Gov. Giuliani in front of the flag he pimps.
Dear John,
Today, when Giuliani backed off his barf-patriotic assertion that "Obama doesn't love America," he said: "Well... maybe he loves America... but I never heard him say it."
Here is a video clip of Obama saying: "I love America." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw0OlvbrY5I
I imagine there will be more.
The daily bread of American conservatives is to inflame passion through lies, distortion, decontextualization and misrepresentation.
It's the same execrable excresence.
24/7
What's Wrong With Conservatives? Seriously. What's Wrong With Them?
I never heard my mother say "I love America" and I bet you never heard yours either.
Did Giuliani's?
And if she did, did she mean it?
After all, she produced Giuliani - bottom feeding low life.
Brown-nosing Netanyahu
How low can you go?
Does Barack Obama Love America? Some Are Still Asking
- Mr. Giuliani, shown in New York on Sept. 22, 2014, said he didn’t believe Mr. Obama loved America.
- Associated Press
Even though he will never again campaign for office, there remain some critics who continue to paint President Barack Obama as some kind of other who isn’t in touch with their real American values.
The latest installment comes from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008.
Mr. Giuliani, speaking at a dinner for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Wednesday night in New York, attacked Mr. Obama’s patriotism. Per Politico, which had a reporter in the room:
“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 during the dinner at the 21 Club, a former Prohibition-era speakeasy in midtown Manhattan. “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.”
This isn’t a new argument. Some opponents have sought to paint Mr. Obama as alien since he rose to national prominence.
Sarah Palin in 2008, as the Republican vice presidential nominee, famously questioned Mr. Obama’s loyalties, arguing that he “is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America” and said he is “someone who sees America it seems as being so imperfect that he’s palling around with terrorists who would target their own country.”
By contrast, the man at the top of the ticket, Sen. John McCain, that year scolded a Cincinnati radio host who repeatedly referred to the future president by his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, as if to emphasize his presumed foreignness.
On Wednesday night and Thursday morning, Mr. Giuliani’s remarks raced across the Internet. As of this writing, the story had been shared more than 3,000 times on Twitter and more than 6,000 times on Facebook. It is a top headline on the Drudge Report and has been aggregatedmore than five dozen times.
Mr. Walker, during a Thursday morning appearance on CNBC, was asked by host Becky Quick for his thoughts on the former mayor’s remarks “because they are raising a stir.” He declined to comment, but let the viewers know that he, for one, loves America.
Yeah, I mean, the mayor can speak for himself. I’m not going to comment on whether — what the president thinks or not,” Mr. Walker said. “He can speak for himself as well. I’ll tell you, I love America, and I think there are plenty of people, Democrat, Republican, independent, everywhere in between, who love this country. I think we should talk about ways that we love this country and that we feel passionately about America, whether it’s about making sure everyone can succeed and live the American dream, or whether it’s talking…
The follow-up question from CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin: “Did you agree with those comments? Were you offended by those — what was your reaction when you heard them?”
Mr. Walker passed again, launching into what appeared to be an explanation that people in New York say wacky things all the time — before he could finish the thought.
“I’m in New York,” he said. “I’m used to people saying things that are a little aggressive.”
UPDATE: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal weighed in with a statement noting that he “refuses to condemn Mayor Giuliani.”
“The gist of what Mayor Giuliani said – that the president has shown himself to be completely unable to speak the truth about the nature of the threats from these ISIS terrorists — is true,” Mr. Jindal, a Republican, said. “If you are looking for someone to condemn the mayor, look elsewhere.”
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