Posted on 08/02/2009 12:25:47 PM PDT by presidio9
Republicans should focus on President Obama's "left-wing" policies and not get sidetracked by "false" issues such as the validity of his birth certificate, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said on Wednesday.
Giuliani lamented the lack of a strong Republican leader who could direct the party's attention to what he called "the most left-wing agenda ... since Roosevelt."
"We don't have a real leader of the party right now because we don't have a president, we don't have presidential candidates," Giuliani said. "So everybody gets to speak their minds."
Giuliani, an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, criticized Obama's domestic policies, including the economic stimulus package and proposed overhaul of the health care system, saying they expand government and threaten economic stability.
"I think he has gone much further to the left than I thought he would," Giuliani said.
He was less critical of Obama's foreign policy so far, agreeing with the increased military focus on Afghanistan and Obama's low-key approach to June's controversial Iranian presidential election and the subsequent demonstrations and government crackdown.
"I think some of my Republican colleagues sort of instinctively criticized that," he said of the Iran situation. "I'm not sure I wouldn't have done the same thing and not get America, you know, deeply involved in that."
Asked about questions by some conservatives about whether Obama is a U.S. citizen, Giuliani laughed and said, "We've got better things to do than that."
"I've actually seen a birth certificate that kind of satisfies me that he was born in the United States," he said. "I don't get the issue. I don't know why they're pushing it as far as they are. ... To pick false issues like that hurts us more than it hurts the other side."
Giuliani said one possible
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Leftist hate that.
I say hit the SOB in all ways, all-out. Relentlessly.
Give these bas***** a good dose of their own tactics.
It’s wartime
how can he say that obamantion’s eligibility to serve is a “false issue” if NO ONE has ever seen the birth certificate or ANY other vital documents or know where he was born?
and pelosi swore under oath that he was eligible. How can this be a “false issue” unless we live in a society of Lies instead of the Truth?
We need to address the underlining problem that we have a COUNTERFEIT/FRAUD in office of the U.S.
GOP lacks leader who can attack Obama’s policies ........................... He’s wrong, there are a few, but only one who will draw the crowds.
If they can ignore article 2, then I think we can ignore amendment 16... The dem amendment giving congress the ability to collect income taxes
It is not that can’t, it is that they won’t.
They lack the guts to draw blood. Only when there are blood and guts on the floor will the message get delivered.
Bear in mind that this is where you have to get to at this point: The burden would be on you to prove that the man was not born in this country. Without documentation. If you did so, Congress still wouldn't lift a finger, the press would care, and SCOTUS probably wouldn't remove him. Time to move on.
People who post without reading the entire article often end up looking a little silly.
DeMint is doing a good job of that.
Gee, Rudy, you attack pretty darn good.
If only you were a true Republican/Conservative...
I disagree with Giuliani on virtually every social issue, but I still say your confused if you think anybody's a RINO over the birth certificate thing, which has zero to do with political philosophy.
BTW, can you name one major issue that Sarah Palin and Michael Steele differ on?
we have to agree to disagree on this. I believe the American people would rise up, riot and revolt when they discover that he is a fraud. I believe it would amount to a “sit down” or “stand up” or “don’t work”, or “boycott buying anything”, or other ploys which unions use. If Americans stopped paying taxes, that would work. In other words, I believe that when we discover he is lying fraud, that real Americans (not those pretenders in DC) will revolt.
Unfortunately, Rudy disqualified himself with his own social liberalism, why does he expect anyone to listen to him now?
“People who post without reading the entire article often end up looking a little silly.” ........................................”Giuliani said one “possible” Republican” I still see it as “only one” who will draw the crowds to listen.
Huh? KIND OF satisfies you that he was born in the US? Isn't that the whole question here, no one is really sure? And we wonder why the GOP is circling the drain.
While we're at it I'd be curious to see BamBam's college transcripts and find out how he paid for college. Did he get in as a foreign student? If so that KIND OF satisfies me that he cannot legally be president.
Yes, he is. And I've sent support in a modest way because he's standing up and saying the right message.
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