Newt should remind the country of Obama’s lies. The election is about Obama, and what he has done to the country.

“…the President spoke about the banking crash which coincided with his barnstorming 2008 election campaign. “The house of cards collapsed,” he recalled. “We learned that mortgages had been sold to people who couldn’t afford or understand them.”
He excoriated the banks which had “made huge bets and bonuses with other people’s money”, while “regulators looked the other way and didn’t have the authority to stop the bad behaviour”.

As a rising young Chicago politician in 1995, no one campaigned more actively than Mr Obama for an amendment to the US Community Reinvestment Act, legally requiring banks to lend huge sums to millions of poor, mainly black Americans, guaranteed by the two giant mortgage associations, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/9045657/How-I-woke-up-to-the-untruths-of-Barack-Obama.html

And to think that Republicans may be passing up the opportunity to nominate this humble humanitarian.

What’s wrong with you, GOP??

He was not prepared and he got his butt handed to him! People who think that this clown  will out debate Obama are nuts.

That’s right Newton Leroy. You weren’t responsible att all for your miserable Florida appearances. But then, what Republican is ever responsible for anything. The No Account Party, and you are the defining figure.

Speaking of lies. Praising Callgirlista for singing at her Church. A real Mother Theresa there. Of course, there is one key difference. Callgirlista is a paid performer at her Church. And, she had the cajones to accept payment. Never join my parish dear.

This is rich … and spoken like a real narcissist. Is it any wonder that both Palin and Cain have endorsed newtie?  Nothing is EVER their faults. Sorry Newtie, but the ability to think on one’s feet is kind of critical for a head of state. Adios, you load.

The Monsignor has asked me to remind Robert that when the basket is passed down the pew, one does not reach in to make change for a five by grasping a handful of twenties.That would take cojones, not drawers.

Translation: Newt froze under pressure due to the inability to think on his feet and provide a compelling, extemporaneous counter-argument.

Not very presidential …

Haha…funniest thing I have read. 

What did Ben Bernanke say?  
“The originate-to-distribute model seems to have contributed to the loosening of
underwriting standards in 2005 and 2006. When an originator sells a mortgage
and its servicing rights, depending on the terms of the sale, much or all of the
risks are passed on to the loan purchaser. Thus, originators who sell loans may
have less incentive to undertake careful underwriting than if they kept the loans.
Moreover, for some originators, fees tied to loan volume made loan sales a higher
priority than loan quality. This misalignment of incentives, together with strong
investor demand for securities with high yields, contributed to the weakening of
underwriting standards.”

“This study isolates the 2006 performance of one category of mortgage lenders—banksoriginating loans in their Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) assessment areas, referred toherein as “CRA Banks.” Our hypothesis is that the CRA, which requires banks to help serve thecredit needs of their local communities, including low- and moderate-income (LMI)neighborhoods, consistent with safe and sound banking practices, may have deterred banks fromengaging, at least in their local communities, in lending practices that fuel foreclosures.Our study concludes that CRA Banks were substantially less likely than other lenders
to make the kinds of risky home purchase loans that helped fuel the foreclosure crisis.”
http://www.traigerlaw.com/publications/traiger_hinckley_llp_cra_foreclosure_study_1-7-08.pdf 

This lady worked at the Office of Thrift Supervision. She backs up the above 2 assessments.
“Second, CRA does not either encourage or condone bad lending. Bank regulators were decrying bad subprime lending before the turn of the millennium (see Interagency Guidance on Subprime Lending), and warning the CRA-covered institutions we regulated that badly underwritten subprime products that ignored consumer protections were not acceptable. Lenders not subject to CRA did not receive similar warnings.And we also explained to those we regulated how to serve lower income communities and borrowers in a manner that was good for the borrower, good for the bank, and earned CRA credit.”"CRA enforcement became a lower priority for bank regulators after 2001. My successor at the Office of Thrift Supervision, in fact, led an effort-eventually thwarted-to unilaterally loosen CRA regulations for institutions with more than $1 billion in assets. See 70 Fed. Reg. 10023. Nevertheless, CRA regulations were eased more generally in 2005. See 70 Fed. Reg. 44256.”http://www.newamerica.net/blog/asset-building/2008/its-still-not-cra-7222

“The sun got in my eyes”

Can we have more details abot the blonde one singing in church for pay – thank you.  First time I have heard of that.  If so, was it on their joint tax return?

Palin hasn’t endorsed anyone.

Typical teabagger meme Gloves – it was the stupid black people taking money they shouldn’t.  While not admonishing or even acknowledging that the big banks, S&P and Wall Street had anything to do with it.

I stubbed my toe coming out to the podium and now I can’t think straight.

She hasn’t officially come out and endorsed him, but she sure does defend  him an awful lot.

