"I already said that if he wants to use a teleprompter, then it would be fine with me. It has to be fair. If you [were] to defend ObamaCare, wouldn't you want a teleprompter?" Gingrich asked.
"Now, just for a second I'm going to go in the detour and I'll try to explain why I've been and he'll say yes. There are two reasons. The first, is ego. Can you imagine him looking in the mirror? Graduate from Columbia, Harvard Law, editor of the Law Review journal. [Against] the greatest articulator in a Democratic book?"
"How is he going to say that he's afraid to be on the same podium as a West Georgia College student?" (produced by Shark Tank Media, LLC)
Gingrich would make a good Vice President where his experience on Capital Hill would come in handy, but he doesn't have the executive experience (imo) to run the show.
Gingrich would make a good Vice President where his experience on Capital Hill would come in handy, but he doesn't have the executive experience (imo) to run the show.
He's the original bully pulpit user and Washington insider workhorse. You must be looking forward to all that Toffler Third Wave stuff he's been harping about for years.
He's the original bully pulpit user and Washington insider workhorse.
He's also a southerner without the annoying (to my ear) accent and would bring balance to the GOP ticket, assuming Perry doesn't get the nominaton.
You must be looking forward to all that Toffler Third Wave stuff he's been harping about for years.
I'm not afraid of new ideas if thats what you mean...but what I really look forward to though is Newt Gingrich laying a rhetorical smackdown on Joe Biden in front of a national audience.
The Third Wave is a book published in 1980 by Alvin Toffler. It is the sequel to Future Shock, published in 1970, and the second in what was originally just a trilogy that was continued with Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century in 1990. A new addition Revolutionary Wealth was published, however, in 2006 and may be considered as a major expansion of The Third Wave.
Toffler's book describes the transition in developed countries from Industrial Age society, which he calls the "Second Wave", to Information Age "Third Wave" society.
There were a whole bunch of books in the 90s that articulated the issues that country faces.
Almost NONE of them had any ideas on what America needed to do to win the future.
Robert Reich (Clinton's Labor Secretary) wrote a book in the 1990s called the "Work of Nations".
The first few chapters contained a very astute analysis of how the notion of work was changing. Unlike most politicians, he really understood the dramatic changes in work that were occurring due to technological disruption and globalization. As I read the book, I was encouraged until I read further.
Here's the problem -- his solutions were nothing more than a rehash of 1930s programs.
Think about how utterly ridiculous his assertions were.... The world is transforming in ways that we have never seen before. SO, the answer has to be more of what we did in the 1930s.
Specifically... He said that there is a new "gold collar" worker, not white collar, not blue collar. They are the new drivers of the economy.
He's right.
What is his prescription for a healthy future??? TAX THEM HEAVILY and give the money to Democrat constituencies.
It's shear lunacy.
He's is nothing more than a smart political hack. That's the problem.
There are people on the left who are smart enough to understand what's going on. But there are almost NO people on the left willing to stand up and challenge the status quo, because they are afraid of losing their power positions.
Ralph Nader is an exception (I voted for him in 2004). So is Dennis Kucinich.
Other than those two, leftists are generally either stupid of dishonest.
