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in your work is something my father taught me.
This motherfucker Newt is so good at ruining families on a personal level that he wants to implement it as federal law. Who would
want
to teach his son to be a janitor? Every father wants his children to surpass him. My father, and all the fathers on my street, would be mortified if their sons had their job. “This broom was handed down from generation to generation”? If the notion is to take janitor jobs away so kids can learn work habits, what happens to the janitors? What of those men who are supporting their families and buying homes? They’re obsolete now. The family doesn’t need them, and Gingrich isn’t proposing retraining them. It would mean
more
families without father figures, not less.
The quickest way to get a black man to leave his home is to devalue him
.
The speaker actually said it best himself: “I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering.”
Rick Santorum
I have no idea why Rick Santorum was being given airtime. By objective apolitical standards,
the man is a loser
. He lost his last senatorial campaign by eighteen points. When people think of Pennsylvania, they think of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. But it’s a huge state, and there’s a lot of real estate outside those cities filled with Republicans. The rest of that shit is practically Alabama. He even lost
there
.
He’s crazy, vicious, and just not a bright guy. He’s like Richie Cunningham, only carrying a switchblade. I can’t imagine any world figure talking to Rick Santorum. Is there
any
other country in the world where someone that unsophisticated becomes a leader? That’s what
makes
a national leader: They are sophisticated and knowledgeable, not just about their own country but about the world around them.
At this stage in America, being unsophisticated is practically a choice. We don’t have a monarchy or an aristocracy, where people are born and bred to be some sort of ruling class. Barack Obama is the son of a single mother. Bill Clinton is the son of a single mother. Both men educated themselves past their circumstances. Bill Clinton was as country as you got. Now he might be the most respected politician, certainly in America and maybe the world. He’s still greeted like a hero no matter what nation he goes to. Let George W. Bush land in certain other countries and see if he doesn’t get arrested at the airport. It’s a good thing he never wants to go anywhere, because he can’t. That motherfucker is practically trapped here in the United States.
Santorum has Bush’s lack of sophistication, but he lacks Bush’s political finesse—or at least Bush’s finesse via Karl Rove. It’s cynical and it’s a dirty trick, but Karl Rove very effectively used gaymarriage to turn out his people to vote. The way Rove figured it, if people came to the polls to vote against gay marriage, they’d probably end up pulling the lever for the Republican candidate as well.
But things have changed a great deal since those days, even though it’s been less than a decade. When the Pentagon took an internal poll of the military, a majority of servicemen and women had no problem serving alongside gays. When President Obama kept his campaign promise and repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the only person who had a problem with it seemed to be John McCain—and I’d wager that’s as much a function of McCain’s age as anything else.
When Governor Cuomo passed marriage equality in New York State through the legislative process, not one national Republican politician attacked it. Not even politicians in the South, who one would think would be free to speak their minds on the matter. This country is in the process of accepting legal rights for gays and lesbians. The issue is a political loser—and the only politician left
fighting
against gay marriage is Rick Santorum. Everybody got the memo but him.
Santorum claims his
This motherfucker Newt is so good at ruining families on a personal level that he wants to implement it as federal law. Who would
want
to teach his son to be a janitor? Every father wants his children to surpass him. My father, and all the fathers on my street, would be mortified if their sons had their job. “This broom was handed down from generation to generation”? If the notion is to take janitor jobs away so kids can learn work habits, what happens to the janitors? What of those men who are supporting their families and buying homes? They’re obsolete now. The family doesn’t need them, and Gingrich isn’t proposing retraining them. It would mean
more
families without father figures, not less.
The quickest way to get a black man to leave his home is to devalue him
.
The speaker actually said it best himself: “I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering.”
Rick Santorum
I have no idea why Rick Santorum was being given airtime. By objective apolitical standards,
the man is a loser
. He lost his last senatorial campaign by eighteen points. When people think of Pennsylvania, they think of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. But it’s a huge state, and there’s a lot of real estate outside those cities filled with Republicans. The rest of that shit is practically Alabama. He even lost
there
.
He’s crazy, vicious, and just not a bright guy. He’s like Richie Cunningham, only carrying a switchblade. I can’t imagine any world figure talking to Rick Santorum. Is there
any
other country in the world where someone that unsophisticated becomes a leader? That’s what
makes
a national leader: They are sophisticated and knowledgeable, not just about their own country but about the world around them.
At this stage in America, being unsophisticated is practically a choice. We don’t have a monarchy or an aristocracy, where people are born and bred to be some sort of ruling class. Barack Obama is the son of a single mother. Bill Clinton is the son of a single mother. Both men educated themselves past their circumstances. Bill Clinton was as country as you got. Now he might be the most respected politician, certainly in America and maybe the world. He’s still greeted like a hero no matter what nation he goes to. Let George W. Bush land in certain other countries and see if he doesn’t get arrested at the airport. It’s a good thing he never wants to go anywhere, because he can’t. That motherfucker is practically trapped here in the United States.
Santorum has Bush’s lack of sophistication, but he lacks Bush’s political finesse—or at least Bush’s finesse via Karl Rove. It’s cynical and it’s a dirty trick, but Karl Rove very effectively used gaymarriage to turn out his people to vote. The way Rove figured it, if people came to the polls to vote against gay marriage, they’d probably end up pulling the lever for the Republican candidate as well.
But things have changed a great deal since those days, even though it’s been less than a decade. When the Pentagon took an internal poll of the military, a majority of servicemen and women had no problem serving alongside gays. When President Obama kept his campaign promise and repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the only person who had a problem with it seemed to be John McCain—and I’d wager that’s as much a function of McCain’s age as anything else.
When Governor Cuomo passed marriage equality in New York State through the legislative process, not one national Republican politician attacked it. Not even politicians in the South, who one would think would be free to speak their minds on the matter. This country is in the process of accepting legal rights for gays and lesbians. The issue is a political loser—and the only politician left
fighting
against gay marriage is Rick Santorum. Everybody got the memo but him.
Santorum claims his
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