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Subscribe to RSSIn his speech today formally declaring his presidential candidacy, former Republican Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum criticized President Obama on both economic and social matters.
Early on in the speech, which he delivered from Somerset, PA, Santorum asked: "Who are YOU, Mr. President? Who are you, Mr. President, to say that you and your administration should take 40 cents out of every dollar and borrow it from future generations to prop you up?"
Santorum continued, "He's devalued our currency and he's not just devalued our currency; he's devalued our culture. Through our marriage and not standing up for the Defense of Marriage Act, for federal funding of abortions." Then added, "He devalues our other currency, our moral currency."
About halfway through Santorum's speech, it appears that a lady in the audience passed out. Santorum called out for medics, and after the woman was carried away, Santorum bowed his head and asked "If everyone would say a little prayer for that young lady."
Following that brief interruption, Santorum continued on with his speech declaring, "America is a great country. Not because of our government. It's because our founders founded it a great country."
Santorum ended his speech by saying he's "ready to do what has to be done for the next generation. With the courage to fight for freedom, with the courage to fight for America. That's why I'm announcing today that I'm running for president of the United States. Join the fight! Join the fight!"
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This guy is campaigning so far to the right of mainstream Americans he has no way of winning the general election...Independents, if they are smart, will not vote for this Rove-bot! And oh, yes, my same sex marriage has destroyed your hetero marriage....NOT!
I couldn't believe it when I heard him say this country was better off prior to 1965!
I wonder why that is?
People like this POS & Palin are not only STUPID, they're dangerous!
1965?? Such a specific year! Didn't something happen that year? Oh yes! Civil rights passed!
BINGO! Give CA Girl a prize! ;o)
Wrong ladies, the Civil rights bill passed in 1964.
Sorry! You are right! The Voting Rights Act passed in 1965!
Echoing the language of the 15th Amendment, the Act prohibits states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color."[3]
Specifically, Congress intended the Act to outlaw the practice of requiring otherwise qualified voters to pass literacy tests in order to register to vote, a principal means by which Southern states had prevented African-Americans from exercising the franchise.[2] The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, who had earlier signed the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law.[2][4]
But I believe that Rick and the Republicans are referring to 1965 as the Civil Rights passing in Congress when you read the blogs.
RIck doesnt have a clue ...does he...he still believes that the KKK was made up of ... gun totin ... bible thumpin ... patriotic citizens ... kinda like the minute men of the American Revolution ...
Used to go down to Florida a lot when I was a kid. We would drive down old U.S.41 from the Chicago area and pass through the deep South. This is back in the late 50's. And yes, I saw it all. Segregation was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in those days. There were separate, (but not equal) bathrooms, drinking fountains, bus seats. You name it.
I have always tried to stick to points that are truly germane. However, with this guy, you just have to go beyond his over-the-top rhetoric, his insane control issues, his misogyny, and his hypocrisy.
Santorum is the guy who brought home his dead baby, introduced it to his kids, spent the night with the corpse, and then returned it. Now, I don't care who you are, that's just too damned weird.
About that call at three in the morning! You don't even want to know what that guy is doing at that hour of the morning. I sure as hell don't want him representing me. I don't want anyone thinking the United States has gone so far outside reality, that Santorum could EVER be elected. Freak.
That is is spooky weird.
Hey, RIchk- I gots a idea: Court the religious right fanatics. That seems to have worked pretty well for some others in you party.
And those 'future generations' you're worried about- are they stockholders in the companies you would like to see hoard more cash? I hope so, because they could use a few extra bucks to buy bottled water to drink once your party fouls the environment completely in the name of the almighty buck.
Who are you? Never heard of you dude.
This balderdash from a guy who lied about where he lived to get the state to pay for his kids on-line tuition. The Republicans are trying to tank the country just to get the President out of office. It's Unamerican, it's short-sighted, it's evil, just can't say enough about them. Don't forget in 2012 who brought us to this impasse of confidence and fiscal suicide. While they canonize Reagan, even he wasn't this stupid.
