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David Gregory: Newt Gingrich’s Comments On Poor People Are ‘A Grotesque Distortion’

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One of the most common criticisms of Newt Gingrich is that he’s arrogant, and his comments last week declaring he will be the eventual Republican presidential nominee only served to reinforce the argument. On Meet the Press today, the panel sized up Gingrich’s chances against Mitt Romney and President Obama. One topic of conversation was Gingrich’s controversial comments about child labor laws, and David Gregory used surprisingly critical language in discussing them earlier today.

Regarding his boastful prediction, Gregory asked if it was “Good Newt or Bad Newt.” Mark Halperin argued that while statements like those may have injured Gingrich in the campaign months ago, he has hit a point in the campaign where Republican voters are looking for a Churchill-like statesman, and Gingrich appears to fit the description better than any of his GOP rivals.

Harold Ford, Jr. suggested the comparison between Gingrich and statesmen like Churchill was tenuous at best, but he believed controversial remarks made by Gingrich in the past will be enough to turn independents away from him because of the nature of his criticism of President Obama. Katty Kay boiled the primary race down to Gingrich vs. Romney, which Romney’s campaign is trying to frame as the Washington insider against the independent-minded outsider.

RELATED: Not An Onion Spoof: Newt Gingrich’s Education Plan Is To Fire Janitors And Replace Them With Kids

Kay also claimed that some Republican insiders do not want Gingrich to be the nominee because he could not only lose the presidential election, but could cost the GOP several seats in Congress during an election year where they are poised to make even bigger gains. Joe McQuaid, publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader, which endorsed Gingrich over Romney, brought up Gingrich’s recent comments over child labor and predicted they would play well with conservative audiences. McQuaid cast Gingrich’s child janitor plan as a way to re-instill a missing work ethic in poor communities.

Gregory challenged that assertion, and asked McQuaid how he did not see Gingrich’s words as “a grotesque distortion of what’s really happening out there.”

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Mark-Williams/100000431800956 Mark Williams

    Well if Mark Halperin says Newt is what Republican voters want then so be it.

    He was so dead on about his all his the GOP needs John McCain prognostications.
     

  • Anonymous

    Poor kids have no role models to teach them work ethic.  Their parents are too busy working two jobs.

  • Anonymous

    Newtie is a grotesque distortion!

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    The Slimy Newt

    A slimy neo-con who calls himself Newt
    Has always played the globalist skin flute
    He gets on his knees
    And does what they please
    As he lines his pockets with their pilfered loot.

    With women, Newt’s always been a smooth dancer
    “Replace ‘em with an upgrade” is always his answer
    Which caused him, of course
    To present his divorce
    To his first wife as she lay dying of cancer.

    It seems Speaker Gingrich didn’t give a hoot
    For his family after he gave ‘em the boot
    He came up completely short
    Never paying child support
    For the entire length of the dispute.

    Next Newt married a girl named Marianne
    Whom he quickly decided to can
    When she got a diagnosis
    Of Multiple Sclerosis
    Which threw a wrench in his political plan.

    At the time Marianne announced she was sick
    Gingrich was boning his aide, Calista Bisek
    Calista played Newt’s harmonica
    As he blasted Clinton for gettin’ a Monica
    ‘Cause hypocrisy has always been Newt’s schtick.
    ___________________________
    Charles Ulysses Feney

  • david r

    I’ll bet he shoots himself in the foot within three weeks.  Any takers?

  • Anonymous

    The Newtser is not too smart when he is letting the truth slip out on how he really feels.  

  • Anonymous

    I loved the story Newt told about his niece who saved $800 from her allowance this summer for a new iPad.
    He was so proud of her.
    Why can’t poor kids be like that?

  • Ben K

    It’s not class warfare if you attack the poor. 

  • Anonymous

    I was hoping they will let Newt win the primary. All this attacks are bad news for us Libs.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

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  • Anonymous

    No, this video of Gregory is a gross, gross distortion!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPBSV1uxR3w

  • http://twitter.com/moiraeve1 Moira S

    Mark Halperin, I recommend you re-take high school history. Churchill prohibited child labor. He didn’t promote it, as does Gingrich.

