Citing the needs of his daughter who has something called Trisomy 18 as reasoning, Rick Santorum announced the “suspension” of his push for the GOP nomination. Of late, he had emerged as the only one who might be primed to give Mitt Romney a run for his money – but not literally his money, he would get MURDERED in that department – for the nomination. A few primary wins here and there showed that SOME people are buying what Santorum is selling.

Anyway, we all know that I am on record as preferring that Santorum be the GOP nominee/sacrificial lamb, since ol’ Spermin’ Cane was not able to keep his skeletons properly contained in his closet until after the primaries had passed us.

Santorum was the guy to clean this mess up!

– touting an evangelical conservative message, he would step in and eliminate people having sex for fun and thus eliminating the ills of us all.

– that same evangelical conservatism will quash marriage betwixt anyone other than a man and a woman, and thus seeing to it that America’s status of “on the way to hell in a handbasket” comes to an end

– will stop making “blah” peoples’ lives better by giving them other peoples’ money.

– A “war on porn”

– abolishment of contraception

– striking down the separation of church and state

– lessening the number of people going into higher education because college causes “62% of attendees to lose their religion” (his unsourced figure, not mine)

– removal of the “right to privacy” because he doesn’t believe the constitution grants that?

I was in full “GO RICK GO!” mode, because – like Sarah Palin before him – he seemed so oblivious to how much a kook he comes across as, so ensconced in his message that addresses nearly nothing anyone legitimately should be thinking, caring or talking about that his bravado could be construed as confidence to anyone other than those who were simply in position to support him because they only hear what they want to hear.

And speaking of Sarah Palin… why does a special needs child mean that he should have to “suspend,” effectively putting to bed, his candidacy? I mean, Sarah Palin continued to serve her positions while pregnant with and then appearing in front of the cameras to care for/about a child that she knew would be born with Down’s syndrome ahead of time. To me, this suggest that Santorum should be able to step up and show just what a multi-tasker and leader he is while he juggles caring for his daughter while motivating the base to get that nig–… uhh… “Marxist,” out of office.

In his mind, Santorum is the least racist, biggest, brightest and best to lead this country out of ruin. For that, I think that he and Newton Gingrich should CONTINUE in the primaries until one (or both) of them has taken Romney out, even if they have to go all the way to the convention. Then time will be upon them to go in on the presidential race.

Seriously…

Rick, don’t leave us. We will be sad if we can’t watch the most one-sided re-election in US history.

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I mean, he did choose to carefully use the words “Blah people.” Now, had he simply said, “niggers,” or “nigg…” well, maybe a red flag would go up in my head to suggest that he’s either overtly racist, or a racist cognizant of not hurting the feelings of “certain people” while speaking publicly. You know what they say: your thoughts control your actions – so a man thinketh, so turds speweth from mouth. No seriously, I think it’s in the Bible somewhere between Genesis and Revolutions.

An Etch-A-Sketch Won't Erase Racism

So the question still remains: is Rick Santorum racist? Well, we do know that unlike Ron Paul he never circulated racist screed within any newsletters bearing his name. That much we do know. We also know that he isn’t into giving white peoiple’s money to “Blah people,” in an attempt to make their lives any better. And, we also know that he isn’t very fond of a certain snobbish president who just so happens to be Black. But this week while speaking on the campaign trail in Janesville, Wisconsin. My boy Slick Rick kinda sorta let the cat out of the bag in one of his speeches.

Forget that whole Etch A Sketch thing, this is the mother-lode of political gaffes:

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Now, of late, it seems to be a point that people have forgotten about Article 6 of the constitution, which states “No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” On one day, it is worth questioning to “them” whether Obama is “Christian enough” (if at all) and the next he is a (less and less by the day) secret Muslim and then an all-out atheist, as if any of this disqualifies him from being president.

Then comes the question of Romney believing in a religion that specifically banned black people from higher positions as recently as up until 1978 because, as I read it, “black people are the cursed descendants of ancient Biblical figures; black people committed pre-mortal perfidy; black people lacked the intelligence and personal integrity to hold such a sacred office.”