“The dog ate my homework”

Newt being surprised by lies is counter-factual to his own world.  He is one of the biggest liars in the history of the body politic in America.  Not only that he was tossed from political leadership for his bad behavior in the political world and is a shameless sex addict in his personal life.  Just how many people, male and female, he may have had sex with is likely a cast of thousands.

So, let me see if I get this straight…

Newt CLAIMS that he’s the BEST person to defeat Obama (allegedly) because he’s BEST prepared to DEBATE Obama.

BUT, at the SAME TIME, he’s saying that he did POORLY in the last debate because he was “amazed” at Romney’s “lies”?

So WHICH IS IT, Newt?

Are you a FANTASTIC DEBATER (OR, as it appears) a POOR debater (at least when “amazed” by “lies”)?!

Seems to me, Mr. Gingrich, if you’re taken aback by Mitt Romney, you’re going to be cut to shreds by the endless barage of lies from Barack Obama!

“i cheated on my wife cause i love america”- newt gingrich

Gingrich can dish it out, but he can’t take it. Romney landed some solid punches.

Gingrich, Cain, Bachmann and Santorum are probably already looking forward to the Republican convention next summer. It will be their last opportunity to lambast Obama before a large audience that will resemble a huge high school pep rally. Palin will be there, too. It will be a good time. Then everyone will support Romney and watch him lose.

I guess you don’t know that most churches and synagogues HIRE professional singers to be the section leaders. It is how vocal performance majors, aspiring opera professionals and others make a little extra money. If they’re lucky, they can get a synagogue job and a church job and work both days on the weekends. If you go to a large Austin church, ask your choir master how many paid performers there are. Professional musicians expect to be paid for their work!

Wrong, Romney is using the time-honored litigation technique of asking, “When did you stop beating your wife?”  I don’t know how law schools and attorneys teach baby lawyers or clients to answer a false premise like Romney uses, but the technique is an old one, and evil at that!

If this were true then Gingrich would dumbfound himself every time he opened his mouth. 

He doesn’t know what to do when confronted with people who are prepared to fight back. It’s one thing to take potshots at a sitting president, the mainstream media as a whole or to try and bully a debate moderator as they’re not there to fight Newt, other candidates are and now that the gloves are off, he’s struggling to use those ‘powerful debate skills’ of his.

But he is best suited to Debate Obama.

Newt should remind the country of Obama’s lies. The election is about Obama, and what he has done to the country.

He had the opportunity to do so with Romney, but was dumbfounded and amazed.

I thought this video poking fun at the gingrich was pretty funny:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQSsMRe6BJE&feature=channel_video_title

if he can’t take it from romney what’s he going to do when he faces the ultimate
liar in chief

I can now !understand why the vast majority who served with gingrich want nothing to do with him

“Gingrich touted endorsements from former rivals Rick Perry, Herman Cain,”
#Facepalm

I enjoyed it. I don’t think Newt would understand it, though. And I know that Rick would not get it at all.

Poor, poor Newt. He’s a great debater, but he can’t debate when people lie. Since he lies when the truth would suffice, he does not recognize lies. Can’t have it both ways, jerk. But, then, that is the ultimate liar, isn’t he?

so we have Newt Gingrich, a candidate for president whose ego is bigger than Texas, who’s never wrong, who blames everyone else when bad things happen and takes no responsibility himself, who’s great at speaking but not so good at governing.

sounds exactly like Barack Obama.

why would we want another one of those?

go home, Newt. buy Callista another diamond tennis bracelet or book a cruise to Crete. just STFU. with all due respect.

Perhaps that is true, but I’m sure there is also many who refuse the pay or give it back to the church as a donation.

The US Community REinvestment Act had NOTHING to do with the housing crisis.
However, the introduction on May 17, 2002 of  the “Homeownership Plan” by President George W Bush had EVERYTHING to do with it.  He ordered Fannie and Freddie to loosen their lending standards so that people with NO DOWNPAYMENT or BAD CREDIT could get a loan.
Thus, the “stated income” or what we in the business called “the liar’s loan” became common.  People didn’t have to have their income verified – they just stated how much they planned to make in the next year. 
Here is President George W Bush introducing his “Homeownership Plan” that ended up causing the housing crisis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNqQx7sjoS8

Thanks for taking the time to shed light on the subject.  There are too many who only heat up the discussion with attacks.  Your offering ….nicely done!

Gee Newt, did you really believe you had a monopoly on lying?

Dear Newt,

HA HASincerely,
Bill Buckner

Not professional singers. I once was amazed that my church had so many singers who were in the Houston Opera Studio, then I found out that they were paid to be section leaders. It is no big deal and is a common practice- it’s not as though they earn a lot. It used to be $50 per day. High holy days pay a little more. 

