Mayor Rudy Giuliani Knowledge Base
Does former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Obama have anything in common? Well besides having Hillary Clinton working beside them. I get the feeling that Obama might end up becoming the next drug czar but on a national level. Think about it..............its a great way to get the heat off his back and gain more control. Obama is already using Homeland Security to beef up the borders. So what is next?
Why do you think the IAFF hates former mayor Rudy Giuliani? http://www.rudy-urbanlegend.com/ By the way, IAFF stands for International Association of Firefighters. This really upsets me. They are pouring their hearts out to tell the truth the media was too corrupt to detail. The IAFF are non partisan, you fools! Each one of you who refuse to believe the truth defile the memories of 343 firefighters who lost their lives on 9/11 due to the incompetence of the former mayor.
Was Rudy Giuliani overall a good Mayor? I only want to hear from people who live in New York City. I know that he went overboard on the 9/11 hero stuff but didn't clean up the city. I mean New York City became a safe city. In my opinion he was much better then Dinkins. However I will admit that I did not support him for President.
Rudy Giuliani for President?? Please feed back...? Currently, the Republican party is trying to convince former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani to run for President 2008...I think it's a GREAT idea, do you? I want some truly intelligent answers in why you don't think he'd make a good president, cuz as far as I can see...he is the best bet we have so far.
Freedom = Slavery, War = Peace, Ignorance = Strength....According to Rudy Giuliani? "Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do." - Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani Is this conservatism? http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E2D9173CF933A15750C0A962958260 "being a traitor is patriotic" ? i believe you mean "dissent is patriotic" you need to read the history of this country again, because i believe you missed the point of the revolutionary war. They were being patriotic by dissenting from the british government...or would you say that they were traitors? if you lived back then we would still be under british control. those were Rudy Giuliani's words. go see for yourself. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E2D9173CF933A15750C0A962958260 . ...and " Dark S " - don't write me off as a liberal, because i am not. . quad5 - that is not what he is saying! he said we need to give up "a gread deal of discretion" of what we are able to do! . quad5 - how could you twist what he said to mean that? you must be part of his campaign!
Do you agree with Rudy Giuliani that Obama is riding a wave of anti-Americanism ? According to The Hill: July 10, 2008 Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-N.Y.) said Thursday that Barack Obama is capturing 'an anti-American feeling' responding to Obama telling a town hall audience in Georgia that their children should learn to speak Spanish. "Well this is why he is a popular candidate in Europe, because there is such an anti-American feeling and he is sort of capturing that," Giuliani said on MSNBC. http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/07/10/giuliani-obama-capturing-an-anti-american-feeling/ http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=09730c76-5fa9-48d6-95c0-8dc4001aac22 As a patriotic American who loves the USA, I must agree with the Mayor's analysis.
The Christian Right and....Rudy Giuliani??? The Rev. Pat Robertson's endorsement of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani puts front and center the day conservative evangelicals have said we would never see: a possible Republican presidential nominee who has been supportive of gays and abortion rights. Why the shift? Thoughts?
Is Rudy one of the 5 best known Americans Internationally, or is it just arrogance? From a cross dressing politician...? Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani bragged about his international celebrity Wednesday on a trans-Atlantic campaign trip in which he schmoozed with conservative idol Margaret Thatcher. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani points to the logo as he delivers the Margaret Thatcher Atlantic Bridge lecture in London, September 19, 2007. [AP] "I'm probably one of the four or five best known Americans in the world," Giuliani told a small group of reporters at a posh London hotel as onlookers gathered in the lobby to gawk at actor Dustin Hoffman who was on a separate visit. The former New York mayor is the latest GOP presidential candidate to travel to Britain, meeting the country's new political guard and rubbing elbows with Thatcher, an icon for American conservatives.
Would you as a liberal vote for Rudy Giuliani for president in 2008? I am a proud liberal, and completely hate the Bush administration like most other liberals, but I wanna know what other liberals think about Rudy Giuliani as president in 2008. I know he's a republican but he's very moderate and progressive..for example he seems to be pretty tolerant of gays, as well as tough on gun control, AND he's pretty tolerant of illegal immigrants. Being mayor of New York city, he seems to be able to work well with democrats. My Giuliani is a very honest and genuine individual, and although I am not republican I would consider voting for him. I only want to hear from other liberals and progressive minded individuals.
