Archive: ‘Rudy Giuliani’ Category
 Of course you didn’t, Rudy… we believe you! Just like we believe you’ve always maintained a strict anti-illegal immigration stance, have always been a big proponent of the flat tax, and that you’ve NEVER wavered in your opposition to public funding for abortions.
Hell, I’m beginning to believe you’ve never posed for this ridiculous photo either!
What a saint you are, Mr. Giuliani. Voting republicans all across this great land should be proud.
Giuliani dismisses claim about expenses
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Rudy Giuliani dismissed a report Wednesday that he expensed the cost of his security detail to obscure city offices for trips to a Long Island resort as the then-mayor began an extramarital affair with current wife Judith Nathan.
“First of all, it’s not true,” he said during a GOP debate hours after the story broke. “I had 24-hour security for the eight years that I was mayor. They followed me everyplace I went. It was because there were, you know, threats, threats that I don’t generally talk about. Some have become public recently; most of them haven’t.
“And they took care of me, and they put in their records, and they handled them in the way they handled them,” Giuliani said. “I had nothing to do with the handling of their records, and they were handled, as far as I know, perfectly appropriately.”
 Rudy having sex on the public dime. How about that!
I’m not shocked. Very little shocks me any more. But did he have to use money earmarked for the poor, disabled and indigent?
I suppose it’s fitting though. You ever see a republican shitting on the wealthy?
Giuliani billed obscure agencies for trips
As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records.
The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants.
At the time, the mayor’s office refused to explain the accounting to city auditors, citing “security.”
The Hamptons visits resulted in hotel, gas and other costs for Giuliani’s New York Police Department security detail.
 I don’t get it. At what point in American history did it become ok to influence politics with big money? And I’m not limiting my outrage to just one party here either! Why the hell do we stand for this?
No one single person should have any more say, pull or control of their government than another. We will never have a true democracy until we can fence off big money and lobbies from Washington.
Paul E. Singer is the founding partner of one of the oldest hedge funds around. And while he has become a major donor to Republican and conservative causes in recent years, he has largely managed to stay out of the limelight, even avoiding having his picture appear in newspapers.
But this year Mr. Singer became one of the biggest supporters of Rudolph W. Giuliani’s presidential campaign, making his jet available to Mr. Giuliani, while Mr. Singer and workers at his companies have donated $200,000 to the campaign. And he became the largest individual backer of a California ballot initiative that many Democrats believe could sink their chances of winning the presidency.
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Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic Party, questioned “Paul Singer’s involvement in this dirty trick aimed at stealing the White House.” A group of Democrats filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission charging that Mr. Singer had been acting on behalf of Mr. Giuliani in his efforts to change the California law - which Mr. Singer and the campaign deny.[...]
The vitriol directed at Mr. Singer reflects the intense passions being stirred by efforts to change the California law, which could alter the nation’s electoral map to favor Republicans and Mr. Giuliani, should he emerge as the party’s candidate. While Mr. Singer is now distancing himself from the effort, another Giuliani fund-raiser has since taken up the cause.
Additional info on Mr. Singer:
[Mr. Singer,] a former corporate lawyer, is “the founding partner of Elliott Associates, a $7 billion hedge fund with a conservative, risk-averse bias that has been in business since 1977, making it one of the oldest funds around. A reserved, private man who would answer questions only via e-mail, Mr. Singer is a self-described conservative libertarian who has given millions of dollars to Republican organizations that emphasize a strong military and support Israel.”
Singer is a member of the Board of Trustees of the neo-conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; a “member of the boards of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and of Commentary Magazine, and is on the Board of Advisors of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University”, and a member of the Board of Fellows of Harvard Medical School.
Recipients of Singer’s contributions “include Progress for America ($1.5 million in contributions), a political advocacy group set up to advance the policies of the Bush administration; Swift Vets and P.O.W.’s for Truth; and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, which includes Vice President Dick Cheney and Richard N. Perle, an adviser to the former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, among its past and current advisory directors.”
There’s a race down the road today. The last Nascar race of the season. Last year I left town for the weekend. This year……I’m home. The roads are filled with Nascar nuts with flags bigger than their trucks (and they have some big trucks) flying from them. You’d think if they are Nascar fans, they’d be able to drive. Think again. And guess who their Nascar Daddy is? Oh yeah……none other than the cross-dressing, lying sack of shit from New York. He’ll be there today. I think someone should give him a flag to wave and place him on the track. While the race is on.
