CLEAR LAKE – Republican Presidential candidate Rick Santorum was in Clear Lake Tuesday, completing his 21st visit to Iowa.
“We transformed the world,” former Senator and Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told spectators in Clear Lake Tuesday.
Santorum was wrapping up his 21st visit to Iowa Tuesday when he stopped at Lake Coffee and Ice Cream In Clear Lake. About 30-40 people were there to greet him.
“Our founders took this huge leap of faith, trusting ordinary, average Americans,” Santorum said, as he expounded on the virtues of America.
“We transformed the world because we believed in free people, we believed in building a great country from the bottom up, and we changed the world,” he said.
Santorum, who is from Pennsylvania, said that only when “America happened” did world life expectancy double, from 40 years of age.
Santorum lashed out at President Obama, who he says thinks that America was not “born a great country” and criticized “Obamacare,” the President’s plan for health care.
Santorum’s speech was about twelve minutes long. He then took questions from the audience before being whisked away to catch a plane in Minneapolis.
Santorum is a right-wing conservative Republican. He mentioned FOX News and Glen Beck during his speech and in his political flyers his team handed out.
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