Who is Robert Reich? He’s a very smart fellow. And he draws really well, too.

“Human beings are persons, and it is an affront to the inviolable dignity of our species that courts have created a legal fiction which forces people—human beings—to share fundamental, natural rights with soulless creatures of government.”

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum singled out blacks as being recipients of assistance through federal benefit programs, telling a mostly-white audience he doesn’t want to “make black people’s lives better by giving them somebody else’s money.”

CBS News found that of the people on food stamps in Iowa, only nine percent are black — and 84 percent are white.

Seriously, this asshat is gaining in the polls.

They might as well have just dressed up a fucking chimpanzee.

“Corporations are people, my friend,” he said. “Of course they are.” After receiving jeers from the audience over the quote, he elaborated: “Everything corporations earn goes to people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? People’s pockets. Human beings, my friend.”

Fuck You, My Friend. Corporations don’t give a fuck about people; that’s why they outsource jobs, open factories in China, destroy collective bargaining agreements, defund pensions and health benefits, chase government tax breaks, and reward CEOs with record salaries.

Middle-class America pays taxes because we can’t afford to outsource living in our own country. Fuck you, Romney.

A somewhat less charitable explanation is that we are a nation that is being held hostage not just by an extremist Republican Party but also by a president who either does not know what he believes or is willing to take whatever position he thinks will lead to his re-election. Perhaps those of us who were so enthralled with the magnificent story he told in “Dreams From My Father” appended a chapter at the end that wasn’t there — the chapter in which he resolves his identity and comes to know who he is and what he believes in.

As I’ve said before, I’m tired of my candidate making nice. I want him to take off the skirt and start using some fucking knives.