Giuliani has gotten caught lying about nearly everything he's ever said, from the crime stats to his family life. (What other candidate said his dad was a"saint" and his role model and it turned out his dad was a convicted robber and mob enforcer??Sheesh!)
WHY do any of you treat him with more respect than this uber-criminal deserves? At what point do we learn from history?)
Of course, since everyone still treats Bush like he's not a mass murdering psycho intent on destroying America, I'm on the wrong planet evidently.
I've been saying since 1995 that Giuliani ignored terror planning and crime fighting for the Yankees and everyone dismissed me as a nut.
Of course, these same people all said I was nuts when I said (even on Sept 10th) that Rudy would be president.
Yikes.
You deserve the govt you get.
giulianiscandals.blogspot.com
I honestly thought you were trying to cut Giuliani a little slack, relatively speaking. My mistake. I really should have known better.
Sorry, Bud.
FYI: Rudy had to CHEAT both his elections in NYC to win. The first, 1993, was only won b/c his operatives created a symbolic secession vote on Staten Island to guarantee a greater turnout of racists, er, conservatives who would vote against the Black Giuliani: David Dinkins (the incompetent incumbent and Giuliani doppelganger).
He only won reelection by using his Stalinist pressure as head of City Hall to force unions and so on to endorse him. (DUH: he controlled their pursestrings.)
Please stop pretending he won fair and square.
(Besides, as usual, Rudy didn't win the election. The retarded Democrats LOST it. Ruth Messinger was almost as embarassing a human being as Freddy Ferrer.)
Lastly, WHY DOES EVERYONE LIKE TO FORGET THAT EVEN RUDY SAYS HE'S A WANNABE DINKINS? DUH: Giuliani hired... DINKIN'S Transit POlice Commissioner, a guy named Bill BRATTON to lower crime. Yet 100% of people still act like Rudy was the anti-Dinkins.
Wow. Humans are scary.
GiulianiScandals.blogspot.com
Dinkins was better. Koch was better. Bloomberg is better.
You know, some months before 9/11 (I don't remember when, exactly), there was a bit of a dust-up between Rudy and The New Yorker magazine. The magazine had begun using a series of ads on the sides of NYC buses with the tagline, "The only good thing in New York that Rudy hasn't taken credit for." Well, to make a long story short, America's Mayor threw a hissy-fit, and threatened to sue The New Yorker for libel, defamation, etc., etc. Ultimately, the ads were pulled, and the controversy subsided. But this is the Rudy that New Yorkers came to know and loathe before 9/11.
New Yorkers, Midwesterners, and everyone else would be better served to take a hard look at Giuliani's pre-9/11 record before pulling the lever on election day.
Anyone who watched the movie about Gypsy Rose Lee has to remember the the song preached to the neophyte Gypsy by her mother and the chorus, informing her that mere stripping would not be enough to woo audiences. Most presidential candidates heed this advice as well. Giulani is a viable candidate only because the media built him up as the savior of 9/11--and he latched onto that image and paraded himself before voters as the mayor-on-the-scene, working hand-in-hand with rescue workers as they excavated the remains of NYC residents.
As is increasingly the case, we must fault Traditional Media as much as the Hero. In this competitive world of corporate journalism, reporters taking their cue from profitable tabloids, inflate a story as big as they can take it, hoping it'll never explode in their faces. You remember such stories as:
Fearless Hero Jessica Lynch;
NFL Football Hero Pat Tillman;
9/11 Terrorist and Nuclear Bomb Builder Saddam Hussein;
The Man from Hope, Bill Clinton;
Fearless Leader and Protector of U.S. Citizens, Dubya Bush;
Misjudged, Mistreated, & Misunderstood, Paris Hilton
If you know how to work it, you can always shirk it, rule the world by simply waving your hand.
"I'm electrifying
And I ain't even trying.
I never had to sweat to get paid
'Cause if you got a gimmick
Giuliani, you got it made!"(*)
Footnotes(*)http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/gypsy/yougottahaveagimmick.htm
The election is over a year from now and the real Republicans have yet to beat Rudi back into the piece of sh_t he is. Does anyone think that a Roaming Catholic, pro choice mayor of an Eastern seaboard city can survive those thugs? Single issue voters like the anti abortionists will have this little mafiaso dude for an appetizer. Albeit one without transfats. If he survives that round can you honestly see some freedom first cowboy from Utah pressing the lever for this guy??? They may stay at home in droves, which is a whole different topic, but I find it well neigh impossible to see the Republican West getting out the vote for Rudi. And don't even start on thoughts about Texas, unless they can find a Texan to be his running mate... like Kennedy 'chose' Lyndon Baines Johnson. Hey maybe Rudi could draft George W. Bush as his running mate...
If this is the state of the Republicans maybe we can win even given that we always seem to find a way to lose. Oh by the way I am a Midwesterner, size 12 1/2 shoe and you would have to break my fingers (all ten) to get me to vote for a Republican.
Worse that Beame even. Nice guy I'm sure all up in that community redevelopment. But absolutely the #1 worst mayor of NYC since Tammany Hall. The city was crumbling around our ears as fast as jobs and people were leaving. Dave Dinkins could have set fire to NYC and been a better mayor.
I always knew Giuliani was more interested in PLAYING WITH HIS OR SOMEONE ELSE'S BALLS OR WATCHING BALL-PLAY THAN HELPING THOSE NEEDED HELP AFTER 9/11!!!!! WHAT A HYPOCRITE, A THREE-FACED LOUSE AND BOMBASTIC IMBECILE!
was i late fetching your medication from the chemist? am only a valenteer remember? helping your lot be greatful n stop moaning is bad for your mental state
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