https://pjmedia.com/spengler/2012/04/19/dog-eating-and-obamas-identity/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 06:14:14 -0400<![CDATA[What a careful reader will take away from Barack Obama&#8217;s memoir Dreams from My Father is not only that the president used to eat dog meat, but more importantly, that he identifies with dog-eaters. He wants us to understand that he is one of them. Obama&#8217;s most severe critics on the right think of Obama as a socialist, for example, Dinesh D&#8217;Souza, or Stanley Kurtz in his exhaustively-researched book Radical-in-Chief. Obama used to attend the annual &#8220;Socialist Scholars Conference&#8221; in New York, which was a hard-core affair; I went to a couple of them, and they weren&#8217;t for the curious. But there is something far more visceral, more existential to the president&#8217;s dislike of the United States, and that arises from his early residence in the Third World, and his identification with the people of the Third World whose lives are disrupted by the creative destruction that America has unleashed.]]>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 04:44:22 -0400<![CDATA[David P. Goldman]]>https://pjmedia.com/david-p-goldman/2012/04/19/dog-eating-and-obamas-identity-n130812