Rudolph Giuliani Thinks Milk is "$1.50 a gallon" and Bread "about $1.25, $1.30 a loaf"

$1.50 a gallon ?!?!

That is so last decade!



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Rudy is just another GOP bubble boy.

I don't know either and I do most of the grocery shopping. I put it in the cart because we always use it. I have to get eggs and toilet paper on the way home today, I couldn't tell you how much those will cost either.

and has tripped up Republicans before. It is a very big deal in the news already:

Giuliani gets cost of milk, bread wrong
USA Today - 2 hours ago
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn't done a lot of grocery shopping lately — at least based on his answers about ...

Giuliani off on price of milk, bread
MSNBC - 4 hours ago
Rob Carr / AP. AP Writer. MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn't done a lot of grocery shopping lately - at least based ...

Giuliani Off on Price of Milk, Bread
ABC News - 17 hours ago
By PHILLIP RAWLS. MONTGOMERY, Ala. Apr 10, 2007 (AP)— Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn't done a lot of grocery shopping lately at least ...

Giuliani Off on Price of Milk, Bread
San Francisco Chronicle, CA - 17 hours ago
By PHILLIP RAWLS, AP Writer. Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn't done a lot of grocery shopping lately — at least based on his answers ...

Giuliani Off On Price Of Milk, Bread
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 17 hours ago
From AP. AP Photo ALRC108. By PHILLIP RAWLS. AP Writer. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn't done a lot of grocery ...

Giuliani Off The Mark On Grocery Costs
Guardian Unlimited, UK - 20 hours ago
AP NewsBreak: Catholic Abuse Claims Drop. From AP. AP Photo ALRC106, ALRC105. By PHILLIP RAWLS. AP Writer. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Republican presidential ...

Candidate Off the Mark on Grocery Costs
Houston Chronicle, TX - 21 hours ago
By PHILLIP RAWLS AP Writer. © 2007 AP. MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn't done a lot of grocery shopping lately _ at ...

Giuliani off on price of milk, bread
Macon Telegraph, GA - 5 hours ago
By PHILLIP RAWLS - AP Writer. Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani smiles before walking to a news conference, Tuesday, April 10, 2007, ...

Giuliani Off the Mark on Cost of Groceries at Southern Campaign Stop
MyFox Washington DC, DC - 6 hours ago
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn't done a lot of grocery shopping lately — at least based on his answers about the cost of milk and ...

Giuliani Off on Price of Milk, Bread
Wyoming News, WY - 11 hours ago
By PHILLIP RAWLS Wednesday, April 11, 2007. MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn't done a lot of grocery shopping lately ...

Giuliani off on price of milk, bread
Prescott Herald, AZ - 15 hours ago
By PHILLIP RAWLS, AP Writer 14 minutes ago. MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn‘t done a lot of grocery shopping lately ...

The Price Is Wrong for Giuliani
Christian Broadcasting Network, VA - 16 hours ago
By Phillip Rawls. AP Writer. CBNNews.com -- MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn't done a lot of grocery shopping ...

Republican candidate off the mark on cost of milk, bread
AL.com, AL - 17 hours ago
By PHILLIP RAWLS. AP. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani hasn't done a lot of grocery shopping lately — at least based ...

Giuliani off the mark on grocery costs
Sacramento Bee, CA - 21 hours ago
By PHILLIP RAWLS -- AP Writer. Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, left, and Alabama Gov. Bob Riley, right, react before Giuliani spoke to a ...

Giuliani's price-test: Milk and bread?
Chicago Tribune, IL - 7 hours ago
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – It looks like it’s been a while since Rudolph Giuliani picked up a few things at the store on his way home from work. ...

Rudy Pulls a George Bush Sr. Moment on Price of Bread, Milk
Mother Jones, CA - 37 minutes ago
It's no wonder that a guy who makes millions on shady law firm consultations and high-flying speaking engagements is a little out of touch with the common ...

Rudy Makes Grocery Gaffe While On The Campaign Trail In Alabama
NY1, NY - 4 hours ago
Republican front-runner Rudolph Giuliani has visited dozens of cities in the past month, but he apparently hasn't been to the grocery store. ...

Who does his shopping?
Politics on the Hudson, NY - 5 hours ago
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani got hit with a campaign trail tradition—the price-of-milk-test—yesterday while hunting for votes in Alabama. ...

Rudy’s Southern Blunder
New York Press, NY - 5 hours ago
Clearly, Rudy Giuliani must not do his own grocery shopping. But you’d think for the purposes of at least seeming like a man of the people, he’d research ...

I'm 50. I didn't really care about Bush senior not knowing prices either.

