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‘I Didn’t Say Black’: Santorum Says He ‘Mumbled’ During Controversial Speech About Welfare

Rick Santorum Says He Mumbled & Didnt Say Black During Welfare Speech

Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum shakes hands during a campaign stop in Brentwood, N.H., Wednesday Jan. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

MANCHESTER, N.H. (The Blaze/AP) — Facing fresh scrutiny after he nearly defeated Mitt Romney in Iowa’s lead-off caucuses, Republican presidential contender Rick Santorum on Wednesday defended votes and statements that are earning him a second look for the wrong reasons.

Santorum, a former senator and House member, finished eight votes behind Romney in Iowa’s contest and arrived here to questions about his support for home-state spending projects known as earmarks and for a recent comment about black people that has been criticized as being racially insensitive. He also sought to explain previous statements that likened same-sex relationships to bestiality.

“My Catholic faith teaches that it’s actions that are the problems, not necessarily someone’s feelings,” Santorum said in a CNN interview. “One can have desires to do things that we believe are wrong, but it’s when you act out on things, that’s the problem.”

Santorum, who spent much of the last year toiling as an also-ran in the polls, found a late surge in Iowa. He tapped into social conservatives’ networks and visited every corner of the state.

Rick Santorum Says He Mumbled & Didnt Say Black During Welfare Speech

Republican presidential candidate former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks during a town hall meeting at the Fort Dodge GOP Headquarters in Fort Dodge, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

An uphill climb greets Santorum in New Hampshire and South Carolina, where he is scrambling to piece together an organization. At the same time, he is explaining his resume to voters who are seeing it for the first time.

“I don’t believe that everything that is immoral should be illegal. The government doesn’t have a role to play in everything that people of faith or no faith think is wrong or immoral,” he told CNN.

Santorum also defended congressional spending designed to benefit pet projects. Tea partyers and fiscal conservatives criticize the process of slipping home-state spending into massive bills and say such “earmarks” in huge bills treat taxpayer money like a slush fund.

“When you go to Congress you fight to make sure that when taxes go from your state to Washington, D.C., you fight to make sure you get your fair share back,” Santorum said, adding that other lawmakers do it. “The idea that earmarks are the problem in Washington, D.C., is just ridiculous.”

Watch Santorum speak about his record on earmarks, below (around the 4:40 mark):

Still, he has said he now opposes earmarks.

Santorum also tried to explain remarks he made in Iowa about Medicaid, a program for poor Americans. He was quoted as saying: “I don‘t want to make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money. I want to give them the opportunity to go out and earn the money.”

Here’s video of his original comments, below:

In the CNN interview, Santorum said he “mumbled it and changed my thought” in mid-statement.

“I‘m pretty confident I didn’t say `black,’” he said. “I’ve looked at it several times. I was starting to say one word and I sort of came up with a different word and then moved on.” But, he conceded, “it sounded like black.”

Rick Santorum Says He Mumbled & Didnt Say Black During Welfare Speech

On Wednesday night, the presidential contender spoke with Bill O’Reilly about the controversy. Santorum said:

“And I can tell you, I don’t use — I don’t — first off, I don‘t use the term ’black’ very often. I use the term ‘African-American‘ more than I use ’black.’ I can tell you as someone who did more work for historically black colleges, I used to have — every year, I used to bring all the historically black colleges into Washington, DC to try to help them, because they get very little federal money through the bureaucracy, and so I help to try to introduce them to people in the Department of Education so they could have more resources.”

While Santorum defended his overall record in working on economic issues for black communities, civic and civil rights leaders criticized his remark.

“Sen. Santorum’s targeting of African-Americans is inaccurate and outrageous and lifts up old race-based stereotypes about public assistance,” NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said.

Rick Santorum Says He Mumbled & Didnt Say Black During Welfare Speech

“He conflates welfare recipients with African-Americans, though federal benefits are in fact determined by income level. In Iowa for example, only 9 percent of food stamp recipients are black, while 84 percent of recipients are white,” Jealous said.

Santorum shrugged off the criticism and said his remark was “probably just a tongue-tied moment instead of something that was deliberate.”

