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Santorum Explains His Remark Attacking Obama’s ‘Phony Theology’: I Wasn’t Suggesting He Is Not A Christian

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Rick Santorum made headlines yesterday when he went after President Obama for basing his agenda on a “phony theology,” a theology Santorum did not think was based in the Bible. On Face the Nation today, Santorum clarified what he meant with his remarks, saying he was not questioning the sincerity of the president’s faith, and he wasn’t even talking about religion anyway, he was talking about the ideological rigidity of the environmentalist movement and Obama’s connection to it.

RELATED: Rick Santorum Goes After Obama On Faith: His Agenda Is Based On ‘Phony Theology’

Bob Schieffer asked Santorum exactly what he meant with his remarks. Santorum explained he was criticizing Obama in the context of “going after radical environmentalists” and one of the “phony ideal[s]” he was railing against was the idea that humans have to be at the service of the planet. And, naturally, Santorum believes President Obama has succumbed to this ideology.

When Schieffer referred back to Santorum’s comment that the theology in question was not from the Bible, Santorum was quick to clarify that he was not calling the president’s Christian faith into question. He said, “I accept the fact that the president’s a Christian.” But the larger point he was trying to make is that environmentalists are making completely unchristian, unscientific arguments about issues like global warming that he only believes can come from a false ideology or belief system.

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  • Anonymous

    Rick, you forgot to add the standard wingnut claim that you were taken “out of context” when you have stuck your foot in your mouth.

  • Carl Emmoth

    “centralization of power”?? That’s a pretty lame excuse to devestate our beautiful world.

  • Anonymous

    Best spin i have heard so far this year.This type of thing is a real low for the republican party,I remember when Sean Hannity was asking Rick Perry to question Obama’s–get this– “Black Liberation Theology”.

    If this is the new norm for the republican party count me out forever.

  • Anonymous

    I love watching Republican­s try to back pedal their ridiculous statements­.  They just dig the hole deeper every time.

    Hey, Rick, you want to address some of the other issues??? economy, jobs, women’s rights? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/marcohtx Marc Watkins

    What a cowardly spin on words.  He knew EXACTLY what he was doing when he said those comments. He was man enough to say that around tea parties that all hate Obama, but he isn’t man enough to say it to the mainstream audience. First you deny Obama’s citizenship, his patriotism, and now his religion? This just shows that when you have a hatred for someone, you have to justify that hatred. Since Santorum & Obama are both Christians, Rick has to create doubt in his religion, because “God forbid Obama has anything in common with Rick Santorum”.

  • Katechon Phosphene

    What gibberish! The Earth is above ‘Man’ anyhoo. It was around long before we were, and will be long after.

  • Hout Bosques

    He’s got a point about ‘fringe’ or ‘radical’ environmentalists. If you check with the scientific community, you find 98% of “climatologists” accept AGW (“Anthropic Global Warming”) – see that? Anthropic: no mention of “man” – just those dam anthropods! Plus, compare 98% to the 99%, those DFHs that are raping our public park green spaces & those nice police officers who never even shoot actual bullets: that double, 100% less than those DFHs & look how wrong THEY are. And if the 1% are right because they’re the real Job Creators, then the 2% must be right because they’re the real Weather Creators. Now it’s not as if President Obama is actually doing the things those 98% say need to be done, but the point is: he might! That is, there’s a risk that sometime in the future, he might, & meanwhile we know that with Rick Santorum as President there’s absolutely no risk at all that he would ever listen to scientific consensus on this, or anything really. As to what needs to be done, the only way we can find out if President Obama is a heretic is to follow the time-tested teachings of the HMC on these matters, & that means “close questioning” (Spanish Inquisition style) followed by Trial By Fire. Sir Thomas More was quite strict about all this, and after all he was the one wearing a hair shirt all the time causing boils & infections to his upper body so he must have known. Now, some may argue that Rick Santorum could be just as wrong as President Obama on all this & that suggests both of them be put to “close questioning” & trial by fire, but the fact is someone has to be president, & God was quite clear in the Magna Charta that presidents are supposed to be white European-background Christian males who are not flakey like Mormons, so that’s good enough for me, just like it was good enough for my ancestors & the Founders & Jesus.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder how many fits the GOP nominees have given their PR people in the last week alone?

    Between Romney in Detroit and Santorum dealing with his comments on sex and women you have to wonder if the PR individuals don’t just want to beat their own brains in our of frustration. Seriously, I don’t remember anyone having to walk back so many comments in 2008, at least until Palin came on the scene 

  • Hout Bosques

    The Gospel According to Saint George:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arbpu1xKAow 

  • Anonymous

    And what comments has Palin actually walked back? She’s simply doubled down on them.

