Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani charted this morning on CNN that President “ignored national security” in his State of the Union address last night.
Giuliani (R) said Obama “didn’t talk about the Christmas almost-bomber,” even though Obama did. He said the president didn’t use the word “Islamic terrorism,” though Obama used the word “terrorist” twice and “terrorism” once.
Giuliani’s interpretation of the amount of time devoted to national security may be accurate – the economy took up two-thirds of the speech – but Obama definitely mentioned it. (Here’s a flashback to Giuliani saying earlier this month that the nation had no terrorist attacking during the George W. Bush presidency.)
Today Giuliani said Obama’s lack of security talk was comparable to Franklin Roosevelt giving a State of the Union during World War II “not mentioning Nazism and not mentioning the war.”
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