Santorum: Obama Hits ‘New Low’ of ‘Oppressing Religious Freedom’

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Rick Santorum said he was not questioning President Obama’s Christian values today when he said the “president’s agenda” is based on a “different theology” and instead Obama is “imposing his values” on Americans.
“He is now forcing people to do things that he believes that they have the right, that they should do. The Catholic church has a theology that says this is wrong, and he’s saying no I’ve got a different, I’ve got a different — you may want to call it a theology, you may want to call it secular values, whatever you want to call it, it’s a different moral values. And the president of the United States is exercising his values and trumping the values of the church,” Santorum said, referring to the decision by the Obama administration to require all institutions that provide health insurance, including Catholic churches and hospitals, to cover birth control and emergency contraception.
“If you don’t want to call it a theology, I’m fine, you can have them let me know what they want to call it,” Santorum said at a press conference after a speech to the Ohio Christian Alliance.
At a tea party rally in Columbus this morning, Santorum said the “president’s agenda” is “not about you. It’s not about you. It’s not about your quality of life. It’s not about your job.”
“It’s about some phony ideal, some phony theology,” Santorum said. “Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology, but no less a theology.”
Obama deputy press secretary Ben LaBolt called the comments the “latest low in a Republican primary campaign that has been fueled by distortions, ugliness, searing pessimism and negativity — a stark contrast with the president, who is focused every day on creating jobs and restoring economic security for the middle class.”
Santorum was asked about LaBolt calling it the “latest low” and he became increasingly angry as he answered, saying the “president has reached a new low in this country’s history of oppressing religious freedom that we have never seen before.”
“But it is a different set of moral values that they are imposing on people who have a constitutional right to have their own values within the church,” Santorum told reporters. “It is a new low. … If he doesn’t want to call his imposition of his values a theology that’s fine, but it is an imposition of his values over a church who has very clear theological reasons for opposing what the Obama administration is forcing on them.”
When asked if he believes Obama is a Christian he curtly replied, “The president says he’s a Christian, he’s a Christian.”
The former Pennsylvania senator was also asked if the president’s views make him less of a Christian and he replied, “No one’s suggesting” that, but said “he’s imposing his values on the church and I think that’s wrong.”
The candidate became the most combative when responding to a question about his focus on social issues and how that would play in a general election. He interrupted the question and said, “No, you ask a lot of questions about the social issues.”
On the stump, Santorum often says he’s the only candidate that can unite the country, but when asked if this kind of language, specifically calling liberals “intolerant,” might counter that claim he said, “It’s a fact.”
During his address to the Ohio Christian Alliance, he received an enthusiastic response from the crowd and used the speech to rebut negative ads Mitt Romney’s super PAC is running in this state. He also criticized Romney’s campaign for using their “money advantage … as a club to beat up anyone who gets in his way.”
“And I was not given such a gift of a money advantage. I was given very little money as a matter of fact. But we went out into Iowa and New Hampshire and South Carolina and went out there and labored in the vineyards and talked to people, ordinary people in every little town you can possibly imagine,” Santorum said.
After Georgia, Ohio has the most delegates up for grabs on Super Tuesday. Santorum has an evening stop in Akron and travels to Georgia Sunday for a campaign event there.

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Posted by: Michelle Shu Jas | February 18, 2012, 8:28 pm 8:28 pm
Yet Sanctorum doesn’t have a problem imposing his beliefs on America.
Posted by: Danny | February 18, 2012, 8:49 pm 8:49 pm
Little ricky is just the flavor of the month and like mittens will say and do anything and has NO possible chance of being taken seriously or getting to the white house. His comments show how he’s stuck in the 1940′s. Obama is running for PRESIDENT of the USA not pope of the USA. What people should be asking ricky and the GOP is why are they waging a no win war on the women of this country?
Posted by: Jer | February 18, 2012, 8:54 pm 8:54 pm
It’s not about religion, Santorum. Get a clue. It’s about whether the federal government has the right to order any business to provide services to people who probably don’t even want them. Requiring any insurance/business to pay for a particular insurance (for birth control or cosmetic surgery or whatever is illegal and out of the scope of the federal government.) All this does is raise the cost of insurance for all and allows Obumbler to try to manipulate the campaign year into making it about Obama verses religious fruitcups. This is not about religon but about american business free enterprise rights.
