May 8, 2012

The Kids Are Alright

Nicholas Hahn, Crisis Magazine

Rick Santorum was on to something when he infamously called President Obama a “snob” for wanting everyone to go to college.

Of course, that was only the sound bite version of what he said. Santorum fleshed out his point like so: “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. Oh, I understand why [Obama] 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.”

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