We’ll leave you with the interview Glenn Beck conducted with Santorum on Tuesday, during which the former congressman’s past record and current stances on foreign policy were discussed:

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  • Dahart
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:28am

    Here is my problem with the trem “African-American”. Most of the blacks here in the US are born here and have never been to Africa … So how dose that make you African-American?

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    • old white guy
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:31am

      santorum is about to become the msm’s current target.

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    • OhSuzieQ
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:46am

      I’m with you Dahart…I’m sick and tired of hearing it.

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    • NOTAMUSHROOM
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:52am

      Exactly. I don’t want a conservative president to pander to the PC crowd. The African- Africans have no idea what an African-American is. Thank goodness white people aren’t hyphenated. We’re all a bunch of mutts anyway.

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    • Freedomluver
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:55am

      “Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans only as members of groups and never as individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike; as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called “diversity” actually perpetuate racism. Their intense focus on race is inherently racist, because it views individuals only as members of racial groups.

      Conservatives and libertarians should fight back and challenge the myth that collectivist liberals care more about racism. Modern liberalism, however, well-intentioned, is a byproduct of the same collectivist thinking that characterizes racism. The continued insistence on group thinking only inflames racial tensions.
      The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims.

      Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity….

      This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Rather than looking to government to correct what is essentially a sin of the heart, we should understand that reducing racism requires a shift from group thinking to an emphasis on individualism.”
      Ron Paul

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:58am

      Dave Mathews is an African American.

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    • medic506
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:05am

      If my parents are white and from South Africa, can I consider myself African-American?

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:26am

      Divide and conquer. This is how a minority can control a majority. Break society up into as many little, competing groups as possible.

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    • SMACKD0WN33
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:35am

      This must be an inside job at the Blaze. I did not write this post. Someone is using my username and posting comments under my username.

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    • SMACKD0WN33
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:35am

      This must be an inside job at the Blaze. I did not write this post. Someone is using my username and posting comments under my username.

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    • JRook
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:35am

      “only 9 percent of food stamp recipients are black, while 84 percent of recipients are white” similar percentages in states like Vermont. But I‘m sure the majority of folks here will gloss over this fact as it doesn’t fit into their narrow view of the world. Here’s a great exercise. The go forward deficit left by Bush Jr. as demonstrated in the 2009 fiscal year started under him was $1.2 trillion. All discretionary programs including welfare and food stamps was $600 billion. So where is the other $600 billion of unnecessary spending. Hint…. perhaps is the unfunded wars, irresponsible tax cuts that did not create jobs and Bush’s Medicare prescription gift to big pharma.

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    • rangerp
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:03am

      @JROOK

      You might want to recheck your stats, because they are wrong/

      http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=193

      nationally 37% of the people on food stamps are black while 46% are white. Remember, black Americans make up about 12% of the population. If you apply the statistics correctly, that would mean that a much higher percentage of the black population receives food stamps – some where around 47%, where around 3% of the white population is on food stamps.

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    • Who would Jesus bomb?
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:07am

      I know this is off topic but did they put this story on The Blaze? I haven’t seen it here…

      http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20003009-504083.html

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    • VerySeniorCitizen
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:22am

      The same way that Chinese-Americans, Italian Americans, Irish Americans got their titles. WE ALL lay claim to a ‘heritage’ of some sort. Just because I‘m white doesn’t mean that I don‘t have a specific ’heritage’ (my heritage dates all the way back to the Vikings and William the Conquoror, with Irish, French and German all thrown into the mix) and, unless you are one of the truly Indian tribes NONE of us are true Americans. There is even some conversation which claims that the American Indian originated in Asia and Siberia. So where do we STOP claiming a ‘heritage’??

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    • Simonne
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:44am

      This is very troubling this type statement coming from a leading candidate. These far right candidates are unbelievable.

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    • Docrow
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:44am

      This problem ends when we all become “Americans”.

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    • FreedomPurveyor
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:02pm

      Fact: Barack Obama is actually African-American.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:04pm

      I asked a friend about the use of African American. His response was interesting. He knows my family immigrated from Ireland and I call myself an Irish American on St. Patrick’s Day. My wife family comes from Italy and she calls herself Italian American on St. Anthony’s Feast Day. He said that he hears a lot of other white and asian Americans describe their heritage.

