Because charismatic leadership has some drawbacks. The most obvious being that since power flows from the person himself then when Rudy Giuliani publicly questioned Obama’s patriotism he was attacking the wellsprings of the administration." . . . Giuliani’s question about “loving America” is another way of asking if you know who you are working for. Past presidents did not delude themselves into thinking they graced America. They understood they were but weak human vessels who bore the burning, almost incandescent glory of a great nation, were given their moment in history to shine — and like the organizer Obama didn’t want to be — the time to fade away. "
Serious vs. clueless: dissecting the Giuliani flap " 'Look," the former mayor told the Daily News, "this man was brought up basically in a white family, so whatever he learned or didn't learn, I attribute this more to the influence of communism and socialism" than to his race.
" '[Furthermore] I don't [see] this President as being particularly a product of African-American society or something like that. He isn't" the form.
"More precisely, Giuliani says of Obama, "Think of his background.... The ideas that are troubling to me are those [coming from] communists with whom he was associated with through family connections." . . .
. . . "On July 3, 2008 -- the day before Independence Day -- Barack Obama said that adding $4 trillion in debt was irresponsible and "unpatriotic."
Obama: "The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents - #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back -- $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic."
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