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To: geologist

Maybe you need to brush up on your facts, provide some verifiable links, and, if you are a Christian, study up on the doctrine of forgiveness and Christ’s power to create NEW creatures in Him, when they come to Him. Hate stinks.

here’s a little something to think about, while you’re looking for some reputable links to verify your unfounded statements:

“Jackie Gingrich Cushman wrote a column in May of this year called “Setting the Record Straight” where she dealt with the myth of Newt Gingrich serving his wife divorce papers while she was in the hospital with terminal cancer.

Here is the link:
http://townhall.com/columnists/jackiegingrichcushman/2011/05/08/setting_the_record_straight/page/full/

here are a few excerpts from her column:

-— “For years, I have thought about trying to correct the untrue accounts of this hospital visit… But I have always hesitated, as it was a private family matter and my mother is a very private person.”

-— “As for my parents’ divorce, I can remember when they told me.
It was the spring of 1980. 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.”

-— “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… 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 have many families, we have healed; we have moved on.
My mother and father are alive and well, and my sister and I are blessed to have a close relationship with them both.”

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This is just one of the many fabrications the media and Newt’s enemies have circulated over the years. I can’t imagine how many others there are. If you read the article, it was obviously difficult for Jackie to talk about this, but she did, because at some point you have take on the liars. If the Gingrich family has moved on from this event so many years ago, as Jackie states, maybe it’s time for everybody else to move on, also.


46 posted on 11/18/2011 1:54:22 PM PST by true believer forever (First, they came for the rich.)
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To: true believer forever
Thank you for the response. Honestly, you were not there, I was not there, we both know we are relying on the information from others, we also know the medias frame things according to their bias. The link I read was, the September issue of" Esquire Magazine". It is an lengthy interview with Newt's wife of 18 years that he divorced last year or two or so. She knows him quite well. Do read it to the end.

It is said ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’, what I am interested in is not hype, but truth. Facts are facts opinion is subjective. Newt has character issues. Because he is a candidate for being the Republican candidate for President: his character is important. He is a moderate, he is not conservative, he is an internationalist/one world order supporter. Look at his voting record while being in Congress, he is disingenuous, and actually supported the global warming fake. He is very intelligent, a good teacher, excellent communicator.
Fair and balanced ... you decide. I do not want him for President of the United States. He is close to Obama in his ideology. MO.

114 posted on 11/19/2011 12:28:47 PM PST by geologist (The only answer to the troubles of this life is Jesus. A decision we all must make.)
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