Sean Hannity is pathetic. He says he is a Catholic. He just thinks what the Pope says is silly!
For those who need more negatives on Rudy. Don’t look at source until u read. Then ask yourself why they r making such an issue about RG and his speech???
Rudy Too Arrogant for America
The Rudy Giuliani Americans Do Not Yet Know Ill-Prepared to Keep America
Safe
WASHINGTON, April 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — While campaigning in
New Hampshire last night, Rudy Giuliani resorted to hurling desperate
attacks about Democrats while trying to tout his national security
credentials. Despite the fact that he failed to prepare New York City for
the second attack on the World Trade Center and he has not acknowledged the
dire realities on the ground in Iraq, Giuliani yesterday said, “Democrats
want to put us back on defense.” [Politico, 4/25/07]
After the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 when Giuliani
became mayor, he was criticized for not fully implementing a single
recommendation made by the fire department official who identified crucial
emergency response failures. [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 10/1/06] Giuliani
also was criticized for not putting in place “a clear chain of command for
police officers and firefighters” prior to 9/11. [Washington Post, 8/17/06]
When asked to assess President Bush’s escalation of the Iraq war
earlier yesterday, he said, “I don’t know the answer to that.” Giuliani,
who has yet to visit Iraq, continues to assert his blind support for the
president’s failed stay-the-course approach and has not acknowledged recent
events showing the escalation is not working. [AP, 4/24/07]
Rudy has previously displayed a lack of foreign policy expertise.
Earlier this month, he said he did not know whether Iran or North Korea was
further along with the development of nuclear weapons. [New York Times,
4/7/07] Last month Giuliani admitted that he failed to question Bernard
Kerik about his alleged ties to suspected mafia-related businesses before
recommending him to head the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. [AP,
3/30/07; New York Times, 3/30/07]
“Rudy’s arrogance has gotten the best of him. How can the man who
failed to prepare New York City for a second attack after the first one,
quit the 9/11 commission because he was too busy raking in money from
sketchy business deals, can’t assess if the surge is working or if Iran and
North Korea have nuclear weapons claim that he will keep America safe?”
said DNC Communications Director Karen Finney. “Not to mention that if Rudy
were president he’d have a man who is being investigated for mob ties in
charge of homeland security. If that’s the record he wants to present to
the American people then Democrats welcome the debate because so far Rudy’s
rhetoric sounds like more of the same failed policies, incompetence and
arrogance we’ve had to suffer for the past six years.”
GIULIANI FAILED TO PREPARE NEW YORK AFTER 1993 WORLD TRADE CENTER
ATTACK
* Giuliani Decided to Put Emergency Command Center in Vulnerable World
Trade Center.
Giuliani, who became mayor after the 1993 World Trade Center attacks,
according to Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins’ “Grand Illusion: The Untold
Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11,” made “the infamous decision to place the
city’s emergency command center on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center
because he didn’t want to schlep to a more secure, better-protected
Brooklyn location from City Hall. When the planes hit the trade center,
OEM’s bunker-in-the- clouds was rendered useless, and Giuliani was forced
to embark on his dusty journey through lower Manhattan, scattering the
city’s command structure.” [South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale),
10/1/06]
* Giuliani Failed to Put In A Clear Chain of Command for Emergency
Workers.
“Giuliani and his top aides did not put in place a clear chain of
command for police officers and firefighters.” [Washington Post, 8/17/06]
* Giuliani Did Not Implement Fire Department Recommendations.
Giuliani, according to Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins’ “Grand Illusion:
The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11,” “failed to fully implement a
single recommendation made by the fire department official who identified
crucial emergency response failures after the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing. Nor did he seriously attempt to address the issue of
inter-operability between police and fire department radios until late in
his term.” [South Florida Sun- Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale), 10/1/06]
GIULIANI ON IRAQ: I DON’T KNOW OR CARE
* Giuliani Unable To Evaluate Bush “Surge” Plan.
Asked if the Bush plan was working in New Hampshire, Giuliani said “’I
don’t know the answer to that.” [Associated Press, 4/24/07]
* Giuliani Also Admits He Doesn’t Know If The Bush Plan Matches His Own
Ideas.
