Wonder how they see this as damaging? Wouldn't it tend to make the reader more sympathetic?
At this time in 2007 the same paper ran a story on Rev “kill the Jews” Wright and how he killed Donald Young the gay choir member who had an affair with Obama. Never heard a peep about that from The Enquirer ever again.
Well, how about POTUS Obama, His father was a communist, womanizer, drunk and killed himself in a drunk driving, self -caused accident, and, Obama’s mother was a communist, America hater, and was just like the village bicycle, every male had a free ride!!!
It reveals he co-sponsored VAWA. That's pretty damaging.
So, let me get this straight, his dad was abusive, and he as a son loved his father anyway?? That’s a bombshell?? What sick planet do folks live on that expect a child not to love their parents, even if they are horribly flawed????
Wow,... just wow.
Have posted a Wiki reference on Newt’s bio parents. Their marriage dissolved after just a few days. Mother was 16 and father 19 when they married; so there were no ‘good times’ to remember.
His step-father died in 1996. Do we know who contacted whom? When did bio-dad realize his son had accomplished so much from such adverse beginnings?
This biography will not hurt Newt - many adults who experienced similar family dysfunction will sympathize. Those that were more fortunate will be impressed by his overcoming the odds. JMHO
So this thinking makes The Kenyan completely unelectable?
THAT DOES IT! Throw him in the Brier patch!
But at least the Newt haters and general cynical bunch here will be busy for a few more days.
I won't be surprised if they dig up an old witness who saw him refuse to help an old lady across the street. (When he was a Boy Scout)
If you are Christian, this is a major credit for him. Had he not tried for reconciliation it would have been a major negative.
People do change for the good, as well as the bad - but we do change, constantly - and hopefully for the better.
I still do not support Newt because I don't think he has the management skills necessary for the job. And, he has so much other baggage that The Democrats will have a field day.
I’m not even for Newt, but this junk from the NE is plain stupid.
If Newt gets a visit from the space alien, that means he will be elected...
Now sources say the 68-year-old White House contender’s close relationship with his violent father is bound to ignite a new scandal because the veteran politician has been a major crusader against domestic violence – and even co-sponsored the Violence Against Women Act in 1994.
WHY, becuase of forgiveness?? Does that mean that he actually approved of what his father did to his mother and he? No big controversy here, time to move along!
It’s amazing what the media can find out about a person when they want to. I wish they had even standards and would hold Obama to the same scrutiny.
At first, I thought it was parody. Of course it won’t hurt him (there are too many other things that make a vote for him—or Romney—a vote for Obama).
Big deal! Bam’s old man,was a philanderer and an avowed commie. At least Newt’s old man served his country.
lol
if this is Newt’s darkest secret... I think he is going to win in a landslide :)
You cannot come from a more dysfunctional family than Obama..
One wonders what mess Michele Obama came from..
While I’m not totally on board with any of the candidates, this sounds like Newt’s journey through generational stuff, sins of his own past and his efforts legislatively to help victims of abuse.
Sounds like a sanctification journey to me.
What do I know?
And what is in Obama’s history that we don’t know about? It is likely worse than what we do know. And then there is Hillary Clinton who is likely guilty of crimes which should have sent her to prison! Remember how the Clintons were in bed with Chinese organized crime! All of that is just overlooked with snickering about how the Clintons got away with associations with people involved in sex trafficking, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, espionage, murder and on and on and on! Actually invited some of them to a prayer breakfast with Mother Theresa. The democrats are sleazier than can be imagined.