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Subscribe to RSSTULSA, Okla. -- Newt Gingrich said Monday a Republican win in November is "a duty of national security," taking his attack on President Barack Obama a step further on the day the country celebrates Presidents Day.
"Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security," Gingrich told a crowd of about 4,000 people on the campus of Oral Roberts University. "Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States."
Gingrich, who frequently refers to Obama as the "the most dangerous president in modern American history," again said the country is at risk "someday in your lifetime of losing an American city" from a terrorist attack.
The former House speaker, who wears a pin with the flag of George Washington on his lapel to remind him of the meaning of being commander-in-chief, was especially harsh on the Obama administration’s policies towards Iran and Israel.
Evan Vucci / AP
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich speaks during a town hall at Oral Roberts University on Monday.
Obama, Gingrich said on his first day in Oklahoma, "wants to unilaterally weaken the United States, he wants to cut the aid to Israel for its anti-ballistic missile defense, he refuses to take Iran seriously."
The rally at ORU started just a couple hours after the White House announced that the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, would meet with Obama early next month.
Gingrich noted, “No American can second-guess an Israeli prime minister on the matter of survival,” and said his message to the Iranians would be simple.
"You need to stop your (nuclear) program before you get hit because you should be under no illusions, if you refuse to stop your program, long before it is completed you are going to get hit and we are not in any way going to stop the Israelis from defending themselves,’” he said.
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Hey Newt, I don't see Osama's turban mounted on your wall. Or on W.'s. As a matter of fact, that f-ckwit W. invaded the wrong damn country. Of course, he'll never admit to having admitted to "not think[ing] too much about Osama bin Ladin". Despite the televised address he gave, despite John Kerry playing it for him and calling him out - oh no, he just brushed it off and the good little sheep fell in line and elected the moron a second time.
Never again. Ever.
The GOP is so full of $hit they wouldn't know the truth if they were individually raped with it while the others watched.
When 'we' elected Dubya the second time, my faith in the wisdom of the American electorate was broken.
It was healed by electing, against all odds IMO, Obama.
There has been no wisdom in the American electorate since the days of Abraham Lincoln.
Uhhhhhm,
In Lincoln's day...
Did the electorate include the South?
Seems to me, 911 happened on a Republican President's watch - and the killing of Osama Bin Ladin happened on a Democratic President's watch. So how exactly, is President Obama bad for national security?
No one could have known that idiots would hijack a plane.If Obama was president during 9/11,the same thing would've happened.As for Osama's death,Obama DIDN'T DO A THING.He just watched the Navy Seals kill Osama.I wish you dumbocrats would quit acting like Obama was the one who killed Osama.
do you think somehow people here will take you seriously after writing this? lol
Hey Random..Really no one knew? Gee I seem to recall that indeed "we" had intel but someone just did not connect the dots. for Gingrich to attack the president on this issue is just f*ing dumb! And you know what most people know it & discount it!
and who's presidental's watch did the World Trade Center first get attacked in 1993??? How about the USS Cole attack in 1998?? What did our coward president clinton do after these attacks? I can tell you what he did, he hid under the dress of Monica.
random do your homework. GWB had a full security briefing by clinton's staff who all said it was coming, and he did nothing.
SHUTUP and go find another wife!
Hey Newt! Stick to what you know...marrying, adultery, divorce, Marrying, Adultery, Divorce, Marrying, Adultery, Divorce.
Dow touches 13,000 for first time since mid-2008. We must stop this socialism.!!!!
Security and liberty in America is all about rejecting right wing Taliban extremist like Santorum and the Grinch.......No Sharia law in America, ever !!!!
What a bunch of morons, led by Newt. Has he forgotton that the last time there was an attack on American soil, W was president?
It must be terrible to be a liberal- they suffer from a debilitating mental disorder that makes them hate individual liberty, hate the rule of law (the Constitution); they despise personal responsibility and achievement for the sake of submission to marxist collectivism.
Modern liberalism is nothing more than various forms of utopianism such as marxism relabeled. It has always been a failed ideology but the dinosaurs who perpetuate it's mythology find fresh idiots to buy into it in every generation. they are usually those who cannot or are afraid to succeed on their own merits and thus want to subject everyone to the mediocrity of collectivism.
mediocrity of collectivism...I like that...you are completely wrong, but I like that one.
Patriot Act - Dubya
Guantanamo - Dubya
Dinosaur Economics - Trickle down...hahahahhaha
Un-necessary invasion of Iraq that cost 4 trillion and killed over 200,000 innocent Iraqis-Dubya
The initial bailout of the too big too fail corporations...Dubya
...this eventually cost US taxpayers 8.5 TILLION dollars...
"It must be terrible to be a liberal- they suffer from a debilitating mental disorder that makes them hate individual liberty"
As usual --- a CONservative attempts to describe a liberal ends up describing themselves.
