Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said yesterday that America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of 9/11 if a Democrat is elected president in 2008. But, he added, if he is elected the terrorist attacks can be anticipated and stopped. Wow, shocker there.
“If any Republican is elected president —- and I think obviously I would be the best at this —- we will remain on offense and will anticipate what [the terrorists] will do and try to stop them before they do it,” Giuliani said.
George Bush/Karl Rove/Neo-Conservative fear-mongering much? This sounds like something Dick Cheney would say if he were on the ballot in ‘08. Apparently Giuliani thinks his best shot at getting elected is by aligning himself with the current hardcore Neo-Con GOP voters. Unfortunately for him, this group is shrinking by the day as the current government’s competence goes further down the tube.
It’s unfortunate because I used to really like Giuliani and probably would have voted for him if Obama or Ron Paul is not on the ballot. But with comments like this, he’s clearly showing his abandonment of decency and morality for the sake of trying to gather a few votes:
Giuliani said terrorists “hate us and not because of anything bad we have done; it has nothing to do with Israel and Palestine. They hate us for the freedoms we have and the freedoms we want to share with the world.”
Odd, seeing as Bin Laden was directly funded and supported by the US in the 1980s. We apparently didn’t have anything to do with it though.
Rudy, I urge you not to lose sight of the characteristics and traits that made you so popular with the American public in the aftermath of 9/11. It’s your only chance of winning the presidency and could be our only chance of having a competent president.
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Wow, what a poor move for him. I suppose the Republicans did a lot to prevent 9-11, right?
Yea, ha. It’s just a mess. No one in power today can really be blamed for it, the roots of what’s happening now date back many decades.
What people nowadays can be blamed for though are poor leadership skills, and I think most people would agree with me when I say that thus far in this decade we’ve had below average leadership from both Republicans AND Democrats.