February 8, 2014

Winston Churchill answers Obama

By James Lewis
    One of the first acts of Barack Obama's presidency was to send back to Britain a powerful Oval Office sculpture of Winston Churchill, looking beetle-browed and determined, the way Churchill really looked when he was defying Hitler. At the time, Obama's gesture seemed another little eccentric footnote to this extremist administration. After all, Obama's Dreams from My Father celebrates his biological father who abandoned him as a baby, to return to Kenya after the terrorist Mau Mau Jono Kenyatta  came to power. Obama Sr. soon fell out with Kenyatta, was purged from the regime, and managed to have two consecutive drunk driving accidents, the second of which killed him. In the real post-colonial world, Obama's Leninist ideology is completely passé.  India's Prime Minister Singh is a free market economist. Over there, English is still the language of politics and commerce, and free market policies have created a sustained economic boom. China is no longer...(Read Full Article)