The Kenyan

No he didn't.  Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich better not have called President Barack Obama a Kenyan, because if he did...oh boy...well, he just better not have.  What?  That was basically the response yesterday morning from the Morning Joe crowd on MSNBC.  Charles Blow from the New York Times, called Newt's statement "outrageous" and "incomprehensible".  He also said it was "one the most inflammatory things I have ever heard."  Time magazine's Mark Halperin questioned why Newt "keeps being allowed to say these things."  What for God's sake did Newt say to warrant such scorn and contempt?  

"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]?"  - Newt Gingrich

Wow!  What?  Honestly, does this statement sound outrageous, incomprehensible, or even close to being inflammatory?  Of course not.  That's because you are a sensible human being and not predisposed to believing everything you hear from conservatives is either tinged with racism or just plain awful.  White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that Gingrich was "trying to appeal to the fringe of people who don't think the president was born in this country."  Perhaps.  Better yet, maybe Mr. Gingrich was just agreeing with an article in Forbes.com, called How Obama Thinks, written by Dinesh D'Souza.  Dinesh D'Souza is the president of King's College in New York City and is the author of an upcoming book called The Roots of Obama's Rage.


The article opens with this paragraph: "Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions. He has expanded the federal government's control over home mortgages, investment banking, health care, autos and energy. TheWeekly Standard summarizes Obama's approach as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad."  Yes, go on.  The author then goes on to explain that Obama's policies front a national and international agenda that is so "bizarre" it must be the result of Barack Obama channeling his deceased father Barack Obama Sr., an anti-colonial Luo tribesman who spoke out against European control of Africa.  "Anti-colonialism is the doctrine that rich countries of the West got rich by invading, occupying and looting poor countries of Asia, Africa and South America."

For my money, the article paints a pretty conclusive story on what makes Barack Obama tick, and why on earth he does the ridiculous and destructive things that he does.