Rick Santorum: Obama Wrong to Apologize for Koran Burning

These two idiots don’t understand how these relationships with other countries work apparently. Scary thought.

This is one example why PA voters booted him out of office.

A wrong act needs an apology, no matter who does it and what precipitates it. Burning any religious books is wrong, and arguing that Islamic terrorists do the same to us is not an argument at all, just a way to bring us down to the same level. If we want to retain our moral high ground over the people we seek to denounce, then we need to live by our own principles, and have the moral fortitude to apologize when we (or our representatives) do something wrong. Burning a Quran and insulting all Muslims to make up for a few terrorists is tantamount to insulting all Americans for a Paris Hilton. Just empty jingoism and saber rattling is all that the GOPs can do, they have yet to do anything substantive (including actually dealing with terrorists, let alone eliminate anyone of value).

Newt and his friend Santorum are choosing thier minds.

Santorum and Gingrich. Are they really auditioning for the circus. Two clowns with not an ounce of decency. The GOP has turned into a side show. How pathetic!

Did anyone expect anything different from a Compassionat Christian, family valued, Conservative Republican? Republican compassion for their fellow man is so, so telling.

To which IDEOLOGY do you subscribe?

The Democrat ideology: “The test of our progress (as a nation) is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” – President Franklin Roosevelt, 1936

The G.O.P./Tea Party ideology: “The suffering of the unfortunate isn’t a proper concern of government, and alleviating that suffering at taxpayer expense is immoral, never mind how little it costs

He had the balls to make a gutsy call to go after Osama. An apology shows weakness. How dumb is that statement

I am here in Kabul and I appreciate my commander in chief doing a sensible thing to reduce the threat against me. It did not eliminate it but it was the right move. He gets it, they do not.

Is Rick not married? Since when does a husband get away with not apologizing for making a mistake? Oh, I get it. Rick thinks that the “President” doesn’t have to apologize, thus, if he were to become “President” he could use this ridiculous rationale to stop apologizing to his wife for all of his mistakes.

John I am here in Kabul and I appreciate my commander in chief doing a sensible thing to reduce the threat against me.=======LIAR..

Ask him the question George: what would you do as President if the Afghanis had burned the King James Bible?

Elect that nutcase, and he’ll start a world wide religious war!

Such hateful comments on here about the GOP candidates. Where’s the civility that President Obama asked for? Also, what did the apology get us? What good did it do?

Maybe President Obama should apologize to the American people for not reducing the debt by half like he promised. Or mabybe that unemployment has been above 8% for nearly his entire term when he promised that it wouldn’t go above 8%. Or that healtcare costs would go down, instead they are going up.

This President has a lot to apologize for, maybe he should start right here at home.

The arrogance of men who think that they never have to apologise for any wrongdoing, intentiional or not!! These men do not deserve respect and can never be leaders because they do not have the morals nor ethics to know right from wrong, only their own warped ideals. So, as Santorum said, if a girl get pregnant due to a rape, just accept it as part of a hardship in life. No girl/woman deserves this and it it up to her to decide the consequences. Many do not want to nuture and carry the seed of a heinous crime, and if that is the decision, so be it. If only man can carry a child, let Rick be the one to be abused thus, and let him suffer through guilt, depression and everything else that goes with it.

OMG Santorum is a real nut job. Since when is it ok to go to church on sunday to get votes??? How sick is that?

The GOP has turned into a real circus and the American people can see that. No brains, so substance, no solutions. I’ll never vote GOP ever Freakin idiots all of them.

The more I hear from Santorum, the more I feel the google definition of him is more and more correct.

Intentional, not intentional, the burning was WRONG. The President, like any responsible person,
quickly tried to make amends BEFORE anyone became injured or killed but the wheels were
already in motion. How many more innocent americans would have killed without this
apology. The Repbulicans apparently do not know manners and apprently saying ‘Jesus’ in
every event does not mean a ‘thing’, where is the love and forgiveness that Jesus gave his
life for in the words or actions of these sad Republican canidates?

FURMAMA8 and CONCERNEDCITIZEN are one in the same…LOL!! Loser

If you do something on accident, you do apologize. Only a gutter religious belief would say not to apologize.

Whta is this guy Santorum thinking about? He is trying to make things worse. If we want to have peace we need to stop violence. Burning Koran is not a soluton to show our anger to the muslim fanatics. We need to advocate non-violence like Mahatma Gandhi who pioneerd in getting India Independance. Santorum tlks as though he is a fanatic person. Is he trying to stir more problem or trying to get the hard core chritian vote? Oh my god, if he is going to be the GOP nominee, they will miserbaly loose the election. Santorum is just an ordinary opportunistic politician, the real washington insider. I will vot for any GOP candidate except Santorum.

