"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"says former (hurray!) Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum in a Philadelphia Enquirer editorial titled The Elephant in the Room. Of course the problem with any elephant in the room is not that it's difficult to notice, but that the room tends to fill up with shit rather rapidly.
Of course nothing helped Santorum be convinced of anything, he's just, like any elephant, looking for whatever fodder he can find so that he can, as elephants do, digest it and turn it to dung. Conviction is what you call the straw you're grasping at when you're afraid of drowning.
The fact that president Obama told the French we can sometimes come across as arrogant is a simple statement of truth. We can -- and Santorum certainly illustrates it by pointing out how the French owe us their freedom, while ignoring that we owe the French the same debt. Of course only such an elephant's ass as he would require the French to grovel and eat up such merde as we feel fit to excrete -- and in perpetuity. His own arrogance would be a model for the Sun King.
Of course he fails to note that Obama also called Europeans arrogant as well, which renders the former Senators "convincing evidence" nugatory as well as dishonest. But what "values and traditions" is Santy talking about here other than arrogance itself if Obama is admitting that yes, we can be perceived as overbearing and pushy?
Actually I'm getting tired of treating this man's shit as worthy of comment -- as though he weren't a tin-horn blowhard without the wit or talent to do anything but cut bait for the Republican dementia mongers. You're an elephant's asshole Santorum; you and the Fox you rode in on.
Thank god he's not a senator anymore.
ReplyDeleteHe was always one of the worst. Fortunately, his is a dying breed.
Dying would be good - breeding, not so good.
ReplyDeleteI have a question. How can we be heading towards fascism (Beck) with a president that hates America (Hannity, Limbaugh et. al)?
ReplyDeleteThese wing-nutters need to work from the same page.
True. We're headed toward Marxism too, because he wants to put the top tax rate back to below where it was under most of the Republican presidents. We're headed toward a Sharia state because he agrees with the constitution that we have no state religion.
ReplyDeleteThey're just flinging dung like monkeys from their cage and the only coherent thing about it is incoherent rage.
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Of the many reasons people of my Catholic faith are leaving: abuse of children by perverted priests. Disaggreements with the Church over abortion or women clergy, a big one that is overlooked is that assholes like Rick Santorum used membership in the Catholic Church as a political talking point. This bastard has never been about bettering America morally, militarally or economically. It's just been about his winning an election and furthering the agenda of the right wing that rules the Republican party.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it's just as well, I have a feeling his idea of morality is a scary thing.
ReplyDeleteWine-besotted surrender monkeys – I like that phrase. Anyhow, I say we are seeing an intelligent and mature response to the piracy problem, at least up to this point: don't do anything rash that might get the American captain killed. Don't posture and issue Rambolistical public statements. Once the situation is resolved, the thing to do is make sure merchant ships plying that dangerous area can better defend themselves. Once a highjacking / kidnapping takes place, there are no good options—anything done is fraught with consequence and danger for the very people one wants to rescue. The idiots who are complaining loudest have no regard for life and don't live in anything remotely resembling the real world, so they wouldn't understand. To them, intelligence and maturity indicate weakness because their notion of masculinity is based on paranoid homophobia. The only way to overcome such paranoia is, of course, to behave like a violent imbecile at all times and to mock everyone who doesn't.
ReplyDeleteSimilar to the hostage crisis during the Carter administration. So what if it took a year and a half to get the hostages home. I for one would not have been that proud if Carter said let's blow some stuff up. We'll have a nice memorial for the dead hostages later.
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