Good for you that you don't have to be concerned...

reality....

you're the exception who probably doesn't care about the phenomenon of the working poor. We have more than ever in NYC, Rudy ought to know the math.

concerned AT ALL about the daily struggles of TOO MANY PEOPLE, and, indeed, has a totally SKEWED opinion of how far their minimum wage goes.

THAT'S what's what. NOT your own personal attitude about your own personal budget.

Most people I know care about prices because they want to go where stuff is cheapest. Maybe you can afford not to worry about nickels and dimes but a lot of us do.

Those are usually items families with children consume in great amounts.

Prices like this especially hurt lower-income families.

It would be nice if a person who wants to be President knows how much shit costs nowadays and how hard it is for less fortunate to put food on the table. It would show that he is concerned not just about his rich buddies, like his friend Dumbya.


I guess you are fortunate that you don't have to worry about prices for groceries.

Holy crap. Must be great not to be concerned with the price of groceries. I know I've been watching my grocery bill like a hawk and am alarmed at the price increases.

Geez.

and anyone who honestly worries about money and putting food on the table would know the cost of said food (not slamming you, but it's true).

they are a couple of great researchers, but they are fallible.

i remember that one, and there were no serious real-time disputes to the claim.

somewhat of an exaggeration.

It was both widely reported and not disputed to my knowledge. That makes me wonder if snopes may be in error on tis one...

I very much recall the scanner incident. It did happen...but...Bush was being shown an advanced model that could read partially torn upc labels. He was amazed at the technology (probably rightly so) but it got picked up that Bush was amazed at checkout scanners, a pretty mundane tech even then.
It is the same dynamic that keeps the "Gore invented the Internet" chestnut going...he did indeed assert (correctly) much credit for legislation that helped bring the Internet about...it isn't the same as saying he invented it, but it is enough of a truth to wrap a meme around it.

The contrast with George HW and George W makes it possible to believe the scanner incident to be "overplayed," while, I'd have trouble doubting most anything idiotic from George the lesser.

I distinctly remember that episode, and it's one of the things that lost the election for Bush. Nobody wanted a president who was that out of touch with how real people live.

And you can buy the cheapie Target bread for about a buck a loaf. But the name-brand stuff will cost you 2-3 bucks a loaf, easy.

Not defending Guliani at all. He has plenty of money; I doubt he buys Target-brand bread.

Sam Brownback for the GOP nomination!

with his finger on the pulse of the citizenry!

he didn't really "get" that new be-bop music, but his kids liked it.

He also mentioned how big a fan he was of "that crazy guy who plays the space man every now and then on Happy Days."

He ended the interview by asking where he might procure a bromo seltzer and some hardtack.

But I'm glad to see Rudy screw it up so royally.

Time for a reality check!

And you're right, most politicians do need a reality check.

Seriously.
Questions as to the price of basic foodstuffs; and maybe some other ones that are pertinent...insurance would be good; health providing ones also. Taylored to the individual state.
Things that affect your middle to lower class consitutuant. No longer than two pages.
What think you?

That's $2.00 a gallon. Other times, the gallons are on sale at 2/$3.00. I buy bread at the day old outlet, where the premium bread(retails at $2.79 a loaf) cost .79 cents a loaf.
Dud doesn't know where to shop.

Clueless creep.

I can spend $50 a week on food, papergoods, cleaning items, toiletries etc. No more. I have to know about what something is going to cost before I make out the list - I start with the highest priority items and work my way down.

They do the price of groceries test every election.
Fault him for being unprepared, not out of touch.

And, again, how wrong he'd be.

I pay $1.89 for a half gallon of milk, $2.49 for grocery store bread. In SE Michigan.

If you care to make your own or buy the frozen dough and bake it yourself. It puts that other $4.00 a loaf crap to shame.

That's skim milk and white bread. I very much doubt if Hillary or Edwards or Obama do their own shopping either.

"In his explicit support for civil unions and nondiscrimination, and in his refusal to backtrack on these topics in addressing conservative forums, Giuliani has demonstrated himself to be more progressive, outspoken, and stalwart on our behalf than all but a very few Republicans or Democrats in the State of Indiana."

http://www.bilerico.com/2007/03/002447.php

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allowed into my home, even when fresh.

I can do bread for even cheaper, but then I like to make my own. Decent bread of a quality comparable to mine is $4 at the store.

AFAIK no older than any other bread in a grocery store

Do they still play that massively annoying commercial? It's been 10 years since I lived in KC.

There are so many commercials that make me reach for the mute button.

About his breaking our budget, insulting police victims, creating a climate of racial tension and refusing to vacate his job when the term ended...And in the last day on the job, he burdened the City he bankrupted with building two stadiums - signing contracts for which he got a kick back...Oh, did I mention his crusade against art museums, street vendors, 9.11 mourners at Union Square? Tell me how progressive Rudy is, and I'll tell ya why where people know him, they call him Il Duce.