Bible, Koran and for that matter any religeous books are sacred, whether you can get it from Walmart or book shops

Sure, we should just say “we burned them and we’re proud of it. Bring it on!” Bush tried that remember and that was just swell. Santorum is just as nutty as the Taliban. They’re made for each other.

Dear Master Karzai,
Please accept my sincere and profound apology for the horrible mistake our miserable service men made in standing in the path of your most holy bullets as they travelled on their blessed journey of Allah’s will. The dastardly service men that so callously diverted those sacred bullets into their own selfish and unthinking bodies have, of course, been dispatched to Hell, but I wish to reassure you that prior to their despicable carcasses being dispatched to rot in the desserts of the Great Satan that is the United States, we will recover and return those magnificent pieces of metal that were stolen and secreted in the bodies of the American miscreants such that they holy bullets may be placed in an Afghan place of honor and worship. Please, please, Master, I beseech you to reach deep into your fair and magnicent heart to forgive me for allowing those two dogs to represent the United States in your wonderful nation.
Respectfully and humbly your servant,
BH Obama…
ps….it is not my fault. Right? You do understand that, right? It’s not my fault. Remember Bush?

I think unless American people understand this fact you will always fail to understand why Quran burning is a big deal intentional or mistakenly.

POSTED BY: RONY—The burning of a book no matter what book does not justify killing someone and you are nuts to justify it.

2 dead and 7 wounded American soldiers, and we get this crap from a man named Santorum.

1. So anytime you accidentally bump someone, you don’t say, “Excuse me”? If you accidentally break someone’s coffee cup, you don’t say “I’m sorry” and replace it?

2. Re: charitable giving. I was taught that when one receives a reward (such as a tax write-off) for a contribution, it is no longer charity. In reality, it is a business transaction.

3. It sounds to me like Sen Santorum would reject out-of-hand anyone who shows up at one of his town meetings who is of a different belief who disagrees with him. I might let them air their opinion, but it won’t make a d**ned bit of difference.

4. With college educations… the idea of college is to expose people to ideas that they have not been exposed to before. If you happen to be conservative, you are in for a shock that those other, different ideas even exist. As for Obama’s statetment about college for all being snobbish. There are various colleges. There are barber colleges, for example. In many ways, all post-high school education is college, whether you call it college or trade schools. It is more advanced education.

2 dead and 7 wounded American soldiers, and we get this crap from a man named Obama!!

2 AMERICANS are dead over burned books and obama and his toadies are apologizing…WTH?!

: AMERICATHEPITIFUL===You justifying the killing of Americans over a book. Does that make sense?

This from a man who brings home a dead baby to meet the family and passes it around like a trophy. This guy is NOT playing with a full deck and some would think he should be President? A wacko in control of our nation’s nuclear arsenal makes as much sense as having Charles Manson as your neighbor.

Stop trying to rewrite history, the President apologized before any Americans were killed. You knuckleheads always wants to twist things around making it seem like he did that after they were killed. You must think people are idiots and can follow a story or the events that happened.

To those of you implying that President Obama thinks it is OK to kill people for an accidental book burning, you are showing your complete lack of understanding of the situation. Of course the killings were not justified, but the apology is not to the killers, but rather peaceful people for whom the book is sacred. It is an act of diplomacy. Apparently Santorum and Gingrich don’t get that either, which is one of the many reasons neither of them are qualified to be president.

B. A. SMITH | FEBRUARY 26, 2012, 11:35 AM—I agree and none of the lefties will answer you.

Ron Paul, Ron Paul, Ron Paul, with him we would,nt even be over there????????? Next Obama will be burning our bill of rights ?????

All Obama had to say was that the burning was a mistake. Openly apologizing was a very bad decision. This was the last straw. I will not be voting for him again.

Santorum is a buffoon of the highest order.

“Projects weakness” Obama has gone after Al Qaeda in a more ruthless and efficient fashion than anything the Republicans have ever tried and he has been successful. Understanding the basics of diplomacy is something lost on this dullard.

As to his comments about college, if more of the Republicans went to college and had an education they might stop trying to crush science and stop trying to impose some kind of theocracy upon this country.

Obama just doesn’t know when to shut the hell up.

Obama should have said it wasn’t his fault and just leave it at that.

No matter the reason for destroying the Korans, an apology was unnecessary and contains overtones of weakness. Islamist beliefs are incompatible with 21st century cultures, at least cultures that are farther advanced than the 14th century! Many countries having Islamic majorities won’t even tolerate Christian churches! Look what happens when a newspaper prints a caricature of Mo, followers of Islam go crazy. What a bunch of net cases. Pull the troops out and let Afghanistan return to the Middle Ages.

