Gingrich: Putin is a dictator and a thug

[Sallow]

CNN) – Americans shouldn't let Vladimir Putin's opinions get under their skin because the Russian president is a one-time KGB officer whose primary interest is nationalism, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday.

"While we have to deal with him as the president of Russia, we don't have to respect his views. We don't have to respect his opinions," said Gingrich, co-host of CNN's "Crossfire."

"And frankly, we should laugh at him when he tries to lecture America about exceptionalism, because he ain't exceptional. He's just one more in a long tradition of dictators and thugs."
Gingrich: Putin is a dictator and a thug ? CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

Absolutely..

 

[ScienceRocks]

I like newt. He would of been pro science

Wouldn't of been arming the al Qaeda either.

 

[Mac1958]

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While I'm not sure I understand the whole "exceptionalism" thing, good for Newt.

It won't stop Putin, though, he's not worried about us. We gave him a nice big opening and he's driving through it. That's what sociopathic thugs do.

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[Sallow]

This was the appropriate response to a dictator and thug.

You let them know..you are on to them.

 

[Sallow]

And thus far members of the US congress have also panned the Stalinist's New York Times OpEd.

Good stuff.

 

[LoneLaugher]

CNN) – Americans shouldn't let Vladimir Putin's opinions get under their skin because the Russian president is a one-time KGB officer whose primary interest is nationalism, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Thursday.

"While we have to deal with him as the president of Russia, we don't have to respect his views. We don't have to respect his opinions," said Gingrich, co-host of CNN's "Crossfire."

"And frankly, we should laugh at him when he tries to lecture America about exceptionalism, because he ain't exceptional. He's just one more in a long tradition of dictators and thugs."
Gingrich: Putin is a dictator and a thug ? CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

Absolutely..

Can he ever say a sentence without the word, " frankly " ?

 

[LoneLaugher]

I like newt. He would of been pro science

Wouldn't of been arming the al Qaeda either.

Oh yes. He would HAVE. He was planning on colonizing the moon, wasn't he?

 

[ScienceRocks]

I like newt. He would of been pro science

Wouldn't of been arming the al Qaeda either.

Oh yes. He would HAVE. He was planning on colonizing the moon, wasn't he?

What is wrong with having a pro science president?

 

[Stephanie]

Obama and Putin both thuggish ego maniacs...

not good for us here at home

 

[ScienceRocks]

I hope newt runs again in 2016!!!

 

[dilloduck]

Obama and Putin both thuggish ego maniacs...

not good for us here at home

Putin just happens to be the smarter thug/dictator.

 

[JoeB131]

Putin really put a lot of people's panties in a wad, didn't he?

Russia and the US are kind of in the same boat, empires who have seen their better days pass them by.

That we are fighting over Syria where neither one of us have anything at stake is kind of silly.

 

[Stephanie]

Obama and Putin both thuggish ego maniacs...

not good for us here at home

Putin just happens to be the smarter thug/dictator.

seems so

 

[jon_berzerk]

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While I'm not sure I understand the whole "exceptionalism" thing, good for Newt.

It won't stop Putin, though, he's not worried about us. We gave him a nice big opening and he's driving through it. That's what sociopathic thugs do.

.

The position of the Americans is therefore quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one. Their strictly Puritanical origin, their exclusively commercial habits, even the country they inhabit, which seems to divert their minds from the pursuit of science, literature, and the arts, the proximity of Europe, which allows them to neglect these pursuits without relapsing into barbarism, a thousand special causes, of which I have only been able to point out the most important, have singularly concurred to fix the mind of the American upon purely practical objects. His passions, his wants, his education, and everything about him seem to unite in drawing the native of the United States earthward; his religion alone bids him turn, from time to time, a transient and distracted glance to heaven. Let us cease, then, to view all democratic nations under the example of the American people.-Alexis de Tocqueville 1835

 

[dilloduck]

Putin really put a lot of people's panties in a wad, didn't he?

Russia and the US are kind of in the same boat, empires who have seen their better days pass them by.

That we are fighting over Syria where neither one of us have anything at stake is kind of silly.

nothing at stake

 

[Stephanie]

not to worry, next week Newt will something about Obama and the left will HATE him again

he is good for them to use today

they are so transparent

 

[JWBooth]

Putin, Gingrich, Obama


pots and kettles

 

[ScienceRocks]

Putin, Gingrich, Obama


pots and kettles

Anyone that wants to run a civilization. People like you want to see this nation be like Somalia.

 

[JWBooth]

Putin, Gingrich, Obama


pots and kettles

Anyone that wants to run a civilization. People like you want to see this nation be like Somalia.

Just curious....
How would you say that in Klingon?

 

[Meathead]

Putin is a bully and he certainly summed up Obama as a wimp.