Posted on 09/15/2010 5:13:11 AM PDT by libstripper
Dinesh D'Souza has long been one of America's shrewdest and bravest political observers. His much discussed Forbes article, "How Obama Thinks," a prelude to his forthcoming book, The Roots of Obama's Rage, burnishes that reputation. Indeed, Newt Gingrich describes D'Souza's thesis as the "most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama."
In the article, D'Souza argues that President Obama has absorbed much of his governing philosophy from his socialist, "anticolonial" father, Barack Obama Sr. "According to Obama," writes D'Souza, "his dream is his father's dream. Notice that his title is not Dreams of My Father but rather Dreams from My Father."
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I read Dinesh’s article.
If you read Obama Nation by Jerome Corsi you would have been
ahead of the curve.
The first part hardly precludes the second part.
I found D’Souza’s article to be a powerful indictment on Obama and his view of the world. Cashill resorts to nit-picking by calling out D’Souza’s statement that Obama didn’t spend his first 17 years in the US. Spending a year in the US when he was a year old certainly was not a learning experience. Since both parents were rabid leftists, as was his grandfather, it really doesn’t matter who had the most influence on him. It looks to me as if it was a team effort and, I might add, highly successful...
A red diaper baby, through and through.
Regardless, Obama is a melting pot of anti-Americanisms. Anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, pro class warfare, etc, etc, he’s an America-hater through and through. The vitriole against any critic of Obama, such as D’Souza at Forbes.com is amazing, and how they used it as an attack on Gingrich and Palin. There’s a lot of raw nerves in the libtard party, and like petulant children, they lash out.
Now there is salient point indicating that Errs has a record of heavy ghost editing.
Like mother, like son. Biting the hand that feeds them.
Cashill does good pointing out facts, however we don’t need any in fighting.
...who likely is not a citizen.
The scary part is that Obama never knew his father so whatever he has "absorbed" is imagined.
Our founding fathers were anticolonial, and white.
I did. I've known what a thug communist he was ever since.
Cashill seems to be in a bit of a snit that his thesis hasn’t gained the traction that D’Souza’s has despite his pushing it a lot longer. He seems to be more concerned that D’Souza’s article is going to derail his upcoming book more than anything else.
Cashill’s remark that D’Souza is wrong that Obama’s worldview was a result of living off the mainland US for his youth because he lived in Seattle from birth to one year is just plain silly.
To me, it is obvious both Cashill and D’Souza are correct. There’s no denying Obama’s having been influenced by being raised in Hawaii and particularly Indonesia as well as the strong influence of various communists, terrorists and anticolonialists. The two theories blend nicely together and can be merged into a powerful unified view.
It looks to me as if it was a team effort and, I might add, highly successful...
Whatever happened to Frank Marshall Davis? And wasn’t Obama’s white grandfather quite a leftist? No doubt Ayers was an influence on Obama, but I believe there were many strong leftist influences on him other than his mother, and long before he met Ayers. His influences were on the far left practically from the day he was born. - By the time Obama met Ayers, Ayers was just a kindred spirit and fellow traveler.
So, yeah, I agree that D'Souza perhaps over attributed 0bama Sr.; but his main argument that 0bama's worldview is anti-colonialism, rather than 'classic' socialism, stands.
You're right. It's much like reading the gospels of Mathew and Mark. Each gives a slightly different take on the same thinhg and, together, they create a complete whole.
Corsi’s book is very informative as is Obamanation. And this one:
I don’t think anyone really knows what a politician believes. Obama could just have parent/father issues that make him want to say the things that would make his father proud or at least find some identity by thinking something like his father thought. His choice of wife tells me that part of him really, really wants to think of himself as AA yet he says he didn’t “feel” black until his late teens. His lack of passion for being president tells me that he just wants approval from Michelle, Rev. Wright. Obama Sr, Mrs. Dunham, etc. etc. but is basically lazy. His damage comes not from what he does but from the people he enables.
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