When I saw the comment on my Facebook page today, that Rick Santorum said that he didn’t want to “make black peoples’ lives better” I assumed that he was being quoted out of context, because no one in the 21st century says that. Not anymore anyway.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
Here is a clip of the statement from CBS News:
Rick Santorum, presidential candidate Rick Santorum is a racist.
But since he’s in Iowa Iowa
Know which ethnic group collects the most welfare? Whether it is actual welfare or food stamps or Medicaid or Medicare? Taxpayer-supported government benefits?
White people.
African-Americans collect a disproportionate amount of welfare as a percentage of that ethnic group, but in raw numbers their numbers are dwarfed by white people.
A president is a president of all the people. A president doesn’t single out a subset of Americans and accuse them of raw and rapacious laziness for not getting out there and working for a living. A president knows that the ills and, yes, past racist policies of our society have contributed to this trend. A president understands this.
Rick Santorum is no president.
2 comments:
I wish I could come up with something funny to say about Rick Santorum, but why bother? Dan Savage's Google-bomb took care of that.
Santorum is a sanctimous, bigoted jerkoff who should soon be dispatched to the trash heap called Political Oblivion.
I was pleased to read that he made the Committee for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington list of Twenty Most Corrupt Legislators in 2006. He was down with the K Street Project and his name comes up in Abramoff and DeLay's Saipan scam. We probably won't hear the other Republicans talking about this though..
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