There really ISN'T anything that's "over the line" anymore, is there? Gingrich's comments were disgusting and unconscionable.[quote]Citing a recent Forb..."/>
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Newt's mouth goes off again
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 9:56 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote: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. 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."
Quote:“"Nazis don't have the right to put up a sign next to the Holocaust Museum in Washington. We would never accept the Japanese putting up a site next to Pearl Harbor. There's no reason for us to accept a mosque next to the World Trade Center." Re Sotomayor: “new racism is no better than old racism" and "White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw." An April 1, 2007, Associated Press article reported that Gingrich described bilingual education as teaching "the language of living in a ghetto" and mocked requirements that ballots be printed in multiple languages. Gingrich said that bilingualism poses "long-term dangers to the fabric of our nation" and that "allowing bilingualism to continue to grow is very dangerous." A June 16, 1995, Washington Post article reported that Gingrich, in a discussion with black journalists, stated that the failure of poor black people to acquire wealth was in part due to their "habits." “Let me be very clear about this: I'm prepared to say to the poor, 'You have to learn new habits. The habits of being poor don't work. So yes, you've got to change.” On women serving in the military: Gingrich told his students that "females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections, and they don't have upper body strength," and added that men "are basically little piglets; you drop them in a ditch, they roll around in it." New York Times article reported: "Mr. Gingrich ... has proposed that money saved by denying welfare benefits to young mothers be used to provided services to children, including promoting adoptions and establishing orphanages or group homes." "I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence, to use harassment. I think it is prepared to use the government if it can get control of it. I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion." Gingrich also stated: "[W]hen the radicals lost the vote in California, they are determined to impose their will on this country no matter what the popular opinion, no matter what the law of the land." "It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information."
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:21 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:26 PM
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 12:58 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2:S'okay, Raptor, EVERYONE knew that would be your response, and maybe what you even believe (with you, one can never know...). We know you look down on Blacks, Hispanics, women, Muslims, etc., just as much as Newt,...
Quote: Gingrich is not. Whatever his motivation, saying such things is unconscionable, and he should never be a person with power over any other human being. I've lived exactly as much history as Newt I believe...remember, I was here too.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 1:02 PM
KANEMAN
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 1:07 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 1:13 PM
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 2:12 PM
Quote:"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Irish, 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."
Tuesday, September 14, 2010 2:23 PM
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