THE SEAN HANNITY SHOW

Does Obama Love America? Does President Obama love America?  Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani has reason to believe he doesn't.  What about you? Speaking at an event last night, Rudy Giuliani told a crowd of conservatives that he does not believe Obama loves this country: “I do not believe — and I know this is a horrible thing to say — but I do not believe that the president loves America.”  The mayor went on to explain,  “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.” Liberals and the leftist media have jumped on Giuliani for questioning Obama's patriotism.  Giuliani went on Fox & Friends this morning to clarify.  He says, “In [Obama's] rhetoric, I very rarely hear him say the things Ronald Reagan say, things I used to hear Bill Clinton say about how much he loves America.  I do hear him criticize America much more often than other American presidents.  And when it is not in the context of overwhelming number of statements about the exceptionalism of America, it's like he's more of a critic than he is a supporter.” Giuliani makes a good point and it is not difficult to understand how he arrives at this observation.  After all, Barack Obama is the president who … Vowed to “fundamentally transform” the United States of America Engaged in a full-fledged American apology tour upon entering office Criticized American exceptionalism on the world stage Sat in the pews as his pastor Jeremiah Wright proclaimed that we shouldn't sing “God Bless America” but “G—damn America.” I find it hard to believe that Ronald Reagan or even Bill Clinton would have engaged in such behavior.  Liberals are aghast that anyone would dare to question the president's patriotism, but let's not forget that he has already done the same to those who oppose him.  Fred Barnes writes in the Weekly Standard that Obama's biggest lie of his presidency was not about keeping our doctors or his true position on gay marriage; the biggest lie was that he was above partisanship.  Obama has been the most ideologically rigid president of recent memory, whose critics aren't just wrong in their theories but questionable in their values and motivations.  And to make his point, Barnes points to Obama questioning the patriotism of Republicans.  He writes … “As a candidate in 2008, Obama said questioning 'who is—or is not—a patriot all too often poisons our political debates in ways that divide us rather than bring us together.' Last year, however, he said he prefers 'a patriotic' Republican party to the one that opposes him. He also accused Republicans of favoring “party over country” and declared himself an advocate of 'economic patriotism,' implying that those who differ with him are unpatriotic.” And remember that it was Barack Obama himself who questioned the patriotism of George W. Bush because of the level of debt racked up during his presidency: “The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents - #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back -- $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That's irresponsible. It's unpatriotic.” Obama, by the way, has more than doubled our debt, which is currently about $18 trillion. I cannot ultimately speak to what is in Obama's heart, but we can look at his rhetoric and his actions and determine that he has taken a different approach to loving his country than presidents of the past.  Is Our Economy Really Recovering? The Obama administration likes to brag that our economy has recovered, but many Americans are having a hard time believing it.  Perhaps this is why ... The official jobless rate is down from its recession peak of 10 percent, because so many adults have quit looking for work. If the same percentage of adults were employed or looking for work today as when Presidents Obama or George W. Bush took office, the jobless rate would be nearly 9 and 11 percent, respectively. Nearly 1 in 6 men between ages 25 and 54 -- too old for college and too young to retire -- are jobless. Nearly 1 in 8 are not even trying to find work, and most may never work again. Economic gains and opportunity haven't really recovered.  Washington just changed the way it measures “success.” Source: Fox News