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Pulling up Barack Obama's roots, Newt Gingrich endorses British colonialism
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Academics are often compared to masterbators--especially the ones on TV.
The porn that gets social science academics 'off,' is race. If there were a moratorium on race-talk in America for a month, academics and TV pundits would just stare at the camera like sex-starved prostitutes.
Newt Gingrich is both academic and politician. This week, his tactic against Barack Obama is to amplify the Forbes essay that professor Dinesh D’Souza wrote while wearing Kenya-goggles. The piece is called “How Obama Thinks," and it is just another academic fantasy about the inner psychology of a distant public figure.
The conclusion that Barack Obama is anti-colonial, or anti-British colonial is laughable, considering that his policies push war for American military colonies in Iraq and Afghanistan. His policies are pulled right out of unfulfilled British Empire doctrine.
Watching a Black president press war on Arabs should be enough to eradicate the American moral pretense which makes everything about race.
Race is the vehicle that academics drive into the "mind of America." By boiling Americans down into a few insanely generalized racial categories, the academic reduces America into typical persons. The academicky pundit then psychoanalysizes his racist cartoon in segment after segment until your eyes and ears bleed. This happens so we don't ever actually have time to talk about colonization, sweat shops, the globalization of slavery or puppet regimes.
War is fine in this culture of racist theorizing. The details of economic deterioration are secondary to race angles on the phenomenon. If the "issue" can be dissected with race, American media will illustrate the hell out of it with every racial filter available.
Politicians swim in this identity-politics environment and look for more and more clever ways to trigger factional fears based on race.
That's why Newt Gingrich has endorsed this fringe academic interpretation of Barack Obama as an anti-colonial nationalist. It allows more racial deconstruction, under the less obviously racial category of "Kenyan." Everything that can be said about the "black president" has been said. Kenya is a new way to say the same shit all over again.
The irony is that Barack Obama is anything but anti-colonial. This Black president is perfectly willing to go along with whatever you want to call the building of green-zone-emerald-cities in the Middle East.
The meaning of permanent American military bases aside, the fact is that Barack Obama's father was Kenyan. Kenyan nationalism, however, does not register on Obama's political spectrum. Kenyan nationalism is the furthest thing from his mind.
In America, Obama is allowed to have Kenyan heritage, minus its political obligations. He is allowed to claim Kenyan roots without having someone accuse him of disloyalty. America is a big stew with everything thrown in.
America is like the scene at Thanksgiving, where a Swedish smorgasborg is administered under Dutch rules of tolerance with neighbors bringing-over pot-luck made by English and Wampanoag mothers. To be multicultural, to be American, we celebrate each other, grateful we all got a place at the table. There is nothing so un-American as to scold others for retaining their heritage.
Barack Obama offers a little bit of Kenya at the American feast. Our Iraqi-American and Afghani-American neighbors might argue, as they pass the kebabs, that he has not brought enough.
It's sad that Barack Obama will now have to distance himself from his Kenyan heritage in order to seem more American. Kenyan liberation against British rule owes much to the American revolution. He might think to reflect on Kenya when he visits Ireland.
Newt Gingrich's endorsement of colonialism should be the real story. It is not, because the scandal in America is rarely economic. Colonialism is economic vampirism much like our own global sweat shop system.
Colonial elites at home and abroad, come in all shades of race. Obama may dream of his father, but his vision for the world comes from Queen Victoria, who also dreamed of Aghanistan, Iraq and Iran.
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glorybe1929 | Sep 16, 2010, 01:41 PM EDT
Newt Grinrich (a Baptist who was saved) became a RCC after 3 marriages, to make his bride happy. (And the church was happy to add another celebrity ? to their ranks) That would make any thinking American know that he is completely out of touch with what is Really going on in the RCC. It's an incredible Faux Pax on his part. But he knows his time is gone as a politician. He's just trying to make a living and live happily ever after. I wonder?
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DennisQ | Sep 16, 2010, 03:48 AM EDT
You're correct, maloney, that Newt Gingrich is a media figure, not a working politician. His importance, if he has any, comes entirely from being taken seriously on Fox News.
One important difference between a working politician and an entertainer like the people who give speeches at Tea Party rallies is that politicians have real power. Media figures might as well be fictional characters like Mickey Mouse or Batman.
Newt is going nowhere, and he knows it. He's pretty much maxed out as a person of influence. He lives off a reputation that was made 20 years ago; other than that, he's really nobody. Then again, there are a lot of people like that in the Republican Party. What these people say or do is no more important than what Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber say or do.
One important difference between a working politician and an entertainer like the people who give speeches at Tea Party rallies is that politicians have real power. Media figures might as well be fictional characters like Mickey Mouse or Batman.
Newt is going nowhere, and he knows it. He's pretty much maxed out as a person of influence. He lives off a reputation that was made 20 years ago; other than that, he's really nobody. Then again, there are a lot of people like that in the Republican Party. What these people say or do is no more important than what Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber say or do.
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Rebelforce | Sep 15, 2010, 06:22 PM EDT
Somebody should remind Newt that America was founded on anti-British colonialism. We fought a War and killed a lot of British soldiers and loyalists in order to make the American Republic a reality. I wonder if Newt considers the Minute Men a "terrorist" group?
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maloney | Sep 15, 2010, 04:00 PM EDT
Poor old Newt has out lived his common sense, what little he ever had. Still he finds ways to upset the left wing even though he holds no office. obama doesn't need abuse from the right. He has cut his own throat quite well all by himself.
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bobandgladys | Sep 15, 2010, 02:02 PM EDT
Newt would like to take America back to the days of slavery in the South and no regulations wage slaves in the North. Barack is just playing politics with the situation in the Middle East.
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IrishTierney | Sep 15, 2010, 01:42 PM EDT
Newt Gingrich is a true American and he represents the beliefs and principals of our founding fathers. Obama does not!
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mmccreedy | Sep 15, 2010, 12:36 PM EDT
Only someone who cannot argue the facts or who has to hide the truth of an argument resorts to name calling. While I am not a liberal, as the term is defined today, I am for those freedoms as laid out in the US Constitution via the Bill of Rights. My term "white people", which I hear used daily, is used mainly as a derogatory term. By the way, I live in Montgomery, Alabama- does that place ring a bell to you Mr. Liberal? I am proud of my Scots Irish, AND British ancestors.That being said, There is a difference between being proud of your heritage and being accused of being a "racist" because you are involved in non-violent, cultural activities related to your heritage. Quit drinking the red kool-aid comrade.
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JamesMurphy | Sep 15, 2010, 12:34 PM EDT
Pomposity is one thing, but when it verges on downright balderdash, Nutcase Newt has got just about everyone licked. D'Souza, meanwhile,is almost equally out of touch and off his rocker. Heaven helps us if anyone starts taking such fools seriously
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jdi2269 | Sep 15, 2010, 12:29 PM EDT
HEY KEANE....PLEASE GIVE UP THE DRUGS !!!!
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Fran Connor | Sep 15, 2010, 12:16 PM EDT
"...much like our own global sweat shop system"??? WTF? Do you guys at this site really hate capitalism (and America)this much?
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SouthBendNative | Sep 15, 2010, 12:16 PM EDT
George Dillon, you are a clown of the highest order. Don't claim to be anything resembling a conservative. You are a politically correct moron who wouldn't recognize the truth if it slapped your teeth out.
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mayoman | Sep 15, 2010, 12:10 PM EDT
Why does anyone even bother to listen to a self-promoting, loudmouth sophist like Newt anyway? My guess is that only those sad, lost souls on the Radical Right find his offal entertaining and meaningful.
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killowen | Sep 15, 2010, 12:08 PM EDT
in harmony with mother - they can't get dominion
out of their blood - such types. kiss her ring newt
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Juanice | Sep 15, 2010, 11:15 AM EDT
To heck with Newt Gingich.. I would like to use stronger words but I am a lady.
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