“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,” Giuliani said during the dinner at the 21 Club, a former Prohibition-era speakeasy in midtown Manhattan. “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 through love of this country.”
Anyone who thought the war against President Obama was anything but racial is living a deluded existence. President Barack Obama cannot run for another elected office in America. He has roughly two years left in office. So one would have thought that even at fund-raisers opponents would have sought to talk about potential adversaries , not the guy who can non longer beat them.
So what motivates the opposition to Obama you ask?
Race does.
For a sick demented swath of the Republican right, President Obama represents a gross departure from the foundation tenets and teachings of white supremacy and could only have attained the office through fraud, or evil designation such as their charge he is an impostor from Kenya and worse, a devil Manchurian candidate.
Whether you assign credence to the publicity whore Rudolph Giuliani, or you believe as the National Review’s Kevin D Williamson does that,“Barack Obama spent years in the Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s church as the churchman fulminated: “God Damn America!” The Reverend Wright’s infamous “God Damn America!” sermon charges the country with a litany of abuses: slavery, mistreatment of the Indians, “treating citizens as less than human,” etc. A less raving version of the same indictment can be found in the president’s own speeches and books. His social circle includes such figures as Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dohrn, who expressed their love of country by participating in a murderous terrorist campaign against it”.
You must divorce yourself from the facts of those atrocities, suck up the abuse and never mention it but be grateful that they live in the utopia of American exceptional-ism.
never mind the indefensible atrocities meted out to people of color, the issue is not the abuse is that you dare question the methodology used on the path to American exceptionalism.
As loathe as I am to acknowledge Giuliani’s existence, I do so to highlight the fact that even though they know they lie they cannot resist the lure to lie to further their agenda.
“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the president loves America,”.
It is a horrible thing to say because it’s a lie. The truth demands no apology. It is horrible that even though the despicable Giuliani knows he was lying he could not tame his vile tongue. He knew it was the thing that would play well in that room of equally vile creatures of hate and lies.
They gather using lies and deceit as they eat the meat of contradiction. Because on the right, right is what’s right for them. Truth is a dispensable option used for expediency. The ideological fight around Immigration , Voting Rights and Budget allocations are not fights they wage on righteous principles. They are ideological fights waged around the concept of white supremacy and white entitlements.
In two years they will not have Obama to kick around any more,but their hateful rhetoric will continue on budget, voting, immigration, and on police abuse so the next democratic president will be no less a bogey-man/woman, just not the Kenyan-born, Manchurian candidate sent to destroy their republic.