Un hijo incomprensiblemente fiel, si se tiene en cuenta que le abandonó cuando era un crío para seguir su vida de vivalavirgen (es un decir, pues era muslim; no el más ferviente, bien lo sabe Alá) bandarra: dejando barakitos por doquier, casándose con la primera incauta que se le ponía a tiro, bebiendo hasta perder... primero las piernas (en un accidente) y después la vida (en otro), no sin antes llevarse la de un pobre diablo por delante.
No es ese el rastro de Obama Sr. que ha seguido Obama Jr., sino el ideológico. El del anticolonialismo sociata (tan distinto del de Kenyatta). Eso dice, con un porrón de pruebas en la mano, Dinesh D’Souza -tan igual y tan distinto al Barak que fue Barry- en su más reciente libro: The roots of Obama’s rage, las raíces de la rabia del señor presidente. ¡Espabilen, señores editores españoles!
The most powerful country in the world is being governed according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s –a polygamist who abandoned his wives, drank himself into stupor, and bounced around on two iron legs (after his real legs had to be amputated because of a car crash), raging against the world for denying him the realization of his anti-colonial ambitions. This philandering, inebriated African socialist is now setting the nation´s agenda through the reencarnation of his dreams in his son. (...) America today is being governed by a ghost.
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I understand Obama, but I don`t sympathize with him. In fact, his warped ideology really scares me. His vision for America may be therapeutic for his psyche, but it is a ridiculous one for America in the twenty-first Century. The dream of the two Obamas is not the dream I want for America. Obama’s dream is actually an American nightmare.
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We need to reexamine what it is to be an American. (...) Ronald Reagan once noted that the American national anthem is the only one in the world that ends with a question: "Oh say does the Star Spangled banner yet wave, o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?". Only we, through our resolution and through our action, can answer that question.
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En el programa del sábado hablamos de Rodrigo Fresán y de Philip Roth y de Elizabeth Gaskell y de enciclopedias y diccionarios y de la última novela de Jesús Ferrero. Y, claro, de Mario Vargas Llosa. Los audios, aquí y aquí.
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Lecturas: United in hate (Jamie Glazov), The Arab Lobby (Mitchell Bard), igual El elefante (Slawomir Mrozek).