Once again a Republican is trying to rewrite history…..Rick Santorum is tying Obamacare to Nelson Mandela. Yes, he went there — compared Obamacare to apartheid. He claims Mandela fought against some great injustice in South Africa, and Obamacare is “front and center” in the injustice being perpetrated in America today. Wow. Absolutely unbelievable. Rick Santorum is the male version of Sarah Palin.

“He was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people’s lives — and Obamacare is front and center in that,” Santorum said Thursday on Fox News’s “The O’Reilly Factor.”

In a segment about the divisions within the Republican Party, host Bill O’Reilly brought up the death of Mandela, saying that while he disagreed with him and called him a “communist,” he still respected the South African leader and wondered why the GOP couldn’t bring the same approach to its disagreements. Source: Politico

It’s hypocritical of Bill O’Reilly to say Nelson Mandela was a communist, but yet he was a great man, while ignoring the injustices black South Africans endured. They also said horrible things about Martin Luther King Jr., but yet couldn’t even take a footstep in the shoes of either man. Neither Bill O’Reilly nor Rick Santorum can ever dream of having the global resonance Nelson Mandela had. It is absolutely despicable for Rick Santorum to compare Obamacare to Apartheid or even the injustices blacks endured in this country.

This was cross-posted from The Hinterland Gazette.