Rick Santorum: Obama's Apology for Koran Burnings "Shows Weakness"
What do healthy, functional adults do when they make a serious mistake? Apologize for it. Apparently, Rick Santorum is not a functional adult.
“There was nothing deliberately done wrong here. This was something that happened as a mistake. Killing Americans in uniform is not a mistake, ” said Santorum. “Say it’s unfortunate…but to apologize for something that was not an intentional act is something that the president of the United States in my opinion should not have done.”
Protests erupted in Afghanistan after the accidental burning and two American troops were killed by an an Afghan soldier.
“I think it shows weakness,” said Santorum on the apology.
Yes, by that nutty standard -- that one shouldn't apologize for "mistakes" -- Ronald Reagan was a surrender monkey, as was George W. Bush -- not to mention Gen. Stanley McChrystal and Gen. David Petraeus.
They're all a bunch of weak, appeasing cowards, unlike the very brave and steadfast Rick Santorum, who never apologizes for anything.
I'll tell you this: the GOP owes America an apology for elevating this clown into a serious presidential contender.
(h/t David)
She should have either swallowed .
Or kept that aspirin between her legs, when your father got 'that look' in his eyes - and none of the kids were available.
You are a sick, sick man, Rick.
"Savanarola Sanitorum - you belong in a Sanitorium, where professionals can check your med's hourly.
Any member of the U.S. Armed forces serving in Afghanistan who votes for this coward ass cock sucker deserves their head blown off.
Rick Santorum is not a functional adult.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
What are these imbeciles talking about?
Except for the GOP knuckledraggers, hating Muslims was so 2002.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Apparently showing common courtesy and decency to anyone not on the approved list shows weakness... more likely, this was just another excuse for this asshole to throw a rock at the President... the entire Republican definition boils down to what they're against. Never what they're for... as those things don't tend to garner much support...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Why has the GOP primary been such a negative circus? none of them have any new ideas. all they have is anger and fear, even for each other. conservatism is the fear of anything new or in this case even the status quo is seen as a radical change from the norm. they need to contact websters so we can redefine some words so these arguments make sense.
I recommended the book earlier, I think here's another opportunity to do so... it's available in plenty of places (private message and I can talk to you) ---
Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal.
He references Altemeyer's The Authoritarians, and many other sources, but it's just damned dead-on, and explains the sadomasochistic mindset that underlies these people's retreat from any freedom of thought... too damned scary to stand alone at any time... and oh, Goddess am I familiar with the personality type...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
let's not get the sheeple all stirred up with all that talk of "new-fangled" ideas. You know their pathetic reasoning skills just simply cannot possible enable them to relate to such novel concepts.
It is very evident that rick and his buddies have no respect for other people's religion.
It is wrong to burn any book that is sacred to people.
A toxic atmosphere is perpetuated when a group decides that they are more important and they know what is better for others for and they denigrate the religion of others. The US is founded ton the basis of laws that we are all allowed to worship freely. If the US wants others to emulate our government and laws, then the republicans should respect the rights and religions of others
Diane
santorum is a reich wing fascist. If he could be overt about it he would. Instead we get these dog whistles, and they are getting shriller by the day.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
When one's religion is a mockery of spirituality, and one's politics are a mockery of decency, it's just a matter of course and a logical progression...
Their religion is based on why everyone else's but theirs is wrong at best, and demonic at worst, and their politics are joined at the hip with their religion,... slops over that some people deserve less than others and everything is based upon what they are against...
Sound and fury, signifying nothing, but a pretty nice cover for the vacuum of thought, don't you think?
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
I apologize profusely when I turn around and bump into someone. I didn't mean to knock someone down, but it is still my fault.
In Santorumland THAT would merit an apology!
Obama apologize for not prosecuting the Banksters and Wall St. criminals? When will he apologize for all the innocent civilians killed through collateral murder by U.S. forces in far away countries? When will he apologize for lying about "hope and change"? It certainly won't be after he is elected again.
has something to do with the fact that not only has he apologized or at least acknowledged the errors of his administration in each of these cases, but the mainstream media and American public at large continues to distort, misunderstand or just flat out disregard whatever Obama actually says or does. I can only imagine how frustrating and hopeless it must be to:
*Working with the most counterproductive, pigheaded and gridlocked Congress in history (no small feat considering the eight years that preceeded him)
*Dealing with CITIZENS UNITED, the most corrosive and corrupting decision in recent Supreme Court history (also no small feat considering the Men, and women, in Black backhanded open democracy and the public's mandate by handing us Bush Vs. Gore 2000 just over a decade ago); now we have dozens of super pacs, corporate cronies, and ditto head, know-nothing elites in both parties who are the de facto puppeteer electors and legislators of EVERYTHING beyond the voting booth!