  • Anonymous

    Unemployment is at 5% across America.  Everyone has health insurance – that is affordable.  The economy is better now than in a century.

    What????????????????

    That is exactly what candidates like Santorum think is the reality in this country.  Because if they thought otherwise, perhaps they wouldn’t be saying the ridiculous statements that this man and other like him are saying.

    Rick, we have serious economic problems facing this country.  Our citizens are faced with futures that lack the basic needs – like jobs, homes, food and health availability.

    And yet here you are – at every turn – talking about social issues. 

    It is about the economy stupid.  Never before did that adage mean as much as it does now.  Especially the “stupid” part. 

  • Anonymous

    And what is the conservative movement’s unrelenting commitment to a dog-eat-dog, unregulated free market called? Other than something that accomplishes exactly the opposite of everything Jesus preached, I mean…

  • Anonymous

    Now that the Frothy Santorum is leading the GOP pack, more and more attention will be paid to how radical his beliefs are.  Its no accident he lost by 18% in PA in 2006, once the voters get to know him they will be horrified.  But I want him to spank Mittens good first.  Keep the clown show going, bring back Herman and Michelle, fire up Newt again.  The GOP will never win another election with this pack of idiots.

  • http://profiles.google.com/anonymoususr . .

    Why would Obama be based his decisions on any theology at all, phony or otherwise? I thought there was separation between church and state in this country. 
    But beyond some ludicrous claims, I can’t see why it is theological to state that if certain actions cause contamination of the things you consume, then we need to change that. Or finding that some human activity will cause irreparable problems that will lead to issues with the survival of the human species and therefore needs to be changed. Sounds like common sense to me, not theology.

  • Hout Bosques

    But aside from Santorum’s self-delusions, the fact is that there’s a huge consensus clog in the US government against doing the things that have to be done to fix the economy, with Obama being only marginally & not at all effectively any better than Santorum or Romney would be in getting past that clog. Austerians (as opposed to Von Mises-type Austrians) rule in the Beltway, the 1%, or rather the 0.001%, have no intention of giving up their ownership of government, & just enough of the 99.999% buy into the bullshit of Reaganomics & austerity recovery to keep unemployment closer to 10% than it will ever again get to 5%. Something in excess of 94% of the increased G.D.P. in the U.S. since 1980 has gone to the top 0.001 & they’re simply not going to give up any let alone all of the government-purchasing power they’ve achieved. 

  • Hout Bosques

    “The GOP will never win another election with this pack of idiots.” But they don’t need to, at least not a presidential election. They control Congress, in the sense of making it impossible to work to ameliorate the economic crises in the country, & they have critical control over enough states to withstand any systemic recovery that might come from non-government activity. Obama is better than Santorum, better than Romney, but only in that he’s willing to stick his finger in the dike, rather than blowing it up & or letting it fall down.

  • Anonymous

    If Santorum thinks it is a winning strategy to go around reading others out of Christianity, he’s wrong.

    First it was the mainline protestant denomintations, now it is the President.  If he only wants good Christians, as he defines them, to vote for him he gets about 30% of the vote.  This guy is starting to look like one of the most out of the mainstream candidates ever considered by a major party for president.

  • Larry Linn

    Before Santorum pursues his goal of
    becoming president, he should read the Constitution of the United States of
    America:

    Article Six: The Senators and
    Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State
    Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United
    States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to
    support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a
    Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3JTWLSL4QCTLJUPS744N3FUEQA Karen

    As for caring for the environment, Santorum ought to sit down with Rev. Richard Cizik, who is one of the most active environmentalists in public life right now — and an evangelical minister. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3JTWLSL4QCTLJUPS744N3FUEQA Karen

     Running Santorum will guarantee a landslide that establishes a huge Democratic majority in the House and a veto-proof majority in the Senate. That will send the GOP to a nice conference center to figure out what the eff to do next. Maybe they will get the message that the Tea Party cut their nuts off and that America is more centrist than rightist.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3JTWLSL4QCTLJUPS744N3FUEQA Karen

     If Obama had anything in common with Rick Santorum, he would fold his hands and lie down. Santorum is sui generis, a Traditionalist Catholic hate machine so out of the mainstream of even his own faith that I, a trained Catholic theologian, cannot identify what the Church teaches in what he throws out to the hungry misanthropes and misogynists who agree with every word he says.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3JTWLSL4QCTLJUPS744N3FUEQA Karen

     Women don’t have rights according to Santorum. They are there to lie down, spread their legs and submit.

