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 Posted - September 08 2012 : 4:29:05 PM
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He [Obama] doesn't like what could be called traditional America. He doesn't like the dream of the Founding Fathers. I would argue that Obama has a very different dream than the American dream that Washington, Jefferson, And Madison had.
His father is a critical figure, because throughout his early life, Obama had this mythic image of his father. He literally thought his father was a kind of Gandhi or Mandela, sort of a freedom fighter on the front lines. It wasn't true. His father was either philandering at Harvard or getting into drunk driving accidents in Nairobi. He was not, in fact, this great figure Obama thought he was. But Obama got that idea from his mother - who was also, by the way, a kind of Third-World-oriented leftist. She was the one who cultivated in Obama's mind this kind of imaginary father.
Now, interestingly, throughout his life, Obama didn't have his father, and what he did was he sought out mentors. I call them Obama's "founding fathers," kind of surrogate fathers who could teach him, if you will, chapter and verse of his father's Third World anti-American ideology Who are these guys? There was Frank Marshall Davis, the communist in Hawaii. There was Edward Said, the Palestinian radical at Columbia. There was Roberto Mangabeira Unger at Harvard Law School. We know more about Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright, but let me just say just one word about this Roberto Unger fellow. I have researched him pretty extensively, and in my new book coming out, called Obama's America, I have a section on Obama's "founding fathers."
Robert Unger has called for an alliance of Russia, China, India, Brazil to, as he puts it, gang up on the United States. He says that America's being No. 1 is bad for the world, and all these other countries need to make a single team and overthrow the United States from being No. 1, and this he thinks is a good thing. Obama took a number of courses from Unger at Harvard and the two stayed in close, although secretive, contact for years - until the 2008 Presidential campaign. When Unger's name surfaced, he disappeared, and later told David Remnick, Obama's biographer, that he's a leftist and a revolutionary, and he didn't want his connections with Obama to be exposed because it would hurt Obama.
These are the guys Obama hung out with, and these are the guys whose ideology helped to frame Obama's mind.
--- Dinesh D'Souza
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