This was a stance upheld by Church Leaders and presidents and has never been specifically or officially repudiated, instead just taking the restriction down and treating it as if the darkies had finally “arrived”. By connection, it has remained to be seen how informed brown people of the world could possibly want to vote for this man.

And then there’s Santorum…

Apparently, having an out-of-context understanding and corresponding disagreement with of a JFK speech in which he actually SUPPORTS the separation of church and state is full capable of making Santorum physically ill.

-Apparently, gay sex is the same as bestiality.

-Apparently, contraception is so bad that it – and the word itself – should be banned from existence for any reason at all.

-Apparently, assertion of one’s own beliefs upon the citizens of the country you intend to run is okay, even if it DOES run opposite of the separation of church and state.

Not only does Santorum want to be President of the United States for all the tasks it includes for international diplomatic relations, mind on economic policy and defense decision making, he apparently wants to be the candidate who instills his belief on the entire world because that is the way to go. Unlike, of course, those evil Muslim terrorists who want to do the same thing with the wrong religion, naturally.

Back to his misunderstanding of Kennedy’s statement, though…

JFK started with “The separation of church and state is absolute,” then continued with “I believe in a president whose views on religion are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office. I would not look with favor upon a president working to subvert the First Amendment’s guarantees of religious liberty. Nor would our system of checks and balances permit him to do so. And neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test—even by indirection—for it. If they disagree with that safeguard, they should be out openly working to repeal it.”

What Santorum took from that was that Kennedy was saying that “only people of non-faith can come into the public square and make their case.”

For that, I am questioning not only his grasp of the English language, but his ability to objectively run a country that has vast populations of people who (1) simply don’t believe what he does, or (2) believe it, but definitely not the way he does.

Luckily, none of us is stupid, and we know full well that he understood the statement and if not, someone in his ear surely did and explained it to him. In my imagination, this explanation to Santorum involved crayons and puppets, but that is neither here nor there.

Previously, I have said that I would like for the GOP primaries to continue all the way up to the convention in August because they’ve been so entertaining in their damn-near guarantee that none of these clowns would beat the current president. Now, I am taking that a step further in saying that I hope that the primaries continue all the way to August, and then Santorum gets the nomination, as he has already dropped enough lines to all but guarantee that Obama will get the first ever unanimous reelection.

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This week, I think said sardonic characterization of POTUS has hit a historic low; yes, the metaphorical comparison of Obama and Satan represents this. But like Dionne writes, this isn’t uncharted territory for any president, as they have been all subject to scornful critiques. Yet and still, I can’t help but to think that there’s a racial component at play with said claims or attempts to discredit, devalue, or delegitimize president Obama:

They say that President Obama is a Muslim, but if he isn’t, he’s a secularist who is waging war on religion. On some days he’s a Nazi, but on most others he’s merely a socialist. His especially creative opponents see him as having a “Kenyan anti-colonial worldview,” while the less adventurous say that he’s an elitist who spent too much time in Cambridge, Hyde Park and other excessively academic precincts.

Whatever our president is, he is never allowed to be a garden-variety American who plays basketball and golf, has a remarkably old-fashioned family life and, in the manner we regularly recommend to our kids, got ahead by getting a good education.

Please forgive this outburst. It’s simply astonishing that a man in his fourth year as our president continues to be the object of the most extraordinary paranoid fantasies. A significant part of his opposition still cannot accept that Obama is a rather moderate politician quite conventional in his tastes and his interests. And now that the economy is improving, short-circuiting easy criticisms, Obama’s adversaries are reheating all the old tropes and cliches and slanders.

True, some of this is driven by cable television (a venue in which I acknowledge regularly participating). Attacks designed to gin up the conservative base are quickly recycled to gin up outrage within Obama’s own base. Moreover, Obama is not the first president caught up in the rank unpleasantness of this particularly unforgiving political moment. A quick Google search will unearth references to George W. Bush as a “Nazi,” and Bill Clinton’s Republican opponents went so far as to impeach him in a shameful episode of extreme partisanship.

