What did you think about D'Souza's thoughts about Obama's past?
When I first started it I thought it might be a psychological study. It was partly that but mostly it was a well reasoned argument that he has inherited an anti-colonialist and anti-neocolonialist mindset from his Kenyan father, his mother and his other mentors.
It makes a lot of sense to me. I never saw him as particularly religious outside of some touchy-feely, all religions reflect the truth, kind of mindset so his overtures to the Muslim world can be attributed to a (misinformed) belief that the Muslim world is backwards because of Western oppression.
It does fit most of his decisions and pronouncements.
His tack to the middle these days is disturbing though, because I see it as merely a pragmatic ploy to get re-elected. In a second term, I would expect him to turn on the afterburners in his quest to bring down "the empire." As if by doing that it will improve the lot of the rest of the world.
One thing I really am left with after reading that book is that if he is still stuck in that anti-colonial mindset he is nowhere near as intelligent as his minions continue to argue.