The Man Financing the Anti-Obama Hate

This is by far the deciding factor of the 2012 presidential campaign: the considerable influx of sums out of the two candidate’s campaigns, especially in the conservative camp. Newt Gingrich had Sheldon Adelson, the casino magnate, ready to spend tens of millions of dollars for the candidate. Rick Santorum was financed by Foster Friess. Romney can count on a large number of “sugar daddies” to finance his campaign against Obama, but Joe Ricketts is the most prominent.

The New York Times exposed billionaire Ricketts in an article that caused a stir last week. The daily newspaper affirmed that the financier was behind the campaign spot linking Barack Obama to Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former pastor whose connection to the president already failed to derail the campaign in 2008. The idea was to say that Obama was a wolf disguised in sheep’s clothing who, in reality, hated American values.

Ricketts quickly disassociated himself from the project, which was abandoned. Nevertheless, the Ameritrade founder is the man at the forefront of the campaign to defeat Obama. He financed a film which will be released this summer, based on the scandalous book by Dinesh D’Souza, The Roots of Obama’s Rage. In this sickening book, D’Souza explains that, in reality, Obama believes the anti-colonial ideas of his Kenyan father and that he is therefore anti-white, because this was the image of the oppressors responsible for the reversal of Obama Sr.’s fortunes. D’Souza himself is an Indian immigrant.

Ricketts backed the launching of the book campaign under the slogan, “The book that the White House doesn’t want you to read” and cautioning: “The real Obama is worse than you think.”

The controversy concerning the Jeremiah Wright spot shone light once again on the impact of conservative billionaire groups indirectly linked to candidates in this campaign and their influence on the progressively violent and negative tone stemming from Newt Gingrich’s 26-minute film against Romney. The summer is going to be hot.