...Mr. "Sweater Vest" himself, Rick Santorum
These are three very different individuals.
I find interesting to look at our current president and compare him to the two current GOP presidential front runners. When this is done, after removing all of the Republican name calling, these are three very different individuals regardless of their political affiliations.
Now first, what do I mean by all the Republican name calling?
Well, let’s look at all the different references that are being aimed at President Obama.
Listed here is a short list of some of the names that early on were assigned to our current president by the GOP.
Obama is:
>>> A Muslim
>>> An Alien
>>> Not “One of us.”
>>> A Secularist
>>> A hater of religion
>>> A Nazi
>>> A Kenyan anti-colonial
>>> An Elitist
>>> A Socialist
>>> A Maoist
>>> A Fascist
>>> A son of Islam
>>> A Hitlerite
>>> And of course the “N” word
What is so amazing is that it would be impossible for any single individual to be all of these at the same time.
And now that the US economy is showing some improvement, all of Obama’s adversaries are reheating all these old names, clichés and slanders.
So, if we put all these disgusting names aside, what kind of man, husband, father and politician really is Barack Hussein Obama?
In reality, the current president is a normal American who loves his wife and children, plays a reasonable game of basketball and some marginal golf. He has a remarkably old-fashioned style family life, and in the manner we regularly recommend to our kids, got ahead by getting himself a good education.
It’s simply astonishing that a man in his fourth year as the US 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. Many of his adversaries also cannot deal with the fact that he is a black man.
So, what kind of people are these two current front runners in the Republican opposition?
Former US Senator, Rick Santorum is a father of seven children from what is referred to as the gateway of the Midwest, a coal town on the western slopes of the Allegheny Mountains. Santorum’s birthplace of Pittsburgh, PA, is also the birthplace of the Ohio River, the original highway for Americans into the Midwest.
Santorum began this presidential campaign by pushing his “Rust Belt” Pennsylvania, blue-collar roots for reviving US manufacturing and rebuilding the US economy. But instead of pursuing these real concerns of the average working American, Santorum is now focusing on the far-right’s, and his Catholic church social issues of birth control and abortion.
Instead of talking about what is most important to most working Americans, which is jobs and the economy, he’s talking about a statistic that states that more than 50% of all the American babies born to women under age 30 are born to unmarried mothers.
Instead of presenting his positive attitude for improving the education of our American K through 12 children, he’s disdaining Barack Obama’s environmentalism as “phony theology”. As compared to his offering his position on world affairs, Santorum is continuing to reiterate that “abortion should be illegal even in cases of rape and incest”.
Santorum has now made his Catholicism more central and problematic in this nomination contest than even Mitt Romney’s Mormonism.
And what about the other front runner, Willard “Mitt” Romney.
This candidate has been running for president for the past five years and he was also born with a Platinum spoon in his mouth. Yes, he has always lived in wealth and has no clue as to what the average working American has to deal with on a day to day basis. He is considered one of the wealthiest men to ever run for the US presidency.
And Mr. Romney is also taking on the social issues similar to Mr. Santorum
In the latest debate, Romney reiterated that he would repeal the Affordable Health Care Act, (Which a sitting president can’t do.), because it was an affront against religious freedom...? (Huh...?)
The reality with Mitt Romney is that he cannot seem to convince voters that he understands the difference between business and politics. Or between being a CEO and the US president. To bring economic rationality to an underperforming economy requires understanding market segments. To bring confidence to a discouraged nation requires celebrating its history and sketching an inspiring destiny for this nation’s history. Romney is incapable of performing these required functions.
As the ultra conservative columnist, George Will wrote in an article after the latest debate, “Neither Romney nor Santorum looks like a formidable candidate for November.”
Finally, something I can agree with from a conservative pundit.
Copyright G.Ater 2012
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