In July 14th's LUNCH ALERT, Dick Morris explains how the oppressed masses-thinking of revolutionary France (literally and figuratively starving for freedom from Royal Rule) aligns with Obama's way of thinking -which is I discovered is "sourced" by the anti-colonialist Dreams From My Father (Barack's memoir). It was first published in 1995, then of course re-published coinciding with the opportunity he was given to get recognized through addressing the Democrat Convention in 2004.
I borrowed Dreams From My Father (library loan) to get a direct look into Barack Obama's thinking process ... and his world view -one that clearly drove his future...and temporarily ours while he holds office as president. I wish I had read it before I voted for him in 2008. Lots of "Independents" were duped. He presented himself well. And I suspect he was sincere about wanting to change America; we just didn't know HOW, nor WHY. He said he wanted to give us transparent government proceedings, end special interest groups lobbying the President/Congress, fix the economy, yada, yada, yada.
We have seen, heard, experienced how those goals went by the wayside. I think that before he got into office, he thought he would do those things. Giving him the benefit of doubt is fair enough re his earliest promises. I remember taking a couple of hours to give detail in the survey of prior voters to moveon.org when they asked after one year in office, how I thought Barack was doing. Not good, thought I. I wrote how disappointed I'd become with his lack of doing what he said he'd do in each issue outlined. But I still trusted in the campaign image he had presented us...I thought he really just needed help. Which he did. I mailed my thoughtfully detailed feedback. No change. No more hope.
If I'd read his autobiography, I would have understood how easily hoodwinked he could become if those behind the scenes ever got their hands on him. He had the profile of someone who could easily become a PUPPET of an "elite": sense of alienation, of not getting his fair share from life, loving his parents but VERY disappointed in the life they fashioned around him -or so it seems to most children (at least in early years...and longer if not corrected/updated in our identity-firming stage) that parents have the power of God. He flavors accounts of his father with a persistent social/civic nobleness unrecognized, unharvested -this in fact became what toward the end of the book he calls his "inheritance."
And the book is clearly about his search for connection with his father. Barack's subtitle is "A Story of Race and Inheritance." And unfortunately Barack's father's life struggle was orders of magnitude more impoverished growing up as he did in 20th century Kenya. That is REAL poverty. I ask us to look at the mess made when someone else's dreams derived from authentic circumstances are transported from an earlier time in a very different place AND MAPPED ACROSS SIGNIFICANT;Y DIFFERENT CULTURES, TIMES, PLACES. Barack's father was truly searching for HIS WAY to strike out against truly primitive circumstance and rise up to initiate-nourish-generate an honorable life, for himself and for others in the same or worse circumstance.
Poverty in Kenya does not equal poverty in America. The beginning of the Twentieth Century does not equal the end of the same century. African parameters in Africa does not equal African-American parameters in America. If we restrict ourselves to claiming life hasn't changed, we are doomed to relive our old wounds and keep past brokenness alive. (This is the problem with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton...when others lead us into temptation to take any past with us into the future, then we allow the past to be our future (Eckhart Tolle: A NEW EARTH).
Barack's Psychological Themes: divorced family depression, adolescent ennui, boy's identity search for father figures, sense of separation in reconstituted family, reliance on self=pervasive sadness and alienation, exhuberance when hope of being saved activated by being recognized, adolescent attribution confusion (he attributes his family/personal suffering to his bi-racialness. He desperately and pervasively wanted his family together under one roof in Kenya (p.342-3).
Barack identified strongly with his father, adopting full throttle his father's race-flavored "anti-colonialist" pushing-back as well as surrogate fathers (more on Marxist surrogates in a later blog) adopted along the way. His emotional bonding to these men show up in beliefs we see manifested in his current words and policy-pushing: redistribution of wealth, social justice means everyone has same, depressed VOICE, separation, division, racial castes, victim thinking, rpetititious use of loaded vocabulary: poverty, marginalized, fair-share, "help."
Referring to his name-sake father stuck in Nairobi, he writes (p.420),"Barack saw that he might end up working as a clerk for these men for the rest of his life. Then, good fortune struck, in the form of two American women."
His father soon after receiving their abiding help, dropped his African wife and two children off with relatives and left for America -where his father met and married Ann, his mother. (Pattern re son: Michelle Robinson who worked under Valarie Jarrett when they met and Barack was going nowhere on his own efforts, at least not as fast as he wished and hoped. Valarie was a very wealthy (old money) source of high connections not only in Chicago, but internationally through her elite family network.
Hmmmm, Valarie is his top advisor now. And they dumped Oprah? What was he thinking??? What is he thinking...