Why? When we can attack him on bread and milk issues.

BTW, post #31 was meant to be an equivalent below the belt punch. How'm I doin'?

to respect anyone else's rights - you're dreamin' Dorothy. Rudy is a more dangerous lunatic than Bush - I only hope BFEE will not pick him as his ego is so huge that he's hard to manipulate.

I would bet Edwards, Clinton and Obama would at least come closer to the actual price of these items than Rudy did.

Third biggest city on the outskirts.
Gas is about $2.79.

the price of multiple brands, organic versus non-organic, and which store might save you enough to make driving--with the sky high gas prices--cost effective.


These assholes are so into their own little privileged world... :eyes:

I can get the store brand bread for roughly $1-1.25. The name brand stuff is $2-3.

Not sure about milk. I buy the Lactaid stuff that's about $3.50 a half gallon (I'm lactose intolerant, and don't use a whole lot of milk anyways). I'm sure milk is over $3 a gallon here in the midwest, though.

Either way, I think it's been awhile since Rudy went grocery shopping on his own.

or just under. I was at the Dollar Tree a week ago and saw that they were selling bread there as well (brand name).

I do as it is all half the reg. cost and I just put it all on ice, any how, so it will last. I shop every two weeks. Milk is not on my diet but I almost fell over at orange juice this week. That really went up.

Our "elected leaders" live on another planet. Believe it.

(because it spoils before you drink it all) and just for the record the Polish-run grocery store I go to doesn't itemize what you buy on the receipt, it's just prices listed with no reference.

So I have no idea how much I pay for stuff. In NYC I buy at the closest store, and don't really care about price. I'm not walking more than 2 blocks with my arms full of groceries. High priced groceries are still cheaper than ordering Thai delivery 5 nights a week.

Not really trying to defend Rudy, just saying that life in NYC is a little different than in other parts of the country.

should know what the ~average~ US citizen pays for staple items, including insurance and energy. If they don't now, they never will after moving into the WH.

Really?

I think I understand, well sort of your point about it spoiling before you drink it all.

But I guess I don't understand why they wouldnt be a problem for the rest of the America as well. Is the milk older by the time it reaches the city or something?

Because a single gallon runs out before we go to the store.

I eat a lot of cereal but we don't drink all that much milk.

Kroger brand milk is about $3.85/gallon.

Kroger brand 100% whole wheat bread is $1.50/loaf and tastes just as good as the name brands.

The only Kroger brand item I've found I don't like is their vegetable juice, V8 is much superior.

I guess I just don't understand the assertion above(if true) and why New yorkers would drink less milk. Seems like a odd distinction thats all.

there are two dates on all milk, one is everyone else, the other is for NYC.

All I know is when I lived in Ohio I would buy milk by the gallon. Now that I live in New York, I don't. This holds true for everyone I know in the actual city, but then again I don't know many families of four who live around here. Everyone leaves for the suburbs...

but my friends who live there seem to be home the same amount they were living in Massachusetts so...

I can understand the whole not wanting to carry it though.

That is where he is way off the mark, as are his rich donors.

Halliburton.

Usually the progressives know and the corporate types have no idea.

now it's probably $2.00, maybe more. But Wegman's has vertically integrated farms and dairies so their costs are ridiculously low. A dozen eggs were $1.00 3 years ago. This was in Rochester, NY. I don't live there now so I don't know if it's still that cheap. But it's definitely cheaper than the national average.

What he meant to say was gas was $1.50 a gallon........sheesh.

:evilgrin:

What kind of gold-laced milk is that?

We pay about $2.99 for a gallon in Tennessee. And bread *is* about $1.30.

I'm not excusing Ghouliani here, but these figures are outrageous. Either that or produce is just cheaper in Tennessee for some inexplicable reason.

But I drink Lactaid. They're killing us lactose-intolerant folk.

I live upstate and buy the fancy non-RBST milk and I pay $2.09 a half gallon, and I get the whole-wheat bread that runs around $2.89 a loaf. But you can also go to the Aldi and get cheapo white bread and milk for half that.

A decent loaf of bread is about $1.99

Count yourself lucky.

I dunno either.

I pay 1.97 for a gallon of milk, and I can get all of the store brand white bread a want for about $1.00 a loaf. I seriously doubt if ANY of the candidates on either side shop for their own food.

,...common American people. Has he socialized with us 'commoners' at ALL?

Dear Rudy,

You can NOT possibly represent the best interests of someone like me. Hell, you have proven NO ability to even identify with the likes of me. So, go home.

Sincerely,

sicksicksick AND tired

Better than some answers I've heard.

