Rudy Giuliani Does the Biltmore and Joe’s Café

What a loser. Rudy is a third rate hack politician that made numerous mistakes before and after 9-11. If he's the best the Repulican'ts have to offer, their party is doomed for a decade. How much credibility does Rudy have left? Most of the NYFD, NYPD and other hardworking men and women who protect the citizenry have labeled him a phony for years and absolutely DO NOT support him. He's all about posturing and using pat anti-everything rhetoric to try to frighten people into voting for him and his morally bankrupt party. Best way to think of him is a very thin and crossdressing version of Dick Cheney. Even though the Dems are on the take and the system is broken, its very clear that the fewer GOP candidates anywhere near government, the better.

He worked the crowd at Joes for 20 minutes.

Wow.

Such a man of the people.

Rudy has the best chance of becoming our next President. He has proven leadership abilities and is not an extremist. However, the most intellectual, capable, intelligent choice with great ideas for America and best of all candiates is Newt Gingrich. He has been vilified and slandered unmercifully in the past by the liberal left wing media. Why? Not just because he is a Republican but because he is logical, intelligent and rational. His Contract with America was very succesful. So successful that Bill Clinton signed onto the measures that he initiated and Congress passed! He then became too powerful and the media had to conduct a smear campaign against him. He is not a radical right wing Christian but a sensible conservative.

Good day,
I am a life long resident of The Bronx, NYC and a retired member of the FDNY. Rudy Giuliani is the best thing that ever happened to NYC.
He took an out of control city and turned it into one of the finest cities in the USA. He cut crime and welfare dramatically. Perhaps civil service union leaders do not say good things about the "Mayor" but if you ask the rank and file union member "Rudy" is well liked and respected. He says what he thinks and will do what he says. In the world we live in we need a doer not a talked.
Respectfully submitted,
Thomas Ziegler
Lieutenant FDNY (Retired)

ping to the LT.
rudy reorganized the nyfd and nypd gave them modern
equipment got rid of the slackers and affirmative action.
brought back the espirit de cor. before Rudy the nyfd
had jacketed hose plywood trucks rubber gear..
union doesnt like him ... they love slackers and corrupt
politicians
retired NJ firefighter....

with all due respect to retired lt. ziegler, the overwhelming majority of rank and file fdny union members do not like and respect rudy.

as to the nj firefighter comments, the motorola radios that were
being used by fdny on 9/11 were no better than the ones that were in use when the wtc was attacked in feb '93. the radios
proved to be a cause of a large loss of life in the north tower of wtc on 9/11, because many of the members did not receive the evacuation order on their radios.

also, rudy's decision to place the nyc emergency operations center in building #7 at the wtc complex was disastrous.
the emergency op center was evacuated after the planes crashed into the tower, thus there was absolutely no unified emergency command and control of any and all of nyc emergency response that day.

the iconic image of rudy walking on the street on 9/11 was only possible due to the fact that the emergency operations center was absolutely useless due to its proximity to the trade center. rudy and his crew were looking for a city building (precinct, firehouse, etc) where they could make phone calls, talk to the press, etc because they had no emergency op center.

Too bad I missed this big "cultural" event. Dennis-I-switched-my-politics-Miller and his glorious gas-bag, pseudo intellectual rap in favor of Rudy.

Rudy, you're a fascist fear-monger and all you know is "9-11" and "terrorism." What a one-note loser! Nothing else!

(If successful, wouldn't Rudy be the first person to jump from his first elected position as a city mayor to the office of the President of the United States?)

He is a poulet-merd who cannot give a real speech, with more than two hours notice, to a public audience that he and his thugs cannot control.

Rudy oversaw police brutality at its worst, Abner Louima. He stood by the Police even though they were wrong.

Rudy was in charge when 9/11 happened. Thats not a good thing.

Rudy said it was safe to come back and many people were exposed to poisonous WTC dust.

Rudy Ghouliani is simply a bad man. He is also a career gun grabbing autocratic non-constitutionalist.

Rudy is hated by the NYPD. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTYBTNog...

If Rudy knew the constitution, he would know as a Knight Commander , Order of the British Empire (KBE), he is forbidden to be President per:
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8

"No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince or foreign State."

Rudolph Giuliani gave working people plenty of reasons to hate him during his eight long years as mayor of New York City. But he left office at the end of last year a hero.

Time magazine named him 2001’s "Person of the Year"--for his performance in front of the cameras after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center.