      He then said African Americans have no heritage since their ancestors came from different geographic regions and tribes. The only common heritage they have is the continent of Africa.

      He agrees that describing themselves as African American creates the divide that can’t be crossed.
      BTW. He identifies himself as an American. Every once in a while, I slip and call him Colonel or Sir.

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    • recoveringneocon
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:17pm

      I really dont think the anybody cares what they are called. I think Santorums record is what we should be talking about.

      Rick Santorum does have a long history of supporting gun control.
      In the 90s, he voted to support the Lautenberg Gun Ban, which stripped law-abiding gun owners of their Second Amendment rights for life, simply because they spanked their children
      He voted for a bill in 1999 disguised as an attempt to increase penalties on drug traffickers with guns… but it also included a provision to require federal background checks at gun shows.
      And then he voted with gun-controlling Democrats Dianne Fienstein and Frank Lautenberg to mandate locks on handguns in 2005.
      He also supported and openly campaigned for anti-gun New Jersey governor, Christine Todd Whitman.

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    • Vietvet1
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:03pm

      Here is my problem with the term African-American. It has NO real indication of skin color or actual lineage to Africa, in itself. Teresa Heinz Kerry… aka… Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões Ferreira, born to Portuguese parents in Mozambique. So, SHE WAS born in Africa and White/Hispanic(?) and she is a true African-American…right???? Labels get kinda gray in time. Many Dutch settled in South Africa centuies ago (Trekboers)… Definitions are a matter of discussion. Black is not exclusively African and African is not exclusively Black.

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    • keepthefaith
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:27pm

      Did anyone even listen to it? He clearly didn’t say black. He started to say lives and then he changed it to people’s lives. Seriously…people need their hearing checked.

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:48pm

      @DAHART Yeah it would be like me saying I’m an Irish,German,EnglishDutch-American! Oh and what is the black population in Iowa overall?

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:57pm

      What’s the matter Billy boy, you can’t handle the truth can you? When the truth is posted you run for your little closet and cower like a little girl and delete comments that expose you for what you are.

      Not surprising that you would be behind this articles subject. Stupid is as stupid does after-all. It’s sad watching Becks ventures turn into socialist peddling, queer fondling tripe. The people look for a place for American restoration to Constitutional values and intent, and than there’s second rate writers like you who peddle agenda over the truth. Black AMERICANS look for a place to find common ground with WHITE Americans that doesn’t involve the bag of goods known as multiculturalism.

      TRUTH. ONLY Blacks who hold a dual citizenship, America and some African Country can claim to be African/American. Anyone else is a liar. Stuff your PC trash where the hell it belongs. I’m a BLACK AMERICAN, and you offend me every bit as much as your girlfriend Santorum.

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    • Leader1776
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:59pm

      @rangerp
      You beat me to the punch. Thanks for real stats.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:18pm

      @ Leader1776
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 2:59pm
      ———————————————————–
      Ranger is certainly accurate with the stats that he posted. Now we need to focus on where the left (and more and more the right as well) centers it’s resources to sway the Black vote with high volumes of HANDOUTS to keep people like me, a Black, shackled to their plows on the plantation. And are those handouts any different than the 1700 – 1865 plantation ideals that made Blacks less than human? The answer would obviously be no, it‘s no different today except that segregationists reel in a TOKEN group of would be Black spokes men to go where the owner won’t go, or where they can no longer effect support.

      Here’s a link to “getting started” to learn where massa operates.

      http://www.blackdemographics.com/citiesstates.html

      You’ll have to apply homework to see which politicians are the massa and peddle “free goodies” and practice their modern day lynchings through abortion.

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    • wzanesdad
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 4:52pm

      Great point ranger. the left are masters at manipulating numbers to show how mistreated they are. They jist NEVER tell the whole story.

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    • FreedomPurveyor
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:01pm

      “And are those handouts any different than the 1700 – 1865 plantation ideals that made Blacks less than human?”

      Let’s see… a slave then was guaranteed food and shelter while being forced to work.

      Slaves today are guaranteed food and shelter while being forced not to work.

