The insane shit I just heard Santorum spouting is so crazy it's hilarious!

[glarius]

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I just saw a clip on CNN of Santorum in an outraged tirade against Obama. It seems that (according to Santorum) Obama is acting like a tyrant by suggesting that people should try to go to university! "What right has Obama to tell people they need university educations!" says Santorum. He ranted on about how people who work with their hands are just as good as anyone else dspite what the "elitist" Obama thinks.
It was so crazy and so contrived....all you could do was laugh at it. Boy they are really getting desparate, aren't they!!! LOL

P.S...I have also noticed how often these Republican candidates slyly mention their conclusion that Obama is "in over his head"...or he "just doesn't understand".....Racist remarks in my estimation.

[Whisp]

1. and CNN treated him like a normal human being I would guess

did they say 'both sides do it' this time too?
how some of these so called journalists can not just break out in laughter and roll their eyes at stuff like this just goes to show what their agenda is.

[tblue]

8. Really!

Not too many years ago these clowns would have been decimated and pulverized by journalists instead of treated like serious political thinkers. There are very few honest brokers in News anymore.

[FarLeftFist]

2. DESPERATE.

[monmouth]

3. The word "uppity" is just on the tip of his tongue..n/t

[TheDebbieDee]

12. I agree. I think this election campaign will eventually see the N-word thrown around!

I'm totally serious..........

These repukes realized with the last campaign that race-baiting earns $ and attention as well as agitating/exciting their base.

[RavensChick]

27. I totally agree!

The more they throw in race the worse it's gonna get. Now you see why Keith calls him "Man on Dog" all the time! Rick is the biggest jerkoff I've seen since the Reagan era!

[tblue]

4. That man is a clown.

He's being honest though. He honestly wants us uneducated so we can be enslaved and uninformed.

What happened to the values we used to hold dear?

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Anti intellectualism is actually as American as apple pie

It is a strong undercurrent.

[tblue]

10. Didn't used to be.

Or did I make it up in my head?

I thought all parents (once) hoped or at least wished their kids would go to college so they could get a "good" job.

This anti-intellctualism is a threat to democracy. Dontcha think?

(Not arguing with you. Not at all. Just this that they're doing is making my head explode.)

[eppur_se_muova]

17. There's more to education than just job training ....

but most Americans have no idea just how much more. True, they want their kids to have a **fair** shot at a job, but once they have achieved that fairness, they place no value on any further learning. Learning for its own sake is dismissed as elitist, or effete -- an attitude probably carried over from resentment towards the English upper classes, who were the only ones who could afford to study ancient languages at Oxbridge in preparation for their rightful positions in command of an empire.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Historically it goes back to the 1740s.

Yes parents want their kids and all that, but it's the distrust of book learnin' that is strong. "The Age of American Unreason" is a good read on this.

[aquart]

26. Not if you read Am lit from the 17 or 18 hundreds.

And especially not if you see the earlier textbooks. Even from the 20th century. I have a 1946 high school text of Hamlet, bowdlerized but with an index of appropriate essay questions and topics. We would hesitate giving those topics in grad school now.

Immigrants worked their asses off to make sure their kids were educated. They're still doing it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

29. Yes yes it has, read hofstader and jackoby

http://www.amazon.com/Age-American-Unreason-Vintage/dp/1400096383/ref=sr_1_cc_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325971180&sr=1-3-catcorr



http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Intellectualism-American-Life-Richard-Hofstadter/dp/0394703170

[TayTay]

5. I wonder if Rick's kids went to college

or if he encouraged them to pursue meaningful careers in the checkout line at Walmart? Do any of the Santorum children plan on going back to work at the coal mine that Santorum so loves?

[tblue]

13. There you go, thinking again.

We aren't supposed to think about it logically. We're just supposed to chant "Freedom!" and "USA! USA! USA!"

We are free to be as unemployed and desperate and poor and uneducated as the Master Race wants us to be!

What other country wants their people unable to advance, other than North Korea or some other oppressive state?

