Yep. Too bad some don't think so.
Posted on 01/13/2008 1:51:13 PM PST by wagglebee
"A third of my generation is dead because of politicians like Giuliani." -- Steven Pokorny, age 28, at Giuliani during meeting in Miami, Sunday, Jan. 13
MIAMI, Jan. 13 /Christian Newswire/ -- Rudy Giuliani was rattled by pro-life advocates and canceled his speech at his first bus-tour event Sunday in Miami. Activists have planned confrontations with Rudy for every stop of his Florida bus tour. Photos available online.
On Sunday, Jan. 13, at approximately 12:15 PM, pro-life activists were in the crowd at The Green Street Cafe (located at 3110 Commodor Plaza, Coconut Grove Florida, just outside Miami) waiting for Giuliani to begin his Florida Bus Tour.
When Rudy Giuliani arrived, Joseph Landry (age 26) was within 5 feet of the candidate, and began yelling: You are a baby killer! You are a baby killer! Florida is pro-life! Rudy wants public funding for abortion!" See news report. Law enforcement officials immediately escorted Mr. Landry from the area, while Mr. Landry continued his monologue.
Within Minutes, Steven Pokorny, age 28, stood to his feet and cried out, "A third of my generation is dead because of politicians like Giuliani! Giuliani wants to kill children and have you pay for it!" Law enforcement did not stop Mr. Pokorny.
At that point, Giuliani left the building, without addressing the crowd.
Mr. Pokorny was able to follow Mr. Giuliani for more than a minute, yelling out about Rudy's pro-choice, pro-homosexual agenda. Again, Mr. Pokorny was not interrupted by police.
Giuliani officials had no idea how many pro-lifers were in the crowd, and how many more times Giuliani would be confronted. This might explain why Mr. Giuliani did not make any remarks - and left the meeting without addressing supporters.
Pro-lifers have scheduled confrontations with Rudy on every stop of his Florida Bus tour.
Video footage of the confrontations with Rudy is available upon request.
I'd say. It also speaks to the "elitism" effect of the RINO's and their supporters: "I must be treated better than equal"...like in Animal Farm.
They are really no different than any other liberals.
You are, of course, exactly right, wagglebee.
I nominate this post as the most delusional of the year (so far).
lolol
Okay.......but, it’s only January 13th. : )
Yep. Too bad some don't think so.
Oh thats rich.
So sorry you had to go.
I nominate this post as the most delusional of the year (so far).
I was going to say that it might not be the most stupid statement posted here this year---but it was definitely in the top three.
However, on second thought--I second your nomination!!!!...lol
No - but he enabled and guaranteed sanctity to all those who did so.
NYC, the Abortion Capitol of America became just that under Guiliani.
He really has no business in the GOP, period.
Yeah...how 'bout that? Willing to be rid of our rights...and so cheaply.
Um...I don’t think so Tim. :)
Shucks - I wasted a comment on the ZOTTED.
No, Rudy Giuliani is my second choice, behind Fred Thompson. The most important issues to me are lowering taxes, cutting spending, decreasing regulation, nominating strict constructionists to the Supreme Court and having a strong national defense, including winning in Iraq. On those issues, of the 5 leading candidates, Fred Thompson and Rudy Giuliani are the most conservative and thus my favorites. While I know that some would expect Rudy to be liberal in appointing judges because he is pro-choice, I believe he’s likely to be the strongest on judges given the role that Theodore Olson has played in supporting Rudy (not surprising considering his wife died on 9/11).
My tiebreaker between Thompson and Giuliani is gun control, which Thompson (and I) oppose and which Giuliani has supported in the past, even if he’s improved his position somewhat of late.
The most liberal candidate in my view of the leading 5 is easily Mike Huckabee with his past support of tax increases, rapid spending increases in Arkansas, support for increased regulation such as the national smoking ban and his bizarre liberal comments about Bush’s foreign policy.
The next most liberal is easily John McCain, based upon his opposition to the Bush tax cuts (with nice class warfare arguments justifying the position), and his support for more spending, more regulation, and higher taxes to go along with his environmental agenda. I also believe, given that he was largely responsible for blocking Republicans from getting rid of the filibuster on judicial nominees, that he will likely appoint “moderates” to be judges so as to avoid the embarrassment of having his own nominees filibustered.
W’s so thick skinned he could probably shave with a belt-sander.
The issue is not “protesting” but interrupting and disrupting a candidate from speaking. Quite different!
Dogging Rudy along the parade route were at least two anti-abortion protesters. One carried a sign that read, RUDY GIULIANI DEMOCRAT IN DRAG. Another one, wearing a t-shirt that read ABORTION KILLS BABIES, walked through the crowd shouting vicious anti-Rudy messages through a bullhorn: "Rudy Giuliani is a Democrat who wants to continue the wholesale slaughter of human beings and make you pay for it! If you are a Christian you cannot vote for the murder of innocent human beings. The blood will be on your hands."Although some in the crowd were shooing him away, many dozens of people definitely heard the message loud and clear.
Contrary to what you say, your picture has Rudy about to speak from a podium before he was interrupted.
"Even with the tax cuts of the last several years, New York remains by far the most heavily taxed big city in the country.""The scope of government was not reduced at all. ..... money saved on social services has only helped to subsidize big increases in other categories. Today the array of social services sponsored and partially funded by the city—from day care to virtually guaranteed housing—is as wide as ever."
"In the final analysis, Mayor Giuliani sought to make the city deliver services more efficiently—-not to make the city deliver fewer services. ..... the city instead failed to reduce spending."
Rudy borrowed his way through his administration, incurring massive debt servicing costs and leaving the city with a huge deficit. And that was during the dot-com boom when Wall Street, and its tax-paying businesses, was flush with cash and the economy was booming.
As to “strict constructionist,” that term was first thrown around in Presidential campaigns by Nixon. Nixon gave us Harry Andrew Blackmun, a “strict constructionist”. Harry Blackmun gaves us Roe v. Wade, the so-called “right to privacy” in relation to homosexual sodomy, denied reverse discrimination in his zeal for affirmative action, and offered some of the most destructive interpretations that have enabled the environmentalists. Rudy and his supporters can throw out the term “strict constructionist” as much as they want. From a man who thinks women have a “right” to abortion (paid for by taxpayers) and that “you’ve got to regulate consistent with the Second Amendment,” it is simply NOT believable that Rudy will appoint justices with a conservative bent. His record clearly shows that he preferred liberal justices--that is what he appointed, overwhelmingly, as during his term as NYC Mayor.
As to his other appointments--have you looked at how many of them went to jail or are under indictment for public corruption and various salacious acts? Kerik, Harding, Roberts, Russi, Gelormino, Carbonetti, Serra, Patrick... READ UP! The man has serious flaws in judgment and should be kept from ANY position of power, IMO.
“Steven Pokorny, age 28, stood to his feet and cried out, “A third of my generation is dead because of politicians like Giuliani! Giuliani wants to kill children and have you pay for it!”’
‘”A third of my generation is dead ..” If that doesn’t open up some eyes, not too many things will.
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