Will the GOP really select Giuliani who is pro-abortion, pro-illegal alien? Giuliani encourages illegal immigration: "Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens," Mr. Giuliani said. "If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people who we want in this city. You're somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair." Giuliani places himself above the law: "When Congress enacted immigration reform laws that forbade local governments from barring employees from cooperating with the INS, Mayor Rudy Giuliani filed suit against the feds in 1997. He was rebuffed by two lower courts, which ruled that the sanctuary order amounted to special treatment for illegal aliens and were nothing more than an unlawful effort to flaunt federal enforcement efforts against illegal aliens. In January 2000, the Supreme Court rejected his appeal, but Giuliani vowed to ignore the law.
Is Rudy Giuliani qualified to be President of the United States? Rudy Giuliani may have been a good Mayor, but that hardly qualifies him to be the leader of the United States. Making sure peoples garbage is picked up and cleaning graffiti off of buildings are not great feats compared to the responsibilities of the President. Rudy has exactly zero experience in federal politics. He will be a pawn for the neo-cons just as Bush was a pawn. The real power of the Republican party does not necessarily lie with the man elected as President, as Cheney, Rove and Rumsfield proved. Be careful how you cast your vote. Don't be fooled again.
Still Like Rudy Giuliani? Yesterday, the International Association of Firefighters held their Presidential Forum and Rudy "America's Mayor" Giuliani was MIA. President of the Association Harold Schaitberger appeared on Hardball last night and had some extremely harsh words for Rudy and his "egregious acts" against the FDNY in the days and weeks after 9/11. As if strong condemnation from the nation's largest firefighters union wasn't bad enough, Bernard Kerik, Rudy's NYPD Commissioner and Bush's first choice for DHS Secretary, rejected a plea deal on a litany of federal crimes including (but not limited to) tax evasion, mortgage fraud and conspiracy to commit illegal eavesdropping. As if all of that wasn't damaging enough, it turns out Giuliani's law firm is on the payroll of…wait for it…Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. Here's the link to the last thing I said: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/03/15/giuliani.chavez/index.html?section=cnn_latest
Rudy Giuliani and 9/11? It is so stupid how people believe Giuliani was in on 9/11. "Sixteen hours had passed since the Twin Towers crumbled and fell, and people kept telling Rudy Giuliani to get some rest. The indomitable mayor of New York City had spent the day and night holding his town together. He arrived at the World Trade Center just after the second plane hit, watched human beings drop from the sky and--when the south tower imploded--nearly got trapped inside his makeshift command center near the site. Then he led a battered platoon of city officials, reporters and civilians north through the blizzard of ash and smoke, and a detective jimmied open the door to a firehouse so the mayor could revive his government there. Giuliani took to the airwaves to calm and reassure his people, made a few hundred rapid-fire decisions about the security and rescue operations, toured hospitals to comfort the families of the missing and made four more visits to the apocalyptic attack scene." Rudy 4 Pres u agree?
Does Rudy Giuliani still support giving free health care to illegal aliens? In the recent New Hampshire debates, Rudy Giuliani defended his decision as New York Mayor to give illegal aliens medical care, despite their ability to pay, and proclaimed it the "humane thing to do." This is not to question whether giving medical care to anyone is right or wrong, regardless of national origin. As a voter, I'm just curious if Mr. Giuliani still supports allocating limited resources to illegals on an ongoing basis, just because these people are here in the U.S.and regardless of how they got here.
If Rudy was such a great mayor, as many conservatives claim, then why did the NY Times do this to him? NY Times recently snubbed their former mayor and endorsed John McCain, and Hillary Clinton on the democrat side. As to why they didn't endorse the former mayor, they gave this account: "Giuliani is a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man" who "shamelessly turned the horror of 9/11 into a lucrative business, with a secret client list, then exploited his city's and the country's nightmare to promote his presidential campaign". Do you think that is accurate? I do. This is the same man who says he favors low taxes and lets his actions speak differently for him: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9803E7DE153EF934A25756C0A96F958260 I'm glad Mitt has exposed Rudy for the fiend he is: http://www.mymanmitt.com/mitt-romney/2007/10/romney-campaign-mayor-giuliani-sued.asp Also, Mayor Giuliani's direct orders to send hundreds of firefighters up several dozen flights of stairs heavy equipment and no use of helicopters to put out the flames led to the death of 343 firefighters. Just ask a NYC firefighter. They hate former mayor Giuliani. They have websites to tell how he was. And I didn't even mention up till now how he is an adulterer without hesitation. What a god-awful man. Doc, I'm waiting for your petty counter-argument... Pacer, I don't have a MoveOn source... you didn't even view my links, did you? You people are acting like the only link I have is from NY Times. People, it is all over the net. Rudy sued former mayor Pataki to fight the repeal of an outrageous tax, the commuter tax. Is that the kind of president you want? Doc and Pacer are too scared to A) view the links and B) give me any sort of rebuttal.
