Les arguments contre Obama

Barak Obama, est-il l'homme qu'il prétend être ?

Il est possible de connaître dès à présent quels arguments qui seront utilisés lors de la prochaine campagne électorale contre le candidat à la candidature démocrate. Certes, on ne les entend pas beaucoup car personne dans le camp républicain ne veut brûler ses cartouches, mais on peut supposer que les argumentaires sont fin prêts.

Pour avoir une idée de ces arguments, il est utile de lire le réquisitoire que vient de mettre en ligne l'éditorialiste vedette de quotidien numérique Asia Times on line. Répondant au pseudonyme de « Spengler », il argumente que l'on peut savoir qui est vraiement Barak Obama en étudiant les deux femmes de sa vie : sa mère l'anthropologiste Ann Dunham (décédée en 1995) et son épouse Michelle Obama.

Selon l'éditorialiste, les deux femmes se caractérisent chacune par une forme différente de détestation de l'Amérique. La première, aurait été une militante d'extrême-gauche qui a épousé successivement deux de ses sujets d'études et la seconde, un exemple typique de cette génération d'Afro-Américains motivés par un profond ressentiment racial (voir cette vidéo).

Ces arguments sont-ils vrais ? il est trop tôt pour se prononcer, mais il ne fait aucun doute qu'ils vont être utilisés à fond si jamais Barak Obama remporte la course à la candidature démocrate.

Voici quelques extraits de la tribune de Spengler dont je recommande la lecture.

"Cherchez la femme," advised Alexander Dumas in: "When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman." In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama's women reveal his secret: he hates America.

Michelle Obama, une femme aigrie ?

The desperation, frustration and disappointment visible on Michelle Obama's face are not new to the candidate's wife; as Steve Sailer, Rod Dreher and other commentators have noted, they were the theme of her undergraduate thesis, on the subject of "blackness" at Princeton University. No matter what the good intentions of Princeton, which founded her fortunes as a well-paid corporate lawyer, she wrote, "My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'Blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my White professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong."

Ann Dunham photographiée avec ses parents.

"Naivete" is a euphemism for Ann Dunham's motivation. Friends describe her as a "fellow traveler", that is, a communist sympathizer, from her youth, according to a March 27, 2007, Chicago Tribune report. Many Americans harbor leftist views, but not many marry into them, twice. Ann Dunham met and married the Kenyan economics student Barack Obama, Sr, at the University of Hawaii in 1960, and in 1967 married the Indonesian student Lolo Soetero. It is unclear why Soetero's student visa was revoked in 1967 - the fact but not the cause are noted in press accounts. But it is probable that the change in government in Indonesia in 1967, in which the leftist leader Sukarno was deposed, was the motivation.

Barack Obama received at least some instruction in the Islamic faith of his father and went with him to the mosque, but the importance of this experience is vastly overstated by conservative commentators who seek to portray Obama as a Muslim of sorts. Radical anti-Americanism, rather than Islam, was the reigning faith in the Dunham household. In the Muslim world of the 1960s, nationalism rather than radical Islam was the ideology of choice among the enraged. Radical Islam did not emerge as a major political force until the nationalism of a Gamal Abdel Nasser or a Sukarno failed.

Ann Dunham photographiée avec son époux indonésien Lolo Soetoro
et leur fille Maya. Barak Obama est assis à droite.

There is nothing mysterious about Obama's methods. "A demagogue tries to sound as stupid as his audience so that they will think they are as clever as he is," wrote Karl Krauss. Americans are the world's biggest suckers, and laugh at this weakness in their popular culture. Listening to Obama speak, Sinclair Lewis' cynical tent-revivalist Elmer Gantry comes to mind, or, even better, Tyrone Power's portrayal of a carnival mentalist in the 1947 film noire Nightmare Alley. The latter is available for instant viewing at Netflix, and highly recommended as an antidote to having felt uplifted by an Obama speech.

Merci au bloggeur Andrew Cusak qui m'a mis sur la piste de cet article.