Monday, April 18, 2011

Santorum "had nothing to do" with his campaign slogan


Rick Santorum’s Thursday announcement that he will build his presidential campaign war chest under the slogan “Fighting to Make America America Again” hit a snag when ThinkProgress pointed out it bears more than a striking resemblance to a poem by Langston Hughes.

During a Friday afternoon New Hampshire appearance, Santorum was asked by the site’s Lee Fang whether he was aware that the slogan was lifted from the Harlem Renaissance poet’s “Let America Be America Again.” A gay rights advocate, Hughes' work includes “CafĂ©: 3 a.m.,” which criticizes a police raid on a gay establishment.

The antigay pol replied that he had “nothing to do” with the slogan.

“I didn’t know that. The folks who worked on that slogan for me didn’t inform me that that’s where it came from, if in fact it came from that,” Santorum said.

Nice to know "Man-on-dog" Santorum has no idea how or by whom major campaign components are coming together.   Sounds like a born leader to me.
(via Advocate.com)

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