Jeremy's World
Do what you like because you like it. Be who you are with no apologies.
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Let me start by saying I am not a Republican. In fact, according to one of those survey sites we get on MySpace bulletins, I tend toward being Libertarian. Not the whacky stuff…Mostly the “leave me the hell alone and stay off my lawn” part.
That said, I found Newt Gingrich‘s recent speech somewhat compelling, probably because it’s (mostly) non-partisan and is a cold-hard-facts-give-it-to-me-straight kind of message. I like that rather than the spin we usually get. On the part about Iran…I was 6 years old at the end of the hostage crisis and barely remember it happening other than it was on TV, people were happy, and somehow Jimmy Carter was involved but not really ’cause it was Ronald Reagan. Or something like that (yes, I learned more about it later, but that was my recollection at the time). Gingrich makes a pretty strong claim in terms of Iran’s view of the US, in particular that those views were first strongly expressed in 1979 with the hostage crisis. And, according to Gingrich, they have not changed. That’s a pretty powerful statement to me.
Anyway, here is the transcript from the speech Newt Gingrich delivered to a Jewish National Fund meeting Nov. 15 at the Selig Center. No, I’m not going to link up his speech mostly because I’m just lazy.
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