Giuliani “also said couldn’t assess whether the Bush administration was
focusing on the rebuilding aspect enough or at all. ‘That part of it is the
part that I would emphasize dramatically, and I can’t tell you how that’s
going,’ Giuliani said.” [Associated Press, 4/24/07]
* Yet Giuliani Backs The Bush Plan Anyway.
The Associated Press also noted that “Giuliani has backed the president
on the Iraq war and his decision to send more U.S. troops to Iraq.”
[Associated Press, 4/24/07]
* Giuliani Resigned From Iraq Study Group, Didn’t Show For Meetings.
Rudy Giuliani resigned from the Iraq Study Group in May of 2006, then
criticized its findings. When he quit, he said he didn’t have the time.
Moreover, according to Newsday, “It’s not clear that he attended a single
meeting. Two of the group’s top advisers said they didn’t even know he had
been a member.” [Washington Post, 6/1/06, 12/19/06; Newsday (New York),
11/17/06]
GIULIANI ON IRAN AND NORTH KOREA: I’M NOT SURE
* Giuliani Did Not Know If Iran or North Korea Were Further Along With
The
Development of Nuclear Weapons.
“At a house party in New Hampshire, Mr. Giuliani suggested that it was
unclear which was further along, Iran or North Korea, in the development of
a nuclear weapons program.” [New York Times, 4/7/07]
* Editor of Foreign Policy Magazine To Giuliani: Read The Newspaper.
An editor of Foreign Policy Magazine noted Giuliani’s “embarrassing
goof” where “Giuliani suggested that it was unclear which was farther
along, Iran or North Korea, in the development of a nuclear weapons
program.” Editor Blake Hounshell wrote, “For the record, North Korea tested
a nuclear device on October 9, 2006, while the Iranians have yet to do so.
The U.S. intelligence community believes Iran could have a nuclear weapon
as early as 2010, but most likely in the time frame of 2012-2015..
Alternatively, he could just read the newspaper every once in a while-lots
of important information in there.”[Foreign Policy Passport, 4/9/07,
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/4321]
GIULIANI WANTED ETHICALLY CHALLENGED KERIK TO HEAD DEPARTMENT OF
HOMELAND SECURITY
* Giuliani “Stuck By” “Radioactive” Kerik.
Even after Bernard Kerik’s bid - championed by Giuliani - to become
secretary of Homeland Security disintegrated with repeated revelations of
ethical problems, Giuliani, who has been close to Kerik for years “has
stuck by Mr. Kerik publicly” according to the New York Times. The
Associated Press reported that “Kerik’s close association with Giuliani
became radioactive when Kerik pleaded guilty [in June 2006] to accepting a
gift from a company seeking city work.” Giuliani and Kerik have a
fifteen-year-old relationship in which Giuliani promoted his bodyguard to
police commissioner, employed him at his consulting firm and named a jail
after him. [The Bismarck Tribune, 7/1/06; AP, 3/24/07; Herald News (Passaic
County, NJ), 2/15/07; Newsweek, 12/27/04; New York Times, 11/16/05,
9/28/06]
* Kerik’s Mob Ties Are Long An Issue.
Kerik’s ties to Lawrence Ray and New Jersey’s Interstate Industrial
Corporation are a long-running issue. The firm had hired Kerik’s best man,
Lawrence Ray, as well as his brother Donald, and Kerik admitted lobbying
for the company as it sought a city license, which had been refused because
of the firm’s ties to organized crime. Kerik pled guilty in 2006 to
allowing to the company to do $165,000 in free renovations on his Bronx
apartment in 1999 and 2000. The two brothers - Frank and Peter DiTommaso -
who run the company have been indicted in the Bronx for lying under oath
about their dealings with Kerik. Some aspects of Kerik’s ties have been
known since 2000. [New York Times, 3/30/07, 7/20/06; Washington Post,
4/8/07]
* Giuliani Admitted He Failed To Fully Investigate Kerik’s Background.
Giuliani was forced to admit that he made a mistake by recommending his
friend Bernard Kerik to head the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. [AP,
3/30/07] Before Giuliani’s admission last weekend, it was reported that he
was “warned about Kerik’s relationship with a company with suspected ties
to organized crime even before Giuliani appointed Kerik as New York City
police commissioner.”
SOURCE Democratic National Committee
For those who need more negatives on Rudy. Don’t look at source until u read. Then ask yourself why they r making such an issue about RG and his speech???
Rudy Too Arrogant for America
The Rudy Giuliani Americans Do Not Yet Know Ill-Prepared to Keep America
Safe
WASHINGTON, April 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — While campaigning in
New Hampshire last night, Rudy Giuliani resorted to hurling desperate
attacks about Democrats while trying to tout his national security
credentials. Despite the fact that he failed to prepare New York City for
the second attack on the World Trade Center and he has not acknowledged the
dire realities on the ground in Iraq, Giuliani yesterday said, “Democrats
want to put us back on defense.” [Politico, 4/25/07]
After the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993 when Giuliani
became mayor, he was criticized for not fully implementing a single
recommendation made by the fire department official who identified crucial
emergency response failures. [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 10/1/06] Giuliani
also was criticized for not putting in place “a clear chain of command for
police officers and firefighters” prior to 9/11. [Washington Post, 8/17/06]
When asked to assess President Bush’s escalation of the Iraq war
earlier yesterday, he said, “I don’t know the answer to that.” Giuliani,
who has yet to visit Iraq, continues to assert his blind support for the
president’s failed stay-the-course approach and has not acknowledged recent
events showing the escalation is not working. [AP, 4/24/07]
Rudy has previously displayed a lack of foreign policy expertise.
Earlier this month, he said he did not know whether Iran or North Korea was
further along with the development of nuclear weapons. [New York Times,
4/7/07] Last month Giuliani admitted that he failed to question Bernard
Kerik about his alleged ties to suspected mafia-related businesses before
recommending him to head the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. [AP,
3/30/07; New York Times, 3/30/07]
“Rudy’s arrogance has gotten the best of him. How can the man who
failed to prepare New York City for a second attack after the first one,
quit the 9/11 commission because he was too busy raking in money from
sketchy business deals, can’t assess if the surge is working or if Iran and
North Korea have nuclear weapons claim that he will keep America safe?”
said DNC Communications Director Karen Finney. “Not to mention that if Rudy
were president he’d have a man who is being investigated for mob ties in
charge of homeland security. If that’s the record he wants to present to
the American people then Democrats welcome the debate because so far Rudy’s
rhetoric sounds like more of the same failed policies, incompetence and
arrogance we’ve had to suffer for the past six years.”
GIULIANI FAILED TO PREPARE NEW YORK AFTER 1993 WORLD TRADE CENTER
ATTACK
* Giuliani Decided to Put Emergency Command Center in Vulnerable World
Trade Center.
Giuliani, who became mayor after the 1993 World Trade Center attacks,
according to Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins’ “Grand Illusion: The Untold
Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11,” made “the infamous decision to place the
city’s emergency command center on the 23rd floor of 7 World Trade Center
because he didn’t want to schlep to a more secure, better-protected
Brooklyn location from City Hall. When the planes hit the trade center,
OEM’s bunker-in-the- clouds was rendered useless, and Giuliani was forced
to embark on his dusty journey through lower Manhattan, scattering the
city’s command structure.” [South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale),
10/1/06]
* Giuliani Failed to Put In A Clear Chain of Command for Emergency
Workers.
“Giuliani and his top aides did not put in place a clear chain of
command for police officers and firefighters.” [Washington Post, 8/17/06]
* Giuliani Did Not Implement Fire Department Recommendations.
Giuliani, according to Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins’ “Grand Illusion:
The Untold Story of Rudy Giuliani and 9/11,” “failed to fully implement a
single recommendation made by the fire department official who identified
crucial emergency response failures after the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing. Nor did he seriously attempt to address the issue of
inter-operability between police and fire department radios until late in
his term.” [South Florida Sun- Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale), 10/1/06]
GIULIANI ON IRAQ: I DON’T KNOW OR CARE
* Giuliani Unable To Evaluate Bush “Surge” Plan.
Asked if the Bush plan was working in New Hampshire, Giuliani said “’I
don’t know the answer to that.” [Associated Press, 4/24/07]
* Giuliani Also Admits He Doesn’t Know If The Bush Plan Matches His Own
Ideas.