Dionne is correct in suggesting that Obama isn’t alone as far as presidents go when it comes to the preposterous assertions of their opposition. But I’m sorry, when claims are made questioning the faith of this nation’s current president — who happens to be Black — and likening him to being a tool of Satan as Rick Santorum has, I must say that much of this is rooted in racism. I know it may sound crazy, but name another president who’s citizenship, faith and “phony theology” has been questioned as president Barack Obama has. Oh, and when you find him, please be sure to check and make sure that he too is Black. Sure you won’t find another Black president in history before him; and that alone helps me prove my point. That would be, by virtue of him being a Black man, it’s easier for him to be demonized and disrespected as he has, for political gain.

Jesse Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson: Putting the "Coon" in Conservative Since Emancipation

So here we are today, and now there’s is talk of him having some link with Satan. Yes, that Satan; yep, the master of all evil and father of lies. And enter slave catcher extraordinaire and frequent guest over at Fox News, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson.  If you’ve been a reader at this site for some time now, you’ll know that Peterson is no stranger to our much coveted weekly slave-catcher award. As far as recipients go, I must admit that there’s never been none more deserving than Peterson, who literally grew up on an the very same Alabama plantation where his ancestors were once slaves. This might explain his love affair with all things Caucasian, and his subsequent hatred of “Blackness” and in turn, himself. It is only with this knowledge that one can make sense of his recent statement in support of Newt Gingrich in South Carolina, where Peterson said that Black folk should be forced to return to work on plantations. According to him, such a training program is necessary to instill a “good work ethic.” Apparently working for free on a plantation is what we need.

I know, it’s hard to believe that someone Black would say something as nonsensical, and freedom adverse as this. However, to know and understand Peterson is to know and understand why what he says in the following isn’t surprising; nope, not in the least bit to be quite honest. Just check out the statement released by the South Central L.A. Tea Party darling, and frequent Fox News guest, on the “American hating Socialist” otherwise known as president Barack Obama. In support of Rev. Franklin Graham and Rick Santorum, Peterson weighed in with the following. According to him, Satan is targeting America; and, he is  is responsible for Obama’s 2008 election victory. I suppose next they’ll say Satan in a Democrat who has a legion of white demonic liberal minions.

“I am certain without a doubt that Barack Hussein Obama is NOT a Christian. It’s unfortunate that Rev. Graham and Rick Santorum won’t be completely honest about Barack Obama even though his deeds are contrary to Christian values.

“Both these men oppose Obama’s recent contraceptive mandate and assault on the Christian conscience. They know that for 20 years Obama worshipped in Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s racist Black Liberation Theology-based church. They fully grasp the spiritual connection America has with Israel and see that Obama is no friend of the Jewish State. Rev. Graham has said that Obama is more concerned with the plight of Muslims than the Christians that are being murdered in the Muslim countries. Still these Christian leaders cannot tell the truth about Obama. Why?

“I do agree with Santorum that this is a ‘spiritual war’ and that ‘Satan is targeting the U.S.’ which is precisely why I believe Barack Obama was selected and elected. I’m convinced that the weak-kneed timidity that’s preventing many white conservative Christians from pointing out Obama’s wickedness is a result of their fear of being labeled ‘racist.’

“Evil understands that most white Christians have been intimidated and are too afraid to stand up to it. Especially when it is operating in the form of an American hating Socialist black president who appears to be more in harmony with Muhammad than he is with Christ.”

Listen, folks: there’s racism, and there are racial enablers like Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson. Be that as it may, as long as their symbiotic relationship exists, we can expect more of the same seething behavior we’ve grown accustomed to when it comes to racial politics in America. President Obama can hang himself on a cross and sang the Star Spangle Banner on Mount Rushmore, and he’ll never be recognized as a legitimate president of the United States. It’s really sad; but, this is the tried and true strategy of the ideologically bankrupt members of the the GOP.  Being sore losers and descendants of the one-third of the eight million white southerners at the time of emancipation who were illiterate, it’s the only way to gin up support for getting the president out of office. Linking president Obama to Satan represents a new low for our Republican friends; so much so, that if one of them were to publicly call him a “nigger,” it would actually be a compliment to be quite frank.