  • Pablo

    Yes. Black Liberation Theology. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNTGRL0OJWQ

    Get it now?

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    Why?
    Screw the environment until the economy is fixed.
    Drill, Baby….DRILL!!!

  • AIiveStiIIKickin

    Anything is better than the Kenyan Muslim

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Rice/100002853695823 Bill Rice

    What the hell is this from Frothy about theology, fake or otherwise? He needs to learn what theology is. If anyone is talking about theology it is Frothy when he brought the bible into the speech. Give him a lesson on the first Amendment and the Treaty of Tripoli.

    .

  • Anonymous

     yeah like when the BP spill happened I bet you were blaming Obama.

  • Anonymous

    That’s the problem, republicans don’t have anything. 

  • Anonymous

    ALL religion is phony theology…so whats the point?

  • Anonymous

    Yea,with “SLICK” they just needed a large shovel,but with Rick they’ll need a dragline.HEADLINE-Rick found another dog to walk backward today-Clip at 11:00.

  • Anonymous

    Gotta remove the aspirin first dummy!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

     The ignorance of people still being misled is laughable.  You are still stuck in 2008.  Understand that you and many like you are misled by fear, prejudice and propaganda.  You listen to the likes of Glenn Beck and take the misinformation as fact and it becomes hate without legitimate reason. (ie Kenyan Muslim)

    Enjoy your bliss!

  • Anonymous

    Santorum gets the nomination by a landslide for having the flexibility to stick both of his feet in his mouth simultaneously.  The real trick is getting them out while flip flopping.

  • Anonymous

    Santorum’s theology has women in 1800s and early 1900s roles.  Somewhat like a Christian fundamentalist form of Sharia Law.

    Good luck with your candidate!

  • Anonymous

    actually, lady, unemployment (i.e., people not working and no longer on the welfare rolls) is closer to 15 %. Them’s the facts…if you read the media…

  • Anonymous

    I love the intent of the post but I have to disagree.Repugnants have done their homework and carved out enough non-competitive congressional districts along with a concerted effort of voter suppression that a huge turnover in the House is unlikely.It will certainly extend the Death Rattle of the Repugnants, at which time they will probably whip up a thorough laxative that will purge the T-bagger cancer eating their lunch reviving the Celebration Of Ignorance.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4OSK3UQOHK2PPSV7K3KVM422RA Rick

     Pablo.. you still here spreading your hate and 1 liners instead of actually coming up with creative responses to people? 

    There is NOTHING wrong with embracing one’s race.  There is NOTHING wrong with trying to elevate your race’s peoples. 

    Notice how Hannity cut off cut off Rev Wright whenever Wright was trying to deliver a point?  Typical Fox News tactic.. invite the opposition to your program and whenever they try to answer, cut them off.

  • Anonymous

    is that like saying protestantism is no longer christianity? 

  • Anonymous

    I thought you were showing a video of Obama,once again you’re showing me a ridiculous video of his former pastor.Get me something of Obama please otherwise this stuff falls flat, you know it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4OSK3UQOHK2PPSV7K3KVM422RA Rick

    He can’t because it doesn’t exist, Crabteo.  Pablo is nothing but a troll.. I’ve been seeing his responses for months.. nothing more than stupid little one liners and gotchas. 

  • Anonymous

    Actually, if you bother to look at the Official “birth certificate” posted on the white house site:
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/27/president-obamas-long-form-birth-certificate
    Zoom in and look at the signature, “Alvin” at the bottom. There is a LAUGHING Smiley Face on the “A” of it. It’s laughing at all the lemmings such as YOU who believe Barry Soetoro/Obama is legitimate.
    Please explain how often somebody puts a smiley face signature on an official document.
    YOU have NOTHING since Mr. Obama keeps HIDDEN all his documents. What of his applying to college as a foreigner? What about he becoming in Indonesian citizen via his step father, Lolo Soetoro, going to Muslim schools and NEVER Repatriating as a US citizen?
    What about he going to Pakistan during college with a FOREIGN VISA?

    Sorry, but YOU HAVE NOTHING but a FRAUD!

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, with Gingrich, Romney and Santorum, it’s a pretty pathetic group of PUPPETS. Too bad people don’t go for the only NON-Puppet, Ron Paul.

