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Why Giuliani’s comments about Obama resonate with some Americans (+video)
The Christian Science Monitor's DC Decoder ^ | February 21, 2015 | Jessica Mendoza

Posted on 02/22/2015 12:41:53 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Rudy Giuliani received a brutal backlash of criticism when he claimed on Wednesday that President Obama doesn't love America. But not everyone disagrees with the former New York City mayor. Here’s why.

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On Wednesday, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani went onstage and said that President Barack Obama does not love America.

Speaking at a private dinner, Mr. Giuliani said: “I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” according to Politico.

“Look, this man was brought up basically in a white family, so whatever he learned or didn’t learn, I attribute this more to the influence of communism and socialism” than to his being African-American, Giuliani told the New York Daily News on Friday.

His initial comments drew a brutal backlash of derision and criticism from pundits, the public, and fellow Republicans. He's even reportedly received death threats. But that doesn’t mean Giuliani’s words fell only on hostile ears.

“There are plenty of people who have long been committed to buying the story created in 2008 about how Obama is an outsider,” wrote Jenée Desmond-Harris, politics and law reporter for Vox....

(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: communism; giuliani; obama; treason

Teach, teach! I know. Cuz it's true?

1 posted on 02/22/2015 12:41:53 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What brutal backlash?


2 posted on 02/22/2015 12:47:19 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Very glad to see this in the Monitor.


3 posted on 02/22/2015 12:59:01 AM PST by b9 (II Timothy 1:7)
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To: Cowboy Bob

MSNBC, the New York Times & Washington Post, NBC, Al Sharpton, USN&WR, Boston Globe....


4 posted on 02/22/2015 1:01:44 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

0bama’s own life story shows him to be an outsider to American life. He speaks of it repeatedly in his own books. His words and actions constantly and consistently reiterate the point.


5 posted on 02/22/2015 1:58:32 AM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The original article is little more than a hit piece on the former mayor.

The discussion reminds one of Michelle’s statement when her husband was first nominated. She said that it was the FIRST time she had been proud of her country. That statement, coming from someone who allowed Wright to baptize her children, should have raised everyone’s suspicions.


6 posted on 02/22/2015 2:12:28 AM PST by the_Watchman
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0bama threw his grandmother under the bus to win an election. A woman who raised him and loved him for years. He threw his pastor of twenty years under the bus to win an election. What does a man like that love?


7 posted on 02/22/2015 2:22:04 AM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Among the more deeply distressing aspects of whether Obama loves America is the realization that so many knew all along what Obama was and not only refused to tell the truth, but allowed others to use his color and ideology to attain their own party goals while hiding the truth and stedfastly proclaiming his loyalty and good intentions, which inspired others to deliberately join in his evil plan to fundamentally transform America. The first chapter of Paul’s letter to the Romans reads like a description of what is happening in the USA. We will not escape judgment.

We are all children of Adam of Eden, and until redeemed by Jesus of Nazareth, have the capacity for the destructioin of self and others like Hitler of Germany.


8 posted on 02/22/2015 2:56:23 AM PST by charlie72
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama is the uniquely strange brew of Marxist moslem.


9 posted on 02/22/2015 3:07:28 AM PST by exnavy (Got ammo, Godspeed)
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To: the_Watchman
That statement, coming from someone who allowed Wright to baptize her children,

Do you have a URL for that? I've never seen a marriage certificate for the moose, or birth certificates for the children. No photos of the moose pregnant either.

10 posted on 02/22/2015 3:58:38 AM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Do they really need to ask?

I’ve been saying for years that I just hope our next President loves America, and I’ve been saying that say what you like about Bill Clinton he clearly loves and appreciates America, etc.

How we as a nation managed to elect as President a man who hates America and Americans is something that will only be explained by the historians of the future, if ever.


11 posted on 02/22/2015 4:31:16 AM PST by jocon307 (Tell it like it is.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Nowhere in the article does it examine why Rudy and so many others think Fredo Dogeater is an America-hating socialist. It simply quotes other leftists as to why one shouldn’t say these kinds of things and how disappointing it all is.


12 posted on 02/22/2015 4:41:21 AM PST by Stand W ("Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the WAR ROOM!")
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To: TigersEye
0bama’s own life story shows him to be an outsider to American life.

Nailed it. It is very troubling to realize that the leader of this country is indifferent to it's culture and people.

13 posted on 02/22/2015 6:01:38 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers)
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To: VRW Conspirator

America’s least-read newspaper.


14 posted on 02/22/2015 6:30:55 AM PST by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.r)
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To: TigersEye

Grandma was alive until he visited her just days before the election........


15 posted on 02/22/2015 6:37:44 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace- No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Last week, the media perpetrated a merciless attack against Brian Williams for lying, and this week the same media is perpetrating an equally vicious attack against Rudy Giuliani for telling the truth.


16 posted on 02/22/2015 8:07:41 AM PST by Bluestocking
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yes, he threw his living grandmother under the bus to get elected. She was alive and able to witness the betrayal. I’m not sure what your point is.


17 posted on 02/22/2015 2:16:15 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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