  • Anonymous

    Yes – we conservatives put a lot of stock into what David Gregroy says about other conservatives.
    Bwahahahaha

    David, showing his bias yet again – afterall, he does work for the National Barak Channel

  • Anonymous

    FunnyLiberal!        Actually, “their moms are too busy working” on spitting out more illegitimate liberal roaches to suck the taxpayers dry. But at least you have a role model; Barney Fwank!

  • Anonymous

    Gregory looks like the chairman of the white guilt country club. He has a DEEP hatred for President Gingrich because every time Newt goes on Gregory’s “president hip hop promotion network” Newt calls him mentally ill, on camera!

  • http://twitter.com/RemiBernard Remi Bernard

    Golly that was well thought out. Can I presume you believe poor people don’t work?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    I guess Gregory has never been to the hood. They did the same thing in the 60′s, 70′s, 80′s, 90′s and now in the 2000′s. All they know is the hood and jail.. 

  • Anonymous

    Newt Gingrich is a racist.  Gregory sugar coats the mans statements.  Time for the MSM to start speaking the truth. 
    Newt is a sicko racist.  You would have to be a sicko to vote for him. 

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    “President Gingrich?”

    ROTFLMBAO!

    –Cobra

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Ya betcha.

  • Anonymous

    How would you know? Is that what your mom did with you? From your comments abortion would have been the better choice!

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Right…because “the hood” is the ONLY place poor children in America live.

      Tell me, does today’s “Conservative Fun Pack” include the white sheet, or is it sold separately?

    –Cobra

  • Anonymous

    Gregory criticizes Newt.
    Didn’t see that coming.

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    THATS AWESOME.
    GO GREGORY.

  • SouthernYankee

    Yeah, the nerve.  I guess the Kardashin Clan are such good roll models.  Please maybe some of the rich spoiled kids could learn alot from janitor work also.  You know many of those kids have had things handed to them.  Spoiled little bitches.

  • SouthernYankee

    Honey he will insert that mouth down his throat.  He can’t help himself.  He has such a big ego.

  • SouthernYankee

    Honey don’t believe half of what he says.  He ass is bigger than his mouth and he spews nothing but shit.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FSPIVAFYI672OH5NOKVRTEZA4U MadCharles

    You can still buy the nostalgia replica sheets at the DNC website.

  • SouthernYankee

    Are you kidding.  He has more republicans on his show and kisses their asses.   You are nuts. 

  • SouthernYankee

    One thing you learn about republicans of today.  They like to rewrite history and they love stupid.  Hence Fox News and the uniformed.   They never ever let the truth get in the way.

  • SouthernYankee

    Only the stupid would say things like that.  How sad that many minorities go off to the military and fight for all of us and you assholes repay them by being stupid with your comments.  Many good soldiers have died for all of us.  Shame on some of you idiots.

  • SouthernYankee

    We don’t have to worry about Newty Fruity.  He will sink himself.  He can’t help himself. 

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Really? Do you agree with MadCharles’ statements?

    –Cobra

  • SouthernYankee

    No I don’t agree with MadCharles.  That comment was for him.  Only idiots would say things like he does. 

  • Anonymous

    David, ol’ boy….a Tim Russert you are not…!!! Why is what Newt put forth so dang hard for you people at nbc/msnbc to understand? Maybe a little adult supervision would be nice as well as hiring folks with a higher IQ. As everyone knows, the standards at nbc/msnbc are much lower than even cnn and theirs are low, low, low. Stop with all the silly and childish got’cha crap and let’s get serious for the good of our once Great country. We need change and need it bad … that means everyone in Washington DC politically speaking. Give it the old college try…ok?!?

  • http://twitter.com/dlauf87 Daniel Lauffer

    Question for everyone? Do you honestly think Gingrich wants 5 year olds to work in dangerous factories? if yes, your ignorant. If no, then consider that perhaps the laws as they are written are flawed. Why should a 13 year old not be able to work behind a computer desk or answering phones and taking messages? Why not let them mop floors and gain some valuable work experience. I look around and see entitled twenty somethings complaining that no one will hire them. Well maybe if they gained some job more skills years before, they would be more employable. Just consider that the laws as they are written are not perfect and should be reformed. The only distortion is this panel of 4 liberals on a national Sunday news show.

