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The Roots of Obama's Rage
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The Roots of Obama's Rage (2010) (edit title/settings)

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Americans want a president who is a servant -- not a monster. But unfortunately, a Hobbesian ''leviathan'' is exactly what we have, says bestselling author Dinesh D'Souza. In his blockbuster new book, The Obama Leviathan: The Perversion of the American Dream , D'Souza reveals Obama and his... read more

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  • “It’s a riveting story, and told in a way you haven’t heard before, but if you care about America’s prosperity and security, I might as well forewarn you.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “<Obama> It was one part National Geographic, one part “Out of Africa,” and one part Nelson Mandela.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “First there is the idea that the ordinary African is deprived because the rich people at the top—people who are not like us—control most of the wealth and use it to exploit society. A second theme is that the country belongs to everyone, not just to the upper crust; therefore, the state must intervene to take from the undeserving haves in order to give to the deserving have-nots.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “in one of his classes Obama read Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. He commented to a friend, “See, the book’s not really about Africa. Or black people. It’s about the man who wrote it. The European. The American. A particular way of looking at the world. So I read the book to help me understand just what it is that makes white people so afraid. It helps me understand how people learn to hate.”
    Barack Obama
  • ““He is a privileged being and an illegitimately privileged one; that is, a usurper. Furthermore, this is so not only in the eyes of the colonized but in his own as well.””
    Albert Memmi
  • “His understanding had been heightened by leading anti-colonial thinkers such as Edward Said and Roberto Unger”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “Alinsky argued that blacks cannot succeed without the support of whites; more broadly, the folks at the bottom of society cannot win without making an alliance with, or at least manipulating, the folks in the middle and even some folks at the top. Even if all the low-income blacks, Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and even poor Appalachian whites come together, the coalition would fail because it would not have enough power to make a real change.”
    Saul Alinsky
  • “Alinsky admitted that the white middle class was provincial, selfish, and often antagonistic to immigrants and minorities.”
    Saul Alinsky
  • “Speaking at the National Press Club, Wright showed how his reading of the Bible gave rise to anti-colonialist themes. “In biblical history, there’s not one word written in the Bible between Genesis and Revelation that was not written under one of six different kinds of oppression, Egyptian oppression, Assyrian oppression, Persian oppression, Greek oppression, Roman oppression, Babylonian oppression. The Roman oppression is the period in which Jesus is born. . . . It sounds like some other governments I know.””
    Jeremiah Wright
  • “Barack Obama returned from his father’s grave in Kenya a changed man. If our account is right, at this point in his life he was filled with hatred, but it was a calm hatred, an ideological hatred.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “Surely Obama knows that educated, successful blacks are much more likely today to be beaten up or shot by a black gangbanger than by a white person.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “The form of colonialism may vary, but even so “exploitation, tortures, raids, collective liquidations . . . take turns at different levels in order literally to make of the native an object in the hands of the occupying”
    Frantz Fanon
  • ““Torture in Algeria is not an accident, or an error, or a fault. Colonialism cannot be understood without the possibility of torturing, of violating, of massacring.””
    Frantz Fanon
  • “Fanon wrote that “every Frenchman in Algeria is at the present time an enemy soldier,” even if that Frenchman did not work for the colonial authorities and considered himself uninvolved in colonial oppression.”
    Frantz Fanon
  • “Fanon called for the unity of the oppressed: he sought initially to unite the various African tribes and nationalities into a joint African resistance.”
    Frantz Fanon
  • “Fanon mocked the Africans and West Indians who learned without irony French poems about “our ancestors, the Gauls.””
    Frantz Fanon
  • “<Obama> He would become Black America’s great historical representative, perhaps even the first black president of the United States. Paradoxically he would achieve that status by lactification, by social and cultural whitening, by becoming White America’s All-Time Favorite Black Man.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “For in a very concrete way Europe has stuffed herself inordinately with the gold and raw materials of the colonial countries. . . . Europe is literally a creation of the Third World.”
    Frantz Fanon
  • “I am not suggesting that Obama is anti-American.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “After all, the United States was itself once a colony of Great Britain. After World War II, the United States used its influence to compel Britain and France to grant independence to many of their colonies, giving America an anti-colonial reputation. Even now Americans don’t think of themselves as colonialists; on the contrary, we see ourselves as champions of self-government and liberty.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “As discussed in an earlier chapter, Lenin’s view was that capitalism is in an advanced stage of crisis, but the capitalists have figured out how to postpone that internal crisis by invading and occupying foreign countries, and stealing their resources. Thus, in Lenin’s view, imperialism is a way to save capitalism and postpone its ultimate collapse. This is also Obama’s argument.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “The United States at the dawn of the twenty-first century is in approximately the same position that Britain was at the dawn of the twentieth. We are on top of the world, but the view is precarious from up there.”
    Dinesh D´Souza
  • ““A few years ago,” he told Kennedy, “this guy would have been getting us coffee.” Kennedy was offended by the remark, and when it was reported in the press, some thought Clinton was being racist.”
    Bill Clinton