      So, the difference is that the slave masters of today want votes instead of labor. As for suppressing humanity… I’d say being tricked into voting for your own masters, while being told that those who want to free you are racist, is probably even more crushing.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:01pm

      What’s wrong with “Black”? Should we be calling it the “African-American Caucus” now?

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    • Constantine Ivanov
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:05pm

      Should I insist to be called “European American”?
      I don’t like the term “Caucasian”: a German moron who invented that term in 1795, Blumenbach, had probably never been in Caucasus and didn’t see mountaineers.

      Frankly, I’m sick and tired of the politically infested terminology that Liberasts are imposing on all of us.

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    • techengineer11
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 5:41pm

      rangerp
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:03am
      @JROOK

      You might want to recheck your stats, because they are wrong/

      http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=193

      How dare you present facts in such a manner! You right wing racist homophobe anti semite wing nut! lol
      Facts are never allowed in a debate concerning race!

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    • PaBowHunter
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:02pm

      Iagree. I am tired of dancing around the politically correct bullcrap. Therefore I don’t anymore. I use the same terms that are common to each individual race and I don’t apologize for it.

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    • SHOWMESTATEGUY
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:25pm

      It has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with politics. The BO, dem lib, msm axis of evil will destory anthing that appears to be a threat to the great one.

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    • zeldagrubbs
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 12:27pm

      You are so right. Someone from Egypt was born on the continent of Africa, but we don’t call them African-Americans.

      If you live in America, you should consider yourself American, plain and simple.

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  • neocon1
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:23am

    the BLACK plague continues to kill our country

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:26am

      political correct colors

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    • old white guy
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:30am

      neocon1, it would seem you are right. why black americans think they are entitled to unlimited support is beyond me. i realize that not all black americans are sucking at the government teat but they sure set up a howl when some are called out for it.

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    • Kisses6350
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:27am

      Black Plaque? Explain that please…………………..

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    • suffolkva
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:25am

      First off KISSES 6350, he said Black PLAGUE not PLAQUE. And what he means is that we, white American founders of this otherwise great nation, brought Africans over to our land as slaves. This is America’s Original Sin, metaphorically speaking. And, God knows we are paying for that Original Sin now, as we have since it was committed, and as we will for the rest of our existence. The proof being in the pudding, it is quite obvious from the evidence that the mixture of blacks and whites in an advanced western culture simply does not work as shown not only in America, but all over the world. The evidence shows that black people simply don’t blend in and contribute meaningfully to western culture in ways that truly sustain it. And the plague is that we are forbidden to admit this fact and we pay, pay, pay for it constantly. Look at people like Al Sharpton for proof. He is one of the main spokesmen for the Africans. Does he seem to you to be anything but a carrier of the plague?

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    • ShyLow
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:32am

      Bombing for jesus with your money and your childrens blood…Santorum 2012!!!

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    • HAPPYRWE
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:59pm

      Hey Nemocon, it’s the Socialist/Communist/Liberal/Progressive/PC/Criminal groups that are plaguing this country. You are obviously a racist liberal because good old fashion true ‘conservatives’ , or libertarians, constitutionalists and freedom loving folks like us don’t think or speak this way. I am calling you out.

      Say whatever you want, the truth is slowing coming out from behind the dark shadows of the liberal media which have manipulated and hidden it for decades. You know the truth you just choose to act upon your selfish desire of hate and live a huge lie of deceit.

      Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood, perfect example of the hidden agenda, racist hate to eradicate a people. The liberal love fest of perceived peace and goodwill is going to come crashing down and people will see what hate really is about. (L.E.A.R.N) look it up……

      The Constitution and us crazy freedom loving people will save your backside one day and hopefully you will come out of your fantasy of fallacy and your liberal induced coma conspiracy, the real conspiracy.

