Gingrich: Obama has a “Kenyan, Anti-Colonial” Worldview

[jefferson_dem]

More sleazy, base-level spew from the gop's "big thinker."

Citing a recent Forbes article by Dinesh D’Souza, former House speaker Newt Gingrich tells National Review Online that President Obama may follow a “Kenyan, anti-colonial” worldview.

Gingrich says that D’Souza has made a “stunning insight” into Obama’s behavior — the “most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama.”

“What if is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together ?” Gingrich asks. “That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”

“This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president,” Gingrich tells us.

“I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating — none of which was true,” Gingrich continues. “In the Alinksy tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve . . . He was authentically dishonest.”

http://www.frumforum.com/gingrich-obama-has-a-kenyan-anti-colonial-worldview

[elleng]

1. and Gingrich's 'worldview' is . . .

[WhiteTara]

31. men are pigs and like to

wallow in the mud.

Not an exact quote from his book.

[Enrique]

36. pro-colonial?

:shrug:

[ck4829]

2. Who's willing to bet that at least half of the teabaggers can't locate Kenya on a map?

And "anti-colonial", what does that even mean in today's world? Maybe Eye of Newt is trying to appeal to the people who think that white people had to "culturally uplift" other people by taking their resources.

[rfranklin]

3. Yes they can!

It's located in teh foreign country of Hawaii.

[elehhhhna]

23. we occupy 2 countries and it's anti-colonial? So Ging is PROCOLONIAL?

wtf is he talking about?

[Joe Chi Minh]

4. Tell that to the Iranians and Afghans, you imbecile!

[Submariner]

5. Submariner: Gingrich has a "Lying Racist Ignorant Cracker" Worldview

I can make up stuff too, except my wise crack seems much more factual than Newt's.

[leveymg]

6. Note to Newt and Dinesh - Obama is more Harold MacMillan than Jomo Kenyatta. He's no Mau Mau.

And, the U.S. is where the U.K. was in MacMillan's time, facing the problems of a disintegrating global empire -- but, without the Americans to take up the slack and cushion the blow -- a fact the GOP Right-wing finds it impossibly to grasp.

Gingrich and D'Souza really embody the old phrase that a little knowledge, but no understanding, is a truly dangerous thing.

[tanyev]

7. Ah, yes, he must have picked that up all those years he lived and studied in Kenya.

:eyes:


And isn't "anti-colonial" a good thing???

[jaxx]

8. Why didn't the newt just come right out and call Obama a n..........?

He (newt) can dance around his neocolonialism all day long, but the article he loves is nothing but a racist screed. D'Souza and his crystal ball are cracked.

Gingrich disgusts me. But then so do the rest of the closet racists who call themselves republicans.

[Sky Masterson]

9. give it time..

"Why didn't the newt just come right out and call Obama a n..........

[Peacetrain]

10. I do not toss words like racist and sexist etc around lightly.. but this man

is promoting a racist agenda to appeal to those who are so easily scared of the "other"

[jaxx]

11. Exactly. The hate Muslim thing didn't work out so well for them,

so they're going back to the basics. Obama is an African American. He's a black man so he must be bad. Now they're going to channel him into being his father.

[Peacetrain]

17. The ugly in the soul of Gingrich.. is jaw dropping

[Jennicut]

22. Yes, it is. And old Newtie has always been this way, from the treatment

of his former wives to President Obama and others. The man is one of the most vilest around.

[Peacetrain]

34. I hear that Jen.. He was vile then and he has just gotten rottener

with time.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

46. Which is even worse. It's one thing if you believe this racist bullshit. But to

pretend that you do make a buck or get votes makes him an even lower life form not worthy of any respect.

[MurrayDelph]

52. They use the word "Kenyan"

because they can't use the word they really want to:

[MadHound]

12. What, the continued occupation and war in Iraq and Afghanistan isn't proof enough for Newt?

Obama, sad to say, is carrying on the same colonial, imperial policies of predecessors.

[jaxx]

13. I can't imagine why anyone would agree with newt on this nonsense.

[Pirate Smile]

26. This crap is become standard Republican thought. It is so repugnant.

[impik]

14. What a disgusting fucker.

[Kolesar]

15. "Anti-Colonial”, like the Declaration of Independence...eom

[elehhhhna]

24. + 1,000

[BeyondGeography]

16. Beyond retrograde...bizarre

[hollowdweller]

18. Did Newt have a stroke or something?

While he's always been a bomb thrower and wingnut some of his current statements seem really weird.

[jefferson_dem]

19. Reminds me of another GA politician who also went wacko in his later years.

[Bitwit1234]

20. Gee he better stay away from "witches" they haven't had

eye of Newt in their brew for a long time.

[rucky]

21. Sounds like the think-tankers have circle-jerked themselves silly. n/t

[amb123]

25. Gingrich should be happy with Obama's "anti-colonial worldview"

Because it means freedom and liberty for all peoples from colonialism. The GOP always says the they are the party of liberty. Does that mean the GOP supports former colonial powers such as Britain, France and Spain getting their colonies back? If so, Gingrich must support the USA handing back the Southwest and Florida to Spain, the Louisiana Purchase back to France! Hey, lets give ourselves back to England while we're at it!

GINGRICH YOU MORON!

:argh: :wtf:

[Igel]

49. Not really.

There's a specific context for what he said. The post referred to it explicitly so there's no reason to not know this.

Ignore the context and you can interpret it however you want. If you do that, though, the interpretation isn't what Gingrich meant, but your interpretation. Then it says something about you but not him. That's an old problem, though, with extreme de- and re-contextualization of others' words. (It's touted as being superior scholarship, but oddly it requires less research, less effort towards understanding, and less of a chance of being contradicted.)

