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(Yahoo) Interesting Rick Santorum is a dedicated humanitarian and "defender of the most vulnerable". Says who? Some guy named Bono, apparently he's in a band or something   (news.yahoo.com) divider line 36
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EvilEgg [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 09:03:20 AM
Shut up and sing
 
gilgigamesh [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 09:21:17 AM
EvilEgg: Shut up and sing shut up
 
DarnoKonrad
2012-01-06 09:24:06 AM
If he's Catholic, he should be. But his faith in free markets is decidedly anti-Catholic.
 
Marcus Aurelius [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 09:35:19 AM
advocates a hawkish, internationalist and compassionate foreign policy

I'm pretty sure that the three positions stated are all diametrically opposed to each other.

If the author wants to give Rick a blow job this badly, she should just come right out and say so.
 
sweetmelissa31 [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 09:38:57 AM
Poor people in America are pretty vulnerable. Does he defend them?
 
Magorn [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 09:39:04 AM
DarnoKonrad: If he's Catholic, he should be. But his faith in free markets is decidedly anti-Catholic.

Exactly, it drive me nuts that so many Catholics throw around the phrase "Culture of Life" and proclaim their support for it, but by that they only mean they oppose abortion. In Papal letter (Evangelium Vitae) where JPII coined the phrase culture of life he ACTUALLY said:

I repeat that condemnation in the name of the whole Church, certain that I am interpreting the genuine sentiment of every upright conscience: "Whatever is opposed to life itself, such as any type of murder, genocide, abortion, euthanasia, or wilful self-destruction, whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, torments inflicted on body or mind, attempts to coerce the will itself; whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where people are treated as mere instruments of gain rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others like them are infamies indeed. They poison human society, and they do more harm to those who practise them than to those who suffer from the injury. Moreover, they are a supreme dishonour to the Creator".5
 
DammitIForgotMyLogin [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 09:40:24 AM
"They were popularly elected, I think," Gregory responded. "Isn't that what democracy is about?"

"No," Santorum said.


That, right there, sums up the modern republican party. It only counts as democracy if you vote for the right people ...
 
vpb [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 09:46:19 AM
sweetmelissa31: Poor people in America are pretty vulnerable. Does he defend them?

He will defend them from the time they are conceived until the day they are born.
 
stpauler [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 10:00:02 AM
Remember when Bono only did douchy things like this:
encrypted-tbn2.google.com

I guess this song can now apply to both:
encrypted-tbn2.google.com

Also
Bono's ONE foundation under fire for giving little over 1% of funds to charity
Bono's anti-poverty foundation ONE is under pressure to explain its finances after it was revealed that only a small percentage of money it raises reaches the needy.
The non-profit organisation set up by the U2 frontman received almost £9.6million in donations in 2008 but handed out only £118,000 to good causes (1.2 per cent).

The figures published by the New York Post also show that £5.1million went towards paying salaries.

Shut up Paul Hewson.
 
Jackson Herring [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 10:59:44 AM
sweetmelissa31: Poor people in America are pretty vulnerable. Does he defend them?

He will protect them from the moral danger of unnatural sex acts
 
God Is My Co-Pirate
2012-01-06 11:05:16 AM
Shut up Bono, you cock.
 
Carth
2012-01-06 11:20:48 AM
Santorum wants to prevent Islam or China from gaining influence in Africa. To him helping the poor people is an unfortunate side effect.
 
part of the problem
2012-01-06 11:21:20 AM
Hey, Bono, If I want to hear a drunken Mick rant incoherently about American politics....I'll....well.....just go have dinner with the family.

Umm.....nevermind....carry on....
 
Knara
2012-01-06 11:22:57 AM
Lotsa trollmitter posts in [Politics] today, it seems.
 
Jake Havechek
2012-01-06 11:23:40 AM
Meh. Bono is a hardcore Christian activist, always has been. Adam Clayton would get annoyed at all the pre concert prayer meetings in their early touring days as he was non-religious.
 
Saborlas [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 11:24:57 AM
I've long suspected that Bono lost his goddamn mind sometime in the 90s. This is proof.
 
Pants full of macaroni!! [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 11:25:10 AM
1, 2, 3, 14.

Nuff said.

/yeah yeah yeah yeah!
 
Fart_Machine
2012-01-06 11:26:19 AM
Santorum "has a kind of Tourette's disease," Bono told New York Times columnist David Brooks in 2006. "He will always say the most unpopular thing. But on our issues, he has been a defender of the most vulnerable."

So the guy is a douche but he gives verbal nods to stuff we believe in. Ok, thanks.
 
Sock Ruh Tease
2012-01-06 11:27:45 AM
Stop your bloody clapping, then!
 