    But the GOP is probably going to “draft” Jeb Bush as their candidate to continue their march (with the Democrats in step with them) for the New World Order (if Barry doesn’t stay elected by starting WWIII by bombing Iran first)

  • Чёрт Возьми

     I have to agree with those who say that many Republicans is congress are safe in their districts, and losing the presidential election to a Democrat will not affect them.

    Some new Democrats may be able to “ride the coat-tails” of a re-elected Obama, but many districts are die-hard Republican and the GOP will not (unfortunately) simply fade away.

    Still, a resounding defeat for Santorum would send a clear message that the GOP had better get rid of the Tea Party element.

  • http://mcstumpy.myopenid.com/ Stumpy McGrumpy

    I’m sure Greta knows that; her point was that Santorum’s use of social issues to drive his campaign would indicate that Santorum isn’t aware of how badly the economy is suffering.

  • Pablo

    This isn’t a matter of race. It’s about Black Liberation Theology. Do you know what theology is? Do you know who James Cone is? Same question Wright was asking Hannity. Do you know the answer? Do you have any of the facts on the subject at your disposal?

    There is NOTHING wrong with embracing one’s race.  There is NOTHING wrong with trying to elevate your race’s peoples. 

    So, you’re cool with the Stormfront crowd, Rick?

  • Pablo

    No, it’s like saying that Black Liberation Theology is Obama’s theology.

  • Pablo

    Yes, it’s Obama’s pastor of 20 years discussing his theology: Black Liberation Theology. You know, the way Santorum’s pastor would discuss Catholicism.

  • Pablo

    To which you have no substantive response whatsoever. Uh huh.

  • Anonymous

    Now I’m confused.  Is he a Kenyan Muslim, or a Black Liberation Theologist?

  • http://mcstumpy.myopenid.com/ Stumpy McGrumpy

    I tend to think Santorum will implode forthwith, and that Romney, battered and bruised, will be the last Republican standing. I’d be right amused if SP were to jump in at the last minute, and heaven knows she has the temerity to do it, but the Republican Party is fractured and fractious, and it will take a lot of effort to pull together sufficiently to be competitive in the upcomin’ general. This is why the Republican establishment wanted to crown Romney early and discouraged competitors from staying in the race; they knew that the longer the primaries drag on, the more fractured the party is liable to become. 

  • Anonymous

    If B.O.s a Christian, I’m a Catholic-Muslim.

  • Anonymous

     Step away from the WND.Turns your brain to mush.

  • Anonymous

     More bliss from the far right!  Birther???  Really?????  Still???

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4OSK3UQOHK2PPSV7K3KVM422RA Rick

    I know what theology is Pablo.  Do you know what misdirection and baiting are?  That’s all that Hannity was doing by inviting Wright onto his show.  He has a history of this.. inviting someone onto his show to get them to talk.. and then cut them off whenever they try to answer or bring up a point.  

    No, I’m not cool with the Stormfront crowd, and they have ZERO comparison to what Wright is talking about.  But you don’t understand or believe this.. because you believe that Wright is preaching the same thing.  But then again..  you get your news from Fox.. so you probably believe that Stormfront plants daisies in black people’s front yards before they lynch them.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4OSK3UQOHK2PPSV7K3KVM422RA Rick

    LOL  whatever Pablo.. go post another video that has zero to do with the story at hand.. Big boys are talking now ok?

    That’s more your speed huh?

    And the message that I was responding to was about your lack of a video of Obama. but of his former preacher.. as if that somehow proves your point.  To which you answered with yet another stupid oneliner.. one that proves that you really have zero clue what’s going on.

  • Anonymous

    true, she didn’t walk em back but McCain’s campaign did their best to play damage control 

  • http://twitter.com/weench165 NewYorker

    This crap is becoming old.  Some GOP whack job makes an ignorant, and often false, claim about POTUS and they’ve been taken  out of  context or they offer some lame excuse and move on.  The whole lot are pretty disgusting.  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_IC7HRBJRXKA7IKTTZS5W3UIECQ Agent of Truth

    Phoney theology???  There you go again Rick.  Like a good little right wing extremist, you are trying to back peddle away from your phoney extremist right theological views to try and explain your meanings.  Hey Rick…..we get it.  You are just another right wing extremist who mixes twisted skewed religious ideologies with twisted skewed right wing political ideologies…..both of which never cross paths with reality.  The Bush administration has already done this.  We get it and we know exactly what you are.  After attending 2 separate Southern Baptist Univerities for degrees in Religion, I saw a lot of flakes like you who are simply slaves and victims to stupidity and twisted ideologies that have no basis in reality.  The problem with right wingers and most evangelicals is the fact that they have an “us and them” mentality which makes it easy to think you are better than others and that others have phoney theologies.  Hey Rick, you are nothing more than an old cliche.  Idiots like you and Ann Coulter need to wake up to the fact that the Taliban already perfected the mindset and thought processes that you guys are only now scratching the surface of when you attempt to dupe people every time you open your big mouths.  You are way behind the curve.

