Posted on 02/23/2015 5:03:57 AM PST by LeoMcNeil
Rudy Giuliani had the unmitigated gall last week to question President Obama’s love of country. This has been a standing question about Obama since he ran for President in 2008. How can you love a country that you believe needs to be fundamentally transformed? It’s not like Obama wants to fundamentally transform the United States into some romanticized version of the past. He wants to fundamentally transform the country into his own image. In many ways he’s been successful. We have a large number of Americans who believe court orders are mere suggestions to be ignored and that the executive branch has the power to legislate. These are fundamental transformations away from the Constitution. They also indicate that the President doesn’t really love his country, unless the country follows him.
Giuliani doubled down on his remarks by pointing out that Obama was influenced by communists in the past. Giuliani is right of course, Obama was influenced by communists. His mentor growing up was Frank Marshall Davis, a communist. His mother was a communist. He got his political start in the living room of William Ayers, a communist and a left-wing terrorist. The left-wing press largely covered up for Obama but these connections have been discussed ad nauseum online. The big question is why did it take Giuliani all this time to point any of this out? Maybe the bigger question is why have Republicans been so shy about questioning Obama in this manner? McCain danced around some of this in 2008 but he never hammered Obama over his communist ties. Since assuming office Congressional Republicans have been almost completely silent.
The media’s response to Giuliani has been predictable. How dare anyone question Obama’s patriotism! The office of President is to be held in such high esteem that the media feigns moral indignation when anyone questions Obama. Interestingly when then Senator Obama called then President Bush unpatriotic, the media cheered. The double standard is obvious. The media won’t be asking the President why the country he supposedly loves needs to be fundamentally transformed. They won’t be asking Obama whether leading from behind in the middle east projects a strong America. They know the answers and they know middle America won’t like them. To protect Obama, they ask nothing. Of course if Obama was a conservative Republican they would be all over him.
Giuliani compared Obama to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the latter of which clearly advocates for his country’s position in no uncertain terms. In some ways Netanyahu and Obama make for a good study in contrasts. Netanyahu has very clear international goals for Israel. He’s clear and uncompromising. If need be, Netanyahu will defend his country alone. Obama on the other hand is never clear about the international goals of the United States. He creates red lines and retreats from them. He goes on unnecessary apology tours and refuses to acknowledge Islamic terrorism. No one has any idea what his goal is with ISIS. Giuliani is a neo-con of some sort, which is why he’s quick to defend Israel. However he offers us a good comparison for Obama in Netanyahu. No one would question Netanyahu’s patriotism, it’s clear he has Israel’s best interests at heart. With Obama, he’s so unclear about his goals and he’s so quick to retreat that it begs the question what he’s doing. There’s no reason for retreat, there’s no reason for lack of clarity.
Ultimately the unanswered question surrounding Obama is why, if he loves America, does he want to fundamentally transform the nation? Unfortunately because the press acts as his cheerleaders and because the Republicans are wimps, we won’t get an answer to this question. At least not while Obama is still in office. Even if Obama addresses it in a memoir it’s likely he will accuse his questioners of racism rather than actually answer the question. No doubt Obama will not be then asked whether questioning Bush’s patriotism is the product of racism. The President’s foreign policy directly plays into this question. The United States has projected strength abroad for generations, Obama has shifted to a policy of international weakness. Worse, our international goals used to be clear, now they aren’t. What of this has to do with Obama’s communist upbringing? We’re not going to find out anytime soon. Giuliani is asking all the questions that should have been asked in 2008. It begs the question why the Republicans are seven years late.
I stand with Rudy!
Je suis RUDY!!!
Rudy is asking what a lot of people have been thinking.
I’m with Rudy on this too. I just wonder what took him so long.
It begs the question why the Republicans are seven years late.
God bless Rudy G for having the balls for bring this out into the open.
I too question Obama’s patriotism, his religious honesty, and his vision or goal for America.
Certainly those of us on the far right have been thinking about Obama’s patriotism and asking questions of him all along. However there have been very few Republicans who have asked these questions. This includes very conservative members of Congress. Giuliani is on the left of the GOP. It strikes me as odd that he’s the one out there doing this.
Rudy is asking what a lot of people have been thinking.
Rudy has obviously realized for a long time that Obama is a disaster. He just held his tongue for a long time but just couldn’t take it anymore.
I stand with Rudy!
How Dare Giuliani Question Obama’s Patriotism!
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YEAH !!!
Its a foregone conclusion Obama hates America...
He has nothing to lose
Unless they agree with those court orders, then they become law of the land.
Roe v Wade comes to mind.
I stand with Rudy!
DITTO’s
Morning Joe said that he believes that Obama loves America, and that since Obama says he is a Christian, we must take his word for it (Don’t suggest that Obama would lie..)
Lindsey Grahamnesty said pretty much the same thing.
If a Republican won’t say that then the MSM accuses them of not being ready to lead.
Undoing the crap the man has done (and hasn't done) is going to be exceedingly hard.
Nailed it!
To explain the ‘fundamental transformation’ Chicago Communist Paul Robeson said it best
:[A] socialist society represents an advance to a higher stage of life-that is, a form of society which is economically, socially, culturally, and ethically superior to a system based upon production for private profit. History shows that the processes of social change have nothing in common with silly notions about “plots” and “conspiracies.” The development of human society-from tribalism to feudalism, to capitalism, to socialism-is brought about by the needs and aspirations of mankind for a better life.
— Quoted in Here I Stand
Obama & Co are the ones ‘we have been waiting for’ to take us from capitalism to socialism. The uneducated masses remain unaware
“How Dare Giuliani Question Obama’s Patriotism!”
How did he manage to question something that doesnt exist in the first place?
I’d throw this back in their faces - how dare you NOT question his patriotism, Leo. There, how’s that sound? Sounds good to me.
He Did. Watch Rudy's 2008 speech at the convention. He undressed Obama's empty suit and the danger of having a neophyte community organizer in this role. It was the best speech of the convention equal to Palin's.
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