Get More Smarter on Friday (Feb. 20)

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1. EPIC takedown of that worthless, washed up, criminal-hiring, racist, scumbag, dress-wearing, draft-dodging teabagger wannabe Rude-E Julieannie, right here:

   http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/wayne-barrett-rudy-giuliani-love-article-1.2122253

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2. My fave part actually backs him up on one thing. Obama certainly wasn't raised the way Giuliani was. 

   Giuliani went so far as to rebuke the President for not being "brought up the way you were and the way I was brought up through love of this country," a bow no doubt to the parenting prowess of Harold Giuliani, who did time in Sing Sing for holding up a Harlem milkman and was the bat-wielding enforcer for the loan-sharking operation run out of a Brooklyn bar owned by Rudy's uncle.

   Though Rudy cited Harold throughout his public life as his model (without revealing any of his history), he and five Rudy uncles found ways to avoid service in World War II. Harold, whose robbery conviction was in the name of an alias, made sure the draft board knew he was a felon. On the other hand, Obama's grandfather and uncle served. His uncle helped liberate Buchenwald, which apparently affected him so deeply he stayed in the family attic for six months when he returned home.

   Let's see. My Dad and his brothers, pro-labor Dems like their folks, all served in WWII, none of them ever came close to serving time, I had a white mom (and dad) and my white grandparents were a big part of my upbringing. Sounds like a background pretty much like Obama's. On the other hand, Giuliani can leave me out of any "you and I". Thanks but no thanks. Just who was he talking to, anyway?

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   1. Obama was not raised in a family where it was ok to marry one's cousin. Obama was not brought up to bang Judith Nathan while still married to Donna Hanover, the woman he married after divorcing the cousin. Obama was not brought up to ignore his children, and to bring his mistress into the house where his wife and children resided. Obama was not brought up to strut around like the crime busting prosecutor with perp pwalks only to find himself in business with the felonious Bernard Kerick.

      Very true……Obama was not brought up like Rudy Giuliani.

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      1. Giuliani first married his second cousin (I don't think there's any religious objection to that among the many contradictory says on who can marry whom in the bible), then asked for an annulment, good Catholic that he is (except for the adultery  etc.), on the grounds that he was married to his cousin.  He announced his desire to divorce number 2  at a presser before he bothered to inform number 2. If his behavior is any indication, he might have been raised by wolves.   

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   2. As a former registered Republican explains it:

      It is the behavior of a party that now routinely places its own partisan advantage, as well as its own unhinged hatred for its ideological opponents, ahead of the good of the country.

      But my revulsion at the Republicans doesn't begin and end with Iraq and Benghazi. It's spread to many other issues over the years. Frankly, the GOP increasingly looks like a party in the grip of some form of hyperpartisan madness that takes self-destructive delight in alienating everyone who isn't a far-right ideologue. What else can explain the up-is-down, black-is-white, counterintuitive perversity of the stances Republicans increasingly take in response to national news and trends?

      http://theweek.com/articles/447011/im-democrat-im-antirepublican

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      1. What else can explain modster and AC?

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