Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) is defending remarks he made about President Obama's patriotism at a fundraiser Wednesday night for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R).
Critics are taking issue with Giuliani commenting about the way the president was raised. During the event, he said, "He doesn't love you. And he doesn't love me. He wasn't brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up, through love of this country." Giuliani told The New York Times on Thursday that he was not being prejudiced when he made the statement. "Some people thought it was racist — I thought that was a joke, since he was brought up by a white mother, a white grandfather, went to white schools, and most of this he learned from white people," he said. "This isn't racism. This is socialism or possibly anti-colonialism."
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