{"id":13120,"date":"2012-03-01T15:50:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13120"},"modified":"2012-03-01T15:50:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T20:50:22","slug":"rick-santorum-calls-pres-barack-obama-a-snob-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13120","title":{"rendered":"Rick Santorum Calls Pres. Barack Obama A Snob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GOP presidential hopeful <strong>Rick Santorum<\/strong> must have forgotten his multiple degrees and ambitious educational career after addressing a Tea Party forum in Michigan ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s primaries. During the gathering, the former senator of Pennsylvania referred to <strong>Pres. Barack Obama<\/strong> as a snob because of the President&#8217;s wish that every American be afforded the opportunity to higher education.<\/p>\n<p>The irony? <strong>Santorum<\/strong> has more degrees than <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Santorum&#8217;s<\/strong> penchant for the implausible statement is well known, however this latest attack may have trumped them all. \u201cNot all folks are gifted in the same way,\u201d said <strong>Santorum<\/strong> at the Americans for Prosperity forum in Troy, MI.<\/p>\n<p>Political pandering at its worst, <strong>Santorum<\/strong> failed to mention to the 1,000 Tea Party members in attendance that he holds a bachelor&#8217;s, master&#8217;s and law degree, one degree more than the \u201csnobbish\u201d <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps<strong> Santorum&#8217;s<\/strong> version of snobbery is different from most Americans or rather, he&#8217;s once again proven that he needs to head back to college himself to work on the necessary fundamentals of basic math and education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum must have forgotten his multiple degrees and ambitious educational career after addressing a Tea Party forum in Michigan ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s primaries. During the gathering, the former senator of Pennsylvania referred to Pres. Barack Obama as a snob because of the President&#8217;s wish that every American be afforded the opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}