Posted by: bebesaid | February 18, 2012, 9:06 pm 9:06 pm
US Constitution Bill of Rights First Amendment Free Exercise of Religion. Obama is in violation of the Constitution again. Anyone But Obama 2012
Posted by: The Lives7 | February 18, 2012, 9:25 pm 9:25 pm
Why do religious zealots worry about religios freedom, when their entire mantra is to tell others how to lead their lives. Is it so hard to understand my god does not agree with theirs, it is so hard to understand I do not agree with them.
Posted by: vissionquest | February 18, 2012, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm
Be afraid, America. Santorum is a holier-than-thou theocrat who fervently believes that his extremist Catholic way is the way it’s “supposed” to be and the way it should be. If he is POTUS, social, racial, and gender equity will be set back 100 years. Women and blacks will be encouraged to shut up and be subservient to white men. The poor will be pitied and vilified for being worthless and lazy. Greedy and corrupt companies will be worshipped and rewarded as “successes”. WE’RE SO MUCH BETTER THAN THIS. SANTORUM IS UNFIT AND UNELECTABLE.
Posted by: Don | February 18, 2012, 10:06 pm 10:06 pm
Give it up inSane-torum, if you’re not a preacher then stop preaching, if it’s being a politician that you desire then be a politician and climb down off the pulpit already. Obama is an intellectual, he knows to separate religion from politics, so do the same and shut your pie hole. Broadminded intelligent sane American’s don’t want a theocracy that’s only what the depraved seek.
Posted by: nfission | February 18, 2012, 10:11 pm 10:11 pm
Santorum, like it or not, “we the people” will suppress your ability to force YOUR religious ideology on all of us. END OF STORY.
Posted by: dan | February 18, 2012, 10:15 pm 10:15 pm
As a person of another religion I am becoming more and more afraid of this zealot named Santorum. How dare he dictate when, where and how I and others practice our religions.Forcing ones views on others led to the most dangerous dictatorship and world war 2. Santorum ‘s war on women and religions he does not like may only be the beginning. This is the United States of America a nation founded on religious freedom. No petty poitiician should be permitted to deny this right.
Posted by: Lar S | February 18, 2012, 10:39 pm 10:39 pm
Santorum is beginning to spin out of control. Rather we see it now than later!
Posted by: James Kearney | February 18, 2012, 10:50 pm 10:50 pm
What lunacy- arguing that my invisible friend is right and yours is not. It’s time we abandoned this outdated, superstitious mythology and start solving our problems in THE REAL WORLD!
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.” – Sinclair Lewis
Posted by: Farmer Julia | February 18, 2012, 11:02 pm 11:02 pm
It’s very easy to determine if you are on the right or wrong side of history on this issue. Are you passionate and committed to defending the first amendment rights of religious freedom and speech, or are you passionate and committed to oppressing the first amendment rights of religious freedom and speech? “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams
Posted by: JoeCool2 | February 18, 2012, 11:09 pm 11:09 pm
Santorum’s comments are the new low in American politics. Clearly he does not believe in separation of church and state or in the rights of non-Catholics. I can’t imagine that the GOP will be so foolish as to make him their nominee. What a jerk.
Posted by: Allan H. Clark | February 18, 2012, 11:43 pm 11:43 pm
Santorum..Is way too far into the fundamental lala land. Who licensed him to critique anyone else’s religious views..Just like a fundamentalist to judge others..The bible teaches Judge not..Keep religion out of this election. Talk about the issues..Not Birth Control
Posted by: Robin | February 18, 2012, 11:50 pm 11:50 pm
Oh, boo hoo, boo hoo, what a load of …..
Posted by: john locke | February 19, 2012, 12:02 am 12:02 am
The only thing worse than 4 more years of Obama… IS A RELIGIOUS BIGOT PRESIDENT!
Santorum’s supporters are well known for their religous bigotry (anti-everybody who has a different theology than their own)! Santorum is supported, annointed, and applauded by religious bigots. He speaks their rhetoric through code, such as using the words “different theology” for describing Obama’s political views, and working in the “vineyard” to describe he is out converting others.
Santorum is a wolf in sheeps clothing— Wake up TRUE conservatives! Either Santorum is a bigot, or he just owes many favors to them— Either way, Obama is looking pretty good in the comparison!
ng anti-Mormon propoganda on Day Star TV during this election process-! The emergency meeting the “Christians” had, to prevent Romney from getting the nomination, should have caused enough concern, but when those same people actually annointed Santorum by the laying on of hands it made my skin crawl!
