Santorum on Obama Wanting Every American to Go to College: 'What a Snob!

Rick Santorum on Saturday called President Barack Obama "a snob" for hoping every American will go to college.

"President Obama said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob!" the GOP contender said during a campaign stop in Michigan.

As the crowd laughed and applauded, Santorum added: "There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to the test that aren't taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them."

During his State of the Union address last month, Obama called for higher education institutions to become more affordable or risk losing federal funding cuts, saying: “Higher education can’t be a luxury — it is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford." His 2013 budget request unveiled earlier this month includes an $8 million proposal to invest in community colleges to help train workers.

"Oh I understand why he wants you to go to college," Santorum continued. "He wants to remake you in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his."

As Talking Points Memo pointed out, Santorum's ill-fated 2006 Senate re-election campaign included a commitment to "ensuring the every Pennsylvanian has access to higher education."

Watch Santorum's remarks below, via TPM: