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On the recordSeptember 12, 2010
This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president.
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Newton Gingrich
Republican · Georgia

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Gingrich describes President Obama as disconnected from reality and suggests he deceived the public to become president.

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