2008 VIDEO- Rick Santorum on Pres. Obama’s faith: “What I can tell you is, objectively, that faith was an avenue for power.”

Posted on Sunday, February 19, 2012, 2:27 pm by GottaLaff
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“Faith was an avenue for power.” Pot. Kettle.

“I can’t judge any of you on that,” said Ricky as he judged many of us on that.

“Now, am I saying that he believes everything that Rev. Wright believes? No. But he was willing to tolerate those beliefs for 20 years to achieve a political objective, which was to get him elected.”

“Could he through that time have become a person of faith and take that faith seriously? I never judge someone’s faith personally. I have no idea whether that he has a personal faith or what that personal faith is. That’s between him and God. I can’t judge any of you on that.“

“What I can tell you is, objectively, that faith was an avenue for power.“

“I think it’s just better to stand up and tell the truth about what role faith plays in your life. What’s happened in America, a lot of people point to John Kennedy’s speech in 1960 and subsequent speeches after that by a number of politicians, is the privatization of religion. That, yes, Barack Obama can say “I believe in all this stuff. I believe in Christianity and the form of Christianity that I have, but it has no application to public policy. It has no application to public life. It is separate. It is my private religion. It is what I do on Sundays. It’s what I do in my own personal life.”

If that is your understanding of the role of faith and what the New Testament is all about, fine. It’s not mine. I don’t think it’s a fair reading of what Christ came to earth to do. I don’t think he came to earth just to say “Well, I want you to privately be really good, and then go out and do publicly horrible things. And that’s okay.” I don’t see it that way.”

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  • Fthybharris

    Wow!  This is the most unbelievably sanctimonious and judgemental statement I have ever heard from a political candidate.  It puts me in mind of Octavia Butler’s post-apocalyptic vision of America in her book “Parable of the Sower.”  It is very scary to think that some Americans think this man should or could make a good President!

  • Guest

    Article VI of the Constitution, asshole.

    How about your work for the K Street child labor/child rape/forced abortion scam you and Abramoff were running?

    And what about your own wife having a partial birth abortion, and you were the one who stabbed the kid in the skull in order to kill him?

    And what about your whore wife who lived with the abortion doctor  dude (who DELIVERED HER) for seven years, and yet had  no kids.

    Admit it, Ricky, you are a closeted train wreck.