Giuliani: ‘Obama Doesn’t Love America’

For the past 6-8 years, Barack Obama has been the victim of a variety of vicious verbal attacks, erroneously being called a Muslim, a terrorist and even an extremist member of a sleeper cell who was sent to infiltrate the White House and destroy America from within. Now, former New York City mayor and former Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani has doubled-down on the attacks against the President of the United States, making the bold claim that Mr. Obama  “does not love America.”

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During a New York fund-raising event for Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin last week, Giuliani said 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.  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.”

Giuliani’s words set off an immediate firestorm, since his theory was not based on any specific difference of political opinion, but more so on the buzz phrase “He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up.” Or in other words, Giuliani was using code for “He’s not white like us.”

The Barack Obama hate is nothing new, as a laundry list of GOP conservatives have long questioned the loyalty and/or allegiance of America’s first non-white president. Although Giuliani made a loose attempt to mask his criticism of Mr. Obama behind a difference in politics, the fact remains that many conservatives have associated being American with being white.

From years of wrongly doubting that the president was born here, to unprecedented insistence that Mr. Obama produce a birth certificate to prove his eligibility for the presidency,  many prominent conservatives have gone to great lengths to smear him as disloyal, on the side of Islamic extremists, and of course a Muslim and not a Christian.

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In 2006, conservative Debbie Schlussel made a point of his middle name, “Hussein,” noting that Mr. Obama’s father was a Muslim and asking, “Where will his loyalties be?” During the 2008 presidential campaign, Mr. Obama was described by conservative Ann Coulter as a possible “Manchurian candidate” and by Republican Dick Morris as a “sleeper agent” who might not be “pro-American.”

Republican Congressman John Fleming of Louisiana accused the president of “undermining this country’s national defense on purpose.” Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus accused him of “sympathizing with attackers” of the American embassy in Egypt.  GOP Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma questioned Mr. Obama’s allegiances, saying, “I just don’t know whose side he’s on,” while former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld claimed he was unsure if  Mr. Obama “actually switched sides in the war on terror.”

Now Giuliani has joined the fray and his statement reflects the ease with which people disassociate Mr. Obama and other African-Americans from American identity.  The racial disconnect that because Mr. Obama is not (100%) white must mean he is less of an American is troubling to say the least.

With potential GOP presidential candidates already backing away from him for having such a racially-tinged opinion, Giuliani has since said “My blunt language suggesting that the President doesn’t love America notwithstanding, I didn’t intend to question President Obama’s motives or the content of his heart. My intended focus really was the effect his words and his actions have on the morale of the country, and how that effect may damage his performance.”

Despite his backpedaling, Giuliani proved there’s still a large segment of American society that truly believes being American means being white.