For The Love of God, Someone Please Stop Him
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Jan 08, 2008 6:20pm
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I swear, the man just can't help himself. It's got to be an involuntary reflex now.
When asked to comment on Hillary Clinton's show of emotion just before the NH primary, Rudy Giuliani invoked once again the sum total of his campaign platform: 9/11
I think everybody is their own person and they have to be their own person and this is not something that I would judge anybody on, one way or the other. And the reality is, if you'll look at me, September 11, the funerals... the memorial services...there were times it was just impossible...not to feel ...not to feel...not to feel the emotion.
He is now a parody of a caricature of himself. How can anyone take him seriously?
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Rudy is irrelevant.
ps. Frist
Nicole,
The problem for this country isn't Rudy.
It's who MSM annoits.
IMO, C&L should keep its eye on the ball.
wah wah wah 9 11...Rudy ur outa' heah!!!!!!!!!!
Enough.
I like him. It all reminds us what the Repubs were using as an excuse for breaking law X all these years.
I do not envy politicians. I could not do it, just talk meaningless empty garb for weeks and month on end. During the primaries especially, when will they be able to find time for a normal meaningful conversation with someone?
Paging Dr. Phil.
As they used to say about a rotten act......."Give him the hook'. Whereapon a shepherd's hook would be used to catch the actor around the neck and haul him offstage.
Time to give Rudy the hook.
Look for Rudy to stop in the middle of his next speech and start sobbing " 9/11" over and over .
In other news, Tweety has just spent 20 minutes explaining how voters lied strategically to the pollsters . Voter hacking is now officially off the table .
You know, if Rudy had only invoked that day now, it would have meant something. But he is simply the boy who cried wolf. Even if he is serious, who's going to care what he says anymore?
Let him talk. It's not helping him. The more he says 9/11, the more he turns people off.
"…not to feel …not to feel…not to feel the emotion"
was that him gathering his thoughts, a nervous tic, a pavlovian response or a freudian slip or all of the above?
Uh, Rudy who?
What is the best site for delegate counts?
I have found:
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/
http://demconwatch.blogspot.com/
Are these the best, or are there better ones out there?
Just think if we had a real media working in the public interest
that could broadcast to millions of households.
... and had on real people and experts.
First responders and Fireman still have something to say.
http://therealrudy.org/heroes.php/
Ed Begley, Jr. also had something to say
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCKQlnmKJgA
Thousands have a story to tell.
good lord, is he having a bet with someone to see how many times he can get 9/11 into his interviews or something ? it's laughable.
Il Duce is toast. Once he becomes the target, if he ever gets enough primary votes to become the target, he'll go down in flames immediately. What a buffoon.
klunk @ 13:
...or... was that simply a robotron3000 readjusting its programming?
11th!
Rudy showed some emotion...and perhaps even cried? Wow. That man is weak. /snark
Y'know, the more he does this the easier it is to see just how devoid of any substance he is that he has to fall back on the "9/11 Tourette's," but he's actually really cheapening the event. It's as if he only sees 9/11 in terms of his experiences and nothing more. We shouldn't have to get to a point where we feel like screaming "enough with September 11, already!" because, y'know, it was a major event that took thousands of lives. This guy's just creepy.
OK, so I was 19th.
Big whoop.
good gawd .. even in the set up you knew what he was going to say
It's the War Schtupid
32 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is preparing to send at least 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan in April to bolster efforts to hold off another expected Taliban offensive in the spring, military officials said Wednesday.
Rudy has been in Florida all this time fixing the votes prior to everyone showing up. Hey, he's doing it for the 9/11 victims for crying out loud!
Rudy actually has an amazing talent. He could figure out a way to work "September 11th" into a recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
getalife @ 8:
you will find him front of Britney's hospital room.....she just kicked him out...
roflmao
Rudy is my favorite candidate
Pictagoras @ 26:
LOL I'm sure somewhere in New York, Rudy has convinced a baker to name a cookie after him, you know, The Rudy 9/11ani Cookie or something.
Richardson quit.
AP: Richardson ends presidential bid
MERRIMACK, N.H. - New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson ended his campaign for the presidency Wednesday after twin fourth-place finishes that showed his impressive credentials could not compete with his rivals' star power.
I would rather listen to Cliff Claven talk about Florida!
whenever i see rudy on tv i wait for him to say something about 9/11
i always watch the republican debates just to laugh at how sleepy fred is and rudy try to insert something about 9/11 into every answer
but lets not forget bush was the same damn way for most of his time in office and is just now getting off 9/11 being mentioned in every speech and to blame for every problem
Can you just imagine one more whole year of this goon mumbling "9/11" in everything he says.
