Santorum Corrected

Harrison current event # 2
Topic: Leaders
Rick Santorum on Fox News defends birth control position, Obama snob comment
Huffington post        3/4/12
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Rick Santorum fell under heavy fire from Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace about a variety of comments or facts clouding Santorum's campaign. Wallace touched on subjects such as Santorum's opposition to requiring business to cover birth control in their health plans. Santorum adamantly sticks to his guns, and says that no business should have to require anything which is against its personal beliefs. Also talked about was Santorum's 1.47% of income which went to charity, compared to other candidates 18%. Santorum explained how the cost of taking care of a disabled child weighs heavy on his finances and believes he shouldn't be belittled because of his financial decisions. Last was Wallace's scrutiny of Santorum's earlier comment, calling Obama a "snob" for wanting every American to attend a college. In fact, Santorum had his information wrong. Obama actually said he wished every American to go to at least one year of higher education, vocational training or apprenticeship. Even with these sizable holes in Santorum's reputation, he still is polling slightly ahead of Romney in pivotal state Ohio. 
I personally am apprehensive about the frivolous way some political leaders fling around misinformation. Whether they believe it to be true or not, such comments are not only harmful to the leaders themselves, but to the American public as well. Petty accusations should be the subject of school boy fights, not campaigns for the President of the United States.