"... I am not an Athenian or a Greek, I am a citizen of the world." ~Socrates

[YOY]

So apparently the father of Philosophy isn't very wise according to Newt.

We are talking about a guy named Newt after all.

[panader0]

1. Yeah, but who is Socrates compared to Newt?

:sarcasm:

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

2. Ben Franklin said basically the same thing.

I guess he's under the same bus.

[michreject]

3. If he made that statement today

He wouldn't find one country that would agree with him.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. A couple more unwise people to add to Newt's list, Thomas Paine & Ronald Reagan

Thomas Paine: My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Ronald Reagan: I couldn't help but say to , just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

[baldguy]

5. If Socrates was so smart, why didn't he say that America was the Greatest Country On Earth®?

And why didn't he accept Jesus Christ as his Savior?

[Cresent City Kid]

6. Newt Gingrich is an alien!

He has no green card, work visa, and openly renounces citizenship. Deportation I say!

[NOW tense]

7. Flag waving...

“Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.”
-Albert Einstein

[HOLOS]

8. Yes!

[Thothmes]

9. May this sentiment is the reason,

the Athenian Govt offered him a hemlock coctail?