*One major party whose majority who STILL doesn't believe him to be a legitimate U.S. citizen (the equivalent of denying gravity and the Earth's rotundness @ this point, all kidding aside) and smears hims as a Kenyan, Muslim, socialist, communist and of course, much worse behind closed doors when nobody is hearing. And THAN supremely opposes ANYTHING he says or does including the very same policies, approaches, and ideas that they endorsed and high-rided when Curious George was railing everything to Hell. Definitely no incompetence (or racism) there!...
*The other major political party who largely continues to chastise and rake him over the coals for everything besides his race or religion, instead of supporting the short term and assured progress he HAS down right and building a grassroots coalition equitable to the Tea Party, right-wing think tanks, and ultraconservative lobbyists to back him and hold his feet to the fire throughout the term. Instead, they go with the flow and don't offer much anything better than their opposers except that, oh yeah, they haven't TOTALLY batshit bucked off their sense of reality, if not dignity.
*The largest negative deficit swing in national history and Greatest Recession since the Great Depression, near 10% unemployment, the turmoil of the Middle East and Egypt uprising, the Gulf Oil spill, the debt ceiling 'tantrum' and a host of other seemingly impossible obstacles that nobody wants to take the hard work to pursue fixing with a finishing determination!
Not an obamabot here by any means; criticism of authority is the hallmark and healthy immune system of any democracy after all. Though, educated and reasoned discourse was the preference of our Founding Fathers. Can't say I've lost hope in Obama changing should he be victor for a second term, but apparently most Americans aren't wanting it bad enough to want to actually do something about it beyond whining on a political blog comments section...
President Obama is like the AHCA his administration miraculously passed: marginally helpful, efficient enough to be built upon, and will only become a uniform disaster if Republicans win 2012 & repeal it (with all the other good he did)!
Can anyone imagine what a disaster as command in chief this moron would be?
He'd make W and Cheney look as if they were Patton.
I think moron is being too easy on him. He is much closer to imbecile. As Blue Texan points out, santorum is not a functional adult. His emotional development is severely arrested. His psychological makeup defines the modern republican.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Yes... Patton, though loony as a fruit-bat, was an educated loon, a true warrior, had enough courage for 10 men and was at heart a decent man, considering his own patrician upbringing... unlike Messrs. Bush, Cheney and Froth....
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Ricky is not a functional adult, or even a functional human being. We in PA think of him as a flaming idiot, and/or a**hole, and were glad to be rid of him. I am sure that in the unlikely event he gets the Repuke nomination, there's no way in hell he'd ever get '(s)elected' - as the PtB folks would never trade in Barry for this goof.
Dubya & DICK are the ones who ought to be apologizing to the Afghanis for even invading their nation in the first place and for murdering hundreds of thousands of their citizens....for no good reason. Their actions - invading Iraq and Afghanistan - were war crimes, not to mention the torture and illegal imprisonment of Muslims, and I haven't seen their asses hauled to the Hague as yet.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
We in PA think of him as a flaming idiot
How in the hell did you guys ever elect Club for Fascism goon Toomey?
I know my family didn't vote for him.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Absolutely appalling. What a disgusting man.
It's not a saying because it's too fucking obvious to bother. Yet Rick Santorum just can't get it through his head that it's better to make friends than to make enemies.
That's like not understanding that it's a bad idea to pound a nail through your hand, or slap a rattlesnake, or jump off a building, or stick a lit cigarette in your eye, etc. There are lots of things that you shouldn't do, but the list is too long to make a saying from each one.
Common sense is the key. You need common sense to avoid most of the really stupid things people can do at any moment. Rick Santorum seems to lack all common sense. Day after day he displays a reckless disregard for others in what he proposes as policy. That's because Rick Santorum is a religious fanatic.
I haven't been following this closely, but sounds like books, esp. sensitive holy books in a pile is not a good way to safeguard against trouble. I doubt the troops just throw their Bibles "in a pile" at the end of Sunday services. Just sayin'.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
All books should be burned, except the bible.
Then - in Santorum world, you wouldn't have any of these other problems or burdens that irritate the conservafascist authoritarians.
You know, like other religions, scientists, critical thinkers, liberals, peaceniks, working women, people enjoying sex, educated thinking people, and all of those totally unnecessary "Rights" found in the Constitution.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Santorum is the poster child for why the church should never have repealed it's ban on lay people owning and reading the Bible.
santorum = venereal anal wart
You have to Google him!
