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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:02 PM
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Giuliani thanks Florida for George Bush: "You saved us in 2000"
Because if not for 9/11, Giuliani would have no career left at all.


http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/10/22/bush/index.html

But there was more love for the unpopular incumbent last night than a word search for "Bush" might convey. Romney defended Bush's road to the war in Iraq by saying, "This president went to Congress," and he praised Bush's failed plan for Social Security, saying that "the president" had advocated "private accounts," and "that works." Huckabee chimed in to say that "the president" had the "right idea" with private accounts but should have used the word "personalization" rather than "privatization."

As for Giuliani? He avoided the use of Bush's name again last night, but he wrapped his arms around the president nearly as tightly as he did during the 2004 campaign, when he said that he'd said after 9/11, "Thank God that George Bush is our president." Asked last night about his chances of beating Hillary Clinton, Giuliani said that if the polls had been correct in 2000, Al Gore would have been elected president.

Giuliani made it clear he preferred the alternative.

"I don't know, it might be a little colder -- I'm not sure," he said. "But I'm not sure we'd be any better off, right? We'd be in a lot worse shape, I think, with Al Gore. Thank you, Florida. Thank you. You saved us in 2000. That was a big one."
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Kurt_and_Hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:03 PM
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1. Guliani is a monster, not a moderate
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 03:21 PM
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16. And Besides, Shouldn't He Be Thanking SCOTUS?
Monster is a perfect description of him, worse than Bush, just as dangerous as Cheney.
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angstlessk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:05 PM
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2. Yeah, that peace and prosperity pair was just hell on the earth
well, the military industrial complex anyways.
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:29 PM
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10. Peace and prosperity is not good for Giuliani's bottom line. NT
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Hieronymus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:06 PM
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3. From a one time Mondale supporter .. Giuliani is funny. Like Romney, he's
trying to change his spots, and cons are stupid enough to buy it.
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:06 PM
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4. What did Bewsh save?
Corporations from making less money?
Working people from getting a fair shake?
The Environment?

Giuliani is the FLOPPIEST of penises.
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Devlzown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:06 PM
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5. He needs to thank Jeb Bush, K. Harris, and
those five members of the Supreme Court. The people of Florida elected Gore.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:07 PM
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6. Oh, then sink, Florida, SINK! n/t
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:19 PM
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7. Florida voted for Gore.
Ghouliani has only Dumbya's daddy's friends on the Supreme Court to thank. They overrode the laws of Florida in order to install * as president.
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Chipper Chat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:25 PM
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8. So true.
How many people realize that the most influential American in the last eight years was......
........
...............sandra day o'connor.
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NYCGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:28 PM
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9. Certainly we have Jeb and his girlfriend Katie Harris to thank, too.
And don't forget GWB's cousin, who called Florida for Fixed News.
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:31 PM
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11. r guiilani is a living , breathing lie.and model hypocrite.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:49 PM
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12. Yeah, if Gore had been rightfully elected . . .
Who knows what might have happened? Some nut sending anthrax-laced letters to elected officials and media personalities! Or even (God forbid) some terrorist attack that would have brought down the World Trade Center Towers or something!

So thank you Florida (in reality the corrupt Supreme Court) for saddling us with George W. Bush.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 02:55 PM
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13. Rudy makes me want to vomit.
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 03:05 PM
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14. Keep it up, Rudy
If they are stupid enough to nominate your sad ass, it's lovely quotes like this that will help us stomp you.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-22-07 03:18 PM
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15. Being saved from
competent leadership is not something too be thankful for. What rock has Giuliani been hiding under the past 6 years?

Terror terror 9/11 and tax cuts. For this we should be thankful.:sarcasm: What Florida (or rather the SCOTUS) gave Giuliani was his future talking points.

Mz Pip
:dem:
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