It's the best the repugs have. Sign of where they are.....in the sewer.
Maybe we can put him in charge of FEMA, and then he can look forward to dealing with disasters the rest of his life. It seems to be his "one thing" he has in life.
does anyone else think that this little puss Giuliani MADE UP the "security problem" at his speech that was being held IN AN AIRPLANE HANGER..... and it had to be moved and all the people that went to the "event" was frisked and search before they got go to the speech
HE LOSES 2 ELECTIONS VERY BAD SO HE HAD TO UP SECURITY TO GET MORE PRESS
what a pussy
Wow, the news is coming fast:
Romney pulls his adds in SC and FL
and cnn.com reports Richardson pulling out while MSNBC.com reports that Richardson campaign denies it
ldzppln @ 30:
I'm very sorry to hear that. Dammit, we need more metropolitan states up first in the caucus/primary vote. Why is it a bunch of pig farmers and cowflap dodgers get to decide who goes and who stays? We need big cities and states where there is more of a chance to appeal to "less rural" voters. California, Illinois, New York, etc.
I cried on 9/11 too, can I be president? All I want is the strippers...
To be fair though I think he also was asked if he "he ever tears up". So of course he's gonna answer 9/11
Is it staring to make sense why there are so many 9/11 conspiracy theorists about?
It is not because the government has the power to keep that sort of thing a secret, with only a few benevolent martyrs to the truth about to enlighten we, the great uninformed.
(The hard-to-swallow - pardon the pun - proof of that is Lewinsky. We're adults, we can deal with it. We lost that one. We elected a president who likes BJ's. Oh My God.)
It is not because we can't handle the truth. This isn't a movie. We can handle the truth, despite our predilection for the WWE.
It is not because of any witticism attributed to Sherlock Holmes. The elimination of any other viable explanation does not necessarily lead straight to the only remaining answer. It may only suggest that the seeker has not done their research.
The conspiracists exist because of people like Rudy, and Kristol, and Rummy, and Rove, and their ilk. Those who would attempt to simplify the complex because it gives them a way out of responsibility and a way into advantage.
why is Rudy running on 9/11 when according to the NYFD and NYPD he did a BAD JOB??? and can someone please explain to me why it makes him a hero just b/c 9/11 happened while he was mayor and he got on TV and responded to it?
Eric in Ottawa @ 1:
Couldn't have said it better myself. Rudy is going nowhere fast. He thought he had the answer:9/11. Even the Rethuglicans are tired of him. He has done nothing but embarrass himself through this entire process. Using the bodies of 9/11 to get elected. He needs to just walk away. I'd take Duncan Hunter over him and some people have.
Rudy=Ill Douchey.
-GSD
liberalcollegestudent @ 40:
Yeah, ironic, ain't it?
And, ironically enough, irony was supposed to have died on that date.
PATHETIC, isn't it? Meanwhile Bill Richardson has dropped out of the race. I did NOT expect him to go so FAST. I expected Democrats to "shovel" Gravel first.
Anyway, Richardson will be back, should a Democrat win.
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2008/01/breaking-news-new-mexico-governor...
Richardson is out of the Presidential race, but he is a shoe-in for Secy of State no matter which Democrat wins. I like him and his supporters a lot, he ran a good campaign and is an honorable and decent man. I am also warming to the idea of John Edwards for Attorney General -- from Gonzo to Edwards would be like going from the dark of winter to springtime.
This will affect the race out west a bunch.
Wow, Rudy really likes to invoke my birthday a lot! Perhaps next year he can send me a gift ...
A broken record, a one-trick pony -- and a willing and able authoritarian.
Sept. 11 is my day. The hell with Rudy's sick and ghoulish appropriation.
As New York City resident I can tell you-he-Rudy is a piece of work that must NEVER BE ALLOWED to DEFIELD-sit in the WhiteHouse Office!!!
Sam @ 35:
Funny that Romney is goin' all in here in Michigan. Stupor Mundi(read: GW) had the support of the GOP establishment(read: AMWAY money) in '00 and McCain beat him. Now AMWAY is backin' Mittens- and I'm thinkin' that McCain will win this one, too.
This guys is like the old 1950's Chatty Kathy doll. Pull the string and every other phrase is "9/11", "9/11", "9/11". What a phony.
I hope the FDNY and every other firefighter in this country shoves 9/11 right up Rudy's ass on election night. The man is a total asshole.
Fear everyone!, I say FEAR........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Perhaps a compilation vid of Rudy's 9/11 quotes is in order.
No one can. Though, for a couple of hundred dollars per hour I'm sure you could get a good hooker, lawyer, or psychiatrist to convincingly pretend to take him seriously.
ROTFLMAO!
Rudy, stfu.
Thank you.
Next?
Rudy=Klink.
His campaign platform is not 9/11: it's "me, me me." He has shown little interest in what 9/11 means, or what lessons it can teach, other than how it can be packaged to the benefit of his political ambition.
pissed off patricia @ 54:
And get the fu*k out of my state. We need you like we need another hurricane. :(
liberalcollegestudent @ 40:
It's because he looked a lot less foolish than Bush on 9/11. Of course, Giuliani's made up for that more recently.
Congrats Scar: Rudy gets airtime to make a disingenuous straw man juxtaposition of his outpouring of emotion (whether genuine or not) for victims of a massacre with this woman's emotional outpouring under campaign-stress for her own election (whether calculated or not; I believe calculated by both Clintons, that's how cunning and competitive they are). Clinton lowers herself to such depths to undercut the campaign of Obama, a man that would have given us a real chance if allowed to finish with a clean election process in New Hampshire, while at the same time she lowers her own credibility nationally for voters in a general election. Dems just can't resist the temptation to sink the boat can they.
Mike @ 49:
It's a step up from his time as mayor, when you pulled the string and he said, every god damned time, "Fuck the First Amendment!"
Well considering the drama inherent in this whole presidential race, we need some comic relief. Go Giuliani!
Excuse me, Nicole, but I take him seriously!
...but only so he'll keep embarrassing himself.
This guy got shell-shocked by 911, and he never went to therapy over it, and he OBVIOUSLY never got over it. We don't need anymore leaders who are suffering from PTSD. We have enough already.
Rudy needs to go home, crawl under his bed, get in the fetal position, and let the grown-ups handle things from now on. We'll let him know when it's safe to come out.
johnny canuck @ 55:
Hogan, LeBeau, Huckabee....THE COOLER!
Pictagoras @ 26:
"Bake for 9-11 minutes." Sheesh. At least give the man a challenge.
My Dinner with Rudy
Scene: A room with a table. Rudy enters to have dinner with random voter.
Voter: What do you think of the chance for recession in the coming year?
Rudy: Well even if there is a recession it certainly is nothing like we faced on 9/11.
Voter: What do you think of the Patriots flawless season?
Rudy: Well as 9/11 taught us you can have a flawless execution and it only takes one slip up to lose everything.
Voter: What do you think of Brittney Spears meltdown?
Rudy: Well it isn't like 9/11 just happened she really ought to pull it together for the sake of the kids. I mean she needs to be a strong role model in this post-9/11 world.
Voter: Do you like sex?
Rudy: Why yes I do like sex, sometimes when you are really stressed out you need a release. I can tell you after 9/11 man I was really stressed and sex was quite a relief to me...let me tell you when my lady friend thinks of 9/11 it isn't a bad thing for her.
Voter: What is your favorite number?
Rudy: Well I won't say I have a favorite but two non-favorites are 9 and 11 especially when together. Those were trying days to be odd numbers I tell you.
Voter: Do you ever answer a question and not mention 9/11?
Rudy: Well I might have done so before 9/11 but it would be unpatriotic for me to do so after 9/11, you clear are engaging in pre-9/11 thinking that simply makes no sense in a post-9/11 world.
Voter: So I guess the answer to that is no?
Rudy: No I didn't say that, 9/11 is clearly not my favorite subject. It was a horrible tragedy and for you to suggest that I fixate on 9/11 is disrespectful to all the people who lost their lives on 9/11 and the people like me who were the heroes of 9/11. You should be ashamed of yourself. However, I respect your rights as an American to think whatever you like since that is exactly the kind of freedom that the terrorists of 9/11 were trying to take from us and I pledge not to let that happen in my presidency.
Voter: Oh by the way thank you for answering these questions Rudy.
Rudy: You're welcome
Voter: Rudy you didn't mention 9/11!!!!!
Rudy: See I told you I don't always talk about 9/11 I don't know where you people get that from. It is clearly some sort of fixation on this national tragedy. I know on 9/11 that the world would never be the same and people would be effected and clearly you are.
