One was a racist system, the other is the government takeover of the U.S. healthcare system, I mean who doesn’t see the similarities?
Via CNS News:
Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), in an appearance on MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” on Friday, condemned former Sen. Rick Santorum’s comments comparing Nelson Mandela’s fight against apartheid to the fight against Obamacare as “shameful.”
“And actually if I was going to make a comparison, I would make the opposite comparison, because I think the struggle for justice, which Nelson Mandela led for so many years is similar as the struggle for the health care as a right for people in the richest country in the world, and so the idea that they would make that comparison in the opposite way is just tragic,” Bass said. […]
Bass said in the future, Republicans will look back on this time in history and be “embassassed.”
“And I really think when the history books are written in this time period, I think Republicans of the future are going to be quite embarassed and shamed by the way the anti-health care campaign is shaping up,” Bass said.