Obama's foreign policy is no less strange. He supports a $100 million mosque scheduled to be built near the site where terrorists in the name of Islam brought down the World Trade Center. Obama's rationale, that "our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable," seems utterly irrelevant to the issue of why the proposed Cordoba House should be constructed at Ground Zero.posted by nomadicink at 11:15 AM on September 16, 2010 [5 favorites]
The start of the D'Souza phenomenon came in 1995, when he published The End of Racism. Written to ride the wave of books and articles that called for white America to get over its racial guilt, it included lines like the "American slave was treated like property, which is to say, pretty well." It was so sloppy and unconvincing that it killed the genre for a few years; it's a 700-page doorstop by a one-time AEI scholar that no one cites today. The next D'Souza implosion came in 2007, with the publication of another book that killed its genre. The Enemy at Home consisted of an argument that the "left" was responsible for the 9/11 attacks. That was an irresistible hook for a publisher, especially after the public had turned on the Bush administration and the war on terror. But D'Souza made such a hash out of it that the people who had danced around the left-and-9/11 idea realized how deeply stupid it was. Victor Davis Hanson joined the mob and pointed out, as politely as he could, that D'Souza's enemies list was "nonsensical."posted by delmoi at 11:31 AM on September 16, 2010 [3 favorites]
You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.posted by boo_radley at 11:33 AM on September 16, 2010 [16 favorites]
And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger"
Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history ... Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions.Where are all these dollars going, anyway? Since Obama is anti-business, I guess none of them are being spent on construction contractors, military contractors, or weapons contractors. We must be spending it all on schoolteachers. Who have sworn to stuff the money into their mattresses and to never spend it at any sort of business of any kind, MWAHAHAHAHAH.
Here is a man who spent his formative years--the first 17 years of his life--off the American mainland, in Hawaii, Indonesia and Pakistan, with multiple subsequent journeys to Africa.I'm surprised nobody here (nor rcade in the post Matt linked) has picked up on the mention of Pakistan. Didn't he spend only three weeks in India and Pakistan combined?
D'Souza is a noted conservative, and defines conservatism in the American sense as "conserving the principles of the American Revolution".Um...? (In short, what East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 said.)
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