The one thing I want to know but it will never get asked….

Is the Frothy Santorum running for President or Pope?????

This is one scarey dude. When we, as a country, make a mistake..it is imperative we apologize as we have other Americans over there whom we want to protect. The Quoran is their Bible and we would not like it if others burned our Bible…mistake or not. Today, I listened to Mr. Santorum on Meet the Press and This Week. I am absolutely positive he should never be President…a closed mind if ever I saw one. Today, he actually said that President Kennedy’s speech years ago on separation of church and state made him want to throw up. Mr. Stephanopolis said throw up? He said yes. His view of the Constitution is that there should be no separation of church and state and we already know should he become Pres. there will be no separation of church and state. He also said that Pres. Obama encourages kids to go to college to spread his views on kids. When challenged on this he insisted he was picked on in college for his views….but obviously, he still has them. All Pres. Obama wants is for everyone to have the opportunity to go to college should they choose….at no time did push them into a 4 yr college. This man is so one sided and let’s not get into his views on women. What he neglected to say is that Pres. Obama has programs out there for those who want to go to a technical school and become a mechanic, or another hands on program already…where has he been? He is trying to imply Pres. Obama is only helping the college kids when in fact, he is helping all of the kids in any career. While Mr. Santorum like to talk religion and deny that Pres. Obama is a religious person…he forgets that Pres. Obama could have a very lucritive career as a lawyer in a good firm but chose to work as a community organizer to help the poor. Now I know republicans consider that a bad thing….but do they remember that it is what Jesus wants all of us to do…help one another.

This guy is so brain dead. I’m from the Netherlands. Over here people like him usually end up picking up trash in parks…not running for a political office. What is wrong with you people?! lol

It is disgusting and outrageous that the POTUS would lower himself as to apologize for the burning of a book. It shows weakness and one who would do this both embarrasses and disgraces the United States.

POSTED BY: FRANKIE | FEBRUARY 26, 2012, 10:21 AM 10:21 AM-_________Agreed! The only strong president we had was George “Bring It On” Bush. He invaded Iraq and found weapons of mass destruction.

Eddo – your “…..result of programs and actions implemented by GWB…” statement is a revision of history. Facts clearly dispute your statement. And if Bibles are burnt accidentaly would not an apology be welcomed and correct? Mr. Santorum is wrong.

Yes obama is brain dead and should be picking up trash. Way to appease the scumbags obama.

RICCKI: “…”.We are Americans. We defend your freedoms. Don’t be idiots! We need a President that is not weak. Obama is weak. Obama is not qualified as a Commander-In-Chief. He cannot run a country like the United States…”

President Obama understands that true strength is measured not just by military might, ultimatums, and big talk (“Bring it on!”…THAT really helped, didn’t it?) but by diplomacy, restraint, and calm deliberation/communication.

Rather than take a potentially explosive incident and make it worse by adopting an arrogant attitude, he acknowledges the mistake and apologizes (IN PASSING, as part of a routine communication re’ other matters with the leader of the country involved. Not as if he issued some formal, official apology, and to NOT mention the incident at all would have sent a terrible message..)

This President has repeatedly shown and exercised great strength in protecting America’s interests; issuing the order to take bin Laden, sending in support for the overthrow of Gadaffi and Mubarrak, overseeing the capture or termination of over 40 terrorist leaders, approving the daring resuce of American hostages from Somali pirates…ALL without the loss of American lives.

At the same time, he has refrained from aggressive, grand-standing rhetoric which has the potential to escalate tensions and force retalitory responses from other leaders (Iran, N. Korea, both governments being well known for their immature, goading attempts to get a rise out of the U.S. and the rest of the international community. And the increasingly obsolete Al Qaeda, who THRIVES on trying to elicit a backlash from incidents like this one to recruit new players.)

He has calculated his words and actions carefully, and avoided placing our troops or civilians at risk or getting our nation into yet another endless war.

He doesn’t HAVE to talk big, make threats or issue angry ultimatums; his strength and resolve has been made very clear by his actions to date and he has earned back much of the global respect this country lost under the previous administration.

The LAST thing we need is another big-talking “cowboy” ready to send in the bombers at the drop of a hat. We need a scholar, a statesman, and a diplomat who is also willing to USE the bombers (preferably in a very limited and strategic way) as a last resport.

What has become apparent is that Obama’a approach has proved far more successful at fighting terrorism and promoting democracy than the neo-con strategy.

