I was a little surprised I was expecting some kind of venomous Obama is a monster type stuff, but Dinesh D’Souza actually succeeds in showing the human side of someone he disagrees with on just about everything. The idea was to explore the roots of Obama to determine how two gentlemen with so much in common came to such vastly different worldviews on liberty and the United States mission.
– Both born the same year
– Both from countries going through a fierce anti-colonialist streak as nations who’d recently broken off from Great Britain. D’Souza is not a birther suggesting Obama was born in Kenya but rather exploring why the mission of his father and the anti-colonialists was so important to him.
– Both graduated from Ivy League undergrad the same year (takes Obama’s word that he actually attended Columbia when he said he did)
– Both married the same year[/quote]
The US did break off from GB, like India did, but I’m guessing you are talking about Kenya. Obama was raised by his mother and his Anglo grandparents, then the mother and her Indonesian husband (former Dutch colony) and finally the Anglo grandparents. If I’m not mistaken he spent a couple of days with his father when he was a kid and he first went to Kenya in his late twenties. It is a major stretch to see an Indian immigrant and Obama as people with common background.
