Barack Obama in Real Change, by Rep. Newt Gingrich (R, GA)

On Principles & Values: OpEd: Radical Spenders; Weak Defenders

The Obama-Pelosi-Rei team is the most radical group ever to hold the reigns of American power. Its vision of a high-tax, bureaucratic, Washington-centered system leading to a secular-socialist future will fundamentally challenge America's role as a beacon of hope, opportunity, and freedom.

The $700 billion Wall Street bailout of September 2008 marked the complete collapse of the Bush administration's economic discipline. Obama took office and presided over "Bush Plus"--but with an aggressiveness, speed, & scale that shocked most Americans.

In foreign policy, the Obama administration has reverted to the weakness and apologetic critique of America that characterized the Carter administration from 1977 to 1980. President Obama bows to the King of Saudi Arabia.

On Principles & Values: OpEd: Replace red-vs.-blue politics with positive campaign

Senator Obama ran a positive presidential campaign that reached out to many sectors of the population beyond the Democrats' traditional base. The result was not just winning a narrow victory by maximizing turnout in traditionally Democratic areas among people who were angry with President Bush. Obama had reached out to all Americans and was rewarded with victories in North Carolina, Colorado, and other traditionally red states. In fact, it is likely that Senator Obama's victory would have been even more overwhelming if the ideology of the Left were not so fundamentally out of synch with that of the vast majority of Americans.