  • Anonymous

    Come clean Santorum.  There is no Catholic in the world who DOESN’T think that protestants are anything but on the wrong path.  It’s mirrored in the thoughts of a neighbor of mine who says that hers (RCC) is the only “true” religion in the world because it’s the first.  Bad news, Santorum – your beliefs AREN’T even beginning to be based on Jesus teachings.  Your Catholic religion is based on the teachings of Paul and had its beginnings in Rome and it’s based on Paganism and its man-gods.

  • Anonymous

    Ok Pablo, you won’t give up the guilty by association thing so fine.3 years 2 months Obama has been in office,list the Black Liberation Theology polices Obama has implemented and list the reparations black people received for slavery from Obama that Glenn,Limbaugh and Hannity talk sooo much about.LIST

  • Anonymous

    That is EXACTLY what Santorum is saying.

  • Anonymous

    Like Hell, Karen!  If the guy doesn’t believe in birth control, it’s the Armstrong method for him.  Stand up with the rest and VOTE the idiots out.  Over half the population of the country are women – WE have the strength that the overlords aren’t counting on.  Let’s GIVE it come the fall election.

  • Anonymous

    Catholics have always hated protestants.  My mother’s cruel memstother and the sisty uglers had always told her that it was better for her to marry a bum who was Catholic than to marry a protestant.

  • Anonymous

    The Laughing Smiley Face is LAUGHING at you because you are AFRAID to even look!
    WHY are you afraid even to look?  No wonder you voted for Obama because you need a Big Daddy (Big Brother) to hold your hand and make you “secure” but you are too immature to see that makes you their SLAVE!

  • Anonymous

    What comments of Palin’s ever made any sense?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3EV7LMBN3SWQMEVDJCAKUCTCKM Top

    So

    “I don’t know how to explain what REAL THEOLOGY is but I can recognize PHONY THEOLOGY when I see it”

    Is Santorum talking about Magic Underwear, Open Marriage, or Baptists and Evangelicals?

    I have to wonder if Santorum baptized his dead fetus like Morons, er, no, that’s correct, like Morons do.

  • Anonymous

    They might NOT control congress forever.  There is a hope.

  • Anonymous

    What Kenyan muslim?  Would you like a transcript of what his grandmother said, even while being baited by idiots?

    MCRAE: Could I ask her about his actual birthplace? I would like to see his birthplace when I come to Kenya in December. Was she present when he was born in Kenya?OGOMBE: Yes. She says, yes, she was, she was present when Obama was born.MCRAE: When I come in December. I would like to come by the place, the hospital, where he was born. Could you tell me where he was born? Was he born in Mombasa?OGOMBE: No, Obama was not born in Mombasa. He was born in America.MCRAE: Whereabouts was he born? I thought he was born in Kenya.OGOMBE: No, he was born in America, not in Mombasa.MCRAE: Do you know where he was born? I thought he was born in Kenya. I was going to go by and see where he was born.OGOMBE: Hawaii. Hawaii. Sir, she says he was born in Hawaii. In the state of Hawaii, where his father was also learning, there. The state of Hawaii.

  • Anonymous

     Why should it matter? The constitution never stated a President has to be of Christian faith.

  • Anonymous

    He’s a half-white, half black, American born Christian just like a whole lot of Americans.

  • Anonymous

    OBAMA IS BLAH CHRISTIAN, FROTH HAS NOTHING AGAINST BLAH PEOPLE.

  • Anonymous

     FROTH HATE KENYA!!!  FROTH HATE MUSLIMS!!!  OBAMA MAKE FROTH VERY ANGRY!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

     I bet you looked at all other Presidents birth certificates right?

  • Anonymous

    Nope, you’re a plain white/whatever dork!

  • Anonymous

    Nope, you’re a plain white/whatever dork!

  • Anonymous

    Why would I? Still AFRAID, huh?

    Maybe have your mom hold your hand as you do it.

  • Anonymous

    Uh Huh or Um or duh….. label you right from the beginning.  Most often Ithose are signals that the comment is going to come from the brainwashed.

  • http://twitter.com/ANONYMOUSLULZ1 william branham

    RICK SANTORUM IS A CLOSET HOMOSEXUAL ACCORDING TO WIKILEAKS

  • Anonymous

    MOre famous utterings from…”Sick” Santorum.  Whew.

