Newt Gingrich criticizes President Obama for diplomacy

[BirminghamExaminer]

Excerpt from full article:

President Obama spent the weekend visiting Mexico and Trinidad and Tobago, for the 5th Summit of the Americas. Unlike his predecessor in the White House, President Obama is seeking to strengthen ties with allies and reaching out to enemies.

In the last few weeks the world has watched as our new President has engaged in robust talks and diplomacy with world leaders in Europe and in the Americas. While the vast majority of Americas are sighing a collective sigh of relief that we have a President who is poised and diplomatic, the leaders who represent the extremist right wing of the Republican party continue to seek fault with President Obama.

Newt Gingrich, not known for his skills in diplomacy criticized President Obama for shaking hands with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. Chavez, for his part, was quick to take the opportunity whenever he could to get close to President Obama during the Summit of the Americas last weekend. Perhaps he is trying to shore up his own reputation back home in Venezuela where he isn't as popular as he would like.

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Because of his past, it's unlikely that even his inflated ego would lead him to believe he could make a successful run for the White House so I can only conclude that his strategy is to take the reins as de facto GOP leader from Rush Limbaugh. While Gingrich is certainly more intelligent than Rush Limbaugh, his childish behavior is no less repulsive to a vast majority of Americans, including many in the Republican party, the majority of the party that is moderate and has fled from the extremist views of the right wing fringe that continues to dominate the party even today.

Today's GOP leaders, those with the loudest voices are Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann, Glenn Beck, Fox News, James Boehner, Jim Cantor, southern governors like Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Rick Perry of Texas, to name a few. Their only strategy is to talk trash about the current administration no matter what they do and the American people are fed up with it. The vast majority of Americans want the government to be proactive, constructive and work towards solving the problems of the nation. They recognize that the GOP leaders are interested in anything and everything except solving the problems of the nation. In fact, to most of us, the GOP appears to be campaigning long since they lost the election.

I'm not complaining. For Democrats and liberals, the party of no, the obstructionist movement that has overtaken the Republican party, is a sweet windfall.

Read entire article and see video of Rachel Maddow talking about this subject.

[Captain Hilts]

1. This is just perfect. Thanks, Newt! nt

[Enthusiast]

2. Newt Gingrich=scum

of the lowest order.

[BirminghamExaminer]

3. I don't understand why he is on so many cable news network shows being

interviewed as if he is relevant in any way.

[Enthusiast]

4. The cable news media is

the perfect conduit for right wing propaganda. They are selling Newt as a sort of wizened older statesman. They want to sell him right into the whitehouse, but first they must discredit President Obama. Millions of us can see through this bullshit but millions accept the role they have placed Gingrich in. Newt can't wait to be a 'war president'.

I agree with you, Newt appears on cable shows a suspicious number of times. They are promoting him, simple as that.