Newt Gingrich Says that Obama Has a "Kenyan, Anti-Colonial" Worldview

Newt (The Dee-vorcer) Gingrich doesn't have "tough" questions for the President. He has asinine (not to mention appallingly and arrogantly disrespectful) questions for the President.

Is that different from an American anti-colonial world view?

Who is Newt Gingrich, oh another angry white man, so tell me something new.

Indeed!

The Kenyan aspect is just propaganda to appeal to the ignorant who prefer slogans to a comprehensive understanding of issues. The anti-colonial comment; uh... what does that mean? That Gingrich still thinks our empire should be focused on more colonialism and imperialism? That may have been a great strategy a couple of centuries ago, but the reality is the colonial power usually ends up spending more money on the colonial quest and maintenance than it gets back as reward. And we really don't have a lot of dollars to burn on adopting a lot of little kids in the form of colonial entities.

Yeah. Imperialism just makes some people very rich as the whole nation, otherwise, goes poorer.

It is weak and shameful.

Gingrich bombastically ridicules anything that is not in lockstep with his own views.

That's why I mostly ignore him.

But aren't we all like that to some extent, Bill?

Yeah right, ha ha ha, they will say anything odd about Obama.

The focus MUST be on president Obama! They cannot afford questions on their solutions. Calling Obama names keeps the press busy on idiotic, trivial matters while brainwashing voters into accepting GOP as at least Americans who do NOT want to destroy America.

Note to everybody:

Looka at ANY HATE/KKK/Aryan site and they will tell you they are merely trying to save AMerica/White race from the subhumans.
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It is a very serious Struggle that we are involved in for the very existence of our White Nation of people
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Are the right wing wackos and Nazis one and the same?? Did the Tea Party steal the rhetoric from the American Nazi Party?

If Obama is anti-colonial, does that make Gingrich pro-colonial? I don't think many Americans support the idea of building a global American empire. After all, we had to fight our way out of colonialism to become a nation.

Gingrich grates on my nerves a bit. Not enough to degrade my life, but enough for me to look for someone else as leader. He enjoys being a 'mouth' too much. Other than that, he's a typical, mainstream politician.

Obama would have a Malaysian (and Muslim) view, if he was meaningfully influenced by another culture. That's where he spent his formative years. Not much of a sign of it though.

Large numbers of "Americans" are partially raised - and yes, often born - in other countries. Military, business, government workers and more all take their families overseas, where children are born & spend their early, formative years. There is absolutely nothing adverse about it, in terms of warping their American character or anything.

Obama's problem isn't that folks don't think he's American enough, rather his issue is that folks don't think he's honest or forthright enough (about his early background).

Both. Obama is an American alright, but he's also enamored with his own grandiloquent speaking-style, which is easy to mock when we realize that he isn't turning his head to look at different parts of his audience, but to look at his teleprompters. (Such a smart guy, and he can't memorize a speech? Hmm.)

Yes, you're right: Obama should invite a thorough scholastic & journalistic investigation of his true background. Neither the potential that he was born in Kenya, nor the somewhat more unnerving possibility that he came under significant Islamic influence & involvement in Malayasia (which is entirely realistic, under the Suharto regime of the time) will at the end of the day really mean all that much in terms of the President's American bona fides.

Obama is the author of this issue, not Gingrich or who's-his-face.

(The Constitutional issue is relatively small potatos, certainly now that he is the President. And it's what might have happened in Malaysia - not Kenya - that would pose the greater substantive difficulty.)

Gingrich is following a very simple playbook, ignore facts and just keep repeating lies to play on peoples fears....and hope enough people eventually believe it

Anti Colonial world view Held By Obama. And Jefferson and Washington and Adams and Monroe even. Despite his "Manifest Destiny."

Gingrich's blather implies that he holds a Colonial World View, and pretends that colonization of civilizations is superior to existing WITH rather than AGAINST them. He has a great plan, Turn America into the Next Third Reich.

I take it no one here is in favor of what Gingrich said. Nothing new.

Doug,

I just read the Forbes article you link to: "How Obama thinks", by a native of Mumbai. http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem.html

This is much more interesting than Gingrich' stuff.

The author (5 pages) makes quite a case that Obama Jr. is very much carrying forward Obama's Sr.'s anticolonialism passions & policies ... which may have had relevance in the 1950s, but are woefully misguided today.

Y'all go read that paper on Forbes.

Ted

it strikes me that this guy has created a case and then spent an inordinate amount of cognitive energy finding isolated and out-of-context quotes, statements and otherwise innocent material to bolster it.

In other words... the FORBES guy has an agenda and he's trying to bend the public view of the President to it

Thanks for reading the piece, Chuck.