  • Anonymous


    What about HE going to Pakistan”…
    You sound foreign born too.

  • Anonymous

    You want to prove Obama is not qualified because you see an effin smiley face on the BC? Get the hell outta here!

  • Anonymous

     FROTH NOT STICK FOOT IN MOUTH THAT FROTH.

  • Anonymous

     FROTH WILL MAKE CHRISTIAN FAITH REQUIREMENT. 

  • Anonymous

     FROTH HATE PROTESTANT FAITHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Pablo

    I didn’t link the clip because of Hannity. I linked it because of Wright. And you seem unable to pay attention to a single word he says.

    No, I’m not cool with the Stormfront crowd…

    Why not? After all:

    There is NOTHING wrong with embracing one’s race.  There is NOTHING wrong with trying to elevate your race’s peoples. 

    Should there have been an “…unless they’re white.” attached to that?

    Me, I’d like people to get past the racial bullshit and work on being Americans first.

  • Pablo

    I’m not talking about guilt. I’m talking about the theology of his church and of his longtime pastor, who he publicly embraced until the political baggage just got to be too heavy.

    I didn’t call Wright Obama’s mentor or inspiration. Obama did.

    I know you just want to forget that, but that’s your problem, not mine.

  • Anonymous

    cause he is such a loving and tolerant Christian. We see through this idiot, even if he is too stupid to know he ever refers to.

  • Anonymous

    Translation:”I have to rev up my moronic base.  I don’t really mean it”.

  • Anonymous

    FROTH CONFUSED

  • Anonymous

      drightone,
    Pakistan wasn’t letting Americans into the country at that time but Barry “managed” to get in anyway, probably because he had his Indonesian passport from being an Indonesian citizen through his father, Lolo Soetoro (and Barry never repatriated to be a USA citizen.
    My father was born in California and my mother was born in New York, if that matters, though I have NO ambition to be “president”, and AM a Natural Born US Citizen, which Barry is NOT.

  • http://twitter.com/gme11 Gail Evans

    I want to see the media do its job. Instead of letting Santorum make comments about another candidates religion, they should be asking him why he is making an issue of it.  And will he be able to take an oath to the Consitution when it is says there shall be no religious test….  He seems to be confusing a Democracry with a Theorcracy (of his own religion).  Any candidate that makes an issue of religion has already failed the test.

  • Anonymous

    Pablo,guilt by association is exactly what you as doing, and you see like you are finding out,it doesn’t work if you are asked to back it up.I don’t care what sound bite you have to offer if you don’t have the proof then you’re argument doesn’t hold water,you know that.I remember Hannity’s 10 part series Fox allowed him to do but like I said before, 3 years 2 months into office it’s about time you proved it.

  • shonangreg

     And what Santorum said about stewarding the earth but not worshipping it and then saying we can’t be afraid of letting harm come to it made no sense. Obama is a not a druid running around in Stonehenge praising Gaia. Only when Santorum got to climate change did he get to the substance of his contention. Democrats (and the vast majority of scientists) are politicizing the issue. Republican politicians are the ones telling the truth. I’m happy for him to run on that anti-science position.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Caroline-M-Corman/1790826629 Caroline M. Corman

     Hello, St. Mohammed.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4OSK3UQOHK2PPSV7K3KVM422RA Rick

    Of course I was unable to pay attention to what Wright was saying.. because Hannity cut him off before he got the opportunity to speak 10 words.  Watch the video.. EVERY time Wright tried to speak from 2mins in, Hannity cut him off.  Now.. just why would a reporter do this??? Because Hannity is NOT a reporter.. he’s not interested in the truth, he’s interested in making anyone that has an opposing view to his look the fool.  But who really came out looking the fool in that interview.. Hannity.

    Notice how when Colmes took over the interview at 3:44, Wright was able to get some words in, and the truth of what his church is all about.

    Why am I not cool with Stormfront?  Because Stormfront is nothing but a racist group.. they are not interested in embracing a race, they are interested in pushing others down.  And If you cannot see the difference between Stormfront and what Wright is saying, then you’re an idiot. But then again, you probably believe that to elevate your race, you must belittle another.  Which, judging by your responses over the months, you love to do. 

    Do I know who James Cone is? That is irrelevant. I know who Wright is, I know what he preaches, and I know that he does NOT advocate violence as a means of furthering black people’s cause.

    “Should there have been an “…unless they’re white.” attached to that?”