Posted by: 4TrueNews | February 19, 2012, 12:04 am 12:04 am
Santorum can’t help it, it’s how he was brought up.
GOP: You better drop this guy if you want any chance at winning the presidency.
Posted by: john locke | February 19, 2012, 12:13 am 12:13 am
Santorum will get a pass saying all these things in the primaries. If he does manage to overcome Romney, then these will come back to bite him since most people are not interested in his undemocratic religious dogma. Santorum is a member of the Christian Taliban. People dislike Romney for multiple reasons. I won’t vote for a rich banker like Romney because he and his fellow bankers caused this great financial recession that drove the economy into the ground. I also think he is a jerk. For example, he treats Hispanics and other immigrants like trash.
Republicans screwed up this electoral race. I bet many in Washington thought Rick Perry was going to be their anointed nominee until people realized how grossly incompetent he was.
Ron Paul is perhaps the best choice Republicans have but I think the guy is too old and the party does not take him seriously. He is one of the few Republicans who believes in reducing the deficit spending. Most Republicans have increased the national debt significantly with their discredited trickle down economics and banana republic wars that drain the treasury. And they have not cut back any government spending. I will support Obama just to make my point to them as a independent voter in Colorado.
Posted by: Scott | February 19, 2012, 12:21 am 12:21 am
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”) requires insurance companies to offer preventive care to policy-holders with no co-pay. That includes BIRTH CONTROL.
It doesn’t require policy-holders to USE those benefits.
The Catholics are trying to impose THEIR dark-ages theology re’ contraception and sex on their employees (be they non-Catholics or among the 90% of practicing Catholics who USE birth control despite the church’s position).
Leave it to the PEOPLE to decide if they want to take advantage of the preventive care offered by their insurer. Not the government.Not the church.
The Catholics might have more of an argument if the institutions they operate didn’t receive federal and/or state funds and subsidies AND if all such institutions (hospitals) were not bound by the same modern standards of care (e.g. blood transfusions and contraception instead of leeches and casting out of demons).
Posted by: RAVEN | February 19, 2012, 12:33 am 12:33 am
Gas prices are skyrocketing as Obama promised – he said during the campaign that fuel costs would necessarily skyrocket (in context of his utopian world where the air is pure and everyone works for the government).
What he failed to admit was his disdain for the separation of Church and State. The liberals love to play the card to get any mention of faith wiped from the face of the earth, but when it goes the other direction, suddenly other issues trump the Church / State separation.
2012 will be either a new beginning, or the final nail in the coffin.
Posted by: Paul F | February 19, 2012, 1:24 am 1:24 am
Obama is trying to make sure that insurance companies cover basic services for everyone. Catholic church says “we don’t want to provide birth control.” Obama says “o.k.” Done. How is this an attack on religion? Some people just create things to hate Obama for. I’m a proud Independent – I like to think I can use my head to think about these kinds of things instead of flying off the handle and just falling in line with whatever Fox News or CNN tells me to believe.
Posted by: wyogirl | February 19, 2012, 1:41 am 1:41 am
Yes, Americans need a moral zealot as Commander and Chief. Nobody wants him to establish a church or make him a pope, but this nation needs a man that is fearless using biblical principles, just like our founding fathers did. Forcing anyone to come to faith as a government is wrong but on the other in of the titter toter is the fact this nation is coming apart because of a series of national leaders trying to make everybody happy and ignoring national morals. As the morality of this nation rejects biblical teaching 101 we fall deeper and deeper into bondage in home and government.
Posted by: David Kelley | February 19, 2012, 1:57 am 1:57 am
WYOGIRL: “Some people just create things to hate Obama for. I’m a proud Independent …”
Me too. And yes, creating a “problem” and then proposing a “solution” is the oldest trick in the book. From deodorant ads to pharm companies advertising direct to consumers to hammering away on social/religious/hot-button issues when you are running against an incumbent with a record on the economy and foreign policy you can’t win against, it has been done to death.
The Right is desperate. That is why we are debating birth control, abortion, and “the war on religion” instead of/more often than the economy and foreign policy and other such serious stuff.
Expect more of it if the economy and world conditions continue to improve.