I wouldn't say that author Dinesh D'Souza has the only possible interpretation of Obama, but I wouldn't try to fault him - or you or anybody else - for putting effort & time into gathering all the references that support his thesis.

That's just good journalism, in my book. That he has a 'point of view' - well, in politics, who doesn't? ;)

The value-test will be, does D'Souza have a cogent, well-supported thesis.

It's a grade-A paper, whether the reader buys the thesis or not ... and I would not be surprised if we see this discussion move well beyond Gingrich and his liabilities. Obviously, the 'anti-colonialist President' was not Gingrich' idea.

No, it wasn't The Dee-vorcer's idea, but didn't he just latch onto it a treat?

Yeah ... he's latching on like stink alright.

This is the opening rounds of the 2012 Presidential campaign, isn't it?

No, I don't think Gingrich stands a chance of getting the nomination. No matter how Populist & Tea-loving he tries to paint himself.

Now, now, Chuck. There you go again.

It matter not where Newt Gingrich got his mindset, he's a two bit politician anyway who'll never make it into the W.H.
It's all the same and just who does D'Souza think he is, a psychologist, the son influence by a father he hardly knew, how ridiculous can it get.
Just another other right wing smear job with the capitalist mouthpiece of Forbes Magazine all wedded with Faux News Network, call propaganda of the Darkside, a creature that never sleeps.

Hmm...I don't see much of the traditional content of anti-colonialist rhetoric in what Obama says. It would be hard to make that stuff work in the US.

No, we wouldn't expect the "traditional" rhetoric. He won't be pounding the podium for the Wobblies. ;)

But did you read the Forbes piece? Read this fellow - it's high quality stuff - and tell me how it strikes ya. :)

Lea, you make a string of good points.

I do think the Republicans & the Democrats are two sides of the same Two Party System coin. They seems to 'game' the country, as a joint effort by the two of them. I'd like to see the country become Multi-Party, without the monopoly on politics the 'Repumocrats' abuse us with.

What would Jefferson and Madison say about the Tea Party folks? They were pretty familiar with such grass-roots politics, weren't they? This wouldn't be anything new or surprising to them, would it?

Read the "Forbes" article by Dinesh D'Souza. He doesn't make a very persuasive case for anything. What D'Souza calls "anticolonialism" has been a part of left wing thought for longer than I've been alive. He doesn't make a very persuasive case that Obama is following a program based on this either. His main argument is essentially "it's so because I say it's so," coupled with some Procrustean bed trimming. It's easy to characterize anything that can be considered as self determination as anticolonialism. I think it would be easy to write a similar piece about the Tea Party activists.

D'Souza has made a very lucrative career as a conservative intellectual. His stuff is, like the article, tailored to an audience that wants to have intellectual support for its beliefs but doesn't want the ideas to be too challenging. He is to conservative thought what Deepak Chopra is to mysticism.

Nippy,

Here's a quote from the article that homes in on the key point:

"A good way to discern what motivates Obama is to ask a simple question: What is his dream? Is it the American dream? Is it Martin Luther King's dream? Or something else?

It is certainly not the American dream as conceived by the founders. They believed the nation was a "new order for the ages." A half-century later Alexis de Tocqueville wrote of America as creating "a distinct species of mankind." This is known as American exceptionalism. But when asked at a 2009 press conference whether he believed in this ideal, Obama said no. America, he suggested, is no more unique or exceptional than Britain or Greece or any other country."

Obama's desire to distance himself from the notion of "American exceptionalism" is key to the assertion that he is anti-colonial. He wants to "level" the nations. He doesn't want one (America) to be seen as having better ideas, and better results.

I think he made a serious political mistake, publicly putting down the idea of American exceptionalism. There are lots of ways he could have allowed how we are indeed exceptional ... without slamming or degrading other nations of the world.

But no - he is actively uncomfortable with exceptionalism, even in those ways in which it is patently so.

Because he has an 'anti-colonialism complex'.

Newt is correct. The "Pretenda from Kenya" is carrying out his father's ego trip, he is a "post-colonial" which is a more accurate term. He is basically out to get revenge against the British and Western Civ in general. This also plays into the hands of their cousins here in America such as the Black Liberation movement, or "Black Power" if you will, which shares almost the same goals. I think if it this way, he is the British Empire's version of H. Rap Brown, Bobby Seale and/or Stokely Carmichael.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power

All of this plays into the progressive agenda of international communism and socialism. Nikita Khruschev said in 1959 that "we will take you over without firing a shot." Well, I often said that Obama is Khruschev's pawn by proxy.

I posted an article myself on it:

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978209753

And here is the source:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/obama_the_african_colonial.html