Gingrich: Obama guided by ‘Kenyan, anti-Colonial’ worldview
By Holly Bailey
By Holly Bailey holly Bailey – Sun Sep 12, 1:29 pm ET
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has come up with a sure-to-be-controversial new theory about President Obama, telling the conservative weekly National Review that that president may be driven by a "Kenyan, anti-colonial" worldview.
"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 tells NR's Robert Costa. "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 says he had the epiphany while reading a Forbes article by writer Dinesh D'Souza titled, "How Obama Thinks"—calling it the most "profound insight" he's read about Obama in the last six years.
"I think (Obama) worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating — none of which was true," Gingrich says. "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."
The statement comes as Gingrich openly considers a run for the White House.
The former House Speaker is no stranger to highly charged rhetoric. Recently, Gingrich has led the charge against a planned mosque near Ground Zero in New York. In July, he came under fire for suggesting there should be no mosque near the 9/11 attack site "so long as there are no churches or synagogues in Saudi Arabia." |
