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09-22-2010, 03:55 PM
if you are trying to figure out this President and why he does things. The cover story of this issue of FORBES has a twist that I never thought of specifically, but alluded to many many times on this board during the primary and the campaign.
We wonder why....
.....In 2009, he backs through the US Export-Import bank basically underwriting offshore drilling, IN BRAZIL FOR BRAZIL, not a drop to end up in the US.
.....The Obama administration has declared that even if banks want to repay the government loans they may not be allowed to do so.
.....He wants more stimulus even though so much of the original so called stimulus remains not used. This even though the top 10% of earners pay 70% of federal income taxes. The bottom 40% pay nothing.
.....A few months ago, he changed NASA, the space agency into a group that has a function of one thing.....improve relations with the Muslim world.
There is so much of what can only be called bizarre behavior that you search for a reason. Many say socialism, etc. The author comes up with a different reason and makes a compelling case for it. Using the President's own words in his autobiography (Dreams from my Father), a case is made for the influence of his father (who by the way had 4 wives and 8 children as a polygamist and was a chronic drunk driver).
The bottom line from my view is that the President is not a marxist or socialist in the traditional sense but something called a advocate of ANTICOLONISM !
This from the author...
" know a great deal about anticolonialism, because I am a native of Mumbai, India. I am part of the first Indian generation to be born after my country's independence from the British. Anticolonialism was the rallying cry of Third World politics for much of the second half of the 20th century. To most Americans, however, anticolonialism is an unfamiliar idea, so let me explain it.
Anticolonialism is the doctrine that rich countries of the West got rich by invading, occupying and looting poor countries of Asia, Africa and South America. As one of Obama's acknowledged intellectual influences, Frantz Fanon, wrote in The Wretched of the Earth, "The well-being and progress of Europe have been built up with the sweat and the dead bodies of Negroes, Arabs, Indians and the yellow races."
It is a great read whether you are for or against this President in trying to understand what often escapes reasoning.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html
From Wikipedia on the author.."Dinesh D'Souza (born April 25, 1961) is an author and public speaker who once served as the Robert and Karen Rishwain Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.[1] He is currently the President of The King's College in New York City.[2]
We wonder why....
.....In 2009, he backs through the US Export-Import bank basically underwriting offshore drilling, IN BRAZIL FOR BRAZIL, not a drop to end up in the US.
.....The Obama administration has declared that even if banks want to repay the government loans they may not be allowed to do so.
.....He wants more stimulus even though so much of the original so called stimulus remains not used. This even though the top 10% of earners pay 70% of federal income taxes. The bottom 40% pay nothing.
.....A few months ago, he changed NASA, the space agency into a group that has a function of one thing.....improve relations with the Muslim world.
There is so much of what can only be called bizarre behavior that you search for a reason. Many say socialism, etc. The author comes up with a different reason and makes a compelling case for it. Using the President's own words in his autobiography (Dreams from my Father), a case is made for the influence of his father (who by the way had 4 wives and 8 children as a polygamist and was a chronic drunk driver).
The bottom line from my view is that the President is not a marxist or socialist in the traditional sense but something called a advocate of ANTICOLONISM !
This from the author...
" know a great deal about anticolonialism, because I am a native of Mumbai, India. I am part of the first Indian generation to be born after my country's independence from the British. Anticolonialism was the rallying cry of Third World politics for much of the second half of the 20th century. To most Americans, however, anticolonialism is an unfamiliar idea, so let me explain it.
Anticolonialism is the doctrine that rich countries of the West got rich by invading, occupying and looting poor countries of Asia, Africa and South America. As one of Obama's acknowledged intellectual influences, Frantz Fanon, wrote in The Wretched of the Earth, "The well-being and progress of Europe have been built up with the sweat and the dead bodies of Negroes, Arabs, Indians and the yellow races."
It is a great read whether you are for or against this President in trying to understand what often escapes reasoning.
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html
From Wikipedia on the author.."Dinesh D'Souza (born April 25, 1961) is an author and public speaker who once served as the Robert and Karen Rishwain Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.[1] He is currently the President of The King's College in New York City.[2]