AN UGLY LIE FROM D’SOUZA

Dinesh D’Souza’s statement that Obama is a “whites-hating President,” as stated in a book called “The Roots of Obama's Rage” and in a recent documentary is an ugly lie; an example of prurient journalism. In addition, he also says that by 2016, Obama would have irreparably damaged this country.

Ask me why I say this.

I knew the Senior Barack Obama. Both of us were foreign students in the US in the early sixties. He was studying in Hawaii and then doing a Masters in Harvard, and I was studying toward my Masters at Syracuse University. In my brief conversations with Obama Senior, I never saw him as a man leaning toward hatred of whites. He was very friendly, scholarly, with a tremendous sense of humor and a very deep bass-singer voice. However, there was nothing extraordinary about our meeting, we were both foreign students, sponsored for our high academic credentials or job experience and were on equal footing.

How D'Souza could say that Obama Senior was a “whites-hater,” or taught his son to hate whites, beats me. There was practically no interaction between the father and son. When Barack Senior was in the U.S., D’Souza was a toddler. Where did D'Souza get the idea that he was a “whites-hater”? By reading about race relations in Kenya before it received its independence in 1963, and the Mau Mau Rebellion and the first President Jomo Kenyatta?

In fact, Obama Senior and his closely-knit group of three friends (all of them of Luo tribe) relied very much on their white American and British friends. As he grew up Obama Junior was referred to as a “coconut”, brown on the outside and white in the inside. He grew up with a wonderful, intercultural, white mother who respected all religions and cultures.

When I was looking for a publisher for my book initially titled, “The Battles of Barack” three publishers said they would publish my book if I could say something negative or filthy about the President’s father or the mother. I didn't have any “dirt” on them and wasn't about to fabricate something in order to get it published. Instead, I stayed true to my convictions and published my book on my own terms.

By the way, TIME calls D'Souza's book and documentary, “a combination of skewed analysis and dire portents. In a statement, Obama's team said that the D'Souza documentary, 2016: Obama’s America, “is nothing more than an insidious attempt to dishonestly smear the President by giving intellectual cover to the worst in subterranean conspiracy theories and false, partisan attacks.”

Woodword’s Title Is Untrue. Meant to Attract Sales?

That the first term in office of President Obama suffered a “leadership gap” is a very wrong statement by Bob Woodward, the Watergate-famed reporter and the author of a recently published book, ”The Price of Politics.” Could it be that Woodward chose a title that can do well in a rapidly changing book market, attract talk show hosts and rake in more money?

The so-called “leadership gap” is not that of the President, who, in spite of the recalcitrant and stubborn, Tea-Party-manipulated Republican Party, recorded the following significant triumphs:

He confronted head-on the economic meltdown; turned around the auto industry, caused money to flow again to help states, communities and schools, arrived at $25 billion settlement with the country’s banks to provide relief to homeowners, stopped more than 800,000 foreclosures, established new rules for Wall Street, revamped the health care system to help some 50 million uninsured and underinsured, reduced taxes (which largely went unnoticed), and succeeded in difficult negotiations on the debt ceiling with Republicans hell-bent on paralyzing the government. He brought back the troops and decimated the perennial threat of Osama bin Laden. These were no mean accomplishments.

If there was a lack of leadership it was the lack of statesmanship, fair play and decency on the part of the Republicans who believed from the beginning that the path to success in 2012 is through non-cooperation and continued badmouthing of the President. They continually fought against every move of the President designed to help the common person. They painfully prolonged the debt ceiling and balanced budget debate and continually fought against the health care bill even after it became the law of the land. When Obama sent the $447 billion jobs bill that would bring jobs to the unemployed and veterans, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said it would dead on arrival. At one time in the heat of the debt ceiling crisis, Speaker of the House John Boehner even refused to return the President’s call. It was appropriate that once the President quoted Jimi Hendrix’s song, “They treat me like a dog.”

Therefore, it is grossly inappropriate and a dereliction of responsibility and civic duty to provide unbalanced reporting on any president, more so this president who will become one of the nation’s greatest when he wins a second term. Mr. Woodward brought down one president; he should not, through false analytical reporting, bring down another.

For a more extensive discussion, read my new book "We Are The Change That We Seek" available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle versions.

My New Book on President Obama is Now Available

New Book on the Obama Administration “We Are the Change That We Seek,”
Now Available on Amazon.com

Well-researched book portrays the battles, torments and triumphs of 

President Obama in leading a nation that is hungering for change

September 26, 2012 – San Diego, Calif. – New book on President Obama weaves together a rich tapestry of first-hand accounts, personal memories, international perspectives, and discussions of landmark legislations of the Obama administration. “We Are the Change That We Seek,” by author, George C. Thomas, delivers a unique and well-researched biography of the President, his family and the many intercultural influences that have informed his presidency. Thomas aims to reach voters who may yet be undecided as well as those who are in support of the President’s legislative achievements.

The book provides readers with a glimpse of the President’s heritage, spanning several continents, and how his unique upbringing makes him responsive to the needs of the American middle class. The author provides succinct, yet comprehensive, summaries of major issues addressed during the first term, such as international troop withdrawal, the economic meltdown and debt crisis, job recovery, and healthcare for the uninsured – all of which were uphill battles with a recalcitrant and uncooperative opposition party.

“I wrote this book for the undecided voters of America who wish to be more politically informed, and for those of us who are baffled and angered by the lies and distortion aimed at undermining the President, at a cost of more than a billion dollars by the opposition party,” said author, George C. Thomas. “This book emphasizes the positive, sweeping changes that have already occurred in the President’s first term and the certainty of more to come after his re-election, which will bring greater prosperity to America, including ‘the 47%’.”

About the Author

George C. Thomas is a graduate of Spicer Memorial College, Pune, India, and the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. He has served as department head, project director and executive director affiliated with various U.S. universities, medical centers and nonprofit service organizations. He has also served as Chief Advisor of economic development for the U.S. Agency for International Development – Dominican Republic operations. He is currently semi-retired and occasionally teaches public health, business administration and marketing in San Diego and at Universidad CETYS, Mexicali, Mexico. Reach him at georgechthomas@gmail.com.

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Woodward's New Book on Obama's Leadership Gap

Really disappointed with Bob Woodward's new book, which calls out the so-called "leadership gap" in the Obama Presidency. This is a disservice to the President and to voters in this contentious election season.