Former New York city mayor Rudi Giuliani became a hero for his handling of the Sept. 11, 2001 assault on his city. But then his need to be worshiped began to tarnish his hero image when he magnanimously offered to extend his term rather than turn the city over to newly elected mayor Michael Bloomberg in January 2002. Bloomberg declined that offer, and Giuliani looked like a diminished self-aggrandizer rather than the hero.
Since then, Guiliani has mostly been in the news for his pathetic, failed presidential bid in 2008 and for his increasingly bellicose, attention-seeking comments to the media.
His latest? Saying that Obama "doesn't love America" and suggesting that was because "He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country."
This has put the former mayor in the media spotlight (where he loves to be). But it has not been pretty. Of course, it plays well with the Obama-haters, but most serious people think it says far more about Rudi Giuliani than it does about Barack Obama.
Yesterday, he doubled down, telling the New York Daily News and the New York Post:
“Look, this man was brought up basically in a white family, so whatever he learned or didn’t learn, I attribute this more to the influence of communism and socialism. . . .Giuliani, of course, is referring to the fact that Barack Obama spent several years living with his mother and step-father in Indonesia, and his membership in the church of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
"I don’t see [him] . . . as being particularly a product of African-American society or something like that. He isn’t. . . . The ideas that are troubling me and are leading to this come from communists with whom he associated when he was 9 years old.”
Let's just leave it at that and let Giuliani stew in his own juice. He's only making himself look like the loud-mouthed jerk he really is. Just ask his second wife, who learned he wanted a separation from her from a press conference he gave. Just ask his third wife, who was the mistress he wanted to move into Gracie Mansion while he was still living there as mayor with his second wife. Just ask the Selective Service about his six or more draft deferments during the Vietman War. Just ask Giuliani himself about the consulting work he did for the government of Qatar, which was accused by the FBI of harboring one of the planners of the 9/11 attacks. And what about his attempts to tear down the man twice-elected by the people of this country to be its president?
Sure sounds like a loving family man and a lover of this country, doesn't he?
Rudi, your tenure as hero of the 9/11 response has about run out. Just go away.
Ralph
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