Continues on for 911 more pages...
The reason Rudy looked like a hero is that the TV cameras caught him as he was evacuating his $15 million super-duper disaster control headquarters -- which was collapsing because it happened to be located on the 23rd floor of WTC 7. Unlike Bush, he was able to respond like an adult. However it isn't like anybody could have guessed that the WTC might be a terror target again or anything. It was also real handy having it way up there when the power went out.
Rudy, however, is the most socially moderate of the Republicans so I had some hope for him to do well enough to drag the party back into the 21st century.
ldzppln @ 30:
That's a shame. But if Hillary wins, I suspect he's a shoe-in for VP. I suspect Edwards would be better served to pick Obama. Obama, a minority himself, would be unlikely to pick minority Richardson as his running mate for the first all-minority ticket.
A diplomat with executive & budgetary experience. The WH could of used someone like him. :(
it's true what has been said about guilli, that all he ever says is a noun, a verb and 911.
Hasn't that guy hung himself yet. God knows he's been given enough rope.
Hasn't Rudy learned that 9/11 is dwarfed by the real disaster of Katrina? Yes, it was horrible to see those people jumping out of buildings but it only affected a few blocks of NYC. Come to think of it, I don't see any victims of Katrina getting multi million dollar payouts...
Why is anybody paying attention to crocodile tears ? Or, what Rudy thinks of it ?
Real tears are for much more meaningful occasions than this calculated command performance.
How about the issues ?
Download from here Edwards 80-page book in which he outlines his detailed PLAN to build ONE AMERICA. No other candidate is so thorough.
http://www.johnedwards.com/issues/
EDWARDS 2008 - 48 more to go !
Jon Stewart had a field day with this stuff last night.
johnny canuck @ 55:
LOL.
He's a snack. [Deleted. No 9/11 conspiracy theories, plese. Site Monitor]
George (~Bush) @ 71:
Uh...3000 dead is pretty tragic, anyway you slice it. Also tragic is the failure to get the people who did it.
Let's not start playing can-you-to-this? with tragedies, please.
They don't.
does anyone else think that this little puss Giuliani MADE UP the "security problem" at his speech that was being held IN AN AIRPLANE HANGER..... and it had to be moved and all the people that went to the "event" was frisked and search before they got go to the speech
HE LOSES 2 ELECTIONS VERY BAD SO HE HAD TO UP SECURITY TO GET MORE PRESS
I meant "can-you-top-this" but I'm sure you knew that.
[Bomb] Threat changes Giuliani's Brevard schedule
This is about 5 minutes from me.
Hey, come to think of it, Mrs. 9iu11iani gives pretty timely phone.
Any day now he'll lose the noun and verb part and just say "911" as he twitches uncontrallably with a weird nervous tick.
AMERICA let me remind you.
Two term President Bush won the election through your votes (rigged or not). You who voted for him allowed it to happen. You who got rigged allowed it without a fight to the end for accountability.
BUSH won AMERICA lost.
Don't make the same mistake. If you think the past two terms has been BAD. Without having those accountable responsible and giving them a free pass without any kind of reprimand or any IMPEACHMENT IS letting the NEXTpresidency carry the torch of abuse of executive power open for use at their discretion.
ONLY YOU will be, to blame; when things gets worse and your civil liberty is no longer there for you.
This is a very crucial time of our modern history. We are going backward and not forward.
Cast your vote for the right principles. Cast your vote carefully. This is a time when you must scrutinize, question and evaluate the character of every presidential candidate. What ever they do affects us all. Don't forget we made three mistakes already. BUSH first term, Bush second term, and spineless and coward Democrats in the 110th House of Congress led by Pelosi; Reid; Hoyer; Conyer and the rest of the senate and congressperson that enable the crimes, abuses, and corruptions to continue.
If CHANGE is truly what you demand. Then the Change must begin on how you cast your vote. A SMART VOTE is the RIGHT VOTE. If you voted correctly then there will be NO guilt on your part. Our peace,economy and the lives of our troops are at stake. Futhermore, the law of the land and the balance of power has already tilted. We must restore checks and balance or we will end our DEMOCRACY to the facist.
Il Douchebag
9/11! 9/11! 9..............11!
rob @ 84:
heh...Family Guy...I get the reference...
now here's another one...