GoodyearPimp
2012-01-06 11:30:00 AM
Modern problems require the sage advice of an ancient man dressed in gold and escorted around the world with only the finest accommodations who tells everyone to help the poor. If that man could also consult thousands year old manuscripts written in dead languages, all the better. Did prior occupants of the office help cover up the worst abuses mankind has seen? Yep, that's the guy to go to for answers.
 
AmorousRedDragon
2012-01-06 11:31:24 AM
"He has a deep concern about China, about the Middle East and about America's place in the world," Ledeen added. "He is well read and well informed. And he believes that America is a gift to the world."

Why, after reading this, am I so terrified of what he would do as President?
 
talulahgosh [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 11:38:46 AM
DammitIForgotMyLogin: "They were popularly elected, I think," Gregory responded. "Isn't that what democracy is about?"
"No," Santorum said.
That, right there, sums up the modern republican party. It only counts as democracy if you vote for the right people ...

i went to the article just to find this part. i can't believe he said that, what an idiot.
 
The My Little Pony Killer [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 11:43:13 AM
Hey Bono, you've got some santorum on your upper lip there, buddy.
 
BKITU [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 11:53:52 AM
GoodyearPimp: Modern problems require the sage advice of an ancient man dressed in gold and escorted around the world with only the finest accommodations who tells everyone to help the poor. If that man could also consult thousands year old manuscripts written in dead languages, all the better. Did prior occupants of the office help cover up, or indeed propagate openly, the worst abuses mankind has seen? Yep, that's the guy to go to for answers.

Added for additional accuracy and alliteration.
 
CanonicalNerd
2012-01-06 11:56:51 AM
I can only claim to be an armchair internet theologian, but from what I gather...

Most social conservatives seem to have a problem with Obama's church choice.
Namely, is "sitting in the pew for 20 years listening to Rev. Jeremiah Wright"
Jeremiah Wright preaches Black Liberation Theology
Black Liberation Theology is closely rooted in Liberation Theology
Liberation Theology was created by the Catholic Church
Santorum is a Catholic

Also, Matthew 25:44-46:

44 "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

45 "He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."
 
spongeboob [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 12:36:19 PM
FTFA The Pennsylvania lawmaker had been a big supporter of AIDS funding in the Senate," a former Santorum staffer told Yahoo News Wednesday on condition of anonymity because she does not work for campaign.

I require more than an anonymous source thank you, if this is true couldn't the author have found something that she could site, like an appropriation bill from Santorum. If he did support AIDS funding with his stated antagonism to contraception that would mean that he supported abstinence education right.
 
DrippinBalls [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 12:36:22 PM
Bono = dickhead and professional hypocrite.

That is all.
 
Mouldy Squid
2012-01-06 12:37:17 PM
Bono lost his relevence shortly after U2 sold out in the wake of The Joshua Tree's popularity in the US. Since then he and his band mates are about as socially important as I am. His support of Santorum will finally pull the wool from the eyes of the "lefty" fans that still buy U2's music. Perhaps, in the wake of this, there will be more exposure of Bono's tax evasion, charity fraud and general asshatishness.
 
cmb53208
2012-01-06 12:42:45 PM
So speaks the man that worried about the poor in Africa while ordering room service in a 4-star hotel in Nairobi.
 
spongeboob [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 12:59:20 PM
Everything I find on Santurom and AIDS funding(insert joke here) is talking about foreign aid, can't find any mention about funding for AIDS research, education or treatment in the US.

I found this quote
Mr. Santorum, the No. 3 Senate Republican leader, conceded, "One of the biggest questions is where do we get the money to pay for this?" But he added, "I m not worried about how we do it. I just want to make sure we do it."http://www.toledoblade.com/Politics/2003/11/14/Sens-DeWine-Santor um-vo w-to-press-for-AIDS-funding.html (new window)
I thought it was wrong to spend money with knowing where you would get it and cutting something else, because deficits are always bad.
 
Misch [TotalFark]
2012-01-06 01:31:04 PM
Knara: Lotsa trollmitter posts in [Politics] today, it seems.

The Fark IndependentsTM seem to have left the building for the moment.
 
Wireless Joe
2012-01-06 01:41:36 PM
4.bp.blogspot.com

Bloody Catholics filling the bloody world with bloody people they can't afford to bloody feed.

www.spikednation.com
 
SubBass49
2012-01-06 03:13:18 PM
I subbed this with a much better headline: "Bono plugs Santorum"
 
Ape Shiat Nuts
2012-01-06 08:25:23 PM
He just hasn't been the same since he divorced Cher.
 
jigger
2012-01-06 08:43:28 PM
DarnoKonrad: If he's Catholic, he should be. But his faith in free markets is decidedly anti-Catholic.

Catholicism is against free markets? Wut?
 
jigger
2012-01-06 08:46:51 PM
And Santorum is for free markets? Wut?
 
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