Rudy Giuliani: Obama doesn't love America

[Reaganfan]

Pretty obvious stuff. Obama loves countries like Denmark and would love the US to be more like them.

Most sane people would love the US to be more like Denmark.

And the average American would gain a lot more from that than through whether the President loves America or not.

Great. Let's have America be more like the country that Germany invaded in two months.

I've said it before, he's not the head of the U.N. He's the President of the United States. Where's his thoughts on American exceptionalism? Where's his Teddy Roosevelt, Truman, Reagan moments?

[Reaganfan]

Kyle Smith of the NY Post had a great article on this whole situation:

http://nypost.com/2015/02/21/sure-obama-loves-america-just-not-the-america-we-live-in/

Rudy Giuliani thinks President Obama doesn’t love America. That’s not true. Obama surely loves America, though not the actual existing country. He is head-over-heels gaga for a fictional America, a notional America, an enlightened America, America with an asterisk.

Whenever Obama praises America, especially in foreign lands, he is careful to append caveats that make it clear America should, as he once said in another context, get off its high horse. He doesn’t apologize, exactly, but he makes it clear that his overall image of America is of a morally shrunken, chastened land whose sins render it unfit to exert much authority in the world.

In Prague, he said America has “a moral responsibility to act” on arms control because only the US had “used a nuclear weapon,” as though winning a war that Japan started was shameful.

Obama’s famous view of American exceptionalism — “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism” — is curiously qualified: When you ask a mom whether she thinks her baby is cute, you expect to hear, “Of course!” not a reflection on the nature of subjectivity.

By a margin of 46 to 11, more right-wing conservatives than left-wing liberals agree that the US is the best country, according to last year’s Pew survey. In another survey, when Americans were asked to guess whether American exceptionalism was a belief of Presidents Clinton, Reagan, George W. Bush and Obama, the latter came in last, by a large margin.

Even when Obama claims to support American exceptionalism, he can’t do so without a “but.”

Excellent points. I wish Rudy could have phrased it more in that way.