All Obama had to say was that the burning was a mistake. Openly apologizing was a very bad decision. This was the last straw. I will not be voting for him again.

POSTED BY: CHARLEY | FEBRUARY 26, 2012, 11:57 AM 11:57 AM____________That is exactly what the president said. As reported by ABC, the letter sent to the Afghan president included the word “inadvertent.” Look it up: “inadvertent” is a synonym for “unintentional mistake.” It sounds more like an acknowledgement of what happen, rather than saying, “I am sorry.” Don’t make it look like Obama wrote an open letter of apology. That is not true.

Obama got it exactly right in this situation. It was the civil thing to do and it minimises the risk to US troops. Santorum is a fool and would be a total joke on the world stage. Can you imagine him sitting down to negotiate with the likes of Angela Merkel? She’d tear him to pieces. He doesn’t have the intellectual capacity the job requires.

Dear Master Karzai,
Please accept my sincere and profound apology for the horrible mistake our miserable service men made in standing in the path of your most holy bullets as they travelled on their blessed journey of Allah’s will. The dastardly service men that so callously diverted those sacred bullets into their own selfish and unthinking bodies have, of course, been dispatched to Hell, but I wish to reassure you that prior to their despicable carcasses being dispatched to rot in the desserts of the Great Satan that is the United States, we will recover and return those magnificent pieces of metal that were stolen and secreted in the bodies of the American miscreants such that they holy bullets may be placed in an Afghan place of honor and worship. Please, please, Master, I beseech you to reach deep into your fair and magnicent heart to forgive me for allowing those two dogs to represent the United States in your wonderful nation.
Respectfully and humbly your servant,
BH Obama…
ps….it is not my fault. Right? You do understand that, right? It’s not my fault. Remember Bush?

POSTED BY: NCPILOT | FEBRUARY 26, 2012, 11:13 AM 11:13 AM_____________This rant would make sense only if it helps the GOP win the general election. As the GOP is destined to lose in November, the post, obviously, becomes irrelevant

They BURNT a Koran! How would Santorum have reacted if they’d burnt a bible! All this shows is how self-absorbed and prejudiced this nut-job is. I could not be more glad that Obama apologized, it does NOT show weakness, it shows courtesy and respect for Muslims everywhere. They get enough crap from people like Santorum, I am honestly so glad that we have a President who cares about their feelings too- I’m a Christian and plenty proud of my roots but I will say this loud and clear- not everyone in the U.S. is a Christian Santorum! Get that through your thick, insane skull!

AMY: “Did I actually read where someone said that Obama made the gutsy call to go after Osama. What a joke? He took nearly 24 hours to make that gutsy call, spending all that time trying to figure out how we would not have to say yes. He knew it would come out and that he would be committing political suicide if he said no. He had no choice. This opportunity came about only because of the years of work that was started by Pres. Bush. Obama wanted to run and hide when we finally had Osama in our sights…”

Where DO you get your “information”?

Obama pledged to bring bin Laden to justice while campaigning.

Leon Panetta is on record as saying that the VERY FIRST conversation he had with the new President was essentially, “get bin Laden. Make it our top priority.” And that the President never lost focus of that goal, demanding regular updates.

When he was informed that we were almost certain we had him in our sights, he took the time to carefully consider all the information and decided to wait UNTIL he was convinced sending the Seals in would NOT result in a massive bloodbath involving either innocent civilians or our forces. Once he felt the information was sound and the risks of a SNAFU were minimal, he gave the go ahead.

Several high-ranking individuals directly involved in the detention, interrogation and/or intelligence assessment of terrorist suspects have stated (and/or testified) that the use of torture under the Bush administration resulted in little or NO reliable or useful information and was NOT a factor in the eventual apprehension of bin Laden (rather, the cultivation of informants inside Afghanastan and Pakistan, use of drones to gather intelligence, and unrelenting pursuit/focus sealed the deal).

This whole “Bush and Co. loosened the cap…Obama merely opened the prepared jar” is utter nonsense. A weak rationalization, contradicted by the facts.

It doesn’t matter to Santorum that the apology is correct: it only matters to him that there are people who want to hear bad things about Obama. The GOP says he’s been awful in foreign policy, although Osama bin Laden would argue against them, if he could. Again, it only matters that people hear what they want to hear. Romney says he’ll cut taxes 20% and balance the budget. The GOP couldn’t balance the budget from 2001-6 and they inherited, in Bush’s own words, “surpluses as far as the eye could see” from Bill Clinton. But Romney’s going to do it under current conditions? Obviously, not. But again, people hear what they want to hear.

