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File this under the “no surprise” category since Giuliani remains rather popular among Republicans and many conservatives.
Story from Fox News:
Former Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani will speak at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., FOX News confirmed Thursday.
The former New York City mayor is scheduled to make a primetime address on Sept. 2 — the second night of the convention.
It will be Giuliani’s second opportunity to speak at a Republican convention. In 2004, he addressed the GOP on the first day of the party’s convention at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Giuliani, a loyal supporter of presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, dropped out of the presidential race on Jan. 30 after finishing a distant third in the Florida primary with only 15 percent of the vote.
If Giuliani doesn’t end up running for Governor of New York, I’m betting he’s a sure pick for a cabinet position in a McCain administration.
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Is this common? 10 GOP senators not showing up for the convention?
http://www.youtube.com/wa.....YfXDLYXUW4
Ooooo goody, we’ll get to hear all over again in a lisp how Guiliani single-handedly fixed everything after 9/11
Actually pudding i come from NYC and to hear you say something like that pisses the sh** out of me. Rudy Giuliani was the best mayor i have ever seen in NYC. He fixed the economy, lowered taxes, balanced spending, and cut crime drastically, and he also got rid of the mob. Before Rudy, NYC was not that safe of a place and was and had greatly detoriated before he became mayor. He transformed my great city back into the beautiful thing it once was and now is. I have the greatest respect for Rudy Giuliani. He transformed NYC and handled the worst day in american history with great composure and in extordinary fashion. God Bless Him!
Oooo goody I got to piss the sh** out of you.
For a guy who apparently got rid of the mob he has enough mob ties himself. As for cutting crime, yes he did, but crime was on a decline a couple of years before he took office anyway. Guiliani also has a problem keeping his pecker in his pants and even married his cousin.
I’m not saying the bloke didn’t do a good job on 9/11 with his leadership, but that’s practically all he touted in the Primary debates and struggled to give credit to those that did most of the work.
nzpudding
I think that is like Michael’s commentary “Over Playing Your Trump Card”
I don’t think you can accurately measure his 9/11 performance against anyone else because no other mayor in history was in the same position. You don’t know if he did his job better or worse than the next person because he had no choice. He was the Mayor. I know I have seen all the things the Firefighters and others have accused him of neglect. But maybe someone else in the same position would have done worse or they may have done better.
O.S.
What do you think about this commentary from this conservative?
http://www.youtube.com/wa.....HARTwg8Y2U
It’s not a trick either.
Geez, pudding, you must be a saint. No other mayor in history had to deal with what Rudy had to deal with after 9/11 - maybe it was a “you had to be there” thing, and you just don’t get it because you weren’t. Or maybe your memory is just really short. I shudder to think how it would have been in post 9/11 NYC had it not been for a man like him. I really think you’re the first person I’ve ever seen to throw stones at him. It really doesn’t become you.
What does me being a saint have to do with anything…LOL
Guiliani did no more or no less than what any other elected official in that position would have done, should have done and could have done.
I’ve already stated he did a good job in his leadership on and after 9/11 but how much work did he actually do and how much is he taking credit for because he’s the face of 9/11? That’s not throwing stones at him, that’s a fair question, Guiliani IS no Saint.
“Guiliani did no more or no less than what any other elected official in that position would have done, should have done and could have done.”
Uh, pudding, remember New Orleans after Katrina? I don’t think that statement has any viability. Compare the two mayors “in that position”.
nzpudding
You sure have become quite cynical in the past couple months. Most Democrats will even concede that Guiliani was a great Mayor. There is a reason he’s called America’s Mayor. You can knit pick all you want, but you’re just spinning your wheels on this one.
Well some people might call him America’s Mayor but I won’t. I’ve already stated that I think he did a good job in his leadership, but he didn’t do it single-handedly.
Babs, to compare Guiliani to Ray Nagin is silly. Guiliani had help and LOTS of it straight away, Nagin had to wait for his.
I do recall several hundred school buses sitting in a parking lot that Nagin didn’t have to wait for…
Pudding you need to stop posting on this topic because your post are dumb and immature and as a person who lived through 9/11 and saw the buildings come down, and known people who died in those buildings, for you to try and insult Giuliani (spell it right) is an insult to me and other new yorkers. he changed NYC and if it wasnt for him it would not be the same great city it is today.
pudding, oh no, now you’re talking out your ass. Katrina was very personal for me - my sister and my son lost their homes in Katrina, and my nephew, who lived in downtown New Orleans, so don’t tell me Nagin had to wait for a damn thing. The situation was absolutely the same except nature caused Katrina, and Nagin had warning, 9/11 was terrorism and Giuliani had to shoot from the hip. I was there in Katrina with my family, you were in another country watching the tellie. Silly is your audacity. Drop it, friend.
Babs
“Uh, pudding, remember New Orleans after Katrina? I don’t think that statement has any viability. Compare the two mayors “in that positionâ€.
There is a major difference. Nyc had the full support of united states government because it was a terrorist attack. There response was lightning fast.
Another issue is the matter of race. Majority of the people affected were black in New Orleans. The response of the government is always going to be drastically different when race is involved.
I think if the roles were reversed Giuliani could have done better. Amtrak offered to ship a lot of people out of there but Nagin office ignored the call saying they didn’t need it.
But i also think the 3000 people who worked in the world trade center aren’t people who are in poverty either. So if they would have known that they had to move they would have been in a better position to do so. But if Giuliani was there with the same late response from Fema which almost seemed intentional. I don’t think the disaster would have been much difference.
Dreadsen, again, I was there. Before, and after, for weeks on end. You know what the news brought you, fair enough. To compare Nagin’s first response before and after Katrina and Giuliani’s first response after 9/11 is fair in regards to competence. Guilliani was, Nagin wasn’t. And everyone who was there knew it.
Babs
So in your opinion do you think that if Giuliani was there in place of Nagin he could have avoided the problems regardless of the Governments lack of concern? I mean did the Mayor really make that big of a difference?