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    • The10thAmendment
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:41pm

      @ old white guy
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:30am

      neocon1, it would seem you are right. why black americans think they are entitled to unlimited support is beyond me. i realize that not all black americans are sucking at the government teat but they sure set up a howl when some are called out for it.
      ———————————
      That‘s fallacious simply because you’re talking and not researching. Why is it that Blacks tend to be on the dole? I don’t believe you realize anything beyond speculation and hearsay. Politicians have labored immensely since the 60′s when Blacks made up the highest race of inner city families (or broken families). To even think that color of skin didn’t play a big part in the distortion is wrong by a lot.
      But history can be a learning point rather than an excuse if people can be properly educated to be INTEGRATED as co-equal with every other race. The fact is that politicians, and greatly through the Department of Education have applied segregationist ideology through multiculturalism. THAT is a severe problem I was given a Scholarship to play ball at Ohio State. One of the first things I was told was that I could enroll in AFRICAN AMERICAN studies, or Golf! Why couldn’t I enroll in Irish American studies? It doesn’t exist! Multiculturalism is promoted from grade school up by politicians. It’s segregation by a new name. Welfare is government paid for votes for ALL races. Demographics takes care of the rest. DESIGN.

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  • nilo
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:23am

    What is racist about saying “black”? “Whitey, Blacky”, what makes the difference? Its time people grew up and quick making an issue of statements that were not racist in intent! GROW UP! Santorum was saying that he was opposed to the welfare that didn’t require people to work for their bread. There is nothing evil in stating your position as he stated it. Reporters who hang on every word looking for some little glitch in terminology are the ones I would worry about — they do have an agenda, and that agenda is biased and un-American. Remember the old adage: “Stick and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me”. Where do they find these wimps that cry about every little term that “offends” them?

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 12:03pm

      I think you’re missing the point. It wasn’t because he said “black”, the same thing would have made news if he said “African Americans.” The point was that he was talking about welfare and then said, “I don‘t want to make black people’s lives harder”(or whatever the exact quote was) therefore making the correlation that black people are the majority of people on welfare and that it’s mainly a “black thing.”

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    • HAPPYRWE
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:10pm

      @Suffolk… I believe all races are brought to America for a reason, one being the literal gathering of Israel and the 12 lost tribes. America is great and stands for freedom, no matter what lunatics did enslaving people. Slavery is wrong period. The fact that all races are here in America is incredible and good as long as we live under the rule of Constitutional law, which grants all freedom of …. and freedom from tyranny. What we do with morality and choice naturally seals our fate. We must be a righteous nation or we fall.
      Because Communist Progressive crazy evil people have manipulated our society for decades we live in a divide and conquer war game. We all have to go back to our roots, God, family and country with respect for all life and all races.

      Ron Paul 2012……….

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  • GeorgeWashingtonslept here
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:22am

    Hang on tight Rick…………….you are in for one hell of a ride. The lame stream media want Romney.
    “So let it be written; so let it be done.” ……………………

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    • ozchambers
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:38am

      Yep! It’s amazing how the MSM is going after EVERY Republican candidate except the one that has led in the polls most of the time; Romney. Just like they did with McCain in 2008. But if Romney wins the nomination, the party is over and they’ll have Mitt tied to the bumper of their camera vans dragging him thru the streets.

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:08am

      No, the LSM wants Barry back in.

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    • HAPPYRWE
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:15pm

      Lame stream media wants anybody BUT Ron Paul…..

      The crooks are coming out of the crannies to throw the vote, Santorum, Trump, Newt. “They” will take Romney or Obama and be happy with it……………..

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  • coindexter
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:21am

    he said “black”…let’s move on.

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  • Marcia
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:21am

    And the problem is……????? I also don‘t want to make black’s lives better off the backs of others. Self reliance is the issue, not color.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:17am

      His denial of the obvious is kind of an issue, don’t you think?

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:19am

    Sure sounded like black to me.

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  • alina.bolero
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:19am

    What the heck is wrong with saying “black”? I don’t get offended when people call me “white”?

    Now, saying “African American” DOES offend my South African born American friends that happen to be white, since they seem to be explicitly excluded from that group, hard as they try to actually take advantage of the entitlements offered.

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    • c.rozycki
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:56am

      I as well have white friends from South Africa. They are more African-American than most blacks in the US. This is just a way of painting Rick Santorum out to be some sort of racist. Stay strong, and if you really said “black” don’t back down and make excuses. Tell the media ‘Yes, I did say black… now get off my back so I can do my job!’

      I’m so sick of the Blacks trying to guilt us white people into getting what they want. If they want something, then work hard for it to get it!!!

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  • hauschild
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:16am

    You say rhino, I say RINO.

