Rush Limbaugh claimed that President Obama's economic “role model” is Rubert Mugabe, who “took the white people's farms.” Other conservatives have claimed that Obama is an “African colonial” and that the core of his faith “is African nativism.”
Barack Ogabe: The Kenyan Anti-Colonialist Who Will Take Your Farm
Written by Oliver Willis
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Limbaugh: The “Next Thing To Look Out For Is For Obama To Take The Farms”; Obama's Economic “Role Model” Is Robert Mugabe, Who “Took The White People's Farms.” From the August 4 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
LIMBAUGH: Why is the Dow going down? Because -- no -- let me tell you why the Dow is going down. It's because there's a story out there that said that Bernanke and Obama are out of bullets. There's a story that says Bernanke and Obama are out of bullets, that they've got nothing left in the quiver. No more tools. Nothing they can do to create jobs or grow the economy. And so the market is interpreting that as, “Uh oh, there ain't going to be a QE3.” That's what that's all about.
See, you ask, and I have all the answers. People -- it's a typical market fluctuation -- down 294 right now, people are losing their life savings, this is not new. This has been going on ever since Obama was immaculated. They're not only losing their jobs, losing their life savings, their kids have lost their life savings. Their fetuses have lost their life savings. Their thoughts of future children who haven't even conceived yet have lost their life savings and their chance to earn anything before they save it. That's what Obama means, and now he says at his birthday party -- I mean, the scariest thing, folks, I have to tell you, the scariest thing Obama said during his birthday fundraiser last night. He said, “It's been a long tough journey but we have made some incredible strides together, yes we have. But the thing we all have to remember is, that as much good as we've done, precisely because the challenges were so daunting, precisely because we were inheriting so many challenges, we're not even halfway there yet.”
So he's not even halfway done killing the economy. That's scary. Now it's down 307, he's not even halfway done killing the economy. I don't want to think about what this country will look like when he's all the way there. This guy's -- this guy obviously has got a new role model, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. The next thing to look out for is for Obama to take the farms. Well, that's what Zimbabwe, that's what Mugabe did, he took the white people's farms. That's the only, the only place they had any money. [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 8/4/11]
Limbaugh Called Obama “A Well-Known Kenyan Named Barack Ogabe.” From Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:
The standard of living around the world has increased in places where there are basic free markets. Where there aren't, of course, the standard of living has declined. Such as Zimbabwe, the former Rhodesia, now run by Robert Ogabe. Mugabe. I was confusing him with a well-known Kenyan named Barack Ogabe. This is Robert Mugabe. Please forgive me; I did not intend that slip-up to be made. Barack Ogabe, Robert Mugabe, at least in human [unintelligible] they're two different people, I don't know about policies, basically -- regardless, regardless, see I'm embarrassed I stepped in that. Barack Ogabe. [The Rush Limbaugh Show, 3/24/09]
Conservatives claim Obama is “African colonial,” his “faith” is “African nativism”
D'Souza: “For Obama, the solutions are simple. He must work to wring the neocolonialism out of America and the West.” In a September 27 article in Forbes magazine, Dinesh D'Souza wrote:
It may seem incredible to suggest that the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. is espoused by his son, the President of the United States. That is what I am saying. From a very young age and through his formative years, Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination and destruction. He came to view America's military as an instrument of neocolonial occupation. He adopted his father's position that capitalism and free markets are code words for economic plunder. Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America. In his worldview, profits are a measure of how effectively you have ripped off the rest of society, and America's power in the world is a measure of how selfishly it consumes the globe's resources and how ruthlessly it bullies and dominates the rest of the planet.
For Obama, the solutions are simple. He must work to wring the neocolonialism out of America and the West. And here is where our anticolonial understanding of Obama really takes off, because it provides a vital key to explaining not only his major policy actions but also the little details that no other theory can adequately account for.
Gingrich: “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]?” From a September 11 interview with National Review Online:
Gingrich says that [Dinesh] 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.
Beck claimed Obama resents the British because they tortured his Kenyan grandfather. On his June 29, 2010 Fox News show, Glenn Beck cited the return of a bust of Winston Churchill to the British government as a sign that Obama harbored resentment for the torture of his paternal grandfather by British soldiers during Kenya's Mau Mau Uprising in the 1950s. In fact, Obama never met his paternal grandfather, the bust was scheduled for return to the British prior to Obama's presidency, and other British-based artifacts and gifts remain in the Oval Office. Beck rehashed this theory on August 9, 2010.
American Thinker: “Obama, the African Colonial.” A June 25, 2009, article in the conservative American Thinker titled, “Obama, the African Colonial” by L.E. Ikenga, said, "[D]espite what CNN and the rest are telling you, Barack Obama is nothing more than an old school African Colonial who is on his way to turning this country into one of the developing nations that you learn about on the National Geographic Channel." Ikenga also wrote of Obama, “The key to understanding him lies with his identification with his father, and his adoption of a cultural and political mindset rooted in postcolonial Africa.”
Limbaugh: Obama “more African in his roots than he is American.” On the June 26, 2009, edition of his radio show, after reading from Ikenga's piece, Rush Limbaugh commented, "[Obama] wants to turn this into a Third World country. ... The only way to try to do this is to just attack the private sector and deplete it of its resources, of its money, of its capital, which is exactly what he is doing." He later added, “We've elected somebody who is more African in his roots than he is American, loves his father who is a Marxist, and is behaving like an African colonial despot.”
Pruden: Obama lacks “blood impulse” for what America “is about” in part due to “Kenyan father.” In a November 16, 2009, column, Washington Times editor Wesley Pruden wrote: “It's no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of 'the 57 states' is about. He was sired by a Kenyan father, born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World and reared by grandparents in Hawaii, a paradise far from the American mainstream.”
Beck: Obama “chose to use his name Barack ... to identify, not with America,” but with "[t]he heritage, maybe, of your father in Kenya." On the February 4 edition of his radio show Beck said: “He chose to use his name Barack for a reason -- to identify, not with America -- you don't take the name Barack to identify with America. You take the name Barack to identify with what? Your heritage? The heritage, maybe, of your father in Kenya, who is a radical?”
Investor's Business Daily: “The core” of Obama's faith “is African nativism.” In a January 16, 2008, editorial, Investor's Business Daily claimed that “the core” of Obama's “faith -- whether lapsed Muslim, new Christian or some mixture of the two -- is African nativism” and that Obama's familial ties to Africa “have potential foreign policy, even national security, implications.”
James Humes: “Perhaps Obama ... took umbrage” at Churchill's actions “wiping out the Mau-Mau.” On March 12, 2009, Newsmax columnist James Humes (in a column which featured an apparently false quote attributed to Obama) wrote: “Perhaps Obama, the son of a Kenyan, took umbrage at Prime Minister Churchill's actions in 1953 of wiping out the Mau-Mau, the Kenyan terrorists who made a specialty of slitting throats of sleeping white and Black Kenyans.” Humes claimed that this “umbrage” explains why Churchill's bust was returned to the British.
Jim Quinn: Obama “is an African colonial” who “hates” “the Brits.” On June 11, syndicated radio host Jim Quinn said that BP “stands for the two things that Obama hates the most in his life ... the Brits and petroleum.” Quinn continued, “Let us not forget, he is ... an African colonial,” adding that “this guy's got a hard on for the Brits in particular, and Western civilization in general.”