From AJC.com:
WASHINGTON - Somehow, some folks in the land of y’all have cottoned to a GOP presidential candidate from the land of youse guys.
And ex-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani will make another foray into the symbolic heart of southern culture Sunday as he soaks in the ambiance of the Ford 400 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Finale in Homestead, Fla.
For Giuliani, like an anthropologist currying favor in another culture, it’s another day of mingling at a tribal ritual.
“No question about it,” Barry Wynn, a South Carolina banker and chairman of Giuliani’s campaign in that early-primary state. “There are a lot of NASCAR followers in South Carolina. Whether it translates into votes I’m not sure, but it certainly translates into some common interests.”
I am so tired of crap like this.
 Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani addresses the Federalist Society Friday. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani Friday assured conservatives he will nominate Supreme Court justices they would find acceptable.
Speaking in Washington to the Federalist Society, a group of influential conservative lawyers, Giuliani said he would nominate justices in the vein of the current conservative wing of the court.
Giuliani said Chief Justice John Roberts, Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would be his models for future nominees if he became president.
“We’re seeking to find judges to understand the important concept that judges exist to interpret the law, not to invent the law,” Giuliani said. “We believe in the rule of law, not in the rule of judges. Our constitutional principles teach us that we have to recognize the limitations on power as a way to protect our liberties.”
“We’re seeking to find judges to understand the important concept that judges exist to interpret the law, not to invent the law.”
This makes no f-ing sense to me! WHERE in our laws, our Constitution, does it state that there should be different classes of people? Where does it state that a woman does not have full rights and control over her own body?
The preamble to our Constitution starts off with the three words “We the people”. Last time I checked, women and gays were people too. Kinda puts us all on an even keel, doesn’t it? WHERE can I go read that I’m wrong here? Show me where Constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms protect only wealthy, white assholes. Until you’re able to do that, then STFU!
Please note, “Julie-Annie”, that appointing judges that promise to take away a woman’s right to choose, that continues to force the poor and the gays down to a lower class of citizenry, is as far from what the Founding Fathers expected of this country as you can get. Rudy, you and your Federalists friends, are as un-American as anyone can get!
More on the subject: “Rudy Says He Loves Corrupt, Liberty-destroying Judges Too”
Ahhhhh what was it Bur$atil told us?
Senior executives at News Corp. urged publisher Judith Regan to lie to investigators about ex-New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik in order to protect Rudy Giuliani’s presidential ambitions, Regan alleges in a lawsuit filed this week.
Judith Regan says News Corp. executives told her to lie about her affair with Bernard Kerik.
The lawsuit does not name the executives or cite any documents to back up her allegation. News Corp., which is led by Rupert Murdoch and is the parent company of the Fox television network and cable news channel, called the suit’s claims “preposterous” Wednesday.
But Regan says she was the victim of a smear campaign “to save the reputation of Kerik and, by association, Rudy Giuliani.”
Regan says she had an affair with Kerik that began in 2001.
The 70-page lawsuit was filed in a state court in New York just days after Kerik’s indictment on federal corruption charges in a case that has fueled criticism of Giuliani, his longtime patron.
Regan ran the News Corp.-owned imprint ReganBooks before her 2006 firing. She also appeared on a talk show on Fox News for several years.
More at CNN News
In a story by the AP Thursday, 2008 presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani disavows longtime friendship with ex-police commissioner Bernard Kerik. Worried that recent federal criminal charges brought against Bernie might tarnish his candidacy, Rudy gave his ‘pal-o-mine’ the old heave-ho.
Some friend Rudy is!
In a related story, God endorses Rudy this week. Well, not directly. He did it through his earthly protégé, the divinely-unhinged Pat Robertson. It’s all the same thing, right?
Wait just a minute. This doesn’t make sense! God tapped Rudy on Wednesday, then Rudy kicks Kerik to the curb on Thursday? For heaven’s sakes why? I thought snagging the most supreme of endorsements meant you were a shoe-in for the presidency?! Having God on your team means you can do no wrong, doesn’t it? It worked for Bush! Bush could invade a sovereign nation illegally, bring about the deaths of hundreds of thousands of it’s citizens, and would still retain high regard of many Americans. (Actually, I think he done it once)
Chilling thought for the day: Imagine a country that followed a separation of church and state ideology… where it’s politicians and leaders had to abide by laws instead of relying on the God / Pat Robertson connection. What an absolute mess that would be!
