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Posted on 11/17/2011 8:25:21 AM PST by TBBT
Really? That could be a valid complaint from a candidate stumping for votes in places like Iowa and New Hampshire, where voters probably don’t have too much concern over the “wet foot dry foot” policy of accepting Cuban refugees. When a candidate goes to Florida and explicitly campaigns in the Cuban-American community to get them, those questions seem more pertinent than “gotcha” — especially when the topic at hand was Barack Obama’s “foggy foreign policy”:
Cain, who last week stumbled over questions about what he would do in Libya, seemed to know little about Cuba. His campaign kept reporters at bay, and when asked about the Cuban Adjustment Act and the so-called wet-foot, dry-foot policy, Cain seemed stumped. The policy allows Cuban immigrants who have made it to US soil to stay.
“Wet foot, dry foot policy?” Cain asked. His press handlers interrupted as Cain diverted his course and ducked back into the building. Later, when he emerged, he was asked again by another reporter. Cain wouldn’t answer. …
Cain, though, wouldn’t talk to reporters there, either. A FOX reporter asked Cain what he thought of President Obama’s easing of travel restrictions to Cuba. Cain said that was a “gotcha question.”
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Because that was Freddie's primary objective at the time of his payments - to get the House GOP leaderhsip to kill the bill - and it succeeded. $1.6 million is a lot of money - not thrown around for "history" lessons.
Made me laugh! :D
A no-win situation. Oh yes, it is certainly that. Although one might expect a candidate with no experience to avoid the issues while campaigning, with such a strategy he is sure to avoid winning.
I’m sure if Cain were President back in 1998, Elian Gonzalez would still be here.
That’s an interesting question. Let me ask you, what if “picked” means “selected” and a “peck” is a prepackaged basket-sized container of pickled peppers?
If one looks at it in that context, then Peter Piper went to the store and selected a container of pickled peppers.
The real question then becomes one of morality: Did Peter Piper pay the proprietor for the peck of pickled peppers or did Peter Piper pinch the peck of pickled peppers?
Under my painless 999 Plan, Peter Piper palpably paid the proprietor for the peck of pickled peppers without having to parley a payment plan with the proprietor for a portative peck of pickled peppers.
:p
Cheers
Newt Gingrich is not a "consultant". I am a consultant. Perhaps you are too. Just because he hangs a shingle "Newt Gingrich Associates" means nothing. Freddie Mac will not pay you or I $1.6 million to give our "historical opinion" on their operations - even if we are real estate experts. Newt Gingrich is not an expert in real estate, loans or derivates. But he WAS the Speaker of the House. You can nitpick all you want, but just as with Newt's absurd claims that his posh Mediterranean vacation with Callista and his entire family was some kind of economic fact-finding mission to Greece, his claims regarding Freddie defy all common sense. Surely you have some?
Has nothing to do with nit picking. A lobbiest talks with members congress and tries to influence their vote a consultant does not. Lobbiest have to register with the federal government consultants don’t. There is zero evidence Newt Gingrich tried to influence congress. Sorry facts trump so called common sense. You don’t like Gingrich,fine, but you don’t get to make up stuff.
His main contact was Mitchell Delk, Freddie Mac's chief lobbyist. Open your eyes. Newt is a fraud. About Freddie. About the Greece trip. About the health insurance mandate. About global warming. And on and on.
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