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Newt: Pres. Obama would be like Wright
By: Kenneth P. Vogel
October 19, 2008 02:16 PM EST
Given large Democratic congressional majorities, President Barack Obama would swerve to the radical left and adopt a temperament similar to his fiery and controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Newt Gingrich predicted Sunday.
“If Obama went in and had a moderate House and a moderate Senate, he would probably be a very moderate president,” Gingrich said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
“And his temperament would lead him to much more like [Chicago Mayor] Richie Daley than like Rev. Wright. He’s not going to have that,” said Gingrich, the former speaker of the House and titular leader of the 1994 Republican Revolution.
Most polls show Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, with a wide lead over his Republican rival, John McCain.
And Gingrich predicted that Obama would work with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California, both Democrats angling to boost their majorities on Election Day, to take away the secret ballot for union elections and “to eliminate freedom of speech for Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. He’s going to have a Congress that wants to raise taxes, a Congress that wants to increase government. And he’s going to have to decide: Is he really going to veto and fight with Pelosi and Reid?”
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