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WWII Was about Health Care Reform?


© Jeff Danziger

No, I absolutely am not making this up. Rick Santorum, in his speech announcing he was running for the Republican nomination for president, declared that the D-Day Troops fought for freedom from Medicare.

Almost 60,000 average Americans had the courage to go out and charge those beaches on Normandy, to drop out of airplanes who knows where, and take on the battle for freedom. … Those Americans risked everything so they could make that decision on their health care plan.

I feel so much better now that I know that Santorum will fight so that you too will have the freedom to be screwed over by health insurance companies — it’s the American way!

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This was written by Iron Knee. Posted on Thursday, June 9, 2011, at 12:10 am. Filed under Irony. Tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

9 Comments

  1. chinagreenelvis wrote:

    “Almost 60,000 average Americans had the courage to go out and charge those beaches on Normandy, to drop out of airplanes who knows where, and take on the battle for freedom. … Those Americans risked everything so they could make that decision to drink Sprite™.”

    Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 12:37 am | Permalink
  2. Iron Knee wrote:

    Yup, total corporate tool.

    Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 12:57 am | Permalink
  3. Patricia wrote:

    I’m SO embarrassed! All this time I thought it was to save America from people like Santorum

    Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 8:08 am | Permalink
  4. Sammy wrote:

    I thought our troops stormed Normandy to free the slaves.

    Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 11:31 am | Permalink
  5. Jason Ray wrote:

    Santorum is actually closer to the other definition of sanotrum than I thought (google it)

    Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 12:11 pm | Permalink
  6. Iron Knee wrote:

    The full explanation: http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/08/rick-santorum-google-problem-dan-savage (let me google that for you!)

    According to that article, everyone should link to this site: http://www.spreadingsantorum.com/ (there, I did my part)

    And as an added bonus, here’s the fact check of Santorum’s speech (it isn’t pretty).

    Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 12:17 pm | Permalink
  7. PatriotSGT wrote:

    Ahh another idiot comes forward. I guess he looked at Newt and Palin and said to his staff “I know I can beat that weak crap, watch this!”.

    What fun will our pool be if there arn’t any candidates left for the election. I just hope they hang around for the debates and invite Palin/Bachman that will be hillarious.

    Thursday, June 9, 2011 at 1:23 pm | Permalink
  8. rk wrote:

    I’d say they stormed the beaches so idiots to run for political offices.

    Friday, June 10, 2011 at 7:44 pm | Permalink
  9. Fred Hamm wrote:

    It’s not funny anymore, but downright frightening when these type of people is all we have running for office. Isn’t there a real leader out there, somewhere, to run for President AND Congress, for EITHER side? Forget all of these personal agendas and do SOMETHING FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY.

    Friday, September 30, 2011 at 12:53 pm | Permalink