Idiot Of The Day: Rudy Giuliani’s Getting No Love

This week, failed former GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani slithered out of the fever swamps, where the likes of Sarah Palin and Bozo the Trump roam, to make the following odious remarks to a group of wealthy Republican’s at a private dinner: 

“I do not believe — and I know this is a horrible thing to say — but I do not believe that the president loves America.” 

Having emerged from the mucky ooze and still dripping with rage and resentment the former mayor of NYC continued:

“He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up”

That would be the cross-dressing Rudy Giuliani on the right

While both statements are equally appalling, it’s the second one about how President Obama “wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up” that shines a bright light on Giuliani’s true thinking. It’s a familiar racist dog whistle, the suggestion of “otherness” inferring that African Americans are just “different” from their white counterparts. What can be said about this Giuliani explanation that  “I’m not a racist because President Obama’s mother was white” other than it’s astoundingly tone-deaf.

Rudy, Rudy, Rudy…..he’s gone off his meds for sure!

Errol Louis at CNN isn’t surprised by Giuliani’s accusations. “Giuliani's favorite political math equation is long division: Separate the public into "us" and "them" (e.g., "He doesn't love you. And he doesn't love me") and then pose as champion of half the people,” Louis wrote. “And if there are racial overtones to the divisiveness, so be it.”

Giuliani creates huge problem for Republican 2016 Presidential candidates

One fact is for certain in all of this and it’s provable, unlike Giuliani’s opinions, and it’s that America loves President Obama a lot more than they ever loved Rudy Giuliani.  Barack Obama has twice been elected President of the United States by a substantial majority of voters who are not fools. Does any American citizen truly feel that a majority of voters would twice elect a candidate who did not love his country?  Rudy Giuliani didn’t even make it out of the batter’s box when he ran for President in 2008.  He whines now that President Obama “doesn’t love me” – well American voters didn’t love you either, Rudy!

The President doesn’t love me – wah! wah! wah!

How much does Rudy love America?  In an article for the New York Daily News criticising Giuliani’s remarks Wayne Barrett, a Giuliani biographer made some interesting points:

• Rudy may have forgotten the half-dozen deferments he won ducking the Vietnam War, even getting the federal judge he was clerking for to write a letter creating a special exemption for him.
• And remember Bernie Kerik? He's the Giuliani police commissioner, business partner and sidekick whose nomination as homeland security secretary narrowly preceded indictments. He then did his national service in prison.
• Though Rudy cited his father Harold throughout his public life as his model (without revealing any of his history), he and five Rudy uncles found ways to avoid service in World War II.

On the other hand, President Obama's grandfather and uncle served overseas in the US Army during WWII and his grandmother worked in an armaments factory.

Who needs love from Rudy? 

And what does Rudy Giuliani know about love?  Again, here’s his biographer Wayne Barrett to explain:

• Ask Regina Peruggi, the second cousin he grew up with and married, who was "offended" when Rudy later engineered an annulment from the priest who was his best man on the grounds, strangely enough, that she was his cousin.
• Or ask Donna Hanover, the mother of his two children, who found out he wanted a separation when he left Gracie Mansion one morning and announced it at a televised press conference.
• Or ask Judi Nathan, his third wife, whom he started dating while still married to Hanover and was still New York mayor.

I guess Giuliani is correct in saying about President Obama that “he wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up” – but, that’s probably a good thing.  President Barack Obama is happily married with a wonderful family. Who would you want to be the model father for your sons and daughters?

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