http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-My-Father-Story-Inheritance/dp/1400082773
I made it through the subject book, by (unbelieveably), our president, Barack Hussien Obama -- but generally known as "Barry Obama" in the book. As I went through the book I thought how different the treatment of BO than of W. For W, the issue of if he did or did not fly a jet during some period in the National Guard in the early '70s was worth using documents that turned out to clumsily forged in an hour long special and a ton of other media coverage to try to discredit him even when running for his SECOND term.
For BO, most people don't realize that he was known as "Barry" up until college and that he seems very much to be largely a black racist, even though he is half white. The degree to which he idolized his absent black father, who turned out to have anything but a model life is utterly amazing. If he has any god at all, it is the "false god" of his vision of that father. His poor Grandparents, who actually made all the sacrifices to raise him get very little credit, and his white mother gets the shortest shrift of all.
The other thing that hits me is "this is what you get when you remove God from the life of a person". What does BO really think? One can read through 457 pages and suspect very strongly that he has no idea other than it is somehow "shared, better, different" than anything humans have thought before. Why? Well, because BO is special, and even though a lot of folks try to tell him "it's not all about him", the subtext is that he really doesn't buy that, it **IS** all about BO!
A lot of what he says, he puts in someone elses mouth, but since he claims to have written the book, that isn't really much of a dodge -- why put something in their mouths if you think it is not worth people hearing said?
p 258. "The first thing you have to realize ... is that the public school is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They're operated as holding pens, miniature jails, really."
Later -- "Just think about what a real education for these children would involve. It would start by giving a child and understanding of
himself,
his world,
his culture,
his community. That's the starting point of any educational process." (his italics)
There you have it -- US culture is NOT black culture. A bit later yet, "I teach them that Africans are a communal people". This guys name is Asante, and BO never has a negative comment on the views from him that he includes, and he later invokes him as one of his key friends.
p406. "What Granny had told us scrambled that image completely [black supremacist muslim] causing ugly words to flash across my mind. Uncle Tom. Collaborator. House Nigger." Being a black supremacist, not wanting any intermarriage with whites -- that is a GOOD image. Working for white folks in Africa? Well, the "N word" isn't all that positive."
p 438. "All to rarely do I hear people asking just what it is we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass -- what values we must live by. Instead I see us doing what we've always done--pretending that these children are somehow not our own".
Well, we USED to be a Christian nation -- there are a known set of values there. "Love your Neighbor", "Do unto others", "First cast the log in your own eye...", etc. Knowledge that man is fallen, and it isn't WE that turn human hearts hard; human hearts ARE hard until they are redeemed by Jesus, and even then, constant attachment with word and sacrament is required. "Obamanation" (abomination) is what happens when sovereign God is converted to a relativistic hodge-podge of tribalism, pop psychology, new age gibberish and polytheistic meanderings. BOs religion is BO -- at one time it was his "false father", but when he found the truth of that mirage, he left it behind.
p 87, "Gotta have them ribs .... And pussy too. Don't Malcom talk about no pussy? Now you know that ain't going to work."
Nice quote for a president to be writing in a book, huh? Suppose if he had an "R" next to his name, a few of those might have gotten a little more play?
His favorite quote from Reverend Wright, based on the play it gets is from his "Audacity of Hope" sermon, the only one that we really know that BO attended and actually listened to.
p293. "...where white man's greed runs a world in need". For me, that sums up the "BO experience" -- we have a President that is a black supremacist.
Unfortunately, after reading this book, it is very clear that we have much more to fear than "fear itself". I didn't cover the Kenya part of the book, but suffice it to say, "He is Luo" -- that is his tribe. I'm not sure there is any point that he says, "I am an American" -- at one point I think he said he was "a citizen of the world". It appears to me that to the extent he has any grounding at all, it is African tribalism. How well does that work for a country of 300 million? Well, I guess we get to find out now!