  • Anonymous

    It’s beginning to look a lot like Gingrich!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcV4EaSElfw&feature=youtu.be

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Exactly by what means will you achieve that?

    People like Gregory & Halperin & Rove have power not because the ‘marketplace spoke’ or they got elected or they were chosen off some definition of ‘merit’ – they were chosen because they serve the interests of the 0.1% who are on the boards of directors of Big Corps America.

    What, have you somehow devised a machine or other means to overcome the power of Big Corps America and of the 0.1% of Americans that own this joint?

    The only thing you CAN be pushing for is to replace everyone elected to national office, every Congressional rep, every senator, the president, the whole lot of them.

    But there are two problems with that: 

    Firstly, it ain’t gonna happen, because everyone hates “Congress”, the “House”, the “Senate”, the “administration”, the “system”, but everone LOVES  their own guy or gal, so that the same moron who agrees with you is voting FOR Boehner as rep & Speaker & against Sherod Brown for the Senate as some sort of Marxist-socialist commie & against Obama as a Kenyan redistributionist, and the moron who disagrees with you is voting for her rave fave rep in Nancy Pelosi & her Senator 4 Evuh Diane Feinstein & her bestest most fave president Obama, and BOTH of them are either saying everyone ELSE will ‘fix Washington DC’ or telling everyone ELSE they are fools not to get rid of ALL the bums – without the contradiction ever even getting appreciated let alone confronted.
     
    Secondly, ‘get rid of all dah bums’ and ‘term limits’ all have the effect of WEAKENING our system of elected pols against Wall Street and the banksters and Big Corps America and the lobbyists on K street because it erodes and destroys institutional capacity and knowledge – it takes YEARS to understand how the system works in the first place, so what happens is that most pols are forced to rely on lobbyists and corporate ‘friends’ to get ANYTHING done. Ron Suskind spoke to President Obama about this in January of this year, and put it in his book about the early Obama administration, that Obama, smart and knowledgeable as he is, as STUDENT and SCHOLAR and TEACHER on the constitution, a state and federal pol for over  a combined decade, STILL found that it took him the first 2 years in office just to get used to the place, to get his bearings – like it would any child born into this world.

    Americans realize this, which is why when they get a really good and effective president they don’t want to let him go, and it was only the Rrrs pushing pushing pushing for the 2 term limits on the presidency that allowed for the ‘equivalency’ argument to develop. Otherwise Bill Clinton would still be President, thinking about running for his 6th term. And why NOT?, because the real power is in CONGRESS not the presidency anyway, and it’s Congress that the richest 0.1% buy up and own.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    and remember how everything that happened in the campaign was supposedly ‘good news for John McCain?”
    Halperin is the most overpaid, absolute hack in political media today.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    They could all just be like tea party idol and rightwing GOP congressman Joe Walsh, and simply abandon their kids.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    He’s the typical ignorant sheep people like Gingrich love to exploit – he’s gullible enough to turn his anger on faceless, anecdotal welfare queens while giving a pass to the corporate interests and their lobbyists who actually ran the country into the ground.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Donald Trump will goad him into saying something stupid during the Birther Debate.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    What a typical piece of Americana! Because so many poor kids get $800 bucks in spare change in summer allowance money. What planet do you live on?
    By the way, why didn’t Newt insist his niece do janitor work to earn the money? I mean, it instills a work ethic and life skills, after all.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    “president hip hop?”
    gee – why do people think Republicans are racist?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Aren’t you late for your weekly cross burning?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    and the GOP sells Strom Thurmond Secret Love Child baby dolls.
    After you buy ‘em, you can abandon them because of their skin color, just like ol Strom did!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    Remember back in the ’90s, when Susan Smith drowned her kids in a lake – how Newt went on TV and said that it was a product of liberalism. Not only was it typical, shameless Newt, but  it also turned out Smith and her family were rightwingers. Her dad was even a county GOP chair in the south.

