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fbc

(1,668 posts)
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 12:47 PM Feb 2015

Yes, Let's Talk About 'Upbringing,' Rudy

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/02/yes-lets-talk-about-upbringing-rudy

Barack 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.


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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jwirr

(39,215 posts)
2. President Obama was raised by his white mother and white grandparents in Kansas! What more
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 01:39 PM
Feb 2015

do they want?

lastlib

(23,309 posts)
4. That is a slap in the face to twits everywhere.
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 02:52 PM
Feb 2015

I prefer to think of him as a stinking fetid tower of diarrheaic excrement.

lastlib

(23,309 posts)
7. Yes, thank you! I should have!
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 04:45 PM
Feb 2015

But I don't think it's just steam--I think it's likely generating some strong toxic fumes.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
11. Also kick. People need to know who is for this crooked cabal. More on Rudy:
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 03:08 AM
Feb 2015
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

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