"Early on in the speech, which he delivered from Somerset, PA, Santorum asked: "Who are YOU, Mr. President? Who are you, Mr. President, to say that you and your administration should take 40 cents out of every dollar and borrow it from future generations to prop you up?""
Short memory this man has. He must have forgotten that almost $12 trillion of that debt was accumulated under George W and he had no problem paying the 40 cents per dollar under his administration. Also forgotten was the fact that the GOP voted 19 times to raise the debt ceiling $4 trillion under Bush.
Remember, this was the man who said that abortion was the primary cause that our Medicare and Social Security were under-funded. We were killing off future workers.
I still think he will be renting Palin’s bus for the trip back home after Iowa.
I'm not a personal fan of the choice to have an abortion, but I don't see what gives this guy (or the government) the right to deny an individual or a couple's painful choice to feel that they need to make that choice.
If he thought more about it, he'd probably realize that most that make that choice are repressed and most likely fall into the Democrat demographic. Let alone they would of been future workers, they probably would also of been future Democrats.
".... I don't see what gives this guy (or the government) the right to deny an individual or a couple's painful choice to feel that they need to make that choice."
Why, because LESS gubmint is BEST gubmint, y' big silly. I heard 'em say so on Hannity.
I believe his point was, (If you bother to actually read the article), that our tax dollars should not be used to fund abortions. (infantcide)
Tax dollars aren't used to fund abortions, it's already the law of the land.
The Hyde Amentment (link to factsheet below):
http://www.nchla.org/datasource/ifactsheets/4FSHydeAm22a.08.pdf
They are simply using it as an excuse to shut down Planned Parenthood.
Yes Tom, our tax dollars are being used to fund abortons in at least six states.
Edward your are just dumb.
Like this guy is going to be the saviour of the free world. Give me a break! His own district voted him out of office so why is he even running again. Maybe his wife wants to get him out of the house. The Republican party has got to step up and tell these candidates that it is a losing cause. Where is their pride.
Not to hard to hit Obama on any issue. He has more than just failed us, he has moved in reverse. He tried the childish tactic of dividing the nation on any and all issues. He has tried to deflrct blame way back to the Bush adminisrations and even as far back as Reagan. People have wisened up to his game, and this leaves him both impotent as well as incompetent.
I noticed that to honor the D-Day veterans they had to use a film clip of Reagan honoring the D-Day heroes. Won't find that kind of leadership from Obama.
Obviously, you do not understand that Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II are the Presidents who have, through tax cuts for the rich to create non existent jobs, added 65% to the total current Federal Debt, or to put it in perspective, 8.3 Trillion of the current 14 trillion dollars the GOP is so stirred up about now.
Defect blame back to the Bush Administration? Obama does not have to, several studies are out which clearly place the blame for the melt down we went through right on the back of the Bush Administrations love of tax cuts, and legislative and defacto (blind eye) deregulation, which resulted in the Bush regulatory agencies viewing the regulated industries to their actual "clients", allowing them to regulate themselves in their own "enlightened self interests" while the economy went down the tubes, and the crooks make billions.
Now the Right Wing of the Late, once great GOP is offering to do more of the same to us all over again, more tax cuts for the rich, more deregulation, more destruction of the middle and working classes, a bogus Medicare Voucher program, guaranteed to destroy it in 15 years, as the profit based health care insurers raise their rates 15-30% per year, and the over 65's drop out of the program like flies, choosing to eat and have a roof over their heads, than live on the street with health insurance.
To further their goals, they are acting like terrorists, playing roulette with the Federal Debt, threatening to allow it to default if they don't get their way, just like a bunch of 5 year olds playing marbles.
Country last, party politics first, that is the New Right Wing GOP. Gingrich actually told the truth, GOP social engineering. All the GOP wants is smaller government, and any cost to this Nation, including becoming a 3rd world nation, the worlds largest Banana Republic.
What's in a name?
Santorum:
Santorum...Latin for "a$$h01e"....
What Rick Santorum Knows About Torture....
MORE OF WHAT RICK SANTORUM KNOWS ABOUT TORTURE...
