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Newt: “Trying to turn it into a racial issue is fundamentally wrong. I really find it appalling.”

That's all they got Newt-- race and gender.

I'm in...til Newt's out.

1 posted on 03/23/2012 5:41:34 PM PDT by VinL
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The playing up of the old and tired “race card”.


2 posted on 03/23/2012 5:43:49 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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Newt would pummel that chump in a debate.


3 posted on 03/23/2012 5:45:32 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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one of them needs to just say ‘This is not an issue for a Presidential election” let the state handle it.


4 posted on 03/23/2012 5:45:58 PM PDT by The_Freemason
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Conservatives think.
Progressives emote.


5 posted on 03/23/2012 5:46:22 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The facts of life are Tory." -- Margaret Thatcher)
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And this is why Newt should be the nominee, he knows how to talk and he knows how to handle the press. He is absolutely SPOT ON here, Obama wants to make everything about race, because that is how he was raised, to hate white people. Obama never calls other victims of crime, everyday someone is murdered by gangs or other violent acts, he doesn’t call them, he only calls when it looks like something he can use to score political points


6 posted on 03/23/2012 5:47:34 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Newt’s full statement:

“What the president said, in a sense, is disgraceful. It’s not a question of who that young man looked like. Any young American of any ethnic background should be safe, period. We should all be horrified no matter what the ethnic background.
Is the president suggesting that if it had been a white who had been shot, that would be OK because it didn’t look like him. That’s just nonsense dividing this country up. It is a tragedy this young man was shot. It would have been a tragedy if he had been Puerto Rican or Cuban or if he had been white or if he had been Asian American of if he’d been a Native American. At some point, we ought to talk about being Americans. When things go wrong to an American, it is sad for all Americans. Trying to turn it into a racial issue is fundamentally wrong. I really find it appalling.”


7 posted on 03/23/2012 5:48:23 PM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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Al they are playing in Florida on the local news here is it was all about race/ hate crime.

The White House said days ago, it was a local law enforcement matter, now, look at where we are. We need to wait to get all of the facts in. I agree with Newt. Now, it's about race, getting even.

8 posted on 03/23/2012 5:49:12 PM PDT by Christie at the beach (I like Newt and would love to see political dead bodies on the floor.)
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Newt's TOTALLY SPOT ON! What Obama said was completely racist! It's about WHAT happened, not WHAT RACE it happened to.

Dang...I keep wishin' he were doing better in the polls!

10 posted on 03/23/2012 5:54:40 PM PDT by NordP (Common Sense ConservaTEAves - Love of Country, Less Govt, Stop Spending, No Govt Run Health Care!!!)
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“Martin, 17, was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain while he walked down a neighborhood street unarmed.”

so said ABC

and how about the pictures of Trayvon when he was a child...about 10 years old....we have seen that photo a lot.

now, of course, he was not shot “while he walked down a neighborhood street....” as we know if we read the police report. there was a lot more to it than that.

reality has taken a new turn in this story.

its the perfect set-up for the progressive agenda.

it has racism

it has guns

and its just in time for the elections.....and you can be sure it will be kept on the front page....

and Fast and Furious will not.

America is about to have another “show” trial.

BTW i cannot determine what happened, and why. that is for the “justice system.”

it seems that some places have rules against using deadly force against someone who has no weapons. some places, if you are attacked and are being beaten you are not allowed to shoot until you are certain that your opponent has a weapon.

even if you might be killed by a beating delivered with fists and feet you cannot shoot.

so i am told. it makes no sense. but there it is.


11 posted on 03/23/2012 5:57:09 PM PDT by kralcmot (my tagline died with Terri)
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Besides playing the race card, which is disgusting, Obama is trying to transfer sympathy from the person shot to himself with the “looks like me” comment - so he can benefit politically in the election and that is disgusting too.


14 posted on 03/23/2012 6:03:08 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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“Trying to turn it into a racial issue is fundamentally wrong. I really find it appalling.”


17 posted on 03/23/2012 6:09:15 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (=)
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“I’m in...til Newt’s out.”

It’s never nice to take your marbles and go home when the game is the future of the country. I don’t like Romney either but anyone including the garbage man is better that Obama. At least the garbage man stinks because of honest, respectable work.


20 posted on 03/23/2012 6:14:52 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We're an Oligrachy...Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson)
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Heard Newt on SH’s show - his remarks were spot on.


22 posted on 03/23/2012 6:20:15 PM PDT by skeeter
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NEWT is the ANSWER.

No Question necessary.

24 posted on 03/23/2012 6:21:24 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE FOR THIS CRIME? WHERE IS OBAMA’S COMMENT ON THIS HORRIFIC CRIME?

Two teenagers attacked a 13-year-old WHITE boy and set him on fire with gasoline in what police in Missouri are investigating as a possible hate crime. Police said that both suspects are BLACK.

If it were the other way around, Obama would be running his mouth on TV already.


27 posted on 03/23/2012 6:45:50 PM PDT by Marguerite (When I'm good, I am very, very good. But! When I'm bad, I'm even better)
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President Obama today offered a personal reflection on the tragic shooting the Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, saying the incident requires all Americans to “do some soul searching.”


Except when a white kid is set on fire by blacks. That doesn’t require any soul searching. Or is even worthy of a mention by obama. He is a racist pig.


32 posted on 03/23/2012 7:06:10 PM PDT by chessplayer
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Hussein’s goal is to turn the clock back on race relations by 300 years. He’s succeeded.


33 posted on 03/23/2012 7:06:10 PM PDT by bgill
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Gingrich Calls Obama’s Trayvon Martin Remarks ‘Disgraceful’

Newt is absolutely right! Bowbama sticks his nose (and ears) where it doesn't belong. Bowbama fueling racial tensions! Let's see how this shakes out. Could be a lot of egg on the face of Bowbama, Sharpton and Jackson...racists all!

35 posted on 03/23/2012 7:07:30 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (I miss President Bush! 2012 - The End Of An Error! (Oathkeeper))
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If Newt tries to get out...let's drag him back in!

Go Newt! We need you now more than ever!

But I like Romney's new song

My dogs on the roof...

my dogs on the roof...

Catchy tune!
36 posted on 03/23/2012 7:08:03 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: "Will someone rid me of that Nettlesome Newt?")
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“When I think about this boy, I think about my own kids,” Obama told reporters....

Obama gets it wrong... again. He should have thought about Zimmerman being like himself. Zimmerman is half white and half hispanic. Half and half like Obama. Of course Obama wants to play the race card for votes and compare a black punk to his kids. When a muslim soldier went on a killing spree, Obama didn't compare the victims to his kids, he just said don't rush to judgement. He is so full of b.s.

38 posted on 03/23/2012 7:12:19 PM PDT by roadcat
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