D'Souza also points out that, while at Columbia University, Obama attended a class by the Palestinian Edward Said, a popular, brilliant, erudite and cosmopolitan professor/writer. D'Souza tells us that Said said things like: "The United States has replaced the earlier great empires." D'Souza tell us the term for this view is neocolonialism, a term coined by the African leader Kwame Nkrumah in his book Neocolonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism.
"America is now the rogue elephant that subjugates and tramples the people of the world," D'Souza writes in Forbes, mocking how he imagines Obama sees America. "For Obama, the solutions are simple. He must work to wring the neocolonialism out of America and the West. Obama Sr.'s hatred of the colonial system becomes Obama Jr.'s hatred. ... Through a kind of sacramental rite at the family tomb, the father's struggle becomes the son's birthright."
So Obama, the son of an insurgent African intellectual, is a Manchurian Candidate in the White House espousing the downfall of America, and we are now fighting the last battle in the long struggle for de-colonization -- or something like that.
Glenn Beck featured D'Souza a few weeks ago on his program drawing charts on the blackboard of all the nefarious connections between Kenyan anti-colonial socialism and the current President.
Newt Gingrich was ecstatic over the notion that Obama might be "so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]."
Add to this boiling cauldron of maliciousness the 12-year-old "Barry" Obama's experiences with his Indonesian stepfather, whose family had literally contained insurgents during the Dutch colonial wars of the 1950s, and you realize D'Souza is actually onto something. This guy is different; that is an unusual back story for a President of the United States.
The trouble is D'Souza is not interested in truth or understanding; he's interested in packaging all this information to defend right-wing, militarist policies based on the myths and traditions of American exceptionalism.
What D'Sousa does is emphasize the fact that, while Barack Obama may be half-white, he is more directly "African" than most African Americans. Add to that his father's involvement in the left-leaning anti-colonial struggle and the plot gets interesting.
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