This week, the media broke news that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said, at an event attended by prospective Republican presidential candidate Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, that he does not believe President Barack Obama “loves America.” This isn’t news. Barack Obama doesn’t love free enterprise, believes founding philosophy was fatally flawed and sees the American people as rubes with antiquated religious and racist tendencies. Sure, we can all agree that Obama likely loves America’s scenery; perhaps he loves America, but doesn’t like her very much. But that’s not what Giuliani was talking about, and everyone knows it.
But in any case,
Giuliani wasn’t the media’s true target. The true target was Walker……You cannot
overcome that perception by ardently pleading that the very folks who call you
racist, sexist, homophobic bigots are well-intentioned but incompetent. If
someone calls you a racist, and you respond by stating that they are a
reasonable human being with policy differences, you grant their premise: A
reasonable person has called you a racist, which means it is reasonable to call
you racist. You lose……To Read More.
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