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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYes, Let's Talk About 'Upbringing,' Rudy
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/02/yes-lets-talk-about-upbringing-rudyBarack Obama's grandfather fought in World War II. Rudy Giuliani's father was barred from military service because he was a felon.
Yeah, maybe Giuliani's right. Maybe we really are formed by the character of the people who raised us.
Yeah, maybe Giuliani's right. Maybe we really are formed by the character of the people who raised us.
Interesting article. I recommend reading the whole thing.
More on Obama's family's WWII service (first reference is to his Grandfather):
On D-Day, documents place him at Stoney Cross, England, in the 1830th Ordnance Supply and Maintenance Co., Aviation....
His company supported the 9th Air Force as it prepared for the assault on Normandy and took part in the drive that carried the Allies across France. Dunham and the men of the 1830th came across six weeks after the initial Normandy invasion and followed the front through France....
Madelyn, the beloved grandmother known as "Toot" who helped raise the future president, did her part for the war effort, working the night shift as a supervisor on the B-29 bomber assembly line at the Boeing plant.
Her brother is part of the war story, too. Charles Payne, Obama's great-uncle, in 1945 helped liberate a sub-camp of the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald....
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Yes, Let's Talk About 'Upbringing,' Rudy (Original Post)
fbc
Feb 2015
OP
Obama loves this country more than most Americans. Period. Rudy is a crook, he loves money.
freshwest
Feb 2015
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freshwest
(53,661 posts)1. Obama loves this country more than most Americans. Period. Rudy is a crook, he loves money.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)2. President Obama was raised by his white mother and white grandparents in Kansas! What more
do they want?
lark
(23,158 posts)3. Rudy is such a twit!
Who cares what that neocon idiot thinks.
lastlib
(23,309 posts)4. That is a slap in the face to twits everywhere.
I prefer to think of him as a stinking fetid tower of diarrheaic excrement.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)5. He always looks like his breath would be stale.
George II
(67,782 posts)6. Didn't you mean to include "steamy" in that?
lastlib
(23,309 posts)7. Yes, thank you! I should have!
But I don't think it's just steam--I think it's likely generating some strong toxic fumes.
rosesaylavee
(12,126 posts)8. And THAT is an insult to diarrheaic excrements everywhere!
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)9. from a leprous ass
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)10. kick
freshwest
(53,661 posts)11. Also kick. People need to know who is for this crooked cabal. More on Rudy:
Newark Star-Ledger Editorial re: Giuliani
...The former mayor once described by Jimmy Breslin as "a small man in search of a balcony," was on the stump for Scott Walker Wednesday night...
to LiberalElite:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026256087
...The former mayor once described by Jimmy Breslin as "a small man in search of a balcony," was on the stump for Scott Walker Wednesday night...
to LiberalElite:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026256087