E.J. Dionne was right in pointing out how other presidents were also assailed with the dreaded metaphorical dart. But unlike my man Joe Scarborough who refused to see the racial dynamic on Morning Joe this morning (see here). Dionne also made the following assertion:

[…] But there is something especially rancid about the never-ending efforts to turn Obama into a stranger, an alien, a Manchurian Candidate with a diabolical hidden agenda. Are we trying to undo all the good it did us with the rest of the world when we elected an African American with a middle name popular among Muslims?

In my experience, even Americans who voted against Obama were proud that our nation showed friend and foe alike that we are a special place. We know it’s wrong to judge people by their race or lineage, and we so value religious freedom and openness that we elected a Christian convert who is the son of a Muslim father and an agnostic mother to lead us at one of our most difficult moments.

Yet many in the anti-Obama camp just can’t stop themselves from playing on fears that electing a man who defies old stereotypes was a terrible mistake.

I hear you E.J., but hey in America it’s hard for a Tiger to change it’s spots, my friend. Oh well, GM is alive, and Osama bin Laden is dead. I suppose it’s up to president Obama to kill Satan and Lex Luthor to finally become a true American, a Christian, or not-so melanin challenged human being.

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I can’t imagine myself saying aloud that people of color are not deserving of citizenship and are “illegal”. I would never bring myself to say that inner city kids could dumpster-dive for food during school breaks instead of the government increasing Food Stamps and other benefit programs (so that they can eat!). I cannot imagine myself saying people with same sex/same gender loving attractions are worst than terrorists. So I honestly, genuinely, sincerely wonder what flows through Rick Santorum’s mind when he says things like, ‘well, rape sucks but if God blesses you with a kid, you gotta deal with it because abortion is bad.’ I mean, did anybody seem him on Piers Morgan?

Now, admittedly, I may have caused a bit more of a ruckus than Piers Morgan and argued that point, but whatever. Conception, conshmeption. Maybe I’d have said, ‘Okay, Mr. Santorum, Should rape victims be thankful for the risk of sexually transmitted infections resulting from forced intercourse which, I assume, was unprotected since a child was conceived?’ I expect that he would know not how to respond. Or maybe he would. I can’t imagine where his mind would go from there. I might find myself questioning a bit harder.

Come On, What Am I Supposed To Say?

‘Mr. Santorum, did you know that victims of sexual assaultare 3 times more likely to suffer from depression, 6 times more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, 13 times more likely to abuse alcohol, 26 times more likely to abuse drugs, and 4 times more likely to contemplate suicide?’

I would like a genuine response to his lack of concern about the welfare of victims, but I anticipate, especially given his devote Catholicism, that he’d discuss how killing herself after the rape is also the victim’s fault. I’d probably get angry, but I’d likely want to continue to engage. So I’d say, ‘Mr. Santorum, you realize that post-traumatic stress disorder comes POST trauma, correct? And that because someone else assumed power to violate a victim’s body, they’ve been traumatized to the point that they no longer want to live? That 13% of all rape victims make serious suicide attempts?‘

And when he gets too frustrated or speechless to address me, or simply satisfied with himself that he can call me another angry Black woman, I’m certain that he’ll want to leave the conversation. So, as a final attempt to appeal to his logic, and while I know the argument is equally about abortion as it is about rape/sexual assault and less about race, I’d probably say quietly to him as a checkmate to satisfy myself, ‘OK, sir. How would you feel if your either woman in your life became pregnant as a result of a rape by a Black man?’

I think I could get through to him.

I know that this is not proper thinking. I am not promoting an idea about Black masculinity. What I am saying is that we know how fondly Mr. Santorum is of Black people; we also know that not-a-one of these racist Republicans want their daughters speaking to Black men, let alone willingly engaging in sexual intercourse with any. You think if someone he loved was raped by a Black man he wouldn’t rush them to an abortion provider and pay for it himself? You out your mind.