Posted by: RAVEN | February 19, 2012, 2:43 am 2:43 am
@JoeCool2: Also John Adams “There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” (Notes for an oration at Braintree, Spring 1772)
Posted by: Floretta | February 19, 2012, 3:02 am 3:02 am
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
-Thomas Jefferson to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec. 6, 1813.
Posted by: Floretta | February 19, 2012, 3:07 am 3:07 am
It is true that Santorum and Obama are ideologically different.
But they both have the same intent of imposing their ideologies upon the whole of America. They seek laws that define a State Religion.
Obama, his appointees, and operatives in Congress have given us a National Bible. His appointees are the National Clergy that are now telling us ‘what is in it’ after it was made law.
Santorum may be claiming a ‘moral’ high ground but the implication of what he wants to impose upon us ‘all’ is no better than what Obama and his accomplices are doing to us.
Posted by: Wylie-Mike | February 19, 2012, 3:07 am 3:07 am
WYLIE-MIKE, President Obama is operating under the authority of the Constitution (which he knows better than most of the new crop of Republicans/Tea Partiers in Congress, who had to hold classes on the basics after their elections to bone up.)
The Right loves to use the Constitution as a talking point, but they so often fail to UNDERSTAND IT and/or IGNORE those passages they find troublesome.
Like Bachmann challenging the Constitutional scholar to show her where the phrase “separation of church and state” appeared in the Constitution. She was almost lauged off the stage (but was so dense, she took the audience reation as praise for her brilliant argument, lol…oh, really, it was SAD). He essentially said, UM, NO, that exact wording does NOT appear in the document itself BUT it was coined by Jefferson re’ the 1st Amendment and has been acknowledged by the courts as the intent behind said Amendment for over 200 years….HelLOOO!
Or the Right’s blindness to certain clauses such as the empowerment of the federal government/Congress to levy taxes, regulate interstae commerce, and promote the general welfare.
The Right has become so anti-government that they seem to forget that the Founding Fathers they claim to worship so much CREATED the GOVERNMENT they hate so much. This government thing they crafted over 200 yrs ago is the ONLY thing standing beteen WE THE PEOPLE and either anarchy or dictatorship/theocracy. Government is NOT the enemy…it is the means by which free people govern themselves and secure their God-given liberties.
President Obama has done NOTHING to encroach on your God-given liberties; stop whining, screaming, and pretending that he has. Against contraception or abortion? DON’T DO IT. Simple. Problem solved.
Posted by: RAVEN | February 19, 2012, 3:47 am 3:47 am
LMAO! …… Folks, this is the Republican “Get The White House Back” Strategy:
“Well folks, we certainly can’t talk about jobs, since we’ve gone from a country that was losing jobs at the rate of 714,000 jobs a month (November 2008), 750,000 jobs a month (December 2008), and 1,141,000 jobs (January 2009, the last month of George W. Bush) ……… to a country that gained +847,000 jobs (January 2012), under this guy, Obama….
And we certainly can’t talk about manufacturing, since we’ve gone from a country that was LOSING U.S. “Made In America” jobs for EVERY SINGLE YEAR that the last Republican was in office, totaling to “4.6 million” U.S. manufacturing jobs LOST between January 2001 to January 2009 ……. to a country that, for the first time since 1997 (when another Democrat was in the White House), had 2 consecutive years of NET GAINS in U.S. “Made In America” manufacturing jobs, equal to +109,000 (2010) and +237,000 (2011), and just in the first month of 2012 (January) had a net GAIN of +50,000 manufacturing jobs….
And, we certainly can’t talk about the stock market, since we’ve gone from a country where the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index had “PLUMMETED” all the way down to “8,077″ in the last month of G.W. Bush…… but, is now at “12,950″ after another rally close this past Friday…
….. SANTORUM: “So fellow Republicans, we’re going to keep our focus on talking about ‘condoms’ !”
LMAO!…. that, in a nutshell, is the Republican Party’s “Get the White House Back” strategy.”
