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Rick Santorum got pretty feisty on the campaign trail this weekend, and now "our less-than erudite members of the national press corps," as he put it, keep asking him if he really meant what he said. His answer? Sort of. Our guide to the major things the Republican presidential candidate has had to clarify in the past two weeks.
Comparing Obama to Hitler. On Sunday, Santorum told a Georgia crowd that we delayed getting into World War II because we weren't sure Adolf Hitler was all that bad. "We're a hopeful people… We think, 'Well, you know it'll get better. Yeah, he's a nice guy. I mean, it won't be near as bad as what we think. This will be okay.' I mean, yeah, maybe he's not the best guy after a while, after a while you find out some things about this guy over in Europe who's not so good of a guy after all." CBS News reports Santorum then said Americans can't sit out the election just like they couldn't sit out the war. "So with the optimistic spirit of America, sometimes, sometimes it's not okay. It'll be harder for this generation to figure it out. There's no cataclysmic event." Doesn't that make Obama Hitler? "No, of course not," Santorum told CBS. Some find this credible, like @rotatingskull, who tweets, "Santorum merely compared the election to WWII. So perhaps in this analogy, Santorum is Hitler."