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Saturday, February 21, 2015

Rudy Giuliani Says That Barack Obama Does Not Love America

Saturday, February 21, 2015

For once, Uncle Rudy "911, 911" Giuliani gets it right
THE EXAMINER
By Mark Whittington
02/19/2015

Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York and 2008 presidential candidate, raised some eyebrows when he spoke at a private function attended by Republican businessmen and conservative pundits. He informed them that President Barack Obama does love America, according to a Wednesday story in Politico. The next day, when being interviewed on “Fox and Friends,” Giuliani choose to revise and extend his remarks.

“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” Giuliani said. “He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.” Possible presidential candidate Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was among the audience that heard Giuliani’s assessment of the president’s lack of love of country.

The reaction was as could be predicted. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz denounced the former mayor’s remarks.

She said, “In 2008, when the ugly head of bigotry against Barack Obama reared its head, John McCain famously stood up and said, ‘Enough.’ Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, now it’s your turn. Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Stand up — say, ‘Enough.’” It should be noted that Wasserman-Schultz has been known to say alarming thing, as when she said that Gov. Walker gives women “the back of his hand.” No Democrat has said “enough of that.

Walker, for his part, demurred from offering comment, except to say that he loves America. No other Republican has taken up Wasserman Schultz’s challenge about Giuliani’s assessment of a man who once sneered at the concept of American exceptionalism. Obama has tended to lecture Americans about past sins, even going back to the Crusades.

Giuliani later appeared on Fox News and denied that he was questioning the president’s patriotism.

He went on to say, “What I’m saying is, in his rhetoric, I very rarely hear the things that I used to hear Ronald Reagan say, the things that I used to hear Bill Clinton say about how much he loves America.”

It is clear that Giuliani committed a gaffe, though perhaps of a kind that consists of speaking a truth that should best be left unsaid.

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