Gingrich: Obama weak like Carter

Newt Gingrich, should shut up and get out, he is a disgusting echo from the past.

He shook hands with a socialist, now he's a socialist. That's like me saying 'I went to the zoo last week, now I'm a chimpanzee'. Nice going Gingich. That's really gonna make you president. Don't you get it? The further right and loony you get, the more you just obscure yourself from the America people. Sad really that you don't realise how out of touch you are.

since when did a handshake start a war , I guess they should have come out swinging -that would really help

What an idiotic comparison. Interesting that the best put-down he could come up with hearkens back to thirty years ago. Just proves how out of touch Newt is, and his re-emergence on the GOP scene proves that the GOP has no new direction, no new voice, and no new talent.

Gingrich is a fine example why the Republican party is out of touch as well as pathetic. The man has done little aside from serving the extreme right.

The GOP needs a complete house cleaning to get rid of the moldy, foul ideas still permeating its antiquated ideology.

Newt has NO STANDING to provide advise to Americans! Has he been honest? Has he shown integrity? He was probably looking in the mirror and wanting to hear himself talk.

The Obama administration has shown itself credible, seeking to repair the image of the United States around the world that Newt and his ilk did so much damage to. He could have shown leadership to help any of the 20 nations ready to accept Peace Corps volunteers. He didn't.

Why the double standard? There are tons of archival photos of presidents smiling and shaking hands with supposed enemies: Eisenhowerr and Khrushchev, Nixon and Mao, Nixon and Brezhnev, Ford and Brezhnev, among others. It seems to me that the GOP is gambling that the public is so uneducated that they will believe every talking point they're sold, and/or the journalists pushing this non-story are just too lazy to do their research.

That he's an ex is relevant here, also, Clinton kicked this guys butt when his own party ran the country!

As usual, the GOP pundits read the issue completely backwards. Talking to our enemies is not a sign of weakness; it is a sign of strength. To say that the U.S. can't talk our enemies because it makes us appear weak reinforces the notion that we feel threatened. Boldly reaching out has just the opposite psychological effect and says, "We have no reason to fear you. Let's talk and settle our differences".

The GOP needs to learn to "man up".

I personally am not an Obama fan but I don't think a cordial handshake means much. I do however resent Obama's American apology tour. No country on earth has done as much as America has for other countries. The aid, the diplomacy, the caring that America has extended to other countries in troubled times does not equate ot any American president apologizing. Obama has a hardon for Bush and will use Bush until his presidency is over as a reference for anything that is wrong. The Democrats have had control over our laws and our policies for two of the last two years when Bush was president. They have only themselves to blame for anyrthing that happened in the past two years. Barney Frank, Dole, and yes even Obama and his Acorn buds are equally to blame for our economy. All benefitted from the policies of home loans and their desire for everyone to have equal opportunity regardless of the lack of work ethics of the people they represent. So, while I wlll defend Obama's jesture of hello with a hand shake, I will not defend his insistant blabbering that Bush is to blame for everyone problem associated with America. He sounds like a teenager blaming his parents for his shortcomings. Grow up Obama, you paid for this presidency, now be mature enough to handle it without playing the blame game. I would skip the bows however, it made him look silly if nothing else. Just because Newt has a different opinon doesn't make him outdated. At one time Obama would have appeared to be a radicalist. With the left in power right now about anything that speaks to being conservative or reserved looks strange to them.

Homeboy handshake with a socialist/communist. That's nice. Nothing like putting the Office of the President in the hood. Obama must think he is back on the block. Oh, wait, Obama doesn't even know where the block is. Funny how he can identify with everyones struggles based on his skin color and not his life experiences. Raised by typical white people. His words, not mine. I wish his Mom would have kept her legs together.

Typical naive or ignorant libera bostonians (or you think the rest of the country is naive or ignorant).

Go ahead, appease dictators, talk on even playing fields with them, let their enemies in their country endure more torture in prison because their standing has been certified by America, let our country continue into an unspirited, socialist, country where our ingenuity and rewards therefor are replaced with an ever burgeoning malaise that is and will continue to be the u.s. government.

