Posted on 10/10/2010 8:33:43 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Gingrich: Obama 'absolutely' a citizen and Christian, but may confuse people By Bridget Johnson - 10/10/10 09:55 AM ET
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Spanish-language television that President Obama "absolutely" was born in the United States and is a Christian, adding that Obama should look at what he's doing that may lead so many to brand him a Muslim.
"If I were the president that would really concern me, not because of Fox News or talk radio or Rush Limbaugh, but what is there that he's doing that would let that many people be confused?" Gingrich said on Univision's "Al Punto." "I mean, I totally take him at his own word. And certainly all the evidence we have is he went to a Christian church in Chicago and he goes to Christian churches in Washington.
"I think some of this stuff is just a sign of how much fear and anxiety has built up, but I think the president has an obligation to slow down and say, if you're president of all the people, what is it the White House is doing that so frightens a third of the Republican Party that they don't even believe something as simple and as obvious as his self professed religious belief," Gingrich added. "I think that's sad, frankly."
Gingrich said Obama is "vaguely a socialist in the European sense," and pegged the president as "clearly more radical than Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton."
He also called the DREAM Act "an entirely political manipulation by Harry Reid" and said "Republicans have to be articulate enough to say we have to solve the challenge of undocumented workers, undocumented children."
A potential 2012 presidential hopeful, Gingrich said that Republicans had the platform to win the Hispanic vote.
"I think if you campaign in most neighborhoods in America, whether they're Latino, or they're Anglo or they're African American or whatever, if your choice is food stamps or paycheck, I think virtually every Latino voter would prefer a paycheck," Gingrich said.
Of course he is why would we think a guy named after Momo’s magic pony and who can recite the call to prayer in Arabic be considered otherwise?
How could anyone possibly be confused about his religion?!?! I mean, the guy goes to church every Sunday!!!! /s
Hey Newt. Prove it!
Newts Syphilis is flaring up again
and why would anyone care what Newt “I was part of the problem” Gingrich thinks?
Wow, everyone has been looking in the wrong places for the original BC. It's at Newt's house.
But is he a “Natural Born Citizen”??????
shut up Newt.
Hey Neutron: did you not also run ads with Clinton and Pelousy about issues that most of us have the opposite opinion of?
One piece of advice for you, Neutron...go home, take a chill pill and realize your 15 minutes of fame are over.
Newt, this is why you’ll never be our president!
Don’t worry, that “Great American” Sean Hannity will have him on reminding us to “let not your heart be troubled.”
I bet Sean regularly has lunch with his favorite guys: Huckster, Romney, Newt, Rove, and McCain.
Just go away Newt. Shut up and go away.
if you can call that “church” that the fanatical Rev. Wright runs “Christian”....
I think that Obama’s real religion is pleasing his own ego, and everything else is whatever props he come up with to do so.
This guy has totally become part of the DC culture.
It’s time to move on.
And I used to think Newt Gingrich was a very intelligent person.
Gingrich doesn’t seem to get it. Once he established himself as no longer being a Conservative Maverick and, instead, became just another elitist politician who will say anything to keep the “good ol’ boy” network intact, his babble became meaningless. He has joined John McCain in the RINO category. It isn’t about voters to him but about the Congress (both Dem and Pub) who obviously know more than us taxpayers about what is good for us. Shut-Up Newt - we aren’t interested in your spin anymore.
I have had this sinking feeling this dope would run on a ticket with the Hildabeast if it thought he would be back in the lime light.
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