No matter what the question is, Rudy says 9/11

NYDailyNews.com ^ | 10/7/2007 | Helen Kennedy

[George W. Bush]

No matter what the question is, Rudy says 9/11

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BY HELEN KENNEDY

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Sunday, October 7th 2007, 12:56 PM

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For Rudy Giuliani, 9/11 is the answer. To almost anything, it seems.

After all, it's why America fell in love with him on that darkest of days, when the mayor was the only person on TV reassuring the nation. It's why he's the Republican front-runner for President.

"For me, every day is an anniversary of Sept. 11," he said in Florida last month.

Giuliani wastes no opportunity to bring up 9/11 on the campaign trail. Sometimes, it looks like a stretch.

Here is "Jeopardy, the Giuliani Edition," where 9/11 is always the answer, but the questions may surprise you:

WHY DID YOU FLIP ON GUN CONTROL?

"There are some major intervening events - Sept. 11 - which cast somewhat of a different light on the Second Amendment."

- Giuliani's September speech to the NRA

WHY DID YOU INTERRUPT THAT SPEECH TO TAKE A CALL FROM JUDI?

"Since Sept. 11, most of the time when we get on a plane we talk to each other and just reaffirm the fact that we love each other"

- September interview with CBN News

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF BUILDING A FENCE ON THE BORDER?

"I support security at the borders. I think security is enormously important in the post-Sept. 11 period. I think we have to know who's coming into this country."

February interview with Fox News

WHAT'S WITH THAT FLAG ON YOUR LAPEL?

"Each time I wear it, it reminds me of Sept. 11."

- July rally in Wilmington, Del.

SHOULD THERE BE FEDERAL FUNDING FOR AIDS DRUGS?

"I don't want to promise you the federal government will take over the role. My general experience has been that the federal government works best when it helps and assists and encourages and sets guidelines on a state-by-state, locality-by-locality basis. It's no different from the way I look at homeland security. Maybe having been mayor of the city, I know that your first defense against terrorist attack is that local police station, or that local firehouse."

- July rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

ARE YOU RELIGIOUS?

"I need God's help for everything, and I probably feel that the most when I'm in crisis and under pressure, like Sept. 11, when I was dealing with prostate cancer, or when I'm trying to explain death to people."

- September interview with CBN News.

HOW ABOUT THOSE DEMOCRATS?

"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. That in fact they did come here and kill us."

- May interview with Fox News

SO, UM, WHAT ABOUT YOUR MESSY PERSONAL LIFE?

"You can judge me on my public record. I've had a long one. I've had an intense one. I've been under enormous pressure, took over a city that was the crime capital of America, had to handle the city at the very end, when it was part of the worst attack on America."

- May interview with Fox News

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZT WRONG!

$9.11 was the answer a couple of Giuliani volunteers in California came up with as a suggested contribution for a fund- raising party. Giuliani said, "I think they made a mistake."

[George W. Bush]

I'll take "9/11" for $500, Alex.

[George W. Bush]

ping

[Barnyard]

I support Rudy because I saw New York City before he was Mayor and afterward. The man gets things done. All else is Bull!!

[endthematrix]

Rudy, given the fact many areas of the country are left with little 2nd Amendment protections, are you willing to restore a citizens RKBA?

"Call 911"

[Mojave]

So America can become just one big New York City,

[driftdiver]

Watching many of your friends die is most certainly traumatic. I hated him before 9/11 and don’t particularly like him now. But he did a good job handeling 9/11. Compare to Mayor Nagins chocolate city and you’ll notice the big difference. Nagin had a completely preventable situation and he screwed it up from the start. Not the hurricane - everything else from beginning to end.

[Darkwolf377]

I’d prefer Rudy over the dems—at least Rudy knows that 9/11 changed everything. The dems are trying to pretend it never happened, and desperately wish to go back to the Bill “asleep at the wheel” Clinton’s “It’s naptime in America” stance.

[Vaquero]

yes the man gets things done like Mussolini got the trains running on time and Stalin got the food consumption down.

Giuliani is a elitist and a Stalinist. and whats good for NYC is anathema for REAL AMERICA.

The man gets things done by smashing the constitution into little bitty pieces.

NYC (and NY State for the most part)since before the Tammany Hall/Boss Tweed era has been a political cesspool and remains so to this day....

signed,

born and raised in NYC and damn glad to be out.

[Eastbound]

Brilliant! Now if he can get the Hillary cackle down pat that would give him two responses for any question. So long as he doesn’t cackle and say 9/11 in the same sentence he’ll have a good chance.

[WorkerbeeCitizen]

” No matter what the question is, Rudy says 9/11”

Yes, but we need a 9/12 president.

[Eastbound]

What a co-inky-dink. These two should get together: CACKLE!

[Eastbound]

"Yes, but we need a 9/12 president"

Excellent!

[Alberta's Child]

That's certainly reasonable for you. However, it's worth noting that Rudy Giuliani is the "solution" to problems that most Americans don't have.

This country doesn't need a big-government, totalitarian leftist in the White House.

[Alberta's Child]

NYC (and NY State for the most part)since before the Tammany Hall/Boss Tweed era has been a political cesspool and remains so to this day....

It goes back all the way to the beginning, actually. New York City has never been much for freedom, liberty, and American values. The city remained in British hands throughout the American Revolution, for example -- and has always been one of the places where every zany, radical leftist ideology could be found in abundance.

[period end of story]

I’d prefer Rudy over the dems—at least Rudy knows that 9/11 changed everything.

Yep. And so will other conservatives when it comes down to keeping the Clintons out of the WH.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

You should rethink your support of him. He did a good job as Mayor but that doesn’t translate into being a good President. As President, he’d basically be a pro-war Hillary.

[Liz]

" On 9/11 at 9:11 AM, I announced as the 9/11 candidate.

I would not even be here if 9/11 had not happened.

I own 9/11. 9/11 is my lucky number.

Even my dog is named 9/11.

And my wife has 9/11 tattoed on her thigh.

I get up at 9:11 AM everyday and retire at 9:11 PM.

I only buy cars that get 9 to 11 miles to the gallon.

I live on 911 Ninth Street at the corner of 11th Avenue.

9/11 is the lottery number I play everyday.

I'm buying the 7/11 store chain and renaming it 9/11.

I dated my 9 yr old cousin when I was 11.

I had my first sexual experience when I was 11 years old; it lasted 9 nanoseconds.

I will make 9/11 a national holiday."

[Darkwolf377]

The hardcore types will say "You're doing just what the RNC wants...blah blah..."

Whatever. Whoever's the nominee against Hillary has my vote. Whatever it takes to end the Clinton hopes for a sequel.

[Man50D]

I support Rudy because I saw New York City before he was Mayor and afterward. The man gets things done. All else is Bull!!

Careful! You might be zotted from FR.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Guissolini = Hitlery

Not one nickel's worth of difference...