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White House slams Newt for criticizing Obama’s Trayvon remarks (Newt hammers and stuns Obama )
NY Daily News ^ | March 25, 2012 | Alison Gendar

Posted on 03/25/2012 12:59:37 PM PDT by red flanker

The White House struck back at Newt Gingrinch on Sunday for the presidential wanna-be's criticism of Obama and his remarks about the Trayvon Martin killing.

The President said on Friday that “if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."

"I think (Trayvon’s parents) are right to expect that all of us as Americans are going to take this with the seriousness it deserves, and we are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened," Obama said.

Gingrich, in a radio interview that same day, blasted the President’s comments as “disgraceful.”

"It's not a question of who that young man looked like," Gingrich said.

"Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified, no matter what the ethnic background. Is the president suggesting that, if it had been a white who'd been shot, that would be OK, because it wouldn't look like him? That's just nonsense."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/white-house-slams-newt-gingrich-criticizing-obama-trayvon-martin-remarks-article-1.1050596#ixzz1q9xiAXra

(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: newt2012; newttrayvonremarks; racebaiters; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: BlueSky194

I guess the mother could not be Sharpton’s mom, you see, so that’s ok for these nutcase retards.


61 posted on 03/25/2012 3:18:42 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Eleutheria5

MLK’s speech was for Democrates and black people in the racists’ eyes... otherwise they would hate MLK just as they did Herman Cain.


62 posted on 03/25/2012 3:20:38 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: txrangerette

Is he any relation to Bob Dylan?


63 posted on 03/25/2012 3:26:44 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER ( Celebrate Republicans Freed the Slaves Month.)
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To: NoLibZone

Are you kidding? He says he thinks the kid looks like him.....


64 posted on 03/25/2012 3:30:22 PM PDT by IceAge
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To: txrangerette; All
Obama is trying to make political hay out of this one way or another. OK, so it's a fact that Zimmerman's father is Jewish and his mother is Hispanic. That's even better. We can capitalize on that for the 2012 Election, just like Obama's trying to do. We have a moral obligation to get the word out via whatever means available, that the reason Obama has gotten personally involved in this incident is because.......

OBAMA HATES JEWS AND HISPANICS.
65 posted on 03/25/2012 3:33:15 PM PDT by no dems (Take it to Tampa: Palin / Ryan or Palin / Rubio or Ryan/Rubio in 2012)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

We all have our preferences, but if Newt doesn’t get the nod, then ABO!!!!


66 posted on 03/25/2012 3:35:23 PM PDT by IceAge
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To: RJS1950

One more reason for Newt to stay in the race!! Hello???? He has the nerve to stand up to BO and call him out.
I wish he had all the delegate count, but he doesn’t so we need him to stay in the lime light.

Newt, Palin and Trump should be on the team of whoevever wins the nomination. Pay them off with whatever job they want to get them speaking daily on issues. Wouldn’t that be a hoot? They would be the headline of every papaer and every nightly news.


67 posted on 03/25/2012 3:41:05 PM PDT by IceAge
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To: red flanker
It's uncanny how Newt Gingrich lives rent free in Obama's head. There's not a week that goes by without Barack having to respond to something Gingrich has said.

It's becoming almost comical, but says something very weird about "the president." He is genuinely threatened by Gingrich.

68 posted on 03/25/2012 3:42:28 PM PDT by GVnana (Newt 2012 - He Speaks for Us)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Agree! Here’s one for the blind monkey - HAHA!


69 posted on 03/25/2012 3:44:15 PM PDT by IceAge
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To: red flanker
The President said on Friday that “if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."

This is a very telling remark which has been well thought out and uttered to incite anger and provoke violence.

What Obama is doing is to plant a seed in people's minds that Trayvon, was shot because he resembled Obama. In other words, the shooting was, by proxy, an attempt on Obama's life.

Remember how an attempt was made to imply that Sarah Palin was instrumental in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords?

70 posted on 03/25/2012 5:29:47 PM PDT by varon (Congress is a sanctuary for political criminals)
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To: GVnana

The press has clearly decided to ignore Gingrich because they realized that whenever he was highlighted, Romney (and his “godly” clone, Santorum) lost ground. The ones the left would love to have Obama run against would be Romney or Santorum, both of whom are big-government nanny-statists, differing only in their divine annointing.

Romney thinks he’s the fulfillment of some Mormon prophecy, and Santorum thinks he’s God’s gift to the universe and his duty is to make us all be perfect like him.

Gingrich, on the other hand, actually has plans for the US, knows something about international affairs, economics, energy...but all these things have dropped by the wayside in the minds of the handful of GOP voters who are turning out to vote. They want their “nice young man,” be he Mormon or Evangelical/Catholic, and they don’t care how dumb he is and how self-serving is his suddenly discovered piety.

But Obama knows the name of his only real enemy.


71 posted on 03/25/2012 6:14:45 PM PDT by livius
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To: livius

What Obama said about this tragedy was racially and politically motivated - only. It was a dangerous and divisive thing to say.

What Newt said was classy, appropriate, covered EVERYONE, highlighted the tragedy in the right perspective — in other words, it was PRESIDENTIAL.

What Romney and Santorum said ....uh, what was it they said?? Huh? Can’t hear it . . .


72 posted on 03/25/2012 6:35:02 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: red flanker

Hmm, dear leader just keeps giving more and more evidence that the dream is nowhere near coming to pass.


73 posted on 03/25/2012 7:08:43 PM PDT by RWB Patriot ("My ability is a value that must be purchased and I don't recognize anyone's need as a claim on me.")
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To: red flanker

Newt just saying what a lot of us think. Good job Newt.


74 posted on 03/25/2012 7:10:12 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: varon
You nailed it my FRiend.

Remember, Republicans Hope people are smart, but Democrats Know people are stupid.

I am actually arguing with Family members who have joined the “Zimmerman should be in the slammer” mantra. When I explain the circumstances that the Media is ignoring in their rendition of the “facts”, they still argue the point.
BTW - These are Anybody But Obama people like me. Unreal.

75 posted on 03/25/2012 7:27:38 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (A day without Obama is like a day without a Tsunami.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Remember, Republicans Hope people are smart, but Democrats Know people are stupid.

Yep.

76 posted on 03/25/2012 8:12:24 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: biggredd1
Greetings biggredd1:

Newt is punching above his weight!

LOL!

Cheers,
OLA

77 posted on 03/25/2012 8:38:54 PM PDT by OneLoyalAmerican (In God I trust, all others provide citations.)
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To: red flanker

78 posted on 03/25/2012 8:57:20 PM PDT by doug from upland (Just in case, it has been reserved: www.TheBitchIsBack2012.com)
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To: doug from upland

BUMP!


79 posted on 03/26/2012 7:01:37 AM PDT by GVnana (Newt 2012 - He Speaks for Us)
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To: livius
It's not just the press, livius. Santorum and Romney refuse to debate Gingrich. He clobbered them in the SC debate, then the next debate in Florida the audience had to be "silent," then no more debates. All at the very time when public interest was beginning to be engaged.

Romney runs a well-timed but malicious campaign. Santorum is "Look at me! I'm the anti-Romney!"

It's a long march to mediocracy.

What shall we do?

80 posted on 03/26/2012 7:08:44 AM PDT by GVnana (Newt 2012 - He Speaks for Us)
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