Posted on 07/15/2016 1:34:13 PM PDT by jazusamo
Newt Gingrich defended himself Friday over comments on Muslims that the White House panned as "un-American," arguing President Obama wasn't qualified to criticize him.
"Obama's attack on me would be more impressive if he had ANY plan to defeat Islamic supremacist," the former GOP Speaker tweeted. "8 years of failure disqualify him as a critic."
Gingrich in another tweet accused the president of "risking American lives" while criticizing the Obama administration's plans to vet Syrian refugees being relocated into the U.S.
Gingrich, who was in the spotlight this week as a potential running mate for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, caught flak over his proposal to "test" Muslims living in the U.S.
The former Speaker, responding to the terrorist attack in Nice, France, on Thursday night, said Muslims who believe in Shariah law should be deported.
Obama called Gingrich's idea for a test on Muslims "repugnant." White House press secretary Josh Earnest called for Gingrich to "consult his copy of the pocket Constitution."
We cannot give into fear or turn on each other or sacrifice our way of life, Obama said. We cannot let ourselves be divided by religion, because that is exactly what the terrorists want. We should never do their work for them.
Some Democrats and Muslim activists also criticized Gingrich's remarks. Gingrich pushed back on the media " hysteria" over his comments on Friday, while clarifying his position in a Facebook Live video.
"If you are a practicing Muslim and you believe deeply in your faith, but you're also loyal to the United States and you believe in the Constitution, you should have your rights totally, completely protected within the Constitution," Gingrich said, according to CNN. "You should have nothing to fear. Your children should have nothing to fear."
"This is not about targeting a particular religion or targeting people who practice in a particular way," he continued. "This is about looking at particular characteristics that we have learned painfully, time after time, involve killing people, involve attacks on our civilization."
Newt: Aren’t you being a little rough on the CIC? He did, after all, say that we need to continue to use diplomacy against these threats. (/s)
Yes. Famous for 1 minute floor speeches.
Newt’s on fire!
“Gingrich, who was in the spotlight this week as a potential running mate for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, caught flak over his proposal to “test” Muslims living in the U.S.”
Please, all you fools who don’t won’t Muslims vetted, please wear pink armbands to signal to terrorists that is is okay to slaughter you and that you consent to absorb all the bullets, shrapnel, blasts, and stand in front of eighteen wheelers, etc.
THIS IS WHY NEWT SHOULD HAVE BEEN PICKED
Diplomacy ?
What “diplomacy” ? YOUR diplomacy without substance and principles and shamefull afterthoughts
Obama saus we shouldn’t be divided religion but a little division is a food thing as long as that division is relatively peaceful. Muslims want unity like the President is calling for but under Islam.
Go Newt, go!
Get some, Newt!
GIVE ‘EM HELL NEWT!
Exactly.
Who exactly is representing ISIS at the UN? Who sits down and negotiates for them?
There is no diplomacy with these inbred cavemen. Kill them.
0bama's plan IS Islamic supremacism.
Newt is becoming the attack dog that Trump was in the primaries. The sequence here is right out of DJT’s playbook.
The pivot is afoot.
Sessions for SCOTUS.
RLTW
Let’s get ready to rumble! Let loose the Neutron bomb. A lot of back talk to the punk in the WH.
“Repugnant?” Defines obie boy
What is SANSA?
Flynn can’t be SECDEF because he only retired from the Army in 2014. You need to be out of the military for 7 years.
I would have thought the administration would have had its hands full removing 11 million illegal aliens. Adding the deportation of 2.6 million Muslims will just make the job harder. They may have to prioritize.
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