A day after his campaign staff resigned en masse, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich attempted to change the subject. "I am a candidate for president of the United States because I think we are in the early stages of the Obama
June 10, 2011

A day after his campaign staff resigned en masse, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich attempted to change the subject.

"I am a candidate for president of the United States because I think we are in the early stages of the Obama depression," he told reporters Friday.

"I'm prepared to go out and to campaign very intensely but I want a campaign on ideas and on solutions and I want to do it in a way that brings Americans together into a large movement," ABC News quoted the former House Speaker as saying.

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