No matter what the media wants you to believe, It’s already a two-man
race. Of the 2,286 total Republican delegates, 1,144 are needed to win
nomination. In five (5) States: Virginia, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee and
Illinois, Gingrich and Santorum are not even on the ballot. That’s 564
delegates that they cannot get. After
South Carolina, only 59 delegates have been allocated to the 4
candidates. Mitt Romney has 39 of those. This means Santorum or Gingrich
has to pick up 1,144 delegates from the remaining 1,683. Let’s say
that Paul only picks up 20% of the total number of delegates–I happen to
believe he will do much better–but let’s pick 20%. That’s 457 delegates
for Paul. Add that to the 564 that Newt and Santorum won’t have a shot
at and now there are 1,021 delegates that Santorum and Gingrich have no
chance of getting. Subtract that 1,021 from the total 2,286 and you’re
left with 1,265 delegates. That means that Gingrich and Santorum, one or
the other, have to pick up over 90% of the available delegates to get
the nomination. So, essentially, we’re down to Paul and Romney. A vote
for Gingrich and Santorum is a wasted vote! A vote for Paul is not a
wasted vote and may well mean that the next President of the United
States will be a man that, for the last 30 years, has never broken a
promise, compromised his principles or waffled his position on an issue.
A man that still believes that the Constitution of the United States is
THE law of the land and that the protection of our individual liberties
is the primary reason for the Federal government.

Dear Newt, Ha ha ha…ah. Mitt Romney

The reason Gingrich keeps returning from the dead in the polls is once the negative ad effect wears off his readiness to confront the issues of the day comes through. The best matchup would be Obama/Gingrich. It would be the entitlement state against the opportunity society. The country deserves that discussion.

Gingrich is best suited to provide an alternate vision of America than the one Obama has presented. Romney cannot win by trashing Obama, just like he will not get the nomination over Gingrich.

There are liars and then there is Romney. He is in a class by himself.

There have been High School debaters on the forensics team that are better prepared than Newt was. You need to study a bit of everything that might be asked as a question in a debate. Not just one item, because you might find out that nobody asked you that question. Hell, I still remember some of the points in favor of passing GATT, and that was over 30 years ago.

To think this idiot could become President is a disgrace not only to the GOP but America. I think he’s to old to study for debates. He only comes back with things like this as well as saying it’s “The Liberal Media’s Fault”.
Sorry, Newt it’s  not the Liberal Media’s fault…The problem Newt is YOU. You suck.

OH ICK!  There can’t be that many hard up people in the world!

For many years I was an independent.  With this GOP field, what can I say except you leave me no choice but to vote for Mr. Obama.

I do not support Romney, but I don’t have to admit anything. Noot is doing a fine job of flip-flopping and lying, too.

Could that be because she is considering being Trump’s running mate? Third party and all that?

That makes a lot of economic sense, but it bothers me somehow. So the big churches are all about theater? I am not shocked at all.

Humble, humanitarian, and oh so pious! Noot is da man!

the banking crash which coincided with his barnstorming 2008 election campaign

Here is a link to other things that coincided with that campaign in the month of July alone. http://www.infoplease.com/world/events/2008/jul.html
Obama is responsible for all of that?

Noot depends on two things during any debate. One is his (lost) ability to intimidate the moderator(s), and the other is the number of his supporters who attend and applaud his “one liners.”

I sincerely doubt that the one-on-one debates between the Republican nominee and the Democrat nominee (in this case guaranteed to be Obama) will provide Noot with the opportunity to intimidate the moderator or bring in audience support.

If you want an alternate reality that Newt would provide..Watch the Twilight Zone.
It would be quite scary to live in the world he dreams about.

No, they’re about good music. Most choir members don’t have the training or the experience to produce the kind of music that parishoners expect. A good section leader can make a huge difference in the quality of the music. Also, most casual singers don’t have the vocal chops(breath, volume, pitch) to sing the solo parts.

I know. I was mostly being obnoxious. However, I do believe that really big churches, the kind that become broadcasters across a region or the nation, are too big to be anything but theater.
Kind of like how people complain about government getting too big.

My personal gut feeling is that a church should be small enough that the pastor gets to know every individual and there is no need for a professional choir. But, I guess that’s just me.

The choir is not professional, just individual section leaders- soprano, alto, tenor, bass. 

My church is not a mega-church, by any stretch of the imagination, but it does have enough money to pay for four section leaders- $200 +/- per weekend. 

It is just something that most people don’t know, if they aren’t music professionals.

Good thing Newton’s so darn smart.  He can always think up an excuse for why he messed up.  And he does it on the fly too.  He’s great at it.