Barbara Boxer Shreds Giuliani: Go Ask Bin Laden If Obama ‘Loves America’

FILE-This Sept. 10, 2014 file photo shows Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boxer is indicating that she will announce early next year whether she will seek a... FILE-This Sept. 10, 2014 file photo shows Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boxer is indicating that she will announce early next year whether she will seek a fifth term. Boxer, who is 73, says she loves her job and sees no roadblocks to returning to the Senate if she decides to run again. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen,File) MORE LESS
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Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) responded late Monday to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s accusation that President Barack Obama doesn’t “love America” by highlighting his administration’s accomplishments, including the killing of Osama bin Laden.

Giuliani and many other prominent Republicans have faulted Obama for refusing to call the Islamic State terror group ‘Islamic.’ The retiring senator took a shot across the bow at the ex-mayor in a tweet reminding him that the Obama administration was responsible for finally taking out the elusive al-Qaeda leader:

Boxer went on to goad Giuliani by touting the President’s health care and job creation efforts:

h/t Mediaite

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  1. B-Box destroys Guiliani.

    Man, are we going to miss that lady. She rocks.

  2. Good for you, Senator Boxer.

    Ahem, other Dems? Where’s your backbone? Didn’t the whupping you took in 2014 show you that running away from the president was kind of a stupid tactic?

  3. You go, Ma’am…

  4. No doubt in a few days some whiner is going to claim Boxer is kicking a man when he’s down.

    (I suppose I could say that is what Rudy made a specialty of for years. Barb just figured he might want to know what it feels like.)

    But no, this is NOT aimed at Rudy. It may seem like it but its really aimed at all the yahoos out there who think something like this is true.

  5. Hey Rudy, ask your first wife, you know, your cousin, whose marriage you had annulled so you could marry your second wife, who found out in a live TV news conference that you were divorcing her to go be with your mistress who is now your third wife, if Obama is still with his first and only wife.

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