Story highlights Rudy Giuliani said he does not believe the president loves America

Errol Louis: Giuliani's outburst shows why he's more of a cable TV rabble-rouser than a serious political figure

Errol Louis is the host of "Inside City Hall," a nightly political show on NY1, a New York all-news channel. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.

(CNN) Several times in recent months, America has been treated to a spectacle that New Yorkers grew accustomed to -- and sick of -- a long time ago: an outburst from ex-mayor Rudy Giuliani that is equal parts ugly, thoughtless and divisive.

"I know this is a horrible thing to say, but I do not believe that the President loves America," went the latest outburst , delivered to a group of fellow Republicans at a Manhattan restaurant. Obama, said Giuliani, "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."

The White House barely even acknowledged the outburst, in part because Giuliani, a failed candidate for president, has become more of a cable television rabble-rouser than a serious national political figure.

Errol Louis

Consider what happened in 2008, when Giuliani and Obama were both on the ballot for the highest office in the land. Obama went on to become president; Giuliani, by contrast spent nearly $50 million and lost every caucus and primary he entered before dropping out with a grand total of only one delegate, a modern record for electoral futility.

In other words, it would be more accurate to say America -- as expressed by the will of the voting public -- doesn't love Giuliani.

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