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Kathleen Parker: Is Obama an 'anti-colonialist'?

[Kathleen Parker is an American syndicated columnist.]

Of course I knew it all along. President Obama is a Kenyan anti-colonialist and that's why he doesn't get us. He's a ticked-off African.

So goes the latest in Obama-theory, originated by the usually rational conservative thinker Dinesh D'Souza and endorsed by none other than Newt Gingrich, Republican anarchist and onetime speaker of the House of Representatives.

Cue soundtrack to "Twilight Zone." Or "Psycho." Or, I dunno, Tarzan summoning an elephant stampede to quash yet another pestilential imperial invasion.

Actually, scratch that. Call in the shrinks and bring out the couch. If a political season can jump the shark, we have an eye-popping new exhibit for Sea World.

What's next? Obama is an extraterrestrial pod deposited on Planet Earth to occupy a human shell and get elected leader of the free world so that he can lull the population into complacent dependency in advance of a full invasion of body snatchers?

Why not? It's as good as any other theory. Why not go full-throttle into crackpottery? From Gainesville to Ground Zero, it's all the rage.

D'Souza's theory, which appeared in a Forbes magazine article, was an attempt to understand Obama's failure to relate to mainstream America. This is not a unique obsession...
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