Gingrich: Obama is engaged in "Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior".
The race baiting from the right of American politics used to be more subtle than this. The McCain campaign employed low level racism, always just beneath the radar.
As I say, it was always there, but McCain was very careful to give his campaign room to claim ignorance and deny what they were up to.In the Old South, black men and women who were competent, confident speakers on matters of importance were termed “disrespectful,” the implication being that all good Negroes bowed, scraped, grinned and deferred to their white betters.
In what is probably a harbinger of things to come, the McCain campaign has already run a commercial that carries a similar intimation, accusing Mr. Obama of being “disrespectful” to Sarah Palin. The argument is muted, but its racial antecedents are very clear.
Gingrich, however, has given up all pretence and now simply throws the race card on to the table, where it lands with a sickening thud.
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.That is beyond belief. Joe Scarborough reacts:
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."
Even Andy Card finds it hard to defend this offensive crap.
Every time I think the Republicans can't sound more insane than they presently do, some bugger ups the ante.
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Gingrich is liar with a highly unsavory personal life. What more do we need to know?
Sam, I agree. And he's a hypocrite. He was having an affair whilst calling for Clinton to be impeached if I remember correctly.
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