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This vis The Cagle Post:

Rick & Karen Santorum

Two days later, she became severely feverish. She was rushed to the hospital and placed on intravenous antibiotics, which reduced her fever and bought her some time, but could not eliminate the source of infection: the fetus.

Karen was going to die if her pregnancy was not ended, if the fetus was not removed from her body. So, at 20 weeks, one month before what doctors consider ‘viability’, labor was artificially induced and the infected fetus was delivered. It died shortly thereafter.

I wonder if Rick thinks the doctor who did this procedure for his wife should be “criminally charged” as should all abortion providers as he has openly stated? Further, I wonder of God is still mad at him and Karen for this? More importantly, I wonder why he isn’t asked about this on the campaign trail?

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You Ain't Gon' Share With Me?

Now initially when I saw the avove segment on The Ed Show last night, I was pretty pissed off. I mean the nerve of this asshole lying about what he said. But today after waking up, I’ve found a new appreciation forr Santorum’s foolishness. You see, I try to find the good in everything, and I look at this as something positive. Yeah I know, there’s nothing positive that can come out of a racist comment like Santorum’s.

However, as the Black experience has evolved through American history. It’s good to know that we’re far removed from the old days of us just being “niggers” to where we’re no longer “Black,” but instead, here in post-racial America, we’re now “Blah.” I don’t know about you, but I like this new Blahness. So much so, that I’m looking forward to this year’s Blah History Month. You know what they say: once you go Blah, you can’t go back. Bring on the watermelon toss contest, and the fried chicken cook offbaby! To tell you the truth, I was getting tired of being Black anyway. But maybe that’s my inner Republican talking. But hey, it ain’t like we’s from Africa anyway; we’re all Blah people now. Shit, you better come on in, fool.  Like the homie @blah_people said on Twitter: Newt Gingrich & Rick Santorum watched The Help & The Blindside and got brave. I guess that’s what happens when you have a Blah president and you’re trying to replace him. Yup, who better to do for the lives of Blah people than a WHY man, right?

SAY IT LOUD!! I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD!!!

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Now which God exactly would that be so I can avoid him completely. Which supreme being would decide to allow for foreign invaders to come into a lush land where people had been living for thousands of years prior and be systematically slaughtered, their lands taken away, forced to adopt the culture of the invaders and almost become extinct.  Forced to march miles in the dead  of winter, given smallpox infected blankets and rancid food and left to starve.

His people being <fill in the blank>_________________________  ?

Allowing his people to be free at the expense of the indigenous  Native Americans, the millions of African Americans brought here against their will, to serve (those people?) – the millions of immigrants who came here seeking a better life many who were forced to live in squalor and work in the most abhorrent conditions?

Which deity are these folks praying to I wonder ?  Based on the actions in recorded history that occurred as this country was being formed and up to now – I would wonder that they are praying to a God. Unless its one of those Greek or Roman mythology types – Like Mars or Ares then that actually would make sense….

Does Santorum and company really believe that Jesus would have sat by and watched the natives be slaughtered and driven from their ancestral lands by “settlers” ?

More importantly with all the atrocities committed by this country throughout history by THOSE people does he really think he and HIS people will ever be free?

Must be some real good drugs…..

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You not intent on sharing the wealth taking other people’s money, and giving it to lazy Black people in Iowa. Such a God fearing Christian that Rick Santorum. I wonder if his preacher friends are willing to take money from Black people. You know, those same Black people without any work ethic intent on sucking the government teat dry. Yeah, unlike genetically predisposed hard working white folks.

NOTE: Only 9% of Iowa Food Stamp recipients are Black compared to 84% being white.

Racism? What Racism??!!

Now see, if I said something about Santorum’s dead baby like Alan Colmes I’d be wrong. So no, I won’t go there. I’ll just say that I liked this asshole better when he was just a name without a fact before his recent Iowa surge. Fuck Santorum and the people who cheered for his racist statement in the following clip. At the end of the day, the Iowa Republican Caucus is our reminder that racist church folks do exist, and that prayers aren’t always answered – just ask Mike Huckabee.

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