    Newt’s as dumb as he is assholish.

  • Anonymous

    i am assuming you are being sarcastic.  if thats the case, whats the problem with a kid saving her money and buying whatever the hell she wants to buy?  why is that a sin now? 

  • Anonymous

    Paris Hilton might learn that Ajax powder is’nt something you snort.

  • Anonymous

    Trump has the ability to generate or even inspire stupid, a geometric progression of stupid.

  • Tan

    That’s very impressive.

    What infuriates me about the ‘man’ is the myth he is really intelligent, an intellectual, when really he has never had a single history paper published and his books reek of poor research skills. He just got the degree to claim smarts, without realising smarts are what you do with what you have, not simply what you have.

    He disgusts me. Of all of them it’s him I hate the most. He’s actually evil for christs sake people!

  • Tan

    You know I thought you were making a joke, and I even laughed and went to thumb you up then realised that you’re a nut job and you actually MEAN that!?

    LOL!!! What planet are you on you awful awful awful person? What poor child can possibly scrape together $800 over just one summer?!!! You are a terrible person!

    I grew up lower middlish class and I began working as soon as I was old enough, which was around my 14th birthday. I worked my ASS off, just like all the other poorer kids in the area that didn’t get pocket money. In fact in my private school (where my parents pushed to afford to send me to improve on what we had) I was one of the few that worked; the others being from similar backgrounds to me. The ones that didn’t work were of course the better off students that got cars bought for them and got lots of pocket money. They were the lazy ones! In fact although I was working 20 hours a week on top of my school work I finished in the top 2% of my state and was the only working kid in my school to score above 90 TER (im Australian so nevermind, but it’s good)

    it makes me furious that idiots like you smear these children as lazy when you have NO clue OBVIOUSLY. There is NO way I couldve scraped together a spare $800, even while working every spare moment. In fact I was proud of what I did have; a good car I bought myself, independence, and a few hundred always in the bank for emergencies. You disgust me.

  • Tan

    It’s not President Gingrich, it’s ‘disgraced ex speaker Staypuft’

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    Churchill was singular, the avuncular, statesman.  Churchill had his flaws, but comparing him to Gingrich is so misdirected as to be almost meaningless.  Churchill helped define a century, while Gingrich comes nowhere near.

  • Anonymous

    That was kinda an eyebrow raiser!  LOL

  • Anonymous

    With some (thank God, not all) it’s in the blood, like a sickness.

  • Anonymous

    I’d like to say it was cancelled due to lack of interest and have it be true.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, she claimed her stepfather molested her.  Gingrich really stepped in it and then proceeded to walk around on the carpeting.  His laying the blame for this women’s murdered children on the democrats was absurd.  It’s so crass it’s worth remembering.

    http://www.alternet.org/story/8695/

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Glad you like it… You’re right, he’s the most deceptive of all the candidates, and my instincts  when viewing him scream “pedophile”… and I always trust my instincts!

  • Anonymous

    “You disgust me. ”

    lol…you’re first instinct were correct, I was being sarcastic.
    Sorry, I thought that was obvious. :)

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    Well, it is quite apparent now that the Liberal MSM succeeded in getting Cain out of the race, they have turned their sites on Gingrich (again). 

    Could they be any more obvious?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000131906433 Victoryia MonaLisa

    The wealthy take care of their own uneducated, children drugs and wives who would never be able to function on their own without their husbands money!  The poor try take care of their own after the families have broken up and they have to work two maybe three jobs while the older children care for the young ones.  These politicians are not focusing on the real problems in American yet making fools or thierselves on Nation TV.  Everyone who thinks they have more and do not have the same problems as others should try living one week in someones shoes and learn something!

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    The doll helps to instill in the children the old timey core values that made this country great.

  • http://twitter.com/maynardbrainard Jeremy Brainard

    You forgot to add another “low.”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Eric-Larson/1589499840 Eric Larson

    Does anyone here realize that all kids need to learn better work habbits. Rich and poor. I don’t think it’s a bad idea that the schools in the poor communitees come up with some kind of work programs in their school but I also think the rich schools should also. That’s what Newt should have said. Working with lower and middle/upper class troubled youth myself, I can honestly say that the sense of entitlement in both classes is pretty sickening.

