Posted on 05/02/2007 7:50:05 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
It was by no means a bad appearance for Rudy Giuliani late Tuesday morning at the Latino Coalition. But one got the feeling that his applause lines were a little out of sync with his audience’s passions.
Latino Coalition Chairman Hector Barreto — President Bush’s appointed head of the Small Business Administration from 2001 until last year — gave an introduction so effusively enthusiastic that Giuliani ought to take him on the road with him for his stump speeches. Barreto noted that the group had invited every major candidate, “Republican, Democrat, Green, red or blue” and that only Giuliani had accepted; and he mentioned that the former New York City mayor had rearranged his schedule in order to appear. He was, Barreto said, supposed to be in California preparing for a debate at the Reagan library later this week. Describing Giuliani’s accomplishments as mayor, he summarized, “Rudy [pause] did [pause] miracles.”
So maybe it would be tough to live up to the hype, as Rudy was greeted with a standing ovation from the 250 or so Latino Coalition members in the ballroom of the Four Seasons in Washington.
“Dignity” is not a word commonly heard on the campaign trail, but speaking before a group that included a healthy amount of small business owners and entrepreneurs, Giuliani more or less portrayed it as the centerpiece of his campaign.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
What? Rudy not doing well? I’m shoked!
SHOKED, I tell you. ;-)
Maybe a new freeper lexicon term.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1827544/posts?page=64#64
My gawd. JimRob and moderators, please grant me dispensation here. WHAT A LYING SACK OF SH**. Rudy FOUGHT the FEDS to prevent that kind of conversation from EVER HAPPENING by defending NYC's sanctuary city policy. And now he has the UNMITIGATED NERVE to push this fictional claim?
So they don’t want Benito Giuliani’s pro-illegal platform, either, and he’s too Hillary on all of the other important issues. Why am I not surprised?
From the article:
“Dignity” came up again in his discussion of immigration, where Giuliani suggested his measuring stick for whether he wanted to eject someone here illegally was whether or not they were working hard, willing to pay taxes and back fines and fees, and whether they were supporting their families.
He described his exasperation with the immigration authorities as mayor: “I had the police go after drug dealers, and I told the immigration authorities, ‘I got a couple hundred drug dealers you can deport, why don’t you put ’em first?’ And they said, ‘Well, we have this professor who overstayed his visa, he’s first on line. We have two people working in the back of a restaurant. We have three guys in the construction business. We have a guy who drives a van.’ Now you can debate whether these guys are good for the economy — I think they are, but you can have a nice debate about it — but I said, ‘Hey, I got drug dealers, pal. They’re not good for anybody! They’ve got no interest in paying taxes, not trying to make better life for their family, they’re trying to kill people!’ They said, ‘We have our priorities.’ Basically, the problem was too big.”
Rudy was the Rudy we’ve all seen before, invoking Reagan at every opportunity and not only using “optimistic” frequently, but actually demonstrating optimism, as when he said the illegal immigration debate was an illustration of an unrecognized greatness of America:
My gawd. This is the biggest lie Rudy has told to date. HE FRIGGIN' FOUGHT THE FEDS TO NOT TELL THEM THAT THESE DRUG DEALERS WERE ILLEGALS.
THIS IS A F*** UP FAR BIGGER THAN HIS ABORTION FUNDING IS A RIGHT CLAIM.
HIT THIS AND HIT IT HARD. RUDY JUST COMMITTED THE WORST FLAW OF HIS CAMPAIGN TO DATE.
If this is an anti-Rudy ping list, may I please be added to it? ;) Thanks!
OK, A51. Rudy has just been caught in the biggest lie of his political career. Do you have the guts to call him on it?
Let’s see the citation please, not your jaded recollection of history.
Someone has the definitive anti-Rudy ping list, but I’ll be glad to add you to my personal one of Sith lords. You are now Darth Kent.
It is well established fact that Rudy fought federal law and federal court orders to maintain NYC's sanctuary city policy. In other words, no city worker could ask about ANYONE'S immigration status.
Smoke that, weasel-boy.
;)
Oh, yeah, and you two Sith lords need a ping as well.
Something I just noticed:
areafiftyone
This account has been banned or suspended.
Hope the cookies are worth it.
Sorry, I was insidiously promoting life and liberty elsewhere. ;-)
Rudy just stepped in his own cow pile here.
“I had the police go after drug dealers, and I told the immigration authorities, ‘I got a couple hundred drug dealers you can deport, why don’t you put ’em first?’
It looks like Rudee wanted to simply deport illegal alien drug dealers instead of allowing them to grow old in prison before deporting them?
What’s the deal here.....illegal aliens who happen to be drug dealers.......or drug dealers who happen to be illegal aliens?
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