Rick Santorum Explains Obama Race Comment, or Tries To (Video)

Wow. Santorum hasn't even made his candidacy for president official and he's already self destructing. I don't see the Republican Party nominating someone so socially conservative this time around.

Hmm. I wonder.

Does Santorum at-all regularly 'mis-speak'? As in, blurting out something he actually did not want to say?

These statements have the appearance of an 'overture' which will be well-received by some parts of the overall audience ... especially the parts that can credibly be expected to have any interest in Santorum.

This line of argument he's using is a veritable 'meme', among conservative elements to whom he may be deliberately 'signaling'.

I welcome Rick Santorum to the list of potential 2012 Republican candidates for President of the United States of America. I have no doubt that President Obama will defeat Santorum if he somehow wins the GOP nomination.

Santorum has certainly ensured complete alienation of several bases with those words, hasn't he?

Santorum lost his Pennsylvania re-election bid by a hefty 18 points in 2006. He couldn't even get elected in his home state.

He is delusional if he believes the majority of Americans will elect him to represent the United States of America on the world stage.

It's not going to happen. And this latest episode put the final nail in his political coffin.

Santorum's remarks may be less about where he's likely to end up in 2012, than where he thinks more of the voters are headed, in coming election cycles.

If he is the crass opportunist that some paint him, then if he thought Liberal-Progressives were on a growth-curve, he'd be reciting their talking-points.

It could be that Santorum is most useful as a canary in the politics-mines, giving advance notice of coming electoral-trends.

Ted, I believe that by the time the November 2012 election rolls around, the economy will have improved greatly and the majority of Americans won't be so opposed to the health care bill, thus eliminating 2 major platforms of the Republican agenda.

Revisiting the abortion debate with a little race baiting on the side will surely fire up the Republican base.

For sure, Lloyd, if the economy does improve greatly, we expect that will help Obama and the DEMs, and will spill some wind out of certain Conservative sails.

Is that really in the cards? Higher-powered & higher-paid folks than us ... struggle not to look too foolish on that question.

And the flip side is, with citizens already 'sick'n tired o' bein' sick'n tired', if the economy does not perk up encouragingly, that will drag down Obama & allies all the more dramatically, while filling those Conservative sails ... 'like a hurricane'.

My expectation is, whoever wins in 2012 will probably find themselves wearing the same economic 'cement overshoes' that made Obama a one-term President.

I love how the unintelligent and grossly misinformed make excuses for others.

Shows their true colors.

"Santorum's attempt to compare living human beings being forced to work for the benefit of another to fetuses and embryos is typical Far Right doublespeak."

Written by Jesse Jackson (Far Right doublespeaker?):
"That is why the Constitution called us three-fifths human and then whites further dehumanized us by calling us "niggers." It was part of the dehumanizing process. The first step was to distort the image of us as human beings in. order to justify that which they wanted to do and not even feel like they had done anything wrong. Those advocates of taking. life prior to birth do not call it killing or murder; they call it abortion. They further never talk about aborting a baby because that would imply something human. Rather they talk about aborting the fetus. Fetus sounds less than human and therefore can be justified."
Source: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/nvp/consistent/jackson.html

Jackson is peculiar on the left for that statement (not that he is as left-wing as some right wingers want him to be). And he was just as wrong as Santorum and anyone else. Reducing a woman to nothing more than a vessel for the unborn is reactionary and true slavery.

" ... vessel for the unborn ... true slavery ...."

You trivialize slavery by making such a moronic statement. My guess is that you have never read any work of history on slavery, the Civil War, or the Underground Railroad. Many black men and women were brought to this country in the cramped spaces of filthy cargo holds on ships that were teeming with all sorts of bacteria, placed in fenced-in slave pens upon reaching American shores, groped and fondled by prospective buyers, ripped away away from other family members and sold to slaveholders in other states or pimps seeking mulatto women to serve as prostitutes, forced to work for brutal overseers who didn't hesitate to flog them for any perceived wrong, had their achilles tendons' severed to prevent them from fleeing north to escape bondage, ....

Brenda you said: Reducing a woman to nothing more than a vessel for the unborn is reactionary and true slavery.


Reducing motherhood, carrying and giving birth to a new life to nothing more than oppression and inconvenience and to nothing less than slavery is mindboggling. You seem to have trivialized life, motherhood, and slavery all in one sound byte sentence. +sigh+

Boys- when you are the ones facing that choice then you get a say.

So what your saying then louise is that no man should have to pay child support since it is HER choice?

So what your saying then louise is that no man should have to pay child support since it is HER choice?

;>

And we are not all boys.

louise johnston said: Boys- when you are the ones facing that choice then you get a say.

Lee C. said: So what your saying then louise is that no man should have to pay child support since it is HER choice?

Another excellent point Lee.

