Rick Santorum Compares Obamacare To Apartheid

[G_j]

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/12/06/3030141/rick-santorum-obamacare-mandela/


Rick Santorum Compares Obamacare To Apartheid

BY ADAM PECK ON DECEMBER 6, 2013 AT 9:44 AM

Rick Santorum, the erstwhile Republican presidential candidate with a penchant for controversy, appeared on Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor on Thursday night and memorialized the passing of South African leader and global visionary Nelson Mandela by equating Obamacare with apartheid.
Praising Mandela for standing up to a “great injustice,” the former Pennsylvania senator continued by ascribing his own conservative principles to the civil rights pioneer:

Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that, and that’s the reason he is mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed…and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people’s lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that.

[WinkyDink]

1. A step up from slavery!

[pscot]

4. Yet still about oppressing black people

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

2. Santorum ought to be...

...the hood ornament on the Stupidmobile!

[spanone]

3. hey rick, call me when your 27 years as a political prisoner are up....here's my cell#

asshole

[monmouth3]

5. He truly is an idiot!..n/t

[SummerSnow]

6. Republicans love..

using the words " slavery" " Aparthied" " oppression" .smh

[Initech]

10. They also love making Nazi comparisons.

[zbdent]

7. remind me of this later, when

I hear of Repubs getting necklaced for NOT denouncing Obama as "worse than Satan" ...

[catbyte]

8. OMFG. Even I didn't think Santorum could be that craven and cynical. Silly me.

Of course ensuring Americans access to affordable health care is EXACTLY like herding them into slums & disenfranchising them, being beaten, imprisoned & having your head bashed in by brutish prison guards (I remember Biko), snatching away economic power & basic human rights. Yeah, Ricky. Obamacare is JUST LIKE THAT.

[struggle4progress]

9. "I wonder if there's a way to get my name in the news today?"

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. OTOH, comparing Santorum to a talking turd would be more accurate.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

12. Santorum has a point.

In many ways, Santorum IS correct about the Republicans and their struggle against Apartheid and Obamacare.

They were for both in the 80s and 90s before they were against both.