Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani seemed to test the waters for yet another campaign recently, and with rather biased comments about President Obama. At a Feb. 18 political event in the Big Apple, he told big-money attendees that ?I do not believe the president loves America.?
Slyly referring to Obama’s absent and Kenyan-born father, Giuliani offered:
?(Obama) wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.?
He defended that comment the very next day, too, and with even more base insinuations:
?Some people thought it was racist ? I thought that was a joke, since he was brought up by a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools, and most of this he learned from white people. This isn’t racism. This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism.?
But his indirect and insinuating comments regarding the president’s father have one fatal flaw: he says he was ?brought up through love of this country,? but Giuliani’s father was a petty ? and apparently racist ? crook. ?In 1934, Harold Giuliani was sentenced to prison for a robbery in black-dominant Harlem. See the prisoner blotter from Sing Sing below:
This same Harold Giuliani, who ?brought up? Rudy ?through love of this country,? carried a lot more non-father-figure dirt, too. According to the New York Post’s Wayne Barrett, the elder Giuliani:
??was the bat-wielding enforcer for the loan-sharking operation run out of a Brooklyn bar owned by Rudy’s uncle.?
These fatherly examples apparently influenced the way Giuliani raised his own children. In 2010, his daughter Caroline was arrested for shoplifting over $100 in goods from a Manhattan store. So Rudy apparently raised his kids with the same ?love of this country? that his father instilled in him.
You still gotta have some sympathy for this guy. After all, now he’s getting death threats after his off-color comments from the other day, he told CNN on Feb. 20. Of course, CNN is quick to point out that it can’t confirm those claims, and notes that Giuliani himself refused to say if he reported the ?threats? to the police. If he’s telling the truth about this, though, Giuliani should be used to it by now; he received as many as 80 death threats in a single month during his mayoral term. So he’s complaining now?
Perhaps he should focus on coming up with an excuse for his apparently racist comments from the other day ? but he’ll have a hard time covering that up due to his personal history, too. Just last November he tried to excuse the racial profiling his police department did while he was mayor with this made-up statistic:
?Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society.?
So with his history of hypocrisies, these?recent comments are not only other?examples of Giuliani being the pot that calls the kettle black. With this recap of racism, it looks like the pot is a lot darker than the kettle.
