Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani answers a question during a news conference Tuesday, April 10, 2007, at the Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
Posted on 04/10/2007 7:36:48 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn't done a lot of grocery shopping lately — at least based on his answers about the cost of milk and bread.
Campaigning in Alabama on Tuesday, the former New York City mayor portrayed himself as a fiscal conservative and an aggressive fighter of terrorism who has a lot in common with the Deep South state.
But when asked about more mundane matters — like the price of some basic staples — Giuliani had trouble with a reporter's question.
"A gallon of milk is probably about a $1.50, a loaf of bread about a $1.25, $1.30," he said.
A check of the Web site for D'Agostino supermarket on Manhattan's Upper East Side showed a gallon of milk priced at $4.19 and a loaf of white bread at $2.99 to $3.39. In Montgomery, Ala., a gallon of milk goes for about $3.39 and bread is about $2.
Giuliani was closer to the mark on the price of a gallon of gasoline.
"Gas, I think, is $2.89," he said
His difficulty with grocery items recalled another Republican's supermarket run-in. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush expressed amazement at a high-tech supermarket scanner, prompting critics to argue that he was out of touch with average Americans. The White House cried foul, pointing out that during a grocers' convention Bush had been impressed by a special scanner that could read torn labels.
Giuliani attended $1,000-per-person campaign fundraisers in Mobile and Montgomery before addressing a joint session of the Alabama Legislature that drew an overflow crowd.
Recalling that he worked in the Justice Department in President Reagan's administration, Giuliani said that like Reagan, he will not change course with the political winds.
"I'll set a course and stick with it. I'll be on offense on terrorism. I'll be a fiscal conservative. I'll lower taxes. I'll seek private market solutions to most problems," he told the Legislature.
The former mayor said he talked to radio host Don Imus, who has been suspended for two weeks for derogatory remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Giuliani said he considers Imus' apology sincere.
"I would appear on his program again, sure. I take him at his word," Giuliani said.
Asked about the flying of the Confederate flag in some Southern states, Giuliani said, "That's a good thing to be left on a state-by-state basis."
Giuliani said he did not recall seeing a Confederate flag during his day in Alabama — even though there was a display of four Confederate flags flying beside the Capitol.
The former mayor never mentioned his position on gay rights and abortion that separate him from traditional Republican voters in the state, but he said he would always be straight with voters.
"I will tell you what I believe. If you agree with it, fine. If you don't agree with it, you have a right not to agree with it. If you don't agree, you have a right not to vote for me," he said.
Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani answers a question during a news conference Tuesday, April 10, 2007, at the Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
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Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani smiles and points before speaking at a news conference, Tuesday April 10, 2007, at the Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Rob Carr)
I have no idea how much milk and bread costs either but that’s because my wife does all our shopping :)
Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, right, U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, center, and Benjamin Baer, chairman of the U.S Parole Commission, pose in undercover clothes in this July 9, 1986 file photo, after D'Amato bought what he later told a news conference were vials of crack on a New York City street. D'Amato, dressed in a fatigue cap and Eisenhower jacket, made the buy with an agent of the US Drug Enforcement Agency. Long before he became mayor of New York or the Republican front-runner for the presidency, Giuliani made a name for himself as a crime-busting federal prosecutor in Manhattan. During a nearly seven-year stretch ending in 1989, Giuliani steered dozens of high-profile cases to completion, garnering more than 4,000 convictions. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
I would've asked the little turd if he could recite the second amendment or John 3:16 from memory.
Will they do this to Hillary?
I’d bet 10 bucks, she gets a weekly briefing on such things, just in case a reporter actually gets through her gauntlet of “ no questions asked” security
D’Agostinos is very expensive.
I doubt he drinks a lot of milk due to his prostrate problems.
Whoopdi Doo....I don’t buy milk or “regular” bread....so I wouldn’t know either....and I do the grocery shopping!
The price of milk has exploded in the past 2 1/2 years here in NoVa.
I’m not a big fan of Rudy Giuliani for president, but to be fair, I have no idea myself, what a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread costs. For one, I have my own business and the hours are erratic, so I don’t buy much that can spoil. For another, I just buy what I need and like, and have a good idea of what the total should be, but as far as individual prices ... well, I’m just not looking. The last time I tried shopping with coupons, I ended up with large containers that I ended up throwing out, or things I didn’t really like, so I just gave up on the notion. If I had kids, maybe I’d be more attentive. But, I’d imagine there are a lot of people in a situation similar to mine, so it’s not the “issue” that it was in 1992.
