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DEL.ICIO.USIf he ran: Newt Gingrich on why he’d base his effort in Georgia, but live in Virginia
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In a Thursday sit-down, during a break from his “American Solutions” schedule, Newt Gingrich said that — if he ran for president — he’d center his campaign in Georgia, but would keep his residency in McLean, Va.
“I wanted to stay very active on national security. We looked into this. I live 11 minutes from the CIA, I live 18 minutes from the Pentagon. I spend 40 percent of my time on national security,” Gingrich said. “It would have been dishonest to have pretended that I was coming home.”
The former Georgia congressman also said he would announce on C-Span — rather than on some Jay Leno program. Can’t think of who he might be making reference to.
Also, Gingrich said he needs those $30 million in pledges because, at bottom, he’s still a middle-class shlub.
“All of my immediate relatives are middle class. All of [wife] Calista’s relatives are middle class. And our daughters would say they’re middle-class. That’s who we are,” Gingrich said. “We’re fairly successful, but the idea of writing a $100 million check for a campaign is not part of my lexicon. I also think it’s just wrong. I don’t think we should be buying offices.”
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By Victor Jones
September 28, 2007 3:11 AM | Link to this
like wow, how did all the ethics news get covered up by newt, or were y’all wizendly using him to excess as a metaphor? i mean it was like today, everybody, on both sides of the aisle got their stay out of jail and in politics card, for free, kinda, christmas must be near.
By Galoco_lee
September 28, 2007 9:35 PM | Link to this
Don’t forget what Gingrich’s Republican party and Bill Clinton gave us - or did you forget. NAFTA
By Will Jones
September 28, 2007 10:09 PM | Link to this
Two “sides” against the Middle…Class: the only “stopper” threatening the fascist plutocracy “Shoot the Moon” against the “quaint” “notion” of Individual Sovereinty - YOUR PROPHECY AND MINE To John Adams Monticello, Jan. 11, 1816
DEAR SIR — … I agree with you in all it’s eulogies on the 18th. century. It certainly witnessed the sciences and arts, manners and morals, advanced to a higher degree than the world had ever before seen. And might we not go back to the aera of the Borgias, by which time the barbarous ages had reduced national morality to it’s lowest point of depravity, and observe that the arts and sciences, rising from that point, advanced gradually thro’ all the 16th. 17th. and 18th. centuries, softening and correcting the manners and morals of man? I think too we may add, to the great honor of science and the arts, that their natural effect is, by illuminating public opinion, to erect it into a Censor, before which the most exalted tremble for their future, as well as present fame. With some exceptions only, through the 17th. and 18th. centuries morality occupied an honorable chapter in the political code of nations. You must have observed while in Europe, as I thought I did, that those who administered the governments of the greater powers at least, had a respect to faith, and considered the dignity of their government as involved in it’s integrity. A wound indeed was inflicted on this character of honor in the 18th. century by the partition of Poland. But this was the atrocity of a barbarous government chiefly, in conjunction with a smaller one still scrambling to become great, while one only of those already great, and having character to lose, descended to the baseness of an accomplice in the crime. France, England, Spain shared in it only inasmuch as they stood aloof and permitted it’s perpetration. How then has it happened that these nations, France especially and England, so great, so dignified, so distinguished by science and the arts, plunged at once into all the depths of human enormity, threw off suddenly and openly all the restraints of morality, all sensation to character, and unblushingly avowed and acted on the principle that power was right? Can this sudden apostacy from national rectitude be accounted for? The treaty of Pilnitz seems to have begun it, suggested perhaps by the baneful precedent of Poland.
Was it from the terror of monarchs, alarmed at the light returning on them from the West, and kindling a Volcano under their thrones?
Was it a combination to extinguish that light, and to bring back, as their best auxiliaries, those enumerated by you, the Sorbonne, the Inquisition, the Index expurgatorius, and the knights of Loyola?
Whatever it was, the close of the century saw the moral world thrown back again to the age of the Borgias, to the point from which it had departed 300. years before.
By Victor Jones
September 28, 2007 11:30 PM | Link to this
Will, i had this ancestor, actually my great grandfather, who changed his name to Thomas Jefferson Jones. He’s buried in an unmarked grave in a church cemetery in west macon. Not to say we’re cousins or anything but have you ever had the urge to change your name to John Adams Jones?