This guy is a total jerk. One of the reasons why he lost his Senate bid was because he took advantage of local school district funds when he enrolled his kids in cyber school. This was a school district he wasn't in living in! So much for small government conservatism. The only defense his people came up with was that he broke no laws! What about setting a conservative example. This is no different from Tea Party folks who are on Medicare/Social Security and disability.

Jane, I remember that whole episode. He should have been made to pay the money back. This will always haunt Santorum. He wasn't able to weasel his way out of this one.

From the article: Rick Santorum using Obama's race as a means of impugning his support of a woman's right to choose is also shallow and pathetic.

This looks like it could develop into a moment similar to this Hallmark moment.

From the article: He attempted to compare slavery to whether a woman chooses to carry her unborn child to term, according to CBS News.

He didn't.

He compared the attitude of many of those who support abortion (it's a mass of cells, it's not a person it's something that belongs to the woman and the woman can decide what to do with "it", it's not my business) to the same attitude found in many of the people who supported slavery (they aren't persons, they are nothing more than 'stock', "property", it's not my business etc ad nauseum)

Whether it's palatable or not, and while the actual physical circumstances and context are not the same; the attitudes of those involved are nonetheless, comparable.

Whether it's palatable or not, and while the actual physical circumstances and context are not the same; the attitudes of those involved are nonetheless, comparable.

Where was all the interest in Joe "foot in my mouth" Bidens comment saying that Obama was the first clean articulet black man to run for office.....oooh right its only racists if it comes from a repub...ok...now I know the rules....you hypocrites...lol

Keep spouting this racists crap...the more you do it the more votes the repubs get.

You might want to check your sources of who said that.

I find it interesting the title of this post is "Rick Santorum Explains Obama Race Comment, or Tries To (Video)", yet the video only shows us the original dialogue and the post only tell us how some have interpreted it. Nothing here tells us how Rick Santorum explains his comment.

I did not know anything about this until reading this post. So I can only speculate what Rick Santorum meant. Lee Y's comment maybe pretty close. But I think it is more than that. People use the excuse of "it's not my body", or "I have no right to tell others what to do" in an attempt to evade the tragedy of abortion just as those who in the past have tried to avoid dealing with slavery. So that may be partialy what Rick was referring to. However, it could be that he was referring to the fact that blacks are having abortions at a hugely disproportinate rate than their population. His comment may also have to do with the fact that abortion mills have been known to target blacks.

Lee C said: I find it interesting the title of this post is "Rick Santorum Explains Obama Race Comment, or Tries To (Video)", yet the video only shows us the original dialogue and the post only tell us how some have interpreted it. Nothing here tells us how Rick Santorum explains his comment.

I looked it up on a couple of other sites before commenting. Should have saved those addresses I guess, but because I didn't use any quotes I just closed them and moved on after getting the info I wanted. +shrug+

Actually, I did cover that. Second paragraph. Do try to read?

Are you afraid to quote what he actualy said?

"For decades certain human beings were wrongly treated as property and denied liberty in America because they were not considered persons under the constitution. "

"Today other human beings, the unborn of all races, are also wrongly treated as property and denied the right to life for the same reason; because they are not considered persons under the constitution," he continued. "I am disappointed that President Obama, who rightfully fights for civil rights, refuses to recognize the civil rights of the unborn in this country."

You claim to present Rick Santorum's explanation of his comment in one single sentence but don't quote him. And then you spend the rest of your post bashing him. You would make a great journalist for the lame-stream media Brenda.

Good observations Lee C.

From the article: Has anyone told bonobos they're defying nature by being bisexual?


Have to admit you had me stumped here.

Had no idea what a bonobo was.

Thought it might be another strange double-entendered/ double meaning/ use of a word I was familiar with (in this case I'm unfamiliar with the term bonobo) but that had been given a "new" meaning of which I was also totally unaware. Like when I first found out what "gay" was. Or more recently when I found out what Conservative detractors meant by "teabagging".

But no ... unless I missed something (and that is quite possible)... as far as I've been able to ascertain a bonobo is actually an ape.

A bonobo is an animal. A chimpanzee who might just as easily toss excrement at someone as eat it ... (no matter how "peaceful" they are, they are still animals) ...

And while the argument can be made, and probably will be, that we are also animals ... even if that is so, we are at the same time much more than animals; and using the argument (or it seems to me that is what the author is attempting) that because animals do it, or because these animals in particular do it (whatever 'it' is at any given moment) it should be considered natural and normal for humans to do (or be) it too, is ... well ... not sure I'm quite as into that as some others might be.

In fact, I find it hard to even take the actual issue seriously (whatever it is) when the comparison for it .. when the reference for it ... when the "justification?" for it is found in the behavior or norms of animals.

For instance, picking my nose, or my butt or eating the bugs off my "mate" is not quite up to my standards. Soooo ... the "comparison" as well as what seems to be an attempt at "justification" isn't; a good comparison that is. Neither is it a justfication (good or bad) for any human behavior discussion, whatever that behavior might be, no matter how "feminized" or humanlike the animal might be. +shrug+