Posted by: Shallow "R's" Are Fun to Laugh At | February 19, 2012, 4:12 am 4:12 am
X Republican, once again you are spreading your propoganda but you always fail to mention why we lost all those jobs. Was it because Clintstone ratified NAFTA? Was it because his name is on deregulation? You say all these jobs jobs happened Jan. That is about the time we got a republican house and put some stability back in DC and put a end to president Pelosi’s,VP Reid and their side kick Obam’s spending habits that wasted a bunch of money with no results wasn’t it?Now the idiot wants another 2.3 trillion and his own party is laughing at him. Also don’t bet the bank on stocks, as we have seen 400 times the last 3 years the bottom could fall out of it again tomorrow. When you make your little charts up please explain to the Bots what led up to what really happened. So what has Obam been laser focused on the last three yrs? Gay rights and potty parity? That should get him back in DC. But since the election is just around the corner he is now focused on jobs Huh?Maybe he should have done that three yrs. ago instead of opening up one can of worms after the other to keep you bots occupied while in reality things continue to get worse.
Posted by: specialty57 | February 19, 2012, 5:15 am 5:15 am
So, if President Obama says women should have free access to birth control then he’s got religion problems… But if Rick Psycho Sano says no woman should take birth control, the church and myself should ban all access then that makes him God’s chosen Presidential candidate? Yeah…. Rick go back to the asylum.
Posted by: Julie | February 19, 2012, 6:09 am 6:09 am
In this Holy War on Religion, of Religion, and by Religion, I’ve had enough! I’m a lover, not a fighter: I’m surrendering! Instead… I’m gonna start my OWN religion, and get in on the good stuff: tax exemptions, and lots of taxpayer money to do what I want, in the name of religious liberty. Most definitely! Hey Newt -wanna join? We’re gonna have open marriages and multiple wives and all sorts of neat stuff that you’re just gonna LOVE! But don’t you worry Newt : NO nasty stoning of adulterers. I Promise! As for Santorum- he’ll make us a real fine preacher…in fact, we’ll make him Saint Santorum. And fix his Google search results. As for Mr. Obama, obviously, we’ll need to demonize him even further. “Severely!” And his dog too. Last but not least: Mitt and Ron, hey, just for you guys: we’ll insist on no taxes AT ALL for church members…and human sacrifice of illegal aliens. Televised. Whoooppee! What a country! :-)
By the way, please don’t mention the REASON that Mitt Romney’s dad was born in Mexico (i.e. the fact that Mitt’s Mormon grand-dad LEFT the United States in the 1880’s and went to Mexico because laws against polygamy were passed in the U.S. ; Being a Mormon back then, Mitt’s grand-dad wanted to keep his multiple wives. Hey, who wouldn’t?) Bottom line: if we follow the “logic” of the people crying crocodile tears about a non-existent “war on religion”, then the U.S. should have allowed polygamy (and who knows what else) just because a particular religion claimed it as their belief. GIVE ME A BREAK!
Absolutely NO ONE is coming into our Churches or places of worship and trying to tell parishioners what to believe…or forcing them to use contraception. BUT If the Bishops (and other denominations) want to continue running businesses that employ millions of people of varying faiths -or no “faith” at all- THEN they must play by the same rules and the rights that other workers enjoy…especially if their businesses use our tax dollars (and skip paying taxes) in the process. This is not a “war on religion”. It’s a war on women and men who simply want to plan their families and control their future.
Posted by: stan chaz | February 19, 2012, 6:29 am 6:29 am
theology based on the bible? where in the bible is birth control mentioned. where is MOST of the catholic church’s theology in the bible? it isn’t. Christians want freedom to worship how they want? Fine, start with paying taxes and keeping your nose out of my government.
Posted by: ray | February 19, 2012, 7:33 am 7:33 am
Ricky Ricky Ricky, that is all you GOP seem to be about…misinformation, trying to invoke fear. At least John McCain had the decency as an American to correct that crazy hair lady in 2008. You sure hate government in the lives of the rich, but boy you sure don’t mind telling women what they can or can’t do. If President Obama believes a different theology, it is based on compassion, since life is not sacred just while in the womb. He believes everyone should not go broke when they have a health crisis. He believes that those who are the most fortunate among us, ought to pitch in just a little more, to assist those less fortunate. Who in the bible tried to invoke fear?, it was those in power, who were afraid of that carpenter’s son from nazareth. I also seem to recall lynchings in the south were taking place by people claiming to be christian. Finally, this is America jack, if you want to worship some guy who walked on water, or some guy who heard god’s voice in a cave, or got 10 things we should obey while on the mountian, or reincarnation, or nothing at all, then that is your right. Stop trying to turn America into a christian Iran. The GOP fear tactic by invoking the President’s middle name, as if only the deceased leader of Iraq has that name. It didn’t work then, it won’t work now. Go back to the looney bin.