As if anyone’s surprised.
I had prostate cancer, five, six years ago. My chance of surviving prostate cancer, and thank God I was cured of it, in the United States, 82%. My chances of surviving prostate cancer in England, only 44% under socialized medicine.
-Republican residential candidate, Rudy Giuliani
Steve Benen at The CarpetBagger Report has the full story.
 Rudy and friends out on the town. The president of the United States is president of the United States. He’s going to be president of the United States from now until the time a new president takes over. Until then, he’s the only one conducting foreign policy of this country. We can have our political debate in this country. … But nobody should be creating the specter that we’re sending emissaries out around the world before someone is actually sworn in as president of the United States.
I think it would be good for the country if Mrs. Clinton, Senator Clinton would correct that statement now.
-Part time crossdresser and Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani
“Don’t interfere with the ability of the country to function in a proper way” and “respect Bush’s responsibility” - JUST WHO IN THE HELL IS RUDY KIDDING?! Oh…
Giuliani blasts Clinton
PETERBOROUGH, N.H. - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Sunday blasted Hillary Rodham Clinton for talking about what she would do on the diplomatic front between her possible election and inauguration.
Clinton has told crowds she would send “distinguished Americans of both political parties to travel around the world on my behalf with a very simple message to the governments and the people alike: The era of cowboy diplomacy is over.”
Giuliani, pointing to a story in Sunday’s Des Moines Register about her statements, said such comments hurt the United States and undermine the balance of President Bush’s term, which ends Jan. 20, 2009.
“I think that it’s important that we conduct this debate in a way that we don’t interfere with the ability of the country to function in a proper way, between the now and (the election),” Giuliani said at the start of a town hall’style meeting in Peterborough.
Campaigning with his wife, Judith, the former New York mayor said Clinton should retract the statements and respect Bush’s responsibility.
PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press
Yahoo! News
Couldn’t end the post without a little bit of Rudy hypocrisy:
Today Giuliani, 63, says the administration’s fixation on Iraq has been a distraction in the war against global jihadism. In a July 19 interview with USA Today, he said efforts to battle al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in Pakistan and Afghanistan are suffering because “ America is too consumed by Iraq.”
In an Aug. 1 interview with TV talk show host Charlie Rose, Giuliani said “there were several decisions that could have been made differently but weren’t,” among them “not paying attention to the quality of life of people in Iraq.”
If these voters have these values, you can keep them!
Romney narrowly wins A-values voters- straw poll
 Mitt Romney Despite efforts to woo religious conservatives, Giuliani finishes distant 8th
WASHINGTON - Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney narrowly won a Republican presidential straw poll of Christian conservatives on Saturday, while Rudy Giuliani persuaded few to look past his support of abortion rights.
The poll at a summit of self’styled values voters was largely symbolic but highlighted the continuing failure of ardent anti-abortion social conservatives to rally behind a single Republican candidate in the 2008 White House race.
Romney took 27.6 percent of almost 6,000 votes cast, just ahead of Mike Huckabee, the folksy former governor of Arkansas, who gained 27.1 percent at the conference organized by the Family Research Council.
Maverick Texas Congressman Ron Paul was third with almost 15 percent while former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson got under 10 percent, a major disappointment for his campaign.
Giuliani was eighth with 107 votes — under 2 percent.
Reuters
MSNBC.com
Tough talk from a man that’s never seen a day of military service.
Rudy, I say this most respectfully to you, you-re no Ronald Reagan either! You’re not even presidential material. You’ve flip-flopped on so many key issues since being Mayor of New York, many are confused on where you really stand. Hell, many are confused on your gender identification!
Trying to win the toughness primary
GOP presidential hopefuls take the credibility test on Iran
 Rudy Giuliani addresses the Republican Jewish Coalition’s candidate forum in Washington Tuesday morning. WASHINGTON - “I didn-t call for a team of lawyers,” Rudy Giuliani wryly told a meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Washington Tuesday morning.
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The barb was directed at Mitt Romney, Giuliani’s rival for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Giuliani also mocked former president Jimmy Carter, for his handling of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1980-1981.
He ridiculed the entire field of Democratic presidential contenders, for not using the term “Islamic terrorists” because “they think it is politically incorrect.”
