In case you don't follow the political circus very closely (and I couldn't blame you), Santorum is the one right-winger still left standing to try to thwart stand-for-nothing King Flipflopper Mitt Romney from garnering the gop-er presidential nomination this year. And Santorum's staffers have really been running their mouths lately...The latest gaffe came yesterday, when Santorum spokesman Alice Stewart was giving an interview to democrat party shill Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC. In the interview, Stewart complained about Obama's "radical Islamic policies."
First off, while it's not typically the type of nomenclature that I would use, I guess referring to Obama's policies in general as "radical" is within the bounds of permissible political rhetoric, since he is (with a few arguable exceptions) about the most left-wing president in American history.
But if you're going to call Obama and the leftist 20 percenter base of the democrat party "radical," then methinks the same term needs to be applied to the deranged right-winger base of the republic partisan party. Both extremes are fairly equally out of touch and divergent from the mainstream of this country. But I digress.So leaving aside the whole "radical" thing -- Obama's radical "Islamic" policies??? That's a new one to me. What, is Obama going around trying to pull a Sgt. Brady from Showtime's "Homeland" series and secretly praying to Allah every night out in the White House garage? Please.
For her part, Stewart now claims that she meant to say, "radical environmental policies." Sure she did. It's easy to see how one could naturally confuse and interchange existing leftist policies relating to the air, land and water with nonexistent policies relating to imposing Muslim fundamentalism across the United States. When did Obama convert, anyway?
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73084.html
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