Gingrich: Defeating Obama is 'a duty of national security'

[DearAbby]

Gingrich: Defeating Obama is 'a duty of national security'

TULSA, Okla. -- Newt Gingrich said Monday a Republican win in November is "a duty of national security," taking his attack on President Barack Obama a step further on the day the country celebrates Presidents Day.

"Defeating Barack Obama becomes, in fact, a duty of national security," Gingrich told a crowd of about 4,000 people on the campus of Oral Roberts University. "Because the fact is, he is incapable of defending the United States."

Gingrich, who frequently refers to Obama as the "the most dangerous president in modern American history," again said the country is at risk "someday in your lifetime of losing an American city" from a terrorist attack.

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[DearAbby]

1. Gingrich: Vote For Obama And We Could Lose An American City

Speaking at Oral Roberts University, Newt Gingrich put the fear of terror into the audience.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich declared that defeating President Barack Obama is a “duty of national security” in a speech to students at Oral Roberts University.

“We are really at risk someday in your life time of losing an American city [in a terrorist attack],” Gingrich said, adding that in that context “defeating Barack Obama becomes a duty of national security.”

Gingrich also stated that Obama “is incapable of defending the United States,” making no mentions of his counterterrorism success, including the killing of Osama Bin Laden.

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[steve2470]

2. Hmm, let's see, 2001: 9/11 happened on Bush's watch

I'm sure Gingrich would blame that on the Democrats and the librul media.

[Sherman A1]

3. Newt having missed the OBL take down, but

hey he's on a roll, so just keep on, keeping on there Newt buddy......

[wakemewhenitsover]

4. Oh. That old Republican cliche.

Be afraid! Be very afraid!

[Ebadlun]

5. Let's party like it's 2004

They managed to smear an actual, live war hero as a coward then, but it's getting a bit thin now.

[DearAbby]

8. Well crazy is the new norm for GOP n/t

[jaysunb]

6. This borders on sedition...

seriously. I think he should ask himself if some person might take this to mean something else...like maybe, take matters and a gun in their own hands ?

I hope this kind of shit will be investigated.

[DearAbby]

10. I agree

I won't hold my breath...

[Ebadlun]

13. He already wants 'activist' judges arrested

Staunch defender of the constitution that he is.

I say 'staunch defender of the constitution'. This is of course ghetto slang for 'Tea-party-fellating megalomaniac'.

[gratuitous]

7. Does any of this disturb anyone else?

It took a lot less than this to set off crackpots like Jared Loughner and Byron Williams. Here's a serious candidate for a major party presidential nomination saying that the incumbent President is a threat to national security. When someone gets stopped with a personal arsenal on his way to some presidential appearance (we hope he gets stopped), will anyone ask Mr. Gingrich about his reckless, inflammatory comments? Or will the assembled media chuckleheads simply say, "Tut, tut" and decline to draw any kind of connection between Gingrich's ranting and the unbalanced clown with all the weaponry?

[gulliver]

18. Gingrich wants to inspire another Timothy McVeigh (R) I guess.

He isn't satisfied with inspiring the first one.

[flobee1]

9. the last republican

failed that test one year on the job! How long has Obama been prez?
and the dem before that went 8 years without an attack-I'll stick with the Dems on this one, thanks anyway!

[Old and In the Way]

17. Then there were the anthrax attacks...they couldn't find the perp for that either.

Voting republican is bad for your physical and fiscal health....there's plenty of data to back this up.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

11. You know there is something else about this tripe that

we need to keep in mind. If Newtie has his way (and I don't think the GOP will) it's a very small step from demonizing the President to demonizing all those who voted for him. Any mud he throws at the President, by association, lands on those who supported him. Next step? "Register those who vote Democratic onto a special watch list"
Or am I being paranoid?

[Bruce Wayne]

21. it's inherently crazy making trying to apply logic & reason to Newt's talking points

If he doesn't bother to think through the logical implications of whatever he says to demonize his bete noir du jour, why should we? No, all we need do is sit back and admire the incredible skill with which he mimics actual intelligence.

[SomethingFishy]

12. Well then, if it's a "duty of national security"

then I'm sure Newt will get his DEFERMENT.

[unblock]

14. "incapable of defending the united states" is a bizarre charge against a sitting president

without an obvious example of having failed, it would seem that yes, he had already been defending the united states....

[handmade34]

15. my duty..

is to work as hard as I can for the re-election of Barack Obama

[11 Bravo]

16. Watch out Callista. When Newt whips himself into this sort of patriotic lather, a young staffer ...

usually gets fucked. (But you already knew that, didn't you?)

[JBoy]

19. Poor Newt. Falling behind in the crazy race to Santorum.

[Bruce Wayne]

20. Wait, is Newton still in the race? I'd forgotten about him.