Giuliani “also said couldn’t assess whether the Bush administration was
focusing on the rebuilding aspect enough or at all. ‘That part of it is the
part that I would emphasize dramatically, and I can’t tell you how that’s
going,’ Giuliani said.” [Associated Press, 4/24/07]
* Yet Giuliani Backs The Bush Plan Anyway.
The Associated Press also noted that “Giuliani has backed the president
on the Iraq war and his decision to send more U.S. troops to Iraq.”
[Associated Press, 4/24/07]
* Giuliani Resigned From Iraq Study Group, Didn’t Show For Meetings.
Rudy Giuliani resigned from the Iraq Study Group in May of 2006, then
criticized its findings. When he quit, he said he didn’t have the time.
Moreover, according to Newsday, “It’s not clear that he attended a single
meeting. Two of the group’s top advisers said they didn’t even know he had
been a member.” [Washington Post, 6/1/06, 12/19/06; Newsday (New York),
11/17/06]
GIULIANI ON IRAN AND NORTH KOREA: I’M NOT SURE
* Giuliani Did Not Know If Iran or North Korea Were Further Along With
The
Development of Nuclear Weapons.
“At a house party in New Hampshire, Mr. Giuliani suggested that it was
unclear which was further along, Iran or North Korea, in the development of
a nuclear weapons program.” [New York Times, 4/7/07]
* Editor of Foreign Policy Magazine To Giuliani: Read The Newspaper.
An editor of Foreign Policy Magazine noted Giuliani’s “embarrassing
goof” where “Giuliani suggested that it was unclear which was farther
along, Iran or North Korea, in the development of a nuclear weapons
program.” Editor Blake Hounshell wrote, “For the record, North Korea tested
a nuclear device on October 9, 2006, while the Iranians have yet to do so.
The U.S. intelligence community believes Iran could have a nuclear weapon
as early as 2010, but most likely in the time frame of 2012-2015..
Alternatively, he could just read the newspaper every once in a while-lots
of important information in there.”[Foreign Policy Passport, 4/9/07,
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/4321]
GIULIANI WANTED ETHICALLY CHALLENGED KERIK TO HEAD DEPARTMENT OF
HOMELAND SECURITY
* Giuliani “Stuck By” “Radioactive” Kerik.
Even after Bernard Kerik’s bid - championed by Giuliani - to become
secretary of Homeland Security disintegrated with repeated revelations of
ethical problems, Giuliani, who has been close to Kerik for years “has
stuck by Mr. Kerik publicly” according to the New York Times. The
Associated Press reported that “Kerik’s close association with Giuliani
became radioactive when Kerik pleaded guilty [in June 2006] to accepting a
gift from a company seeking city work.” Giuliani and Kerik have a
fifteen-year-old relationship in which Giuliani promoted his bodyguard to
police commissioner, employed him at his consulting firm and named a jail
after him. [The Bismarck Tribune, 7/1/06; AP, 3/24/07; Herald News (Passaic
County, NJ), 2/15/07; Newsweek, 12/27/04; New York Times, 11/16/05,
9/28/06]
* Kerik’s Mob Ties Are Long An Issue.
Kerik’s ties to Lawrence Ray and New Jersey’s Interstate Industrial
Corporation are a long-running issue. The firm had hired Kerik’s best man,
Lawrence Ray, as well as his brother Donald, and Kerik admitted lobbying
for the company as it sought a city license, which had been refused because
of the firm’s ties to organized crime. Kerik pled guilty in 2006 to
allowing to the company to do $165,000 in free renovations on his Bronx
apartment in 1999 and 2000. The two brothers - Frank and Peter DiTommaso -
who run the company have been indicted in the Bronx for lying under oath
about their dealings with Kerik. Some aspects of Kerik’s ties have been
known since 2000. [New York Times, 3/30/07, 7/20/06; Washington Post,
4/8/07]
* Giuliani Admitted He Failed To Fully Investigate Kerik’s Background.
Giuliani was forced to admit that he made a mistake by recommending his
friend Bernard Kerik to head the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. [AP,
3/30/07] Before Giuliani’s admission last weekend, it was reported that he
was “warned about Kerik’s relationship with a company with suspected ties
to organized crime even before Giuliani appointed Kerik as New York City
police commissioner.”
SOURCE Democratic National Committee