Rick Santorum has been taking issue with the news media in recent days, claiming they are seizing on a few particularly (provocative) passages in his speeches, and ignoring his main message, which is how he can revamp the economy if elected president.
But he does seem to make some pretty strong charges on the campaign stump.
On Saturday, Santorum accused President Obama of being a “snob” because he wants “everybody in America to go to college.”
"Not all folks are gifted in the same way,” Santorum told a crowd of more than 1,000 activists at the Americans for Prosperity forum in Troy, Mich. “Some people have incredible gifts with their hands. Some people have incredible gifts and … want to work out there making things. President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.”
“There are good decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them,” he said. “Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college. He wants to remake you in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his.”
"Remake you in his image?" What?
This article appears in Feb 23-29, 2012.