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
Hmmm what is this "Santorum" you speak of?
Surely not "this" Santorum?
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
So I guess I wont hold my breath waiting for Santorum to apologize to the Dutch. Luckily hashish is legal there and they might just laugh this dickwad off as the moron he is. Maybe we can tell them he was just auditioning for the new American movie Dumbass and Dumbassier. In fact we can explain the whole Republican Debate fiasco as screen tests.
It is called common decency to apologize even if the wrong was a mistake. If lives are at stake it becomes much more than that. Either something was seriously lacking in Rick's upbringing. or he is just plain nuts.
but when did Republicans know anything about Common Decency?
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
This FK'N ignorant and desperate teabagger will get whipped good by Prez. Obama. Let the fun start.
If these guys keep talking, they may end up third behind the green party come November.
Let the entire country see just how bat shit crazy and stupid evil the GOP fascist anti American base is. It's time to completely shine the light on them by giving them a huge forum to spew their garbage from.
It's a long way from the 29% lunatic idiot detatched from reality GOP base voters, to a majority 50.1%.
Hell, even with the 45% "Diebold" majority, it's still a gonna be a long shot.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Surely the President knew those pandering idiots would be all over this. It took courage to apologize. It was the right thing to do. That is a concept these sanctimonious warmongers cannot grasp. Their counterparts are those who are killing in the name of religion. Of course Republicans don't see the irony.
Reslugs are really pissing their panties listening to their douchbag, racist, top candidate.
What Does A Radical Muslim, Supporters Of Ron Paul, Rick Santorum & LDS have in common? http://p.ost.im/p/exGXXT
Taking H. L. Mencken to a whole new level.
Daily.
I'm Boycotting NewsCorp! Heres what not to buy: http://www.cjr.org/resources/index.php?c=news...
if people were burning bibles, you'd be losing your tiny little mind, Ricky.
Go fuck yourself.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." -- Robert E. Howard
santorum:
elitist - unable to apologize for anything - arrested development - must feign strength - because he has none
book burner - does not accept alternative views - no confidence in his own spirituality
social climber - lacks self worth - materialistic - shills for the plutocrats - plutocrat wanna be
war monger - psychopath - fascist
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Obviously people with the "wrong theology" don't deserve an apology any more than little Ricky thinks a man like Obama, who has the "wrong theology", should be President.
I have been watching this religious war building in this country for thirty years. I must admit to being a little surprised at their choice of a corrupt grifter to lead it. Prolly shouldn't have been.
It's also obvious that Rick doesn't understand his own faiths teachings.
1 Corinthians 6:1-20
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases? Do you not know that we are to judge angels? How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life! So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church? I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, ...
Like so many, those things he's the most adamant about are those things he understands the least.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
While Santorum/Gingrich/Romney throw their barbs at President Obama for his apology, they conveniently forget -- as does the MSM -- that their hero George W. Bush had a great deal of experience apologizing for many of his efforts:
* George W. Bush apologized to the prime minister of Iraq in 2008 after an American soldier shot up a Koran. “The American president apologized on behalf of the United States,’’ said Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
* In 2001, Mr. Bush apologized for an accident in which a U.S. nuclear submarine collided with a Japanese fishing vessel, killing nine Japanese.
* In 2004 Bush apologized for the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. President Bush apologized for the "humiliation" some Iraqi prisoners suffered at the hands of U.S. troops as he said that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is safe in his job.
* President George W. Bush apologized to the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, on Thursday for the killing of an Egyptian vendor when a cargo ship chartered by the United States opened fire on his small boat near the Suez Canal on Monday in an incident that has enraged Egyptians.
* President Bush apologized to Japan Saturday for the accidental sinking of a Japanese fishing vessel by a U.S. nuclear submarine, as the search for four 17-year-old students and five other missing Japanese continued in the waters some 15 miles off the Hawaiian island of Oahu. (February 11, 2001)
* President Bush, who often teases members of the White House press corps, apologized Wednesday after he poked fun at a reporter for wearing sunglasses without realizing they were needed for vision loss. The exchange occurred at a news conference in the Rose Garden. Bush called on Los Angeles Times reporter Peter Wallsten and asked if he was going to ask his question with his "shades" on.
"For the viewers, there's no sun," Bush said to the television cameras.
But even though the sun was behind the clouds, Wallsten still needs the sunglasses because he has Stargardt's disease, a form of macular degeneration that causes progressive vision loss. The condition causes Wallsten to be sensitive to glare and even on a cloudy day, can cause pain and increase the loss of sight.(6/15/2006)
* Bush apologizes to Karzai for Senate panel treatment -- Tuesday, March 11, 2003 --CNN) -- President Bush has apologized to Afghan President Hamid Karzai for what the administration believes was mistreatment by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when Karzai appeared before it last month, the White House confirmed Tuesday.
