*(Via The Boston Channel) – Rick Santorum said Wednesday he was “tongue-tied” this weekend and didn’t actually say a word that has sparked a firestorm among some in the African-American community.
Talking about welfare programs at an Iowa campaign stop on Sunday, the Republican presidential candidate was quoted as saying, “I don’t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them someone’s money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”
The word “black” has become the focal point of controversy, but Santorum said Wednesday on CNN’s “John King, U.S.A.” that he didn’t recall using that particular word.
“It was probably a tongue-tied moment as opposed to something that was deliberate,” Santorum said, adding that he has watched the video several times and still can’t clearly hear the word.
The NAACP responded to his statement from Sunday, blasting the former Pennsylvania senator for “singling out” African-Americans as poor.
Read/learn more at the Boston Channel.
Yeah, he was gonna say Black. Knows damned well that the majority of people on welfare are white. White children to be exact. They’ve been telling people this fact for years but, they’d rather believe that all of the country’s ills are due to Blacks, which only make up 12 percent of the total population. Want to come out smelling like a rose, blame Blacks for everything. I’m not voting Republican anyway so, I really don’t care. Racists will vote for anyone white so there’s no changing their minds, facts be damned.
“However, beyond the debate over Cordray’s qualifications and the overall governance of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, are questions over the lawfulness of the appointment.
Ironically, candidate Obama railed against President George W. Bush in 2008 for his reckless abuses of executive power: “This is part of the whole theory of George Bush that he can make laws as he is going along. I disagree with that. I taught the Constitution for 10 years. I believe in the Constitution and I will obey the Constitution of the United States. We are not going to use signing statements as a way of doing and end run around Congress.” But now, Obama himself refuses “to take ‘No’ for an answer.”
It’s about damn time…
Rick, that’s why it’s called racial prejudice. To subconsciously prejudge someone based on race. Making you a bigot. Now that’s bad enough, but in your case, it may even be worse.
For you to deny using the word, even when presented with solid evidence, calls into question your fitness for leadership. If it’s a problem with your hearing, then voters should have access to your medical records before casting a vote. If it’s not your hearing, then are you delusional?
If there is actually this disconnect between your brain and your tongue as you claim, then that’s clear evidence of mental psychosis.
So you are either a bigot, a liar or afflicted with mental disease. Any of these afflictions would render you unfit to be president.
*dead from laughter*