http://airamerica.com/content/ron-reagan-newt-gingrich-hypocrite <embed id="listen-mp3-player" class="audio" src="http://airamerica.com/mediaplayer.swf" width="300" height="15" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="enablejs=true&width=300&height=15&autostart=false&file=http://airamerica.com/ondemand/play/105395.mp3" style="display: block;" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /> In reports on Newt Gingrich's June 8 speech to the Senate and House Republican campaign committees, CNN senior political correspondent Candy Crowley and CQ Politics' Jonathan Allen reported Gingrich's claim that "I am not a citizen of the world. I think the entire concept is intellectual nonsense and stunningly dangerous." Both Crowley and Allen reported that the line was a jab at President Obama, but failed to report that former President Ronald Reagan made similar remarks. In a July 2008 speech in Berlin, Germany, Obama described himself as "a citizen -- a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world." In a June 17, 1982, speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Reagan similarly said, "I speak today as both a citizen of the United States and of the world."
==================== O777; Have you ever looked on it this way?? I am a citizen of TN & USA; but if i only pay attention to or simply focus on USA, & IGNORE TN laws & customs- not wise @ all. Also having traveled abroad more than a few times; no way is USA simply another cookie cutter part of the ''world'' And specifically another danger, as Mr Newt implied; most[majority of nations, USSR, Arab nations.......]''stunningly dangerous] hate Israel guts, quite different from many in USA
The appropriate answer is when has Gingrich not made a fool of self? If one talks enough then one will surely make a fool of oneself at some point or another.