Politics | 04/20/2009 8:30 am
Newt Gingrich Says Chavez-Embracing Obama Like Carter: 'Weak' (Video)
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Newt Gingrich definitely doesn’t approve of Barack Obama’s warm relations with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, whom the president met at the Summit of the Americas this weekend.
Appearing on Fox and Friends this morning, Gingrich, the Republican former House speaker, said that Obama’s actions are like those of Jimmy Carter and, therefore, weak. "Frankly, this does look a lot like Jimmy Carter. Carter tried weakness, and the world got tougher and tougher, because the predators, the aggressors, the anti-Americans, the dictators – when they sense weakness, they all start pushing ahead."
Obama caused a minor sensation when he greeted Chavez this weekend and shook his hand, which, says Gingrich, legitimizes the anti-American leader.
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Yes Diamond, yes you said it well. Obama is in this for himself, not America. America is just a prop. Better that we are in crisis to enable his plans of nationalizing our banks and businesses. It has begun. Now he has changed the government bank "loans" to private stocks…ownership.
More that alarming, that time has passed.
"Nationalizing" is only a scary-sounding word to the ignorant and uneducated. And in reality, the president is opposed to nationalizing the banks, a position that is generating a lot of criticism in the legitimate press.
Nationalizing — forcing bankrupt banks like Citigroup and BofA — into receivership and reorganization is what most realistic economists say will solve the problem — and it is what Japan did not do that made their financial crisis last 10 years.
S G, right on, this is one of the reasons Pres. Obama beat Hillary Clinton, more people believe that we need to listen, even to dictators we disagree with. I am glad Pres. Obama is keeping his campaign pledge.
For crying out loud SG….the world stage is a nasty place. They deal with bullies, they are bullies, they could care less about this "diplomacy crap" it only serves to buy them time. That is what diplomacy does for the likes of Iran.
How naive. How very naive and dangerous.
Bush dug us a deep, dark hole with the kind of foreign policy you are endorsing. Our economy is crippled, our military reserve is depleted, our standing in the world was diminished, the Islamic balance of power in the Mid-East has been tipped toward Iran, Russia has been pushed to rearm and build a new Soviet Bloc, North Korea was pressured into developing nuclear weapons as a bargaining chip, Bush’s deal with India undermined the NPT and with it the moral high ground for stopping nuclear proliferation.
We need to reclaim the moral high ground as much as we need to rebuild the “big stick”. Blind pride and denial of the realities of our current situation - and the state of the world - is foolhardy and dangerous.
Zera…anyone that thinks that by "talking nicely" to the likes of N.Korea, Russia, Iran and others, is the answer…well bluntly put…they are not based in reality.
Your rant about Bush turning the "world" against us is just another talking point propagate by the left. They conveniently leave out all of our allies that were with us in the many decision that were made. They also conveniently leave out the Democrats that voted in favor of those many decisions. Oh ya….Bush coundn’t do it all alone….news to some?
Moral high ground only works when dealing with others that recognize and also value the moral high ground. It say that any of these terror regimes and tryrants were forced into obtaining nuclear capabilities is to be totally unaware of their ideologies and religious proclamations.
Actually, I endorsed a much larger troop invasion in Iraq, but Bush had to comply with the Dems and their half assed attempt to do the job.
The operative word here is "diplomacy". To say that America has not used diplomacy is to not understand what diplomacy is. That’s right…one would not have any idea of how diplomacy actually works. Diplomacy makes use of the chain of command and respect of office when approaching any subject. That has been used by Bush and his administration.
Relative to agreeing to sit down without preconditions, (which is not diplomacy) Obama’s idea of diplomacy is folly. And, as demonstrated by Ortega and Ahmadinejad just recently, does not encourage meaningful dialog. It is used as a stage for propaganda and public ranting. That is not diplomacy.
I suggest that readers take the time to learn what steps are involved with International diplomacy before they rage on about what they think it entails.
Further, the leaders of the countries intent on invasion and genocide are evil, they are bad and they do not give one good hot damn about "talking". Talking only buys them time, sanctions have done nothing but buy them time to build weapons of mass destruction. Fact, like it or not. This is not Disney World that we live in.
Obama is naive and only pandering to those in America that are just as naive as he is. His ridiculous attempts at charming the world have not been embraced. He is appearing weak and so is our country because of it.
donna, i have got to say i am so glad to read your comment. so many times i see conservatives simply bash anything and anyone that is associated with the democratic party.
calling people evil makes the world hate us. by shaking hands and welcoming discussing, we are showing we are growing up, we are a mature people (at least our leader is) and that we are sane and calm enough to talk things out first … rather than carpet-bombing those who disagree with us.
I don’t think for a minute that Obama is weak, he will do whatever is necessary to keep America safe.
of course he will, donna! thank you for saying this as a previous bush-voter. you show republicans and conservatives that it is ok to agree with and support democratic politicians and their ideas.
i hope to read more from you.
No Donna, that is wrong. The President of FRANCE has pubically stated that he finds Obama lacking in experience and "not up to speed" with many world issues.
Open your mind, listen…listen to what they say…..if an ally is saying it outloud, others are saying it behing the scenes.
Donna, an open mind is what moved me to research Obama. My open mind is what lead me to see that he was going to do JUST WHAT HE IS NOW DOING. An "open mind" does not vote for someone based on a broad sense of "change". A smart yet open mind would have asked….EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF CHANGE?
You talk about "swagger"….seriously…"swagger"? ah….ok. "Evil"…yes…there is evil and nothing can be fixed until it is acknowledged. You better believe that evil exist and is out there waiting to kill every man, woman and child in America.
I am so sorry that your guilt over Bush lead you to rebound into a vote for Obama. Obama has already spent our country down that drain for GENERATIONS to come. Obama is spending our county into a position of governmental control.
I can only hope that more of the good people that were lied to by Obama will have enought confidence in themselves to stand up against this power grab by him and his administration.