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Gingrich to teach free online course from White House if elected
MSNBC ^ | November 22, 2011 | NBC's Jo Ling Kent

Posted on 11/22/2011 5:13:59 PM PST by presidio9

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1 posted on 11/22/2011 5:14:03 PM PST by presidio9
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To: presidio9

“Free”?

LOL


2 posted on 11/22/2011 5:15:39 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: presidio9

How will he have the time ... IF he is president?


3 posted on 11/22/2011 5:16:12 PM PST by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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To: presidio9

I have mixed feelings about this.

Pros:

1 - it’s a great way to explain yourself without the filter of the media

2 - what’s cooler than having the POTUS teach you a course?

Cons:

1 - could be construed as a Third-Reich-style propaganda piece

2 - ego

3 - when will he have the time?

Personally, I’d probably “take” the course...


4 posted on 11/22/2011 5:20:57 PM PST by RockinRight (It's Newt's turn.)
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To: cripplecreek

free as in beer.


5 posted on 11/22/2011 5:21:42 PM PST by palmer (Before reading this post, please send me $2.50)
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To: cripplecreek

Why wait to see if he is elected? He should be doing this now...


6 posted on 11/22/2011 5:24:42 PM PST by Magnum44 (Terrorism is a disease, precise application of superior firepower is the cure)
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To: presidio9

We don’t need a POL or an academic.

We need a leader.

We need a young Dick Cheney Clone.

Someone with experience, judgement, ethics and balls.


7 posted on 11/22/2011 5:24:42 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Texas Fossil

Who would you say most closely resembles this “young Dick Cheney” clone you are seeking?


8 posted on 11/22/2011 5:26:31 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

I love this idea.


9 posted on 11/22/2011 5:26:47 PM PST by MattinNJ
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To: RockinRight; cripplecreek

I’d take the course too!

Having been on FR for years (I hate to admit this, but I joined to make ONE comment in the first GWB election, and now I’m up to some insane number of comments and probably an astronomical number of views) I can say there are many, many conservatives who have virtually no knowledge of our system.

Some of them are young people who grew up in conservative areas or in conservative families, and others are older people who are conservative simply because they don’t like what’s going on now. But a lot of them don’t have enough solid knowledge to argue their positions.

So if Gingrich gives a course, sign me up...along with the rest of my family, most of them nice people but seriously badly educated in our public schools.


10 posted on 11/22/2011 5:29:12 PM PST by livius
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To: livius

Starting out with a lie about it being free isn’t real encouraging.


11 posted on 11/22/2011 5:32:48 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: presidio9

No, no, no, Newt - you will be President. You will a have BIG job and teaching from the White House will not be it.


12 posted on 11/22/2011 5:33:19 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS U.S.A. PRESIDENT)
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To: cripplecreek

How was it a lie? I don’t think this should be a Federally mandated program, forced through your phone or TV whether you want it or not. Obviously, individuals have to be willing to sign up for it.

That said, I’d be really happy to have a president who knew enough about the Constitution and cared enough about the citizens to try to explain his positions based on the Constitution and our history.

In fact, it would be nice to have an American as president...


13 posted on 11/22/2011 5:38:45 PM PST by livius
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To: presidio9

When ever Government promises to give anything away for Free, be very wary and careful...


14 posted on 11/22/2011 5:38:57 PM PST by American Constitutionalist (The fool has said in his heart, " there is no GOD " ..)
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To: Winstons Julia

“How will he have the time ... IF he is president?”

The one we have now seems to find all kinds of time to do whatever the hell he wants.


15 posted on 11/22/2011 5:40:44 PM PST by kcvl
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To: livius

Why don’t you tell it to someone who doesn’t live in a nation where the white house spends millions on websites.


16 posted on 11/22/2011 5:43:23 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Winstons Julia

“How will he have the time ... IF he is president?”

The one we have now seems to find all kinds of time to do whatever the hell he wants.


17 posted on 11/22/2011 5:44:09 PM PST by kcvl
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To: presidio9

As a home schooling family, we will, all twelve of us, be taking that course. The kids, me and mom.


18 posted on 11/22/2011 5:44:09 PM PST by JakeS (I have never had a flu shot and I have never had the flu.)
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To: presidio9

Didn’t he have to pay a big fat ethics fine for doing that as a Congressman?


19 posted on 11/22/2011 5:52:10 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: RockinRight

I agree with everything about your comment.


20 posted on 11/22/2011 5:52:25 PM PST by Winstons Julia (Hello OWS? We don't need a revolution like China's; China needs a revolution like OURS.)
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