From the man who brought us the contract with America (except no one remembers being asked about it) and the moral majority (which was neither), we hear the great words calling us all to hear his wit and wisdom. After finishing up dumping his wife on her deathbed in a hospital to have a good fling with a younger woman and leaving congress because of his high ethical standards, we have the paragon of ethics and morality drawing conclusiolns based on the flimsiest of circumstance. Mr. Gingrich is underqualified to be a member of the human race. If he ever toured a wastewater treatment plant, odds are, he'd never be seen again.

Wow, I'm amazed at how naive these comments are. I'm sure they don't remember a time when the U.S. was a laughingstock militarily and perceived as weak throughout the world. Mr. Obama seems intent on reversing our position of strength and reverting to a time of weakness and apology. I hope that his apprenticeship and eagerness to be liked does not do serious damage to our position in the world.

The President has his own distinctive style but he has no sense of history when he lets ortega, castro and chavez push it up his nose. These men are intent on subverting latin and south america. We don't need to apologize in combating them. Let the President sign the columbia free-trade agrrement and let the world know who are friends and enemies are. Viva Obama.

Where, oh where, do guys like Chavez, Morales, and Ortega 'get off' with painting the US as a militarist, 'corporate-financial Empire' that tortures powerless people in its oil territories, and economically oppresses its own 'working class' citizens?

Oh, that's right, they 'get off' with it because they see it directly and know the truth ---- of which the American people are blinded by the 'Vichy' facade of democracy that this ruling-elite global 'corporate financial Empire' hides behind (with the help of an equally 'Vichy' corporate media) while the guileful EMPIRE hides in our kitchen of faux democracy and mis-uses the US super-power military to abuse the rest of the world!

There may be some method to Obama's madness in allowing others to inform the American people about the global corporate empire in which we really live.

My bet? That not only all the other Western Hemisphere states will deliver this message today, but that all the European and other real, sustainable, and functioning 'social democracy' (post-WWII, and post-Empire) nations of Europe and Japan will start telling America this "inconvenient truth" ---- which will make Obama's job as the reforming leader of our country more possible in bringing America from EMPIRE back to the democratic Republic that 99% of Americans thought we were and want to be again.

Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine

It already has, JTH. You haven't noticed that the price at the pump has increased over 40 cents a gallon since Obama's inauguration? The Oil Giants know he won't drill in his own country, know he doesn't mind paying $4 gallon/gas(Obama's quote), so they're sticking it to us.

The right-wingers who tirelessly complain about President Obama being too "soft" tend to be those who heinously insult our nation's president, calling him names like terrorist, Muslim, socialist, and various racial slurs which I will not mention here. They also seek to intimidate the people who support his plans to revive our country by labeling them "Kool-Aid" drinkers. This attitude was evident during Sarah Palin's lynch-mob-style rallies during the 2008 campaign.

This indicates the low IQ and hill-billy mindset of the anti-science and mentally backward Republicans. The conservative extremists who destroyed America's reputation for the last 8 years want this country to FAIL in everything, from public education to the war in Afghanistan. I believe these unpatriotic rednecks should either start offering constructive ideas in a diplomatic way, or GET THE HELL OUT OF THIS COUNTRY. It is perfectly okay to disagree, but wishing that our country doesn't succeed or that President Obama gets assassinated is the language of a terrorist.

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Are you sure you're not just venting your anger after losing the 2008 election?

Obama is so dense he doesn't realize he has been insulted by Chevez, Ortega, and the Iranian clown. Obama believes he is so cool and loved by everyone, what an arrogant, ignorant person , Chevez was correct in his observation. He is an insult to the USA . I believe he hates the United States and his dream is to convert us to his socialist ideals bringing us under the leadership of the United Nations. Obama is not a leader, the decisions are made by dirty Harry , Ms Barney Franks, general Polosi, and Chris Dodd his duty is to sign off on their decisions. What a sorry president he is., giving our secrets to enemies of the US is final straw.

I thought Carter was the weakest president....until Obama went on this recent overseas tour. This man needs a shot of testosterone!

The ghetto slap he gave Chaves was a put down by Obama. It was kidda of like if he had said, "Chavzi, my Nigga", you could have picked up on the sarcasm better if he had done that, right? Chaves should know the awkward, unconventional grasp in the foraml relm of politics was a dire message. The fool called Obama an idiot a few weeks ago, BO did not welcome him into the brotherhood all the sudden. Now, this is the possission if Obama initiated the grip. If Chaves did, there's a big problem, he would be giving him the same respect as the Iranians that called him a "House Negro". They are trying to incite resentment and anger over the struggles of his race.

