Please take the time to read the entire article  .... this makes ever so much sense. 

Now wonder we can't reconcile any of his actions.  We the people are living in 2010, he's 'ruling' from a mindset caught in a 1950's timewarp.

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"How Obama Thinks

"..........Colonialism today is a dead issue. No one cares about it except the man in the White House. He is the last anticolonial. Emerging market economies such as China, India, Chile and Indonesia have solved the problem of backwardness; they are exploiting their labor advantage and growing much faster than the U.S. If America is going to remain on top, we have to compete in an increasingly tough environment.

But instead of readying us for the challenge, our President is trapped in his father's time machine. Incredibly, the U.S. is being ruled according to the dreams of a Luo tribesman of the 1950s........"