Giuliani warns of ‘new 9/11’ if Dems win
Dems Rebuke Giuliani Over Attack Comment
America will be safer with a Republican president.
Uh, right. This from a Republican best know for wearing makeup and a dress, and then allowing Donald Trump to nuzzle his fake breasts. Yeah, how’s them there “famlee val-yews” workin’ out fer y’all??
Over the past going on six years, we’ve all watched 9.11 being thoroughly politicized by Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader © and other Republicans who have no real ideas, but aren’t afraid to spread the fear with a putty knife. I’d been hoping that we’d somehow be able to get past the “only Republicans know what it takes to protect the Homeland” crap, but apparently I’m being particularly naive these days.
There are few things more craven, more irresponsible, more mean-spirited, and more just plain WRONG than a Republican like Giuliani using the memory of that horrible day for political advantage.
How many funerals did Giuliani attend after 9.11 when he was still Mayor of New York City? Now he’s willing to use the tragedy responsible for those funerals to advance his Presidential prospects? Could their be anything more thoroughly disrespectful of those who perished on 9.11 than turning their deaths into Republican talking points? How Giuliani can do these and still be able to look at himself in the mirror is beyond me.
WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidates on Wednesday rebuked Republican rival Rudy Giuliani for suggesting that the United States could face another major terrorist attack if a Democrat is elected in 2008. The former New York mayor did not back down.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama said Giuliani, who was in office on Sept. 11, 2001, should not be making the terrorist threat into “the punchline of another political attack.”
“Rudy Giuliani today has taken the politics of fear to a new low and I believe Americans are ready to reject those kind of politics,” Obama said in a statement.
Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards said Giuliani knows better than to suggest there is a “superior Republican way to fight terrorism.” Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said protecting the country from terrorism “shouldn’t be a political football.”
“It should be a solemn responsibility that all of us pledge to fulfill regardless of what party we’re in,” she said when asked about her fellow New Yorker’s comment at a Capitol Hill news conference.
The memory of 9.11 and the continued threat posed to this country by terrorism is not, and should not, be a partisan issue. Those who would use it for partisan political purposes only demonstrate how little they truly deserve to occupy the Oval Office. Rudy Giuliani cares for nothing but his own political self-aggrandizement. In doing so, he demonstrates that he just doesn’t “get it”, which is hard to believe for someone who was the Mayor of New York City when the Twin Towers came down.
Giuliani stood by his comments Wednesday, saying Democrats don’t understand the threat posed by terrorists.
“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,” Giuliani said on “The Sean Hannity Show,” according to a transcript distributed by his campaign. “They want to take us back to not being as alert which to me will just extend this war much, much longer.”….
But, he said, if a Republican wins, “we will remain on offense” trying to anticipate what the terrorists are going to do and “trying to stop them before they do it.”
Republicans have no claim to the moral high ground when it comes to the war on terrorism. Remember, it was a Republican President who got us involved in a war in Iraq by selling us lies, propaganda, and fudged intelligence. That there was no terrorist threat extant in Iraq until after we invaded seems to have been conveniently forgotten by both Republicans and the Mainstream Media.
This doesn’t even BEGIN to address that there is NO connection of any sort between 9.11 and the war in Iraq. We were lied to from the start, and Republicans like Giuliani insist on continuing to feed us lies and propaganda instead of deal with the reality that our war in Iraq has nothing to do with increasing this nation’s security. Indeed, if anything, the war in Iraq has likely made us LESS safe.
Republicans like Giuliani who honestly believe that they, and only they, have the wherewithal and the cojones to fight terrorism only display their impressive and disturbing arrogance and self-righteousness.
In 2004, President Bush was re-elected after claiming that Democratic Sen. John Kerry would waver in the face of terrorist threats. Vice President Dick Cheney suggested a vote for Kerry would risk another terrorist attack.
In the 2006 election, Bush political strategist Karl Rove accused Democrats of clinging to a pre-Sept. 11 mind-set _ but Democrats came out on top in the majority of midterm races.
“America’s mayor should know that when it comes to 9-11 and fighting terrorists, America is united,” Obama said. “We know we can win this war based on shared purpose, not the same divisive politics that question your patriotism if you dare to question failed policies that have made us less secure.”
For Rudy Giuliani to attempt to paint Democrats as libtard terrorist-loving Defeatocrats is to merely cement his reputation as a clueless DUMB@$$ willing to do or say whatever it takes to win the Presidency (et tu, John McCain??). What could be more un-American that attempting to paint those who disagree with you as evil, stupid, and willing to place the country we love at risk.
How dare he?