Posted by: Mike Barnes | February 19, 2012, 7:43 am 7:43 am
Either Santorum is being misquoted or misunderstood. But if neither are true he is falling off the extreme right wing of the Republican party and does not represent even 10% of the nation. Obama will defeat him if he is the nominee with the highest margin since the time Ronald Reagan buried Walter Mondale. If Romney is the nominee and he takes on Santorum as his running mate, the ticket will get no more than 35%. Santy is going to kill all chances of the GOP gaining the white house.
Posted by: Girish | February 19, 2012, 7:53 am 7:53 am
If Santorum wants to be the champion of religious freedom, does that mean that he will defend application of Sharia law in the US? He and his Republican supporters will defend the right of American Muslims to build Mosques wherever they want? Or is there only “religious freedom” for those who believe in the “correct” religions? Thought so.
Posted by: Paul | February 19, 2012, 8:46 am 8:46 am
Obama administration is driving us over a cliff…:
- 28 million Americans are unemployed or underemployed making real unemployment around 17%.
- 16.3% of 18-24 year olds were unemployment in 2011 and 54.3% who were employed earned 6% less than in 2007 to mark the worst rate since 1946
- Failed to pass a budget in over 1000 days helping to make us the most in debt nation in the history of the world with deficits at 62% of GDP in 2011 and projected to be 77% of GDP in 9 years
- From 2010 to 2011 we paid $454 billion in interest on the national debt, or 12% of the budget
- 1 in 5 Americans are receiving some form of government assistance
- 55% want Obamacare repealed, a bill that Pelosi said, “we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it”
- The 1st Amendment rights of religious groups are under attack by trying to force them to pay for contraception
- Congress was bypassed when czars were appointed and again when unilateral appointments were made that are subject to Senate approval even while the Senate was still in session
- Our foreign policy that sees Iran, a country who wishes the total destruction of the US, come ever closer to developing nuclear weapons
- $1.3 billion dollars in foreign aid is sent to Egypt as they hold 19 Americans hostage
- Fast and Furious sends guns to Mexico arming drug cartels that killed a US Border Patrol Agent while the gun data is used to attack our 2nd Amendment
- 11 million homeowners have negative equity, or owe more than their homes are worth
- Students have $1 trillion in student loans or about 14 times more than 15 years ago
- 1 in 3 US students drops out of high school, in Harry Ried’s Nevada the drop out rate among high school students is %58
- Gas prices jumped from $1.61 a gallon in January 2008 to $3.51 a gallon in February 2011 and are only expected to rise while we rely on foreign oil producers
- The Postal Service lost $3 billion in the last three months of 2011
Posted by: Shallow Dems are a Hoot | February 19, 2012, 9:18 am 9:18 am
Santorum is right. But not sure if it’s a “new” low for Obama, or just the same old low expressed on a different issue.
Posted by: Obvious beyond belief | February 19, 2012, 9:27 am 9:27 am
Obama just needs a new teleprompter and better talking points, at least if the goal to once again hoodwink the American people, and that is the obvious goal.
Posted by: HACKS FROM THE LEFT | February 19, 2012, 9:28 am 9:28 am
Hope and Change. Translation: We can all only hope (probably in vain) that we have some small Change left to jingle in our pockets when Obama’s term is mercifully ended.
Posted by: BRAVENEWWORLD | February 19, 2012, 9:29 am 9:29 am
It is sad, and it is true…
From Factcheck.org:
“The nation’s total debt stood at $10.6 trillion on the day Obama took office, and it had increased to nearly $15.4 trillion by the end of January 2012 — a rise of more than $4.7 trillion in just over three years.
That’s a huge increase to be sure — 44.5 percent. And the Congressional Budget Office now projects that it will grow to more than $16 trillion by the end of the current fiscal year on Sept. 30. At that point, the debt will have increased by more dollars in Obama’s first four years than it did in George W. Bush’s entire eight-year tenure, when it rose by $4.9 trillion. The rise under Obama would then be the biggest dollar increase for any president in U.S. history.”
