At a recent debate in Iowa, Rudy Giuliani was asked, "In 30 seconds, what is a defining mistake of your life and why?" He made a joke about how he couldn't possibly list all his mistakes in 30 seconds. Ha!
So we gave it a try. Watch The REAL Rudy in 30 seconds.
What is his biggest mistake? Refusing to get working radios to firefighters before 9/11? Cross dressing? 3 marriages? An estranged daughter who supports Obama for president? Locating the emergency command center in the only place in New York City that had already been attacked by terrorists? The list goes on and on...
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Enjoy the teaser, but get ready for our very serious The REAL Rudy videos to come. We have some very powerful interviews with experts about his so-called 9/11 expertise, and heartbreaking stories from the families whose sons were killed due to his negligence. We don't want to give it all away, but we promise you will NEVER look at him the same way again.
and say what their 'campaign wranglers' write
while NOT believing in our Constitution, our historic freedoms of speech, of religion, of assembly, of citizen rights and of true democracy. NOT a one of these Repug candidates support ALL the rights of citizenship that our Constitution guarantees- just follow them to the 'trickle-down trough' where the corporate fascists gives them their 'marching orders'....
Tax breaks for those already financially able to afford health care; i.e. insurance co welfare.
Under the cover of this, not only small businesses, but large corporations will cut health care as part of wage packages.
Because even individuals who work in situations where the businesses used to procure group rates will with this tax break (not cost neutral vis a vis national deficits), still be able to afford insurance as a result, the cost of insurance to those of the working class who, formerly covered by their employers, previously benefitted from those group rates, rather than plummeting as he claims, will rise, but it will be an invisible rate hike to the wealthiest among us.
Along with lower middle class and lower class individuals unable to turn the few hundred dollars of tax break they get at the very best into insurance coverage (the Rand think tank estimates that if such tax incentives provided 50% of health insurance premiums, which Rudy's plan will not even come close to doing, only 3% of those currently uninsured would opt for insurance--to put it in more homely terms, you can't squeeze blood from a turnip), those who had been covered in the work place with pre-existing conditions--those who need insurance most--will be priced out.
Fewer, not more Americans will be covered; the health care crisis both in financial cost and poor health results, which include a decline in worker productivity, will all occur at a time when the baby boom generation hits the emergency room and retires, seriously reducing both national productivity and tax revenues.
Tax breaks for the wealthy, corporate welfare, smoke and mirrors; our grandchildren footing the bill for the incompetent and greedy short-sightedness of so-called conservative fiscal policy--Rudy G.
I guess no one remembers Rudy's cops asking a guy for drugs-and shooting him when he told them to get lost. Or Rudester releasing the supposedly sealed juvenile arrest record of a guy that his cops shot up. Or Diallo.Or Louima. Hopefully,if Rudes advances, we'l remind him about this stuff.
The radios that failed to function were supplied by a contributor to Ghouliani's campaign.
No, that would be the neocons whose hypocritical, phony stance of judging the morality of anyone with whom they disagree is obvious to the entire country.
Obviously, these lefties are scared shitless of Rudy.
They know what a strong candidate he will be.
He'll be strong in the south and NJ and PA.
very rare for a repub.
so they smear and smear.
the cross dressing smear is so ridiculous. a skit, exactly.
Should we look at every skit Al Franken did, before we go to the voting booth???
That’s certainly the pot calling the kettle black. Just ask Vince Foster. Oh, I guess you can’t because he’s dead. Then ask the lengthy list of women he forced himself on and then trashed their reputations. If Clinton had any class his answer would have been “being unfaithful to my wifeâ€. But then again that was all a “vast right wing conspiracy.â€
What is his biggest mistake? Refusing to get working radios to firefighters before 9/11? Cross dressing? 3 marriages? An estranged daughter who supports Obama for president? Locating the emergency command center in the only place in New York City that had already been attacked by terrorists? The list goes on and on...
Let's address these 'mistakes' one by one:
1. The radios were scrambled by the fires in the towers
2. Cross dressing? You mean, like, in a *skit*? That is, as in, in a *play on a stage*? Is that what you mean? You make it sound like he was cruising in tranny bars in SoMa in San Francisco.
3. Three marriages? So you're the marriage police, is that it?
4. She put on a Facebook page, "Barack Obama." Yeah, I would say that's a disastrous mistake on her father's part. Where are those rolling eye icons? In case you somehow don't know this, onlinbe dorm rooms like Facebook are hardly elixirs of veracity.
5. Both the FBI and the CIA had emergency command centers in that building asd well. Waddya know?
Get a life. You need to start reading a little more news and thinking for yourself. Saying QUOTE at the beginning of a paragraph doesn't automatically lend itself to thought provoking commentary. You need more that a one liner to convince anyone that the radios were not faulty before going in to the tower. Come back with a little research based commentary and we will listen.
1. The radios were scrambled by the fires in the towers"
That is just an outright lie. The police radios did not operate on the same frequency as the fire department radios. They could never have communicated with each other, fire or no fire.
I still think he can't win the presidency, but that AG job? A nightmare that keeps on giving. Only Rudy's colossal self-regard keeps him from such lowly aspirations, but after a decisive defeat at the polls, the attractions of practical control of a police state may well prove irresistible to him, at which point I'm Canadian.
He is a Republican! This obligates you for a certain set of standards: among others: married to one woman, drag in an anti gay party - not such a hot idea, family adversity because of asshole father behavior is not a landmark of Republican behavior.
Then leadership values demand smart behaviour, if the FBI and CIA have center in that spot a leader finds a different spot. But that demands courage.
The difference is that, this time, we see it all up front!
With Bush we had it played out over a period of months and years before we realized just how incompetent he and his whole crowd was.
Well, caveate emptore (sp?)
Apparently you never saw Rudy when he and Alphonse "My mother dropped me on my head when I was a baby" D'Amato dressed up and went along on some sort of drug bust. They were inappropriately dressed, looking very much the fools they actually are.
Like D'Amato, Rudy never saw a camera he didn't love. He was an adequate prosecutor. To put him in the pantheon of prosecutors shows just how little you know of the history of the justice department.
1. Appoint the unqualified and since-convicted-criminal Bernie Kerik to his former position of prominence, and
2. Encourage the Bush Admin. to appoint the (unvetted) Kerik to be Secretary of DHS, which proved to be yet another embarrassment to the Bush Admin.
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Plenty of us didn't have to build ANY delay into our bUSH "Failure equations".
If you're keeping score...