Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:51 am Post subject: Rudy Giuliani - 911 is the answer
No matter what the question is, Rudy says 9/11
HELEN KENNEDY
New York Daily News
October 7th 2007
For Rudy Giuliani, 9/11 is the answer. To almost anything, it seems.
After all, it's why America fell in love with him on that darkest of days, when the mayor was the only person on TV reassuring the nation. It's why he's the Republican front-runner for President.
"For me, every day is an anniversary of Sept. 11," he said in Florida last month.
Giuliani wastes no opportunity to bring up 9/11 on the campaign trail. Sometimes, it looks like a stretch.
Here is "Jeopardy, the Giuliani Edition," where 9/11 is always the answer, but the questions may surprise you:
WHY DID YOU FLIP ON GUN CONTROL?
"There are some major intervening events - Sept. 11 - which cast somewhat of a different light on the Second Amendment."
- Giuliani's September speech to the NRA
WHY DID YOU INTERRUPT THAT SPEECH TO TAKE A CALL FROM JUDI?
"Since Sept. 11, most of the time when we get on a plane we talk to each other and just reaffirm the fact that we love each other"
- September interview with CBN News
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF BUILDING A FENCE ON THE BORDER?
"I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-Sept. 11 period. I think we have to know who's coming into this country."
February interview with Fox News
WHAT'S WITH THAT FLAG ON YOUR LAPEL?
"Each time I wear it, it reminds me of Sept. 11."
- July rally in Wilmington, Del.
SHOULD THERE BE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR AIDS DRUGS?
"I don't want to promise you the federal government will take over the role. My general experience has been that the federal government works best when it helps and assists and encourages and sets guidelines on a state-by-state, locality-by-locality basis. It's no different from the way I look at homeland security. Maybe having been mayor of the city, I know that your first defense against terrorist attack is that local police station, or that local firehouse."
- July rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
ARE YOU RELIGIOUS?
"I need God's help for everything, and I probably feel that the most when I'm in crisis and under pressure, like Sept. 11, when I was dealing with prostate cancer, or when I'm trying to explain death to people."
- September interview with CBN News.
HOW ABOUT THOSE DEMOCRATS?
"They do not seem to get the fact that there are people - terrorists in this world, really dangerous people - that want to come here and kill us. That in fact they did come here and kill us."
- May interview with Fox News
SO, UM, WHAT ABOUT YOUR MESSY PERSONAL LIFE?
"You can judge me on my public record. I've had a long one. I've had an intense one. I've been under enormous pressure, took over a city that was the crime capital of America, had to handle the city at the very end, when it was part of the worst attack on America."
- May interview with Fox News
WRONG!
$9.11 was the answer a couple of Giuliani volunteers in California came up with as a suggested contribution for a fund- raising party. Giuliani said, "I think they made a mistake."
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Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:05 pm Post subject:
AMAZING! click on 'watch this report!!!!'
Channel 4 News went Big on Giuliani's playing of the 9/11 card BACKFIRING tonight and speaks to firefighters who think he's a fraud!!
The story of New York's city, of the falling crime rates and the rapid recovery from 9-11 has become Rudi Giuliani's story.
But it's a tale that New Yorkers argue simply isn't true.
Not for 100 years has a city mayor been elected president. Giuliani says his record in New York qualifies him to run the country but may become more of an embarrassment than a selling point.
He calls himself America's mayor and voters everywhere feel a personal connection to the man they think stood up for them and for the whole country on 9-11.
But he wants be a tough guy too. The one whose tough polices and zero tolerance policing slashed crime rates in New York.
Giuliani's campaign revolves around 9-11. He claims that other candidates underestimate the terror threat, that only he will keep America safe.
But, despite many warnings, he did almost nothing to prepare New York for an attack. He admits that on September 11 he didn't know who Al Qaeda was.
At Ground Zero today they are still digging the foundations for the new freedom tower. Before 9-11 the one thing Giuliani had done was to build himself, right next to this site, an emergency command centre
Giuliani spent $60m on the command centre in the World Trade Centre. He installed a humidor for his cigars, monogrammed towels in bathroom, even had private elevator which was handy when he brought his mistress here at the weekends. But he also installed a 600 gallon fuel tank which meant that when burning debris hit the building it went up like a blowtorch
So Giuliani found himself wandering the streets because he had ignored advice to put his command centre safely underground in Brooklyn. Insisting instead it had to be near City hall.
The World Trade Centre was an obvious terror target. It was also bombed in 1993. Then fire-fighters found their radios didn't work inside the towers.
By 2001 Giuliani had not fixed the problem. So as the towers were collapsing, 121 firemen inside never heard the order to evacuate.
Fire-fighters promise that if Giuliani wins the Republican nomination they will follow his campaign around the country telling their side of the story.
With his presidential bid so focussed on 9-11 they could do him serious damage.
a great mix of Giulliani using 9/11 for his advantage _________________ "We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.” Martin Luther King
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