  • “For many, it still may seem too fantastic to be true. Yet it is true. The great strength of our anti-colonial theory is not only its psychological plausibility—it is rooted in Obama’s vivid and persuasive self-description—but also its explanatory power.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “Sure, we are all for Islamic self-esteem, and seven or eight hundred years ago the Muslims did make a couple of important discoveries, but what on earth was Obama up to here?”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “My confidence in the anti-colonial model emboldens me to make three specific predictions about Obama’s future conduct. The first prediction concerns deficit reduction. Obama’s position has been that we need to spend trillions right now, but once the economy recovers it will be time to get serious about deficit reduction. Now there is one kind of deficit reduction that Obama clearly likes: tax increases on the rich. Already he has announced that he is going to let the Bush tax cuts lapse, at least for the higher brackets. But of course deficits can also be reduced through spending cuts. Since I don’t think Obama cares about deficits per se, only about reducing concentrations of power and wealth in America, I do not expect to see any significant spending reductions during an Obama administration. Cutting spending is simply not a priority for the anti-colonial agenda.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “Second, I predict that even as Iran develops the full capacity to build nuclear weapons, Obama will do little or nothing to stop it. My theory holds that Obama has no serious interest in preventing Iran from having a bomb; his main concern is with reducing the American arsenal. Therefore I believe that the Obama administration will huff and puff and take all kinds of meaningless steps but no effective action to actually prevent Iran from reaching its nuclear objective.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “My third prediction is more risky, because it relies on the political atmosphere being favorable to Obama and unfavorable to the military. If that becomes the case, then I predict that Obama will go beyond his attempt to try terrorists and foreign captives in civilian courts. He will initiate procedures to try U.S. military officers and soldiers for war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “In 1833, Macaulay told the British parliament, “It may be that the public mind of India may expand under our system until it has outgrown that system, that by good government we may educate our subjects into a capacity for better government; that, having become instructed in European knowledge, they may in some future age demand European institutions. Whether such a day will ever come I know not. But never will I attempt to avert or retard it. Whenever it comes, it will be the proudest day in English history.””
    Thomas Babington Macaulay
  • “The sad truth is that most of Africa is simply irrelevant: if sub-Saharan Africa were to sink into the ocean tomorrow, the world economy would be largely unaffected.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “A strong case can be made that Africa’s problem isn’t colonialism but too little colonialism.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “The world needs a policeman, and in case you haven’t yet figured it out, the United States has that job. Call it empire if you will, but America’s role is”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “There is currently no alternative to American leadership in the world, and deep down even American liberals know this.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “At current rates, the Chinese economy will overtake that of the United States in a few decades. The American era will be over and, if history is any guide, it will never return.”
    Dinesh D'souza
  • “It’s not a matter of putting him out of his misery; it’s a matter of putting him out of our misery. We also have to get rid of his team of sycophants and enablers. I am thinking of Harry Reid, Chris Dodd, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank: the entire liberal Democratic menagerie.”
    Dinesh D'souza
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  • In Obama’s worldview, profits are a measure of how effectively you have ripped off the rest of society, and America’s power in the world is a measure of how selfishly it consumes the globe’s resources and how ruthlessly it bullies and dominates the rest of the planet.
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  • The first tenet of anti-colonialism is that empires are produced by murderous conquest and sustained by unceasing terror and violence.
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  • A second tenet of anti-colonialism is that colonial regimes are racist—they systematically produce the dehumanization of the colonized.
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  • A third anti-colonialist tenet is that colonialism is a system of piracy in which the wealth of the colonized countries is systematically stolen by the colonizers.
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  • A fourth tenet of anti-colonialism is that the colonial powers have a new leader: the United States.
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  • My argument in this book is that it is the anti-colonial ideology of his African father that Barack Obama took to heart.
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  • This brings us to the fifth and final tenet of anti-colonialism, which is that there is no end to this system of injustice without getting the colonizers out.
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  • Obama seeks to castigate and expose the rich, who are viewed as a neocolonial force within American society, so that they cease to be exploiters of the rest of the population.
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  • For Obama, the task ahead is simple: he must work to wring the neocolonialism out of America and the West. First, he must rein in the military so that it does not conduct wars of occupation against other countries.
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  • The idea that colonialism continues even after countries officially declare independence is called neocolonialism.
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First Sentence edit see section history

Dreams are powerful things

Table of Contents edit see section history

A Tale of Three Dreams
The Black's Man Burden
Obama's Private War
The Outsider
African in America
Becoming Barack
Putting on the Mask
Humbling the Overclass
Taming the Rogue Nation
The Last Anti-Colonial

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Dinesh D'Souza (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-1-596-98165-2
Page Count: 218

Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: 978-1-596-98165-2
  • Dewey: 973.932092

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