Posted on 09/16/2010 9:12:25 PM PDT by This Just In
It’s simpler to presume that as a Leftist, 0bama wants to destroy Western Civilization in order to replace it.
That explains everything.
Exactly why (Neocolonialism? Communism? Islamism?) is effectively beside the point.
Oh yes!!! The arrow landed!!!
There’s a follow-up by Jack Cashill over on American Thinker that points out pretty much what you said.
Agreed. I think you see pretty good for a blind guy.
That was a theory that D’Souza slapped down in the following paragraph, so you’re right!
I’m surprised at how easily some writers, David Brooks now included, have dismissed Dinesh D’Souza’s assertion that Obama absorbed the politics of his father. It is true that Obama Sr. left the family when Obama was two, not to reappear again until he was 10, and even then only briefly. But it is also true that Obama Sr. was a Harvard-trained economist and fierce anti-colonialist whose approval Obama spent much of his adult life seeking. Obama described his own memoir as “a record of a personal, interior journey — a boy’s search for his father, and through that search a workable meaning for his life as a black American.” Indeed, at one point, Obama imagines his father espousing his own brand of black nationalism, “inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people’s struggle. Wake up, black man!”
It is impossible to know how deeply Obama imbibed of his father’s beliefs, which is best described by this passage from an article Obama Sr. published in 1965: “Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 percent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.” But how far a road must one travel from here to arrive at Obama’s statement to a Quincy, Illinois crowd in April, 2010 that he doesn’t begrudge success that’s “fairly earned,” but “at a certain point, you’ve made enough money”? As I point out in my forthcoming book American Obsession: Barack Obama and the Rebirth of Racial Conflict, it is a safe bet that Obama’s path to a black American identity through radical politics was at least partially lubricated by knowledge of his father’s own anti-western, socialistic beliefs.
Seth Forman, N.Y.
www.mrformansplanet.com
Thanks This Just In.
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