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Rick Santorum on Monday denied he was comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler while using a World War II analogy the previous day.
During a speech at a Georgia church on Sunday, Santorum paralleled the election to America's slow response to the swelling Nazi presence during the late 1930s. He urged his audience to get involved and not sit on the sidelines like "the greatest generation" did for a year and a half while "Europe was under darkness."
he former Pennsylvania senator described Americans as a "hopeful people," easily susceptible to ignoring a growing problem.
"We think, well, you know, it'll get better. Yeah, he's a nice guy. I mean, it won't be near as bad as what we think. This will be okay. I mean, yeah, maybe he's not the best guy after a while. After a while you find out some things about this guy over in Europe who's not so good of a guy after all, but ya know what, why do we need to be involved?
Santorum denies Hitler-Obama Comparison
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Asked Monday if he was likening the president to Hitler, he responded, "No, of course not."
"Europe was under darkness."
I guess he must have meant he didn't want the U.S. under "dark skin"
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#1 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:52 PM ESTHeh, for someone who claims absolutism and purity for one particular religion, Santorum should be a bit careful weilding Hitler references.
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Hitler was a Catholic who was used to using religious imagery in his speeches, painting himself as the avenging Christian sweeping away all that ws wrong in the fatherland. (sorta like icky ricky) He engaged his followers and created a sort of truth blindness, or rather an enviroment where it was acceptable to revel in hatred and ignorance. (like the gNOp and frothy) Hitler used deception to get the Greman citizens to beleive they were being opressed while he and his Nazi regime used the ignorance of the Gremans to rid themselves of their enemies......sortal like the gNOp and frothy. The gNOp are mearly willing to oblige!
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The funny thing it is the gNOp who are trying to label the dems in general and Obama specifically as Hitler like.
I end up having to see what this idiot says here, on the "Vine. I can't listen to his claptrap any longer. As a matter of fact, I can't bother with the whole GOP clowncar primary.
They've stooped to making ridiculous statement after ridiculous statement, then for some, walking them back, but the impression is still there. It's how the GOP roll, any longer. It doesn't HAVE to be true, in fact, it can be TOTALLY fabricated....The right-wing drones will believe it, as long as it comes from the mouth of a GOP/tea.
It's also why the GOP are losing support. Their false-equivalency, lies, misquotes and walk-backs fly in the face of what "average" Americans deal with every day, KNOWING the GOP won't do anything to ease their burdens. Burdens brought on them by the same party that proclaims it has no answers, only manufactured fears and unfounded hatred of the man who holds the highest office in the land.
They've made a mockery of their own party, beliefs and goals. Santorum is now officially the poster boy for GOP failure. I wonder if any adults (provided there ARE any left in that party) will tell him to finally STFU.
Probably not.
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#2 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 5:42 PM EST
Santorum paralleled the election to America's slow response to the swelling Nazi presence during the late 1930s. He urged his audience to get involved and not sit on the sidelines like "the greatest generation" did for a year and a half while "Europe was under darkness."
The former Pennsylvania senator described Americans as a "hopeful people," easily susceptible to ignoring a growing problem.
Weird. I'd use exactly the same words to describe America's slow response to the swelling radical fundamentalism today, and I'd urge people to get involved and not sit on the sidelines to combat those who would make the U.S. an intolerant, theocratic state.
But I'm not comparing Santorum to Hitler. I just hope Americans don't take as long to fight what Santorum stands for as we did with Hitler.
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#3 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 6:53 PM ESTThis is Santorum's M.O.. The problem for him is that it is not 1800......There is instant communication and a visual and auditory record of everything this idiot says........ Deny all you want, the truth is out there.
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#5 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 7:56 PM ESTThe America Da Saint envisions would be, IMHO, strickingly similar to the Inquisition where thousands were killed for not believing or professing belief or being slandered by the Catholic Church.
Despite all his hyperbole and rhetoric, Da Saint really has no clue what the separation of Church and State really is. Someone really should give him a civics lesson-maybe a 9 year old child would be able to communicate with him on his level.
BTW-denial is NOT a river in Africa.
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#6 - Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:33 PM ESTAnother day, another clarification on some ignorant, inflammatory comment that Santorum made about Obama and all Americans who do not share his evangelical view of society.
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