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  • quarter horseman
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:16am

    Why are people still going along with this African American B.S. It is so overdone just stop all of you just stop using it.

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    • NOBAMA201258
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 3:02pm

      That and the constant apologies whites make,B.S. The debt for slavery was paid in white blood 600,000 dead imagine how many more of us there would be,but instead we are being overrun with la raza and the lovely “peace”loving muslims,a culture of entitlement,a socialist POS president,I will vote for whoever mans up and tells people like al not too sharpton to STFU and apologize for your racist B.S. i.e tawana brawley incident

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  • Southernsoul
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:14am

    Many of those people of African decent are ‘black’ . Unless they hold duel citizenship, or are 1st generation immigrants from Africa they are not African-American. Want to take a big step away from racism in thiscountry? Stop setting your race aside, just be American. Anyone with working eyes can see if you are White, Black, Asian, or whatever.

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  • nostromo
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:13am

    It doesnt make any difference what he said. This is the narrative, and the media is sticking to it.

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    • JLGunner
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:17am

      You gotts be careful pandering to the obama base.

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  • barber2
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:13am

    Gosh. Do you suppose the Democrats will play the Race Card again in 2012 ? Do you suppose the Democrats will play the Anti-Rich Card in 2012 ? The Anti-Capitalism Card ? The Anti-Congress Card ? The Anti-Supreme Court Card ? The Anti-Wall Street Card ? The Anti – America Before Obama Card ?

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    • quarter horseman
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:17am

      That is why they had to get Herman Cain out of this ASAP they couldnt play the race card.

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    • JustPeachy
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:57am

      @Quarter Horseman – That didn’t stop them from playing the race card. They STILL did! LOL They just then accused us of liking him to HIDE our racism! LOL

      We can’t win for losing on that one.. LOL

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    • quarter horseman
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:06am

      justpeachy
      very true, very true

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    • OHSundevil
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:47am

      Oh and Hannity spewing years old lies about Ron Paul isn’t playing the race card?…You can’t have it both ways. All media played the card on Paul, the least you can expect is that CBS is going to go after this Johnny come lately in Santorum.

      Besides we knew that Santorum hated gays, so it’s not much of a leap to expect him to dislike certain things about “blacks”. The only thing this guy loves is war and spending.

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  • 4xeverything
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:12am

    Well, from an Irish-German-French-English-Cherokee-American he has just lost about 20% approval with me for using the phrase “fair share”. Is it just me or is that phrase like nails on a chalk board to anyone else?

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    • objectivetruth
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 9:07am

      No you aren’t alone.The sound of chalk boards across my soul have become commonplace.I’m tired of hearing my fair share black african american and every other epitath.[Sorry I think I spelled that wrong.No I don't use spell check except for work.Usually I don't need it.This forum is the only place I use written forms of words I don't usually have to spell.]Its truly disgusting to me as I live in a city where the whites really are the minority.

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  • tobywil2
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:07am

    President Obama attends a church for years where the pastor “God dams America from the pulpit & the media is concerned about the a candidate’s under breath comments?

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  • SpankDaMonkey
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:07am

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    “I‘m pretty confident I didn’t say `black,’”

    This is just what I’m talking about. POLITICAL CORRECTNESS RUN AMOCK!!!!! Some of you had a Fit yesterday when i said NFL = N-word Football League. So are you just as outraged at Rick for saying BLACK? If not then you have fallen into a Progressive Trap Called POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, you view everything said as RACIST. They have trained you well, your a Dem. PUPETT and you don’t even know it. They have trained you to eat your own to be P.C. You have White Guilt Syndrome and you people who complain about me, most likely VOTED FOR OBAMA.

    WTF is wrong with calling someone BLACK? They damn sure aren’t GREEN, maybe HIGH YELLOW or BRIGHT. And yes some no matter their color some may even be the N-WORD. Hell Clinton said Obama should be fetching him coffee. Where was you then? You were being trained, it was O.K. for Bill, cause he was the first Black President.

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    • Freedomluver
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:24am

      Hhhmmmm, so now the race card is being foisted on someone other than Ron Paul, and you change your tune eh? Aaahhhh, hypocrisy at it’s finest!

