By: BD

BD — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:39:09 +0000

The Newt Gingrich storys been laying in wait for a while now. He must of thought time would make it all go away. But now that he's gearing up to run for president its all about to come out in the wash.

By: Truthiz

Truthiz — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:04:43 +0000

These two stories symbolize the utter travesty of the actions AND Inactions of American politicians in positions of leadership today, from the President on down and “WE The People” are worse off for it! Time Magazine: “Gitmo Controversy: The Queasy Case of Omar Khadr”By Tim McGirk Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010Excerpt: President Obama's promise to shut the Guantánamo Bay detention facility has come back to haunt him. Not only is the facility still open long past the January 2010 deadline that Obama set for closing it, but this week saw the first steps in the trial of its youngest and most controversial inmate. Omar Khadr, who has been held at the facility for seven years, faces a maximum life sentence for allegedly killing a U.S. soldier during a battle in Afghanistan when he was 15 years old. If Khadr is convicted by a jury composed of U.S. military officers, he will be the first person convicted of war crimes committed as a child anywhere in the world since World War II, according to the U.N.'s special representative for children and armed conflict, Radhika Coomaraswamy. Read: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2010048,00.html?xid=rss-topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Ftopstories+%28TIME%3A+Top+Stories%29http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,201… />HuffPost: "Newt Gingrich's Ex-Wife Goes Public: Messy Relationship Life, Meltdowns, And 2012"A new Esquire profile of Newt Gingrich offers a rare glimpse into the personal life and political ambitions of the former House Speaker as he vies to make a comeback after resigning in disgrace over a decade ago.Gingrich himself was interviewed for the feature story; however, some of the juiciest insight into the life of the prominent conservative voice comes from his ex-wife, Marianne Gingrich, whom he divorced in 2000."He asked me to marry him way too early," she revealed. "And he wasn't divorced yet [from his first wife Jackie Battley]. I should have known there was a problem."The profile paints a silhouette highlighting the intersection of Gingrich's personal life and political career:"There's somebody else, isn't there?" She kind of guessed it, of course. Women usually do. But did she know the woman was in her apartment, eating off her plates, sleeping in her bed? She called a minister they both trusted. He came over to the house the next day and worked with them the whole weekend, but Gingrich just kept saying she was a Jaguar and all he wanted was a Chevrolet. "'I can't handle a Jaguar right now.' He said that many times. 'All I want is a Chevrolet.'"He asked her to just tolerate the affair, an offer she refused. He'd just returned from Erie, Pennsylvania, where he'd given a speech full of high sentiments about compassion and family values.The next night, they sat talking out on their back patio in Georgia. She said, "How do you give that speech and do what you're doing?""It doesn't matter what I do," he answered:"People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live."Read: http://www.esquire.com/features/newt-gingrich-0910http://www.esquire.com/features/newt-gingrich-091… />Amazing. Just. Amazing.

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