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'THAT WAS A PRESIDENT...
McCAIN ON MTP WAS A SENATOR...
AND HILLARY IS A MONSTER'
(Dick Morris on Giuliani)by Mia T, 2.05.07
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Posted on 02/06/2007 7:11:58 AM PST by Mia T
McCAIN ON MTP WAS A SENATOR... AND HILLARY IS A MONSTER' (Dick Morris on Giuliani) |
BTTT for a later read. (At home w/daughter today, school is closed due to the cold yeah!)
thanx for the link :)
(((((RUDY PING)))))
Thanks for posting this. I missed the first run and fell asleep during the repeat.
Bump for later.. thanks for posting..
Thank you both!
You are quite welcome. This interview has been getting alot of play on all the blogs and very good reviews.
You are welcome. It was an excellent interview.
Our's is a two-party system. Additional apparent options are exactly only that--apparent. They are illusions. We have only two real choices. D or R. And an R vote not cast is a de facto D. That's how the first clinton won. Twice. (The first time with only 43 percent.)
I believe neither Giuliani nor his motivation is "evil."
He says he hates abortion: (He dramatically decreased abortions and increased adoption during his tenure as mayor. He says he will appoint judges in the mold of Roberts, Alito and Scalia.)
He believes in the 2nd amendment.
He is a proven warrior against evil.
He is our best hope to get a handle on the war AND the terrorists to save no less than our democracy, our civilization.
Last night, I heard a man of rare intelligence, humility, warmth, competence, strength and leadership.
We will be fortunate, indeed, and our babies, born and unborn, living and not yet imagined, will be infinitely safer, if he is our next president.
Closed due to the cold???? Talk about Extreme! How cold is it?
Saw the interview with Rudy and Sean last night. Was it Rush who said, "Watch for Rudy to go to the right"? It was Sean who said, "Rudy could turn N.J. into a red state." Democrat in-laws in Florida love Rudy.
I know plenty of Democrat and Republican friends who will be voting for Rudy. They really like him - to them he's not a phony, he's honest and he's not afraid of anything!
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"'Rudy could turn N.J. into a red state.' Democrat in-laws in Florida love Rudy."
What about NY?
Rudy has the potential to take the votes... and the wind (albeit contrived and gaseous)... out of missus clinton's sail.
The man in the street cheered the mayor’s gutsy move, but the city’s liberal elite was appalled. "The proper role of New York, as the UN’s home city," sniffed The New York Times, "is to play gracious host to all of the 140 or so world leaders present for the organization’s gala 50th birthday celebrations."
A spokesman for the Clinton administration, which had done so much to build up Arafat’s reputation as a statesman, termed Giuliani’s action "an embarrassment to everyone associated with diplomacy."
Former mayors David Dinkins and Ed Koch held a joint press conference to denounce Giuliani. "Mayor Giuliani has behavioral problems dealing with other people," Koch told reporters.
Two days after the concert an unrepentant Giuliani said, "I would not invite Yasser Arafat to anything, anywhere, anytime, anyplace. I don’t forget."
While a good percentage of the city’s Jewish population applauded Giuliani’s stance, there was a noticeable divide between Orthodox Jews – a rally outside City Hall in support of the mayor drew "dozens of mostly Orthodox Jewish leaders and elected officials," the Times reported on Oct. 26 – and their secular counterparts.
Just what Giuliani was up against is clear from some of the remarks made that week by Jewish bigwigs such as Dr. Lawrence Rubin, executive vice chairman of the National Jewish Community Relations Council, who sought to portray Giuliani’s action as one motivated purely by politics.
"We think it’s important to demonstrate that the normalization of relations between Israel and the Palestinians can go forward," said Rubin. "But clearly Mayor Giuliani has domestic political considerations."
Let’s recall where things stood in October 1995. In the two years since the signing of the Oslo Accords, Arafat had time and again spoken to Arab audiences about his dreams of jihad for Jerusalem and about how Oslo was simply the implementation of the PLO’s long stated goal of destroying Israel in stages. Buses were exploding in Jerusalem. Support among Israelis for Oslo had fallen precipitously, and polls showed Prime Minister Rabin losing to Benjamin Netanyahu, an outspoken critic of Oslo, in hypothetical matchups.
But Jewish leaders just couldn’t help themselves. Hours before getting the heave-ho from the Lincoln Center event, Arafat had met in Manhattan with about 100 prominent American Jews. A jolly time was had by all, and Arafat apparently made a very nice impression.
"He’s got a very good sense of humor, by the way," said Israel Levine – described by the Times as "a spokesman for many Jewish organizations" – of the man responsible for the murder of more Jews than anyone since Hitler and Stalin.
Speaking at a UJA-Federation fundraising breakfast shortly after the Lincoln Center controversy, Giuliani said he was "proud of that decision [booting Arafat]. I’d make it again, and the day I’d stop making it is the day I’d resign as mayor...When I write my memoirs, this is one of the things that I probably will be proudest of."
According to news reports, Giuliani’s comments were applauded by roughly a quarter of his audience. This at an ostensibly Jewish event! Such was the mesmerized state of organized Jewry during that remarkable time, just ten years ago, when a mass killer of Jews was feted and honored around the world, and invited countless times to the White House by an admiring Bill Clinton.
The aforementioned Israel Levine may have loved Arafat’s sense of humor, but Rudy Giuliani found nothing amusing about the Palestinian terror chief. And that’s the difference between real leadership and Jewish leadership.
NOW TELL ME - WHAT POLITICIAN WOULD HAVE THE BALLS TO DO THAT?
Looks like Mia T has found her candidate... :^/
Thanks for posting...he's definitely back-tracked on some of the social hot buttons. But I am one person who lived in NYC for 22 years and had a pistol carry for 19 years--Rudy took it away. Mine was a legal gun that he took away from me for no reason. There were many hundreds like me in the late '90s that the same happened to.
I'm comfortable with all of his answers. I would vote for Rudy.
AND before I saw this, I would not have voted for him.
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