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9 Santorum Speeches That Make Me Want to Throw Up by Adele M. Stan / AlterNet
9 Santorum Speeches That Make Me Want to Throw UpBy Adele M. Stan, AlterNet Posted on February 28, 2012
The topic was a speech that Rick Santorum, really, really didn't like -- the speech John F. Kennedy gave during the 1960 presidential campaign, in which Kennedy declared his belief in an "absolute" wall of separation between church and state.
"That makes me throw up," Santorum, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania told George Stephanopolous on the ABC News program, "This Week."
That got me to thinking about speeches that might make me throw up, and, funny thing, an awful lot of them were delivered by Rick Santorum. I mean, this guy is the oratorical equivalent of a bottle of ipecac.
The thought of living under a neo-theocracy makes me kind of queasy, and Santorum's oratory often displays judgments on the theology of others, not to mention the supremacy of his own, which he seems keen to institutionalize.
Then there's the anti-intellectualism, and the demonization of educators as "indoctrinators." Ew, that's a nasty taste in my mouth.
Another thing that gives me a case of agita: demeaning the memory of the Holocaust and its victims, as Santorum does when he uses what he calls "World War II metaphors" to compare President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler, or Democratic procedural moves in the Senate to the Nazi invasion of France.
And racism -- damn, that stuff just gives me a major fit of chalushes, as in when the very pious senator repeatedly characterizes food-stamp recipients as black or members of "minority communities."
For all of it go to:
http://www.alternet.org/story/154319/9_santorum_speeches_that_make_me_want_to_throw_up?page=entire
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9 Santorum Speeches That Make Me Want to Throw Up by Adele M. Stan / AlterNet (Original Post)
Mira
Feb 2012
OP
I agree with him on the 9 BUT he could have done 12 I can easily think of 3 more.
Justice wanted
Feb 2012
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liberal N proud
(60,300 posts)1. Only 9?
Hell everytime the guy opens his mouth, I get nausea
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)2. I agree with him on the 9 BUT he could have done 12 I can easily think of 3 more.