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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHarold Giuliani, mob enforcer, source of son Rudy's family values?
Rudy Giuliani: Obama "wasnt brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up" ...http://crooksandliars.com/2015/02/yes-lets-talk-about-upbringing-rudy
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/giulianis-smear-wasnt-racist-what-was-it.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/wayne-barrett-rudy-giuliani-love-article-1.2122253
http://debatez.com/forum/discussion/825/obama-was-not-brought-up-the-way-i-was-son-of-convicted-felon-mafia-enforcer-harold-giuliani
The book, Rudy: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani, by Village Voice reporter Wayne Barrett, contains a string of claims about Gothams controversial mayor and his family.
According to Barrett, Harold Giuliani served a one-and-a-half year term in Sing Sing prison after robbing a milkman at gunpoint in 1934, a decade before his son, the mayor-to-be, was born.
Rudy also alleges that Harold Giuliani served as the muscle for a loan-sharking outfit, claiming that he broke legs, smashed kneecaps [and] crunched noses in the 1950s -- even taking part in a gunfight on a Brooklyn street in the 1960s.
According to Barrett, Harold Giuliani served a one-and-a-half year term in Sing Sing prison after robbing a milkman at gunpoint in 1934, a decade before his son, the mayor-to-be, was born.
Rudy also alleges that Harold Giuliani served as the muscle for a loan-sharking outfit, claiming that he broke legs, smashed kneecaps [and] crunched noses in the 1950s -- even taking part in a gunfight on a Brooklyn street in the 1960s.
The original basis for Giulianis comments was Obamas allegedly unusual upbringing. He wasnt brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country, alleged the former mayor. As Wayne Barrett points out, Giulianis father was a mob enforcer, and he and his five brothers all avoided military service during World War II. What about this upbringing in any way suggests it conveyed some deeper patriotism than Obamas?
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Harold Giuliani, mob enforcer, source of son Rudy's family values? (Original Post)
Las Vegas Mixx
Feb 2015
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Family Values. Tony Soprano style. Is this what they man by "Giuliani Time?" nt
mikekohr
Feb 2015
#1
Rudy nominated old pal Bernard Kerik to become Homeland Security Chief (before he went to prison)
Las Vegas Mixx
Feb 2015
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mikekohr
(2,312 posts)1. Family Values. Tony Soprano style. Is this what they man by "Giuliani Time?" nt
Las Vegas Mixx
(259 posts)2. Rudy nominated old pal Bernard Kerik to become Homeland Security Chief (before he went to prison)
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(936 posts)3. Giuliani, Palin, Trump - making racist rants just keeps those tea party moron $$$ flowing their way