Rudy Giuliani’s Raging Bull - By Mike Barnicle

[DonViejo]

The mayor’s Obama comments and sad fall from grace are reminiscent of another New Yorker who held onto the spotlight for too long.

So here we are at the start of a week after the country witnessed Rudy Giuliani doing a backstroke through the gutter of American politics. Apparently desperate for attention, the former mayor of New York jumped out of his seat at a gathering of wealthy Republicans who had assembled at the 21Club in Manhattan in order to do a loud, please notice me, clown act.

“I do not believe, and I know this is a horrible thing to say,” Giuliani began his wrecking ball speech, “but I do not believe that the President loves America. 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.”

(Let’s pause right here in this off-the-cliff assault by the former mayor to remind everyone of something Obama’s loudest critics always insist is the case: This is not about race because it’s never about race when it comes to nut-boys attacking the President of the United States. Sure!)

“Going after patriotism is one thing,” Robert Gibbs, former White House press secretary was saying, “but the really, really bad stuff is, ‘he wasn’t raised the way you and I were.’ There’s only one connotation for that kind of stuff and that’s directly out of what some people were saying in the Alabama of the 1960’s.”

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[beveeheart]

1. Will be interesting to see

if Mika and Joe S. agree with Barnicle.

I don't intend to watch the show, but I'm sure someone will report on it.

[Cha]

2. I disagree that there was ever anything "noble" about rudy.. but, I do like this end paragraph from

Barnicle..

"The clock on Rudy Giuliani’s end of days began ticking as soon as he walked out of City Hall. He ran for president once, his candidacy going up in flames nearly the moment he first opened his mouth. Now he’s opened it again and all that emerges is bitterness and a contempt that borders on hate. What a brutal end; a self inflicted TKO."

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