Carter was passive/agressive... Bush was agressive... Obama is assertive and sincere. Human nature is transparent. The whole world is watching, and it is time for genuine world leadership.

The most powerful person in the free world of a country that has done more to aide every country in the world and he bows down like a dog to the other world leaders. what a joke ... your the president of the United States stop acting like your 19 and trying to impress college freshman.

For 50 minutes, Obama sat mute, as a Marxist thug from Nicaraguadelivered his diatribe, charging America with a century ofterrorist aggression in Central America. After Daniel Ortega finished spitting in our face, accusing us ofinhumanity toward Fidel Castro's Cuba, Obama was asked his thoughts. "I thought it was 50 minutes long. That's what I thought." Hillary Clinton was asked to comment: "I thought the culturalperformance was fascinating," she cooed. Pressed again on Ortega's vitriol, Hillary replied: "To have thosefirst-class Caribbean entertainers all on one stage and to see howmuch was done in such a small amount of space. I was overwhelmed." Thus the nation that won the Cold War, contained the cancer ofCastroism in Cuba, liberated Grenada, blocked communist takeoversof Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, and poured scores ofbillions in aid into this region was left undefended by its ownleaders at the Summit of the Americas. Nor was this the only unanswered insult. Hugo Chavez, who hascalled Obama an "ignoramus" and Bush "El Diablo," walked over to aseated U.S. president and handed him the anti-American tract "OpenVeins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of aContinent." The book blames Latin America's failures on white Europeans. It opens, "Renaissance Europeans ventured across the oceans andburied their teeth in the throats of the Indian civilizations." Civilizations? Before Pizarro and Cortez, the Inca and Aztecempires these conquistadors overthrew were into human sacrifice. Evo Morales, the Aymaran president of Bolivia, who is using therace card against Bolivians of European descent, implied a U.S.role in an assassination plot against him. Argentina's Cristina Kirchner, who allegedly received black-bagmoney from Chavez, ripped into America for its role in the 1980s.Under Reagan, America aided Britain in the Falklands War, after theArgentine junta invaded the islands, and assisted the Contras intheir war of national liberation to oust Ortega's Sandinistas. Again, Obama offered no defense of his country. President Lula da Silva of Brazil, who blames the world financialcrisis on "white, blue-eyed bankers," told Obama that any futureSummit of the Americas without the Castro brothers was unacceptable. Perhaps Obama believes in turn-the-other-cheek diplomacy, though itis hard to find much success in history for such a policy. Perhapspacifism is in his DNA. Perhaps he shares the indictment of Americathat is part of the repertoire of every Latin demagogue. Whatever his motive, in Trinidad, there were not two sides to thestory. There were the trashers of America on the Latino left and aU.S. president who wailed plaintively, "I'm thankful that PresidentOrtega did not blame me for things that happened when I was 3months old." But, the Bay of Pigs, had it succeeded, would have given Cubans 50years of freedom instead of the brutal dictatorship they have hadto endure. And it took place four months before Barack was born. Obama's silence -- signifying, as it does, assent -- in the face ofattacks on his country is of a piece with the "contrition tour" ofhis secretary of state. "Clinton Scores Points by Admitting Past U.S. Errors," was theheadline over Saturday's New York Times story by Mark Landler: "It has become a recurring theme of Hillary Rodham Clinton's earlytravels as the chief diplomat of the United States: She says thatAmerican policy on a given issue has failed, and her foreignlisteners fall all over themselves in gratitude. "On Friday, Mrs. Clinton said ... that the uncompromising policy ofthe Bush administration toward Cuba had not worked. ... "The contrition tour goes beyond Latin America. In China, Mrs.Clinton told audiences that the United States must accept itsresponsibility as a leading emitter of greenhouse gases. InIndonesia, she said the American-backed policy of sanctions againstMyanmar had not been effective. And in the Middle East, she pointedout that ostracizing the Iranian government had not persuaded it togive up its nuclear weapons ambitions." Sandler wrote that Hillary brought to mind Bill Clinton: "On a single trip to Africa in 1998 ... Bill Clinton apologized forAmerican participation in slavery; American support of brutalAfrican dictators; American 'neglect and ignorance' of Africa;American failure to intervene sooner in the Rwandan genocide of1994; American 'complicity' in apartheid ... ." Yet, as C.S. Lewis reminds us in "God in the Dock," "The first andfatal charm of national repentance is ... the encouragement itgives us to turn from the bitter task of repenting our own sins tothe congenial one of bewailing -- but, first, of denouncing -- theconduct of others." Bewailing the policies of Bush as failures and standing mute in theface of attacks on his country and predecessors may come back tobite Obama. For when Jimmy Carter assumed a posture of moral superiority overLBJ and Richard Nixon, by declaring, "We have gotten over ourinordinate fear of communism," it came back to bite him, good andhard.

