Thursday, September 09, 2010 7:41:16 AM · by milwguy · 232 replies
forbes ^ | 9/7/2010 | Dinesh D'Souza
Posted on 09/09/2010 12:56:05 AM PDT by Undocumented_capitalist
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Great writing! I have always thought that Obama regards himself as a kind of "Third World Avenger" and actually is attempting to punish the US and the West. I think his growing attachment to Islam and desire to promote it is part of this.
My only criticism is that the Dinesh D'Souza somewhat overlooks the importance of the radical Western left in this. I grew up in the 1960s, and the work of Franz Fanon was incredibly popular among student radicals, including a certain Bill Ayers (who almost assuredly wrote Obama's book). These radicals also regarded American blacks as a sort of natural constituency, heirs to the Third World fight against the West, and identified heavily with them and encouraged the worst of black radicalism, such as the Black Panthers and other movements. Ayers said that he wanted to be black, and when he found Obama, who is not an American black man but had enough melanin to qualify as discernably African, he had found the perfect persona through which to speak.
But I think Obama is like Frankenstein's monster; Bill Ayers and the American radical left may have created and used him, but I think he's slipped even out of their control now. Obama is a disturbed individual, a sociopath who has that bizarre chameleon-like adaptive capacity of sociopaths that lets them convince other people that they are on their side, but now he is getting annoyed that the image really isn't working anymore. Hence his more and more public adoption of a new image, that of the defender of Islam and the Islamic world. He may use Ayers' destructive left-wing economic policies, but his objective has changed now, and more than being a Marxist, he is all about being the Muslim Third World Avenger and trying to find a new shape for his amorphous, sociopathic personality.
My feeling is that Obama is (at heart) more of a Marxist than a Socialist. I’m sure his biggest lament is that he can’t rule by decree. The long term goal is to reduce the American populace to a gaggle of dependent, dumbed down clients who will rubber stamp anything Obama wants in exchange for free stuff (or at least the promise of free stuff). No wonder that Chavez is the modern day role model for so many in this Administration.
I almost scalded myself!
I cannot think of anything I would less rather see "exposed" than the little tin god.
But....on the other hand.....there are many many fair ladies in our land who pine for just such a view....and not a few fair fellows as well (silly Chrissy Mathews with the chills down his leg comes immediately to mind).
No accounting for "taste" I suppose.
Good article.
The comments below the article are also illustrative. Those who, like D’Souza, sees something seriously wrong with the big 0, engage in some intelligent additions or even informed disagreement, like we see in the thread here. The 0 lovers leave one-line insults.
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Dinesh D’Souza Bump!
I agree about the influence of Ayres and the other radicals with whom O has surrounded himself. The Forbes article is excellent but O didn’t spend enough time with Daddy to get those dreams directly from him.
Your charts leave out two key characters - Julius and Armand Hammer. Both were doctors whom Vladimir Lenin dispatched here to raise money for the Communists in Russia in their battle for revolution against the Tsars and for control of that country. They arrived here in the early 1900’s and started the American Workers Party which later became the Communist Party USA.
Julius was sent to prison for a botched abortion which killed an important woman. Armand took over. (He was named after the arm and hammer on the Communist flag but later bought the company who made Arm and Hammer baking soda. He also owned Occidental Petroleum Company.) Two of Hammer’s early conquest were the Sulzbergers, publishers of the NYTimes, and Senator Albert Gore, Sr. of Tennessee. Al Gore, Jr. has been an agent for the Communist Party all his life. Do you need to know anymore than that about Global Warming?
I think that is important information to add to your excellent work.
No this is:
Dinesh D'Souza and I come to this from different directions. I grew up as we were fighting the Communist and NAZIs all over the world. Our education system was good and it was thorough. We learned American and World History, both modern and ancient. We learned about the founding of America and the Constitution and why we are exceptional. I grew up when freedom allowed us to out produce any other country in history.
This is my critique of D'Souza's article in Forbes.
Here is a man who spent his formative years--the first 17 years of his life--off the American mainland, in Hawaii, Indonesia and Pakistan, with multiple subsequent journeys to Africa.
He was also mentored before that by "Uncle Frank", as he called him in his book, who was Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Communist Party and a known bi-sexual. From the only picture of Davis I have seen he may also have been Obama's real sire.
Obama's maternal grandparents and his mother were also Communists.
Even so, King's dream is not Obama's: The President never champions the idea of color-blindness or race-neutrality. This inaction is not merely tactical; the race issue simply isn't what drives Obama.
There is another reason for that. MLK was a Communist operative who protested the Vietnam War as well as agitating for "Civil Rights." Civil Rights, just like feminism and the homosexual agenda, was a ploy to disrupt American society and cause us to question our values.
An odd choice (Obama, Sr.), certainly, as an inspirational hero. But to his son, the elder Obama represented a great and noble cause, the cause of anticolonialism. Obama Sr. grew up during Africa's struggle to be free of European rule, and he was one of the early generation of Africans chosen to study in America and then to shape his country's future.
