Santorum: Obama Is ‘Condescending’ Because He Refuses To Wear An American Flag Pin
Santorum: Obama Is ‘Condescending’ Because He Refuses To Wear An American Flag Pin
Today in an interview with Fox News, former Republican senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum sharply criticized Rep. John Murtha’s (D-PA) comments that western Pennsylvania is a “racist area.” Santorum claimed that the real reason people in that area won’t support Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is because he is “condescending to them.” As evidence, he said that Obama “won’t wear the American flag pin”:
SANTORUM: Well, I’m from western Pennsylvania. I grew up in western Pennsylvania. I grew up in a steel town — Butler, PA — and those people are not racist. What they are are people that look at someone who is as liberal as Barack Obama, who has been condescending to them — in calling them clinging their guns and their religion — won’t wear the American flag pin, and he is not in concert with their values. It has nothing to do with the color of his skin.
Watch it:
It’s not clear how not wearing a flag pin makes someone condescending. Regardless, Obama does wear a flag pin. He has, in fact, worn one at each of the three presidential debates. The person who refuses to wear one is Sen. John McCain (R-AZ):
Note that Santorum was not wearing a flag pin during this interview.
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A$$HOLE.
October 16th, 2008 at 4:51 pmOh, there you go again — trying to apply the standards of he Reality-Based Community to a wingnut.
It’s a losing proposition.
October 16th, 2008 at 4:52 pmI thought this weird freak had gone away…
October 16th, 2008 at 4:52 pmBoy their grasping at straws now.
October 16th, 2008 at 4:53 pmMr. Irrelavant
October 16th, 2008 at 4:55 pmIt takes a Republican to criticize someone for not wearing a flag pin while himself not wearing a flag pin but then Ricky rides the short bus even by Republican standards.
October 16th, 2008 at 4:55 pmObama’s got nothing to worry about, now that he’s secured the mutant vote:
Barack Obama has received the political endorsement of America’s favorite precocious mutant: Bat Boy.
“This boy is a shining example of the American dream,” Obama said at a small press conference held after the meeting.
“Coming from meager beginnings, cast out for who he is, he now enjoys the freedom and limitless possibility granted to every American.”
October 16th, 2008 at 4:56 pmSomebody that has a hard time distinguishing a dog from a man probably will find it exceedingly difficult telling the difference between McSame and Obama … so do forgive Sanitorium his confusion here.
Cheers,
October 16th, 2008 at 4:57 pmOMG, they’re rolling out Santorum again? Good grief. He’s so outdated that he probably did not even watch the debates to see that it was McCain, not Obama who was NOT wearing a flag pin! LOL! I guess that means his pals in Pittsburgh won’t be voting for McCain, right? This is too funny …
October 16th, 2008 at 5:00 pmIt is HILARIOUS how devoid of any new material these wingnuts are…
Good lord… Santorum?
Flag pin patriotism?
What’s next, guys? Monica Lewinsky?
Sheesh.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:01 pmHmm, Western Pennsylvania, where Pittsburgh is located, not racist??? A very, very segregated city due to economics and geography.
I’ve been there many times and beg to differ with prissy-pants-Satorum.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:01 pm“My name is Rick…”
October 16th, 2008 at 5:02 pm“Senator? Your response?”
“No more gays. My name is Rick. Stem cell.”
Only FauxSnooze is willing to give this washed up fogducker any airtime….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
October 16th, 2008 at 5:03 pmThese guys love to make Ads for Obama. And they think they
October 16th, 2008 at 5:03 pmare hurting him. Ha!
Santorum doesn’t know the meaning of the word “condescending.”
BTW, where’s Ricky’s flag pin? He must be condescending…
October 16th, 2008 at 5:03 pmHey, Little Ricky – STFU!!!
October 16th, 2008 at 5:04 pmReall? That’s the best he could come up with? Didn’t he have time to touch on the others: arugula, Pahk-istan, “bitter”, “clinging to guns and religion”?
Seriously?
So, hard work/self-determination = elitist/condescending
AND
Legacy/adulterer/songbird = Maverick
Am I getting this right?
It’s really sad when the only card left in the RNC deck is “I’m rubber and you’re glue.”
October 16th, 2008 at 5:04 pmDid this guy even pay attention to the debates? If so why isn’t he using the same standards for Blinky who was NOT wearing a flag pin for all three.