Why is Rudy Giuliani running? Let me start by saying that Giuliani was my mayor here in new york city...He wasn't the best mayor...Also why would anyone elect him President when he married his own cousin years ago...? He married his second cousin...
Conservatives: why should we trust Rudy Giuliani ? WASHINGTON - Rudy Giuliani assured a conservative legal group Friday that if elected president he would appoint federal judges who adhere to their principles. He also praised a judge who declared the capital city's gun ban unconstitutional Giuliani has been held suspect by some conservatives because as mayor of New York he backed some gun control laws http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071116/ap_on_el_pr/giuliani_federalists;_ylt=AuTfp_7UYHbYCFFCAr2.UwRp24cA Sorry, I'm not buying it. If Rudy wants to have any credibility with me, he must first go back to being Mayor of New York and remove the draconian anti-gun rights laws. Then --and only then-- can he appear credible and honest about his supposed change of heart regarding the 2nd Amendment Thats sad that some of you are willing to give up your vote to this RINO simply because "At least he's not Hillary"
Why did Rudy Giuliani make this Fascist statement in one of his speeches during his time as mayor of NYC? "We look upon authority too often and focus over and over again, for 30 or 40 or 50 years, as if there is something wrong with authority. We see only the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. You have free speech so I can be heard." source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E2D9173CF933A15750C0A962958260
Why is Rudy Giuliani leading in the Republican polls? I am from New York and I thought it was a joke when rumors circulated that this ex-mayor was running for president simply because of his lack of experience. I am a democrat and I thought he was a fine mayor, but how could he possibly be a good president? I'm not trying to start a fight here, I honestly want to know what Giuliani supporters' rationale is. I have a feeling people like him only because of his great media coverage post-9/11, but does this guy have any other qualifications? Are republicans just looking for the 'anti-Bush'? A couple people are comparing Giuliani to Bill Clinton, but Bill Clinton had 12 years experience as governor of Arkansas. I guess my question more specifically is, how do you trust someone to run a nation when the only prior experience they've had is running a city? Don't you think he will be overwhelmed by the bureaucracy? Do you really think being mayor for 8 years is enough preparation for this huge job? Not to mention that he will have been out of office for 7 years by the time he is elected...
Is Rudy Giuliani more pro illegal immigration than La Raza? http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/rwg/html/98a/lulac.html As mayor his pro illegal alien work included: He fought the federal government for the release of federally detained illegal aliens (Under Clinton's INS). He fought against "tough" illegal immigration legislation signed by President Clinton (in Rudy's words) that were harsh and unfair to illegal aliens. He has worked with League of United Latin American Citizens to fight against "unfair" anti illegal immigration laws including laws denying illegal aliens medicare, social security, food stamps and Medicaid. Rudy is proud that he used money taxed on legal New York City residents to not only sue the Clinton Administration for unlimited benefits for illegal aliens but he also used taxpayer money to barnstorm the country (Washington, Boston, Twin Cities, etc.) to demand they use taxpayer money to do the same. Could La Raza ask for a better pro illegal alien candidate than Rudy Giuliani? Actually President Eisenhower deported over 95% of the illegal aliens in 1954. They will end up leaving, mostly voluntarily, when employers face jail time for hiring them and illegal aliens caught are sent by boat to the southern tip of Mexico as was done by President Eisenhower's brilliant Operation. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p09s01-coop.html Are you willing to sellout your country for a few dollars profit or for a cheap new voter to vote for your pathetic candidates? Deport nearly every illegal - Si su puede!
