Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), who is reportedly about to jump into the 2012 presidential race, is quickly making the rounds to blast President Obama’s State of the Union address from last night.
Gingrich appeared this morning on Fox & Friends, and had some stern words of ridicule for Obama — along the lines of the common attack that Obama is an elitist who looks down on ordinary folks.
“Look, the tragedy of this president is that he’s very, very clever — and assumes the rest of us are very, very slow,” said Gingrich. This country’s in a constant conversation with itself. Within three or four days, the average American is gonna realize, he didn’t offer to cut spending, he didn’t focus on jobs, he didn’t tell us the truth about reforming government.
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“In fact, this was a very poll driven speech with clever words — and I wrote a book called ‘Winning The Future’ in 2007. I love the title. But he didn’t tell us anything about winning the future. He told us about protecting big government, protecting dominance by the government, protecting bureaucracies, protecting spending by Washington. The country, as they come to understand the substance of the speech, are gonna feel very, very much that he misled them with the tone of the speech.”