What a dumba$s–doesn’t deserve the ink or the keyboard
October 16th, 2008 at 5:04 pmThis is the same Santorum who cheated the good folks of Western Pennsylvania out of over $55,000. Yes, he sapped money out of the public school system so his wife-the-breeder could “cyber school” the Ricklettes in their real home in Virginia. The Family Santorum maintained ownership of any empty 3-bedroom house in PA so PRick could claim both a PA residency and tap the educational funds designated for residents.
Love the ‘pubs who go on air to raise the flag pin question without wearing one themselves. Hypocrits.
PEACE
October 16th, 2008 at 5:05 pmbarracks9 Says: It’s really sad when the only card left in the RNC deck is “I’m rubber and you’re glue.”
Next it will be Obama is a poopie head with cooties.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:07 pmThe flag pin rule doesnt apply to Republicans. If you’re a Democrat you have to prove your love for your country. Like wearing a flag pin at all times, drive around in a tank, dont have a funny foreign name, be white etc etc
October 16th, 2008 at 5:08 pmIsn’t Santorum the stuff that floats to the top of the hot tub at Larry Craig’s house?
Jazz Musicians for Obama: (me on piano)
October 16th, 2008 at 5:08 pmHave a listen
(yes, yet another blatant plug, just trying to get heard)
WOW, they must be desparate if they’re rolling out Santorum.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:09 pmgee, murtha must not have been talking to santorum.
got racism?
October 16th, 2008 at 5:10 pmAnd what do Repubs have to say about McCain – who did NOT wear flag pins during debates? Is McCain anti-American? an unpatriot? A hater of the U.S.? A “terrorist”? Why does McCain hate the U.S. so much he refuses to wear a flag pin? (the Repubs own comments). Republicans must be the most obvious hypocrites in the entire world.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:10 pmFlag pins? I lost 21% of my 401k last week, so let’s talk about flag pins, former Congressman Santorum.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:10 pmSantorum & McCain = non-flag-pin-wearing haters of the U.S. They must be terrorists & America-destroyers. (to use their own stupid logic)
October 16th, 2008 at 5:13 pmWhen you spend all your time in a sewer, it’s easy to miss highly publicized debates I suppose.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:13 pmI am not sure which annoys me more. Flag pins or all those dopey Buckeye chatchkis covering every square inch of counter space in Ohio
October 16th, 2008 at 5:14 pmThese republicans are so ridiculously pathetic. The lies never end.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:19 pmIf you look at the picture of Scarah Impalin in the lower post she has a huge “ALASKA” pin.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:21 pmSantorum would have done better just to say that the people (oops, pardon me — “folks”) in western Pennsylvania disagree with Obama on the issues and tend to vote for those with more conservative positions. And for all I know, that could be true, unless it’s shown that western Pennsylvania voted for Gore and Kerry in huge numbers.
Santorum is correct in his claim that there are other reasons to vote for or against someone besides race, and not all white people who vote for a white candidate over a black one do so for racist reasons.
But he would have been wise to have left the flag pin issue alone. Continuing to comment on Obama’s lack of a flag pin when he wears one and McCain doesn’t just makes him look like a fool.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:21 pmCan we stick a flag pin to Santorum’s forehead?
October 16th, 2008 at 5:22 pmO, btw, i figured out how to put a link to my band’s web site in my profile, so now you can just click my name to hear the smooth jazz.
I promise, that’s the last plug. Jazz players need love too, ya know!
October 16th, 2008 at 5:23 pmSo, a guy who WEARS a flag pin is criticized by a man NOT WEARING a flag pin, for NOT WEARING a flag pin; and this second man supports another man who was NOT WEARING a flag pin, but says he WEARS a flag pin?
I’m now so hopelessly confused that I must have conjugal relations with my dog, just to get my head straight…
October 16th, 2008 at 5:26 pmIt’s that whole “bad guy throws the empty gun at Superman” schtick again…they’re seriously out of ammo.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:27 pmGoogle Santorum and read the first response.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:27 pmThat says it all.
Buckie Boy Says:
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SANTORUM – Where’s your flag pin?
He doesn’t have to wear one. If you are a Republican the flag pin is implied.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:28 pmWhere’s your senate seat, loser?
October 16th, 2008 at 5:30 pmBaby Ricky was always a loser. Scammed his small town in PA on school fees they couldn’t afford to pay while he was still a senator. Once a jerk, always a jerk.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:31 pmAnd isn’t saying Obama is “condescending” really close to describing him as “uppity”? Are we working on the code words now?
October 16th, 2008 at 5:35 pmRantingTommy Says:
October 16th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Cool. It sounds great. Thanks. :-)
October 16th, 2008 at 5:35 pmgot Santorum?
October 16th, 2008 at 5:35 pmSantorum knows more about western Pennsylvania than Murtha? Has he recently found Murtha’s 12th Congressional District on a map?
October 16th, 2008 at 5:37 pmdid you know about this???
Video: Clashes in New York outside Obama-Mccain debate RussiaToday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Th0e0z61A&eurl=http://news.google.com/
October 16th, 2008 at 5:37 pmI don’t like McCain’s “associates…” It makes him a bad person.
http://www.sunstateactivist.org/ssablog/
October 16th, 2008 at 5:39 pmThanks zooey
Yours is an opinion I respect
Means a lot that you dig the tunes
:)
October 16th, 2008 at 5:41 pmIsn’t Rick Santorum so 30 minutes ago? Good Lord will this guy never go away. He obviously just spews whatever comes into his mind, like the man on dog sex thing he was so fond of referring to. It’s time we ignored him, and high time the press did, too.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:44 pmkaty Says:
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did you know about this???
Video: Clashes in New York outside Obama-Mccain debate RussiaToday
I can’t do videos who is “clashing?
October 16th, 2008 at 5:48 pmDon’t confuse Conservatives with reality.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:48 pmThey can’t handle it.
Santorum is one of the most stupid people around. He began as a lawyer at the law firm at which I am currently, and, well, there is a reason he went into politics. Couldn’t hack it at a big law firm because he is stupid.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:52 pmkaty….CNN has an “I-report”, just photos, one vet got clobbered over the head, The photog who posted didn’t note what the ‘protest’ was about and it was hard to judge from the photos.
There was a bunch of crap in the comments with the pics, typical exchanges about who is the biggest fascist etc, couldn;t make ANY sense of it all.
Thanks to this I now see it was the IAVA guys, and it was the police who charged them with horses ( there’s a still photo of that). I;ve experienced such a thing myself in Tompkins Square, Manhattan back in the 80’s–that became a big deal.
These same was done to a tiny anti-war group in Washington last summer.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:54 pmlurker see #53… IAVA and cops
BTW If you are using Mozilla and the vid doesn;t work switch to IE ( if you have it) Mozilla often craps out on videos for no reason-v annoying.
October 16th, 2008 at 5:56 pmSantorum is so yesterday!
October 16th, 2008 at 5:59 pmThanks 5th Estate I use IE, but I have a dial-up.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:04 pmThere’s some wierd stories out there about Santorium, but the strangest, most macabre one is when the Santoriums brought their baby, who died only a couple of hours after birth, home from the hospital, introduced the dead child to their other children as “your brother Gabriel” and slept with the body overnight before returning it to the hospital. The children (three of them at that time) were 5, 3 and 1 year old at the time.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:08 pmlurker… ah dialup, yeah not video friendly.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:11 pmThis is ridiculous. Nowhere, I mean NOWHERE in the world, can you find such an overabundance of flags and related patriotic simbols as in the USA. And frankly, it reaches a level when it means nothing, and the flag losses its symbolism and becomes only the chip in the shoulder of a bully, the Republicans in this case.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:13 pmSanitarium cannot be serious!?! He’s chiding Barack while he himself isn’t wearing a flag lapel pin while Barack has and McAint hasn’t at any debate. This is an obvious ploy to piss us all off as nobody can be that stupid…can they?
October 16th, 2008 at 6:16 pm“Obama doesn’t wear a flag pin!”
October 16th, 2008 at 6:21 pm“Uh, Rick, look at the video…”
“What? It makes my point exactly!”
“Rick, what are you talking about?”
“It’s plain as day! See! Not wearing a flag pin!”
*pause*
“Rick, which of these men is Barack Obama?”
“The guy without the flag pin! Duh!”
“The, uh, guy with the thing on his jaw?”
“Sure! Arrogant, condescending guy if I ever saw one!”
“So you like the thin guy with the tan? That John McCain guy?”
“Great speaker, isn’t he? Cool as a cucumber. Just what you’d expect in a war hero.”
“Rick Santorum, thank you. Hope your candidate wins.”
“Thank you. Always a pleasure.”
i went to penn state and met several western pennsylvanians there. not all are racist of course, but id say more than half that i met are and in varying degrees, from just being ignorant to actively hating minorities.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:27 pmWhat’s the deal with these pins anyway? Were they handed out at some special place? Do they have to make a point to go and buy one just to appease these weird newscasters?
They make it seem like it’s as important as a police badge.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:28 pmWe are seeing the madness of the neocons exposed as, one by one, they collapse under the realization that their run is over. Their platform has failed, in spectacular fashion, and our nation is waking up to the fact that the “strengths” of the GOP are, in fact, lies.
While there is still a disturbing number of people who will buy their crap, ANYONE who has made an honest effort to weigh the relative merits of the two Presidential tickets is left with one logical conclusion: Flippy McSpin and the GOP are fatally flawed, morally bankrupt, and unfit to lead.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:29 pmSantorum is a condescending yerchov!
October 16th, 2008 at 6:33 pmIf Obama is condescending, what the heck is disgraced loser Rick Sanctimony? Smug, arrogant and the like don’t begin to capture it…
October 16th, 2008 at 6:34 pmOh yuk! I finally got him out of my head, and now he’s there again. That story of he and Mrs. Dog on Man bringing their miscarried fetus home for the children and family to honor with a private family gathering. At the time, bloggers were speculating if the fetus was kept in a jar on the bookshelf in his office. Oh help, my head is exploding again. You can’t ever mention that person again!
October 16th, 2008 at 6:34 pmSarah Palin makes babies with a Traitor to the Flag.
For real.
October 16th, 2008 at 6:38 pmI live in Pittsburgh and this guy is a scumball, a loser, a hypocrit, arrogant and a liar. He bilked the school district out of thousands of dollars. Having never done volunteer work before, in 2004 I actively got involved with Moveon.org just to see his ass defeated. The Democrats won the state in 2004 and we will win it again.
October 16th, 2008 at 7:02 pmSantorum never lets the facts stand in the way of his dogma.
October 16th, 2008 at 7:18 pmWho keeps giving this ass-wipe Santorum an opportunity to spread his whacko, right wing, religious baloney.
October 16th, 2008 at 7:31 pmNew Rule: Flag pins are too small and thus not patriotic enough. From here on the standard should be red, white and blue clothers. Thats rights, so get on with it!
October 16th, 2008 at 7:40 pmYou mean secessionist Scarah Impalin?
October 16th, 2008 at 7:42 pmThe best thing about Rick Santorum is going over to UrbanDictionary.com and looking up the meaning of his last name. You go Rick! We love to hate you!
October 16th, 2008 at 7:54 pmIn-Sane-torium is a hypocrit’s hypocrite. He spends more time in a confessional than a priest. He and Hoe.kstra will be lookin’ fur deem WMD’s purty soon. Give ‘em sumpin’ ta do.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:03 pmHas he been living in a cave for the past five months? “Clinging to God and guns” and “where’s his flag pin” is soooo May ‘08.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:23 pmI am so glad I help to get rid of this yom-yom (that’s northeast PA for jackass).
October 16th, 2008 at 9:21 pmAnd the Republicans really don’t understand how amazingly stupid they sound.
October 16th, 2008 at 9:26 pmOh, there ya go again, Rick…not letting little things like FACTS stand in the way of making a point.
What a doofus.
October 16th, 2008 at 10:16 pmWhen will someone tell Rick Sanitarium that he’s one of the most pathetic jerks in America?
October 16th, 2008 at 11:06 pmWho is this pant load who has sex with dogs?
October 16th, 2008 at 11:17 pmThis Obama fellow is clearly not patriotic because he is black I mean he won’t wear a flag pin I mean he wears it in inappropriate places
October 17th, 2008 at 6:18 amI’ve been to Butler and believe racism is alive and well and it lives in places like Butler
Santorum needs to show us the WMD he found.
October 17th, 2008 at 7:34 amRicky Santorum looks terrible. Guess having to work a real job without stealing from the citizens of PA doesn’t agree with him.
October 17th, 2008 at 8:24 amI’m just wondering why anyone is even asking Senator Man-On-Dog for his opinion. He’s a washed-up has-been who was decisively sent home by the voters of Pennsylvania in 2006. Gearing up for that gubernatorial run in 2010, Senator Rectal-Froth?
October 17th, 2008 at 9:35 amHey, five months behind is actually pretty up-to-date for Rickyboy. He’s usuallyso conservative he thinks it’s still 1994.
October 17th, 2008 at 9:37 amdef. Wkipedia: Rick Santorum, see PUTZ!
October 17th, 2008 at 10:43 amThe only guy as irrelevant as Ricky is our good buddy Georgie ‘Macaca’ Allen.
Both are prime examples of how far down the crapper the Repugs have gone.
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