Newt Gingrich Anyone?
I used to be a huge fan, but my enthusiasm waned following the House Post Office Money scandal and then really dropped off when the good Professor ran into the arms of the Christian Right.
However, he remains insightful and interesting. I credit that to his early multicultural background upon which he built his education. With a Ph.D. in education, his broad interests took him to the history department at West Georgia College as an assistant professor. In 1974 he moved to the geography department and was instrumental in establishing an interdisciplinary environmental studies program. Denied tenure, he left the college in 1978 as he was elected to Congress.(WIkipedia.) He taught at the National War College for 20 years.
"Launching a few missiles at Syria is a tactical action that will not change history," Gingrich writes. "Obama has already pledged that he is seeking a limited engagement and is not trying to replace the dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad."
Gingrich listed three other topics more worthy of debating than limited military action in Syria -- stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons; "the threat of radical Islamism"; and defense cuts." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03...
But clever as he is, each of us is an integrated entity one way or another, by choice or incidental summation:
"But there was something strange and needy about him. "He was impressed easily by position, status, money," she says. "He grew up poor and always wanted to be somebody, to make a difference, to prove himself, you know. He has to be historic to justify his life."
She says she should have seen the red flags. "He asked me to marry him way too early. And he wasn't divorced yet. I should have known there was a problem."
Within weeks or months?
"Within weeks."
That's flattering.
She looks skeptical. "It's not so much a compliment to me. It tells you a little bit about him."
And he did the same thing to her eighteen years later, with Callista Bisek, the young congressional aide who became his third wife. "I know. I asked him. He'd already asked her to marry him before he asked me for a divorce. Before he even asked." "
http://www.esquire.com/features/newt-gin...
However, he remains insightful and interesting. I credit that to his early multicultural background upon which he built his education. With a Ph.D. in education, his broad interests took him to the history department at West Georgia College as an assistant professor. In 1974 he moved to the geography department and was instrumental in establishing an interdisciplinary environmental studies program. Denied tenure, he left the college in 1978 as he was elected to Congress.(WIkipedia.) He taught at the National War College for 20 years.
"Launching a few missiles at Syria is a tactical action that will not change history," Gingrich writes. "Obama has already pledged that he is seeking a limited engagement and is not trying to replace the dictatorship of President Bashar al-Assad."
Gingrich listed three other topics more worthy of debating than limited military action in Syria -- stopping Iran from getting nuclear weapons; "the threat of radical Islamism"; and defense cuts." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03...
But clever as he is, each of us is an integrated entity one way or another, by choice or incidental summation:
"But there was something strange and needy about him. "He was impressed easily by position, status, money," she says. "He grew up poor and always wanted to be somebody, to make a difference, to prove himself, you know. He has to be historic to justify his life."
She says she should have seen the red flags. "He asked me to marry him way too early. And he wasn't divorced yet. I should have known there was a problem."
Within weeks or months?
"Within weeks."
That's flattering.
She looks skeptical. "It's not so much a compliment to me. It tells you a little bit about him."
And he did the same thing to her eighteen years later, with Callista Bisek, the young congressional aide who became his third wife. "I know. I asked him. He'd already asked her to marry him before he asked me for a divorce. Before he even asked." "
http://www.esquire.com/features/newt-gin...
I was part of his American Solutions think tanks back in the day. He may be the smartest man in the room most times, but he's a sellout to his party platform regardless of what is good for the country . He is part of the problem.