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    • UnseenAmerican
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:43am

      you have a very short memory. Both conservative and liberal media showed outrage over Pres. Clinton’s comment.

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  • EqualJustice
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:06am

    Here we go… attack EVERY word, EVERY thought, every past speech about ANYTHING.. just twist it all around and make him look like a racist homophobe. Come on libs… you can Do it! That is the ONLY thing you are all good at. HAVE AT IT becasuse it will not matter in the end! **ABO 2012**

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    • RichNGadsden
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:22am

      It‘s as Bill O’Reilly pointed out last night. Santorum is about to receive a major pummeling by the lame stream media.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:03am

    we are sure white African nationals love hearing they are automatically lumped in with the obamawelfare leeches in America.

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  • jp2feminist
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:03am

    What we DON’T need is a candidate who gets caught in the liberal media web. What we DO need is a candidate who fires back with “Why didn’t you ask Obama probing questions when he was running? Why can’t we see his college transcripts? Why can’t we see his medical records? Why can’t we see anything he wrote while he was at Harvard? Who is Larry Sinclair?” Game on, Rick? Let‘s see what you’ve got and then I will back you 100 percent!

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:01am

    we see nothing wrong with calling them ‘black’ since they see nothing wrong with calling Whites white.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 1:43pm

      It wasn’t that he said black, it was that he said black when talking about welfare making it seem as if welfare is primarily a black social program when there are more whites on it then anything.

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  • Mandors
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:59am

    Considering that both “Black” and “African-American” were titles chosen by the people to which they apply themselves, either is acceptable, and Santorum is an idiot for making unnecessary excuses for using the former.

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    • mcmeador
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:20am

      He clearly didn’t say “black.” Like he said, it was one of those cases where he blended words together and it came out sounding weird. I could tell that much before I even read his explanation. He wasn’t even talking about black people at all.

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    • MidWestMom
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:26am

      Exactly.

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  • momsense
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:58am

    Nothing like having the left wing Com munist media interpret words you didn’t say. these are the same peole who started beating the frum for Obozo in 2007 and haven’t stopped since. Someone needs to ask them why they didn’t do their jobs then which would have prevented this fraud from becoming president.

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  • Zetareticuli
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:57am

    Santorum seems like he could be a viable candidate. However, he doesn’t seem to exhibit presidential characteristics. I will look forward to his vetting process with interest…

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:06am

      Good grief…do a little research. He is a Big Government guy. he believes that earmarks are Constitutional. That is just scratching the surface. He is worse than John McCain! Ubfortunately he is in the running with the other frickin’ RINOs

      The Primaries need to start in the TRUE South so we can get someone with common sense in office instead of an East Coast POS canddate. I suggeat Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana maybe. Then let see who leads the pack!

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    • 13th Imam
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 10:13am

      Just what are “Presidential ”qualities??

      The community org. we have as our pretend pres. exhibits what Pres Qualities?
      Just by being awake Rick is more Presidential than the pretender we have now.
      Depose the DICTATOR.

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  • Baddoggy
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:54am

    Sure Rick..sure sure sure….Admit you were wrong. Admit you are a Big Government, pork barrel Liberal and homophobe too. At least be honest. You said BLAGGK, we KNOW what you meant. You have propped up the black Universities with government spending and you need the conservative vote, but you don’t mean you will throw anyone (WHITE OR BLAGGK) off welfare. You will INCREASE Govenment as much as Obama.

    If anyone thinks this man is a Conservative you are a fool!
    Pander to the Dems Rick…they would love you!

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  • Drakkhanlord
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:53am

    so, if you are white and from africa ,but live in america… you are called what ?

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    • Drakkhanlord
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:55am

      lame azzed pc bs…

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    • Zetareticuli
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 7:59am

      If you are black and live in Europe, you are called what? “African American” is just plain silly. People of the Mongoloid race are generally referred to as “Asians”, perhaps black people should simply be “Africans”.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 5, 2012 at 8:00am

      Easy…African if you are not a legal Citizen…American if you are a Citizen. If you don’t love and identify yourself with America 100%, then you are an African American RACIST.(I have a good friend from Africa who hates being called an Arfican American)

      Who the hell cares what color someones skin is anyway? Unless you too are a racist….

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