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When a nutcase like Santorum receives a book contract, the end product is a unique but solid mix of parody and fear. Santorum is so delusional about America that he does not acknowledge he and others in the American far right are the real problems. It really is just one big game of projection for them. His attempt to dissuade people from supporting women's reproductive freedom reaches new lows, even for him. Santorum thinks he's being enlightened by making an analogy to the conditions which slaves faced (p. 241), but he's actually being racist by spewing the myth of the `good' slave owner. His faulty analogy only shows that Santorum belittles the suffering of generations under slavery and ignores the gross contradictions of slavery having ever existed inside a democracy. Like the overt racist, the 'good slave owner' also did not recognize black people as equals, the crucial ingredients for freedom and then democracy to exist in America. How dare Santorum talk about ethics and conscience while trying to downplay the boundless cruelties of slavery! What was that about the GOP wanting to try and woo African American voters and their allies, now? I certainly don't feel that he has an understanding of racial inclusiveness or is sensitive to racial equality issues. Plus, he certainly was supportive of her right to life when his own wife underwent the so-called `partial birth abortion' procedure. What on earth is pro-family about denying other families the right to make their own decision about abortion through their own consciences? The last time I checked, Rick Santorum was not the ruler of the world, and he was not God either. Since the intended focus of these environments is getting facts and becoming a thoughtful educated person, I am not at all surprised that Santorum considers American public school systems `weird' (p. 386 ). Santorum further distinguishes himself with the pronouncement that young women who become pregnant should not get their college degrees (p. 138). Because the elimination of pregnancy/parenting restrictions is one of the VERY few things which people on both sides of reproductive politics have agreed on during the last thirty years, I am not sure what Santorum is campaigning for here and I shudder to think of the interest groups remaining in his coalition. Instead of focusing on the problems which people are dealing with into the 21st century, his focus on 'weird' ideas (p. 386) lets readers know what the far right really wants to `fix' in schools. Personally, I don't consider books to be `weird' but then again, I'm not threatened by a world where we all are different ethnicities...etc. About the only thing that Santorum is honest about in this book is that he does not like multicultural perspectives (p. 406) but, conveniently, does not actually know about what he rants against. The title is an obvious far right play on Hillary Clinton's own book. Since I do not have kids of my own, I was not crazy about that earlier book. However, it now looks like a classic tome compared against this waste of trees and ink.