Why Santorum Does It

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: John Adams <jadams01 () sprynet com>
Date: September 6, 2005 8:19:38 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: For IP: Why Santorum Does It
Reply-To: John Adams <jadams01 () sprynet com>


Dave,

Here's a link to a piece in today's TPMCafe: http://www.tpmcafe.com/ 
story/2005/9/6/131152/4952

It goes a long way to explain not only why Santorum says these horrid  
things, but also why we hear all the horror stories. It begins, "I  
was one of the volunteers who helped greet the busloads of evacuees  
at the Astrodome."

It goes on to say: "When someone [on television] would suggest that  
these people stayed behind by choice, that they were in some way  
deserving of what they had undergone, my heart pounds.  I have not  
cried since I was ten, but my eyes start to tear. I have been  
frustrated by the news before, but this was something different, a  
kind of rage and frustration that can’t be contained...

And here's the heart--and I do mean heart--of it:

"Always these stories have a specific purpose: to shut down empathy  
so that we won't demand action or accountability. They are told  
because we are a charitable nation, and if these people aren't  
rapists and murders and looters, then what they are is suffering, and  
suffering would demand attention that wasn't given. The fact that it  
wasn't given would demand that someone be taken to task..."

Thanks,

      John A
      see me fulminate at http://www.jzip.org/



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