You know we can find quotes everywhere. The truth is Santorum may be popular with a very good, and worthy group of voters. But it is a tiny segment of the population. Santorum is making statements that are just out of control. Today he attacked JFK, saying what he said “made him want to throw up.”. Do you understand how irresponsible and I might add, unpresdential that is? You wait until the Obama team makes a campaign ad with that sound byte, it will crush him and any hopes of getting Obama out of the white house.
As if those who would get personally offended about something Rick Santorum said about JFK weren't a lock to vote for Obama anyway. Other than you, of course.
As a student of politics, I think JFK is the most overrated president this nation has ever had. As a Catholic, I find him to be an embarrassment.
What JFK said ought to make anyone throw up. He effectively said that his religion had nothing to do with how he would govern. In other words, his religion is something he does for an hour each weekend. The rest of the time, it has nothing to do with how he lives his life. The technical term for that is "hypocrisy".
In the case of John Kennedy, that was (a) something he said to give Protestants the warm-and-fuzzies; and (b) quite literally true. He went to Mass on Sunday, and spent the rest of the week seducing 19-year-old interns, pimping them out to his friends, cutting the rug out from under the heroes who wanted to liberate Cuba, risking all-out nuclear war through his weakness before Khruschev in Vienna, cutting the rug out from under our allies in South Vietnam, scr*wing an East German agent and a Mafia moll when he wasn't seducing his teenage intern ... shall I go on?
JFK, and what he said in the Houston speech, ought to make anyone who loves America throw up.