While D’Souza was one sided, and perhaps he is even wrong on some points, still one must weight the merit of each point and not dismiss it out of hand.
If Only D’Souza Were Right – Criticism of the movie by Gary North
Summary, my view of it.
- D’Souza’s attempt to reconstruct Obama’s worldview is a good approach.
- North does a good job of pointing out the continuum between the Bush and Obama administrations although Obama seems to have put them on steroids.
- North does not appear to see how Obama’s hatred of neo-colonialism is in large part compatible with Bush administration policies.
- D’Souza’s explanation of Obama’s worldview may be accurate but it may also be over-simplistic. His worldview may be more of a hybrid of Marxism, 3rd world anti-colonialism, etc. I am sure D’Souza understands this but is was not that clear from this offering. Obama’s foreign policy does seem to have anti-colonial elements in it that North completely ignores.
- On the other hand North is primarily concerned with the economic continuum of the two administrations and the real debt issues involved (222 Trillion off-balance vs. 15 Trillion on-balance debt for instance). This debt is a FED and Bi-Partisan creation. Kicking Obama out of office may be a great victory for neo-cons but it will make no difference in preventing economic collapse. It will come regardless of who is elected in 2012.
“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes it’s laws.” – Mayer Amschel Bauer Rothschild
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