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NYC firefighters going after Rudi is really bad news for one reason: Rudi desperately needs to keep his self-made 9/11 legacy intact b/c he has ingrained in the public's mind that 9/11 is his one and only reason for getting elected president.

FReeper George W. Bush best summed up the fallacy of Rudi's 9/11 legacy (when Giuliani slammed Clinton over terrorism last week):

"A bit of Rudi's legerdemain. He attempts to distract attention from increasing scrutiny of his own failures as mayor, (a) to update communications equipment, and, against the advice of all his senior advisors, (b) to place his emergency command center and its huge diesel fuel supply right in the Twin Towers, already a known high-propaganda target of terrorists.

The real objective of his attack is to distract from EPA's Whitman telling Congress and the press that she warned Rudi to get his rescue workers into respirators in the first few days after 9/11.

That is what this little Xlinton attack is about. (A) Xlinton didn't make him put that command center in WTC. (B) Xlinton didn't stop him from updating the emergency radio system which contributed to inadequate 9/11 response despite the heroism of rescuers. (C) Xlinton didn't make him turn New York City into a sanctuary city where terrorist elements could live without fear of deportation. (D) And Xlinton certainly didn't keep him from outfitting his rescue workers with respirators."

1 posted on 07/01/2007 10:23:41 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Rudy is about to be “Swiftboated”.


2 posted on 07/01/2007 10:26:21 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW , Vote Hunter in the Primary)
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To: Liz

Ah new recruits to the Thompson campaign!! /s


3 posted on 07/01/2007 10:27:30 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Liz
NYC firefighters going after Rudi is really bad news

New York City firefighters aren't going after Rudy -- the union is -- there's a difference.
7 posted on 07/01/2007 10:42:20 AM PDT by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: Liz
All Rudy did was make a speech. WOOOPEEE. His WOT effort was to push Kerik to head homeland security. Decisions like that coupled with his multiple spouse missteps, casts his judgment in the pits. Bloomberg does a better job as Mayor.
8 posted on 07/01/2007 10:46:39 AM PDT by ex-snook (ot)
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To: Liz
Wow! AP, NY Times etc. anti- Giuliani articles are often quoted. Now union anti-Guiliani retoric is the voice of God on FR.
I’m seeing more vitriol against Giuliani on FR than I ever remember even Kerry receiving in 04.
11 posted on 07/01/2007 10:56:26 AM PDT by willk
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To: Liz

As of today, there are only two people in Hillary’s way of becoming president, Rudy and McCain. No other Republican is within 15 points of her. And, I don’t think time or the times are being kind to McCain.

The attempt to swiftboat Rudy may back-fire big-time. I, for one, think Christy Whitman will go to the wall for the guy (so, invoking her name against Rudy is a bad idea). And I also think the president of the NYC firemen’s union may have a whole lotta ‘splaining to do, to the rank and file.

Having said that, there are two unions that are rock solid in the Democrat camp, the teachers union and the state and municipal workers union. The old idea that Republicans can get the uniformed police and firefighters vote is eroding.

Anybody who is confused about what elections are about in the United States is simply naive. It is about the future of freedom for us and, perhaps, for the world. (I say “perhaps” because there is a small but growing number of countries we can migrate to, when the U.S. goes down the tubes.)

Those of you who don’t like RINOS, get ready for the President, Congress, Supreme Court and almost all of the state governments of this country to be in the hands of “the real-deal” Democrats. Say hello to tax inrceases, socialized medicine, same-sex marriage, quotas and set-asides, and a foreign policy based on accomodating the dictators of the world.

Let’s see ... Write off the moderates, disrespect the libertarians, alienate the Hispanics, have Americans die for a country that won’t or can’t fight for itself, and postpone indefinitely any other agenda (e.g., S.S. reform, replacing the income tax, or school vouchers). Brilliant!!!


18 posted on 07/01/2007 11:06:08 AM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: Liz

Swiftboat

Cit-Tay !!


22 posted on 07/01/2007 11:15:16 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker ( Hunter/Thompson/Thompson/Hunter in 08! "Read my lips....No new RINO's" !!)
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To: Liz
Woohoo. I'm quotable! Who'd'a thunk it?

That was a pretty rich episode after he scolded all of us for blaming Xlinton (partially) for 9/11 and Osama and then he turns around and decides he wants to blame Xlinton after all when his own record is scrutinized and found wanting.
32 posted on 07/01/2007 1:58:33 PM PDT by George W. Bush (Rudi: tough on terror, scared of Iowa)
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To: Liz

Union thuggery at its finest

courtesy of Hillary supporters


33 posted on 07/01/2007 2:02:51 PM PDT by finnman69 (May Paris Hilton’s plane crash into Britney Spears house while Lindsey Lohan is over doing coke)
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To: Liz

what better endorsement of Rudy then to have the unions after him....


37 posted on 07/01/2007 11:10:31 PM PDT by cherry
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