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http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/306701
"GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich called President Obama the country's "most successful food stamp president" in its history and said the 2012 election will be the biggest since 1860, when the Lincoln and Civil War era began its scar on the country."

I hope the Food Stamp President moniker doesn't stick. Its sounds more than unflattering, like a comparison to Good Times*

*a sit-com in the mid 70s depicting a struggling family in Chicago, for you youngsters among us

Simmer down wrote:http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/306701
"GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich called President Obama the country's "most successful food stamp president" in its history and said the 2012 election will be the biggest since 1860, when the Lincoln and Civil War era began its scar on the country."

I hope the Food Stamp President moniker doesn't stick. Its sounds more than unflattering, like a comparison to Good Times*

*a sit-com in the mid 70s depicting a struggling family in Chicago, for you youngsters among us

This election is more like 1864, we're already in the middle of the struggle, and what we need is a victory to keep moving towards where we need to be. We've had major setbacks so far, but now is the time to seize upon past success and finish the fight, we need to dig deep and each of us find the will to do so.

Of course, the comparison will be even more apt if the GOP has a sanity attack and nominates Huntsman, Obama's former lieutenant, just as McClellan was Lincoln's.

Though Newt is highly educated (PhD in history from Tulane University), it's just made him a more eloquent spokesperson for the hard right including the rich. By attacking Food Stamps and by association Food Stamp recipients he sits back with his comfortable Government retirement as former Congresssman and Speaker of the House - hippocrite.

"Golden-tongued." That would explain why every time he opens his mouth it feels like a golden shower.

Obama's wildest dream is that Noot would end up with the nomination; the guy is wildly unpopular, all across the spectrum.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/1 ... 63374.html

The ol' presidential campaign isn't going so well...

He is using similar racial code words to what Reagan used in the 80's when he attacked "Cadillac driving welfare queens" Even though the largest proportion of welfare and food stamp recipients are White, both Reagan's and copycat Newt's attacks are meant to conger the image of undeserving minority (mainly Black) people taking government resources that could be put to better use as corporate welfare through subsidies and tax cuts.

The 1860's thing is meant to conjure up the image of the "usurper" which is what the southern power base called Lincoln because of his belief in federal power and his simpathy towards abolition. Lincoln, and many Northerners felt that America needed to be going in an new direction and the Souther legislators saw it as a fundamental attack on the way things had been and should remain. Today, many conservatives feel the same way about the White, wealthy, male hegemony.

The problem with Newt is that he has no principles. Whatever will appeal to his audience at the time is what he will support. His plan may have worked in a time where media was slower and more selective, but now, everything anyone says is archived and ready to be played back at a moment's notice. He is being exposed as a man with no allegiance to anything except his ego and his checkbook.