Ho Hum…More Republican Ignorance, Stupidity and a Smidgen of Fascism
Here is America’s Mayor:
MANCHESTER, N.H. Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.
But if a Republican is elected, he said, especially if it is him, terrorist attacks can be anticipated and stopped.
“If any Republican is elected president — and I think obviously I would be the best at this — we will remain on offense and will anticipate what [the terrorists] will do and try to stop them before they do it,” Giuliani said.
Ahhh. I love the smell of horse manure on a spring day. So here we go again. Electing a Democrat will cause another September 11th. That’s why September 11th happened on Bill Clinton’s watch… Oh strike that. It was probably the fault of the Democratic Congress… No that isn’t right either…I’m going to have to go with activist judges for $1000.
Rudy, you should pack it in now if this is the best that you’ve got. Head on back to Manhattan and shack up with another future ex-wife, you lousy excuse for a human being.
Tags: 2008 Presidential
Pathetic.
Between Rudy, McCain and Flip Romney the Republicans are as weak as the Democrats are strong. (BTW Murtha just called out McCain on the house floor in no uncertian terms.)
I could easily see myself voting for either Obama or Edwards AND I think it is safe to say that the Democrats are going to pick up huge majorities in both houses if the Republicans continue to try to run on this type of utter BULLSHIT.
While Janet Reno was busy grabbing Elian Gonzales from his family to return him to Cuba, Mohammed Atta and friends were at a Florida flight school just a few miles away.
… and the butterfly ballots were being printed and stacked in warehouses
Now why does Rudy have to start this pandering bullshit? Even though a Dem, I was planning to vote for him. Now, with his sudden flip on the rights of women and the war, I guess I’ll be stuck with Obama or (shudder) Hillary.
My fave ticket is Edwards/Obama.
There is an internet response going on that I punched into today (I found it over in the Eschaton comments) an effort to tell Giuliani to fuck off.
(I told him to can it, no one buys it.)
I think you can expect more, not less of this mess over the next few months. Repubs thrive on the fear factor and they hit the jackpot with many more Americans letting fear be their guide after 9/11. Rudy has nothing else to run on besides 9/11, but I hope that someone remembers to point out to him that BushCo was warned of al-Queda flying planes into our buildings while he was on vacation and did absolutely nothing with that data.
oooops… hate to let the facts get in the way of a good rant:
I’m Not Being Defensive! http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268541,00.html
If an exchange between Rudy Giuliani and top Democrats is a preview of next year’s general election campaign, Republicans have reason to be a lot more confident than they have been these past few months. Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume reports:
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Washington woke up [Wednesday] to morning headlines that Rudy Giuliani predicted a “new 9-11” if a Democrat wins the presidency in 2008. Barack Obama responded that Giuliani has “taken the politics of fear to a new low.” John Edwards said Giuliani’s comments were “divisive and plain wrong.” And Hillary Clinton called it “political rhetoric” that would not lessen the threat of terrorism.
The problem is Giuliani never said what the headlines claimed. It all started with a story in The Politico newspaper, which contained not a single quote to support its lead and headline. But it got picked up elsewhere nonetheless.
What Giuliani actually did say is what he has been saying for weeks, that Democrats would play defense instead of offense in the War on Terror, the same approach tried back before 9/11.
*** END QUOTE ***
Late yesterday afternoon the Democratic National Committee sent an email bearing the signature of chairman Howard Dean (reproduced at Little Green Footballs http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25249_When_Dems_Attack&only ), in which he misquotes Giuliani outright:
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Rudy Giuliani should be ashamed.
The former New York City Mayor is politicizing September 11th in his 2008 presidential bid. Here’s what he said at a recent campaign stop in New Hampshire:
“If a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001… Never ever again will this country ever be on defense waiting for (terrorists) to attack us if I have anything to say about it. And make no mistake, the Democrats want to put us back on defense!”
I won’t let this wannabe Republican nominee get away with remarks like these.
*** END QUOTE ***
In fact, the first sentence in the Giuliani “quote” was not something Giuliani said but something Roger Simon of The Politico http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0407/3689.html wrote
Steamer- I deleted your dupes. You got marked as spam, and when I un-spammed you all three versions went in. I deleted the 2nd and 3rd. I assume they were the same post.
If there was a difference between the first and 3rd, please post any additional details.
OK, so where do you show any evidence that Rudy did not say this? Here is the original story at politico that you reference. The one without any quotes. Oh wait, there is a quote and it is the one that I quoted in the story.
So if you want to say the Simon didn’t properly quote Rudy, fine. But let’s see some evidence. Your links do not support your assertion.
Olbermann on Rudy
Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark.
Here is the opening paragraph from the Politico column:
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Angry Democrats lashed back after Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001 (which Dean coppied in his email with quotation marks falsely added)
Note the lack of quotation marks.
Now scroll down through the article and read the quotes from Guilani’s speach, none suport the opening paragraph.
feel free to offer a quote from the articel that you think equals the opening paragraph.
Funny, I thought the part that said:
“If any Republican is elected president —- and I think obviously I would be the best at this —- we will remain on offense and will anticipate what [the terrorists] will do and try to stop them before they do it,” Giuliani said. [third paragraph, original politico column]
was using those little…what are they called…Oh yeah, quotation marks to indicate a quote.
Steamy has a faithbased approach to reading that lets him ignore quotation marks that undermine his case.
no faith invlolved,
saying the republican anti-terror plan is better than the democrat anti terror plan
is not the same as
saying vote Dem and 3000 plus people will die.
I know you think it’s ok for Dean to make up a quote to advance your agenda (more fake but acurate).
You have lost the right to say that the quote is fake until you click on the damn link and pose a serious counter to it.
sorry I guess I used too many big words…
from the Politico link:
Para 1 does not equal par 3
and Dean took a columnists mischaracterization of Guliani’s speach and pretended he was quoting Guliani to advance the left aggenda.
I think Steamboat is going through withdrawal since FSP died.
I see your point. I disagree, but I see where you could argue. Your point is that he is not quoted as saying that the attack would be on the scale of 9/11. Correct?
Do you think that Rudy meant anything less than that?
Kevin Drum properly noted that the Democrats response was not substantive but simply whining.
http://www2.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2007_04/011189.php
Where is the substantive rebuttal?