{"id":554,"date":"2008-07-10T14:20:46","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T19:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2008-07-10T14:20:46","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T19:20:46","slug":"giuliani-doesnt-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=554","title":{"rendered":"Giuliani Doesn&#8217;t Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Giuliani proves he doesn&#8217;t get it in this clip.<\/p>\n<p>Barack Obama is popular because he&#8217;s tapping into anti-Americanism?\u00a0 Or is it because &#8211; as most foreign observers have said &#8211; because Obama gives people whose hopes for America have been dashed under this president another chance to hope?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/05\/world\/05react.html?pagewanted=print\">Is this the anti-Americanism<\/a> that Giuliani was talking about:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Patrick Devedjian, the head of President Sarkozy\u2019s center-right political party, called Mr. Obama\u2019s candidacy \u2018\u2019a very beautiful image of America, the image of a candidate who transcends race and got to where he is because of merit alone.\u201d And Bertrand Delano\u00eb, the mayor of Paris, declared: \u201cHis candidacy carries an enormous hope for his country and for peace in the world&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sense of optimism trickled through to Hong Kong\u2019s financial district. \u201cI feel his image is younger, fresher and more energetic, with no baggage and a shorter history,\u201d said Richard Law, 50, a lawyer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The enthusiasm was also clear among conservative politicians, such as Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the foreign policy spokesman for the Christian Social Union, the sister party of Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s conservative Christian Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>If Mr. Obama becomes president, \u201cwe will reach a new peak of trans-Atlantic romanticism,\u201d he said&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the clip of Giuliani:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"390\" height=\"320\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"id\" value=\"Redlasso\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"embedId=09730c76-5fa9-48d6-95c0-8dc4001aac22\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/media.redlasso.com\/xdrive\/WEB\/vidplayer_1b\/redlasso_player_b1b_deploy.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/briefingroom.thehill.com\/2008\/07\/10\/giuliani-obama-capturing-an-anti-american-feeling\/\">The Hill<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudy Giuliani proves he doesn&#8217;t get it in this clip. Barack Obama is popular because he&#8217;s tapping into anti-Americanism?\u00a0 Or is it because &#8211; as most foreign observers have said &#8211; because Obama gives people whose hopes for America have been dashed under this president another chance to hope? Is this the anti-Americanism that Giuliani [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,29,45,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-giuliani","category-mccain","category-obama","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-8W","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}