Gingrich: President Exhibits ‘Kenyan, Anticolonial Behavior’

[sabra]

Source: NY Times

Newt Gingrich said this weekend that President Obama exhibited “Kenyan, anticolonial behavior,” an observation that drew angry if puzzled responses from Democrats and questions about Mr. Gingrich’s meaning and motivation.

Mr. Gingrich, who is mulling a bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, made the comments to National Review Online. He was quoted by the conservative Web site as saying: “What if (Obama) is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anticolonial behavior, can you begin to piece together (his actions)? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”

Commenting on a recent article in Forbes by Dinesh D’Souza, Mr. Gingrich told National Review Online that Mr. Obama “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.”

“I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating — none of which was true,” Mr. Gingrich was quoted as saying.

Mr. Gingrich’s comments drew sharp rebukes from the Democratic National Committee, which accused him of stoking the false rumors about Mr. Obama’s heritage and birthright.

“This crushes the hopes of those who thought Gingrich could bring ideas instead of smears to what the G.O.P. was offering,” said Hari Sevugan, the committee’s press secretary. “He’s not a reasonable man that some thought he could be. He’s proven he’s just like the rest of them. With a worldview shaped by the most radical and fringe elements of the Republican Party, which are more dominant with each passing day.”

Read more: http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/gingrich-president-exhibits-kenyan-anti-colonial-behavior/?partner=rss&emc=rss

[EXneoCON]

1. I understand in many parts of the world....

....newts are an endangered species.

[ananda]

2. I guess he has to play to that crazy teabag base.

Sad.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Absolutely disgusting human being = Gingrich

[Mz Pip]

4. Colonialism

was the foundation that got us into this mess.

[Ineeda]

8. Right. Why is anticolonialism a bad thing?

Nonetheless, Newt is a rethuglican asshole. Or is that redundant?

[LongTomH]

5. Newt is Just Plain Evil!

I've thought that for years!

[BolivarianHero]

6. Newt's the worst...

An intelligent man who makes calculated statements that he knows are batshit crazy in an attempt to appeal to people who don't know better or who are willfully ignorant, both among ordinary Americans and within the GOP hatearchy.

[Brother Buzz]

7. Dog whistle

[Vehl]

9. This is code for "I'm a birther"

Racism is alive and well

[dpbrown]

10. Gingrich: President 'is a scary black man'

What a fucking dumbass.

[kestrel91316]

11. Who's the REAL, con, Newtie? Maybe the serial philanderer who

served one of his wives with divorce papers when she was in the hospital for breast cancer??

ETA: Newt just gave a blatant racist dogwhistle to the birther crowd. That's all this verbal vomit is.

[femrap]

12. He's a waste of human flesh....

and using the Rovian tactic of 'creating our own reality' for the base. Opinion is fact....remember?

[harun]

13. Good luck with your pro-Colonialist agenda Newt! I hear it was all the rage in 1680.

[aquart]

14. Pro-colonial behavior would be...............?

[nolabear]

15. Frankly, I'm enjoying watching these guys reveal themselves.

The birther thing is bad enough, but he's pro-colonialism? Keep talking, Newt. Maybe the Dems will be horrified enough to rally.

[nyy1998]

16. And Newt exhibits dumbass imperialist behavior.

[mike r]

17. Good old Gingrich feeding his base

[No Elephants]

18. WTF does Newt know about "Kenyan behavior?" For that matter, what does Obama know about it?

Ugly, ugly xenophobic, white supremacist dog whistle, very thinly disguised.

Hey, Newt. KKK don't like them no Catholics, either. Oops. There goes your "Southern strategy."

[Submariner]

19. Submariner: Gingrich: Exhibits ‘Southern White Cracker, Anticolonial Behavior’

Can't a chunk of blue ice fall out of the sky and crush his racist ass? It would be so fitting for that pig.

[bemildred]

20. Newt's getting senile. Or maybe it's the drugs. nt

[Alcibiades]

21. And Herr Güngerich is acting like a good German

Not any of the Germans I actually know, who are all remarkably decent people, but like the ones during a certain 12-year period in German History.

[The Wizard]

22. Newty Newty Newty

Shut the fuck up already. Gingrich is a washed up lying scumbag.

[truthisfreedom]

23. Let the man speak! Please!

We couldn't possibly do a better job of destroying newt's chances.

[whosinpower]

24. Have fun with wordplay

LOL - what fun this is!

See?

snip - Newt's own words - “I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating — Obama is so outside our comprehension from our republican viewpoint. Mr. Obama “is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works - according to how we, masters of the American Empire think the world should work. He must be Kenyan after all.

Otherwise - to be normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accomodating - is NOT something the republicans are USED to dealing with! BWAHAHAHAHA

[muntrv]

25. George Washington exhibited anticolonial behavior.

[struggle4progress]

26. Poor Newt's desperately trying to get his face back in the public eye

[unkachuck]

27. the fat fascist....

....from Georgia has it wrong again....

"Kenyan, anticolonial behavior"

....a fat loud-mouthed Nazi inferring a dedicated hard-working democratically elected African-American President, is a black Nazi, reflects poorly on the many good residents in the fine State of Georgia....

....I'd cut that fat sucker loose, if I were you....

[Francesca9]

28. It will help him win Iowa

He probably isn't counting on our votes and he has to beat palin in Iowa.

This means that he really is running.

[felix_numinous]

29. Newt we got your number

jealous that people of all ages all over the world simply love Barack Obama and his family. He cannot process this fact, so has to convince himself (ultimately) that this phenomenon must be an illusion of some sort.