Take the song 'Rock Me, Amadeus' by Falcor and inject '9/11' over and over and you have his entire campaign...
course, you Dems should really be rooting for Giuliani to win the nomination...cause there's no way in hell he'd win against a Democratic challenger...
you should REALLY be scared of Huckabee because the first thing he's going to do if he wins the nom is play straight at everyone's fears...hell, he'll make fears up just to play at them...and this is a strategy that has kept a demagouge in power for 7 years....
Why is the tough guy, Mr. Rudy 9-11 afraid to run in the primaries.
Wouldn't it be great if some manufacturer created the Talking Rudy Doll?
You pull the string (or squeeze it's head), and it can only say, 9-11!!...9-11!!...9-11!!
Timmy_D11 @ 81:
Untrue. In his mind, 9/11 was all about Rudy, and any mention of 9/11 by him requires mention of an ancillary noun such as "I," "me," or my."
He's toast. He should save himself some money and us another round of useless vomiting, and just withdraw.
C&L: "... He is now a parody of a caricature of himself. How can anyone take him seriously?"
SG: REALLY ... How so!"
9/11 is se(R)ious. It occurred just a month after the PDB about 'Osama Intent on Attack inside the USA', and 9 months after Cheney took over Richard Clarke's position as Terrorism Czar and then refused to meet with Clarke, and in fact occurred only 9 months after Cheney never even convened a single meeting.
9/11 is very se(R)ious, because it occurred after Cheney centralized fighter jet response to 'off course planes' in his office and then apparently decentralized it again after 9/11.
9/11 is equally se(R)ious in (R)udy's case, because it occurred after years of 'Interoperability' failure and after a no-bid Motorola contract that continued that failure, and that contributed to firemen NOT getting out of the Towers, when the police communications allowed them to.
9/11 is se(R)ious, so se(R)ious that the terror it invokes trumps the incompetence that allowed to happen.
So, that's why you HAVE TO take (R)udy se(R)iously when he appeals to it ...
Snerd
chlorocardium @ 89:
Oh god no. Rudy is pure entertainment value now, with no chance of winning. He's Ron Paul with worse hair. May he stay in the race to the bitter end.
Apparently Guiliani hasn't figured out that when this is the only thing he ever talks about, it makes it seem that it is the only subject he knows anything about.
Not a good plan.
chloro: "... He’s toast. He should save himself some money and us another round of useless vomiting, and just withdraw."
SG: Yes ... but then we'd be subject to months of CNN coverage of (R)udy going to his "9/11" Campaign Fune(R)al
Snerd
Ruskin: "... Wouldn’t it be great if some manufacturer created the Talking Rudy Doll?"
SG: Sort of a 'Kerik'-ature, are you suggesting?
Snerd
Fools: "... Why is the tough guy, Mr. Rudy 9-11 afraid to run in the primaries."
SG: Because from Flo(R)ida, he Towers over everyone else ... No!?
Snerd
Kathy: "... Not a good plan."
SG: (R)ight! ... He should divo(R)ce himself from it ... which is another thing he knows 'pretty good'.
Snerd
tRudy = :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
VietVet8666 @ 3:
Another Vietnam Vet **offers hand**. Remember the book/movie "All The President's Men"? There was a dialog between Deep Throat and Woodward, where DT says (and repeats), "Follow the money, just follow the money". Well, if you 'follow the election money', it does not take a great deal of effort to see it pass from the corporate financiers to the MSM. I think most 'aware' people have a pretty clear idea of how candidates are groomed, and elections are bought. Until we have true election reform, closing all of the rat holes, the rats will continue to get in.
David: "... you should REALLY be scared of Huckabee because the first thing he’s going to do if he wins the nom is play straight at everyone’s fears…hell, he’ll make fears up just to play at them…"
SG: Apparently you think he'll play to the more 'bass' in us ... something many say, he clearly does without 'Sax' appeal, though ...
Snerd
I would actually like to give Rudy the benefit of the doubt. He is simply a small man auditioning for a big persons job. Thrust into the public spotlight on a daily basis, he reacts in a simple and honest fashion.
His fame, wordwide in some respects, is an accident of events that happened when he was mayor.
It's a little like the factory worker who wins the lotto. Instead of living a comfortable life with riches beyond his comprehension, he suddenly fashions himself a busness tycoon and wastes the windfall in ill advised business ventuires.
Speaking as a Conservative Rudy can go Fuck Himself! I'm sick and tired of his using 9/11 every time, but to compare Hillary Clinton's emotional breakdown to attending Funerals of fallen Emergency members crosses the line..
Frankly the candidates running for the Republican ticket are not that impressive, yet whe