Bookworm on Sep 08 2010 at 8:27 pm | Filed under: Barack Obama
Pete Wehner looks at the creepy, whiny, bitter, self-centered, self-satisfied stuff that routinely oozes out of our president when he goes off the teleprompter.
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From the link, we find out that today Obama said in Cleveland,“I’m committed to fiscal responsibility.”
Just like the Mayflower Madam was committed to virginity and chastity.
I think this Dinesh D’Souza article nails Obama’s motivations spot-on. This may become almost as talked about as that ruling-class-elite article from two months ago…
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem_3.html
Here are the key three paragraphs for me:
It may seem incredible to suggest that the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. is espoused by his son, the President of the United States. That is what I am saying. From a very young age and through his formative years, Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination and destruction. He came to view America’s military as an instrument of neocolonial occupation. He adopted his father’s position that capitalism and free markets are code words for economic plunder. Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America. In his worldview, profits are a measure of how effectively you have ripped off the rest of society, and America’s power in the world is a measure of how selfishly it consumes the globe’s resources and how ruthlessly it bullies and dominates the rest of the planet.
For Obama, the solutions are simple. He must work to wring the neocolonialism out of America and the West. And here is where our anticolonial understanding of Obama really takes off, because it provides a vital key to explaining not only his major policy actions but also the little details that no other theory can adequately account for.
Why support oil drilling off the coast of Brazil but not in America? Obama believes that the West uses a disproportionate share of the world’s energy resources, so he wants neocolonial America to have less and the former colonized countries to have more. More broadly, his proposal for carbon taxes has little to do with whether the planet is getting warmer or colder; it is simply a way to penalize, and therefore reduce, America’s carbon consumption. Both as a U.S. Senator and in his speech, as President, to the United Nations, Obama has proposed that the West massively subsidize energy production in the developing world.
I’ve been calling Obama an “internationalist” but I think this analysis is closer to the mark. Obama *is* in fact a Manchurian Candidate President, in that he actually does intend to harm the people of the United States of America. We Americans must all be FORCED to make do with less so that the rest of the world can have more. (For him it is all a zero-sum game.) We have plundered and raped and exploited the Third World People, and our party is now over, in his mind. This is a man who LOATHES everything that we love about our country. American exceptionalism? Far, far from it. In his mind, we are in fact one of the most evil nations on the face of the earth. He hates this country. The America that he could love is a raped America, raped by the rest of the world. So, “internationalist” hardly begins to explain the Barack Obama tale. He truly does want to make our every-day lives WORSE.
Ooops. Here’s the link to page 1, not page 3.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html
I hate the Left.
Mike D,
Thanks for the link. This does more to explain Obama than anything I’ve read.
Colonialism isn’t in the front (or back) of most American’s thoughts. I’ve never considered America as a colonial power, in fact, quite the opposite. But from an African perspective, America is only the current extension of the european colonialism.
We shouldn’t ignore the power of this dynamic. We have some Kenyan friends,who of course voted or Obama, but given this perspective, I believe share this world view, even though they are participating and benefiting from American capitalism.
There is an unstated belief that the state (the collective) has every right, even obligation, to prevent the ‘exploitation’ of the masses, even if that results in the impoverishment of everyone. They seem incapable of drawing the cause and effect relationship between the two.
It seems that anti-colonialists and socialists share similar goals, though with different motives.
Here’s another impressive contribution to the “What the heck is Obama’s problem?” genre:
http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-origins-of-barack-obamas-petulance/