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How Obama Thinks (Best, most thorough article on Obama's pysche I have seen yet)
forbes ^ | 9/7/2010 | Dinesh D'Souza

Posted on 09/09/2010 7:41:16 AM PDT by milwguy

Obama Sr. was an economist, and in 1965 he published an important article in the East Africa Journal called "Problems Facing Our Socialism." Obama Sr. wasn't a doctrinaire socialist; rather, he saw state appropriation of wealth as a necessary means to achieve the anticolonial objective of taking resources away from the foreign looters and restoring them to the people of Africa. For Obama Sr. this was an issue of national autonomy. "Is it the African who owns this country? If he does, then why should he not control the economic means of growth in this country?"

As he put it, "We need to eliminate power structures that have been built through excessive accumulation so that not only a few individuals shall control a vast magnitude of resources as is the case now." The senior Obama proposed that the state confiscate private land and raise taxes with no upper limit. In fact, he insisted that "theoretically 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 which is taxed

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: africa; colonial; colonialobama; colonialview; ddsouza; desousa; dineshdsouza; dsj; dsouza; howobamathinks; liberalism; marxism; obama; obamanation; obamunism
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To: Maverick68

A comment to the article indicates that w/o graduating summa cum laude from Columbia Obama could not have been accepted by Harvard law except for an affirmative action admittance.


181 posted on 09/09/2010 2:12:38 PM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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To: Danae

Did you read this entire article? See my comment above at #179. The whole thing read like a dissertation on why an American POTUS should have two citizen parents. Obama’s dreams and actions demonstrate his loyalty to his foreign father’s ideology, which would be very different had Senior been an American.


182 posted on 09/09/2010 2:22:25 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: milwguy

Hopefully the disaster that Obama has brought upon America will awaken the electorate to actually study those running for president.


183 posted on 09/09/2010 2:25:55 PM PDT by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: rhombus
"Interesting that the last 2 Democratic Presidents have both had “issues” about being abandoned by their fathers."

BINGO !!!

184 posted on 09/09/2010 2:27:45 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom REMEMBER FREE REPUBLIC IN YOUR WILL. I DID)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

I did. It is 5 pages of enlightenment.

I am emailing this one on for certain!


185 posted on 09/09/2010 2:35:43 PM PDT by Danae (Anal nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do che'l de'nmha.)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

You are absolutely correct Buckeye! 100%

Obama is the REASON the clause is in the Constitution, and specifically worded the way it is!


186 posted on 09/09/2010 2:37:13 PM PDT by Danae (Anal nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do che'l de'nmha.)
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To: sickoflibs
Don't forget that Paulson (under Bush) forced a number of these banks to take TARP loans to hide the really bad ones, only to have them demonized later for being bailed out.

I remember that one - it's when I feared our top economic people were living in the Land of Oz - that munchkins had taken over the economy... it was nutty.

187 posted on 09/09/2010 2:41:23 PM PDT by GOPJ (http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/09/the_power_of_images_turned_aga.html)
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To: milwguy

ping


188 posted on 09/09/2010 2:45:38 PM PDT by trailboss800
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To: sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; DoughtyOne; Gilbo_3; NFHale; Impy; Liz
A Forbes reader comment:

When the export-import bank board approved the $2 billion outlay to Brazil, the committee consisted of 3 republicans and 2 democrats - all appointed by Pres. G.W. Bush. The decision was unanimous and bipartisan, and no comment from Pres. Obama was required.

Yep, bipartisan again.

189 posted on 09/09/2010 2:50:26 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Lt. Col. Ralph Peters: Obama is the dog who caught the fire truck!)
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To: al baby; rhombus

” “Interesting that the last 2 Democratic Presidents have both had “issues” about being abandoned by their fathers.”
BINGO !!!


190 posted on 09/09/2010 2:53:12 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (((.Go troops! " Vote out RINOS. They screw you EVERY time" Jim Robinson)
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To: Danae

It took them this long to realize that Sr.’s ideology heavily influences Jr.’s actions as POTUS, which we’ve always known. Dare I hope that two years from now, before he runs for re-election, that they’ll also realize how important two citizen parents are for a POTUS?


191 posted on 09/09/2010 3:00:02 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: Danae

Reading this article makes me realize where we (dualers) failed. We didn’t do a good enough job explaining the importance of two citizen parents and we didn’t connect the consequences of foreign influence with hard facts to Obama himself.


192 posted on 09/09/2010 3:03:06 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: rhombus

How’s that “New Society” workin’ out for us? To quote John Boy & Billy; “Not too good!”


193 posted on 09/09/2010 3:05:43 PM PDT by hotshu (Keep the Faith, that's all 0bama and his fellow traitors can't steal from us.e)
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To: milwguy

One of Obama’s first actions in office was to remove in Feb. of 2009 a bust of Sir Winston Churchill from the Oval Office and send it back to Britain—an action of a lout rather than a President.

Some have speculated that this done was because of Britain’s former colonial role in Kenya, where Obama’s relatives continue to exist.

In Obama’s petulant eyes and narrow mind, this is perhaps of greater significance to him than the close relationship between the U. S. and Britain since our founding—including the WWII years when Churchill led the people of England in overcoming, with the U. S. and other Allied Powers, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, a war incidentally in which 60 million humans were killed.

Obama’s actions, in the instance of the Churchill bust, surely indicate substantiation of the D’Souza article.

Ironically, it is Obama who has the mind and intent of a colonialist—seeing America as His colony. His cold eyes tell us this, yes, even more than his words.


194 posted on 09/09/2010 3:21:08 PM PDT by mtntop3
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To: milwguy

I’ve been saying these things for 20 months now. Finally someone has picked up on comment I made on FR months ago - it’s Dreams FROM My Father, not Dreams OF My Father. Obama is implementing an agenda....and he’s only just begun.


195 posted on 09/09/2010 3:29:32 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: milwguy

He must be getting paid by the word.

I can say the same in a sentence:

He’s motivated by the same old liberal “values:” Greed, Hate, Envy, Jealousy, and Sloth.


196 posted on 09/09/2010 3:30:47 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Obamacare is America's kristallnacht !!)
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To: Former Proud Canadian
Impeachment or resignation to follow in 2011.

Who do you think will help him to that? The Republicans won't, the Dems certainly won't SCOTUS to this point has shown they are repulsed by the idea.... so who will do it?
197 posted on 09/09/2010 3:40:47 PM PDT by JSteff ((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
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To: editor-surveyor

You are right. Through out I thought is was a tad too wordy.


198 posted on 09/09/2010 3:43:01 PM PDT by JSteff ((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.))))
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To: BuckeyeTexan

I think you have a very valuable idea here.

That is the course of action we SHOULD take, and this article is the primer.

It is EXACTLY why only a Natural Born Citizen should be eligible for potus. because otherwise you get the ideology of someone who thinks America is evil, someone who believes the Nation is an imperialist oppressor. Clearly this is Obama’s ideology, and its one he got from his upbringing.

Parentage and upbringing MATTERS.

It will be up to us to connect it.


199 posted on 09/09/2010 3:44:51 PM PDT by Danae (Anal nathrach, orth' bhais's bethad, do che'l de'nmha.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Kind of hard to believe someone could get this far in politics and be so completely unpatriotic, but then I don’t remember much about the Carter presidency.


200 posted on 09/09/2010 3:59:49 PM PDT by dr_who
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