Nice stores,, what I can’t believe is a gallon of milk and a gallon of gas cost almost the same.
really?
Exactly - it’s an overpriced, over rated supermarket in Manhattan.
I couldn't tell you how much bread or milk cost... It's a commodity and I don't pay attention. I throw it in the basket and pay attention to the big ticket items.
Why didn't they ask about the cost of toilet tissue... that's an even more basic item.
What a dopey story!
I’m pro-choice. I’m pro-gay rights, Giuliani said. He was then asked whether he supports a ban on what critics call partial-birth abortions. “No, I have not supported that, and I don’t see my position on that changing,” he responded. Source: CNN.com, “Inside Politics” Dec 2, 1999 http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Rudy_Giuliani_Abortion.htm
ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES (November 14, 2006)
RUDY GIULIANI (R), FORMER MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY: I'm pro- choice. I'm pro-gay rights.KING: Giuliani supports a woman's right to an abortion, and back in 1999, he opposed a federal ban on late-term abortions.
GIULIANI: No, I have not supported that, and I don't see my position on that changing.
KING: Immigration could be another presidential landmine. Back in 1996, Mayor Giuliani went to federal court to challenge new federal laws requiring the city to inform the federal government about illegal immigrants.
JEFFREY: He took the side of illegal immigrants in New York City against the Republican Congress.
KING: Giuliani opposes same-sex marriage but as mayor, he supported civil unions and extending health and other benefits to gay couples. He also supported the assault weapons ban and other gun control measures opposed by the National Rifle Association.
GIULIANI: I'm in favor of gun control. I'm pro-choice.
Republican Big-Wigs Support Pro-Abortion Event in NY
Pro-abortion Governor George Pataki and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who also supports unrestricted abortion, are co-chairs of the 2000 Choice Award Presentation to be held on May 30 at the St. Regis Hotel in New York City. The event is sponsored by the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition, a group that is campaigning for the removal of the pro-life plank from the Republican National Platform.
http://www.nationalreview.com/murdock/murdock200503010743.asp
The media would have you believe it is a George Bush 1 moment when he was in a store and didn’t know what a price scanner was at the checkout counter.
Excuse me pal, but what does the price of Barber's have to do with a Presidential election?
I shop but I don’t buy milk and I had no idea it was that expensive. I do know bread is about 1.60 at walmart and the rotisserie chicken at walmart is a deal at 4.00 for a whole chicken.
What a maroon.
It’s cheaper to get milk per quart than it is per pint per unit pint.
A quart of milk cost about $1.45 while a pint cost around $1.20.
Exactly...like Mrs. Bill Clinton is hauling the groceries into the station wagon every week. When was the last time she was in a supermarket?
Will they do this to Hillary?
Do you really think that your repetitious spam posting has any effect besides making you look dull? If it’s the latter, it’s really working.
“Giuliani said, “That’s a good thing to be left on a state-by-state basis.”
If only he felt the same way about murdering unborn children.
When I lived in the city I shopped at D'Agostonos and Gristedes because they were actually the cheaper places. Not that I shopped much, I needed to reserve my disposable income for booze.
Would that be this little rectum inspector?
I can't even stand to watch the occasional promo spot of him that I run across flipping through channels.
Most men don’t grocery shop. Why did this reporter have to call D’agostino’s. Didn’t he know the answer to his own question?
I have no idea how much milk or bread costs and I do all my own grocery shopping every week.
i do our family’s grocery shopping, and i cannot tell you how much things cost... i know when things i don’t normally buy are on sale... things like wine and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale... but i have no idea how much milk is, cereal, rice, bread, apples, bananas... i do know how much Coca-Cola is... no clue how much detergent costs, tortillas, cheese... and these are items i buy all the time... weekly...
I have no doubt he will. He already established a private market solution to terrorism...just after 911 he and his cronies from NYC became experts in battling terrorism for profit.
Angry archivists and historians denounced the unprecedented hijacking of public property to private hands. Tom Connors, of the Society of American Archivists, said the transfer seemed part of a movement to "create barriers to the American citizen's right to know what their governments are doing."
The families of the police and fire rescuers who died in the attack balked at Giuliani's plan to take up to a year to dole out the money, with his new organization billing $2.2 million in anticipated administrative expenses (including six-figure salaries for friends he appointed as officers). The families argued that the fire union had far more quickly distributed $111 million with an estimated administrative cost of just $30,000.
Under embarrassing pressure from the victims' families, unions and state Attorney General Elliot Spitzer, Giuliani backed down. He promised to distribute the money within 60 days and fund his overhead from new donations. The families of the deceased rescuers, the real heroes of the September 11 attacks, received a one-time benefit of about $230,000 each from the Giuliani-privatized fund in 2002. That year, the former mayor earned some $8 million in speaking fees alone, more than $650,000 per month.
New York conveniently forgot the 1996 federal ban on sanctuary laws until a gang of five Mexicans—four of them illegal—abducted and brutally raped a 42-year-old mother of two near some railroad tracks in Queens. The NYPD had already arrested three of the illegal aliens numerous times for such crimes as assault, attempted robbery, criminal trespass, illegal gun possession, and drug offenses. The department had never notified the INS.
On the issues: Liberal Party endorsement of Giuliani
National Review: Rockefeller quote
New York Observer: Reagan Republican quote
New York Observer: Republican convention quote
New York Observer: Goldwater quote
I have been to the grocery store with the wife 3 times in the last week. Do I know what we paid for a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread?? Absolutely not! Out of about 2 hundred bucks spent I can only remember what the price of a name brand soft drink was. Buy 4 for $11 and get one free.
I also can't tell you exactly how much I paid each for a gallon of gear oil, 2 bags of dog food, 6 qts. of motor oil, 2 cakes of bird suet, a bag of bird feed and a small funnel. All I know is it came to a little over $88.
Since I can't quote each price plus the fact that I'm not running for office I guess the MSM would put me down as too stupid to vote.
R O T F L M A O
Can’t make this up : )
And if milk was so good, why would they have to add vitamins?
Seriously, I'll bet if you bought a bunch of those little vessels containing a common natural occurring molecule H2O (from a huge well) known as 'bottled water' would cost a whole lot more per ounce than either milk or gasoline.
Only in America.
You are indeed a dedicated trooper.
B T T T
That’s the kind of attitude that will cause you to lose on the Price is Right. ;)
I would love to see Kerry in a Waldbaums with sixty or so dollars trying to buy a weeks groceries for him and Teresa. See him wait on the deli line, and what the ‘sin tax’ does to a case of beer. And buy a gallon of milk with all the dairy subsidies on it.
I guess there's a big market for those who are easily amused. Even Jerry Springer holds his audience in rapt anticipation.
I guess there’s a big market for those who are easily fooled too. As the conservatives find out the truth about Rudy, they get angry. It’s not NICE to play RINO.
Other than tax cuts, the biggest domestic issue of the 2004 election was President Bush's support of a Constitutional Amendment to define marriage as being between a man and a woman. Unfortunately, Rudy Giuliani has taken a "Kerryesque" position on gay marriage.
Although Rudy, like John Kerry, has said that marriage should remain between a man and a woman, he also supports civil unions, "marched in gay-pride parades" ...dressed up in drag on national television for a skit on Saturday Night Live (and moved in with a) wealthy gay couple" after his divorce. He also very vocally opposed running on a gay marriage amendment:
His thoughts on the gay-marriage amendment? "I don't think you should run a campaign on this issue," he told the Daily News earlier this month. "I think it would be a mistake for anybody to run a campaign on it -- the Democrats, the president, or anybody else."
Here's more from the New York Daily News:
"Rudy Giuliani came out yesterday against President Bush's call for a ban on gay marriage.
The former mayor, who Vice President Cheney joked the other night is after his job, vigorously defended the President on his post-9/11 leadership but made clear he disagrees with Bush's proposal to rewrite the Constitution to outlaw gays and lesbians from tying the knot.
"I don't think it's ripe for decision at this point," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
"I certainly wouldn't support [a ban] at this time," added Giuliani..."
Although Rudy may grudgingly say he doesn't support gay marriage (and it would be political suicide for him to do otherwise), where he really stands on the issue is an open question.
Did Clinton get asked this BS? “President Clinton, how much does a head of lettuce cost?” “Well let me see, the last head I got.......”
Rudy, in 3 months will be just a memory : )
I'm fine with new insight on all the candidates.
I've not decided on a candidate yet, but look for new info and not the SOS from candidate backers or haters.
“Since I can’t quote each price plus the fact that I’m not running for office I guess the MSM would put me down as too stupid to vote.”
Besides, if you’re rich and famous like Julie, you don’t have to concern yourself with the price of milk or bread.
A first trimester abortion in progress.
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