Rudy's Opinion: Not Baseless

When former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani said he doesn't think Obama loves this country, he expressed a personal opinion, and for that, endured swift backlash from the Left. The Right, however, was grateful that someone was finally giving voice to something they believed for several years. For those who condemn him for his opinion, let's look at the evidence which supports that opinion.

1) RG: "He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country."

FACT: Obama was brought up with atypical influences (for an American) in his life; family members as communists, biological father and stepfather both Muslim, and life in a predominantly Muslim country in Asia.  Obama spent several years of his childhood in Indonesia until moving back to Hawaii at the age of 10. Although Hawaii is an American state, living on the Pacific island does not offer the same lifestyle as does small town USA or even big city USA on the mainland.

2) RG: "...from all that I can see of this president, all that I've heard of him, he apologizes for America, he criticizes America.

FACT: Obama started publicly criticizing America on foreign soil early on in his presidency. During the now infamous 'apology tour' of Europe in 2009, he said in France, "there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."  In Turkey, he said, "The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history...Our country still struggles with the legacies of slavery and segregation, the past treatment of Native Americans." In an interview with Al-Arabiya he stated, "My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect."  
These are just a few of the statements he has made which express his disappointment with America.

3) RG: "He talks about the crusades and how the Christians were barbarians, leaves out the second half of the sentence that the Muslims were barbarians also."

FACT: So as not to link Islam with more violence than other religions, Obama tried to draw an equivalency between the Christian violence during the crusades (leaving out the fact that Muslims were involved in it too) and the current Islamic violence, (though not naming current violence as Islamic related). "…lest we get on our high horse…for their own murderous ends…this is not unique to one group or one religion.  There is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith."

4) RG: "He sees Christians slaughtered and doesn't stand up and hold a press conference although he holds a press conference for the situation in Ferguson."

FACT:  For the last few years Christians in the Middle East have been slaughtered, churches have been burned, and Obama has been virtually silent on the subject. It is only recently he has made statements condemning the acts.

5) RG: "He sees Jews being killed for anti-Semitic reasons. He doesn't stand up and hold a press conference. This is an American president I've never seen before."

FACT:  "...entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you've got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris."  No acknowlegement here of Muslims targeting Jews - simply a random shooting of some folks.

6) RG: "I'm not condemning his patriotism -- patriots can -- can criticize. They're allowed to criticize. I don't hear from him what I heard from Harry Truman, what I heard from Bill Clinton, what I heard from Jimmy Carter, which is these wonderful words about what a great country we are, what an exceptional country we are. When he called us an exceptional country, he said we're an exceptional country, but so is Greece."

FACT:  "I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."  Barack Obama 2009

7) RG: "I don't feel this love of America. I think this man was -- when I talked about his background, I'm talking about a man who grew up under the influence of Frank Marshall Davis who was a member of the communist party who he refers to over and over in his book, who was a tremendous critic of the United States."

FACT: During his adolescence, Frank Marshall Davis was a mentor to Obama, introduced by Obama's grandfather looking for a father figure for his grandson. Davis was a well-known communist who was under the surveillance of the FBI for 19 years.

8) RG: "This is a man who worked on Saul Alinsky who was a tremendous critic of the United States. I believe his initial approach is to criticize this country and then afterwards to say a few nice things about us."

FACT: Obama has been strongly influenced by radical liberal activist Saul Alinsky, author of "Rules for Radicals." Obama has used this book to teach students Alinsky's methods of community organizing which illustrates how the 'have-nots' in our society can overthrow the 'haves' and take away their power.

9) RG: "... how about being in a church of 17 years where the minister of the church says, "it's not God loves America but God damn America." Now, if you were in that church, wouldn't you quit that church?" (speaking with Megyn Kelly).

FACT: Obama was a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ for 20 years, headed by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who preached Black Liberation Theology, a race-based theology which emphasizes white racism and white oppression, and encourages a victim mentality among blacks. Black Liberation theologians have explicitly stated a preference for Marxism.

10) RG: I was in Europe a lot this summer and this fall. And all I heard about is the bigoted American Police Departments and I never heard the president of the United States defend the policemen of America, 800,000 of which put their lives on the line for us."

FACT: Examples: In 2009, before all the facts were in, Obama inserted himself into a case between a policeman and a black Harvard professor and announced, "the police acted stupidly."  Soon after a grand jury decided not to indict a white police officer in the death of Eric Garner, Obama said, “bad training” and a “fear of folks who look different” in a small number of police departments across the U.S. have contributed to the ongoing mistrust between law enforcement and minority communities." Regarding the Ferguson case he said, "... need to accept that this decision was the grand jury’s to make. There are Americans who agree with it, and there are Americans who are deeply disappointed, even angry. It’s an understandable reaction"... despite a grand jury fully examining the evidence of the case and reaching an objective decision that Wilson was not racially profiling Michael Brown.

11) RG: "I think that is a perfectly reasonable opinion. But the president and his comments if we look at all his rhetoric has not displayed the kind of love of America, the kind of love of American exceptionalism that other American presidents have displayed. That he has gone abroad and criticized us over and over again, apologized for us. Every time he does it, it embarrasses me."

FACT: Rudy Giuliani is entitled to his opinion. As you can see, these are not empty words, there is evidence to support why he says what he says.

One doesn't want to fundamentally transform that which one loves..."We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of Ameria." Barack Obama, 5 days before Election Day 2008.