NEWT GINGRICH HAS SOME ADVICE FOR OBAMA

Former Time Magazine "Person of the Year" and former Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Newt Gingrich has an opinion piece in next week's edition of Newsweek with some advice for anticipated Democratic presidential nominee Senator Obama.

Gingrich says change campaigns are attractive to voters but at some point the vagueness needs to be replaced with substance. I know he is a god-fearing Republican but he makes some good points about successful and unsuccessful campaigns that promised change. Read it here.

George Bush's former senior adviser offered up a helping of advice for Obama in last week's edition of Newsweek. Karl Rove warns Obama that he " can't win with a McGovern coalition of college students and white-wine sippers from the party's left wing." He makes a number of suggestions on how Obama can shake off the elitist label "it's not where you start in life; it's where you end up. After a prestigious prep school, Columbia and Harvard, you've ended up with the values of Cambridge, San Francisco and Hyde Park. So you're doing badly in Scranton, Youngstown and Erie, where ordinary Americans live."

I know it is Karl Rove, but I think he makes some good points. Read the article here.