Gingrich: Obama is 'most radical president ever'

[LuckyTheDog]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jTW8-bu3ZPEA5eXBoY7DjjXDI1lwD9EV8IDO0

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a potential presidential candidate in 2012, called Barack Obama on Thursday "the most radical president in American history" who oversees a "secular, socialist machine."

Gingrich reminded conservative activists why he was one of the nation's most polarizing leaders in the 1990s, opening the Southern Republican Leadership Conference with a biting assessment of Obama's policies.

"The most radical president in American history has now thrown down the gauntlet to the American people: 'I run a machine. I own Washington and there's nothing you can do about it,'" Gingrich said. He urged his fellow Republicans to stop what he called Obama's "secular, socialist machine."

Wow, Gingrich is right! Obama is a self-described progressive who advocates for universal health insurance, inheritance taxes, widespread unionization and strong regualtion of corporations ... oh, wait... I'm thinking of Teddy Roosevelt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_Moose_Party

[YOY]

1. EXTREEEEEEEEME!

Even when he's dong their job for them he's "radical"...fucking so called "conservatives".

Like the Old Lady said in Billy Madison: "If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis."

[Jennicut]

2. Obama is a moderate Dem. So incredibly scary.

[Captain Hilts]

7. BINGO. I think THAT is why they are so scared. nt

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

3. One would hope there was a price to pay for such lunacy, but

One would hope there was a price to pay for such lunacy, but the media just carries on as if there was a legitimate two-sided discussion going on.

Newt would have more credibility saying he was kidnapped by aliens.

I do not KNOW that Gingrich was not kidnapped by aliens. I think it unlikely, but I do not KNOW>

But I KNOW Obama is not the most radical president ever.

[activa8tr]

22. I hate how the media puts Gingrich on there... as if

he had actually done anything GOOD for America, or for any and all the women he has slept with.

And to think how the Republicans went after Clinton!!!

[LeftishBrit]

4. That is seriously NUTS!!!!!

[The_Commonist]

5. Who was the most radical president ever?

What do people here think?

[harun]

6. Interesting question, I think we are all still waiting for the first.

From where I am sitting it seems like they have all upheld what the original constitution was intended to do, enshrine the privilege of the elite. If one doesn't like the way that privilege has been enshrined then a new guy is elected who enshrines it slightly differently.

[Captain Hilts]

8. FDR. Reagan. nt

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

10. Lincoln, and there is no close second.

Radicalism is a relative concept. If Ronald Reagan had been elected in 1912 he would have been the most radical left-wing president.

Lincoln was elected by a regional minority and the nation dissolved as a direct result of his election. (Because of the perceived radicalism of his views.)

That's big stuff, radical-wise.

[LeftishBrit]

16. George Washington?

Pretty radical in those days, having an elected president at all, instead of a King!

[ShadowLiberal]

20. Radical is hard to define, you really have to go by radical in their day and age

If you look at any presidents from over 100 years ago you'll find some views they had that were widely accepted as mainstream at the time, but would be viewed as very radical today (such as African Americans being inferior, attitudes towards women).

Off the top of my head... Andrew Johnson may have been radical for his time in that he had so many problems with a congress that so strongly disagreed with his policies (and that overrode over 25 of his vetoes), but that was when only the north was represented in congress.

FDR was a drastic change from Hoover and the last 100 years of republican dominance, but FDR's party won large majorities, and so many people abandoned the GOP that they were reduced to just 1/5 of the seats in congress, so FDR isn't so radical for his time in that light.

[FSogol]

9. It should read: Disgraced Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Correct that omission wherever you see or hear it.

[C_U_L8R]

11. The mau mauing of Barack Obama

Gingrich is racist republican slime

[denverbill]

12. Funny isn't it. The Progressive Platform of 1912 would also work in 2012.

http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=607

[indepat]

13. Thank God for the balance provided by a non-radical RW machine

which spews hate, divisiveness, disinformation, outright lies, and fear around the clock, all mendaciously dripping and oozing with outright and surreal hypocrisy. :-)

[jenmito]

14. I was going to start a thread about this same thing. How in the world is Obama "the most radical

president in American history"??? Maybe the Repubs. are confusing "radical" with "Black"? They can't come out and SAY that they're against a Black man "presiding" over them, so they use code words like "radical" and even "athlete." :eyes:

[Arkana]

15. "Secular, socialist machine."

Really, Newt? Come on, I thought you would actually be smarter than this.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

17. "Most Radical President"

Obama locks up the skate-punk vote!

[grantcart]

18. he meant to say "darkest skinned President" ever

[jenmito]

19. Code for "Black." n/t

[rasputin1952]

21. I do belieive this was bush's mantra...

"...I own Washington and there's nothing you can do about it'".

While somewhat "radical", bush was far and away simply the worst president this nation has ever seen. The great, "history professor", Newt Gingrich should know that by now; and as a Former, and disgraced, driven from office, Speaker of the House, Gingrich has no room to speak about anything.

Gingrich is a slug, a piece of crap, his policies helped to bring the nation to the brink of bankruptcy, made us despised throughout the world, and his hypocrisy is the stuff of legend. While trying to destroy a president over an "affair", he was in the process of watching his own life disintegrate while he cheated on his own wife. Gingrich is simply a pompous pig.