Obama's America 2016 (Non-Fiction)(2012) by Dinesh D'Souza Read Free Book Online Page A

bomb, fear of the rising strength of China, fear of a first strike, fear of cities being incinerated. Obama’s hope, if our theory is correct, is that fear will keep America humble. Call it humility through vulnerability. And in this way Obama hopes that America will stop acting like the evil empire. We will stop throwing our weight around and invading and bullying the rest of the world. Rather, we will accept that we have become, like the old Soviet Union, an irrelevant power, or like Canada, a large and harmless country. Instead of using American power to make the world safe for liberty or for democracy, Obama intends to use his own power to make the world safe from America.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
     
    SURVIVING OBAMA
     
    On this earth one place is not so different from another. 1
    —Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father
     
     
     
     
     
    T he most dangerous man in America currently lives in the White House.
    He’s dangerous not because he wants to do what’s bad for America. He’s dangerous because what he thinks is good for America is actually very bad for America. Here’s a way to think about it. Imagine if we were in charge of the Los Angeles Lakers. We hired a coach, who began to call plays for the team to lose. He did so not because he hated the Lakers, but because he thought it was wrong for the Lakers to win so much. He didn’t like the dominance of the Lakers, believing it would produce hubris in the team and was also unfair to the other teams. If we had such a coach, there is little doubt that we would not renew his contract. But we would also ask ourselves how we hired this guy in the first place.
    How did we get Obama? Are the American people to blame for putting him in? I don’t think so. People didn’t know Obama, so they voted for him based on what he told them. He appealed to their hopes and aspirations, and they were noble hopes and aspirations. So the public was deceived. Obama was no ideological centrist, no unifier—he never intended to be. He had a completely different agenda all along, one that he knew even most Democrats would not support. So Obama has, from the beginning, disguised his true ideology and his true agenda. Only an investigation of his background and an examination of his actions have helped us to ferret him out.
    So now we know him. Or at least we know a lot more about him. We can see where he came from, and we can understand what he is doing. And while we can project, based on his current actions, where he is likely to go in the next four years, we cannot really know what he has in store for America. Presidents don’t always reveal themselves in their first term; they have to build constituencies and focus on re-election. Only after Obama is re-elected will he be truly free to move in whatever direction he chooses, unconstrained by public opinion. In ways that we have foreseen and ways that we have not, he can complete the job of remaking America.
    How should we respond to Obama? We shouldn’t despise him; I don’t. In some ways, I feel sorry for him. He is a victim of the most terrible parental abandonment. He responded to that abandonment with a certain creativity and determination. He’s a fractured soul, still seeking, as he admits in his book, to be worthy of his father’s love. He discovered that his father was a profoundly flawed man, and he knew it would not be good to copy his personality. So he embraced what he thought was the best of his father: the anti-colonial ideology. That ideology was supported by his mother, a profoundly flawed woman. Throughout his life Obama sought surrogate fathers or mentors who could reinforce and develop his anti-colonial worldview. That worldview is now embedded in his psyche.
    I understand Obama’s deep attachment to anti-colonialism. Colonialism was a brutal system, which came about because of the immense military superiority of Europe to non-Western cultures. The English writer Hilaire Belloc summarized the European