Showing posts with label Rick Santorum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rick Santorum. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Rick Santorum: Obama a "Snob" for Wanting People to Attend College

Rising GOP Presidential contender Rick Santorum said over the weekend, "President Obama wants everybody in America to go to college.  What a snob."  Santorum believes that colleges indoctrinate their students and that Obama apparently wants to control their minds by wanting all Americans to pursue post-secondary education so that they can handle the jobs of the 21st Century.  But, Obama negates that point on thought control with his penchant for conpromise.

What does this accusation by Santorum mean?  It shows him to actually be a snob and an elitist who is out of touch with educated Americans.  Santorum is the one who practices thought control.  His children are educated at home, not public schools.  Which means he has taught his children his own rigid ideas, including those on economic inequality, sexuality, and American Exceptionalism.  Which means he wants them to think that it is all right for CEOs to make millions of dollars annually while laying off thousands of workers or to automatically despise President Obama.  The things he probably did not or will not teach them about are those related to social justice, which tells us to take of the poor and the oppressed.  Santorum also shows himself to be the biggest ally of America's most irresponsible corporations, who can get away with environmental degradation, human rights abuses, and excessive profiteering by hiding these problems from any uneducated American.  Since schools have become obsessed with test-taking instead of creative or critical thinking, there are plenty of Americans that irresponsible corporations can hide their abuses.  Educated and informed Americans are most often the ones smart enough to find these problems.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/02/27/1068825/-Rick-Santorum-calls-Obama-a-snob-for-wanting-people-to-attend-college?via=blog_1

Monday, February 13, 2012

Obama Has Huge Electoral Vote Advantage Despite Failures (For 2/4/12)

In spite of high unemployment, a very flawed healthcare reform bill, extending all of the Bush Tax Cuts through the end of this year, and failure to break up the Big Banks, President Obama still is likely to get re-elected this November. He has also signed bad trade deals, still has not ended all of George W. Bush's wars, expanded offshore oil drilling, and failed to reform the tax code. Twenty states with 259 electoral votes have him currently leading the Republican candidate. Republicans have only 106 electoral votes from 15 states in good shape for November. There 173 electoral votes up for grabs. Bill Clinton had 153 votes from 14 states at the same time in 1996 and cruised to re-election. The Republicans are fielding their worst field of candidates in a long time. Approval ratings are at 35% for Mitt Romney and 30% for Rick Santorum. Only 26% of the public approves of Newt Gingrich. Stephen Colbert, as a comedian who uses his sarcasm to do great impressions of conservatives, has a 38% approval rating. Most conservatives, though, do not see how bad he makes them look. Most Occupy Wall Street protesters, on the other hand, want the GOP to realize their failings. They certainly would like to see an opposition party that challenges Obama to come up with better solutions and bolder ideas to our economic problems. http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11449339-shocker-obama-holds-huge-electoral-vote-advantage-in-statebystate-polling-