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There's irony in the fact that Newt Gingrich has acknowledged in an interview with Focus on the Family head James Dobson that he was having an "illicit" affair at the same time he was leading the charge against Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. There's a lot that could be said about the depth and breadth of the hypocrisy of both Gingrich and his supporters. Just the fact that he claims he wasn't being hypocritical because his main concern was not the infidelity but rather the fact Clinton broke the law by "lying before a judge" is chilling. Never mind that Gingrich was betraying the morality he not only insists he stands for, he was betraying the God he presumably places above the law. There's no love in Gingrich for either God or the law. But what is really appalling, funny actually if it weren't so scary, is that he went public as a first step toward announcing his candidacy for president. Dobson's question to Gingrich that led to the mea culpa was an obvious set-up, engineered to give Gingrich an opportunity to justify his unjustifiable peccadilloes to the very audience who should be condemning him the most. Now Jerry Falwell has congratulated Gingrich on his candor, and Rush Limbaugh is applauding the man whose website declares him to be "defending God in the public square." The cat's out of the bag. Morality, God, and so-called family values are the last things these miscreant fascist mutants stand for.

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A note about yesterday's commentary: I was neither supporting nor opposing Barack Obama's candidacy. The jury is still out on that one. I was depoloring a system that trashes any qualified candidate who looks like they might have a chance before they ever get their ideas known. The terrible reality is that even intelligent voters tend to make up their minds based on the buzz words and convenient catch-phrases that are relentlessly shoved at us by the media.