* Bush Apologizes to Koreans For Killing of 2 Girls by G.I.'s
November 28, 2002
President Bush apologized today for the deaths of two Korean girls hit by a United States military vehicle in June, an incident that has led to angry anti-American demonstrations.
The apology to the girls' families, the South Korean government and the Korean people, delivered by the American ambassador here, was in response to a demand of protesters outraged first by the girls' deaths and then by the dismissal by a United States military court last week of negligent homicide charges against the two sergeants in the vehicle.
The list continues...If only the MSM had some guts and did a little fact-checking...if only...
Tony Mack
"after the accidental burning "
why would anyone think its accidental?
No further proof of man's nature is required.
Ah, and that's the point... I've seen it justified that texts were being used to smuggle messages out... a few more of the DI Language experts specializing in Arabic could solve that little issue... oh, that's right... they're in such short supply due to their also having been gay and in uniform...
I would suggest that any text that appears to be executed by hand with as much care as those I have seen, charred, but still beautiful, at least would warrant a "Do we really want to do this without any education about just what the hell these things are?" if such was the purpose... I think it's highly arguable that it was not accidental.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
would be narcisisstic if it believed it could do no wrong....
they want us to remain uneducated?
That he hasn't got a fukin' clue much like the soldiers who burnt the Korans in the first place. After 8 or 9 years in Afghanistan nothing has been learnt and nothing will be won.
My stepson, currently fighting in Afghanistan and, please Goddess, due to rotate back in April, is an interesting case of the military in general, there... he's got a dark sense of humor, so it's taken a few reads to get past the stuff he writes just to tweak his mom... lol...
There's a difference between the truly backward mullahs who learn nothing but think they know everything, and the thoughtful, forward-thinking leaders who don't diss technology, education or such, but adapt them to their own unique culture... which, whether we like it or not, ain't Western.
My noble warrior of a stepson has some choice descriptions of the former, while digging having a hookah and coffee with the latter...
Unlike our chicken hawks who never served, have no interest in anything outside their self-imposed limits, and are awfully quick to commit someone else's kids to fight and die, most of the vets I've had the honor to be in contact with by family, by lodge, and by friendship, are, thankfully, very much like my stepson.
I say warrior, as I never walked that path, however many years I was a soldier... he has my respect, if not a whole lot of understanding of his path...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
On re-reading what I posted, had a huh-duh, moment... can substitute "Republican" for "mullah," except I rather think there are more reasonable mullahs than Republicans, at this point...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Next thing this dummy will say is "Bring it On!"
...and everything you say shows stupidity and fascist tendencies.
Frothy would be the supremem pubar of the Amerikan Taliban if only he could. This asshat's latest comment that "separation of church and state make me want to throw up" shows how unqualified and unfit he is to any position of trust or responsibility. What a laughing stock. I bet Obama's praying thismoron gets the GOPer nomination.
Dammit, man. Stop insulting shit, willya? Shitheads of America demand an apology eee-mediately.
We have met the enemy and they are ... wait, uh, can't be me.
President Obama did what needed to be done in an attempt to save lives, he is smart enough to understand how this mistake would escalate and cause undue deaths, I fully respect his sincere apology for a mistake that Americans made because they didn't understand what the Koran is, it would be nice if the Afghanistan's or Muslims would have explained how to handle the Koran, as Americans we have no idea that you cannot burn that book, its a mistake that wont happen again.
So what would Sanitorum do? burn a few more holly books or tell the Muslims to piss off, that is NOT how a leader reacts, a leader looks at the big picture and finds the best way for all the people, not just himself. Tack this on as another reason Sanitorum is a child among men and simply does not have he brain power to run anything but a McDonald's.
MrEthiopian
for what? for giving the brain dead people of america not only what they want, but what they deserve?
but I must disagree with your statement:
"the GOP owes America an apology for elevating this clown into a serious presidential contender"
We should be thanking the GOP for giving us a glimmer of hope that this nut-job will actually GET nominated. I have enough faith in the American people to believe that independents and moderates would rather vomit than cast their vote for the likes of Frothman in the general election. Wouldn't it be wonderful to watch President Obama deliver the biggest blowout in electoral history?!
Pray, people, pray HARD!
By his stupid logic, if he "accidentally" hits someone in his vehicle, he won't apologize because it was a mistake. Jackass.
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