And he mocked Sen. Barack Obama, for saying that as president he-d meet without preconditions with envoys from Iran, Venezuela, and other foes of the United States.
As if lecturing the absent Obama, Giuliani explained that Reagan had deployed a new generation of offensive missiles in Europe before being willing to negotiate with Soviet leaders.
“I say this most respectfully, you-re not Ronald Reagan,” Giuliani told Obama.
Tom Curry, National affairs writer, MSNBC
MSNBC.com
Why stop at 9/11? Rudy’s pretty good at taking credit for things he doesn’t deserve.
Giuliani sells New York as town he tamed
Republican candidate is at once running against the city and embracing it
CHARLESTON, S.C. - It was a depressed and devastated place: a city shoulder-to’shoulder with welfare recipients, free’spending city officials and greedy lawyers. New York was, in the telling of Rudolph W. Giuliani , a haven of high taxes and high crime, crumbling buildings and filthy streets. It was governed by liberals and dominated by Democratic voters who did not agree with the ideas of Mr. Giuliani but who nonetheless twice elected him mayor.
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“I got elected and re-elected honestly not because the people of New York City agreed with my ideas,” he told an appreciative audience at the York County Republican dinner in Rock Hill, S.C., on Thursday. “They didn-t. They agreed with my results. You agree with my ideas.”
Adan Nagourney, The New York Times
MSNBC.com
But also from that article:
Mr. Giuliani’s description of how grim New York was when he rode into town - and the amount of credit he claims for its revival - would probably draw a skeptical reaction if he made it to many of his former constituents. For one thing, the economic turn-around that he touts was, to a considerable extent, the result of a surging national economy. And many New Yorkers found their city a vibrant and stimulating place to live before Mr. Giuliani took over. Beyond that, Mr. Giuliani, back when he was mayor, seemed more in tune with the views of his constituents than he now says he was: he supported gun control and gay rights, and promoted tolerant policies in the treatment of illegal immigrants.
-Adan Nagourney, The New York Times
I know, I know. You’ve been reading where republican candidates for president are shying away from all things Bush out of fear of having the stink of failure rub off on them.
 Who Has His Ear? Giuliani’s foreign-policy team is heavy on neocons But not our boy, Giuliani! Rudy’s planned path to success is to closely imitate the current presidential disappointment. And he’s doing it by procuring the aid of well-known neocons into his campaign efforts.
From MSNBC.com:
Giuliani clearly hopes this image, born of his heroic performance on 9/11, can carry him to the GOP nomination and to the White House. But is he really the candidate who will “keep Americans safer” if his primary tactic is to go “on offense” in the “long war,” as he often puts it in his campaign stump speech? Critics will say that the neocons already tried that-in Iraq. Still, what’s left of the neocon movement does seem to be converging around the Giuliani campaign, to some degree, because he embraces their common themes: a willingness to use military power, a tendency to group all radical Islamist groups together as a common enemy, strong support for Israel and an aggressive posture toward Iran. “He’s positioning himself as the neo-neocon,” jokes Richard Holbrooke, a top foreign-policy adviser to Hillary Clinton.
-Michael Hirsh, Newsweek
My advice to Rudy: Pull a ‘Lieberman’, and have Bush give you a big, wet, sloppy one right there in the public spotlight. It’ll more than guarantee the vote of those thirty’something-percenters of America’s most ignorant crowd!
Oh so it was some kids idea. So that makes it ok. But wait Mr. Sofaer….you’re an adult. Why didn’t you tell the kids……it’s a BAD fucking idea? Well, one thing for sure. There’s no lack of bad taste in this campaign.
A spokeswoman for Rudy Giuliani says it is unfortunate that a supporter throwing a party that aims to raise $9.11 per person for the Republican’s presidential campaign is asking for that amount.
Abraham Sofaer is having a fundraiser at his Palo Alto, Calif., home on Wednesday, when Giuliani backers across the country are participating in the campaign’s national house party night.
But Sofaer said he had nothing to do with the “$9.11 for Rudy” theme.
“There are some young people who came up with it,” Sofaer said when reached by telephone Monday evening. He referred other questions to Giuliani’s campaign.
“I’m just providing support for him. He’s an old friend of mine,” Sofaer said of Giuliani.
Cenk from the Young Turks talks about how ridiculous Rudy Giuliani’s scripted phone calls from his wife on the campaign trail.
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