Santorum Clarifies 'Snob' Remarks About Obama And College

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Santorum Clarifies 'Snob' Remarks About Obama And College

During the Republican candidate forum on Fox News, Rick Santorum faced a critical question from a college student in Ohio who was on the panel, on his having accused President Obama of being a "snob" who wants everyone to go to college — a remark that the student said did not go over well on his own campus. Santorum then sought to clarify the situation.

"It wasn't about having a chance to go to school. I was actually going on and talking about how, the president with health care was mandating the health care you're going to have," said Santorum, as well as the government financial reform measures regulating people's mortgages, "going through a whole bunch of things where he was telling you what's best for you." He stated that he, too, believes everyone should have the opportunity to go to college, or to pursue other opportunities in life such as technical schools (in fact, Obama included technical schools in his original remarks), joining the military, or going straight into business and the job market.

He further added: "It's this attitude that we, that government knows best for everybody, and we're going to reject this template, which is what i was reacting to, was this elitist sort of behavior."

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/santorum-clarifies-snob-remarks-about-obama-college

More "blah"tracking.

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. He's got nothing! (then again, neither does Mittens...)

[11 Bravo]

2. If by "clarifies" you mean "lies his ass off about what he actually said", then I agree.

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Agree that whole paragraph of mindless drivel

was a long-winded repeat of the idiotic "blah".

[Botany]

4. WTF? Ricky

What you really wanted to talk about was health care so that is why you talked
about people going to college ..... makes sense to me just like people in the
Netherlands have to wear "please don't kill me bracelets" to keep from being
euthanized if they get taken to a hospital.

Sorry Rick you can't un-ring the bell.

[spanone]

5. verbal spaghetti

[yellowcanine]

6. He "clarified his statements" to basically match what Obama said (as opposed to what he thinks he

said). Rick, you are an ass.

[jillan]

7. The only government that is okay with Santorum is gov't controlling people who do not agree with him

Women
LGBT
athiests
Muslims
Healthcare
The social safety net

I know I am forgetting many things that he was govt to interfere with...

[spanone]

8. you said it, you own it, ricky

[Initech]

9. And they call Obama an elitist - shut up!!

[jwirr]

10. Santorum is missing a little fact. If these programs did not exist then many of us would not have

that opportunity that he says he wants. Plus I have been around long enough to know that usually ideas like these start out as grassroots ideas and are picked up by candidates. So blame the people not the president. We are the ones who are telling him what we need and want.

[HopeHoops]

11. He meant to say "Snah".