We last heard from our former Mayor spouting blatant racism on TV. Now, he has seen fit to say this:
“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.”
This was at a dinner where rising GOP Koch acolyte Scott Walker was present.
But not only was Giuliani vicious, he was incoherent:
“What country has left so many young men and women dead abroad to save other countries without taking land? This is not the colonial empire that somehow he has in his hand. I’ve never felt that from him. I felt that from [George] W [Bush]. I felt that from [Bill] Clinton. I felt that from every American president, including ones I disagreed with, including [Jimmy] Carter. I don’t feel that from President Obama.”
Can someone tell me what that even means? We were supposed to "take land" in Iraq? Are we supposed to "carry around a small piece of land," like Woody Allen's father in
Love and Death. Are we supposed to be a colonial empire or not? What don't you feel from the President?
His former honor also managed to compare his '90s stand on Crown Heights with the President's comments at the Prayer Breakfast.
I used to be annoyed that Rudy restricted himself to "a noun, a verb and 9/11." Now I wish he would go back to that, or better, just go away.