Deja Vu Again

This week I've been reading Dinesh d'Souza's book, "The Roots of Obama's Rage." I met Dr.d'Souza three weeks ago in Vail and was impressed. He's a very personable and knowledgeable man. The thesis of the book is an analysis of the president's public actions to support a contention that the man is not driven by a desire for socialism or a welfare state, but rather by a deep-seated anti-colonialism. The argument is well supported by d'Souza with background material including significant quotes from Obama's own books about his father.

In one section the discussion is about Bamster's 2009 visit to Brazil where he announces his support for offshore drilling. No, not for the US, but for Brazil. While the US is supposedly seeking independence from foreign oil, the President lauds the exploitation of foreign oil by Petrobras. Dr. d'Souza contends that is not to make western hemisphere oil available to the US, but rather to deny it to us while building the third world development of S. America. In other words to take from the hands of colonial exploiter, America, and disburse to exploited former colonies. It is a correction for past evils.

The deja vu moment was pretty powerful a few minutes ago when the President gave a speech on energy independence.

Who Me? Deny Oil Development? They Lie!

"So any claim that my administration is responsible for gas prices because we've, quote un quote, shut down oil production -- any claim like that is simply untrue. It might make for a useful political sound bite, but it doesn't track with reality," Obama said.

Don't recall the moratorium on Gulf drilling which still continues. Don't think about ANWR. Don't notice the newest refinery in the US being built in 1978. None of your observations track with Obama's reality.

He asks us to accept this alternate reality and deny our own observations. That raises the question about whether he actually believes what he is saying himself.