Theology or Environment?

Either way, in my opinion he is wrong. Who is wrong? Rick Santorum.

He cleared up when he said the President had phoney theology he was not questioning his faith. One thing that tells me, is that he needs to be careful when he talks, about just what he means, as President you need to be very clear about what you mean. Especially if you are talking to leaders of other countries that have "The Bomb" among other things!

Mostly what he, and the other Republican candidates, talk about seems to be Religion, Gays, Contraception, Etc. There is very little said about the Economy or Foreign Policy except to say that Obama is responsible for everything bad that happened to the Economy, the USA and the World since God made it! But no mention is made of how they will "correct" or "fix" whatever is wrong with it. Instead, we hear about "attacks" on our faith, our beliefs, etc etc. Whatever happened to separation of Church and State? Why are they more concerned about people who love each other wanting to get married, or people who don't want children, or more children, having access to birth control, or sick people having access to Affordable Health Care, or people being able to afford to give their children a good education.

In the latest attack by Santorum it would seem that President Obama is now responsible for public education! Even I know that was instituted before he was born! But no, the fact that the Federal and State governments pay for public education is "anascronitic", and wrong. People should be responsible for their children's education, according to Rick. I guess that is OK for people like him who can afford to send their children to private schools.

But the main thrust of his attack is that The President is an "Environmentalist" or a "Tree Hugger", that he wants to save an endangered plant or animal at the expense of people. But if you look at the kinds of environmental policies Obama pursues we see that they are for the health and well being of us all.

For example he wants to increase the fuel efficiency of vehicles. (This gets angry attacks from Republican - anti environmentalists - everywhere) Every President for the last 30 years or more has required more efficient vehicles, but this doen't stop the haters from telling us that President Obaman has no right to tell us that we need to produce more gas efficient vehicles. There was no problem when Bush mandated it. He wants power plants to reduce mercury emissions. He wants to encourage green energy, all environmental things that help human health.

But Mr Santorum would remove all environmental, endangered species and habitat protections. All attempts at reducing pollution and Global Climate change - he denys all science that shows we are dramatically changing our environment, acidifying our lakes and oceans, rising sea levels, loss of farm land, greenhouse gases, more and bigger storms, heat waves etc. He favors using polluting fuels like coal and oil and stopping research on non-polluting renewable fuels like solar, wind, wave and geothermal. Apparently endangered species have no value to Rick, (they do to that "Dangerous" man Barrack.) They do to me too, lack of biodiversity is important, we are missing chances of new medicines for every plant and animal that we lose.

Santorum is so anti-environment and so extreme in all his views that the thought of him becoming President is literally terrifying to me.