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When is this asshole not talking about 9/11?
Hey Rudy....SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
http://www.mediaite.com/online/giuliani-defends-comments-on-obamas-patriotism-he-didnt-live-through-911-i-did/
Giuliani Defends Comments on Obamas Patriotism: He Didnt Live Through 9/11, I Did
On Wednesday night, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani told a private Manhattan audience, I do not believe that the president loves America. He followed that up Thursday morning by clarifying to Fox & Friends that President Barack Obama sounds like more of a critic than a supporter of this country. And now, in a radio interview with Sean Hannity, Giuliani stood by his statement once more, this time invoking the September 11th attacks to justify his point.
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Giuliani told Hannity hes been making a similar point for the past several years, but it finally got picked up by reporters. And Im not saying it was out of context, it wasnt, he said. When Hannity brought up the specter of another 9/11, Giuliani asserted, You know, President Obama didnt live through September 11, I did. President Obama didnt almost have a building fall on him, myself and my police commissioner and my fire commissioner did.
So excuse me, its a little bit emotional for me, but its also real, he continued. These people are dangerous. Giuliani went on to accuse Obama of downplaying the terrorist threat and hit Attorney General Eric Holder for saying the is the creation of Fox News (not exactly what he said). I mean, where are they, on Mars?!
While President Obama was not mayor of New York during 9/11, he was most certainly alive and serving as a state senator in Illinois at the time.
elleng
(131,102 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)and neither were a lot of others, so none of us love America?
How do right wingers says such loony things with a straight face?
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)I never did like this weasel or buy into any of that "America's Mayor" horseshit. Why anyone still gives a flying fuck what he thinks is beyond me.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)He lucked into 9/11, the luckiest day of his political career. Otherwise he never accomplished fuck.
kairos12
(12,872 posts)tanyev
(42,610 posts)Yeah, let's go there, Rudy.
Seven World Trade Center is a poor choice for the site of a crucial command center for the top leadership of the City of New York, a panel of police experts, which was aided by the Secret Service, concluded in a confidential Police Department memorandum.
The memorandum, which has not been previously disclosed, cited a number of significant points of vulnerability. Those included: the buildings public access, the centers location on the 23rd floor, a 1,200-gallon diesel fuel supply for its generator, a large garage and delivery bays, the buildings history as a terrorist target, and its placement above and adjacent to a Consolidated Edison substation that provided much of the power for Lower Manhattan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/26/us/politics/26emergency.html?_r=0
Paladin
(28,272 posts)Ultimately, that's all he's got. He's playing to the haters, and he needs to be ignored.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)"Obama didn't live through 9/11..." So...RG's saying this county's president isn't even 18 years old?!
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)He was told not to do this. Perhaps more could have been saved if not for Rudy's negligence.
Godhumor
(6,437 posts)Even after all these years...