Friday Night Follies & OPEN THREAD
By SusanUnPC on November 2, 2007 at 10:57 PM in Presidential Candidates
From Susan T in Michigan:
Q: What’s the difference between a national tragedy and a cow?
A: Giuliani doesn’t know how to milk a cow.
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Rudy scored BIG tonight on Keith Olbermann’s Countdown (which reairs at 9pm PT on MSNBC). Rudy was awarded first, second and third places for “worst person in the world.” There was his whopper that Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were vying for who’d invite “terrorists” to the inauguration or the inaugural ball — absurd on its face. It’s also evidence of what is to come in the general election race — that the Republicans will make any wild claim as long as it is pithy and intended to paint the Dem candidate as weak on terrorism.
Here’s more that Keith Olbermann didn’t include in his rundown on Rudy tonight:
Rudy says that his dream vice president would be — drumroll — Dick Cheney.
Then there’s the reality of how Rudy’s failures as mayor led to greater difficulties on 9/11 and surely more deaths:
NYC councilman calls for investigation of Rudy.
Last month, Brave New Films released a web video detailing the negative impact some of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s decisions had on firefighters on 9/11 — for example, the rewarding of a no-bid contract that prevented faulty radios from being replaced. Now, in a new video, New York City Councilman Eric Gioia, chair of the city’s oversight and investigations committee, has endorsed an investigation into Giuliani’s handling of the radios used by firefighters on 9/11. Watch it:
Huffington Post has more.
Then Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo (one of my must-go-to stops every day, at least three times a day) has this WHOPPER:
Rudy: I Believe I Can Fly!
Well, among other things, it seems Rudy’s a bit of a fibber. Says one thing one, then denies it a few hours later, apparently not familiar with the concept of audio and video recordings. Check it out …And here we also get a view of Rudy’s comic egomania. Whatever else you think about Joe Biden, he’s been in the Senate for going on forty years and is a longtime chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Rudy says Biden doesn’t have any foreign policy experience; he’s got nothing that compares to Rudy’s foreign policy experience as mayor. Mayor? You can’t make this stuff up. Can Rudy fly too? Predict the future?
Late Update: Joe Biden responds:
“Today’s comments come from a guy—Rudy Giuliani—who said Dick Cheney, the architect of Bush’s failed policy in Iraq, was a great choice for vice president and who recommended the now discredited Bernie Kerik to be Secretary of Homeland Security. Once again, Rudy has demonstrated his complete lack of knowledge of U.S. foreign policy.”
–Josh Marshall
Comic egomania.
A bit of a fibber.
Really.
What’s amazing is that the above items are a very short list of what I could post about Rudy’s lies, obfuscations, and grandiosity.
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