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Wearing an American Flag on his head.

In a 1960 speech, [John F] Kennedy had assured Southern Baptist leaders that as the nation’s first Catholic president, he would not take orders from the Pope.

“But because I am a Catholic and no Catholic has ever been elected President, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured — perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this,” Kennedy said. “So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again — not what kind of church I believe in for that should be important only to me, but what kind of America I believe in.”

“I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute — where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote — where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference — and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him,” he explained.

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On Sunday, ABC host George Stephanopoulos asked Santorum, who is also Catholic, about his claim last year that Kennedy’s words made him inclined to vomit.

“I don’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute,” Santorum remarked. “The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country.”

“Kennedy for the first time, articulated a vision that said, ‘No, faith is not allowed in the public square. I will keep it separate,’” the candidate claimed. “Go out and read the speech. ‘I will have nothing to do with faith. I won’t consult with people of faith.’ It was an absolutist doctrine that was foreign at the time of 1960.”

“But make you want to throw up?” Stephanopoulos pressed.

“Absolutely!” Santorum exclaimed.

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No, Rick, what's making you sick is that Satanic tapeworm in your gut.

“To say people of faith have no role in the public square, you bet that makes you throw up. What kind of country do we live in that says only people of non-faith can come in the public square and make their case.”

“That makes me throw up and it should make every American,” he insisted.

What kind of idiot thinks what Jack Kennedy said was that only people of non-faith can come in the public square and make their case?

You know what “should” make every American “throw up”?

In a Monday op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum called for the corporate tax rate to be halved from 35 percent to 17.5 percent to “[r]estore America’s competitiveness.”

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Earlier this month, The Wall Street Journal reported that corporations in the U.S. paid only an average of 12.1 percent in taxes on the profits they earned inside the U.S in fiscal 2011, according to statistics from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

It’s the lowest percentage corporations have paid on those profits since at least 1972, and it’s less than half of the 25.6 percent they paid on average between 1987 and 2008.

Corporations saw their profits, however, reach an all-time high at the end of 2010.

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Little Ricky's morals may be even lower than Newt Gingrich. Well, okay, they're down there at the bottom of the political slime pit together. His ranting about faith is geared to his religious, but ignorant, base.  His own faith is in the corporations for whom he's currently whoring.

Rick Santorum says there’s no reason to apologize for burning holy books as long as it’s just an innocent mistake.

The Republican presidential candidate on Sunday blasted President Barack Obama for expressing regret after U.S. troops burned a number of Qurans in Afghanistan. CBS News reported last week that at least seven people had been killed in protests resulting from the incident.

“I don’t think the president should apologize for something that was clearly inadvertent,” Santorum told NBC’s David Gregory. “I think you highlight it when you apologize for it. You make it sound like something you should apologize for. There was no act that needed an apology.”

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Inadvertent. They didn't recognize the books when they threw them in the incinerator. Sure.

“I think the response needs to be apologized for by [Afghan President Hamid] Karzai and the Afghan people [for] attacking and killing our men and women in uniform and overreacting to this inadvertent mistake. That is the real crime here, not what our soldiers did.”

Oh, yes. The real crime is that the Afghanis won't lie down and take it. What snakes! They fight back!

Overreacting to 10 years of occupation, daily death and dismemberment, lack of basic necessities, imprisonment with degradation, humiliation, and torture without recourse, and all we did was accidentally burn a book. What hotheads.