Worm Correction plus Politics: Dinesh D'Souza

First, a correction.  Thank you, Kind Readers, for not pointing out my Wormwood mistake from this post.  Lewis had the Wormwood character and Tolkien had Grima Wormtongue, which I discovered while watching the extended edition LOTR trilogy over the past several weeks.  However, I believe there is no coincidence in the fact both of these men used Worm for these two characters.  I would love to have been a fly on the wall of the Bird to hear the Inklings' literary discussions, especially this one!

In case you did not figure it out, the unnamed book from last week is Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky.  Reading this feels a little like reading Mein Kampf did - not exactly a book you want others to see you carrying around or reading at the pediatrician's office.  Even though I lugged this book to Florida with me last week, I just could not bring myself to read it; I was on a Navy base, not the most radical, rule-changing place on the planet so I am stuck at chapter 2.

 Rules for Radicals is an important book to read and understand, especially in this political season.  Another book I would highly recommend is Dinesh D'Souza's The Roots of Obama's Rage.  When I read this book a few months ago, it was not with a highlighter or pencil in hand so I'm not going to be able to share pithy quotes or make comments on things that stood out to me.

The last chapter of this book is the most important for, in it, D'Souza makes three predictions about Obama's presidency: tax increases on the rich, lack of effort to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and an all-out campaign against the US military.

The first one we see happening before our very eyes.  THe Congressional Budget Office is reporting the US will go into a deeper recession if the Bush tax cuts are not extended, including those for the 1%.  Democrats are adamantly against allowing the tax cuts for the wealthily, which, since 2008, has an ever changing definition - first it was those making $250,000 and then it was $150,000 and then it was $100,000, and according to this blog, even lower than that.

The second one is also happening now.  Israel is going to do something about it but the US will sit idly by, or keeps telling Israel to wait or back off or thinks "crippling sanctions" will work.  The text of Obama's state speech given with Netanyahu follows Rules#  3, 4 and 12.  Iran is developing a nuclear weapon, there is no doubt in my mind on that.

If you have any doubt about the third one, I have one word for you: sequestration.

D'Souza and an Academy Award winning producer have come out with 2016:
"2016 Obama's America takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the struggle of whether one man's past will redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?"

Across the globe and in America, people in 2008 hungered for a leader who would unite and lift us from economic turmoil and war. True to America’s ideals, they invested their hope in a new kind of president, Barack Obama. What they didn't know is that Obama is a man with a past, and in powerful ways that past defines him--who he is, how he thinks, and where he intends to take America and the world."

I have not seen this movie yet but it has received favorable reviews from 2 of my Facebook fans.  It has also surprised box office watchers with it's success.  

Election time is right around the corner.  No matter who you vote for, be an informed voter.