Letters to the Editor
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Screw you, Svenghouli
9/11 happened with the Republicans in charge. I know that's treasonous to mention, because the administration was hard at work looking for a way to trump up an Iraq war and couldn't be bothered with the terror warnings. But nevertheless, it happened on their watch. Period.
So fuck you, and fuck all the other Republicans who claim that the Democrats make for a less safe America. Because the only ones who've proven so far that they can't defend our country are the Republicans, and no amount of fear-mongering can change that.
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Generalissimo Guiliani
I am not voting for Generalissimo Guiliani
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Don't forget that Gagliani
ignored the fact that the first trade center attack revealed emergency services communications to be in disarray but did nothing about it, resulting in more police and fire fighter deaths on 9/11 because they couldn't be warned to leave the buildings.
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Caption?
Can't you add a big caption to the Giuliani photo saying "boogie, boogie, boogie"?
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Bring 'Em On
Love it, love it, LOVE IT!
Dictator Rudy for repug nominee! No, wait - Bush-Fellator McCain! No, wait - Flip-flopper Romney! No, wait - Latent Homo Brownback! No, wait - Former Fat Guy Huckabee!
What a bunch of maroons. Mike Gravel or Dennis Kucinich could beat any one of them with without spending half a million.
After 2004's agonizing over which democrat was strong enough to beat Bush, this year the only question is whether there exists anywhere in the country a democrat who could fail to crush these losers.
Bring it on, repugs - the more your candidates talk, the deeper they dig the GOP's grave.
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Again, crappy writing used to make an unnecessary point.
Conason writes: No doubt the former mayor believes that he is "obviously" the best choice for president in reference to Giuliani's statement "I think obviously I would be the best at this."
One would think this is sloppiness, but it happens so often that it must be intentional. Giuliani -- whom, let the record show, I despise and think would be possibly the worst of a terrible lot running for the nomination -- was clearly modifying "I think" with the adverb "obviously".
Otherwise he would have said "I think I would obviously be the best at this." The placement of the "obviously", children, is the key to decoding the meaning of the sentence.
Yet, in order to score a completely unnecessary dig, Conason misuses the quotation to imply that he was saying something he wasn't.
My problem with this (in addition to it being sloppy journalism) is that it is just the sort of crap Hannity et al practice. Why twist what Giuliani has to say? He IS EVIL. HIS RECORD IS EVIL. WE DON'T HAVE TO TWIST ANYTHING TO DEMONSTRATE THIS FACT.
It is like when Bush I's people promulgated an erroneously literal translation of "mother of all wars" in order to demonize Sadaam as a tinpot dictator out of a bad hollywood movie. Or the way he used to drawl and emphasize the word "SCUUUUUD" whenever he said "scud missiles" as if even saying the word was disgusting. Again, what the fuck was the point? Sadaam didn't need to be spun as evil, he was evil.
C'mon Joe. Rise above these cheap tactics.
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looking for a balcony
Who was it that said of Giuliani: "He's a little guy looking for a balcony"? That sums him up perfectly.
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Great photo
The caption to that picture should be "Elect me, and I'll do for America what I did for New York: have all the homeless secretly gassed."
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Disappointed last night
When the presidential candidates got the question last night about Guiliani's remarks, the select few who got to answer it (a big problem with that debate, I get tired of major media deciding who is a serious candidate, but I digress) gave the safe, dignified answer. I hoped to hear someone pointedly say that Republicans were in charge leading up to 911. We had a Republican president (legitimacy issues aside, he was in charge) for the prior eight months, and NYC had a Republican mayor for the prior eight years. I wish one of the candidates had mentioned the command center being in the WTC at Guiliani's command and at the request of a big donor who couldn't find a tenant for his WTC office space. Do they know these things about Guiliani? Are they holding back until Guiliani is definitely the GOP candidate before taking him apart? If I can offer advice, don't get fancy. Take him down now.
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Why Would I Care A Whit About What This Narcissistic, Lisping Ghoul Has to Say?
Let's give it to him. Guiliani gave a really great performance for about 48 hours of his life.
In a nation traumatized by the 9/11 attack, whose two leaders sat like a deer in the headlights reading "My Pet Goat" while the other one ran like a child to hide in his bunker of evil, Guiliani stepped up and played the role of "Comforter in Chief" and national "Daddy."
So why can't he get a nice position on the board of some corporation, or as head of some university, or something, to honor the useful, albeit very short, contribution he has made to society, and MOVE ON?
Otherwise, the man was a terrifying mayor. He's a few rigatonis left of Mussolini. Morally and ethically, he's a one-man land-mine.
He doesn't inspire leadership -- hell, the man doesn't inspire anything except a bad taste in your mouth.
Sorry, Rudy, but I think we need to assume the opposite of anything you have to say these days...
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Big Words
from a guy who married his own cousin. Must make for some pretty awkward family reunions.
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Nosferatu
If elected will he ditch his Monroe drag for Wonder Woman drag? I mean we do want to prtray an image of strenght and resolve to those terrorists.
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I love it when Rudy opens his mouth
because he just digs his political grave a little deeper each time. The guy has mob connections, almost brought NYC to financial ruin,left Mayor Mike Bloomberg a mess to clean up, and look at how he has treated his two ex-wives! The man is a Napoleonic egomaniacal petty jerk.
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"A New Low ..." ...?
Maybe I'm a little jaded, used to the weirdness, hypocrisy and lying ... but the Rudester's comments, the ones between the quotemarks, seemed pretty boilerplate GOP to me.
When the campaign actually heats up, I hope and expect that the 9-11 boomerang will level him. But ... and I can barely bring myself to put it this way ... who has the stomach for "Sw*ftboat*ng" Rudy?
Same tactics ... except the truth is available as a weapon.