Someone forgot to take his meds.
The arrogant serial adulterer just insulted the haughty free-spending college professor. Big deal.
No, getting back into power at ANY cost is the cause your sworn too Newt. Mitch made the comment that it would be his job to see to it that Obama was a one term president just after Obama took office. That's all ANY of the GOP has worked for ever since!
An appeal from a Realist...
I like Israel. They are an historicaly democratic society that is worthy of praise.
My problem...
Are we willing to start World War Three over a conflict that has raged since before written history, dating back to paleolithic times?
Are we going to bring the destruction of at least two thirds of the population over a squabble between minor, and in many ways culturaly backwards, countries.
It is like saying we are going to burn down SanFran over a dispute tween the Earps and the Clantons...how American.
Who was in charge when we were hit on 9/11? Oh yeah the GOP, and this clown dare claims the Republicans are better prepared to defend the countryafter the worst attack on American soil took place on their watch.
And Obama called Bush a war criminal, yet he is still occupyng Afghanistan a year after taking out Bin Laden. The hypocrisy is no surprise since he called Bush unpatriotic for racking up $4.5 trillion debt in eight years while he adds $6 trillion in four.
Road...For the love of god, Because Obama added the war debt to the bottom line that Bush hid...That the economy collapsed & this man (our President) is trying to get help to the many many that need it...Please take a look around before you point a finger. There are reasons for this increase...And he is doing it alone! Due to the fact that the GOP got their marching orders to stop anything he tried to do before Obama ever took office! cowards is what the GOP are!
Democrats and Americans don't mix. They can't mix. One loves to consume. The other believes consumption is destroying the planet. Democrats want to thwart consumption by higher prices. Consumers won't tolerate that.
There's been 2 attacks on the American homeland in the last 100 years. Once under a democratic administration, once under a republican. Both administrations were absolutely and totally clueless about the impending attack, the head up the wazoo syndrome as it's better known.
Both went on to pummel their enemy eventually, deciding to take down a few others at the same time, both with the majority support of American citizens.
Looks like an even slate to me. One side is as victorious or as pathetic as the other, depending on your point of view.
The Republican Party --- the party of such great leaders as Lincoln, TR. Eisenhower and Reagan is committing suicide. The reelection of President Obama is no longer in question. He will win a second term. The only question for this election cycle is how long his coattails will be. Can the House flip? Can the Democrats pick up seats in the Senate? The real question for the future is will the Republican Party continue to exist or will it go the way of the Whig Party of the 19th century?
Charlie, you OD on your meds again?
Charlie, cool it:)
This country is on the abyss. If we do not heed the warnings of people like Gingrich, we face annihilation. I have personally experienced the deep hatred for each and everyone of us. You simply have no idea how many people hate Americans. I spent 222 days in a foreign prison cell after 9/11, simply because I was an American working independently abroad. Many Americans were rounded up and put in jails. The US State Department did not help because of "delicate" diplomatic negotiations. The American liberal media did not find it " news worthy". I was beaten, hosed down with scalding water and placed in isolation "for my protection". No one cared about my "rights".
If you naive fools think that Gingrich is a "fear monger", wait until one atomic bomb hits a major city in the USA because our enemies recognize that there is an ideological weak fool in the White House. Obama wants to "make nice with the scum of the earth. Think about it! You idealistic, delusional American's have had it too good for too long. You will no longer have time to worry and fret about the endangered coelacanth. The issue will suddenly be survival of the endangered American. Now, that just might be worth saving.
In my opinion it IS a matter of national security. He has FAILED TO PROTECT OUR BORDERS AZ may as well be mexican territory now. Russia has all the rights to the oil rich Allutian Islands. Both critical invasion routes as well AS the small arms treaty with hillery disarming the american citizen. Obama has to go
The weakest American President since Carter. Affirmative action has reached the highest office in the land, but now it is time to dial it back and go to a qualified white male. White males have led the USA to position of the greatest country in the history of this world. We gave a minority 1/2 black male a shot and he was NOT ready for prime time. Back to Chi-town Mr. Soetoro. I know that libs are excited over $4 gasoline because it makes electric cars more plausible, but it is killing the Heartland and those "fly-over people" are the SWING STATES!
2010 is the harbinger of the 2012 elections.
We get it ... you didn't vote for him.
However, the majority of us did, so your" hissy fit" is noted, but irrelevant in the big picture of how things work.
Its great to cast yourself as a martyr - a great and wise voice crying in the wilderness. In your mind, its probably playing out a great scene - with swelling violins and swelling orchestral crescendos, that somehow in the distance future you'll be vindicated. We lose a lot of fanatics that way.
