Giuliani: "I'm Probably One Of The Four Or Five Best Known Americans In The World"

Associated Press:

Rudy Giuliani was on the trans-Atlantic campaign trail Wednesday, schmoozing with conservative idol Margaret Thatcher and bragging about his international credentials.

"I'm probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world," Giuliani told a small group of reporters at a posh London hotel as onlookers gathered in the lobby to gawk at actor Dustin Hoffman, who was on a separate visit.

Read the whole story: Associated Press

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[TonyaDLuv]

Rep. Peter King: There are "too many mosques in this country”

New York Rep. Peter King, a prominent House Republican, said there are “too many mosques in this country” in a recent interview with Politico.

“There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam,” King said. “We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.”

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BINGO! He is so right! Would a Democrat ever be this bold in the fight against Islamic terrorism? Hell fucking no. That's why THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED ON NATIONAL SECURITY.

[HumeSkeptic]

BINGO! He is so right! Would a Democrat ever be this bold -TonyaDluv
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I doubt it. No Democrat can be as depraved as a Republican. Think about it. Were a Democrat depraved, he/she would be a Republican, by definition.

[TonyaDLuv]

Dumb.

[Thalia]

Huh?

Which party was in complete charge of the country leading up to and on 9/11?

Which party mocked a president who was trying to draw attention to and deal with the terrorism threat BEFORE 9/11 and accused him of wagging the dog and trying to create a phony issue to distract off what they believed was the biggest threat to America: a president's private life?

Which party outed a CIA operative for political purposes and destroyed a national security asset, her WMD nonproliferation network, in the process?

Republicans.

National Security? Pshaw!

[Firaxis]

What does that have to do with Pete King?

The 9/11 Commission concluded that Bill Clinton was too timid in dealing with Islamic terrorism and Michael Scheuer, head of the CIA's bin Laden Unit under Clinton, accused Clinton of being a liar regarding Clinton's trying to get bin Laden. Clinton nixed 3 clear assassination attempts and 3 attempts by the Somalis to turn him over to U.S. authorities.

Inconvenient facts that Thalia continually leaves out.

If bin Laden had been killed, there is a good chance 9/11 would not have happened.

[Firaxis]

Bill Richardson, Socialist Democrat from New Mexico has just torpedoed his Presidential hopes:
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ABC News' Teddy Davis and Nancy Flores Report: Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson called Wednesday for obese Americans to be brought under the protection of the Americans for Disabilities Act.

"This is an issue of basic civil rights," said Richardson. "There are no federal laws that protect obese Americans from discrimination in the workplace, school, or anywhere else. This must change."

Asked how the A.D.A. would distinguish between obese Americans deserving of protection and merely overweight Americans, the New Mexico governor said he would defer such questions to specialists.

Priceless

[TonyaDLuv]

How about if there is a new law mandating exercise and food limitations for those fat pigs?

[apduncan1]

Too late for Jerry Falwell...

[misterbone]

Obesity is already defined as a disability under Social Security regulations. Bill is actually behind the times on this one.

[TonyaDLuv]

Serious Question:

Hillary got caught taking dirty campaign donations from a guy she knew from prior background checks on him was doing illegal things.

You Liberals let it slide.

If Giulani had been the recipient of Hsu's dirty money, would you be as silent as you have been on Hillary?

[Thalia]

Snore.

[TonyaDLuv]

Would you have given Giuliani a pass like you did Hillary, Thalia? I'm serious.

[Egyptsteve]

You say Rudi, I say Benito
You say Giuliani, I say Mussolini
You say Hizonner, I say Il Duce.

Let's call the whole thing off.

[Earl]

Is someone on vacation at HuffPo? The story selections SUCK.

[lornejl]

Be patient, another Fred thread will be up soon.

[leftyandproudofit]

Earl:

Agreed. The last week, the stories on HuffPo have been completely BORING. Go to Raw Story, et al. Much better stuff.

[WOLFWARRIOR]

The Labor Department reported Thursday that new applications for
unemployment benefits totaled 311,000 last week, a drop of 9,000
from the previous week. It marked the lowest level for jobless
claims since July 28.

Okay now boys and girls add in those who are no-longer eligible
- To file for the unemployment benefits - Gooding the books are they ???

And now the AG-Sec is going to run as a good republican in Nebraska -
Talk about wanting a beating - This same Ag-Sec who promoted illegal
immigration - Is going to run in a state - He helped to lay off worker
- in meat packing plants ...

Ohhh the people of Nebraska just will love him ...

Ohh well lets go help countrywide lobby for higher then 417 thousand -
The welfare - rich-greedy need more help ...


Don't you just love all these broke-back-bathroom repub's ???

They really think they can f-over the American People - and get
rewarded for it ...