Can Giuliani win the GOP nomination after saying this? On a 1989 broadcast of a Phil Donahue show, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said "I've said that I'll uphold a woman's right of choice, that I will fund abortion so that a poor woman is not deprived of a right that others can exercise, and that I would oppose going back to a day in which abortions were illegal." Permit me to repeat these four words "I will fund abortion."
Are you aware that Rudy Giuliani is a social issue liberal and is pro amnesty for illegals? He says that he will get tough on illegal alien criminals, but he has been a supporter of illegal aliens since his years as mayor of NYC. The letter gives strong reasons why Rudy Giuliani should not be President of the United States. The letter: Giuliani encourages illegal immigration: "Some of the hardest-working and most productive people in this city are undocumented aliens," Mr. Giuliani said. "If you come here and you work hard and you happen to be in an undocumented status, you're one of the people who we want in this city. You're somebody that we want to protect, and we want you to get out from under what is often a life of being like a fugitive, which is really unfair." " Source: "New York Officials Welcome Immigrants, Legal or Illegal", Deborah Sontag, June 10, 1994, New York Times. link: http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/articlees=FB071EFC385E0C738DDDAF0894DC494D81 Giuliani believes the federal government can't tackle illegal immigration: Giuliani believes the federal government can't tackle illegal immigration: "But in a country as large as ours, with our protection of individual liberty, and with a huge border that spans sea, deserts and mountains, and given the strong desire that people have to come to this country, the federal government may never be able to stop illegal immigration completely. At best, all we can expect is that the federal government will do a better job of patrolling our borders." Giuliani address at Harvard University, October 10, 1996. Link: http://www.ibisnetwork.com/giuliani/text/immkenn.html
Why Hasn’t Rudy Giuliani Read the 9-11 Commission Report? During the "First in the South" GOP debate in South Carolina, one thing was made clear: Rudy Giuliani does not understand how to keep America safe. When Congressman Ron Paul, who has long served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, explained how 50 years of American interventionism in the Middle East has helped compromise our national security, Giuliani interrupted saying he had "never heard anything so absurd." This statement is particularly troubling coming from the former mayor who tries to cast himself as a security expert, since Dr. Paul's point comes directly from the bi-partisan 9-11 Commission Report. "Rudy Giuliani has tip-toed around the issues of abortion, guns and marriage. The only issue he has left is security, and he doesn't even get that right," said campaign chairman Kent Snyder. "It is clear from his interruption that former Mayor Giuliani has not read the 9-11 Commission Report and has no clue on how to keep America safe."
Are you interested in helping Rudy Giuliani to victory ? When Mayor Giuliani took office, one out of every seven New Yorkers was on welfare. Mayor Giuliani has returned the work ethic to the center of City life by implementing the largest and most successful welfare-to-work initiative in the country, cutting welfare rolls in half while moving over 640,000 individuals from dependency on the government to the dignity of self-sufficiency. In addition, Giuliani has enacted a record of over $2.5 billion in tax reductions - including the commercial rent tax, personal income tax, the hotel occupancy tax, and the sales tax on clothing for purchases up to $110 dollars. In addition, hundreds of millions of dollars have been returned to the private sector as a result of the Mayor's aggressive campaign to root out organized crime's influence over the Fulton Fish Market, the private garbage hauling industry, and wholesale food markets throughout the City. These reforms, combined with the fiscal discipline which enabled the Mayor to turn an inherited $2.3 billion dollar budget deficit into a multi-billion dollar surplus, have led the City to an era of broad-based growth with a record 450,000 new private sector jobs created in the past seven years. As news of the City's resurgence has spread around the nation and the world, tourism has grown to record levels.
Why does Rudy Giuliani claim to be the "Crime Fighter" ? According to Giuliani's website : "Under Mayor Giuliani’s leadership, overall crime was cut by 56%, murder was cut by 66%, and New York City—once considered the crime capital of the country—became the safest large city in America according to the FBI." But he never credits Joe Biden. Sen. Biden authored the historic 1994 Crime Bill, which is credited by many as driving down crime rates to the lowest in a generation. Due largely to cuts to programs contained in the Bill, our nation is now facing a similar crime crisis. Last month, the FBI released its 2006 crime report based the Uniform Crime Reporting database. For the second consecutive year, there were measurable increases in violent crime nationwide. This is the first time the crime rate has risen for two years in a row since the passage of the 1994 Biden Crime Bill, with violent crimes increasing 1.9 % nationally. In 2005, the FBI found that murders were up 3.4% Why doesn't Giuliani mention crime in his 12 Committments?
