Santorum: no apology needed for Quran burning

[AlbertJ]

"The response needs to be apologized for by (President Hamid) Karzai and the Afghan people for attacking and killing our men and women in uniform and overreacting to this inadvertent mistake," Santorum said on NBC's "Meet the Press". "That is the real crime here, not what our soldiers did."

The president's apology suggests that there is blame and that the U.S. did something wrong "in the sense of doing a deliberate act," Santorum said.

Santorum says that rather than saying he was sorry, Obama should have only acknowledged that burning copies of Islam's holiest book in a trash pit was wrong and taken responsibility for the incident, "but to apologize, I think, lends credibility that somehow or another that it was more than that."

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[86Dùde]

I have sort of a problem with this. On one hand we shouldn't even be there so I don't give a fuck. On the other hand, it's pretty sad to see the most powerful man in the world grovel with apologies that everyone is his right mind already knew would fall on deaf ears. He should have shut the hell up because there at least would have been more dignity in it. Not like he meant it anyway. He murders children for breakfast.

[AlbertJ]

I like Rick speaking out with his view. It's sort refreshing. He makes an interesting point.

[fat mike]

he saying we did not do this=he is right=you dont apologize for something someone else did

[86Dùde]

I like Rick speaking out with his view. It's sort refreshing. He makes an interesting point.

He's insane JoJO.

[302Riz]

He's insane JoJO.

It was a political move to get votes. Nothing else.

[AlbertJ]

It was a political move to get votes. Nothing else.

Whish is exactly what a man running in the primaries is out for.

He will crush the weenie Ron Paul as well.

[86Dùde]

None of it matters JoJO.

[Guido]

I like Rick speaking out with his view. It's sort refreshing. He makes an interesting point.

No, he doesn't make in interesting point. He's a politician; therefore, he's incapable of making an interesting point.

Specifically, Santorum said:

The president's apology suggests that there is blame and that the U.S. did something wrong "in the sense of doing a deliberate act," Santorum said.

Well of course it was a "deliberate act." What the fuck else could it be? An accident? Did the Korans just somehow manage to crawl into a big fire? Was the fire accidently set and just happened to burn a bunch of Korans?

Next:

Santorum says that rather than saying he was sorry, Obama should have only acknowledged that burning copies of Islam's holiest book in a trash pit was wrong and taken responsibility for the incident, "but to apologize, I think, lends credibility that somehow or another that it was more than that."

Here the dumbfuck politician Santorum seems to have abandoned (already) his previous point that buring a bunch of Korans was an accident. Instead, Obama should have acknowledged that burning the books was "wrong" and "taken responsibilty for the incident."

But if it wasn't a "deliberate act," then how could it be "wrong" and why should anyone "take responsibility for the incident"?

Finally, Santorum thinks that while he should have acknowledged that it was "wrong" and "taken responsibilty for the incident," he should not have apologized.

But to apologize is to acknoweldge that an act is wrong and to take responsibility for it. That's what apologizing it, moron.

To summarize, everthing that comes out of Santorum's mouth -- just like everything that comes out of every other politican's mouth -- is worthless, idiotic garbage.

Politicians, not books, should be burned.

[86Dùde]

Damn fine rant Guido. I still lean toward they grew legs and crawled into the fire, LOL.

[Guido]

Thanks, 86Dude.

If politicians were held to the same standards are the rest of us, most of them would be in prison or dead.

[86Dùde]

Dead would work. I love your use of sarcastic humor in your posts because you remind me of myself.

[302Riz]

Damn fine rant Guido. I still lean toward they grew legs and crawled into the fire, LOL.

They were cold and wanted to get warmed up sitting next to the campfire sippin whiskey and eating beans. Theres nothing like eating beans next to a fire and ripping a few farts.

[fat mike]

im sorry you guys have to be subjected to guido and 86 but i absolutely refuse to take responsibility for them

[Guido]

im sorry you guys have to be subjected to guido and 86 but i absolutely refuse to take responsibility for them

Usually, we understand and evaluate what someone says based on whether the saying is logical, consistent and reveals something interesting about the world.

However, understanding what a politician (like Santorum) says (or does, because for politicians, doing things is a way of saying something) is a matter of figuring out whose ass it is trying to kiss. Everything a politican publically says or does is said or done for the purpose of kissing someone's ass -- aka getting someone's money or vote.

In this case, Santorum is trying to kiss the ass of so-called "conservatives," in this way:

First, he adopts and mechanically regurgitates the standard cliche according to which Democrats in general and Obama in particular are incapable of "getting tough" on terrorism, muslims, arabs, etc. and instead goes around "apologizing" -- as if America sometimes does bad or disreputable things instead of always by definition spreading virtue and goodness and freedom and liberty and Godliness with only the best of intentions.

So he blames Obama -- of course.

However, he doesn't want to come off as a simple-minded hatemonger, even though he is a simple minded hatemonger, as everyone of average intelligence knows. He can't just come out and say, "Yes, I'm glad we burned the fucking Korans. We should it more often!"

So, instead he mumbles a bunch of meaningless gobbelty-gook that doesn't make any sense. But the important thing is that he blamed Obama. Mission accomplished.

[Vader]

I like Rick speaking out with his view. It's sort refreshing. He makes an interesting point.

Your friend Rick is a nazi idiot.

[AlbertJ]

Your friend Rick is a nazi idiot.

He's your friend too.

The two of us aren't going to relent until every one of your unborn children attend Sunday School.

[Guido]

He's your friend too.

The two of us aren't going to relent until every one of your unborn children attend Sunday School.

You and Rick can suck my cock.

[Cd.]

"The response needs to be apologized for by (President Hamid) Karzai and the Afghan people for attacking and killing our men and women in uniform and overreacting to this inadvertent mistake," Santorum said on NBC's "Meet the Press". "That is the real crime here, not what our soldiers did."

The president's apology suggests that there is blame and that the U.S. did something wrong "in the sense of doing a deliberate act," Santorum said.

Santorum says that rather than saying he was sorry, Obama should have only acknowledged that burning copies of Islam's holiest book in a trash pit was wrong and taken responsibility for the incident, "but to apologize, I think, lends credibility that somehow or another that it was more than that."

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Sanatorum belongs in a Sanitarium.

[Vader]

He's your friend too.

The two of us aren't going to relent until every one of your unborn children attend Sunday School.

LOL.