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NNN0LHI

(67,190 posts) Sat Mar 17, 2012, 09:45 AM Mar 2012

Illinois students grill Rick Santorum after teacher interrupts stump speech

http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/11346760-418/illinois-students-grill-rick-santorum-after-teacher-interrupts-stump-speech.html

By Abdon M. Pallasch Political Reporter apallasch@suntimes.com March 16, 2012 7:32PM

<snip>Hannah Johnstone asked if Santorum’s economic policies weren’t “just giving the upper 1 percent more of the advantages they had under George Bush’s lower tax rates and deregulatory policies which is very similar to what you are proposing?”

Santorum said increased regulation and government spending under Obama was killing the economy.

Santorum admitted he did not want to move to Illinois in high school when his parents, who worked for the Veterans Administration, took a transfer to North Chicago.

“Who wants to move your senior year of high school?” Santorum asked. “I worked here a couple of summers, got some of my first jobs here. Worked at a conference center; shined shoes at a country club in Lake Forest. I must admit I became more of a White Sox fan than a Cubs fan. Bill Veeck. I graduated from Carmel, which was an all-boys school, which is probably what I needed at that point in my life. I did demonstrably better here academically than I was doing in school in Pennsylvania.”

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Illinois students grill Rick Santorum after teacher interrupts stump speech (Original Post) NNN0LHI Mar 2012 OP

Why do I get the impression that the questions he got from the teenagers baldguy Mar 2012 #1

Because the questions knocked him off his game and he said stuff he normally wouldn't say? NNN0LHI Mar 2012 #4

Which makes me wonder what went on in his household that makes him hate sex so much. appleannie1 Mar 2012 #5

He has become very adept at evading the asjr Mar 2012 #2

I'm surprised he didn't throw down with Mitt JNelson6563 Mar 2012 #3

Jesus left Chicago Ezlivin Mar 2012 #6

??? kiss me im irish Mar 2012 #8

oh great..dipshit going to be in my town monday... madrchsod Mar 2012 #7

Kudos to the well-informed students: surrealAmerican Mar 2012 #9

Choice isn't an argument. The Philosopher Mar 2012 #10

baldguy

(36,649 posts)

1. Why do I get the impression that the questions he got from the teenagers

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 09:51 AM

Mar 2012

Were more relevant to the issues people face these days - and therefore more difficult for Frothy to answer - than any questions he ever gets from the corporate media?

NNN0LHI

(67,190 posts)

4. Because the questions knocked him off his game and he said stuff he normally wouldn't say?

Reply to baldguy (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 10:21 AM

Mar 2012

I didn't know both his parents worked for the Big Gubment, Santorum claims to hate so much until I read this. All I ever heard him talk about was his grandpa the coal miner. Never heard about what his parents did until now.

He needs to be asked about that some more.

I would really like to hear him explain that conflict in further detail.

Don

appleannie1

(5,067 posts)

5. Which makes me wonder what went on in his household that makes him hate sex so much.

Reply to NNN0LHI (Reply #4)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 11:14 AM

Mar 2012

asjr

(10,479 posts)

2. He has become very adept at evading the

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 10:03 AM

Mar 2012

question with bringing up sideshow acts.

JNelson6563

(28,151 posts)

3. I'm surprised he didn't throw down with Mitt

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 10:15 AM

Mar 2012

and claim it was Illinois' trees that were just the right height.

Ezlivin

(8,153 posts)

6. Jesus left Chicago

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 11:22 AM

Mar 2012

And he's bound for New Orleans.

Rick is too late.

kiss me im irish

(6 posts)

8. ???

Reply to Ezlivin (Reply #6)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 11:50 AM

Mar 2012

*whoosh*

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)

7. oh great..dipshit going to be in my town monday...

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 11:43 AM

Mar 2012

and it looks like it ain`t going to rain....

surrealAmerican

(11,360 posts)

9. Kudos to the well-informed students:

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 12:00 PM

Mar 2012

The second question, from Stefan Vucicevic, 17, was about funding health care:

“Your main competitor, Mitt Romney, donated 16.3 percent of his income to charity and you donated only 1.7 percent of your $923,000 salary to charity,” Vucicevic said. “Your explanation was that you have to provide for seven children, one of which has special needs. ... How do you expect middle-class Americans who are in similar situations to pay for it? Isn’t your situation the exact reason why we need a universal health care system like most other nations have?”

The Philosopher

(895 posts)

10. Choice isn't an argument.

Reply to NNN0LHI (Original post)

Sat Mar 17, 2012, 12:08 PM

Mar 2012

One can choose to murder, one can choose to steal, one can choose to do nothing--but choosing isn't an argument for or against murder, stealing, or action. I wish the student had called him out on that.

I wonder if he ever met someone with 8 kids and a collective salary that's a little over 5% of his. How much of the conversation would be, "Government evil, just choose to have a hard life," rather than an actual argument against universal healthcare.

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