Source: TheHill.com

By: Keith Laing

Posted: Feb. 26th,, 2012

Republican president candidate Rick Santorum defended his statement from Saturday that President Obama was a “snob” because he has said he wants everyone in the country to have the ability to go college.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Santorum said he does not believe that going to college is the only way to become successful.

“What I’ve said is I want everyone to have the opportunity to go to college, or whatever other higher training skills,” he said. “But it doesn’t mean you have to go to a four-year college degree… I think everyone should have the opportunity. It’s about what’s best for you.”

In a speech to the conservative Americans for Prosperity group in Michigan Saturday, Santorum said Obama’s views on higher education made him a “snob.”

“President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college,” Santorum said during his AFP speech. “What a snob. There are good, decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test who aren’t taught by some liberal college professor that tried to indoctrinate them.

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