Will Rudy Giuliani be Just Like Bush? Can we expect a long protracted war with the American economy sinking faster and faster into econmic debt and national ruin? Former FBI Director Louis Freeh, a Giuliani friend and adviser on homeland security issues, said in an interview: "I would say they're very much joined at the hip on these policies, and particularly the mind-set and commitment of both the president and Mayor Giuliani to stay on offense. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071026/D8SH48C01.html
Why is Rudy Giuliani hated so much, even by the voters of New York? Former mayor of NYC Ed Koch stated "(The verdict of Florida's voter) will drive a stake through his heart. The beast is dead." I personally did not like him because he made a profit from 9/11. He used that tragedy to divide America. His machismo attitude was vulgar and fake. He bent over for George W. Bush at the expense of the good people of New York. What is your opinion of Rudy Giuliani?
Why does "Slick Rudy" get away with constant lies and misstatements? http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/freds_facts_check_out_rudys_dont.html "Fred's Facts Check Out; Rudy's Don't Summary Former Sen. Fred Thompson got the facts straight for his GOP debate debut Oct. 9. But former Mayor Rudy Giuliani added to a lengthening string of exaggerations and misstatements: Giuliani claimed Sen. Hillary Clinton once called the free-market economy "the most destructive force in modern America." She didn't say that. She quoted another author who said free markets were "disruptive." She also said free markets bring prosperity. The mayor falsely claimed Clinton proposes to give $1,000 to "everybody." Her proposed subsidies to workers' retirement accounts would be for couples making up to $60,000 a year and would be $500 for those making up to $100,000. Giuliani falsely claimed that more than 2 percent of the nation's gross domestic product is spent on "frivolous" lawsuits. The figure is from a study about the cost of all lawsuits." Scarlett: Thanks for the quote. To me there is a big distinction between Rudy's implication that she made a blanket indictment of the free market. He significantly leaves out the word "unfettered". Huge difference. If we had an unfettered free market there'd be no restriction on the lead content of imported Chinese toys, for a single topical instance. To display the dishonesty of what he is doing, a Hillary supporter could snip the quote to say that she said "a free market is the driving force behind our prosperity, our freedom in so many ways" and leave out the rest, which would be equally as valid as what he did.
Are you fooled by Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani? They were not against illegal immigration before they began running for president. Especially Giuliani, he even protected illegals when he was NY mayor. Tom Tancredo is the only one who has always been against illegal immigration. I don't think he has much of a chance of winning though.
To all Rudy Giuliani supporters; How do you explain all of this? How do you Rudy Giuliani supporters explain all of these videos against him? Keith Olbermann - Special Comment: Rudy Guiliani http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EuOLO8T-38&mode=related&search= Rudy Giuliani's answer to everything http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSk4SUpWVuY&mode=related&search= RUDY GIULIANI CAUGHT LYING AGAIN ON DAVID LETTERMAN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZfBl_CI7gI&mode=related&search= FIREFIGHTERS BLAST RUDY GIULIANI! *MUST SEE!* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCuNRqFNOBY Giuliani Gets Exposed As Fraud by Firefighters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaCYEEO-58I&mode=related&search= Rudy Giuliani: America's Mayor or American Fraud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfCnMKycHaY Top of Center - Ron Paul versus Rudy Giuliani Analysis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrWm0sWbdg0 I mean maybe there is something that I'm missing, but if you could let me know, that would be great. Ok to respond to all of you; To everyone with their 1 sentence comments, I merely posted videos, asking for an explanation. I didn't blast him. As supporters, why can't you defend your candidate? Why be so childish? also, halestrm, you will notice that I posted MANY VIDEOS other than 1. I understand you don't have time for all of them right now, but come back to me when you have watched his own NY Fire Fighters on Video discrediting him.
How can Republicans want McCain, Gingrich, or Giuliani to run? Repugliscums call these men having FAMILY VALUES? Sen. John McCain (affair, divorce), former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (affair, divorce, affair, divorce), and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (divorce, affair, nasty divorce). Together, they form the most maritally challenged crop of presidential hopefuls in American political history. Are the Republicans running on hypocrisy.... AGAIN?
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