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[NotaBeliever]

I don't want to label Giuliani. I don't know him, but I'm not liking him. He is so obviously *not* "one of the 4 or 5 best-known Americans in the world." Really. He seems to have drunk his own brand of kool-aid. Who told him he'd make a good president? Does he have a big broom to clean out the corruption of the past 6.5 years? Not thinking he even sees the mess around him.

[HumeSkeptic]

Giuliani: "I'm Probably One Of The 4 Or 5 Best Known Americans In The World"
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oh no another O'Reilly.

[faretheewell]

I'm not certain, but I suspect that if polled, more people would know a host of US celebrities before they would know RUdy.

WHo has a higher profile, Britney or RUdy?

MOre recognized world wide, Paris or Rudy?

Better looking and better know, Kevin COstner or RUdy?

More likely to influence your reading choices and better known, Oprah or RUdy?

Who would you rather hear sing, and is better know Bruce Springsteen or Rudy?

THink I moved him to number 6 without even trying.

[javagirl322]

I'm sure Donna Hanover would have something to say about how well known he is.......a legend in his own mind.

[davy]

How can he tell? It's so dark up his own behind. Was ever a man more full of himself?

[NYC07]

That's because everyone knows who the "Town Idiot" is.

[olivia]

Sorry, the best-known Americans are:

George W. Bush
Bill Clinton
Al Gore
Britney Spears
Paris Hilton

Giuliani is in a bubble filled with ego and hot air.

[andyboy]

They actually pay this asshole millions for "security" advice. The worst terrorist attack ever in history happens on your watch and suddenly your a security expert.

Rudy is a hoodlum. See the Mafia was put out of business so's Rudy and Bernie could control New York. He's a front man for all the mobsters who run the prostitution and gambling in NYC.

Rudy's big claim to fame was rousting helpless or homeless indigents. I mean how weak is going after fucking squeegee guys? Shoving broomsticks up poor slobs asses. Putting dozens of bullets into unarmed black guys for no reason.

[Thalia]

From Firedoglake:

By TRex on Wed Sep 19, 2007 at 10:06 pm
You have to wonder what on earth the Republicans (and Joe Lieberman, natch) were thinking when they voted down Senator Webb’s plan to ensure that our nation’s soldiers are rested and mentally and physically ready to go into battle. What could possibly justify the continuation of the cruel, punishing policies that send soldiers back to war when they are not yet fit to fight?

Reuters:

Fellow Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a co-sponsor of Webb’s plan, said Republican senators were heavily lobbied by the administration against the measure.


“The White House has been very effective of making this a loyalty test for the party,” Hagel said after the vote.

Oh.

So, let me get this straight. The welfare of our armed men and women now takes a back seat to demonstrating your complete obeisance to President 25%?

That should tell every person in America everything they need to know about the Republican Party, a group of men and women who would rather frag the troops than cross King George.

Good to know.

[IntelligentDesign]

Old news to the 71%-ers - the GOP has been hijacked by enemy combatant neocons, and they are in the process of destroying our representative democracy and replacing it with a dictatorship, in the name of the Most High - Houston, we have a problem.

[andyboy]

Everyone knows it's not like fighting in a real war. There's lots of down time squatting in the nicest houses in the neighborhood. The ones where they throw the legal residents out on their ass. Then walk around acting all cocky and stupid. Handing out a few dollars here. Intimidating unarmed civilians there.

This isn't a war it's an occupation with some sporadic querilla resistance. These guys can stay over there forever as far as I'm concerned. They enlisted. No one twisted their arms. And most of them love it. It takes a certain type to want to kill others for glory. They'll be fine.

These guys don't really even understand their just their to act as targets for "terrorists" so the government can justify the "war".

[apduncan1]

If you start calling what it is: an occupation, the whole thing starts making sense.

It will be pushed down our throats just like Adolf did when he invaded Poland at the onset of WWII.

The genocide won't stop... we've slaughtered some 500,000 Iraqis so far and the blood lust of the Nazis in power haven't been satisfied.

It is all about oil, the god of the neo-cons.

[TonyaDLuv]

Effort to Shift Course in Iraq Fails in Senate

Looks like the Democrats lost another one. I guess the surge working has changed a lot of minds about the war....John Warner changed his mind.

[MajorKong]

Tony Snow, is that you?

[Thalia]

Hogwash.

Warner's change in vote wasn't about the war, it was about extending time at home for troops.

He was for it before he was against it, and it is known that the White House, per usual, bullied and threatened those who were going to vote against it.

Read the comments from Hagel in the post of mine below.

This is, as usual, about ceding to King George, even at the expense of the welfare of those troops doing the fighting for you over there.

[Thalia]

OOps, I mean "who were going to vote for it."

[misterbone]

"I guess the surge working has changed a lot of minds about the war...."

Not according to the polls, T. The issue with Webb's bill is not the Iraq war, but our preparedness for a real crisis because of the Iraq war and Bush's insane stubborness. Nothing Congress does or can do, short of refusing to vote to fund the war, will force Bush to change course anyway. Your Repugs are stuck with this mess until election day, it seems.