Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick "Santorum" Santorum thinks Barack Obama's date with his wife was probably a bad message to send The Black Folk.

I think he has to realize that flying to New York is self-indulgent. Go down to the corner bar and have a drink, a shot and a beer. It does not matter where you go with your wife, is that it's with your wife. That's really the point... I would make the argument, the simpler the date, the more normal it is.

Rick Santorum, love doctor [Salon via The Awl]

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