GAHHH

Date: January 1, 2012
Program: Meet The Press
Topic: Interview with Rick Santorum
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032608/ns/meet_the_press-meet_the_press/vp/45839916/#45839876

       I am just really frustrated with the Republican candidates. My faith in bipartisanship is diminishing my the second. In an interview with Meet The Press, Santorum called Obama the "divider-in-chief." He says that Obama tries "to divide America between class, income group, racial and ethnic groups...and it's very difficult when you're being lampooned by the president..."
      I am going to tear this statement apart. First of all, Obama is not the "divider-in-chief." Nearly every damn bill he has passed in the last year (or even two years) is a very watered down (and probably ineffective) version of the original bill. Why are they so watered down? Because he is compromising. He is not trying to divide. In fact, his backbone is too weak. Two years ago, the U.S. never would have seen the diluted payroll tax bill that recently went into legislation. The bill actually includes tax cuts, but because it also includes Democratic ideals, the Republicans could not bear to pass it the first time around...He should be called the spineless compromiser-in-chief if anything.
      If anyone will divide America between "racial and ethnic groups," it will be Santorum. In an article I read today, Santorum was cited as saying, that Obama, as a Black man, should, of all people, be a firm pro-life supporter because, in Santorum's words, "Well, if that human life is not a person, then I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say, 'Now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people.'" Who's dividing racial and ethnic groups now?? If that is not blatant racism right there, I don't know what is. He is implying that black people are inferior. Might as well just go back to 1950...I can't I can't I can't.