Posted by: SAD BUT TRUE | February 19, 2012, 9:31 am 9:31 am
I have heard several times that George Bush let a whole bag of pixie dust out into the upper atmosphere, and that caused these naughty deficits, or all of it apart from Solyndra and the Obama’s expensive and perpetual vacations. I tend to believe it. Sure Hope that wise and sincere and truthful Obama can clean it up, and Change everything for the collective better.
Posted by: PIXIE DUST THEORY | February 19, 2012, 9:35 am 9:35 am
In order for the affiliated hospitals to get federal dollars, the Church had to say they were not church operations, but separate businesses in a court of law, subject to perjury rules. NOW, in order to not comply with a new Federal law, the Church says these same institutions ARE church affiliated. IF that is the case, pull ALL federal dollars they receive. This was not about religion but about businesses having to comply with laws just like all of those NOT affiliated with a church. WHY did we NOT hear any complaint when 28 states were passing the same laws???
Posted by: pksk531 | February 19, 2012, 9:39 am 9:39 am
What an absolute LIE , Santorum. Well….I see the ‘crowd’ that Ricky, boy, is going to pander to. The extreme social and religious wing nuts who want to impose their own standard of morality on our nation. So all he is goimng to do is ‘pander with wedge issues’. Just another far right ‘clown’.
Posted by: CND FOX | February 19, 2012, 9:40 am 9:40 am
“If Santorum wants to be the champion of religious freedom, does that mean that he will defend application of Sharia law in the US? ”
POSTED BY: PAUL
Try to make some sense next time. Sharia law contradicts US law in many key respects, especially nearly all that deal with women’s rights, so US law trumps that women-trampling system. And it should be so, unless we do wish to move to stoning women to death for alleged “adultery”.
Posted by: jackson | February 19, 2012, 9:43 am 9:43 am
I am starting to feel like defending Obama’s boneheaded decisions is an exercise in futility. It is discouraging.
Posted by: raven and sarh | February 19, 2012, 9:56 am 9:56 am
“not only free contraception…I want and demand that my health care provide all of the following, totally free to me, for my health naturally:
1) Vitamins (Good for my overall health).
2) A nose job (My current large nose causes me stress, hence very unhealthy).
3) A gym membership (Exercise is good for my health).
And (4)…A long vacation to the mountains (Fresher air would definitely improve my health).
Yes, and on and on it goes — endless demands and wishes.”
POSTED BY: WHAT I WANT
LOL. That’s about right, and what’s coming soon.
Posted by: LOL but unfortunate | February 19, 2012, 9:59 am 9:59 am
Seriously, what does any of this have to do with the pressing issues facing the gay and lesbian communities and the establishment of a fair but very firm marxist world government? Obama needs to spend even more time on these issues if he wants some of the votes he got last time.
Posted by: emerald_sparks | February 19, 2012, 10:02 am 10:02 am
“So all he is goimng to do is ‘pander with wedge issues’.”
POSTED BY: CND FOX
Yes, Obama will continue with his usual modus operandi: teleprompted demagoguery.
Posted by: jumbo shrimp | February 19, 2012, 10:04 am 10:04 am
“So all he is goimng to do is ‘pander with wedge issues’.”
POSTED BY: CND FOX
“Yes, Obama will continue with his usual modus operandi: teleprompted demagoguery.”
POSTED BY: JUMBO SHRIMP
True enough, but it won’t work as well as it did last time. Many folks have wised up to Obama’s con and shell game.
Posted by: tj burris | February 19, 2012, 10:06 am 10:06 am
LOL…after reading all the comments from the clued out right wingers on this topic, I have only one thing to say. Keep up your ‘negativity’ and your ‘clued out criticisms’. Because you are the nation’s best hope for ‘backing us into a national health care plan’ and getting it out of the hands of employers and the wing nuts who want to discriminate against other human beings.
Posted by: CND FOX | February 19, 2012, 10:09 am 10:09 am
stop COMPLANEING!!! Obama IS doing the BEST he CAN!!!! just PAY your higher TAXES!!!!!
Posted by: gobama | February 19, 2012, 10:13 am 10:13 am
Anyone can get the truth about all of these matters at completely truthful unbiased sites, such as mediamatters, moveon.org, and often on msnbc. But whatever happens I am still going to be happy because i am now almost flexible enough to pleasure myself orally. Go mr. prez, go!
Posted by: cnd fox | February 19, 2012, 10:16 am 10:16 am
Apart from the other things I have sagely mentioned, I want my true fans to know that I am posting under several names, such as librarian53, sarah, same againr, a cynic, and about four others. Keep track of me and you’ll know what’s going on.
