Rudy Giuliani: I'm Not Racist; Our Dumb President Had a White Mom

“I’m not questioning his patriotism — he’s a patriot, I’m sure. What I’m saying is, in his rhetoric, I very rarely hear him say the things I used to hear Ronald Reagan say, the things I used to hear Bill Clinton say about all the things he loves about America. I do hear him criticize America much more often than other American presidents.”

As if that was not enough, in an interview with the New York Times, Giuliani has decided to explain a statement he made originally about Obama – “He wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up…” – by saying that no, no, that’s not a comment about race, because Obama is half white:

“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,” Mr. Giuliani said in the interview. “This isn’t racism. This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism.”

And more, on Obama’s qualifications to comment on history:

“Now we know there’s something wrong with the guy,” Mr. Giuliani said of the president. “I thought that one sort of went off the cliff.”

He added: “What I don’t find with Obama — this will get me in more trouble again — is a really deep knowledge of history. I think it’s a dilettante’s knowledge of history.”

This will get me in trouble again. And yet.

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