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Giuliani was signaling Obama 'not one of us,' says Muslim lawmaker
The Hill's Briefing Room ^ | February 23, 2015 | David McCabe

Posted on 02/23/2015 3:40:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) was "dog whistling" when he said President Obama does not love America, a Democratic congressman said Monday.

While appearing on CNN's "New Day," Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) was asked how he, as a person of color, responded to the comments, which some have criticized as being motivated by Obama's race.

"I’ll put it like this: I believe he was dog whistling," Ellison said. "And what I mean is, you know, he was signaling that, ‘He’s not one of us,” and that had to do with some factors that the former mayor should not be trying to play off of."

Asked if he was specifically referring to race, Ellison said he thought that Giuliani might have been implying other questions about Obama as well.

"Is he an American? Is he a Muslim? Is he a socialist? Is he this? Is he that?" said Ellison, who was the first Muslim elected to Congress.

Giuliani made the comments at a dinner for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) last week.

"I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America," he said.

Giuliani has brushed off criticism of his comments as racially motivated, and said in an op-ed published Sunday that he could not "read President Obama’s mind or heart." He has, however, continued to criticize the president for what he says is an overly critical view of America.

Some possible Republican 2016 presidential candidates have criticized the former mayor's comments — though many did not do so right away.

But Ellison said he didn't blame politicians who waited to respond to the comments.

"It’s so silly and stupid and ridiculous that I could see how someone wouldn’t take it seriously until asked," he said. "That’s just how low those comments were."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: captainobvious; islam; keithellison; obama; scottwalker
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Do they not realize that they're hurting themselves by dragging this out or are they just that desperate to push back on this?
1 posted on 02/23/2015 3:40:01 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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No, I don’t beleive that Rudy was dog-whistling...he was saying out loud, Mullah Obama is a muslim terrorist.


2 posted on 02/23/2015 3:41:24 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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"I’ll put it like this: I believe he was dog whistling," Ellison said. "And what I mean is, you know, he was signaling that, ‘He’s not one of us,”

And what was Obama doing with his one-fingered Islamist salute in front of the African conference last week? Signalling he was "one of them" is the same as saying he's not one of us. You too, Keith.

3 posted on 02/23/2015 3:42:14 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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Rep. Ellison is the first Muslim to be elected to Congress.


4 posted on 02/23/2015 3:42:23 PM PST by donna (Science is the study of God)
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Obama got “bitch slapped” by Americas Mayor!! Super Rudy. Kick the political crap out of him.


5 posted on 02/23/2015 3:42:42 PM PST by iowacornman (No Amnesty-- EVER)
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And what I mean is, you know, he was signaling that, ‘He’s not one of us,”

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6 posted on 02/23/2015 3:44:09 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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Muzzies aren’t of us.

Islam must be destroyed.


7 posted on 02/23/2015 3:44:56 PM PST by sitetest (If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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Lets hope he’s the first AND the last.


8 posted on 02/23/2015 3:45:45 PM PST by Czar (NRA Life Member)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Does ANYONE with half a brain still believe he IS one of us??


9 posted on 02/23/2015 3:45:57 PM PST by Dick Bachert (This entire "administration" has been a series of Reischstag Fires. We know how that turned out!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
Do you have a link?

Watch his cairo speech, he was doing it there too. Blatant and in your face.

10 posted on 02/23/2015 3:46:56 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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LOL, Rudy writes “F*** YOU” on a baseball bat and hits them in the face, and they lay on the ground in their own blood talking about maybe hearing a dog whistle!

No wonder the military uses missiles, nothing else will get these morons attention! LOL!


11 posted on 02/23/2015 3:47:20 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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ELLISON does not strike me as being a particulary bright fellow!!

let em keep bringing it up....so that those who missed the initial brouhaha can get up to speed on it...

No Obama is not one of us!


12 posted on 02/23/2015 3:47:27 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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By one of us, does he mean the rabid islamderthals that have been imported into his state and are now threatening to kill people at the Mall of America?


13 posted on 02/23/2015 3:47:39 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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"Is he an American? Is he a Muslim? Is he a socialist? Is he this? Is he that?" said Ellison, who was the first Muslim elected to Congress.

No Yes Yes Maybe Maybe

14 posted on 02/23/2015 3:47:45 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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The reality is that they cannot let what Rudy said stand. All who have criticized Mullah Obama have met their fate in the media,, and they believe that Rudy should be no exception.

What puzzles us is that it has failed for them, yet they keep pushing it hoping that their attempted public hanging of Giuliani will serve as an example to any other who may start saying out loud what we have been saying since this punk first showed himself.

So far it hasn’t played out they way that they wanted and they are going to keep pushing it until it peeters out or Rudy is turned into a pariah. I think it will peeter out unless Rudy folds or some other idiot republican denounces him. That hasn’t happened....yet. Maybe Juan McAmnesty will be the first to denounce Rudy.


15 posted on 02/23/2015 3:48:40 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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16 posted on 02/23/2015 3:48:54 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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I think it's Obama doing the signaling when he talks about bitter clingers and crusaders.

-PJ

17 posted on 02/23/2015 3:50:48 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine
And what was Obama doing with his one-fingered Islamist salute in front of the African conference last week?

:Got a photo ?

18 posted on 02/23/2015 3:51:25 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but, they're true)
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Do they not realize that they're hurting themselves by dragging this out or are they just that desperate to push back on this?

They're too dumb to realize that this is a battle they can't win. It's too soon for them to press this. If they awake the sleeping giant, it will be too soon forever.

Their ideology/religion has made them blind to reality, as it has done elsewhere in the world. That's why they can't see that the smart thing to do would be to swim away from this argument before it becomes a campaign issue for 2016; a campaign issue that will drag their side to oblivion.

19 posted on 02/23/2015 3:51:27 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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Strange, Allen West is "one of us", Herman Cain is "one of us", Clarence Thomas, and on and on.

There must be something different about Obama, it sure isn't his skin tone.

20 posted on 02/23/2015 3:53:28 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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