And yet, the world goes on. Timmy is rescued from the well and Lassie gets another Doggy treat.
As sentiant Whales remarked as they left New Earth... Good bye, and thanks for all the fish!
It was sentient dolphins...Sorry, we sf fanatics are a little obsessive about these sorts of things... (:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long,_and_Thanks_for_All_the_Fish
Outwardly true... but Whales, dolphins and porpoise are all members of the same family... combined and commonly described as Whales. Toothed whales, baleen whales, large whales, small whales - still air breathing, mammalians, bearing life young who feed on milk produced by the mother.
While I don't claim citizenship status in Nerd geekdom, I do maintain a small country home on the outskirts of the kingdom as a SyFy associate.
to the degree that I see the connection where "The voyage home" blended the some of the elements of Hitchhikers guide in its (poorly conceived?) tribute.
Man is merely an ape with an all over body shave, better weapons - who benefited, greatly from the services of a Chiropractor, tailor and elocution coaching.
Is it just me? Or as the crowds thin and the novelty of seeing the "Bearded Lady", Wild lost Boys, Two - headed snakes and other minor Carnival Freaks wears out - doesn't it appear that Newt is shrinking?
He was irrelevant but entertaining is a deviate, tragic-comedic way. Like watch a Train wreck happen... even when you know you shouldn't be watching - somehow its almost immoral to not watch the whole show. If a man is going to commit suicide in Public - and you can't convince him based on the merits - that its not worth it, he could give up the act, he made his point... he could live he wanted too. Don't you him the courtesy of a least watching his final futile act of commencment ?
After all - its his last offering to the Sword he chose to "Live or Die by"....
He really meant a " duty of national insecurity", but he got distracted by the other kids around him.
If one of our biggest cities where hit by terrorist, Obama would not be blamed. If we were to go into another deep depression during his last 4 years in office, He would not be blamed. It is called brainwashing by a smart socialist president, which is easy for him since most Americans are stupid and uneducated on welfare, food stamps and SSI. Many are in the projects and do not want to lose those government freebies.
Gingrich is as fundamentally ludicrous, illogical, and ethically and intellectually flawed as the vast majority of rightwing nut posters here. Oh, did I mention IRRELEVANT. The repugs just don't get it, THEY LOST, and lost in a big way. So there they go again with their endless litany of revisionist history and obstructionism in a pathetic attempt to revitalize a fragmented and disillusioned late great political party. Hey rightwingnuts, your party is over and it cost this nation thousands of lives and trillions of dollars and this new electorate doesn't suffer from that same malady of memory loss that seems to afflict so many of these RIGHTWINGNUT OLD FLACCID WHITE MEN AND THEIR STEPFORD HAGS (excuse me, I meant "wives").
More sage advice from the man who wants to colonize the moon.
The politicans duty is to protect and support the constitution. Something they twist by supplementary laws.
I am not a fan of Obama; but the Repubs are 20 times worse. My duty is get rid of a useless Repub/tea party congress. They talk crazy talk; and want to subvert a dully elected President. Traitors of government, only wanting their selfish momentary interests.
I am a fan of President Obama, however - he sometimes does things which I wished he had decided at different way. If you can bat 300+ and be a baseball hero - then Obama is doing damn good as President. As long as he keepsbatting 500+, he has my confidence. So far, we haven't had to start a war to get attention away from the economy... that's a pleasant change!
However - the real point is - "he" is the President, its his job to take in information (gathered from as many sources as he can find) - then make the decision.
No President, since before the Civil War - has made decisions without input from his cabinet, Secretaries, consulted our Military, Naval and Marine leaders... that's why they all are in Washington D.C. - so they can get together and come up with a plan that everyone (who has his ear) can live with.
What has the Republicans P.O.-ed ... is they figured him to be a push-over and screwed up big time trying to play him for a fool. It's too late to kiss up now - so they are stuck in this pissant, small man battle to keep him occupied with Penny-ante, BS games.
All they are doing is pouring Blood in the water ... as long as they keep disrespecting the Office, the longer and bolder people like that DPRK dork, and the Iranian midget - will see how far he can push before before we get tired of the games and blow something up!
Have no doubt... that President "O" will launch a strike, if push comes to shove.
Sad, thing is - based on the Republican/ Tea Bagger reactions so far... they will still complain either way. They'll say "he didn't consult with us" , if he needs to take actions, And they'll say "Why did he do that ... He could have waited a few more years before resorting to military force. Then come back with something about - he was doing what GW would have done, if it works.
You just can't please a band of Outlaws, who have more invested in Frat - boy hooliganism than in doing their job, instead of peeking over the fence to second guess the man who does have the job.
They lost; fair and square ... and it got them running in circles trying to find a reason, anything except the obvious... they are betting against a full house with nothing but two fours in their hand.