Posted by: cnd fox | February 19, 2012, 10:19 am 10:19 am
“Anyone can get the truth about all of these matters at completely truthful unbiased sites, such as mediamatters, moveon.org, and often on msnbc. But whatever happens I am still going to be happy because i am now almost flexible enough to pleasure myself orally. Go mr. prez, go!”
POSTED BY: CND FOX
Thanks. I, and others I’m sure, will keep that in mind. What a worm, or tool.
Posted by: mike's better half | February 19, 2012, 10:21 am 10:21 am
Safe to say that no one will wanting to use the vague and childish slogan “Hope and Change” ever again.
Posted by: bobomcstevens | February 19, 2012, 10:26 am 10:26 am
It is interesting and sad to note that we have as president a man who never, ever has had a real job at all, not even a minor real job when he was far younger. From anemic academic to crooked community organizer (race-baiting shakedown artist and con man) to mostly absentee senator to failed president. It’s weird and unique, and it is why we are in the mess we’re in.
Posted by: Why we are here | February 19, 2012, 10:31 am 10:31 am
I think I’d get tired quickly of four years of “Sanitarium” jokes. You know how the Left thinks it’s clever to play on words.
Posted by: newcountryman | February 19, 2012, 11:10 am 11:10 am
“You know how the Left thinks it’s clever to play on words.”
POSTED BY: NEWCOUNTRYMAN
But they do it just like kids in junior high. Not too literate if ya know what I mean.
Posted by: Yes but | February 19, 2012, 11:20 am 11:20 am
Newcountryman: yes and “Oblamer”, “Obummer” and “Nobama” are pithy, clever puns on the current president’s name thought up by the right.
Posted by: pksk531 | February 19, 2012, 11:38 am 11:38 am
PKSK531 (11:38 AM); You’re right.
Posted by: newcountryman | February 19, 2012, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm
I got nothing, so I just thought I’d add that in. I admit that Obama mostly sucks.
Posted by: PKSK531 | February 19, 2012, 12:02 pm 12:02 pm
I’m not voting for Obama again. Oh, and yeah, Obama does have obvious contempt for most of “regular” America, including Blacks who can and do make it on their own without depending on government.
Posted by: JAMICA | February 19, 2012, 12:09 pm 12:09 pm
Yikes.
So Santorums sanctimoniously imposing his religious beliefs on us is ok, Obama maintaining the separation of church and state is wrong. I guess in Ricks backwards world this all makes sense.
Rick, that wooshing sound you hear is hordes of women running away from you as fast as they can. Please nominate this wanker, I smell and landslide for Pres. Obama.
Posted by: Jilli | February 19, 2012, 12:46 pm 12:46 pm
Be afraid of Santorum, this guy reminds me of the guy Martin Sheen played in the Movie ” The Dead Zone” Hallelujah!!!
Posted by: Mean Green | February 19, 2012, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm
It seems that Obama’s freakishly large ears are even larger than before. Maybe it’s all of that teleprompted lying.
Just sayin’, lol.
Posted by: kimberly | February 19, 2012, 1:03 pm 1:03 pm
“I smell and landslide for Pres. Obama.”
POSTED BY: JILLI
Grammar? Anyway, there will be landslide alright, but it will one that buries Obama.
Posted by: gypsy | February 19, 2012, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm
“I smell and landslide for Pres. Obama.”
POSTED BY: JILLI
Grammar? Anyway, there will be a landslide alright, but it will be one that buries Obama.
POSTED BY: GYPSY
My crystal ball shows the same thing.
Posted by: mary | February 19, 2012, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm
So this president is no better than the last figurehead in office. So the same can be said about the elected Congress, the other check and balance.
Santorum doesn’t seem to represent fair and balanced either. He seems to want to clearly fully inject a religion into politics.
World recession, not just US. Someone once said that the economic boom of the Clinton years was set up by the plans of Reagan, . . so somebody believed that events and circumstances outside of the term of a president could affect them during theirs . . .
If this country has become an us versus them, meaning US citizen against US citizen of different parties, do you see the future really getting any better whether your candidate fairly executes the duties of the office with his cabinet and our Congress.
Posted by: Xaviersx | February 24, 2012, 5:17 am 5:17 am