Enjoyed the movie but after being through 2 books of D'Souza which equal 15 hours of audio tape, there is no
way really to get it all said in an hour and a half of movie. It is beautifully done however and D'Souza has a great
investigative non threatening narrative ability, but I wish he would have presented his case more as teasers and say
if you look more deeply into this you will find what I have.
So when I read the critical fact checking of the movie, I laugh. Of course they take a few of Dinesh's facts and draw a conclusion that he is just a partisan hack. I mean if I didn't know you and I read the subject line of your email, get the black bastard out of the WH then I could draw a conclusion that you are a racist.
So even though the movie is great, I wince a bit knowing that many will say that D Souza is just a conservative pundit trying to prove Obamais an anti colonial wanting to even the score and downsize the U.S. to just another country, and primarily have control over the plundering profiteers.
The books are most enlightening that focus on several things ...one is the deep abandonment and how he channels his father , and SEEKS out surrogates not just Jeremiah Wright but , Frank Marshal Davis, Albert Memmi, Edward Said. Roberto Unger, all that turn Obama on to such Che Guevera type figures like Franz Fenon. I had to look all these guys up and Good god the guy has been steeped and marinated all his life in anti-American, anti-Colonial Marxist philosophy not just out of interest but with a great need to channel his father whom he desperately wants his approval.
And then of course with NOT ONE attachment to...he moves to Chicago, Dinesh thinks cause he is wanting to learn community organizing techniques in the Saul Alinsky fashion, where he of course teams up with some like Ayres. He learns the tricks of how to use white collective guilt of black racism and realizes he can be the ambassador that his mentors could never do themselves.
The other thing that D'Souzas books spend so much time on is the "seeming" inconsistencies of Obama. Why does he treat most of his family like his half brothers George and Mark. Why he ended up despising his grandfather. Also politically why he gives money to Brazil, Columbia and Mexico for offshore drilling but doesn't want to in the United States. Why he wanted to attack Libya and get rid of Egypts Prime Minister but not Iran or Syria. But after much investigation it all starts to make sense that these aren't mistakes but very consistent with Obama's philosophy of political justice.
The one thing I get from reading about anti colonial philosophers is that they seem to be more interested in equality and having no hegemony that dominates other cultures. They seem to take industrialization, the creative free enterprise dynamic for granted and that it can be done better by the state. And EVEN if your country becomes like Kenya or Haiti, the justice is more important than any sort of wealth or standard of living. If wealth comes great but if it doesn't it is better that countries are sovereign. D'Souza feels that in 2016 Obama's America, will be probably be just another country with most of the property and national parks owned by other countries, the Yen will likely be the worlds currency and not the dollar and we will live more in flats and be happy like our folks we met in Belgium the other day. Then Obama will feel he has his father's love and will complete the "Dreams from his Father" .
In the book Dinesh goes deeply into Barack Obama Sr. Life.
He was as his reputation a very charismatic person, quick witted and smart to a degree but was also known as a storyteller. He could spin such wonderful stories of hiding in trees and spearing lions to feed or protect the family that no one wanted to call him on it. The term for this kind of person is called a Fabulist. I didn't know that but I have certainly known some.
I remember prep cooks that NO WAY could they have experienced all that they talk about in the 23 short years of life.
I am guessing that Jr also picked up this trait but since his stories are for a higher cause he gets a pass on them.
In his autobiography he had so many composite characters as he called them and stories like the one about the poor black man that took skin treatments to try and be white in Life magazine that made Barry jr shudder, and his grandfather that was supposedly tortured by the British but there is no record of that either. You would think his book should be called "My Farts Smell Like Flowers".
Barrack Sr. never got his doctorate, but when going back to Kenya demanded to be Dr. Obama.
His alcoholism soon deteriorated all his fame, and positions as advisers to the Kenyan government which made him drink more, complain constantly about being passed over his rightful position in the government, get into car accidents, one killing a person, another where he had to have both legs removed and replaced with metal stumps , and then finally one more that killed him.
I think Barry got his Narcissism from him as well as the story telling and also his extravagant living which Barack Sr. always felt entitled too.
Of interest is that his brother George that has been compromised by bad alcohol and drugs and lives in the slums in Kenya but is NOT stupid. Like his and Barry's grandpa Onyongo Obama they both believe the British were a GOOD influence and in George's book (yes he has written a book too) he talks about how South Korea, Malaysia got their independence from at the same time and look who is in the biggest mess! He says I wish the British had stayed a little longer to help us get civilized.
It was clear in the movie that George was under duress during the interview with Dinesh. He answered when asked, why doesn't Barack help you out? He said " I am a grown person and need to take care of myself" and also said , "Barack is helping me because he is helping the whole world to be better". I don't know what the Kenyan word for goatshit is ....lol.
Nuff said.
h/t SB
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