    No, there shouldn’t be “unless they’re white” attached to that.  You see, I understand that Black Liberation Theology is not about racism as you seem to believe.  Ya, we’re all Americans, but we all came from different cultures, and there is nothing wrong with keeping that culture alive and celebrating it.. and guess what..  it’s that doesn’t make it a separatist movement like the Branch Davidians, as Hannity insinuated.. He used that cult as an example for a reason, because they were a dangerous group, readying for a war.  This is not what Black Liberation Theology is about.. but it is what Stormfront is about.

  • Anonymous

    “Common sense is not a common thing.”

  • Anonymous

    Exactly!

  • Anonymous

    Jeb Bush is much smarter than his brother and will stay away from this circus! President Obama would never get involved in a war with Iran during an election year without provocation! Ron Paul is to radical for either side no matter how good some of his views are!

  • Anonymous

    Still kickin that fabrication?

  • Anonymous

    Not much peanut butter with this nut!

  • Anonymous

    After a long and bitter life they will write your last words on your tomb stone “he wasn’t legitimate because of Alvin’s smiley face”.

  • Anonymous

    Still afraid to look at Obama’s online birth certificate. It won’t bite you. Maybe you can get your mom to hold your hand.

  • Anonymous

    This guy is a master at riding a bicycle backwards!

  • Anonymous

    I told you I looked at it and have seen it many times! Your memory fails you obviously since you spout the same lame justification over and over and it fails also. Alvin is probably laughing his ass off over people like you making this into such stupid proof and evidence of nothing. Want me to believe? Find another example of Alvin’s signature without the “smiley face or prove his pen didn’t fail or that his hand didn’t shank during that one signing. And don’t hate so much bad for the soul!  

  • Anonymous

    So you ADMIT that there IS a Smiley Face. Good. There is hope for you.
    Now that you’ve done that, look at the Serial Number. The last digit is a different color and pixelated, to PROVE it was pasted there!
    Do you have an explanation for that, too?

  • Anonymous

    I admitted no such thing. You have a way of only seeing what you want to see. With every post you have ignored my request for additional proof about your specific claim. Prove its a smiley face! I know you can’t. So go away and don’t bother responding without that proof!

  • Pablo

    I know who Wright is, I know what he preaches…

    So, you know about his alliance with the Nation of Islam and his love for Louis Farrakhan? You know about his virulent anti-Semitism? You know why Obama repudiated him, a month after claiming he could never do such a thing? And you’re cool with all that?

  • Pablo

    “Just because a guy goes to a KKK meeting every week for 20 years, that doesn’t prove anything!!! Where’s the video??? Guilt by association!!!”

  • bsorin1

    Of course he was. He was using the code that appeals to the wing nuts. Then he walks it back without walking it back. Well let him continue. He is so good at turning off the following groups: women, young people, independents, minorities, environmentalists, those who support the use of contraceptives, couples/mothers who are expecting babies and receiving prenatal care, and the LGTB community. Who does that leave? Men of a certain age and ethnicity. Don’t think there are enough of them to elect him.

  • Anonymous

    So he wasa talking about the environmentalists when he said, it isn’t based on the Bible? What? 

  • Anonymous

     BLT  was born from the idea that Jesus stood for the opressed and applied specifically to a time in US culture when black Americans were the oppressed. It is not, however, just about that issue. In a much broader sense it speaks to any who are oppressed and to those who give lip service to Jesus without walking the walk.

    “Matt 25:  . 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43
    I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you
    did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after
    me.’    44
    “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or
    a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help
    you?’
       45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

  • Anonymous

     I do.  Fox did what it often does and cherry picked a few words to play over and over to present a one sided dishonest image of Wright and then try to make President Obama guilty by association.
    Was MLK embracing and trying to elevate his race? We celebrate him don’t we?

    Beck did the same thing with James Cone. He pulled out select quotes to evoke an emotional response from his white conservative audience and did nothing to fairly examine the man’s body of work. Just as you’re doing now. You can only fairly examine BLT in the context of when it was born and the experience of black Americans in that era.  And before you decide to cherry pick some of Cone’s words I’ll offer these

    Cone: “To sing about freedom
    and to pray for its coming is not enough. Freedom must be actualized in history
    by oppressed peoples who accept the intellectual challenge to analyze the world
    for the purpose of changing it”

    Cone; Truth knows no color; it appeals to
    intelligence.”

