Friday, August 05, 2005

Think Progress wonders if Rumsfield considers Santorum a terrorist?

Rick Santorum…Enemy?
Donald Rumsfeld, remarks to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, 8/4/05:

How should we define the enemy? Well, Al Qaida is one face of the terrorists. … And they deny women the opportunity to participate in society. One has to ask, How could any society hope to succeed while denying half of its population the opportunity to participate?

VERSUS
Rick Santorum, It Takes A Family:

In far too many families with young children, both parents are working, when, if they really took an honest look at the budget, they might find they don’t both need to… What happened in America so that mothers and fathers who leave their children in the care of someone else - or worse yet, home alone after school between three and six in the afternoon - find themselves more affirmed by society. Here, we can thank the influence of radical feminism, one of the core philosophies of the village elders…Sadly the propaganda campaign launched in the 1960s has taken root. The radical feminists succeeded in undermining the traditional family and convincing women that professional accomplishments are the key to happiness.