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Rudy Giuliani: Electing Obama has 'taken us back 40 or 50 years on race relations'

www.rawstory.com Rudy Giuliani: Electing Obama has 'taken us back 40 or 50 years on race relations'

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani blamed Barack Obama — the nation's first Black president — for a deterioration of race relations in the United States. On his Sunday radio program, Giuliani called Democrats "the party of slavery." "These miserable anti-American leaders of the party of slave.....

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Well, yes, it did.
It caused all of the racists who had kept their worst instincts under wraps since 1960 to freak out.

😂😂😂 Obama was the problem. 🤣🤣
- Obama was a huge problem, but not because of being half black. Because he ran on a progressive platform, and then was decidedly Centrist once he actually got into office. The entire financial bailout could've gone way better, and moved the country in a far better direction, if he wasn't busy placating his wall street friends. His drone program made every civilian in Afghanistan and Iraq despise us to the core, and made children afraid of the sky. He pushed through Obamacare/Affordable Care Act, which was the Republican plan, as a compromise. None of them voted for it anyway, he could've gotten through a much better plan instead. Hillary's loss in 2016 was as much a denunciation of Obama's centrism as it was about Hilary or right wing populism. And his interference in 2020 to get all the centrists to back Biden and shut down Bernie may have doomed us in 2024.
  
  Facts
  
  That is NOT how things went down with the ACA. It bothers me so much that there always seems to be someone who repeats this. The Democrats went for the ACA during the very small window of time that they had a Senate supermajority, so they didn’t have to depend on the Republicans. Single payer healthcare was considered but could not get the support of all the Democrats needed to pass it. The ACA ended up having to be a compromise in order to get all 60 Democratic votes, including the most conservative Democrats at the time. For example, the ACA was supposed to have a public option, but it could not be pushed through, because of people like Joe Lieberman. It barely got passed as it was. The window of time to succeed was a couple months.
  They weren’t counting on Republican votes at all. If they had gone for something more progressive at the time, it would have gone the way of all of the other many failed healthcare reform bills.
- He wore the sexy clothes just asking for it!
  
  The tan suit.
  Very dapper, too dapper, it uh, pissed off people whose suit look like an over priced trash bag.

This is a "look what you made me do to you" sort of thing.
Electing Obama took us back 40 or 50 years on race relations because the racists decided they couldn't handle it. It wasn't Obama's fault, or Obama's voters fault. It was entirely the fault of the GOP.

Thanks, Obama.

Four words: Four Seasons Total Landscaping

The nerve of him. Existing while only half white.

This guy is still alive? I thought he overdosed on hair dye months ago.
- Luckily the ethanol in his system neutralized the methanol from the ink cartridges so he was never not right as rain
  Imsofar as his usual state ever did or cab be rightly construed as right as rain

I think it’s time we send Rudy to live on a farm upstate.

Remember when fox news and republicans went thru 8 years of race baiting and dog whistle messages?

And electing Trump took us as far back as just after the Tillman days, big whoop

"No n****r is better than me!'
"Your DNA is 18% North African, 6% Sub-Saharan African, Mr. Giuliani."
"THAT'S A GODDAMNED LIE!"

Isn’t this guy supposed to be a lawyer? He can’t string two sentences together coherently.

Depends on the definition of "race relations". He and his cronies probably think of "race relations" in terms of "putting the (n-word) back in their place".

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