There’s been a 2-year effort by Republicans to present Obama as “foreign,” “other” and “un-American.” We’ve seen a rise in birtherism and it’s softer cousin “Obama is the most mysterious president in history.” (Perhaps they’ve never heard of the bestseller Dreams From My Father). Newt Gingrich opens the latest campaign to depict Obama as some kind of wild-eyed radical (with some good old-fashioned racism thrown in):
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 happen to admire some “anti-colonialists” a lot. Anti-colonialists like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. Of course, it would also be rude for me to call Newt Gingrich a racist piece of sh*t.