Barack Obama Sr. And His Genocidal Plan For Kenya
Sound of Trumpet
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/04/barack-obama-srs-socialist-advocacy.html
Barack Obama Sr.'s Mugabeist plan for Kenya
Kenya was a Cold War ally of the U.S. For example, Kenya boycotted the
1980 Moscow Olympic Games at President Jimmy Carter's request, a
bigger sacrifice for Kenya than most of other 28 countries that
boycotted, since the Olympic running events provide Kenya with its
main shot at glory on the international stage. The international
prestige of Kenya's first President, Jomo Kenyatta and Kenya's
relatively successful evolution, meant that Kenya's "pro-
capitalist" (in truth, crony capitalist) policies were a valuable
counterexample during the Cold War struggle for hearts and minds of
Third World countries.
No thanks, however, to Harvard-trained economist Barack Obama Sr., who
consistently argued within Kenya's elite for socialism and ditching
the pro-American orientation. In an important piece of original
research, Greg Ransom of PrestoPundit shows that leftism was the Dream
from My Father:
There's a big mystery at the heart of Barack Obama's Dreams For My
Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. What was Barack Obama doing
seeking out Marxist professors in college? Why did Obama choose a
Communist Party USA member as his socio- political counselor in high
school? Why was he spending his time studying neocolonialism and the
writings of Frantz Fanon, the pro-violence author of "the Communist
Manifesto of neocolonialsm", in college? Why did he take time out from
his studies at Columbia to attend socialist conferences at Cooper
Union?
And there is more mystery in the book. Why does Obama consider working
in a consulting house for international business like being "a spy
behind enemy lines?" Why does he repeatedly find it so hard to explain
his political views to others? Why was he driven to become a left-
aligned political organizer? It's a question Obama again and again
can't seem to answer to the satisfaction of the interlocutors in his
own memoir.
If there is a mystery at the heart of Barack Obama's Dreams For My
Father, one thing is not left a mystery, the fact that Barack Obama
organized his life on the ideals given to him by his Kenyan father.
Obama tells us, "All of my life, I carried a single image of my
father, one that I .. tried to take as my own." (p. 220) And what was
that image? It was "the father of my dreams, the man in my mother's
stories, full of high-blown ideals .." (p. 278) What is more, Obama
tells us that, "It was into my father's image .. that I'd packed all
the attributes I sought in myself." And also that, "I did feel that
there was something to prove .. to my father" in his efforts at
political organizing. (p. 230)
So we know that his father's ideals were a driving force in his life,
but the one thing that Obama does not give us are the contents of
those ideals. ...
A bit of research at the library reveals the answers about Barack
Obama's father and his father's convictions which Obama withholds from
his readers. A first hint comes from authors E. S. Atieno Odhiambo and
David William Cohen in their book The Risks of Knowledge (Ohio U.
Press, 2004). On page 182 of their book they describe how Barack
Obama's father, a Harvard trained economist, attacked the economic
proposals of pro-Western 'third way" leader Tom Mboya from the
socialist left, siding with communist-allied leader Oginga Odinga
[father of current Luo leader Raila Odinga, who recently claimed to be
Sen. Obama's cousin], in a paper Barack Obama's father for the for the
East Africa Journal. As Odhiambo and Cohen write:
"The debates [over economic policy] pitted .. Mboya against .. Oginga
Odinga and radical economists Dharam Ghai and Barrack Obama, who
critiqued the document for being neither African nor socialist
enough."
Ransom dug up from the stacks at UCLA the 1965 paper "Problems Facing
Our Socialism" by Barack H. Obama in the East Africa Journal.
... The paper is as describe by Odhiambo and Cohen, a cutting attack
from the left on Tom Mboya's historically important policy paper
"African Socialism and Its Applicability to Planning in Kenya." The
author is given as "Barak H. Obama" and his paper is titled "Problems
Facing Our Socialism," published July, 1965 in the East African
Journal, pp. 26-33.
Obama stakes out the following positions in his attacks on the white
paper produced by Mboya's Ministry of Economic Planning and
Development:
1. Obama advocated the communal ownership of land and the forced
confiscation of privately controlled land, as part of a forced
"development plan", an important element of his attack on the
government's advocacy of private ownership, land titles, and property
registration. (p. 29)
2. Obama advocated the nationalization of "European" and "Asian" owned
enterprises, including hotels, with the control of these operations
handed over to the "indigenous" black population. (pp. 32 -33)
3. Obama advocated dramatically increasing taxation on "the rich" even
up to the 100% level, ...
