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Rudy Giuliani clarifies Obama comments by claiming the President influenced by communism, socialism
NY Daily News ^ | 20 Feb 15 | February 20, 2015

Posted on 02/21/2015 11:38:10 AM PST by xzins

Trying to explain his controversial comments that President Obama doesn’t love America, Rudy Giuliani said Friday he believes the President has been influenced by communism and socialism.

“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 race, Giuliani told the Daily News.

“I don’t (see) this President as being particularly a product of African-American society or something like that. He isn’t,” the former mayor added. “Logically, think about his background. . . The ideas that are troubling me and are leading to this come from communists with whom he associated when he was 9 years old” through family connections.

When Obama was 9, he was living in Indonesia with his mother and his stepfather. Giuliani said he was referencing Obama’s grandfather having introduced him to Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Communist Party.

The former mayor also brought up Obama’s relationship with “quasi-communist” community organizer Saul Alinsky and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Giuliani, a 2008 presidential hopeful, set off a national firestorm when he told an exclusive gathering of conservatives, pols and media figures on Wednesday night, “I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that this President loves America.

The former mayor also brought up Obama’s relationship with 'quasi-communist' community organizer Saul Alinsky and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

“He doesn’t love you. He doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up: To love this country,” Giuliani said of Obama at the Manhattan dinner, which was arranged for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

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To: xzins

H may not be saying all we’d like to hear but he is speaking out clearly and bravely..


41 posted on 02/21/2015 12:29:00 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: xzins

Pretty much my thoughts on Rudy, though I did hit him without mercy back then.


42 posted on 02/21/2015 12:30:24 PM PST by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: xzins

Sure am glad he cleared that one up for us. :)


43 posted on 02/21/2015 12:32:03 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Jim Robinson
Obozo is a communist

I agree. And Occam's Razor says he's a Muslim.

But above all, I think he's a Narcissist...he is so in love with himself that nothing else matters if he doesn't get the credit, praise, adulation, adoration.


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44 posted on 02/21/2015 12:32:13 PM PST by xzins (I Donated to the Freep-a-Thon - You Should, Too! https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Pretty sad that it’s a former mayor, not a congressman, not a senator, not a journalist, to state the freakin’ obvious. They’re all a bunch of bought and paid for traitorous cowards.


45 posted on 02/21/2015 12:32:42 PM PST by uncitizen (They demand we judge them by the color of their skin)
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To: Covenantor

Yep, me too. I was extremely hard on his liberal beliefs on family and marriage and homosexuality. And we should have been. We were right.

But then the doofuses ran McCain. McCain is just as liberal, only a liar about it. He didn’t fight and he was a weenie, war stories notwithstanding.

Might as well have had Giuliani.


46 posted on 02/21/2015 12:38:39 PM PST by xzins (I Donated to the Freep-a-Thon - You Should, Too! https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

As I recall, Giuliani was the frontrunner and so convinced of his money and inevitability (see Jeb) that he didn’t bother with grass roots and the early contests. He gambled everything on Florida and lost. As pointed out the GOP went RINO anyway. Rooty lost because of hubris not because he’s a liberal.


47 posted on 02/21/2015 12:47:53 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: jjotto
You are right that he skipped the early primaries all the way to Florida. But,IIRC, he skipped the early states precisely because of his liberal social positions.


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48 posted on 02/21/2015 1:02:14 PM PST by xzins (I Donated to the Freep-a-Thon - You Should, Too! https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: xzins

Places like Iowa and New Hampshire don’t have a recent record of being unfriendly to GOP liberals.


49 posted on 02/21/2015 1:04:17 PM PST by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: molson209
They would rather attack Rudy ,than investigate Obama’s past

Brilliant succinct statement, bravo!

50 posted on 02/21/2015 1:20:13 PM PST by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: uncitizen

Rudi should keep saying more and more outrageous things until they figure it out and quit inviting him on to make him look bad.


51 posted on 02/21/2015 1:32:34 PM PST by ez (Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is... - Milton)
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To: Grampa Dave

But for 50 percent of the American people, maybe more, Liberalism is “Compassion”.


52 posted on 02/21/2015 2:01:18 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: xzins

I forgot about his skipping IA and NH; they could have been good states for him, particularly NH.


53 posted on 02/21/2015 2:02:26 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: samtheman

I think I read that the first Mrs. McCain is a person of great honor.


54 posted on 02/21/2015 2:05:24 PM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: ez

For now he should stay on this message. It’s ringing true with people and the liberal establishment is cornered. They’ve tried various things to take him out since he made the comment and all have failed. The last one I saw claims he is a racist! Bwahahahaha. Really? They’re playing that card on Rudy?! Dumb! He will knock that down without breaking stride.


55 posted on 02/21/2015 2:06:19 PM PST by uncitizen (They demand we judge them by the color of their skin)
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To: uncitizen

Here’s a challenge for all the journalists foaming at the mouth about Rudy’s comments. PROVE HIM WRONG. Break out Obambi’s college transcripts and let’s see how he self-identified.


56 posted on 02/21/2015 2:32:57 PM PST by burghguy
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To: burghguy

Any journalist who were to get Obamas college records would be dead before they could publish them. This isn’t even conspiracy theory crazy talk anymore....


57 posted on 02/21/2015 2:39:12 PM PST by uncitizen (They demand we judge them by the color of their skin)
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To: xzins

“You have to pinch yourself - a Marxist radical who all his life has been mentored by, sat at the feet of, worshiped with, befriended, endorsed the philosophy of, funded and been in turn funded, politically promoted and supported by a nexus comprising black power anti-white racists, Jew-haters, revolutionary Marxists, unrepentant former terrorists and Chicago mobsters, is on the verge of becoming President of the United States. And apparently it’s considered impolite to say so.” - Melanie Philips, The Spectator (UK) 10/14/08


58 posted on 02/21/2015 2:57:46 PM 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: xzins

Obama admitted his socialist/communist ties himself in his books. Nothing new there. The LIV’s basically can’t read or reason so here he is in term 2. God save the Republic.


59 posted on 02/23/2015 4:07:22 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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