Rick Santorum Invokes Race In Attacking Obama On Abortion (VIDEO)

In an interview with CNS News on Thursday, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum invoked race in unleashing a questionable attack on President Barack Obama over the issue of abortion.

A conservative Republican from Pennsylvania, Santorum has signaled he's mulling a run for the White House in the next election cycle. During the interview, he voiced his staunchly pro-life stance, as well as his belief that when life begins "is not a debatable issue," before going on to criticize the president.

"The question is, and this is what Barack Obama didn't want to answer -- is that human life a person under the constitution?" he said. "And Barack Obama says no. Well if that human life is not a person then I find it almost remarkable for a black man to say 'now we are going to decide who are people and who are not people.'"

The eyebrow-raising remarks aren't the first Santorum has made about the president. Last year he suggested that Democrats were fearful Obama could "go to Indonesia and bow to more Muslims" during an appearance on Fox News. In attempting to walk back the assertion, he added, "I'm saying he has not had his trips overseas go over well here in the United States."

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[h/t: Right Wing Watch via Wonk Room, TPM]

Comments

[TheVashti]

04:05 AM on 01/27/2011

Yeah you should be awed if a Black man made such a call, Mr. Republican. Cuz lets be honest, it's usually delusional Whites such as yourself deciding other people aren't in fact people.

[Myvoice12]

03:21 PM on 01/25/2011

Santorum is a bigotted, racist relic from the 10th century without education or knowledge about living in a modern world and being a woman. He should be personally responsible for the financial well being of every baby not aborted from birth to death as well as its upbringing. Santorum, you haven't got a clue about life in the 21st century.

[margaritamayhem]

04:33 PM on 01/22/2011

Haven't heard from him in a while. What rock did he crawl out from under?

[NobodylikesHim]

02:43 PM on 01/21/2011

Where does it say that in the Constitution Rick?

[jeanwny]

02:25 PM on 01/21/2011

These f00ls can't believe that kind of rhetoric will fly in 2011, if so he is dumber than he sounds.

[Vote2bfree]

02:14 PM on 01/21/2011

Way to keep it surreal Rick.

[cheneyshattack]

12:07 PM on 01/21/2011

welcome to post r a c i a l America

[cheneyshattack]

12:07 PM on 01/21/2011

Welcome to post racial America

[graceland9]

12:02 PM on 01/21/2011

Oh, Rick - please, please, please never stop talking .... my stocks in popcorn kernels are soaring!

[rebar10issguy]

11:49 AM on 01/21/2011

abortion means less cannon fodder for the gop wars and fewer taxpayers to pay taxes so the wealthy don't have to. why the GOP is against abortion. Has nothing to do with principals or morals.

[emperance]

01:01 PM on 01/25/2011

You might have something there.

[FDMNews]

10:53 AM on 01/21/2011

Been watching the Rick Sanitorium show for years! Great laugh! Just a tad racist but it makes him all the more limited in his ability to do much. Keep at it!!!

Oh hey, and since its a comedy, let's make fun of this guy for speaking AT ALL about women's bodies.

[Amock]

10:16 AM on 01/21/2011

Is this going to be ANOTHER election cycle where Abortion takes center stage? What about jobs? What about the War(s)? What about DEBT? What about staying out of folks "personal" business and stop trying to prove who is the MOST Conservative as it relates to an issue few could really care about right now.

If you don't like abortion then don't have one. But don't push your BS Christian beliefs off on everybody else. Stay out off our bedrooms!

[denlong]

09:09 AM on 01/21/2011

How does life "begin" at conception, the sperm and egg are alive before conception?

[ULTRAVIOLET24]

01:03 PM on 01/26/2011

Pfft, for these crazies it begins with the twinkle in the eye, apparently.

[ValuesVoter]

09:04 AM on 01/21/2011

Rick Santorium = Male Christine O Donnell

[troika]

11:54 AM on 01/21/2011

WOW, great!!!

[JimSur212]

08:48 AM on 01/21/2011

Of course "life" begins at conception, but "personhood" does not and citizenship certainly does not. You don't become an American citizen by being "conceived" in America, only by being born here. "Rights" start at birth, until then the rights of the living Mother citizen must take precedent over the potential future citizen.

[DUSAA-1775]

09:49 AM on 01/21/2011

Rick obviously forgot two very important political rules. 1) If you criticize obama, you are ipso facto, a racist. and 2) most liberal regressives believe that a fetus does not become a person until he has been born. This is why they feel it is OK to murder a late term baby that could have breathed and lived on his own, if the mother so wishes.
Therefore, for Rick to avoid criticisms from the liberal regressives, he must never speak against The One, never question the pro-abortionists and never speak differently from the left.

[ltague]

10:08 AM on 01/21/2011

We ALL know EXACTLY why he said these things: he wants to get back into the game & he wants to kow-tow to the tea party & far right wing because that's the only way he gain some sort of base. Just another race-baiting, fear mongering xenophobic who wants to hurt all but the "chosen few"!

[SpartyBS]

10:23 AM on 01/21/2011

why can't he just speak his mind without bringing up race?

[MeriJon]

01:21 PM on 01/21/2011

you have a RIGHT to live, no matter where you are conceived and it was given to you by GOD. No higher law than that!!!!!

[A terrible sadness]

06:41 PM on 01/22/2011

I wasn't aware that the US had become a Theocracy. I guess I missed the memo.

Thanks for the update!