I went through the Christmas holidays believing I might never blog about Rudy Giuliani again.
He'd dropped out of every conceivable 2010 political contest, unless he's harboring a secret yearning to be state comptroller. He declared his attentions were focused on his business, and overseeing security for the Olympics in Brazil.
He hadn't moved out of town, but I was still willing to live and let live.
Sure, there was his penchant for showing up on TV talk shows to say something obvious and Republican, but who cared?
Then on Friday Rudy popped up on ABC, being interviewed by George Stephanopoulos. His mission was to portray Barack Obama as soft on terror, ho hum.
But in the process, Giuliani forgot 9/11!
"What he [Obama] should be doing is following the right things that Bush did -- one of the right things he did was treat this as a war on terror. We had no domestic attacks under Bush. We've had one under Obama," he said.
What about the World Trade Center????
Rudy Giuliani has spent the last eight years defining himself as the mayor who was on the ground when terror struck. How many times has he announced that Obama or some other Democrat of the day had forgotten the lessons of Sept. 11?
And now he's on national television announcing that there were no domestic attacks under George W. Bush.
Giuliani is a man who always likes to see himself as fighting against the forces of total evil. Over the last few years, he's put the Democrats in that category. Apparently his lust for battle is so great that it's wiped out his entire memory bank.
This wasn't a slip of the tongue. The cosmic error was his whole point. Giuliani has now not only written himself out as a candidate, he's officially disqualified to be a talking head.
And, by the way, Richard Reid the shoe bomber launched his failed terror attack on Bush's watch too. This would be a mere quibble, except that Bush tried Reid in a civilian court, and Giuliani has been loudly complaining about President Obama's decision to do the same with accused underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.
For their new platform, it looks like the republicans are consulting the same psychologists who agreed to witness those waterboarding procedures at Gitmo.
...the facts are not that important to them....
...most of them still believe Saddam Hussein attacked us on 9-11 and we did find WMD in Iraq...
It's hard to see how any sane person could vote for these conservatives.
No matter how republicans count, it never adds up.
At least 4 (count 'em, FOUR!) reported attacks:
1. 9/11
2. Anthrax
3. Shoe Bomber
4. LAX El Al shootings
he is being republican.
the trick is to make YOU forget, and the republican task is to repeat over and over and over and over again the lie that there was not terrorist attack while bush was president and only the republicans can or ever did keep us 'safe'
the more often the republicans say it the closer it comes to truth. after all, why would guiliani lie? why would anyone lie about something that is so easily checkable? because the more often the lie is told and supported the more likely it is that some people will come to believe it. and it is working. there are clearly people in this country today who believe firmly that only republicans can keep us 'safe' because only republicans have 'proven' they can keep us 'safe' and that must mean that nothing bad ever happened under the republican administration, which means that we never look back because looking back is just looking for someone to blame and therefore the past never happened.
That is not happenstance or coincidence. That is enemy action.