    Cone; “God does not will that people should be oppressed, and
    that was why he came in Jesus and why he is present as Holy Spirit today. God’s
    stand against oppression is his affirmation that all men
    have a common humanity in freedom. This means that I cannot be free
    until all men are free. And if in some distant future I am no longer oppressed
    because of blackness, then I must take upon myself whatever form of human
    oppression exists in the society, affirming my identity with the victims. The
    identity must be made with the victims not because of sympathy, but because my
    own humanity is involved in my brother’s degradation.”

    Cone;  “my experience
    of being black-skinned means that I cannot de-emphasize the literal
    significance of blackness. My people were enslaved, lynched, and ghettoized in
    the name of God and country because of their color. No amount of theologizing
    can remove the reality of that experience from my consciousness. And because
    blacks were dehumanized by white-skinned people who created a cultural style
    based on black oppression, the literal 
    importance of whiteness has historical referents.

     

    But that is only one aspect of my experience. When I begin
    to investigate the particular experience of blackness and whiteness in America,
    I begin to see beyond it. Through my particular experience of blackness, I
    encounter the symbolic significance of black existence and how that existence
    is related to god’s revelation in Jesus Christ.

     

    In the divine-human encounter, the particular experience of oppression
    and liberation, as disclosed in black-skinned people, is affirmed as God’s own
    experience; and through that divine affirmation, I encounter the
    universal meaning of oppression and liberation that is not limited by skin
    color.”

    So, while BLT was born in a certain era to address a specific issue it’s theology is far broader than that, and closer to the verse in Mat 25 I quoted earlier.  

  • ORAXX

    I can’t imagine why anyone who’s actually read the bible would want to base a government on it.  Trying to settle the question of who is, or is not, a ‘real’ Christian has spilled enough blood to float the navy.  Santorum, like every good conservative, prefers his comfort myth to reality.

  • Centrist79

    I take it you don’t like Catholics

  • Anonymous

    They’re no better and no worse than all the other denominations.  Their claims to being a direct line back to Jesus is nonsense, however.  The man-god story doesn’t come from Jewish roots and that is pretty evident if you know what Jews believe and have always believed.

  • corri anderson

    Are you really this big of an idiot or are you just trying to rile up the Dems?

  • corri anderson

    Then I guess you’re a Catholic Muslim.  Not that it matters.  Frankly I would prefer an atheist as President.  And since when was caring for the planet and creating policy to protect it for our children a blasphemous position?

  • Anonymous

    Everything I’ve said is PROVABLE. All Democrats have is denial, despite Mr. Obama HIDING as much of his past as possible.
    But I guess Democrats still believe in the Tooth Fairy (kind of like Mr. Obama), too!

  • Anonymous

    You asked about looking at other signatures of Alving having smiley faces, so THAT shows you saw the smiley face. THAT IS the proof. Sure, go ahead and deny it. Obviously, it bothers you.
    Did you look at the “1″ on the end of the “serial number”? It’s not black as the rest. More PROOF of the fraud is how the Nordyke twins were born a day after Obama at the same hospital but their birth certificate serial number is later. The explanation for that is that the Obama’s had access to birth records and when a stillborn happened there, that serial number was STOLEN and given to Barry.
    There is a PILE of proof in Jerome Corsi’s book on Obama but you will never bother too look because you are AFRAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (or your head will burst from the truth)

  • Anonymous

    Here’s a link to FactCheck’s picture of Alvin’s signature:
    http://factcheck.org/2008/08/born-in-the-usa/
    Compare it to what is on the White House “birth certificate”. They are NOT the same. FactCheck does NOT have the smiley face. So which is is DOCTORED, FactCheck or the White House?
    Never mind. Go put your head back in that warm dark spot where it was more comfortable.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4OSK3UQOHK2PPSV7K3KVM422RA Rick

    TY Cosmos.. once again Pablo proves that he is not willing to view the truth.. because it conflicts with Rupert Murdoch’s agenda.

  • Anonymous

    Alvin’s signature the one made with a stamp? That one? You clearly have a lunitic obsession calling that further proof. Sending someone to FactCheck’s articale that justifies and proves the authentic nature of the document from the people involved further proves you ill state of mind. You need to seek help before you become a hazard to society. You will no longer be responded to I have wasted to much time already.

  • Anonymous

    So, you’re give links to BOTH signatures as to your desired “proof” about the Smiley Face and you won’t look at them both? Geez, are your knees knocking from being so afraid of the truth?

  • http://www.facebook.com/paul.rainwater1 Paul Rainwater

    Rick Santorum is an evil amoral power hunger ego maniac that gets high on hate, other than that, I like his sweater vest very much…

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