Posted on 04/25/2007 8:16:07 AM PDT by meg88
WASHINGTON (AP) Democrat Barack Obama rebuked Republican White House rival Rudy Giuliani Wednesday for suggesting the United States could face another major terrorist attack if a Democrat is elected in 2008.
Obama, an Illinois senator, said the man who served as New York mayor's during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks should not be making the serious threat that faces the country 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.
"America's mayor should know that when it comes to 9-11 and fighting terrorists, America is united."
Giuliani's comment Tuesday in New Hampshire echoed sentiments expressed by other Republicans in election time.
The former mayor said if a Democrat is elected, "it sounds to me like we're going on defense. We're going to wave the white flag there."
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."
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. ___
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Bill Clinton was reported to have contacted Obama later that day in order to aquire "whatever this guy is smoking, I want it"
Obama has activated the “everything is okay” alarm.
And boy, is it shrill.
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"Senator Obama, you have stated that you have been against the Iraq war from the beginning. Every intel agency in the world agreed that Iraq was accumulating WMD and it is well known that Saddam had a deep felt animus for everything American. At the same time Hussein was giving sanctuary to the worst of the worst terrorists in Baghdad, namely Abu Abbas, Abu Nidal and that fellow Zarqawi. The nexus of WMD, Hussein and terrorists is and was a danger to Americans and American interests worldwide yet you would have done nothing about it while your collegues like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and the infamous Harry Reid all stated on the floor of the Senate that this danger had to be confronted. I stand by my words that should you be elected America will be in much more danger because your judgment in the Iraq matter sucked."
Regards,
Rudy
I see the FReeper hall monitors are roaming this thread. When Rudy is right, he's right. And the "Giuliani is the incarnation of Stalin, Hitler, Mao Gang" look silly trying to justify their previous posts.
BUMP!
I was commenting on post #52.
A rebuke from a Lefty is a badge of honor.
How can you possibly equate Obama with Giuliani? If Obama had been mayor of New York, does anyone doubt he would have slobbered all over Yassir Arafat like every other Dem? Rudy might have liberal social views, but he is just as committed to defending this country as any Republican.
As our host has often said, “A liberal is a liberal.”
BS.
He thumbed his nose at the law and Congress to protect the illegal invasion of NYC by hundreds of thousands of UNKNOWN foreign nationals...the exact same sort of illegals who flew planes into the WTC towers.
AND, he is a leading gungrabber. Sorry, dude. The Second Amendment is the ultimate and by far most important element of national defense.
Giuliani is a dangerous threat to our God-given, unalienable rights.
Actually on this exchange, Rudy hit the big fat target and Obama responded like a Democrat.
Apprently, you think what Rudy said was empty.
Apprently.
"Woe to you, Rudolph...."
You lost me there.
They make it sound like Obama is a godly prophet.
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