Giuliani explains
You may or not agree with this new move of Giuliani’s. But in his explanatory column published in the WSJ he seems to be making several of the same points I’ve been trying to make over the weekend in my posts about tactics:
My blunt language suggesting that the president doesn’t love America notwithstanding, I didn’t intend to question President Obama’s motives or the content of his heart. My intended focus really was the effect his words and his actions have on the morale of the country, and how that effect may damage his performance…
Obviously, I cannot read President Obama’s mind or heart, and to the extent that my words suggested otherwise, it was not my intention.
In terms of tactics, however—you may be surprised to hear that I actually don’t agree with Giuliani’s WSJ column in the tactical sense. That is, I don’t think that it was a good move for him to try to explain afterwards and issue a near- or quasi-apology. The potential gains are not worth it. The left has already done with his original statement what it was inevitably going to do with it, and a column such as Giuliani’s that attempts to perform damage control ex-post-facto translates mostly as weakness after the fact.
The big plus of his original statement was its boldness and strength. So I think he ought to have let it be now and just moved on.
Very disappointed to see Giuliani explaining himself and otherwise walking it back.
In particular, it’s high time that more people *do* question the motives of this president. Heaven knows, the enemy/enemedia have no problems at all questioning the motives, the integrity, the very humanity, of the likes of Dubya, or Romney, or Palin.
Giuliani is … a strange guy. Next thing you know he comes out happily dressed in … drags.
Politicos are so annoying!
Meanwhile, he might have opened the gates:
JINDAL: OBAMA ‘NOT QUALIFIED’ TO BE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF
OUCH!
I argue that Giuliani has managed to keep the whole debate going for another few days. This is not helpful to Obama. Here is trying to violate the Constitution by making up his own law in contradiction to the actual law while at the same time his feelings for the country are being called into question. Juxtaposing the two ideas is not good for him. No matter how hard the MSM tries to cover for Obama, the truths leak through.
I also want to take issue with Neo’s claim that intervening with someone who has a major drug problem is an attempt to create a “fundamental transformation”. It is not. The fundamental transformation was done by the addict when he turned to drugs. The attempt by the family is to undo the transformation and return to addict to his former state.
Rudy does not need to back down or explain, he needs to double down. The messiah hates America and sympathies with the establishment of the new caliphate. Call a spade a spade, do not prevaricate and call it a banana peel.
parker is right about doubling down and not prevaricating and neo right that it was a mistake. Since Gov. Jindal was the only politician to support Giuliani, it is an indication of just how gutless is the GOP.
Saying what Giuliani really thinks about Obama to a small group of close supporters is followed by a modified claw back to the large LIV audience. And there is much fussing and blowing at Neo-Neocon’s site pro and con the early remarks, This same site that vigorously debated whether he was fool or knave for a long time.I didn’t keep score, but my impression was the knave group won the debate by numbers.
So. if adjudged a knave here, why shouldn’t his knavery extend to his Muslim status? The two are highly compatible and his pro muslim actions speak for themselves.
It is for me a very small step to conclude he is a muslim sheep in Christian clothing, particularly when Wright’s phoney Christian brand of hate -America is considered.
Hussein is a Sunni muslim by lineage, a muslim-killer, and an apostate. It only remains to see what fatwas are issued.It would not surprise me for ISIS to issue same.
He should have apologized. He should have apologized profusely for not also questioning his patriotism.
You don’t need to read Obama’s mind or know what’s in his heart to question him not putting his own country first. He’s stated we’re nothing special, and his actions have been consistent with the statement.
Well, the blue is still in the sky
and people aren’t much changed
after the storm has moved by
still the landscape keeps the change
we all know we know some more
cast and crew go about their chore
and the song remains.
The song remains.
Playing for keeps:
On Friday, C.J. Pearson, a 12-year-old conservative from Georgia who posted a viral video supporting Rudy Giuliani, discovered that his personal Facebook page was locked. In an exclusive interview with Examiner.com on Saturday, Pearson said he received a message from someone about 6 a.m. Friday. That’s when he learned his account and page had been locked for “suspicious activity.”
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