Just when I was convinced that Rudy Giuliani was the most despicable primate drawing breath, along comes Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to play “What, me worry?” over Rudy’s abominable remarks. Just in case you missed it, the former “America’s mayor,” was speaking at a GOP fundraiser for the Wisconsin governor’s fledgling presidential campaign and made some stunningly ugly accusations about the president. Just so there’s no question about context, here’s the full quote: “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 country.”
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Considering the room was filled with right-wing business executives and conservative media whores, the statement about who Obama loves has a ring of truth to it. But never in history has a president been questioned about his love of country. When Rudy’s ignorant opinion was roundly criticized as stone-cold racism, he was forced to backtrack in a damage control appearance on “Fox & Friends.” But he only trumpeted his lack of self-awareness saying, “Some people thought (the comment) was racist. I thought that was a joke since he was brought up, by the way, by a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools, and most of this he learned from white people.” Well Rudy, that’s mighty white of you to say. This sinks Rudy to the bottom of the extremist scum-bucket with Glenn Beck, who famously said on Republican National Television, “This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.” When did the GOP adopt the Ku Klux Klan’s playbook? And to think this fool ran for president until he was sliced and diced by Joe Biden who said Rudy only needed three things to make a sentence: “a noun, a verb, and 9/11.” Rudy recently made race-baiting comments concerning Ferguson, Missouri, and accused Obama of smearing the NYPD after the choke-hold murder of Eric Garner. And yet, the GOP still respects his judgment. Remember Bernie Kerick? He was the commissioner of the NYPD during the 9/11 attacks and was subsequently recommended by Giuliani to President Dubya as the head of the Department of Homeland Security. His nomination was withdrawn when it was discovered that he employed an illegal-immigrant nanny, took “escorts” for love trysts in an apartment overlooking Ground Zero ostensibly reserved for first responders, and lied under oath about how a civil servant making $30,000 a year could afford $255,000 in home renovations. This was Rudy’s right-hand man who, after a three-year stint in prison, is searching for a job as a counter-terrorism expert. Even conservative firebrand Darrell Issa said that Rudy never got the dust from 9/11 out of his lungs. More than one doctor publicly speculated that Rudy was showing early symptoms of Asperger’s Syndrome.
Which brings us to Governor Walker, the unlettered executive. Walker is so spineless, he may as well be a Democrat. When asked on CSNBC if he agreed with the former mayor’s malicious remarks, Walker said, “I’m not going to comment on what the president thinks or not … I tell you I love America. … I think we should talk about the ways in which we love this country.”
Answering a question from the Washington Post about the president’s faith, Walker said, “I don’t know,” if Obama is a Christian. “I’ve actually never talked about it or I haven’t read about that,” adding, “At the end of the day, God is in control.” A spokeswoman for the Governor immediately followed up with a press release emphasizing, “Of course the governor thinks the President is a Christian.”
Wasn’t there something in the Constitution about religious tests for public office? It doesn’t really matter. A recent Pew Poll found that 34 percent of Republicans believe the president is a Muslim. Scott Walker’s recent trip to London was a bust when he said he would “punt” on a question regarding evolution, sending the British press into spasms of laughter. Sooner or later, Walker will have to take a stand on something other than union busting or doing the bidding of his telephone pal, David Koch.
Now that Fox News has declared that “the Holy War is here,” and ISIS is burning captives alive, who cares about useless prattle over the president’s patriotism or whether he sufficiently loves America enough to suit the Tea Party. Giuliani has been accused by Republican operators of being a draft dodger with six separate deferments from the Vietnam War, yet he is a major critic of Obama’s foreign policy and a cheerleader for wars that involve other people’s children. Rudy recently publicly gushed with praise over Vladimir Putin’s decisive leadership. Governor Walker, after surviving a recall election, leaves the state of Wisconsin with a $283 million budget shortfall, due to the $541 million he doled out in tax cuts. He is a failed and delusional governor who thinks heavy Republican donors can elect him president.
Why do we continue to give these irrelevant hate-mongers a platform from which to spew their divisive garbage? In truth, its not the president, but the Republican Party that doesn’t love America. If they did, they wouldn’t have been sitting on their asses obstructing progress for six years while praying for America to fail.