Giuliani may have come off as a human being during the tragedy. But his record as mayor tells a different story--that he helped to wreck the lives of thousands of people with eight years of racist and anti-poor policies and his unwavering support for New York’s murderers in blue.

New York schools have become some of the most overcrowded and run-down in the country. But Giuliani scapegoated teachers, refusing to raise their salaries even minimally without "merit pay." In 1995, he slashed the budget for the City University of New York--and then had police attack students who dared to protest.

When transit workers prepared to go on strike in December 1999, Giuliani threatened each transit employee with jail for just using the word "strike"--and a daily $25,000 fine if they walked.

Giuliani used "Quality of Life" laws to go after taxi drivers, street vendors, protesters, bicyclists--and basically anyone who showed signs of being poor. "Streets do not exist in civilized societies for the purpose of people sleeping there," Time’s Person of the Year once sneered. "Bedrooms are for sleeping."

But Giuliani’s most enduring legacy may be his support for racial profiling and police murder. From the hideous torture of Abner Louima in 1997 and the murder of Amadou Diallo in a hail of 41 bullets in 1999, Giuliani relentlessly supported the NYPD Black and Blue.

At the same time, Giuliani showered massive tax breaks on Wall Street and the corporations.

Corporate media outlets like Time may pay tribute to this monster. But Giuliani’s real legacy is eight years of racist scapegoating, police terror and attacks on education.

So this is IT?...there is not one person in the Republican Party better qualified to be president? So what IS Giuliani's qualification over the other Republican candidates to win the nomination?

As for what he did for New York, would those policies be good nationally?

I remember hearing that crime went down in New York but at a cost to general civil liberties.

Also, I would have a real hard time voting for a guy whose son doesn't even speak to him per how he treated his son's mother.

He was in the right place at the right time and once again we have a person sitting at the head of a list of candidates based on name recognition.

Once again, the American electorate speaks.

Don't forget, Newt Gingrich (Like Rudy) dumped his wife, and did so when she had cancer!

One question for First District Streefighter: Does this mean you WON'T be contributing to Rudy's campaign?

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/giuli...

From the look of things, the Republican Party is losing its base of conservative Christian voters. (I wonder if they have figured out that many previous candidates simply use them to garner votes?)

In either case, (with or without conservative Christian votes) I think Hillary Clinton will win in a landslide.

"Goodhelp" wonders: "If successful, wouldn't Rudy be the first person to jump from his first elected position as a city mayor to the office of the President of the United States?"
Why, yes he would; what's your point? Wasn't Bill Clinton the first bastard---er, sorry, meant to say "illegitimate..." or whatever word it is knee-jerk ACLU-supporting reactionaries prefer these days---to hold the office of President of the United States? The second to be called "Tricky Dick" (albeit not to his face or in print; just by the women who identified Hisself/described his uniquely shaped "manhood" in depositions).
Then "mickrussom" informs us Rudy "oversaw" the---horrific---Albert Louima police brutality case... As if Rudy wielded the business end of a plunger himself (or did he hold the poor man down; which was it? Surely you know, Mick; after all, you know what's on Rudy's family crest, all that stuff about the KBE----thanks for the bit of BRITISH/pip-pip trivia, by the way. Always nice to hear from another Anglophile)
By Mick and his ilk's, e.g., blue dog Democrats, "logic"...
(1) Louima was tortured by a few NYPD scum, so ALL NYPD officers are scum---or at least they were during the Giuliani administration, ergo (2) All Muslims all scum, because a handful of them bombed the USS Cole---during Clinton's administration, ergo (3) All Middle Easterners are scum, because a dozen+ of them perpetrated the worst terrorist attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor (which of course means that, if ole Mick and his ilk were around then, they agreed with their poster boy FDR that anyone of Japanese heritage was scum, and that sending them all to internment camps was a good idea).
Hmmm, I wonder if, say, a kneejerk reactionary was diagnosed with cancer the same time a conservative found the cure for it, would the reactionary cry foul; say the conservative must've stolen the panacea from, oh, I don't know, George Soros?; refuse to accept any treatment that was funded by "Big Oil" (or whatever catchphrase is in vogue at the time)?
Actually, I don't wonder; no time. Too busy hating anyone who looks Mexican and all that (goodness, he/she could be plotting La Revolucion!). And since the only good immigrant is a legal one, and there's no way to tell just WHERE these Brownskins allegiances lie by looking at 'em, well...