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UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-09-07 08:59 PM
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Somebody Buy Newt Gingrich a Dictionary! (LOL!)
http://www.laist.com/archives/2007/03/09/somebody_buy_newt_gingrich_a_dictionary.php

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
--Matthew 23:27 (KJV)

Former Georgia congressman Newt Gingrich has admitted he was having an extramarital affair the whole time he led the charge against President Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair. But he says in an interview with James Dobson, founder of conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, that this doesn't makes him a hypocrite.

Why? Because…
"The president of the United States got in trouble for committing a felony in front of a sitting federal judge. I drew a line in my mind that said, 'Even though I run the risk of being deeply embarrassed, and even though at a purely personal level I am not rendering judgment on another human being.' As a leader of the government trying to uphold the rule of law, I have no choice except to move forward and say that you cannot accept ... perjury in your highest officials."

I see. He "drew a line in his mind" between what he was doing and what other people were doing. Way to take back the moral high ground, Newt.

I have to wonder, how much duplicity are conservative Christians willing to swallow for the sake of political expediency? What will it take before they catch on that most of the politicians who proclaim themselves to be arbiters of morality are the rankest hypocrites who whitewash to their sins while gleefully manipulating gullible voters?

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mediaman007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-09-07 09:06 PM
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1. George Bush* lied us into a war, but that was after 9-11 and we
all know that everything changed after 9-11! Lucky for him.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-09-07 09:22 PM
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2. Gingrich is the protusion in the slim mold
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-09-07 09:48 PM
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3. And furthermore, CNN says this is a "path to 2008?" Like we'd ever elect someone named
"Newt" to be President.

Redstone
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