Monday, September 3, 2012

Obama: Love Him. Hate Him. You Haven't a Clue.

Dinesh D'Souza did a stellar job in his wonderfully enlightening movie on Barack Obama.  D'Souza imparts more information about Obama in his two-hour movie than the mainstream media has presented in the last four years.  The movie is highly accurate in its details and presents them in a scholarly and organized fashion.  The mainstream media is predictably denouncing the movie and questioning its factual accuracy.  But their complaints focus on niggling differences of journalistic opinion and come across as partisan bickering.
D'Souza's vision of Obama stems from the author's perspective as an immigrant from India -- a country, like Kenya, that has thrown off the colonial rule of the British Empire.  As in his book, The Roots of Obama's Rage, D'Souza advances his theory that the major factor influencing Obama's actions and policies as president is his anti-colonialist mindset, which he inherited from his purported father, Barack Obama, Sr.
To reinforce his view, D'Souza takes the movie audience on a grand tour of the main locales that influenced Obama's life: Indonesia, Hawaii, Kenya, Chicago, and Cambridge.  He interviews people who knew Obama's early life and his father.  D'Souza does an exemplary job with the material that he covers.
But I respectfully have to disagree with D'Souza on his premise and main conclusion.

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