[Golden Raisin]

27. Newt would have been

a card-carrying Tory during the American Revolution.

[bvar22]

28. Gingrich longs for the Old Colonial Days...

..when rich white landlords could own slaves,

when it was a government approved activity to kill indigenous people and steal their lands,

where the natural resources of foreign lands belonged to rich, white Europeans/Americans,
who could use Public Money and The Blood of poor Americans to go steal them.

where the Landed Gentry (top 1%) owned everything,

where the poor, the old, and the sick knew their place (dying in the gutter).

Yep. Times were good in the Old Colonial Days...for the Top 1%.
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We want our America back!!!!!!


AND, it looks like they are going to get it too.

[pnorman]

38. Great image!

[LWolf]

29. What IS a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" world view?

I don't see a good explanation in the article. It's kind of hard to refute when I've never even heard of it. I guess I could go looking for myself, but what Gingrich says simply isn't important enough for me to spend a morning off on.

Gingrich says he "played a wonderful con" to get elected.

“I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating — none of which was true,” Gingrich continues. “In the Alinksy tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve . . . He was authentically dishonest.”

“ is in the great tradition of Edison, Ford, the Wright Brothers, Bill Gates — he saw his opportunity and he took it,”

In this, Gingrich is essentially correct. Singling out Obama, though, is disingenuous, to say the least.

What politicians DOESN'T craft a public persona designed to appeal to voters? It's true of just about every politician I've ever been aware of. It's certainly true of every successful politician, anyway.

Including Gingrich.

Edited to add: I lied. The little blue link to the Forbes article was easy, and I got to read what D'Souza says about anti-colonialism in a few minutes. While his perspective is twisted by his conservatism, anti-colonialism is what we would expect: Resistance to and overthrowing western powers that have enriched themselves by keeping natives down. He talks quite a bit about Obama's father and his ideas about socialism, and his anti-colonial world views, which, he says, President Obama has grown up with and allows to shape his own world view.

That's where it all unravels. I WISH Obama wanted to end American imperialism, to "wring the neocolonialism out of America and the West." If he did, I'd be right there helping him. Instead, his neoliberalism will do just the opposite.

How do all of those who are economic neoliberals at heart allow themselves to be convinced by ludicrous propaganda that the president, a neoliberal himself, is somehow a socialist? Why do Americans allow themselves to be led obediently by mass media and propaganda?

[The Backlash Cometh]

30. The entire world is anti-colonialism

Even the USA was. I would say that Obama would be right there with our founding fathers if he was anti-colonial.

[craigmatic]

32. In this day and age who the hell is for colonialism?

[theothersnippywshrub]

33. He's using a dog whistle when he throws that "Kenyan" bone to the birthers.

Looking to lock up the birther vote for the 2012 primaries.

[eridani]

35. Wasn't Geroge Washington an anticolonial type? n/t

[wookie72]

37. Obviously just refuting these people isn't working...

We have to shame them. Thats the only word I have for this comment.

[mix]

39. Only an ignorant, bought-and-paid-for press lets politicians get away

with such racist drivel.

[Jakes Progress]

40. gingrich's world view

is a small circle of light, an narrow aperture of the world. That is all he can see with his head up his ass.

[bulloney]

41. If you can't dazzle 'em with your brilliance, baffle 'em with your bullshit.

A Kenyan anti-colonial view. WTF?

Gingrich does this all the time. Just throw a phrase together that nobody understands, and try to come across as this cerebral statesman.

Of course, the mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers at Faux Snooze and the sheeple they lead will think that these Newtisms are just brilliant.

[FlyByNight]

42. Just more talking point pinball...

...from the corrupt-to-the-core, thrice-married moral arbiter, Newt. Thanks for elevating the dialog you sociopathic, mendacious asshole.

And these are the people with whom Obama is trying to be "bipartisan"?

:puke:

[BlueIdaho]

43. So the Newt got the call...

He won't be supported for any run at the Whitehouse ever again by the republican tea party.

His new roll? One man wrecking ball.

[philly_bob]

44. Gingrich always scared me because he's so smart. Maybe not anymore.

The Kenyan anti-colonial stuff is B.S.

[Enrique]

45. put aside what he's saying about Obama

look what Gingrich thinks about Kenyans:

“What if Obama is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together his actions?”

I guess Africa is another planet to Gingrich, with people that Americans can't understand.

[Inuca]

47. Gingrich is losing his marbles

partisan and sleazy, but he was supposed to be a smart man. This is in the idiotically insane category.

[rasputin1952]

48. Good Lord...that's a stretch...

anything to get "Kenya" in there, as for colonialism, that's part and parcel of the GOP.

Just keep talking Newt, idiot.

[Kolesar]

53. The new sheriff is a ni&&er

For all you fans of "Blazing Saddles"

[David Zephyr]

50. Hey, Asshole, Newt! Our "Founding Fathers" had an anti-colonial view, too.

What a jackass, Newt is.

[zulchzulu]

51. Karma is building up on your swiney ass, Newt. Keep it up. n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

54. Gingrich has a Krispy Kreme worldview.

[Hekate]

55. Newt Gingrich is still a reptile after all these years

What an ass.

[ClarkUSA]

56. Is he on his fifth wife yet? Or is that his fourth mistress soon-to-be wife?

Newt knows all about being "authentically dishonest". That's what his whole life has been about.

[rocktivity]

57. And what's wrong with an anti-colonial world view?

The United States once had one. The result? The United States!

:eyes:
rocktivity

[Doctor_J]

58. Gingrinch is one of the most despicable people ever to suck air

a lying, cheating, corrupt child molestor.

[rocktivity]

59. And what's wrong with an anti-colonial world view?

The United States once had one. The result? The United States!

:eyes:
rocktivity