Posted on 11/01/2011 4:20:53 PM PDT by blueyon
C-SPAN delivers: Announces full live coverage of Saturday's Herman Cain-Newt Gingrich debate
Last week, you no doubt recall, we wrote here about the Lincoln-Douglas style debate that Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich agreed to have in Texas this coming Saturday evening. Technically, it's a fundraiser for the Texas Tea Party Patriot PAC.
The lengthy verbal duel, with time for fully-developed answers not 30-second sound bites, was designed to circumvent the media's usual entertainment format, designed to produce TV news, gotchas and show off network stars as interrogators. The topics are current economic and social issues and the timekeeper is Rep. Steve King of Iowa.
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I mean Cain answers questions about basic conservative issues like abortion in a way that leaves reporters incredulous, slack jawed, and peeved.
Since these two will probably be the ticket, lets hope they keep it civil and avoid any unintentional fatal wounds.
"Great" it most likely will not be.
Karl, you forgot your whiteboard!
I sure hope this will be recorded somewhere as I will have to be in Dallas on that night-—for our Golden Wedding Anniversary Party.
Will definitely watch.....it may go down as the most civilized debate in the history of the world.
No,. Cain should be president, and MAYBE Newt Gingrich as vp? I would prefer John Bolton as VP. Gingrich has too many character flaws, like leaving his first wife when she was suffering with cancer.
when a GOP candidate wins the next election, he will be in office for eight years, God willing, and that would make Cain 75 years old at the end of eight years. Too old to run for President! Herman Cain knows how to pick effective and capable people, and that is half the game. GO HERMAN CAIN!
My mother and I have both recently run into quite a few people who hold an inaccurate understanding of this hospital visit. Many think my mother is dead.
So, to correct the record, here is what happened: My mother, Jackie Battley Gingrich, is very much alive, and often spends time with my family. I am lucky to have such a “Miracle Mom,” as I titled her in a column this week.
As for my parents’ divorce, I can remember when they told me.
It was the spring of 1980.
I was 13 years old, and we were about to leave Fairfax, Va., and drive to Carrollton, Ga., for the summer. My parents told my sister and me that they were getting a divorce as our family of four sat around the kitchen table of our ranch home.
Soon afterward, my mom, sister and I got into our light-blue Chevrolet Impala and drove back to Carrollton.
Later that summer, Mom went to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for surgery to remove a tumor. While she was there, Dad took my sister and me to see her.
It is this visit that has turned into the infamous hospital visit about which many untruths have been told. I won’t repeat them. You can look them up online if you are interested in untruths. But here’s what happened:
My mother and father were already in the process of getting a divorce, which she requested.
Dad took my sister and me to the hospital to see our mother.
She had undergone surgery the day before to remove a tumor.
The tumor was benign.
As with many divorces, it was hard and painful for all involved, but life continued.
My friends: Please don’t tell me it’s scheduled when Alabama plays LSU. I just won’t watch it live.
Did it already happen...!? Where can I watch it streaming if I missed it..... anyone?
He was still cheating on her, and then he went on to cheat with wife number two, and divorced her after she got Multiple Sclerosis.
on C=Span link it’s listed from 8:00 to 9:30 eastern -
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/schedule/?zoom=0&timezone=Eastern&date=Nov+5%2C+2011
So your father is Newt Gingrich? Wow, thank you for sharing your story here. I remember back when your father was Speaker of the House reading the “other” account in some magazine—People, maybe. Of course, they made him out to be a total monster. Surprise, surprise.
I am sorry that I believed their lies.
I am so glad your mother has survived both her illness and her divorce. Divorce is never a pleasant thing, and always especially painful for young teen aged children. I hope that you and your sister are close to both your parents.
But I still have reservations about your father. Never fun to hear others analyze one’s parents, but when they put themselves in the public eye they can expect no less.
Please try not to take these things personally. Vetting a potential leader is most important, I am sure you will agree.
Thank you for your reply. You have put one concern to rest for me.
I Like It!
Here it is for those who don't want to leave the page: It’s become both the butt of jokes and the reason for criticism that Newt Gingrich informed his first wife that he wanted a divorce while she was in the hospital being treated for cancer. Now, we have a first hand account from one of Gingrich’s daughters that this is untrue: (I put the relevant sentence in bold)
For years, I have thought about trying to correct the untrue accounts of this hospital visit. After all, I was at the hospital with them, and saw and heard what happened. But I have always hesitated, as it was a private family matter and my mother is a very private person. In addition, for the four people involved, it was one of a million interactions and was not considered a defining event by any of us.
My mother and I have both recently run into quite a few people who hold an inaccurate understanding of this hospital visit. Many think my mother is dead.
So, to correct the record, here is what happened: My mother, Jackie Battley Gingrich, is very much alive, and often spends time with my family. I am lucky to have such a “Miracle Mom,” as I titled her in a column this week.
As for my parents’ divorce, I can remember when they told me.
It was the spring of 1980.
I was 13 years old, and we were about to leave Fairfax, Va., and drive to Carrollton, Ga., for the summer. My parents told my sister and me that they were getting a divorce as our family of four sat around the kitchen table of our ranch home.
Soon afterward, my mom, sister and I got into our light-blue Chevrolet Impala and drove back to Carrollton.
Later that summer, Mom went to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for surgery to remove a tumor. While she was there, Dad took my sister and me to see her.
It is this visit that has turned into the infamous hospital visit about which many untruths have been told. I won’t repeat them. You can look them up online if you are interested in untruths. But here’s what happened:
My mother and father were already in the process of getting a divorce, which she requested.
Dad took my sister and me to the hospital to see our mother.
She had undergone surgery the day before to remove a tumor.
The tumor was benign.
As with many divorces, it was hard and painful for all involved, but life continued.
OH MY GOSH! I just posted this same thing later in the thread.
The poster was just posting what Newt’s daughter has said about the account. THe poster is not Newt’s daugther.
I’ll predict that Newt will vault to the front of the line in the tea party nomination sweepstakes following this debate.
Oh, well it surely looked that way, as there were no quotes or attributions. I am sure I won’t be the only one to read it that way.
In any case, it is good to hear the other side of the story. Thanks for letting me know.
DRUDGE:
Herman Cain: The Attacks On Me Are Racially Motivated...
REAL CLEAR POLITICS:
Herman Cain: The Attacks On Me Are Racially Motivated
HERMAN CAIN:
“Relative to the left, I believe that race is a bigger driving factor. I don’t think it’s a driving factor on the right. This is just based upon our speculation.”
I received the explanation from his supposed son.
I still maintain that Newt can be a loose canon. He is brilliant, but so is Obama. That doesn’t mean he is qualified to govern a republic in the trouble we are in today. But Herman Cain has “fixed” every company he has headed up, and they have been huge companies. Herman Cain has the composure and ability to see all sides of a problem in order to solve it. He does not make snap decisions, but could if he had to. Herman Cain is the man with the plan who can!
Yes, you posted her story better then I did, I mistakenly gave the impression that I was Newts’ daughter, lol, not likely since I am a grown man. Sorry to any and all that were confused by my post, I just googled, cut and pasted.
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