[PeaceNikki]

7. It would be funny if it were said in jest or if people didn't actually agree with this fucker.

But the fact that he said it without a second thought and that there are people who cheer this shit on make it shameful, embarrassing and seriously UNfunny, IMO.

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. What does Santorum know about "Working with his hands"?

Ew... Never mind.

But while getting that image out of your head, I remember when almost everyone who "Worked with their hands", did so with the dreams that their children would get to go to college. Nobody can lower the bar on the "American Dream" quite like a republican. We really can't afford to continue to go backward like this - we need to aspire to having a smart, educated country.

[rurallib]

11. Santorum uses his hands to take bribes

and while his grandfather worked with his hands, people like Santorum were in big offices figuring how to fuck over those who worked with their hands.

[Ikonoklast]

14. Santorum never lifted anything heavier than a fork in his life.

MY grandfather always said, "Beware of men with soft hands telling you that you don't work hard enough. Spit in his eye."

[Whisp]

20. +lots

[unionworks]

15. Santorum is not a joke

This is the guy who invented K street. Abrahmov and Delay went down, IMHO someone paid big bucks to take the heat off Rick. His sanctimonious nonsense is part of his con game. In reality he is a high stakes crook. Take him quite seriously, he sold your representative government to the highest bidder for years and got off scot free.

[BeyondGeography]

16. That last bit is all Romney

He is such a condescending, arrogant ass. His negatives will soar once people begin to focus on him and he will drive turnout much more than any of the calculating GOP establishment fools suspect, being condescending, arrogant asses themselves.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. What really kills me is not so much that they are talking out of their a***s when they make comments

like that but that they are NEVER expected to elaborate or prove what they say (and they know it). It is just enough for them and their supporters that they said something mean and ugly about President Obama, which is what they know their audience wants.

Another thing that has started irritating me is that they seem to believe that everytime Obama talks about some thing he wants to do to help people (i.e. college), you'd think- the way right-wingers talk- Obama was making something mandatory.

[saras]

21. Can we PLEASE stop pretending Santorum is a progressive?

"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work." - Irving Kristol, called by Wikiquote the "godfather of neoconservatism"

The general public is NOT the "highly educated adults" who should be making decisions in this scenario. The republicans repeat the "truth" that is suitable for the general public, and OF COURSE they sound hypocritical - to OUR standards - when they report a different truth to a different class.

In THEIR world, this is NORMAL. It is NOT hypocrisy, it is NOT dishonesty, any more than the tooth fairy is hypocritical. What you do with the general public is make the noises at them that move them where you want them to go. There is no more "truth" or "meaning" to their words TO THE PUBLIC than this.

But the idea that all the conservatives should hold progressive notions of integrity and truthfulness is simply childish. They don't, they won't, and we have to accept this as reality in order to deal with them. They WILL lie, even if tortured. They will lie because they can't help it, not because they know "the truth" and want to hide it from us.

[nadinbrzezinski]

25. Who said he was a progressive?

[CBHagman]

33. That's just what I was going to say!

He's going to have to do better than claim he's for manufacturing jobs and say he can win elections in a swing state.

[Quantess]

31. Santorum is a corrupt, disgusting, immoral, crotch sniffer. He's absolutely not a progressive.

He absolutely is a hypocrite, in several facets.

I guess I don't understand your point.

[xfundy]

22. Cancervatives HATE education, period.

Except for religious indoctrination, of course.

Knowledge leads to questions. They don't want to be questioned or challenged in any way. An uneducated populace is easily ruled and fooled.

[zappaman]

23. sorry, I couldn't get past "santorum spouting", n/t

[marmar]

24. Rick Santorum is a really stupid person who doesn't know he's really stupid.

And that shite is scary.

[opihimoimoi]

28. yup..xactly..just wait till he finds out how really stupid he comes across and how its all recorded

for all the time it takes to erase him as a blip on the goper phase in american history.....as a kook no less

[QED]

32. For more...

visit this thread. Links to New Yorker cartoons with Santorum quotes. Hilarious!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002124116