I don't drink milk, usually just put a couple of loaves of bread in the cart. These things are quite silly. I guess all the other candidates will get briefed on the costs of bread, milk, kool-aid, and such now? Good way to spend their time.

If you want a decent loaf of bread however you are going to pay at least $2.50. Milk however costs over double what Giuliani claims even for the generic crap that comes from cows which have been pumped up with anti-biotics and growth hormones. I pay over $6.00 a gallon for organic milk so I can avoid the Monsanto fed mutant cow milk.

but he's right on the money when it comes to managing a wig and heels. Truly fabulous!

whose influence turned me from Republicanism (in college - 20 years ago) went grocery shopping after work today. One of the items he picked up was a gallon of milk. When I opened this thread, I asked him if he knew what a gallon of milk cost. Guess what? He couldn't.

I usually do the shopping and I pay more attention to prices than he does - I suppose he would do so if he was the main shopper. I doubt that Rudy does much grocery shopping so I'll cut him some slack on this.

It's as simple as that. :-)

(However, a Dean scream works faster.)

it isn't like I can just not get it if it's expensive. So I just buy it. Yes, I'm comfortable financially speaking but I'm not rich.

I'm a mom and I don't know. My daughter doesn't drink milk or I'd probably have a better idea because I'd be driven crazy by spending so much on milk all the time. Also, I buy organic milk and I think it costs a bit more than non-organic. I buy whole grain bread and I think that costs more too.

I hate buying milk at the grocery stores as it is always so high ($4.00 or more). Clark2008, the prices are usually much higher in the Northeast than Tennesssee and the south. I'm surprised Alabama was so high. Being from New York, Guliani is way off. New York is even higher than Connecticut prices. What bubble has he been living in? Or I forgot, Republicans don't belittle themselves by knowing the lifestyles of the little folk. Jerk.

and it requires giving up a small piece of my soul in the process...

What a dick.

:eyes:

None of the candidates have seen a checkout line. They all richy rich.

and he's not even my fave candidate.
This is one of his issues, though, so I'm pretty sure he's more informed than most.

That being said, Edwards has ran a great campaign so far. I did his anti-poverty stick. So far, he has ran the best campaign so far. Obama has effectively stolen his thunder with his great fundraising.

My point, Only Dennis Kucinich knows what it is like to have to count change to buy milk or bread. All the others are super rich millionaires and have been for at least 20 years or more.

But I bet he's a lot closer to knowing than many of the others.
Eh, like any of it is really a suprise, anyway.
Really like Kucinich,hope he can get somewhere this time.

peace and low stress :)

Seriously, very few "regular" people have any clue just how different their world is. It is completely separate and the two rarely intersect. One of the reasons we have such difficulty getting our "leaders" to do what we tell them to, and why so many rich people that have good hearts are so frustratingly ineffectual in their attempts to help improve things.

Remember the astonishment 41 showed the first time he ever saw a price scanner, in 1991?!? I really think that went a long way toward his eventual defeat. People suddenly realized just how out of touch he was. Well guess what, he is not at all unusual.

I do my own shopping for the most part (my wife also occasionally goes) but I don't have a very good idea of what bread and milk costs. I pick up what I need, usually 20 - 30 items, and while I know about what the total is going to be, I don't scrutinize the receipt to find what each individual item costs. It wouldn't surprise me at all to hear that they day this came out, ALL of the presidential hopefuls were reading a price list of basic food items to try to avoid falling into the same situation. It would surprise me quite a bit to hear that any of the presidential hopefuls are doing their own shopping, and I imagine that if any do, they'll do it only once and take a camera crew as a photo op.

And I pay a lot more attention to the prices than she does.

If I buy bacon, I always buy the two for one sale item.

Most things I buy the store brand when they have it. (Kroger in my case)

We are living on a pretty tight budget and I can easily save $25 a week by watching the prices closely.

If I bothered with coupons we could probably save significantly more.

A lot of people pay more attention to individual attention to prices, but some don't and the fact that someone doesn't know the exact price isn't really proof that they're "out of touch" with the people, though. When I shop, I'll look for sale items, and for stuff that traditionally goes on sale, I have a pretty good idea of what it costs (Soda, Chips, deli meats, etc...), but I can't recall ever seeing any special deals specifically on milk or bread and consequently, I don't know what the price is on that. If I would have guessed at the price of bread, I probably would have been within 1 dollar, but it still would have been a guess, I couldn't honestly say I knew.

Let's face it, the people running for president are not really "middle class" anymore even if they were at one time. They might relate to many of the problems middle class (and they might not) but that doesn't mean they personally experience them anymore. I doubt any of them are doing their own shopping, and even if they are, they're probably not going to notice if milk or bread goes up by 50 cents or a dollar. They're going to pay whatever the bill is at the register because for them personally, the food budget is not a major concern.