Draft Dodger:
Though he relentlessly pushes military spending and talks like a bigtime hawk, Gingrich avoided the Vietnam War through a combination of student and family deferments. (He married one of his teachers at age 19.)
Problems With Women?
Newt pressed his first wife to sign divorce papers while she was still in the hospital recovering from cancer surgery. He also graciously said "She isn't young enough or pretty enough to be the President's wife." But his second marriage hasn't been that smooth either. Newt and Marianne have been separated - "frankly", she told the Washington Post in June 1989, "it's been on and off for some time."
Does Newt have some kind of problem with women? He has said that he read a book called "Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them", and "found frightening pieces that related to my own life."
Incidentally, Marianne told Gail Sheehy she doesn't want Newt to run for President. " I told him if I'm not in agreement, fine, it's easy. I just go on the air the next day, and I undermine everything. ... I don't want him to be president and I don't think he should be." Newt's response? Marianne "was just making the point hypothetically" that he would not run unless she agreed he should.
House Banking Scandal: Newt Bounced 22 Checks
Remember the House Banking scandal, where so many congressmen wrote rubber checks on government money? Newt hopes you don't, because he bounced 22 himself, which almost cost him reelection in 1992. His vote for the secret House pay raise, and the chauffeur who drove him around Washington in a Lincoln Town Car, didn't help.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Why Most Black People Are Democrats
Why are most Black people Democrats? (A Lesson in History)
Some of you wonder why a Black person that professes to be a Christian is a Democrat? Let me give you a history lesson, years ago most Black people were republican believe it or not, of course Lincoln was a Republican as we all know, and too many's dismay even Martin Luther King was a once a Republican, most whites in the south were Democ...rats also called DIXIECRATS, when the civil rights movement started which is not just about de-segragation but severe inhuman treatment of blacks in the south (lynchings, not being allowed to vote, separate and inequal schools, being denied the ability to attend colleges) . When president Johnson decided to END segregation and allow voting rights. The GOP took up with the "states Rights" mantra th...at would protect the states rights to keep doing inhuman things to Blacks, so there was a MASS exodus from the GOP, the abortion issue wasn't even an issue then...THE ISSUE WAS HUMAN RIGHTS....not GAY RIGHTS....HUMAN RIGHTS. Believe it or not most Black people over 40 especially are VERY conservative but the GOP siding with racist policies cause Blacks to not embrace them. As far as patriotism goes Blacks served in the military in every war only to come home and NOT be treated equal. My grandfather served in WWI, my father and uncles in WWII, my brother in Vietnam, me in Somalia and Desert Storm, and my Nephew in Iraq....so I hope this has be helpful to make you understand where I am coming from.See More
Some of you wonder why a Black person that professes to be a Christian is a Democrat? Let me give you a history lesson, years ago most Black people were republican believe it or not, of course Lincoln was a Republican as we all know, and too many's dismay even Martin Luther King was a once a Republican, most whites in the south were Democ...rats also called DIXIECRATS, when the civil rights movement started which is not just about de-segragation but severe inhuman treatment of blacks in the south (lynchings, not being allowed to vote, separate and inequal schools, being denied the ability to attend colleges) . When president Johnson decided to END segregation and allow voting rights. The GOP took up with the "states Rights" mantra th...at would protect the states rights to keep doing inhuman things to Blacks, so there was a MASS exodus from the GOP, the abortion issue wasn't even an issue then...THE ISSUE WAS HUMAN RIGHTS....not GAY RIGHTS....HUMAN RIGHTS. Believe it or not most Black people over 40 especially are VERY conservative but the GOP siding with racist policies cause Blacks to not embrace them. As far as patriotism goes Blacks served in the military in every war only to come home and NOT be treated equal. My grandfather served in WWI, my father and uncles in WWII, my brother in Vietnam, me in Somalia and Desert Storm, and my Nephew in Iraq....so I hope this has be helpful to make you understand where I am coming from.See More
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