Gingrich: "Civil War, food stamps and President Obama"; Really?

MACON, Ga. -- Republican Newt Gingrich told a Georgia audience on Friday evening that the 2012 presidential election is the most consequential since the 1860 race that elected Abraham Lincoln to the White House and was soon followed by the Civil War.
Addressing the Georgia Republican Party's convention, Gingrich said the nation is at a crossroads and that the re-election of Democratic President Barack Obama would lead to four more years of "radical left-wing values" that would drive the nation to ruin.
Gingrich also blasted Obama as "the most successful food stamp president in modern American history."
The former House speaker gave his speech at the end of a day of campaigning that took him from a gathering of economic conservatives in Washington to an old-style restaurant in Georgia and then the evening gathering of the party faithful.
Gingrich received a warm welcome at the GOP dinner. He represented Georgia in Congress for two decades and is stressing his ties anew after having lived in northern Virginia for more than a decade.
"I am glad to be home," Gingrich said Friday evening.
On economic issues, the 67-year-old Gingrich said his program would lead to more paychecks.
He outlined a jobs plan that would eliminate the estate and capital gains taxes and lower the corporate tax rate, which he said would infuse the nation's sputtering economy with new investment.
He said the United States needs to reexamine its relationship with Pakistan after revelations that Osama bin Laden had been hiding out there for years as America poured billions of dollars in aid into the country.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/14/newt-gingrich-in-georgia-_n_861977.html

Is it just me?  Maybe I’m hyper-sensitive but does anyone else find it just too ironic that this blowhard is in Georgia invoking remembrance of the civil war while a black president is sitting in the White House?  Sometimes there is an awful lot of racial oriented coincidence when republicans are speaking.  Gingrich is from Georgia, but really?  "This is the most important election since before the Civil War"?  Really?  You know what I think?  I think this was more about mentioning the Civil War, food stamps and President Obama during the same short speech, then anything else.  If this wasn’t intentional word placement then at the very least it was stupid to mix these particular topics into the same speech.  What an a**hole!