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You Know I'm Right | Commentary by Betty Arenson
| Friday, Feb 27, 2015

bettyarensonThere are two reasons why I wish former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani had not said: “I do not believe – and I know this is a horrible thing to say – but I do not believe that the president loves America … (H)e 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 this country.”

The first reason is that his words give fodder to the opposition; and second, it’s too bad he led with “and I know this is a horrible thing to say, but.” Never give a mitigating prelude when you believe you speak the truth.

Giuliani isn’t getting credit for speaking what’s on his mind and being afforded the right to exercise the First Amendment. Above that, the left is not admitting that Giuliani is expressing an evaluation of Obama’s vivid actions and words.

It’s pretty simple: When the purported leader of a country sympathizes with and refuses to name an enemy hell-bent on destroying said country, then what are citizens supposed to conclude?

Giuliani, a man and leader who cleaned up the aftermath of a major city’s hub after a deadly terrorist attack – a man and leader who looked massive death and destruction in the face – has paramount leeway to express his opinion and be offended when another leader does not speak of the country as “the most exceptional country in the world.”

Giuliani credited Obama with being a “patriot” and that he was not questioning that patriotism. He supported that observation by pointing out that in Obama’s “rhetoric, I very rarely hear him say the things that I used to hear Ronald Reagan say, the things that I used to hear Bill Clinton say about how much he loves America.” He added that Obama speaks as “more of a critic than he is a supporter” when he, more than other presidents, criticizes America – and the country isn’t accustomed to that.

One of the first major hypocrites flying out of the gate was Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. She was doing her day job with: “One of the GOP frontrunners was sitting feet away and didn’t say a word. If the Republican Party really wants to be taken seriously, really wants to avoid its problems of the past, now is the time for its leaders to stop this kind of nonsense. ‘Enough,’” and “Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio, now it is your turn. Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, stand up and say enough.”

Schultz patted herself on the back, offering that she “rarely agreed” with President George W. Bush but “never questioned his love of country.” Followed by: “I don’t often agree with my Republican colleagues on the Hill, but I know they love America. Is this what it has really come to? Really?”

Why yes, Debbie, apparently it has come to this, and you’ve helped facilitate it.

Last September, Schultz was again feverishly doing her day job, before the November mid-term elections, in toiling to destroy Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker who had repeatedly won elections. She pulled out and dusted off the beleaguered War on Women theme. Her words at a Milwaukee roundtable event vilifying Republicans in general and Walker in specific were: “Scott Walker has given women the back of his hand. I know that is stark. I know that is direct. But that is reality,” adding: “What Republican tea party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back.”

Apparently Debbie hadn’t yet known of the word “enough” when accusing Republicans of committing domestic violence and being wife-beaters.

A blatant observation of Debbie Wasserman Schultz before the camera is that one subject she ought to distance herself from is “hair.”

However, Debbie has bigger problems in her own backyard.

That’ll be next week’s commentary.

 


Betty Arenson has lived in the SCV since 1968 and describes herself as a conservative who’s concerned about progressives’ politics and their impacts on the country, her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She says she is unashamed to own a gun or a Bible, couldn’t care less about the color of the president’s skin, and demands that he uphold his oath to protect and follow the Constitution of the United States in its entirety.

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  1. I don’t see why people are flipping their lid about this. Obama called Bush unpatriotic for raising the debt. Barney Frank and another woman in Congress flat out said that Bush wants black people to die. But this gets all the press. That’s our media.

  2. I don’t see why people are flipping their lid about this. Obama called Bush unpatriotic for raising the debt. Barney Frank and another woman in Congress flat out said that Bush wants black people to die. But this gets all the press. That’s our media.

  3. Dean Botton says:

    Well, Obama stinks. Obviously, his initials are B.O. after all. He is by far the worst president we’ve ever had. I guess there’s no such thing as impeachment any longer, because he is the lawless one in need of it.

    • Dean Botton says:

      Obama stinks. After all, his initials are B.O.

      Here’s a wonderful list of B.O.’s “first” hand accomplishments:

      – First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.

      – First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.

      – First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.

      – First President to violate the War Powers Act.

      – First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

      – First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.

      – First President to spend a trillion dollars on “shovel-ready” jobs when there was no such thing as “shovel-ready” jobs.

      – First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.

      – First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.

      – First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.

      – First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.

      – First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.

      – First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.

      – First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.

      – First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.

      – First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.

      – First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.

      – First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.

      – First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).

      – First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.

      – First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).

      – First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.

      – First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.

      – First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.

      – First President to golf more than 200 separate times in his six years in office.

      – First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.

      – First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.

      – First President to go on multiple “global apology tours” and concurrent “insult our friends” tours.

      – First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.

      – First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.

      – First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.

      – First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.

      – First President to repeat the Holy Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth

      – First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).

      – First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they “volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences.”
      Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. (Thank God he didn’t get away with THIS one.)

      – First president to negotiate with terrorists.

      – First president to commit impeachable offenses and still be allowed to remain in office because of his race.

      – First president to give priority to foreigners over veterans.

      – First president who was elected by bribery (free cell phones)

      – First president to confuse patriots with terrorists.

      – First president who willfully allowed a Level 4 contagion (EbOla) into the country.

      -*UPDATE*: Obama just cost America thousands of jobs by vetoing the Keystone Pipeline.

      How is this hope and change’ working out for you?

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