Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Gingrich: Obama’s ‘Kenyan, anti-colonial’ worldview
National Review ^

Posted on 09/11/2010 9:41:54 PM PDT by roses of sharon

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

“[Obama] is in the great tradition of Edison, Ford, the Wright Brothers, Bill Gates — he saw his opportunity and he took it,” Gingrich says. Will Gingrich take it back in 2012? “The American people may take it back, in which case I may or may not be the recipient of that, but I have zero doubt that the American people will take it back. UnlikeFord, the Wright Brothers, et cetera, this guy’s invention did not work.”

“I think Obama gets up every morning with a worldview that is fundamentally wrong about reality,” Gingrich says. “If you look at the continuous denial of reality, there has got to be a point where someone stands up and says that this is just factually insane.”

Gingrich spoke with NRO after the premiere of his new film, America at Risk


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americaatrisk; colonial; colonialobama; colonialview; ddsouza; dsouza; elections; gingrich; howobamathinks; newt; newtgingrich; obama; palin; politics
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-90 next last
Of course...we all knew this 2 years ago!
1 posted on 09/11/2010 9:41:58 PM PDT by roses of sharon
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: roses of sharon
“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.

Why wasn't Obama fully vetted, including his complete birth, education and personal background? Numerous legitimate sources now saying "we know nothing about this man. There's NO excuse for why the people in charge of checking out this man's background didn't do their job. It is a Constitutional requirement.

2 posted on 09/11/2010 9:48:25 PM PDT by MamaDearest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MamaDearest
Why wasn't Obama fully vetted, including his complete birth, education and personal background?

Because people so wanted to believe.

3 posted on 09/11/2010 9:49:38 PM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: roses of sharon

Go to the link in Gingrich’s article:
http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0927/politics-socialism-capitalism-private-enterprises-obama-business-problem_print.html


4 posted on 09/11/2010 9:50:47 PM PDT by DB
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: roses of sharon
Say what you will about Jerome Corsi, he pretty much arrived at this conclusion when he wrote "Obama Nation." He may not have done so with D'Souza's perspective of having been born in a former colony, but he had collected and compiled a lot of the data and background that D'Souza processed in his piece.
5 posted on 09/11/2010 9:51:49 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: roses of sharon

What I am waiting to hear is from the liberals who put this crackpot in power, and then, after self reflection, and buyer’s remorse will say in their deniability “ how did we get here at this point in time ? “ knowing full well that they voted for this guy......


6 posted on 09/11/2010 9:52:09 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator
( " Why wasn't Obama fully vetted, including his complete birth, education and personal background? " )

" Because people so wanted to believe. " as in, " Yes we can " .... " Hope&change " that is ? false hope is what they drank and believed in.
7 posted on 09/11/2010 9:54:28 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: roses of sharon
Agreed.

Where has Gingrich been? I read an IBD editorial in '08 that said the same thing D'Souza said last week.

And many other articles have been saying very similar things all along.

8 posted on 09/11/2010 9:59:39 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: roses of sharon
Agreed.

Where has Gingrich been? I read an IBD editorial in '08 that said the same thing D'Souza said last week.

And many other articles have been saying very similar things all along.

9 posted on 09/11/2010 10:00:12 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Siena Dreaming

Just be glad he’s finally catching on and spreading the word.


10 posted on 09/11/2010 10:00:46 PM PDT by REDWOOD99
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator; LucyT; ExTexasRedhead; blackie
Because people so wanted to believe.

I'm not talking citizen-type people. Surely someone or some group had the responsibility to fully and completely background check Obama and make sure he was/is qualified to be America's leader.

Vetting Obama

Snip: January 17, 2008 That was the first use in presidential campaign politics of an unusual word. After losing in Iowa Jan. 3, Sen. Clinton said of Sen. Obama, "Everybody needs to be vetted." Chief Clinton strategist Mark Penn, on the way to New Hampshire, said of his candidate, "She's fully vetted ... and I don't think that process has occurred with Barack Obama." Clinton then told a rally, "Of all the people running for president, I've been the most vetted, the most investigated and -- my goodness -- the most innocent."


11 posted on 09/11/2010 10:02:40 PM PDT by MamaDearest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Siena Dreaming
Where has Gingrich been? I read an IBD editorial in '08 that said the same thing D'Souza said last week.

It doesn't matter since most FReepers hate Gingrich's guts, and don't pay any attention to what he has to say anyway.

12 posted on 09/11/2010 10:04:04 PM PDT by Cobra64
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: REDWOOD99
I'm glad. I just question his judgment if he honestly didn't know this stuff before.

You'd think someone like him would have access to this information. I tend to think he knew all this but he's sticking his finger in the wind and sensing that only now is it becoming politically safe to say what he's saying.

13 posted on 09/11/2010 10:05:07 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Cobra64
most FReepers hate Gingrich's guts

I don't hate him. I like him as a teacher and media personality.

But he's too much of a political chameleon for me to want him to be elected to public office again.

14 posted on 09/11/2010 10:07:54 PM PDT by Siena Dreaming
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Pelosi's BF

"most profound insight I have read in the last six years about Barack Obama"

Listen to Limbaugh sometime, he held forth on this a year ago.


15 posted on 09/11/2010 10:10:23 PM PDT by I see my hands (_8(|)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: roses of sharon

Souza’s article was terrific. However, I am wondering whether much difference exists between the anti-colonialist philosophy and Black Liberation Theology. Both see the world as divided into Oppressors and Victims.

The O’s idiotic philosophy could be just as much a function of his years listening to Jeremiah Wright as of the influence of a father he never knew.


16 posted on 09/11/2010 10:13:23 PM PDT by freespirited
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: roses of sharon

Gingrich’s assessment is bang on! Its great to see it on paper!


17 posted on 09/11/2010 10:13:32 PM PDT by himno hero
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: roses of sharon
“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.

This is the problem with the beltway conservative elite. We all knew this during the primaries, that Obama would govern as extremely as he has. Gingrich, etal, really believed Obama would moderate much as Clinton. Damn fools, every one of them.

18 posted on 09/11/2010 10:15:33 PM PDT by upsdriver ((RINO: An acronym used by people who can't spell moderate or liberal.))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Siena Dreaming; All

Was that IBD article titled....”Obama the African General”??

Or something like that?

I have been searching for that for months, but cannot remember the title!


19 posted on 09/11/2010 10:18:40 PM PDT by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: roses of sharon
To be fair, we all knew that Mr. Obama was grossly unqualified to be President (or Senator ... or Congressman ... or dog catcher) - having spent only 2 months in the Senate (before embarking on his Presidential campaign); a few years as a Illinois State legislature, where he primarily voted 'present' on bills (except for a bill to protect babies that survived a botched abortion. Of course on that bill he actually showed his 'passion' - and successfully bottled it up and prevented it from passing); and 20 years as a member of a racist and blasphemous church...

But, I have to admit that Mr. D'Souza presented an analysis and hypothesis which I had not considered - and which greatly explains Mr. Obama's America hating actions. I previously had just figured him to be a run of the mill marxist (with a bit of a racist bent) - but his America/West hating attitude is well explained by his desire to fulfill his father's (the drunken, bigamist, sot) 'anti-colonial' 'dreams'.

20 posted on 09/11/2010 10:19:27 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-90 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson