Santorum: Obama has ‘deep-seated antipathy toward American values.’
Santorum: Obama has ‘deep-seated antipathy toward American values.’
In a column for the Philadelphia Inquirer titled “The Elephant in the Room: Obama vs. The United States,” former right-wing senator Rick Santorum declares that the President of the United States has a “deep-seated antipathy toward American values,” made obvious by his nomination of a highly-qualified, brilliant legal scholar for a post at the State Department:
Watching President Obama apologize last week for America’s arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans — helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. His nomination of former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh to be the State Department’s top lawyer constitutes further evidence of his disdain for American values.
Santorum is just the latest right-winger to insist that, since Obama policies are not conservative, they are thus by definition anti-American. During the campaign, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) stated flatly, “Barack Obama’s views are against America.” Last week, Sean Hannity declared that Obama “harbors deep resentment that he just hides” and accused him of pandering to “the worst instincts of those who hate this country.”
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So sayeth teh Republican Pouty…
April 9th, 2009 at 12:34 pmIs there any precedent for this kind of sliming? Literally having a significant segment of your own damn Congress insisting that the president is literally Anti-American? As in, he full on hates the country he’s leader of?
I mean….I’m young I guess and memory goes back only as far as Bush Sr., but I don’t remember Clinton getting it quite this bad, and that was plain awful.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:36 pmSantorum’s values are out of line with the vast majority of Americans. I have rarely heard anyone on any place in the so-called political spectrum, speak so eloquently about and to the values of most Americans than Barack Obama.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:36 pmRicky, don’t lose that number; it’s the only one you own.
Shouldn’t you be out bronzing fetuses or something equally weird?
April 9th, 2009 at 12:36 pmBut wait– it was the Republicans who screamed over & over that if someone does not support the President completely, that person is anti-American & guilty of treason, labels Santorum, Bacmann, etc. must now apply to themselves.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:37 pmTRoHS: And Santorum has a ‘deep-seated stupidity about… well… EVERYTHING…’
April 9th, 2009 at 12:37 pmActually, it’s Santorum and the rest of the Rushbpublicans who have a “deep-seated antipathy toward American values.” You know, those values that are embodied explicitly and implicitly in a little thing called The Constitution of the United States of America? Ex-Sen. Santorum and the rest of his ilk proved their antipathy over the last 8 years, as they supported torture, illegal wars, illegal wiretapping of American citizens, intervention in private medical matters, bigotry towards immigrants, denial of equality to same-gender couples…(I could go on, of course…).
April 9th, 2009 at 12:37 pmRepublicans are imploding . .
NOT ONE American flag was burned during President Obama’s visit on foreign soil!!
Think any of these republican roaches noticed?
April 9th, 2009 at 12:37 pmSpoken like a true loser.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:38 pmIt’s funny, because didn’t Americans elect the guy? As a natural-born American citizen, I just love being told that I’m anti-American because I don’t think a certain way or hold fast to a dying, misbegotten philosophy held by a political party that has a history of, among other things, using racial intimidation and misinformation to suppress my ancestors.
Love it.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:39 pmLizCoro Says:Republicans are imploding . .
NOT ONE American flag was burned during President Obama’s visit on foreign soil!!
Note Icky Ricky isn’t wearing a flag in the pic above, either.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:40 pmWho knew all these Wingnuts could read President Obama’s mind?
April 9th, 2009 at 12:40 pmHow did a man this monumentally stupid and unsophisticated ever get elected to the Senate from a big state like Pennsylvania?
April 9th, 2009 at 12:40 pmThis is the ultimate result of Rovian politics. If you demonize your opponent to win an election, and you wind up losing, you have no choice but to keep on demonizing or look foolish. Eventually, you wind up like Santorum or Bachmann and actually begin believing the lies that you’ve concocted.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:41 pmGeez, I didn’t know anti-Americans were so active in volunteering to serve their community….gosh!
April 9th, 2009 at 12:41 pmLizCoro Says:
NOT ONE American flag was burned during President Obama’s visit on foreign soil!!
Think any of these republican roaches noticed?
April 9th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
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Noticed?
I rather think it proves their point!
April 9th, 2009 at 12:42 pmRick–he was just being polite. .
April 9th, 2009 at 12:42 pmHe was apologizing to Europe on behalf of the arrogant, jingoistic, irresponsible, greedy, abusive and proudlky ignorant cowards that hijacked this nation. He’s taking some responsibility for lying, war-mongering, war-profiteering, jackasses that ran this country off the road and into a ditch in the last eight years. It’s actually kind of gracious of him.
He doesn’t hate America, Joe. Just you.
Everything the reich do’s is comparable to what they realy are..They lie and accuse the left of being liers, they created the war on Iraq and blame us for it even though most of us were against it..Their operative’s like rove, limpdick, cheney and all the other’s have raided our country, imprisoned and tortured people all over the world, had secret group’s perform their evil deed’s and now claim we are the one’s that are doing evil….Bullshit is still feeding their evil way’s…P,B. & J
April 9th, 2009 at 12:43 pmIf his past performance was any indication, Santorum has ‘deep-seated antipathy toward American laws.’
I can’t get over how these out of power politicians like Newt & Santorum continually spew their opinions.
Santorum’s definitely a floater, not a sinker.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:44 pmOnce again, the Reich Wing projection & spin machine is going full speed ahead . . .
April 9th, 2009 at 12:45 pmPresident Obama received more votes of American people than any other president ever. These Republicans are questioning all of our patriotism. It is probably time we started staging our own protests against all these lying propagandist.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:45 pmriiiiiiiiiiiigth . . . because torture, indefinite detention, ‘preemptive’ war, enriching friends at the expense of the Nation, raping the environment, politicizing every single aspect of the federal government, etc. are such American values, right Santorum?
April 9th, 2009 at 12:45 pmOnce again the republicans show what idiots they are. They are more concerned over what Obama said overseas then they are about the recent ruling over FISA and illegal surveillance. Of course this protects their own guy.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:46 pm“Watching President Obama apologize last week for America’s arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans — helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.”
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I don’t consider arrogance to be an American value or tradition. Or if it is, it shouldn’t be. Most Americans I know agree with me, although I do know a few who still believe a lack of arrogance and swagger is a sign of weakness.
Santorum appears to believe arrogance is an American value and is willing to brand any dissenters as un-American.
How sad. As cowboy diplomacy vanishes (replaced by REAL diplomacy), Santorum and his ilk will be fading like wicked witches being melted like water — crying, “what a world! what a world!”
April 9th, 2009 at 12:47 pmHow do any of them get elected?
Mainly because the people don’t pay attention. When you have apathetic voters you get this kind of ‘representation’.
When you have people who are awake and mentally aware, you get better results.
Yay Obama!!
April 9th, 2009 at 12:47 pmYou have to give the conservatives credit though…have you ever seen such coordination in a pack of ankle-biting chihuahua’s?
April 9th, 2009 at 12:48 pmYou know, this si the biggest problem with these media talking heads. Rick Santorum got his ass handed to him in the last election, right there in the state of Pennsylvania. Why does a major publication give him space, when their readership has soundly rejected his viewpoint?
April 9th, 2009 at 12:49 pm“helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.”
You were convinced of that long ago, bucko.
Harold Koh spoke at The Florida Bar’s annual convention last year. Why are they sliming this man?
I’m now convinced that the people left in the Republican party are mentally ill.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:50 pmIs there any polling that shows a more favorable view of America since President Obama was elected?
I would love to get my hands on that as part of my arsenal against the Republican argument that President Obama is destroying the U.S image abroad, lol. He made a fair comment like “America is sometimes arrogant” and all of a sudden he hates America, according to their warped thinking. Geez, he also said that Europe can be anti-American, does that also make him anti-European??? Nah, the Republicans completely ignore that point.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:50 pmSantorum: has no idea what true American values are.
Republicans are Anti-American, and Pro-Corporation, ie Fascism.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:51 pmAmerican values?? Like assassinating the democratically elected president of Guatemala in the 50’s so that the United Fruit Company could continue to steal their natural resources at the expense of the peasants? Dropping napalm on the citizens of Congo in unmarked US planes. Over throwing a democratically elected prime minister in Iran so that he wouldn’t nationalize Iran’s oil? Using white phosphorus on Iraqi citizens, using napalm and agent orange in Vietnam. Making laws for the ultra rich to control the citizens. These values?
April 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pm“Real” America strikes again!
April 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pmpastcaring ceratopogonidae Says
April 9th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
I can’t get over how these out of power politicians like Newt & Santorum continually spew their opinions.
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They do because media such as the Philadelphia Inquirer and Fox News give them a soapbox to do it.
When there aren’t enough people interested in what these guys have to say, they’ll become irrelevant.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pmWhy do Santorum and Bachmann hate America?
April 9th, 2009 at 12:52 pmGood point, hillary1. Ditto that for all “teabagging protests” on April 15th.
On the other hand, let these blowhards rant and rave. They are pointing a rifle at their own foot, and squeezing the trigger.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:53 pmOjore Says:
It’s funny, because didn’t Americans elect the guy? As a natural-born American citizen, I just love being told that I’m anti-American because I don’t think a certain way or hold fast to a dying, misbegotten philosophy held by a political party that has a history of, among other things, using racial intimidation and misinformation to suppress my ancestors.
Love it.
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yes america elected obama.
therefore america is anti-american.
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April 9th, 2009 at 12:53 pmSelective history is the fanatic’s province.
When Santorum said, “Watching President Obama [speak] before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans”, Santorum ignores the French support we got during the American War for Independence.
See http://people.csail.mit.edu/sfelshin/saintonge/frhist.html for a comprehensive analysis
April 9th, 2009 at 12:53 pmbefore a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans
What a doofus! The US owes its existence, in some part to the French, who fronted us $20million and significant military support in the fight against the British.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:54 pmAnd I should care what Santorum has to say because……..?
April 9th, 2009 at 12:54 pmWell, since President Obama’s job approval ratings are hanging in at the mid 60’s, I guess that most Americans don’t agree with these clowns. Even Fox News’ latest poll has Obamas approval ratings at 58% and his personal approval at 62%.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:57 pmSantorum’s skull would make a good squirrel feeder. Lifetime supply – no storing necessary.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:57 pm…before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans…
Actually, Little Ricky, it’s we Americans who owe our freedom to the French. If not for their help during our Revolutionary War, we might still be speaking with British accents. Remember, Little Ricky, in the end, the British surrendered to the French in that war. We didn’t do it alone. (Oh, and a gay man helped train our troops to fight better.)
April 9th, 2009 at 12:58 pmWell well, if you don’t succumb to their insane wave of thought you must be anti-American. The GOP obviously doesn’t understand what democracy is.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:58 pmAnd whose Revolution helped to inspire our own.
April 9th, 2009 at 12:59 pmIgnoranceIsNotBliss Says:
And I should care what Santorum has to say because……..?
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… he’s the smartest guy in pottstown.
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April 9th, 2009 at 12:59 pmi hear “the bow” was a big deal for the fox bots…
did anyone see that?
i’m not sure what it was, but that was NOT a bow…
anyone else?
April 9th, 2009 at 12:59 pmARGHGHGHGHGRRRRR!!!
April 9th, 2009 at 1:00 pmRight Wing conservative fake patriot homophobic racist warmonger aristocracy……..F%CK OFF!!!!!!
gitrdone Says:
Is there any polling that shows a more favorable view of America since President Obama was elected?
I don’t know about polls, but I think that President Obama’s reception on his recent world tour should tell us that their view of America is improving substantially.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:01 pm#44- You got that backwards, the American Revolution inspired the French Revolution. Unless that’s what you meant in which case I’ll shut up.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:02 pmkatydid Says:
i hear “the bow” was a big deal for the fox bots…
did anyone see that?
So to the Fixed News a bow to a king is inappropriate but holding hands with one is?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:02 pmIf Obama didn’t love his country, he wouldn’t he be some well paid lawyer some place? Only great love of country would inspire you to take the thankless job he has now.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:03 pmWouldn’t he? Sorry about the double he.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:03 pmMethinks little Ricky has a deep-seated antipathy toward truth or honesty or serving the electorate of his state. (Oh that’s right, he’s no longer a senator – too bad)
April 9th, 2009 at 1:03 pmIt really is quite sad that these Right-wingers and Republicans are so beside themselves with anger that they have lost favor with the majority of American people that they would allow their deep-seeded hatred for the President fog and corrupt their senses. They are so wracked with anger they can’t even stop to hear exactly what Pres. Obama is offering and saying, because they hear only what they want to hear,through their own belligerent misguided rant…they have lost focus, along with their way!
April 9th, 2009 at 1:04 pmWatching President Obama apologize last week for America’s arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans…
Those damn Frenchies… we saved their butts in the American Revolutionary War. Without us back then they would have…..
what?…..
really?……
ummmmmmm……. well, THAT’S ancient history… I was talking about WWII…
You know, Ex-senator, your comment above helped convince me that you have a deep-seated antipathy toward history.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:04 pmIt appears Republicans don’t like Democracy after all.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:04 pmThey blow their “patriot” image with every crazy statement they make.
Dammit, that’s what happens when I try to eat lunch and post at the same time.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:04 pmConservatives certainly stick to their (albeit uncreative, ineffective, and amateurish) playbook tactics: flat out lie, use fear as much as possible, accuse your oppionent of being guilty of the very things that you are guilty of, and use name-calling as often as possible. Recycled, time-tested, failed Rovian tricks. This inability to learn from their political mistakes is what may ultimately be the undoing of the conservative movement in America.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:05 pmTallygirl Says:
I’m now convinced that the people left in the Republican party are mentally ill.
Actually, it’s more like they are stuck in stage one and two of the grief process over their losses in the last two elections (denial then anger). They will never make the acceptance stage.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:06 pmShorter Santorum: We’re a white Christian nation.
http://www.pufferfishblog.com/
April 9th, 2009 at 1:06 pmFurther on Santorum: Santorum was defeated 59% to 41% in the 2006 U.S. Senate election by Democratic candidate Bob Casey, Jr. This was the largest margin of defeat for an incumbent Senator since 1980 – source is Wikpedia. Not very relevant, is he?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:07 pmwags camponotus saundersi Says:
Dammit, that’s what happens when I try to eat lunch and post at the same time.
For the love of goat cheese, STOP EATING!!!!
April 9th, 2009 at 1:09 pmI’ll have whatever Proud is smoking.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:09 pmWatching President Obama apologize last week for America’s arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans
And we owe France a huge debt of gratitude for providing military/naval support and helping us win the Revolutionary War and our freedom from England , Ricky ………..
Guess they didn’t teach you that in home-school class………
April 9th, 2009 at 1:10 pmRick, he was apologizing for people like you.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:10 pmEvery time I see Santorum, I now think of Dan Savage…and what he named after Ricky. Google for a giggle.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pmProud Says:
Bowing to the Saudi King, trashing the former President, he was a disgrace in Europe. And today your manchurian candidate of a president wouldn’t speak about the hijacking of an American ship, because it was not on his teleprompter.
Thank goodness he will be gone in four years. I never thought dems could find anybody worse than Jimmy Carter, but you did.
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can’t say his name?
we understand.
:)
April 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pmProud Says: Bwaaa, boohoo, we lost by big margins, now we are sad because
America hates republicans, waaaah.
Fcuk off Pouting Proud
April 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pmOf course ol Rick doesn’t mean the American traditionas and values of “YOU LOSERS!”
Just the rich, white, corporate types.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:11 pmHere Proud, this photo is for you
April 9th, 2009 at 1:12 pmProud Says:
Bowing to the Saudi King, trashing the former President, he was a disgrace in Europe.
How would you have acted in Europe and the Middle East as president, Proud?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:12 pmDoodlebug Shayne Says:
I’ll have whatever Proud is smoking.
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it’s meth.
and he doesn’t smoke it.
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April 9th, 2009 at 1:12 pmSantorum: “Obama has ‘deep-seated antipathy toward American values.’
More closeted republican rhetoric. It’s always about the butt-sex. He seems to be saying Obama wants to grudge-f uck America’s values…
April 9th, 2009 at 1:13 pmProud Says:
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Bowing to the Saudi King, trashing the former President, he was a disgrace in Europe. And today your manchurian candidate of a president wouldn’t speak about the hijacking of an American ship, because it was not on his teleprompter.
Thank goodness he will be gone in four years. I never thought dems could find anybody worse than Jimmy Carter, but you did.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
But sword-dancing and holding hands with that same individual are perfectly acceptable to you , as is the former horseshit Vice President constantly criticizing the current president and his administration ; an unheard of and unprecedented occurrence.
I never thought you GOP suckholes could find anybody worse than Ronnie Retard , but you sure did ……..Congrats , moron.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:13 pmProject much, Mr. Santorum?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:13 pmDoodlebug Shayne Says:
I’ll have whatever Proud is smoking.
He’s not smoking. He’s mainlining brake fluid.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:13 pmProud, did someone in your family die in a telepromter accident?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:14 pmOH MY GAUD Doodlebug Shayne that is hillarious….suck on that Prouting Proud!!!
Yes, the big smooch by the bisexual Bush for the Saudi King!!!
Ain’t that just precious?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:14 pmHey Proud, you are an indefensible idiot. Guess you forgot about your Leader Herr Bu$h HOLDING HANDS AND KISSING the Saudi prince, at Camp David of all places?
This is getting fun, watching you people implode.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:16 pmThe only thing this emphasizes for me is how uncool Democrats were when they were in the minority and could have been more vocal w/ their criticisms of the Bush Administration when there were serious issues taking place… Of course, part of that was a lack of coverage by the MSM, however, not completely. Democrats really didn’t seem to be making much of an effort to be heard back then. Not like this.
Although, Republicans have nothing besides the stuff they’re making up.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:17 pmWell, at least Prod has the troll integrity to show up and try to defend Ricky… er… I guess Prod didn’t really defend Ricky, did he… just tried to change the subject again…
Well, at least he showed up, huh?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:18 pmTypical American tourist:
“Gosh! The French are so rude and they hate Americans!
All I said was, which way to the Eiffel Tower, and
GET ON YOUR KNEES AND THANK ME FOR YOUR FREEDOM, FROG!”
April 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pmRepublicans sure are sore losers.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pmSure, Rick – That’s why he studied Constitutional Law, and went to work for the betterment of Chicago neighborhoods. Clearly, his commitment to public service is evidence of his “antipathy toward American values”.
Righty’s doin’ nothin’ but shootin’ blanks these days.
Yosemite Sam carries more weight as a critic than these yokelberries.
p.s. to Mr. Santorum – your 15 minutes were over a long time ago.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pmProud Says:
“I never thought dems could find anybody worse than Jimmy Carter, but you did.”
Yeah, you’re right. You Republicans certainly do have the market cornered on electing people worse than Carter.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:19 pmNo, really PROUD: what is up with that fat, wet, homosexual KISS Bush is planting on the Saudi?
Are you saying that THAT is how President Obabma SHOULD have acted? I don’t understand where you are coming from on this. Please explain.
Or… please be publicly vehement about this Bush-kiss as well…. I mean, a bow is one thing, but a MAN kissing a MAN?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:21 pmralph the wonder locust Says:
Well, at least Prod has the troll integrity to show up and try to defend Ricky… er… I guess Prod didn’t really defend Ricky, did he… just tried to change the subject again…
Well, at least he showed up, huh?
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then he split.
poor ricky.
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April 9th, 2009 at 1:23 pmYou know (OT), someone should be sending that pic to Oreilly… daily.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:24 pmSantorum and his ilk shouldn’t criticize Obama for that apology. They should thank him for doing it in their place. Cowards.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:24 pmThese jerks get on my nerves always saying Obama is wrong because he doesn’t agree with them. Well, turn your attention to John Stewart: When you are out of power, is supposed to taste like sh*t taco.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:26 pmRick Santorum declare[d] that the President of the United States has a “deep-seated antipathy toward American values,”
Hey, “Man-On-Dog”!: You misspelled “Rethuglican”. But Obama’s in good company amongst his fellow Americans, in case you didn’t notice.
Cheers,
April 9th, 2009 at 1:26 pmPerhaps Santorum needs to be reminded that there wouldn’t BE a United States of America without the assistance of the French.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:27 pm#2 Kryptik Says:
Is there any precedent for this kind of sliming? Literally having a significant segment of your own damn Congress insisting that the president is literally Anti-American?
Yeah, back in the 50’s. McCarthy era. HUAC.
Cheers,
April 9th, 2009 at 1:28 pmwhy is it that people who were run out of office are still on tv telling me what to think?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:29 pmIt must kill the wingnuts that Thomas Jefferson, the original proponent of “states’ rights” was an avid Francophile.
Oh, what am I saying? Even if they bothered with history, they would still need some internal consistency in order to be annoyed by it.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:32 pmProud Says:
Thank goodness he will be gone in four years. I never thought dems could find anybody worse than Jimmy Carter, but you did.
If that fantasy keeps you somewhat sane for the next four years, you are welcome to it. Unfortunately for you, some day you are going to have to accept the reality of your world and accept the fact that the Republicans have become irrelevant.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:34 pmCageyCretin Says:
No, really PROUD: what is up with that fat, wet, homosexual KISS Bush is planting on the Saudi?
Are you saying that THAT is how President Obabma SHOULD have acted? I don’t understand where you are coming from on this. Please explain.
And don’t forget that stroll they took holding hands.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:36 pmThat was a truly great moment in Daily Show annals. But for me, the crux of the argument was “you might be mistaking tyranny for losing“.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:37 pmIt’s pretty obvious that republicans don’t know their history very well. Here is just an example from a few republicans I’ve talked to in the past year:
1-The constitution was written before the revolutionary war and is the reason we fought the English. (I just rolled my eyes and laughed)
2-Alexander Hamilton was one of our presidents because his face is on the $10.00 bill. (I told him Benjamin Franklin was on the $100.00 bill so does that make him a president too?)
3-FDR dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. (I told him it must have been a neat trick since FDR was already dead.)
4-Clinton was responsible for the US Marines barracks bombing in Beirut. (I had to explain to the idiot that the barracks bombing happened in 1983 under Ronny Raygun.)
So in short republicans are all idiots in my honest opinion.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:38 pmDoodlebug Shayne Says:
Here Proud, this photo is for you
And this one:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blbushabdullahhands.htm
April 9th, 2009 at 1:39 pmSo when did we start caring what Rick SansScrotum thinks?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:40 pmIn honor of Mr. Santorum’s anti-French attitude, shall we start calling him “Man-on-poodle” Santorum?
April 9th, 2009 at 1:41 pmThink about it. Americans voting out years of of pro-American values. How could they vote out eight years of bliss? The power grab of a few is distinctly pro-American. The power of the vote against a conservative is tyranny. I just don’t think you libs understand. Can I go cry now?
Stop the hate, libs!
April 9th, 2009 at 1:45 pmPut away the swiss knife, this calls for the pro-American weapon of choice — FREEDOM FRIES!!
April 9th, 2009 at 1:46 pmIn the 1980’s Koh worked as an adviser to the Office of Legal Counsel in the Reagan Justice Department.
He(Harold Koh) joined the Yale Law School faculty in 1985, and is now the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law.[4]
He was nominated by President Clinton to become Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor on September 10, 1998 and confirmed unanimously by the Senate on October 21, 1998.
To quote a group of young conservative Yale law students on Koh’s tenure as Dean:
“Dean Koh has been very supportive of conservative students and conservative student organizations. He has mentored conservative students, participated in Federalist Society events, and gone out of his way to include conservatives and their ideas in classroom discussions. Dean Koh has always been not only forthright and honest about his views, but also fair and solicitous of conservative opinions in public and private.”
Yeah I can see how Obama’s nomination of this man seals the deal on hating America, Ricky. Or perhaps it had more to do with Koh’s testimony before Congress at a hearing on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales to the AG position. Koh was quite vocal in his admonishment of Gonzales’s positions on the illegality of torture and the applicability of the Geneva Conventions to detainees.
Sounds like Mr. Koh is an outspoken patriot and protector of American ideals if you asked me. Citizen Santorum on the other hand…
April 9th, 2009 at 1:47 pmProudMoron Says:
Well proud you are ignorant and brainwashed. You are a liar and a fool. You are so stupid that every post you make is what the screehmonkey you listened to has TOLD you to think. You are such a pathetic and ignorant punk it is hard to think of anyone as stupid as you really using a keyboard. I guess you just some here to annoy us. Even someone as demonstrably ignorant as you cant think a discussion begins with the lies and stupidity you spew out like toxic ignorance. It must suck to be as wortheless, stupid, and pathetic as you obviously are.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:52 pmWhen we can make fun of it without breaking a sweat.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:53 pmAnd Prod is back with another attempt to change the subject.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:53 pmProud Says:
Sorry I had to leave for a bit, I do actually work. In fact I had to layoff 15 of my employees today. It was an easy choice just go to the parking lot and see who has either an Obama or global warming bumper sticker and then drop the hammer.
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have fun with your lawsuit.
:)
April 9th, 2009 at 1:54 pmIt called projection, if Repubs accuse someone of something it is a good clue that is what they are doing. If Santorum says Obama has deep seated antipathy toward American values, we have evidence that Santorum has deep seated antipathy toward American values. Of course it depends on what you think those values are. To me one of those values is tolerance of the beliefs of others, it is clear Repubs have a problem with allowing others to live their lives as they please.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:54 pmralph the wonder locust Says:
And Prod is back with another attempt to change the subject.
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even proud won’t defend ricky.
once upon a time this cat was big.
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April 9th, 2009 at 1:56 pmWe have seen a Republican party that is intent upon destroying our constitution, our democracy, our values and our way of life. It is time for us to realize that we are confronted with nothing less than a force of treasonous traitors intent upon seizing the reins of power and creating a one party state.
Look at the evidence and understand the nature of the forces arrayed against us and the conspiracy confronting our nation:
1. After Goldwater lost his bid for the presidency, the Republican party, powerful financial interests and racists have sought to destroy the American way of life that led to unrivaled prosperity, equality and opportunity since the rise of populism in the wake of the Great Depression.
2. The Republicans first created a series of think tanks to develop an effective and pervasive system of propaganda.
3. The Republicans actively sought to attract the worst elements of southern racists in the aftermath of Democratic support of civil rights under Lyndon Johnson. Wrapped up in the theory of less federal government and more states rights.
4. The Republicans actively spread lies to turn the country against the poor while actively selling their influence out to corporate and financial interests.
5. The Republicans allied themselves with right wing evangelical religious organizations to add to their political base in the Old South. Radical and extreme interpretation of the Bible and values have been used to demean and tar Democrats and liberals as immoral and dangerous to this country.
6. King George II carried the fight from the campaign into the very halls of government with his attacks against those who opposed his illegal war in Iraq and implementation of tyrannical suppression of individual rights under the law and attempt to create an all powerful monarchy under the rubric of the “unitary” executive theory. The K Street project, corruption of legislative and executive personnel sought to forever link money and the Republican party.
However, the Democrats won. No more worry. Right?
Wrong.
1. We have seen the Republican party adopt propaganda supporting the overthrow of a legitimately elected government.
2. Santorum, Bachmann, Gingrich and others merely follow the transcript adopted by the right. King George attempted to leave a fifth column of traitors in federal agencies (DoJ and DoD in particular.)
3. The Right Wing noise machine (Limbaugh, Coulter, FOX, Clear Channel and others) spread unmitigated lies and encourage the arming of the right.
4. The Republican party made it clear that they would obstruct government after the 2006 election. They have lived up to their promise.
What can we do? Civil war is unavoidable. However, this is the choice of the Republican party and their right wing and financial, and religious supporters. Hopefully, this will not be a violent conflict. However, I am not confident given the likes of Beck and others calling for armed revolution. These people are no different than the Brown Shirts, Il Duces troops, communists or Baathists. It is time to stand up and take these people on. It will not answer to be reasonable, seek the middle ground or seek accommodation. There is no interest in tolerance or democratic solutions from the Republican side.
Sakespear said it best:
We did not call for this war but it has been thrust upon us. We have no choice but to fight and win. It will not be over until the Republican party joins the dust bin of all fascist organizations with their leaders tried and imprisoned or executed for their crimes, their strongest adherents barred from office and their agents with government expelled.
God help us all.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:56 pmProud, thanks for the fake narrative. If you ever do get around to running a business by some off chance, a great way to send it to the poor-house would be to make firing decisions on a political whim. The ousted talent could always spread the word.
“I do actually work” is probably so shoddy, it’s more like relaxation in your case.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:57 pmProud is angered by President Obama’s bowing to the Saudi king. That’s pretty funny considering that Bush happily bent over and took it straight up the @ss from the Saudi King for eight years. When Bush wiped his chin off and meekly asked the Saudi to boost oil production or ease prices the king all but told Bush to f#ck off and get the hell out of his bed, sending Botch whimpering back to the US with his tail between his legs.
April 9th, 2009 at 1:58 pmProudMoron Says: 107
I always wondered how anyone like you could be so delusional. I mean as pathetic and ignorant as you are you think you are clever. Everyday as you are meet people ten times smarter than you will ever be you think you matter. The fact you are so stupid a retarded monkey would have pity on you doesnt phase you. You just blithely go along making ignorant, embarassing jokes and think they are funny. I guess you dont notice how people dont laugh but just look at you with the pity someone as stupid and pathetic as you are so richly deserve. I guess you are too stupid to notice anything. You are sad proudmoron. It is a sad thing to know that no one can help you. You will always be stupid. You will never have enough brain function to be normal. You know that which is why you only REPEAT what you are told to think. You KNOW you are too stupid to think for yourself and there is a sadness there. I pity you.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:00 pmI don’t mind you leaving – I do mind that you came back.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:02 pmYou know, Proud’s fake narrative aside, for a party that stakes a claim to robust job creation, they can’t stop inventing new ways to kill off jobs.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:02 pmProudMoron is stupid and he is brainwashed. It does no good to ask him questions he isnt here to discuss. He knows he is far too stupid to even attempt that. Proud doesnt know how he would act in Obamas place until Rush TELLS him. Proud doesnt know what day it is until Rush tells him. Proudmoron is one of the most pathetic trolls this site has ever seen.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:04 pmProud Says:
Sorry I had to leave for a bit, I do actually work. In fact I had to layoff 15 of my employees today. It was an easy choice just go to the parking lot and see who has either an Obama or global warming bumper sticker and then drop the hammer.
That’s nice, Proud. Good to see you’re adjusting your budget. You’ll need the cash for litigation.
Let’s get back on topic in #72: How would you have acted in Europe and the Middle East as president, Proud?
April 9th, 2009 at 2:10 pm“proud” of what?
your cowardice?
April 9th, 2009 at 2:16 pmyour ignorance?
your bigotry?
your inability to tell the truth?
your inability to discern the truth?
your inability to understand words like discern?
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It does appear that former (R)ushpublickin’ senator Rick Santorum harbors deep antipathy toward the President of the U.S.A.
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April 9th, 2009 at 2:17 pmSantorum has a deep seated antipathy toward intelligence. What a nut job.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:19 pm.
#107 Proud,
You do know that the EEOC might have something to say about your hiring/firing practices.
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April 9th, 2009 at 2:20 pmProud Says:
“Bowing to the Saudi King”
Was it under Obama or Bush that the Bin Ladens were sent back to Saudi Arabia right after 9/11 without thorough questioning?
April 9th, 2009 at 2:22 pmTo the Republican brand of conservatism, the world is black and white. It’s us against them in their pea-brained minds. Its us stupid, moronic man-like creatures against those that recognize us for what we are, and we’re not going to take it.
That also represents their logic!
April 9th, 2009 at 2:25 pmWow Proud that must be a pretty big meth lab you’re running.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:32 pmProud is proudly ignorant. What a guy!
April 9th, 2009 at 2:32 pmSantorum: Obama has ‘deep-seated antipathy toward American values.’
And I, Santorum, have a deep-seated desire for sex with dogs.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:33 pmRick Santorum forgot to mention that WE OWE OUR FREEDOM to France. Without help from France, the revolutionary war would have been lost and we would all be paying tribute to the Queen of England.
Santorum’s political career is washed up in Pennsylvania. The Phila. Inquirer is bankrupt and I wonder if Ricky’s column is one of the reasons that people stopped by the “Inky”.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:37 pmSantorum needs to be in an asylum. There’s a nice one just off McClay Street in Harrisburg. They treat sore losers with bruised egos. Ye gods man. Come to your senses.
April 9th, 2009 at 2:44 pmDoesn’t Santorum know that the US owes its freedom to the French. If Lafayette and his squadrons had not arrived to help, the Revolutionary War may have gone very differently.
April 9th, 2009 at 3:10 pmWell… expanding the Afhganistan War, expanding drones attacks in Pakistan, expanding Bush’s excuse for unconstitutionaly wiretapp everyone… I see this man does have a point!
April 9th, 2009 at 3:13 pmNo.
Obama has expressed an antipathy to the way that America has lived up to its stated values.
That isn’t the same as an antipathy to the values. But you have to stop being self-righteous to see the differences.
April 9th, 2009 at 3:34 pmThere is no doubt in my mind that the morons with (R) associated with their names are as bad as any enemy we have ever faced. These thugs do nothing positive for this nation and are only there to damage the good of the people. We should vote every republican from office next year. They are useless enemies of our democracy.
April 9th, 2009 at 3:40 pmDick Santorum has deep seated and toxic mushrooms growing in what’s left of his brain.
April 9th, 2009 at 4:02 pmPlease, Rick, we the people of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania almost ran you out of “town on a rail” politically a few years back. Ask anyone in my neck of woods about there opinion of Santorum, the responses run the gammut from an upturned nose, to vulgarity, to (my favorite) pantomiming upchucking…LOL. He has NO power in this, his home state, so he is the last of the right wing crazies I will worry about. This man is a disgrace to this state, I mean, he tried to get intelligent design taught in schools by trying to add that as an amendment to the already horrible “no child left behind” bill.
It must be some sort of rule that republican senators from Pennsylvania have to make the most ludicrous claims and expect the people to believe them. I mean look at Arlen Spector. He is special to me, he is my actual representative for my district. They all talk about him now like he is some sort of old senate saint or somethin and makes me sick. Back in the 60’s Spector wanted us to believe the ludicrous claim of the “magic bullet theory” in Kennedy’s assasination. Yep, how proud am I that my Senator thought that one up!!
UGHHHHHH Nobody cares Rick you are NOT IMPORTANT ANY MORE!!
April 9th, 2009 at 4:21 pmAh, yes. The American values of illegal wars and plutocracy.
The REAL Americans, right… not Washington or anyone.
And now the Tea Parties… it seems they want monarchy, though, and Divine Right.
April 9th, 2009 at 4:21 pmWhy does this freak keep showing up? Is he their leader?
April 9th, 2009 at 4:21 pmConservatives love the idea that France was saved by the U.S. in the World Wars. What they don’t like to accept is the fact that the Revolution would not have been won, and the country first founded without the assistance of the French.
April 9th, 2009 at 4:51 pmThey’re trying to incite someone to murder Barack Obama, and they may succeed. What they don’t even suspect is that they won’t survive the ensuing backlash. ENOUGH! This would never have been tolerated under Bush! They are attempting to murder the President of the United States, and have been since that whore was running around telling people the future President of the United States was “pallin around with terror-istssss”.
ENOUGH!
April 9th, 2009 at 4:54 pmIf this is not the pot calling the kettle black, I don’t know what is.
April 9th, 2009 at 5:06 pmAs John Stewart said. They are confusing “tyrany” with “LOSING”!
April 9th, 2009 at 5:15 pmSantorum is a has been loser. Who cares what that pathetic excuse for a human being say’s?
April 9th, 2009 at 5:28 pmHey, Rick.
How’s that fetus in a jar doing?
April 9th, 2009 at 6:00 pmGod, I hate that guy.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:02 pmAaah. Santorum’s American values.
-Lying to the public about WMDs in order to wage an unnecessary war.
-Wire and webtap datamining without warrant of American citizens. For their own good of course.
-Imprisoning people without charge for years while denying them access to legal counsel or due process.
-Opening a network of secret prisons to hide all those people in.
-Trying to justify and legalize torture.
-Setting up a tax system that benefited the rich while destroying the middle class as their jobs were exported to China.
-Taking a country with a budget surplus, and through a combination of tax cuts for the rich, and spending like a drunken sailor, leaving America with a HUGE deficit.
-Eroding regulation of Wall Street to the extant that it’s scams brought about the near total collapse of the global economy.
Did I leave out any of your ‘American Values’ Rick?
April 9th, 2009 at 6:12 pmWhat a scumbag.
Rick should know about antipathy, the good people of Pennsylvania had an abundance of it for the former Senator. The long time Virginia resident who maintained an unoccupied shack in the Pittsburgh area wore out his welcome and was tossed out by voters who saw through that grand standing phony.
April 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pmIs it too late to call for a caption contest?
April 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pmHey Rick. America owes its independence to the efforts of the French in 1778, or have you conveniently forgotten that?
I wonder if the French, upon helping us way back then, was of the mind that we “owed them” for their efforts. It certainly was the message from the “war” on terror supporters when France would not support our plans to invade Iraq.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:11 pmThe GOP has nothing substantial to offer the American public regarding economic or foreign policy, so instead they resort to the same juvenile name-calling that failed them during the 2008 election campaign. All they can do is point their finger at Obama, sneer, and smugly proclaim “Don’t trust him. He is not one of us. He is un-American. He is a socialist….or a communist…..or a fascist…..or a Muslim…or the son of Satan.”
And their right-wing base jumps up and down and gets their blood boiling.
And the other 85% of the American public shake their heads, give a heavy sigh, and go about their business trying to help Obama make the world a healthier, safer, more economically vibrant place to live.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:42 pmWhen neo-con fascists attack obama and michelle for their “secret hatred for america”, you can be sure that accusation is nothing but “racially charged”. The implication being that all black americans are angry, bitter, and harboring secret violent tendencies toward white people and the government. It’s complete bullshit, but then again the repug party has become complete bullshit.
April 9th, 2009 at 8:53 pmWatching President Obama apologize last week for America’s arrogance – before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans — helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions. His nomination of former Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh to be the State Department’s top lawyer constitutes further evidence of his disdain for American values.
Mr. Santorum on many occasions has expressed his views and traditions. The people of Pennsylvania decided not to return him to the Senate, largely because of his views and traditions. Why does he assume that his views and traditions are strictly American values and traditions? Obama has expressed view and opinions that are more in line to my own thinking of American values and traditions.
Rick Santorum has taken an arrogant attitude towards “we the people”, it is more like his exclusive club, and this is borderline fascism.
April 9th, 2009 at 9:34 pmI guess ex-Senator Sanctimonious would rather the position went to John Yoo.
April 9th, 2009 at 10:03 pmIf Santorum wanted to really prove his moral superiority. He would move to Utah and become a full fledge (special underwear) wearing Morman.
April 10th, 2009 at 3:27 amI do not believe Obama hates American values, he merely has a major disdain for the ultra-rightwing Republican definition of the American values.
April 10th, 2009 at 9:20 am“Santorum: Obama has ‘deep-seated antipathy toward American values.’”
No Ricky, it’s personal. It’s just you he hates.
Me too.
April 10th, 2009 at 4:41 pm