Guys, I am not a supporter of Obama. If he did some good job, let us appreciate that. Santorum has no clue what he is talking about. According to santorum, even people going to college is a bad idea. How about his children? He paid just 2% for the church becuase his children has to go to college. He is a real hypocrite. If every children in this great country goes to college and get educated, we dont have to depend on foreign brains to improve the technology here. I will not vote for Santorum, but will for anyother GOP candidate

After listening to interview, I have come to one conclusion: RICK SANTORUM IS NUTS!!!

We’re going too have something far bigger than 9/11 go down if this absurdity takes over. I personally feel some “respect” needs to be used when trying to fight an ideology war. I guess Rick wanted more soldiers to die over this. Ronald Reagan would cry if he could see how bat crazy his party went.

Saying Santorum lacks judgement s like saying Hitler lacked compassion.

The difference is that the people who killed that US soldiers are a smaller group that do now represent the Afghanistan people or their government as a whole. Our Soldiers are direct representatives of the American people and government. Whether we like it or not what they do is a reflection of us as a people. That is why an apology is necessary in this instance.

Satan…I mean…Santorum…is no not fit to be president.

the people who killed that US soldiers are a smaller group t—well, duh. There are 2 BILLION muslims in the world. There are 300 million americans. If all muslims wanted to kill Americans, we’d all be dead! simple math.

this is what you get with money and a empty head

Unlike the GOP, I think it’s fine and reasonable for our leaders to apologize when some members of our military do something that is disrespectful. Not only does it make us a better country to acknowledge our faults, it keeps our soldiers more safe and reminds all of them that those actions won’t be tolerated.

Since when apology is a sign of WEAKNESS???

obama = weakling.

NO American should ever apologize for burning that comic book that says to Kill non believers. We shouldn’t even be over there still. The wacko behind the 9-11 Massacre has been eliminated. Now we Patriots need to do what it takes to evict that Liar from our White House.

Simple, rigid minds cannot grasp or comprehend complex cultural and global situations. Yes, the Americans inadvertently burned the texts, and Obama apologized to the Afgan president for that mistake. He was completely correct in doing so. But, the Afgans who are rioting and killing are a bunch of barbarian zealots who have nothing to value except their religion and its symbolism. They are completely wrong in their continuing violence and hysteria. Unfortunately, this is probably an uncontrollable, unfixable situation. Look what happened to the Russians in Afganistan. The “rebels” that we supported became the Taliban. You can’t reason with some people — this includes the Taliban, and probably Santorum as well.

@Gonzalez – No, I doubt the coward in chief will be offering apologies to the families involved.

Some of you people are a bit imbalanced. Let me tell you one thing my mother used to tell me all the time when I was young:

TWO WRONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT. Yes it is wrong to kill someone, especially for burning a book. But we are not simply talking about a book. It is an important religious text to many people. I know how offended and outraged I would be if another country’s military was responsible for burning bibles. So our military made a mistake, and often times in life you have to admit your are wrong and apologize when you make a mistake. That is the right thing to do. It shows that you have integrity and that you are willing to admit your faults. So yes those people who escalated this to violence were wrong but that doesn’t change the fact that our military was also wrong. I am honestly ashamed that this man is an actual contender for the presidential nomination. It will be a sad day in America if he is ever elected to the highest office.

Look let’s face it this guy is a wackjob. How can anyone consider with any seriousness that his view on virtually anything is a viable option?? Unless we believe we’re back in the 50′s and think religious totalitarianism and home schooling until 23 is a pretty good fit for us.

Obama is an idiot. Since when is it ok to kill someone for burning a book. Sounds like Murder incorperated to me.This loser obama has got to go.

If I remember correctly, Obama apologized for the “inadvertent” burning and promised to put in place procedures to prevent it fromhappening again. Like WW said, Santorum would have one apologize for purposeful wrongs when caught [like a two year with their hand in the cookie jar. ] If not caught, not wrong. Santorum and Gingrich are both showing their Hawkish, bullying ways. “Christian”? not from where this Catholic sits.

God help us all if this guy gets elected. He not only believes in “the End Times” he wants to be the one who starts it.

Very scary thought.

Santorum is Soooo going to Hell.

well I do not think an apology was necessary because to be honest the Afghan people don’t care about our apology. And I’m not sorry for their Koran burning. It was a mistake and happens. I just think our representatives of government are to weak and try to make everybody happy. Who cares if the Taliban gets pissed on or if the Koran accidentally gets burned. I mean they burn our flag and preach death to Americans and I have yet to hear an apology from their government

Its time we stop kissing Muslim toes. I agree with Santorum!