  • Anonymous

    Tan, you just gave a spot on, perfect description of President 0bama.

  • Anonymous

    You know, I tried to give him a fair chance and I checked out a book at my local library that Newt Gingrich coauthored. I have to say, of all of the historical books I’ve read that was the most terrible. People actually pay him to open his mouth?!

  • Anonymous

    He was being sarcastic.

  • Anonymous

    No they think they’re patriots when they attack the poor.

  • Anonymous

    I thought Newt was ham face.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah and the GOP is trying to slash health care benefits for combat veterans too. 

  • Anonymous

    You’re really such a brain washed party loyalist kook that you’re blaming Cain’s demise on the “liberal media” and not on himself?

  • Anonymous

    Obama is cutting out $500 billion out of Medicare which affects ALL citizens 65 and over those who sacrificed too.

  • Anonymous

    Is it still 1600 in your racist world, cobra? I bet it is.

  • Anonymous

    But you still can not change the fact that it was Southern Dems who started the KKK, and voted against all CR bills up until 1964 and then still showed less support for the bill than did the Repubs.

    And is was Dems who stood in the doors of colleges refusing blacks to enter.

  • http://twitter.com/DuvaChristopher Christopher Duva

    It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Gingrich: http://youtu.be/OcV4EaSElfw

  • Anonymous

    It’s extremely troubling that the adult generations continue to blame children for the problems of present-day society, using such vagueries as “they’re entitled” or “no sense of work ethic.” I hear this ad nauseum from the baby boomer types that I work with, while at the same time they continue to collect on a social security system that 20-somethings pay into but will never receive a dime from.  Not to mention this current generation of “leaders” in goverment has decided to rack up a generation’s worth of debt in under a decade.  Who will be paying for that debt?  Those same “entitled” children, whose parents and grandparents were too incompetent to balance a budget without leaving future generations to pay for their woeful ineptitude. 

  • http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

    If Cain had an affair, it is his fault for having the affair. The media treated him (and McCain) quite differently wrt their *scandals* and if you can’t see that, you are a brain washed party loyalist. And if you can’t see that the media went after Cain, guns blazing, and are now aiming back at Newt, you are a brain washed party loyalist. 

  • SouthernYankee

    They already raised the Tricare medicines and the cost is suppose to go up also. 

  • SouthernYankee

    He hasn’t done it yet. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/zev.posner Zev Y Posner

    Wow – Newt being Newt … well there is a lot of stuff flying around here that tells me people are thinking with lots of emotion on this one…. couple points:

    1 – Newt is not smart???? well lets face it people may not like him but i dont think anyone of his detractors will ever tell you he is anything but brilliant because he simply is!  
     
    2 – to his point … which he made in a very poor way ( no pun intended … well maybe a little ;) … the distilled essence of it is unfortunately correct but very politically incorrect … I think the area where Newt went wrong was simply using the term poor … when we all know that many poor families actually have a great work ethics and values being passed onto the children.

    What he meant to say …and here is the irony, he was probably trying to be politically correct and not mention single parent poor or minority communities where the social and economic realities have created tremendous vacuums where children are growing up for the most part learning all the wrong lessons and with few exceptions learning nothing that will prepare them to be responsible and productive  adults… there are exceptions of course and these make for great stories, but what they also do is point out that what should be the norm is unfortunately turned into a story of triumph of the human spirit … most children cannot overcome the challenges of the street that they confront absent any real values being taught in the home, and this is made all the more difficult when that home is a broken home and the parent or parents are absentee parents.  Some do overcome these obstacles but we need to be honest and understand that is not the norm.

    This is what Newt was trying to say … that some drastic measures need to be taken to help these kids understand that there is a world beyond their own – one that they need to learn how to not only survive in but thrive in as well! 

  • Anonymous

    Of course the media went after him. He painted a such a big target on his butt that no reporter could resist kicking.

    And of course they’re now aiming at Newt. He’s the guy that went after Clinton while he himself was having affairs. How’d you like to have your husband cheat on you if you got diagonsed with cancer like the first one? Or with MS like the second one?