If "the Messiah" had any stones he would have arranged to give Chavez a really practical publication, the "Monroe Doctrine" and then have all of the newspapers
from South and Central America take pictures of that . . .

Wow, the wingnuts haven't overrun this thread. And right on, Alan MacDonald of
Sanford, Maine.

Only now I start to understand how G . Bush could be elected twice.
Many of you seem to see any sign of good and civilized behavior as a proof of weakness.

Cheney thinks Chavez is out of touch with the basic principles of this hemisphere!!! Cheney is out of touch with the basic principles of this hemisphere. Gingrich is a self serving blowhard! These people actually think the American people with forget what they have done to our country. They think everyone is as smart as W!

When Newt is done polishing his newly found Catholic crucifix perhaps he will have time to come up for air. As always, agitation is Newt's specialty. Obama has spun circles around around George W. Bush in a few months showing diplomatic skills and speaking presidential. Few are saying Obama is weak let alone anything like Jimmy Carter. This is another flag lapel pin type of attack on Obama. Unfortunately, USA weakness is most exemplified by the 911 attack and the recent lack of oversight in the fincancial / business sector disaster, both occuring during George W. Bush's presidency.

"Unfortunately, USA weakness is most exemplified by the 911 attack and the recent lack of oversight in the fincancial / business sector disaster, both occuring during George W. Bush's presidency."

And both instances stemming from liberal politicians, policies, and a great disdain for the military under the Clinton Administration. Nice try there markeyboy.

I can't wait till 4 years from now to see these loser Republicans take another baseball bat to the head at the polls. Neocons are a threat to this country. Dick Cheney is a threat to this country and to the world. Newt Gingrich is a duplicitous jack-tard who I hope runs and gets crushed. Just a bunch of old white men yapping like little dogs and biting Obama's ankles. What a bunch of losers.

Typical of lberals and democrats to personally attack anyone who disagrees with them. Intolerance is what they do best. Mr. Gingrich correctly reminds us how pitiful we were under Carter and how much he weakened our status in the world. I agree that Mr. Obama's handshake with Mr. Chavez doesn't endanger the strategic interests of the United States. But what I find frieghtening is that Mr. Obama has no real plan for protecting the interests of the United States aside from taking blame for everything we've ever done. He is like Mr. Carter, an idealist who will eventually get steamrolled by our enemies because apologies are not a position of strength. Our choices in dealing with those who wish to do us harm are these; they will respect us out of fear, or they will cease to fear us.

John-Michael,
If you think that the current administration is such a breath of fresh air then you need a full frontal lobotomy. Look at what he, and his other leftist friends, are trying to do to this country right before your eyes. Oh that's right, you have Bush derangement syndrome so you can’t see but in reality, liberals are just American hating, military hating, socialist, communists who truly pose the greatest threat to this country and its basic fiber.
Since Obama is the President of transparency (nice lie from the campaign trail) why doesn’t he release the memos that PROVED that harsh interrogations yielded factual information that saved American lives? But alas, he is just another liberal fraud who cannot handle FACTS.

"Newt Gingrich, should shut up and get out, he is a disgusting echo from the past."
Posted by IDIKO
Ever think of ascending to power in Iran? Venezuela? Cuba? U.S. of Obama, Schwarzenegger province?
"Shut up" is kinda their main theme. ORRR, instead of shutting up all oposition to your fantasy world, why not rely on that cover your ears and yell "lalalalalala!" thing?

"the current administration is such a breath of fresh air"
Cough..choke..*WHEW!* this is my floor!