Ettiquette Rule #1- Make sure to invite your dead siblings for sleep-overs.......
MORE OF WHAT RICK SANTORUM KNOWS ABOUT TORTURE....
RICK SANTORUM SHOWS HE KNOWS HOW TO TORTURE AMERICANS....
Look.... you can gang up on this guy all you want for his beliefs... but I think you need to keep the reaction of his wife and family to the death of Gabriel out of it.... it's a family matter (just like abortion) and has no place in this discussion... I've never lost a child (came close with a son with a brain tumor).. and cannot imagine how we'd react... I'd rather you guys just stick to the basics....
Kevin,
It was a family matter until Mrs. Santorum decided to write a book about it. Then it becomes public record.
If you consider it normal behavior to bring home dead bodies of siblings and introduce them to your living children, AND SLEEP WITH THEM OVERNIGHT...acceptable behavior, then vote for the guy.
If, like most of us, you consider it to be a whacked out response to a highly tense moment, or an overly zealous and ghoulish response of a religious fanatic, and it makes you question his judgment, then we'll criticize him for it.
It's a free country. With freedom of speech. That's what Paul Revere warned the British about....LOL.
I don't know what people are thinking. The defict was/is cause be the so-called NAFTA like treaties which are supported by both RepubliBUMS and DemokRATS. It's time to take care of America first (there is no such thing as one world except in Chinese politics and their flag). It is all right to work out trade policies but bring industry back to America AND STAY OUT OF OTHER COUNTRYS' INTERNAL AFFAIRS.
Kerry, now that's a real Democratic nut case. Akin to Pelosi, Dodd, Frank, Boxer and Reid. What a line up of pathetic losers. These are the poster children for what is wrong in Washington. Slowly, but surely, we will clean out this scum and sanitize their vacant seats.
Keep it up dough boy.
Hey what is up with Boeing? Surley Obama can get that non-union plant shuttered. We sure has heck don't need those jobs at the sacrafice of the Democrats union backers. VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2012!
This whole thing is so stupid...get over it, America!
This whole thing is so stupid...get over it, America!
Wow !!! SanScrotum "Hits" Obama ??? Rick isn't even a fly-weight, more like a mosquito !!! He better watch out for his strange bedfellow Newt who could roll over and CRUSH THE MOSQUITO !!!
Just another Republican/TP member
That will lie, say anything to get elected
1. Says he's for rights and Freedoms, and then proceeds to take Woman Rights , Voter Rights, Union Rights
2. Wants more tax cuts for the Rich, Big Oil, Big Business, Koch Brothers, Carl Rove, Dick Army, Insurances Companies
3. Wants to Kill the Middle Class, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare
4. Keep Spending for two Wars, Defense Contractors, Big Framers
5. Wants to Make all Health Care cost more by giving it all to the Private Sector
6. Wants to get back on the Government Health Care, and Pension paid for by the Taxpayer
I think Obama's message of "Wealth Re-Distribution" has really damaged our culture. Most of the money spent on the stimulus was wasted and offset by his constant attacks on banks, businesses and individuals making $250k+. It is unfortunate that we have a President so anti-business especially when unemployment is so high. I think we can all agree we need to: VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2012!
RELAX...one month's statistics don't mean much over the long haul....
Obama's job creation record is MUCH better than Bush's. Job creation has been fluctuating since Obama pulled us out of the Bush hole. Look at the graphs...it doesn't shoot straight up, it fluctuates.
You GOP guys need to quit wetting your pants every month and look at the long term trends. We're way better than we were under Bush/Cheney. God only knows where we'd be if McCain/Palin had taken over. We'd be suffering through the worst attempt at trickle down economics that the world has seen since Louis XIV...and we all know what happened to him.
http://www.wealthvest.com/blog/sean-browne/barack-obama-created-more-jobs-in-one-year-than-george-bush-created-in-eight-years/
Well finale, the TRUTH COMES OUT FROM HIS OWN MOUTH, why o why did he lie??? to have to admitted now??