A neighbor gave me this book to read a couple of weeks ago. I thought, 'oh geez' another crackpot. The surprise was that this is a book written by a respected National Review columnist who has a similar background. The theory presented is cogent and in some ways an epiphany.
Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian born writer,speaker, presidential advisor and current president of King's College located in New York.
The author proceeds through various theories as an attempt to explain the incongruent actions of President Obama. In this course D'Souza dismisses both the socialist and racist based motivations. He theorizes that President Obama's motivation comes from the work of his Kenyan economist father. President Obama's own published book, Dreams from My Father, in the title describes how the man is seeking the goals set by the man he barely new. The motivation is 'anti-colonialist', a theory born from the desire to gain freedom and autonomy from European settlers. That theory suggests that all accumulated wealth is the result of oppressive usury methods therefore making the proceeds subject to up the full amount, 100%. In the end its taxation theory, which has been proven to be an utter failure. Those post-colonialist countries such as China, India and the United States have succeeded and those that have taken a more socialist direction have uniformly failed.
The thing that troubles with me on this theory is that, if true, the President most have plan of approach that requires both deceit and contempt. The contempt scares the crap out me.
Read the book, while it is unprovable, I think it well conceived, and can be used as a divining rod for predicting our President's actions. Did find some negative reviews, some from the left and some from the right of our author. As an aside, it is amusing to see how MediaMatters pretends to be an unbiased Snopes type web site.
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