    The media doesn’t show any mercy. That’s just how it is in these days of 24/7 commentary People eat up these personal attacks for the same reasons they like watching women make fools of themselves on a housewives show.

    But to say that it’s “the liberal media” makes you GOP loyalists (I don’t belong to a party btw) look like extremists and kooks. 

  • Anonymous

    Summer allowance=saved 75.00 per week? What was the total “allowance”?

  • Anonymous

    Better check out Churchill on Boer War, war in Afghanistan..Rightwing Tory cruel tool of the rich he issued from…

  • Holistic

    Gregory has turned MTP into a bias joke.

  • Anonymous

    In no means do I wish to sugarcoat Winston Churchill, a man for whom I’ve always held a sneaking admiration.  Born of an American mother, many historians feel he suffered from what is now called “bilpolar disorder”, and in his old age his reason became brittle.  He was a known racist and definitely served the aristocracy.  Yet, I’ve always felt he had the interests of Great Britain in his heart.  I’m not sure England would have survived WWll without him.

    “It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”–Abraham Lincoln

  • Anonymous

    Subtlely is’nt required.  A simple overview of Mr Gingrich’s actions and temperament are what is needed.

  • Anonymous

    What do you expect from a person that is unpredictable. Gingrich does not have the wisdom to be president.

  • Anonymous

    My first good job at 23 paid 75.00  a week.  My husband also made 75.00 a week.  We lived on 0one salary and banked the other until we had saved enough to buy our first home.  We sacrificed but it was worth it as noone would rent to a couple with a six month old baby daughter.  It is not how much you make, it is what you do with it.

  • Anonymous

    Most kids I knew or know now are ready and willing to work as soon as they hit their teens.Unfortunately there arenot too many jobs available untilo at least age 16.  Grown ups are now fighting for jobs kids used to work.  I think it is good for children to work as it keeps them out of trouble.  However, I would never want to go back to the days when six year olds labored all day picking cotton for no pay.  I somehow think that is what people like Newt would want.

  • Anonymous

    A kid who receives enough of an ”ALLOWANCE” to “save” $ 75.00 per week is a 1%er who’s emerging, developing values have a warping bourgeois influence to escape, but you’re partially right, it’s important how the surplus wealth is utilized. Perhaps she’ll purchase some books and donate to the underfunded local school library, say Fredrick Douglas or even Micheal Moore’s newest book..What do you suggest? 

  • Anonymous

    Newt will inevitably shoot himself in the foot with a .50 caliber deer slug.

    (And Secret Service we are using a metaphor here. We are law abiding and peaceful.)

  • Anonymous

    Oh my god! Does everything have to come back to an ” I know you are but what am I?” childishness with the right all the time? How the h3ll does a poem about a guy going through wives due to illness come back to the 1 time married President. Grow the F up already. This is the Palin lame-stream media 10 year old mentality she’s got you all stuck in. Please come back with an adult response if you don’t like his work again

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=611456563 Frank Looper

    I would like to say “f*ck you.” But I’d be afraid you’d want to use my d*ck.

  • Anonymous

    Kids have always worked, whether at home doing chores or on the farm as a working member of the family. Girls learned how to be homemakers and boys usually followed their father’ trade. Poor kids worked more than rich kids because they had to help their parents. When families have more money, kids work less. Kids get more money and have more time on their hands. An idle mind is the Devil’s workshop. When kids get more money, they imitate the adults around them. Their role models. That’s why so many rich kids are on drugs. I think they would be happier if they had meaningful work to do. They don’t have to clean toilets when grownups need those jobs.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_45S32GWGDRUJIL6E2U4HOZW4BM Bob

    and which part implemented the Southern Strategy and decided to court racists to win elections? Hint: Richard Nixon, Ronal Reagan, Lee Atwater, Spiro Agnew

  • Anonymous

    You know, I tried to give him a fair chance and I checked out a
    book at my local library that Newt Gingrich coauthored. I have to say,
    of all of the historical books I’ve read that was the most terrible.
    People actually pay him to open his mouth?!

