Giuliani Benefits?
Why in the face of a tragedy does silliness still rear its warty head? Benazir Bhutto is assassinated and some yahoos at MSNBC and Fox News start talking how Rudy Giuliani can benefit from this politically…
Sickening.
According to some punditry, “America’s Mayor” will show Americans how dangerous the world is because of this assassination which will translate into solid political capital aka votes for Rudy. As Charlie Brown says:
I can’t stand it. I just can’t stand it.
I submit that no one in American politics could have stopped what happened today. Sure, the Bush Administration has been showering all sorts of love on President/General Pervez Musharraf’s shaky rule. And they are looking quite soiled because of Bhutto’s assassination. But this is an issue that the Pakistanis will have to continue to grapple with. They will ultimately decide if the human misery machine known as Al-Qaeda and Company gains solid control of their country. But Giuliani benefiting from this tragedy because he’s a tough talker against terrorism is full of fresh manure. Tough talking, hard walking, and big stick swinging hasn’t stopped terrorism so far. It takes a mindset change. A mindset change that Giuliani and the rest of the presidential candidates have little to no influence over.
Unless they are going to force Musharraf out of power. And that is another topic altogether with its own galaxy of issues.
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Rudy will Keep Us Safe! [tm] (and steer federal security contracts to companies with which he is connected)
He’s not even running his latest ad here in Iowa. Called “Freedom,” it seems, it attempts to link the “Greatest Generation” in World War II to the people at the World Trade Center on 9-11, and of course the courageous, Churchillian candidate Giuliani.
No mention of Pakistan, where we, and Bush, and Giuliani, who will Keep Us Safe! [tm] are in no way connected with the assassination of Bhutto.
Forget Fox. They’d make a better pornographic channel than a TV news station.As for MSNBC, the gasbag who said that the assassination would benefit Giuliani’s campaign was former Republican representative Joe Scarborough, who has spit out crap like this before, so he doesn’t deserve to be working in news either.
“No mention of Pakistan, where we, and Bush, and Giuliani, who will Keep Us Safe! [tm] are in no way connected with the assassination of Bhutto.”
Yah, OK then. You just keep washing those hands…
What’s interesting is that other than make great speeches, go to some funerals and provide real leadership for a few days after 9/11- Rudy has not really earned national security street cred. He did a star turn in crisis management after the attack (especially when you look at Ray Nagin’s response to Katrina!), but is keeping a cool head in times of chaos and tremendous grief really enough?
He has been roundly criticized for ignoring suggestions made after the first WTC attack in 1993 that could have improved the response time in the second attack and saved many more lives.
His national security qualifications are based on taking his word during an election.
I won’t accept lies and other filth on them.
It’s not just his 9-11 celebrity abuse at issue here.
He has been having several organizations hire his firms for anti-terrorism security work. If he were elected President, there is reasonable suspicion he would steer federal security work to those firms, something worse than any known arrangements to date with Cheney and federal contracting such as with Iraq or with hurricane recovery.