Newt Gingrich

What a slimy politician.

@whippersnapper

Yes no one can deny deny that Mr. Gingrich sounds supercilious. I attribute that to his professorial background. My father used to be a teacher and shares that characteristic. However my point was that the apparent sense of superiority was general and not aimed at Juan Williams in particular.
As to making 10 year-olds doing the work of janitors, Mr. Gingrich did not specify that particularly low age, and he did not restrict the potential work available in schools to janitorial duties. As I recall he mentioned the library. For that matter,when I was 10 I sometimes did unpaid work in my parents' business. My husband had a paper rout. I also remember seeing a documentary about education in Japan, showing little Japanese children doing all the cleaning in their classroom for no pay whatsoever.

http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/fact-check-shows-gingrichs-...

Fact-check disproves Gingrich's claim that Obama added more people to food stamps than any other President. Not that the differential is large, but it speaks to how willing Newt Gingrich is to create his own facts.

His point about "adding people to food stamps," is not reflective of any of his policies, considering the economy Obama acquired from the Bush administration, and more importantly, the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy that allow 9-10 figure salaries like Buffett and Romney's to be taxed at a lower rate than the 5 figure salaries of their shoe-shiners and cleaning ladies.

Nixon rides again via newt! http://tropicsofmeta.blogspot.com/2012/01/nixon-in-space-familiar-politi...

Carrollton, GA... I went to school close by. Carroll County is as racist as it can get. Maybe Ranburne County, on the other side of the Alabama border, is worse. In the city of Bowdon, a 15 minute drive from Carrollton, I saw about 14 years ago the KKK asking for donations in Main Street… and a lot of whites were giving them some money.
But the people... the people in general are all so extremely racist that it is an insult to consider Carrollton in any political discussion about America.

With almost half our population obese maybe food stamps should be denied to overweight individuals. They eat too much and buy the wrong things!

The food stamp program is just another big government bureacracy.Far better to increase welfare payents and let people budget their money and do away with all those government workers.
If you need food stamps you need welfare.

I am no fan of Obama but I agree that it is not fair to pin all of our current economic malaise on him. Much of this recession was brought on by George Bush with his 2 prolonged wars, "Every American has the RIGHT to own a home" Fannie-Freddie subprime loan disaster, and the subsequent bank bailouts to bail out his supporters on Wall Street.

Obama should also be given the credit for killing Osama Bin Laden. Thanks to that deft military meneuver which he had the courage to green-light, Al Qaeda is now much weaker than it was...a snake cut off at the head can only continue to twitch for so long.

That said, I would still vote for a Republican for the next election, because Obama has not been much of a leader in the last 4 years. He lacks courage, vision and strategy.

Food stamps are a safety net program. Living on public assistance hardly amounts to living high on the hog. You can get by, but you can't get ahead.

If there were jobs, people would work them. It's not like all of the unemployed decided that they would rather sit at home and not work for a better future.

Ah the Republican party, the comedians of the Political world. I only wish they were fictional as opposed to an all too real threat to rational thought and social progress.

Newt Gingrinch misses the point, because he's a multi-millionaire without doing much to earn it. If minimum wages were $15.50 per hour, as they are in Australia, then Americans would be more enthusiastic to work...if there were jobs to be had.
But if Gingrinch had actually watched the reports he would realize China has all the industry and jobs, America is going the way of the dodo..

Gingrinch looks like another bankster's best friend, rubbing shoulders with his friends in the Project on National Security Reform committee...and their likes. Obama will win anyway, and another candidate will better Gingrinch.

The food stamp program should be reformed. The food purchased with food stamps should be limited to "only" basic and healthy foods like milk, eggs, potatoes, rice, chicken, and generic brands of peanut-butter, ice cream and bread. Off the list should be T-bone steak, and all the high price designer frozen and snack foods that fill Americas grocery stores.

I live in the State of Indiana where those on food stamps are given a "Indiana Works" card that looks like a credit card. This card is to spare them much of the embarrassment of appearing to be on the dole. Many of us are appalled at the mix of high priced and unhealthy foods our tax dollars are used to buy through this program. People buy these foods to fulfill their "appetite", it has gone far beyond just keeping people from going hungry.

Under no circumstances will I vote for Gingrich, he simply does not possess the charachter to be President.

I would much rather vote for Obama then the imbeciles that the Republicans have mustered...

My great aunt serves as a foster parent for inner city children who have become wards of the state due to their parents being convicted of a crime or sent to jail. She's told me of numerous instances in which women get pregrent in order to receive additional funds from the government. This is not racism, but is crap that actually goes on in America. People don't seem to understand that between food stamps, welfare payments and illicit drug revenue many of these people are leading comfortable middle class lives at the expense of the rest of the population.

I can't tell you how many times I've seen people buy grocercies with food stamps (link card) and then get into their Cadillac Escalade. This is not made up stuff people...it happens for real all of the time.

Now, I'm not saying there aren't a lot of people who truly need government assistance, but I'd think you'd be shocked by how many people are truly manipulating the system. Further, the system is perpetuating the cycle of poverty.

If I were emperor food stamps would be made generally available because no one should have an empty stomach, but after the first child no more increase in welfare payments. You're on your own for screwing up your own life.

Getting all incensed about the racial smackiness of "food stamp president" is just as ridiculous as when Obama supporters got upset that they were being called "koolaid drinkers". What was an obvious reference to poorly though out followership of the Jonestown massacre variety, was somehow interpreted as racism because apparently there is a joke or some nonsense about African Americans drinking koolaid. In the same way, "food stamp president" is an obvious reference to big government socialism and removing the incentive to work. Juan Williams is either paranoid or disingenuous. Besides, it makes no sense to invent incidents of racism when there are so many legitimate moments worth of umbrage like when tea partiers labeled Michelle Obama the "Welfare Queen" (an attack similar to "food stamp president" but with actual racist intention).

"This incredibly misleading claim sent the crowd into an ecstasy of delight." - this could be attributed to a good portion of statements flying out during these debates... these guys really DO live in a thick bubble and only fox news knows how to get in...

Did several pages of comments just disappear?

Newt Gingrich in the hit, runs and errors has a miserable record. He swing for the fence all the time and hits out into a triple play with three men on base. Yea, he gets it 80% right when a little caution would get it 100%. A debater, yes; as one to govern, I hate to think how he could insult the Chinese, the Russian, the Iraqis, and the rest of the Muslim world twice a day without a second thought.

I had faint hopes that Jon Huntsman would show up higher in the polls, but GOP base is so out of it that it was not to be.

If asked, I am sure 0bama would say that one of his goals is to get more people on food stamps. He basically said this when he told Joe the plumber that he was going to "spread it around". He's spreading it. How else you gonna get money into the hands of those who have their hand out?