The anticolonialism drive was inspired by the Communists to throw the European countries out of the third world so the Communist themselves could exploit the natural resources of those countries. They wanted the Europeans out before the natives could govern themselves and resist Communism.
The Mau Maus were a brutal group of savages supported by the Communists. They would raid villages and rape the women and young girls and use machetes to lop off peoples' heads, arms, legs or whatever, including women and children. They were terrorists and Obama, Sr. supported them. He resented the British for stopping their raping and pillaging.
Who paid Obama, Sr.'s way to Harvard, a seemingly convenient way-station for Communists?
Colonialism was demonized by the Communist for their own purposes. Colonial rulers were not as brutal as presented, especially in the 20th Century, and they did much to bring the third world out of the stone age. Once they were ejected most of those countries devolved into anarchy and chaos. The stone age was still near by.
These forces of neocolonialism oppress not only Third World people but also citizens in their own countries. Obviously the solution is to resist and overthrow the oppressors. This was the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. and many in his generation, including many of my own relatives in India.
Verbiage straight out of Marxism.
From the anticolonial perspective, American imperialism is on a rampage. For a while, U.S. power was checked by the Soviet Union, but since the end of the Cold War, America has been the sole superpower. Moreover, 9/11 provided the occasion for America to invade and occupy two countries, Iraq and Afghanistan, and also to seek political and economic domination in the same way the French and the British empires once did. So in the anticolonial view, America is now the rogue elephant that subjugates and tramples the people of the world.
More Communist verbiage. The USSR did not check American power, it was the other way around. We didn't invade our neighbors, the USSR did in Korea and Vietnam. They also held on to Eastern Europe after promising to allow elections in 4 months after WWII. Those elections were never held. Our ability to check their power and ambitions, and Reagan's willingness to do it, is what ended the Cold War. We have never invaded countries to seek political and economic advantage, including Iraq and Afghanistan. Did we take their oil for our use? It is all Communist propaganda.
Colonialism today is a dead issue. No one cares about it except the man in the White House. He is the last anticolonial. Emerging market economies such as China, India, Chile and Indonesia have solved the problem of backwardness; they are exploiting their labor advantage and growing much faster than the U.S. If America is going to remain on top, we have to compete in an increasingly tough environment.
D'Souza seems to have a blind spot where Marxism is concerned. China is exploiting its cheap labor but it has also moved rapidly into Africa and other countries in order to assure itself the raw materials it needs for expanding its economy and manufacturing base. Thanks to Jimmy Carter China also controls both ends of the Panama Canal. It is guilty of the same colonialism D'Souza decries.
Domestically, we have to compete in a world where other countries are much freer than we are economically. The Marxists in our government have strapped us with so many rules and regulations that we can hardly move industrially. Taxes and labor unions greatly increase our costs and lower our productivity. None of that exists in China.
Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s. This philandering, inebriated African socialist, who raged against the world for denying him the realization of his anticolonial ambitions, is now setting the nation's agenda through the reincarnation of his dreams in his son. The son makes it happen, but he candidly admits he is only living out his father's dream.
Sigmund Freud would be proud.
Thanks!
Obama is closer to a combination of marxist & national socialists. He wants industry to be privately run but then wants to confiscate the profits and redistribute them.
Classic socialism to me means the government runs everything.Bureaucrats are in charge, nepotism, corruption & favoritism runs rampant, and of course everything runs inefficiently. There is no innovation of practical value, and quality of products is abysmal. The Soviet Union was a classic example. Nehru’s India from 1947 through the election of opposition Janata party was another good example.
The national socialists on the other hand let private capitalists run industrial outfits but want to exercise total control over them. Classic examples are Hitler’s Germany with such industries as Krupp Steel. Obama’s buying controlling shares in GM & Chrysler is another.
Obama’s marxist tendencies is why he wants to redistribute the wealth produced by productive entrepreneurs.
Have you heard that his close friend from Chicago, Larry Fitzgerald, who is openly homosexual, has written a book saying he and Obama had sex several times in the back seat of cars?
This is essential reading. It’s the first place I’ve been able to get such information on the man and his father.
Were he not the President of the United States, he may very well be on a terror watch list.
Defies belief.
? You have a link. There was a Larry Sinclair but the accusation wasn’t substantiated. Not saying it was false, just not something that could be trusted.
So true. And he can’t travel to Arizona since he may be asked to show his proof of citizenship.
I believe in 'payback' too. In fact, I can't wait for the payback to catch up with Zero and his commie cabal. It really will be a flamin beotch. Of that I'm certain.
If I can’t even get the name right it is doubtful I have a link. You are correct, it was Sinclair. I am just trusting my very untrustworthy memory but the last I read Obama had denied it but Sinclair was persisting in his story.
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