    Gregory Office Chairs

     

  • Kevin Keating

    Royalty, Paris Hilton, Trump’s kids, ad naseum, are surely exception’s to your “kids have always worked” notion. I came from a petty bourgeois family, yet always looked for extra money to augment a modest “allowance”,worked shovelling snow, as a caddy, paper route, later after school in a drugstore to buy nd fix up  hot rod cars, learned mechanics and worked with my hands, dating in high school, summer jobs all the way through college. Many of the rich kids that were my friends in that environment never worked a day, some inherited wealth, the most distorting and unfair baggage to be saddled with, trust fund weirdness that impacted them all in negative ways. You’re correct, meaningful work is critical for developing meaningful values, lives. I think all folks, as a social responsibility, should contribute, work in hospitals as orderlies, be exposed to universal human needs, personalities out of their immediate social networks, learn to love the work they can do for us all. Our work, after all, is of enormous import in shaping our personalities, and those who love their work, often love their world.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P4IPMKSPZAEXEC6JXCWLX2OXIE Joe

    You better check your facts on your idol Winston, check this link out, my change your tune abot the great statesman you are referring to. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2002/nov/28/features11.g21
    The Churchill you didn’t know
    few of his quotes, you can see the rest at the above link.

    I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between communism and nazism, I would choose communism.Speaking in the House of Commons, autumn 1937
    I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised tribes.Writing as president of the Air Council, 1919
    It is alarming and nauseating to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well known in the east, striding half naked up the steps of the viceregal palace, while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience, to parlay on equal terms with the representative of the Emperor-King.Commenting on Gandhi’s meeting with the Viceroy of India, 1931
    (India is) a godless land of snobs and bores.In a letter to his mother, 1896
    I do not admit… that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia… by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race… has come in and taken its place.Churchill to Palestine Royal Commission, 1937

    This movement among the Jews is not new. From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States)… this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.”Writing on ‘Zionism versus Bolshevism’ in the Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 1920
    Research by Amy Iggulden

    A few more of the statesman quotes throughout his life, early and late, kind of dispute your thesis on old age.  This guy was a bigot from day one.

  • Anonymous

    A sneaking admiration does not imply  tacit approval.    In fact, saying I that I have a “sneaking admiration” for the man implies that I have qualms about that admiration.  Nowhere in my post did I call Mr Churchill an “idol”.  Indeed, few that spend a life in politics earn such high respect as that.

    I’m well aware of most of what you state.  However, I was simply commenting on the articles comparison of Gingrich and Churchill.  I think it’s a poor illustration and misleading.  At any rate, I thought this was’nt the proper venue for a history lesson.  I make an effort, to limit my responses somewhat, to what’s been stated in the article.  It’s a small sympathy I extend to the reader of what I’ve posted.

    I admire Caesar Augustus (historically) but, at the same time recognise how brutal (and short) life might have been as one of his contemporaries, or worse yet, one of his adversaries.

    Perhaps, in my pursuit of brevity,  which is something I was taught so early on, I scarely think of it.  I left out too much; .which made it easier for you to read far more approval  into what I wrote than I ever intended.

  • Anonymous

    THANK YOU NEWT GINRICH YOU JUST DID US ALL A FAVOR,ONE THING I HAVE LEARNED  THIS YEAR ABOUT REPUBLICANS, THIS YEAR YOU ARE ALL RACIST,FORGET THAT LETS STICK TO THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE TO GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER WHO YOU SLEEPING WITH NOW GET IT OUT IN THE OPENNING HOW MANY MISTREES YOU HAVE NOW

  • Anonymous

    wow!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P4IPMKSPZAEXEC6JXCWLX2OXIE Joe

    Wasn’t giving history lesson, you brought up Churchill, I was shot back with some facts.  Sorry you think it was a history lesson.  I don;t put Gingrich in the same category as Churchill, anyone that does is lame.  I do however think the Gingrich will give the President a run for his money in a debate, that is if he can get past the Ultra Right Wing loons of the Pubs.  Plus Gingrich has a good idea on the debate format that was followed by Lincoln/Douglas would be quite interesting.  Most likely won’t happen.  May the better man win.

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