In his second autobiography, "The Audacity of Hope," published two years before he became president, Obama confessed: "I can't help but view the American experience through the lens of a black man of mixed heritage, forever mindful of how generations of people who looked like me were subjugated and stigmatized, and the subtle and not so subtle ways that race and class continue to shape our lives."
Obama doesn't just have a hidden ideological agenda. He's also hiding a personal agenda that dovetails with his radical ideology.
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The Obama Record: Why would the president abandon longstanding U.S. policy supporting British control of the Falklands? Same reason he sent Churchill's bust back to the Brits.
bfaclThe man sitting in the Oval Office views the Anglo-American alliance through the same anti-colonial lens as his late father and their shared hero — Frantz Fanon — who argued that America and Britain were great oppressors.
From 1920 to 1963, Britain colonized Kenya and, according to Obama, mistreated his grandfather in the process. His father, moreover, was briefly jailed during the emergency declared by the British to put down the Mau-Mau uprising there. Winston Churchill was then prime minister.
As Britain was fighting the rebellion, its embassy in Washington warned that Obama's father and other Kenyans seeking to study in the U.S. shared a dangerous antipathy toward both Britain and America.
In a Sept. 1, 1959, cable just released by the National Archives in West London, a British diplomat said the group had radical ties and a reputation for "both anti-American and anti-white" views. Obama Sr. still obtained a student visa to attend Harvard University.
This helps explain his son's attitude toward America's top ally. And why during a recent visit with Argentina's president he refused to follow decades-old policy supporting U.K. control of the Falkland Islands, opting instead for a position of "neutrality." And why he sent the Oval Office bust of Churchill back to London days after taking office in 2009.
Anti-colonial hatred, in fact, reflects Obama's economic and foreign policy. It explains why he goes around the world apologizing for America and seeks to end its global dominance and exceptionalism.
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It also explains why he wants to redistribute America's military power to the Russians and Chinese, why he denied the Poles and Czechs missile defense and why he's cutting our nuclear arsenal by a third.
He sees domestic America through this lens as well, believing "blacks were forced into ghettos" by white capitalists. He believes formerly colonized people are not just Kenyans, but also African descendents living today in America. And that they still suffer under the "neocolonial" system of capitalism and must be liberated — and compensated — as he proposed in a 2001 Chicago Public Radio interview.
This is how he justifies his redistributive policies at home and abroad. This is what he means by "economic justice." It's no coincidence that welfare payments — through food stamps and disability benefits — have hit record highs under Obama. Or that succor has spiked in Kenya through increased U.S. aid and projects funded by the Obama administration. According to the U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor, recent largesse includes:
• U.S. development grants for expanding "livestock-related economic opportunities" in the African nation.
• Funding for a State Department program called Kenya Agricultural Value Chain Enterprises.
• Up to $50 million in U.S. Navy-coordinated military building projects at Camp Simba, Kenya, and another camp nearby.
• Deployment to Kenya of a privately contracted regional adviser for State's office of foreign disaster assistance, as well as an emerging pandemic threat adviser.
• A Trade and Development Agency-led project to explore energy in Kenya.
When Obama's father returned to Kenya with a Harvard economics degree in hand, he joined the newly independent Kenyan government as a Marxian economist. He argued for wringing all vestiges of Western "neocolonialism"out of the Kenyan economy and replacing it with socialism.
Unfortunately for America, which in 2008 had no idea it was electing a leader with such foreign baggage, his son is captive to the same ideology that sees capitalism as a form of neocolonialism.
"He adopted his father's position that the free market is a code word for economic plunder," said Dinesh D'Souza, author of the best-seller "The Roots of Obama's Rage." "Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America." And he's trying to apply his father's discredited formulas from the 1960s of transferring wealth from the supposed colonizers to the colonized.
Rather than focus on the specific people who wronged his family, "Obama is on a systematic campaign against the colonial system that destroyed his father's dreams," D'Souza asserted, adding: "With a kind of suppressed fury, he is committed to keep going until he has brought that system down. And according to his father's anti-colonial ideology, which Obama has internalized for himself, that system is the military and economic power of the U.S."
What other evidence exists that Obama views the West through his father's anti-colonial lens? It's plain from his first memoir, "Dreams From My Father," that he worships his dad and his ideology. He devotes a third of the book to covering, in bitter detail, his father's life and his colonized ancestry in Kenya. This is purposeful.
He also discussed "neocolonialism," "Eurocentrism," "patriarchy" and "white capitalist imperialism" — along with the works of Fanon, his favorite author — in bull sessions with Marxist friends in college.
In his second autobiography, "The Audacity of Hope," published two years before he became president, Obama confessed: "I can't help but view the American experience through the lens of a black man of mixed heritage, forever mindful of how generations of people who looked like me were subjugated and stigmatized, and the subtle and not so subtle ways that race and class continue to shape our lives."
Obama doesn't just have a hidden ideological agenda. He's also hiding a personal agenda that dovetails with his radical ideology. [/blockquote]
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