This is exactly right. The MSM trys to glamourize other countries, especially if they are communist, i.e. Venezuela. No reports on the failing water supplies and electric service since communism was established or the closing of virtually every news source that did not support Hugo and his gang.
But big write-ups on the ‘proposed’ healthcare system supported by those friendly Cubans.

Let’s hope that Americans never have to discover how great this Country _was_ by seing it destroyed.

He went back and forth in his justification for whether an American-centric view or Kenyan-view was good, bad, or indifferent. .

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201009150064

Obama world view last year and all admitted that hadn’t a clue.

Jack Cashill is to be believed, and it might be better if Gingrich looked into this possibility. The blowhard in the middle on the panel has a valid point about Obama’s never really being infused with his father’s politics, but that lends more credence to Cashill’s ghostwriter argument. It might be more accurate, and more savvy politically, if Ayers was dragged back into this debate, and this is what John King wants to avoid.

Obama’s dad is just a prop Obama uses. If you want to know more about Obama’s worldview, look to his mother, Bill Ayers and Frank Marshall Davis.

Also, the blowhard says Obama is a Christian. What church does Obama attend now? I mean, we already know about the one he used to attend.

And one more thing: Just as the NAACP is stuck in a Jim Crow/lynching era mindset, so is Obama stuck in a mid-20th century anticolonial mindset. We need a President with his head in the 21st century.

I’m willing to bet they had communist ties, maybe strong communist ties. You had to be well “out there” in the Fifties and Sixties to have a daughter like that. They spent a time in Seattle living what appears to be well above their means and then moved to Hawaii right at statehood where they fell in with a lefty crowd there as well.

Both SEA and Hawaii in that day were absolutely owned by the communist dominated Longshoremens’ Union. My own belief is that Comrade Obama was a Red Diaper Baby raised a communist from birth and handled by people with at least CP ties and sympathies, if not outright allegiance since that became pretty dangerous by the mid-Fifties.

That said, I think that the origins of his world view are irrelevant and ignore the real issue: to wit, his world view, which is shared by caucasian, US-born and raised Pelosi, Reid, and the left in general. Obama’s world view is nothing new or foreign; it is part and parcel of the illiberal left, and has been since the 70s (if not earlier). And as you allude to, a little less than a quarter of his life was spent in foreign countries. The rest of his life has a trajectory identical to any number of interchangeable leftist academics. The only reason the leftist world view is so concentrated in the Obama administration as opposed to then is because the left has virtually unchecked power in DC right now (which was more a function of the unpopularity of Republicans than of any affection for the left). We don’t need to take an expedition into Kenya and its history to understand Obama’s world view any more than we need to delve into the writings of Cuban dissidents to understand Marco Rubio’s world view: in the case of both, a broad, generic framework works just as well as a specific inquiry into their experiences, and at any rate, misses the primary reasons for Obama’s unpopularity and Rubio’s ascendancy.

the worst influences were probably from his American leftist parents, pals, professors etc and from the Ivy League and Chicago pols and pals…He has had a lot bad influences! As have Roland. Yes Dan, the substance of the influences and how he has acted upon them are what matters. Of course, John King can’t dare suggest an inquiry into that.

you have to be familiar with the culture of the Hawaiian Islands. I can assure you that the foundation of Obama’s anti-American world view was laid by growing up in Hawaii, particularly his teen years when one starts thinking in a broader context.

Hawaiian culture is very anti- mainland America. Native Hawaiians have been totally brainwashed by their most radical agitators who have set the narrative that the Islands were stolen from the Hawaiians by white people.

Barry had to chose during his formative years to either align with his Hawaiian friends or his white home environment. As a person of color, it was an easy choice to make.

When you layer in his hippie mother, his Muslim fathers, Muslim childhood, Indonesian sojourn, Frank Davis, Pakistan “vacation”, liberal schooling, Wright’s teaching, Ayers mentoring and crooked Chicago politics we can realize how Barry is no more American in the traditional sense than were he born and raised in Kenya.

And yes, that was meant as an insult. But race has nothing to do with it.

I graduated from college in 1982, and I remember taking Geography classes with earnest, goateed grad students and professors who sat around the table extolling the virtues of things like Ejido property systems (don’t bother–it’s commie stuff), and making us write boring papers about them. There was no dissent from anyone, especially from me, as I was a young moon-eyed Lefty who thought I was in way over my head with these jargonhead “intellectuals”.

You beat me too it. But Roland was doing some shaking wasn’t he?