4. Obama contrasts the ill-defined and weak-tea notion of "African
Socialism" negatively with the well-defined ideology of "scientific
socialism", i.e. communism. Obama views "African Socialism" pioneers
like Nkrumah, Nyerere, and Toure as having diverted only "a little"
from the capitalist system. (p. 26)
5. Obama advocates an "active" rather than a "passive" program to
achieve a classless society through the removal of economic
disparities between black Africans and Asian and Europeans. (p. 28)
"While we welcome the idea of a prevention [of class problems], we
should try to cure what has slipped in .. we .. need to eliminate
power structures that have been built through excessive accumulation
so that not only a few individuals shall control a vast magnitude of
resources as is the case now .. so long as we maintain free enterprise
one cannot deny that some will accumulate more than others .. " (pp.
29-30) ...
8. Obama strongly supports the governments assertion of a "non-
aligned" status in the contest between Western nations and communist
nations aligned with the Soviet Union and China. (p. 26)
[More]
In short, the Presidential frontrunner's father's policy views were
similar to Robert Mugabe's.
In Obama's memoirs, he plays up his father's failure to achieve the
brilliant career seemingly open to him in the mid-1960s as due to
ethnic politics (he was a Luo, Kenyatta a Kikuyu), and, later, due to
his father's drinking. But the Presidential candidate skips over the
more politically relevant ideological clash between his father and
Kenyatta. As Mona Charen noted, leftism is more assumed than
articulated in Obama's slippery autobiography.
Although, Barack Obama Jr. spent only one month of his life with his
father, when he came to visit Hawaii when his son was a schoolboy at
Punahou prep, the young man heard plenty about his father's brilliance
and high ideals from his leftist mother, who remained a lifelong
defender of her ex-husband, and leftist paternal grandfather.
Obviously, Obama is not going to impose his father's Mugabeist ideals
on America. He's clearly evolved ideologically. Still, Ransom's
important work raises the essential question: How far has he evolved?
And has his heart kept up with head? The nominating process is
practically over and we're only now beginning to understand just how
far to the left Obama started out, and we really don't have a clue
what the future trajectory of his personal ideology would look like.
Perhaps one of our thousands of political reporters should ask him?
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Dano
<snip of all the things you *admit* are never going to be imposed here>
> Obviously, Obama is not going to impose his father's Mugabeist ideals
> on America. He's clearly evolved ideologically. Still, Ransom's
> important work raises the essential question: How far has he evolved?
> And has his heart kept up with head? The nominating process is
> practically over and we're only now beginning to understand just how
> far to the left Obama started out, and we really don't have a clue
> what the future trajectory of his personal ideology would look like.
>
> Perhaps one of our thousands of political reporters should ask him?
You spend all that time (snipped from a year and a half old blog) making
these observations only to conclude that "Obviously, Obama is not going to
impose his father's Mugabeist ideals on America."
Then what is your point? Mine would simply be that there is...can be...NO
comparisons drawn between the countries...societies...of the USA and Kenya
of decades ago. So why waste the valuable time of the president on this?
Irrelevent. Waste your own time on your feverish commie hunting. I've
wasted more than I even should, by reading and responding.
David Johnston
wrote:
>Sound of Trumpet wrote:
>
><snip of all the things you *admit* are never going to be imposed here>
>
>
>> Obviously, Obama is not going to impose his father's Mugabeist ideals
>> on America. He's clearly evolved ideologically. Still, Ransom's
>> important work raises the essential question: How far has he evolved?
>> And has his heart kept up with head? The nominating process is
>> practically over and we're only now beginning to understand just how
>> far to the left Obama started out, and we really don't have a clue
>> what the future trajectory of his personal ideology would look like.
>>
>> Perhaps one of our thousands of political reporters should ask him?
>
>You spend all that time (snipped from a year and a half old blog) making
>these observations only to conclude that "Obviously, Obama is not going to
>impose his father's Mugabeist ideals on America."
>
>Then what is your point?
The point of the blog was that it would be useful to ask Obama as many
embarassing questions as possible while he was on the campaign trail
even if it's about a man Obama never really knew because it might cost
him some votes. Sound of Trumpet has no point. It's unlikely he even
understands a lot of what he posts.