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Former Staffer Calls Out Giuliani: You Have Lost The Right To Call Yourself ‘America’s Mayor’
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/02/21/former-staffer-calls-out-giuliani-you-have-lost-the-right-to-call-yourself-americas-mayor-video/After making several truly idiotic comments about President Obama, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani is finding himself on an island smack dab in the middle of a very large sea of disapproval – and even those “on his side” aren’t offering him a lifeline.
Playing off the ugly conception of Obama as an “Other” – an idea that holds sway among the Tea Party and other far-right fringe groups – Giuliani decided to unilaterally conclude that Obama didn’t have the right values to make him American, and that he didn’t truly love his country.
The remarks were widely condemned as racist in nature, and lowbrow, even for a political party that has gone to any lengths to attack the president. Several of the potential presidential hopefuls took pains to not come down on the issue one way or another, sensing the political minefield that lay with either answer....
Speaking with Steve Kornacki, he called Giuliani’s ugly rhetoric an “abomination.” Furthermore, Paul felt that these comments attacking the sitting president of the United States, along with much of Giuliani’s actions in the decade since 9/11, meant that he can no longer claim to be “America’s mayor” – rather he only represents a fringe group of conservative extremists.
Playing off the ugly conception of Obama as an “Other” – an idea that holds sway among the Tea Party and other far-right fringe groups – Giuliani decided to unilaterally conclude that Obama didn’t have the right values to make him American, and that he didn’t truly love his country.
The remarks were widely condemned as racist in nature, and lowbrow, even for a political party that has gone to any lengths to attack the president. Several of the potential presidential hopefuls took pains to not come down on the issue one way or another, sensing the political minefield that lay with either answer....
Speaking with Steve Kornacki, he called Giuliani’s ugly rhetoric an “abomination.” Furthermore, Paul felt that these comments attacking the sitting president of the United States, along with much of Giuliani’s actions in the decade since 9/11, meant that he can no longer claim to be “America’s mayor” – rather he only represents a fringe group of conservative extremists.
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