No post on Gingrich running for POTUS?

[Trip McNeely]

Oh and BTW if anyone hasn't guessed this yet, DURANTULA = ZARATHUSTRA.

[Durantula]

You're being careful to not address the facts about obama and his track record.

I wasn't aware this thread was about Obama or his track record.

Oh and BTW if anyone hasn't guessed this yet, DURANTULA = ZARATHUSTRA.

I don't know who that is but it's not me.

[SMEGMA STENCH]

I wasn't aware this thread was about Obama or his track record.

So you're saying that if it was, you'd chime in?

[Durantula]

So you're saying that if it was, you'd chime in?

Where did I imply anything of that nature?

[SMEGMA STENCH]

Do you ever imply anything at all? Do you ever say anything at all? Are you even talking right now? You're a stereotype.

[Durantula]

Do you ever imply anything at all? Do you ever say anything at all? Are you even talking right now? You're a stereotype.

Do you ever make sense?

Here, let's try to get this back on topic by discussing ways NOT to win a US Presidential campaign:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/NewtGingrich/start/764/stop/796

"President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. [...] I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history."
...
“You know, folks often talk about immigration. I always say that to become an American citizen, immigrants ought to have to learn American history. [applause] But maybe we should also have a voting standard that says to vote, as a native born American, you should have to learn American history. [applause] You realize how many of our high school graduates because of the decay of the educational system, couldn’t pass a citizenship test.”

1. Calling Obama a "food stamp president" is both hilarious and ironic considering the county Newt represented was among the most subsidized in the country.

http://books.google.com/books?id=0uICAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=newt+gingrich+third+most+subsidized+new+york&source=bl&ots=p4Sbt__gvb&sig=o6LYLyW6l0mz9SDahicxmJ5FW5w&hl=en&ei=J-HOTaGVK8LA0AHP1vycDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=newt%20gingrich%20third%20most%20subsidized%20new%20york&f=false

[Gingrich] represents Cobb County, a prosperous jurisdiction that ranks third among suburban counties in federal dollars returned per resident. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the federal government spent $4.4 billion in Cobb County in 1994, some $10,000 per resident, or nearly twice as much per capita as it spent in New York City.

2. The citizenship tests require some brief US history already.

3. It's illegal under the 1965 Voting Rights Act to require a poll test to vote.

[SMEGMA STENCH]

Yep. Stereotype.

[slow99]

Oh and BTW if anyone hasn't guessed this yet, DURANTULA = ZARATHUSTRA.

I don't think so. Remember, Zarathustra thought he was the resident lexicographer.

[Forever_frost]

Do you ever make sense?

Here, let's try to get this back on topic by discussing ways NOT to win a US Presidential campaign:

http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/NewtGingrich/start/764/stop/796

1. Calling Obama a "food stamp president" is both hilarious and ironic considering the county Newt represented was among the most subsidized in the country.

http://books.google.com/books?id=0uICAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18&lpg=PA18&dq=newt+gingrich+third+most+subsidized+new+york&source=bl&ots=p4Sbt__gvb&sig=o6LYLyW6l0mz9SDahicxmJ5FW5w&hl=en&ei=J-HOTaGVK8LA0AHP1vycDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDEQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=newt%20gingrich%20third%20most%20subsidized%20new%20york&f=false

2. The citizenship tests require some brief US history already.

3. It's illegal under the 1965 Voting Rights Act to require a poll test to vote.

Yep, strawman

[mightyp]

Oh and BTW if anyone hasn't guessed this yet, DURANTULA = ZARATHUSTRA.

Thank you ,I was trying to remember his name, or is it gpamp?(think that was his name?)

[Durantula]

Yep, strawman

I don't think you understand what a strawman is.

[Forever_frost]

A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.
Check.

Quote:
To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.

[Vertnut]

A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.
Check.

Quote:
To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.

...and Barry Soetoro ain't no "straw man". He's a living, breathing, sack of monkey shit that conned enough idiots in this country to get him elected.

[Durantula]

A straw man is a component of an argument and is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position.
Check.

Quote:
To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position.

Cool, you copied my definition. Now the next step is to apply it logically and correctly. You haven't done that.

[Broncojohnny]

1. Calling Obama a "food stamp president" is both hilarious and ironic considering the county Newt represented was among the most subsidized in the country.

I don't really care for the guy all that much but go ahead and tell us some more of your fucking lies. First of all, he was part of the Republican Congress that passed the first meaningful welfare reform in decades. Secondly, he only represented a portion of Cobb county Georgia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_House_of_Representatives,_Georgia_District_06,_110th_Congress.png

Georgia's 6th Congressional District has existed since the 29th Congress (1845–1847), the first Congress in which U.S. Representatives were elected from districts rather than at-large. Georgia gained a sixth U.S. Representative for the first time in the 13th Congress (1813–1815).

Georgia's 6th Congressional District is the most affluent and educated district in the state, as 51% of residents in the district have at least a Bachelor's Degree.[1] According to a 2006 report, this district is the fourth wealthiest in the nation, behind Virginia's 11th congressional district, New Jersey's 11th congressional district, and California's 14th congressional district.[2] It is the second-wealthiest district to be represented by a Republican.

The residents in this district are largely white, affluent, well-educated, and overwhelmingly Republican with fiscal conservatism by far being the most salient aspect of the political culture. The district also contains a sizable amount of white Evangelicals thus creating a culture of social conservatism within the district. The district is historically known as a suburban bedroom community for those who commute to downtown Atlanta.[1] However, the period from 1980 to the present has experienced enormous commercial office and retail growth, especially in the district's three major edge cities of Perimeter Center, Cumberland Galleria, and Alpharetta North Point.

The district was represented by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich from 1978–1999 before he resigned.