lead. Which is why he has refused to embrace American exceptionalismthe idea that Americans are a special people with a special destinyand why he has railed at the capitalist system, demonized the wealthy, and embraced the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Of course, Obama doesnt see things that way. And therein lies the challenge for conservatives. As Peter Wehner, a senior fellow at the conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center, points out, Barack Obama may be a lousy president... but hes a very good campaigner. He is determined to get reelected and go down in history books as a transformative president who turned America into a European-style democratic-socialist welfare state.
Shortly after Obama entered the White House, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner warned him, Your legacy is going to be preventing the second Great Depression.
To which Obama boasted, Thats not enough for me.
It may finally have become too much for the rest of us.
PROLOGUE
AS BILL SEES IT

CHAPPAQUA, NEW YORK, AUGUST 2011
Bill and Hillary were going at it again, fighting tooth and nail over their favorite subject: themselves.
It was a warm summer Sundaya full year away from the 2012 Democratic National Conventionand Bill Clinton was urging Hillary to think the unthinkable. He wanted her to challenge Barack Obama for their partys presidential nomination. No American politician had attempted to usurp a sitting president of his own party since Ted Kennedy failed to unseat Jimmy Carter more than thirty years before.
Why risk everything now? Hillary demanded to know.
Because, Bill replied, the country needs you!
His voice was several decibels louder than necessary, and his nose was turning shades of red.
The country needs us! he shouted, banging a fist on his desk to drive home his point.
The timings not right, Hillary shot back.
Unlike Bill, she didnt raise her voice, but her face was flushed and her eyes were bulging, which often happened when Bill tried to force her to do something she didnt want to do.
I want my term [at the State Department] to be an important one, and running away from it now would leave it as a footnote, Hillary said. I want to make my mark as a statesman. Anyway, Im young enough to wait my turn and run [for the White House] in the next cycle.
I know youre young enough! Bill said, raising his voice yet another notch. Thats not what Im worried about. Im worried that Im not young enough.
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