Giuliani Robocall Attacks Obama As Soft On Crime

By: Brian Montopoli
Topics: Rudy Giuliani

Former Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani has recorded a robocall knocking Barack Obama for opposing "mandatory prison sentences for sex offenders, drug dealers, and murderers."

"It's true," Giuliani says. "I read Obama's words myself."

CBS News has confirmed that the call, which you can listen to here, is being deployed in battleground states. It is being paid for "by the Republican National Committee and McCain-Palin 2008."

The script:

Hi, this is Rudy Giuliani, and I'm calling for John McCain and the Republican National Committee because you need to know that Barack Obama opposes mandatory prison sentences for sex offenders, drug dealers, and murderers. It's true, I read Obama's words myself. And recently, Congressional liberals introduced a bill to eliminate mandatory prison sentences for violent criminals -- trying to give liberal judges the power to decide whether criminals are sent to jail or set free. With priorities like these, we just can't trust the inexperience and judgment of Barack Obama and his liberal allies.

Brian Montopoli
Brian Montopoli is the senior political reporter at CBSNews.com.
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by my0pinion381 October 23, 2008 12:30 PM EDT: You know what i changed my mind about Obama! I think he will be better for national security and the economy!

Besides I think Sarah Palin is really a Terrorist

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Watch video of Sarah palin addressing The Alaska Terrorist Group also known as The Independence party. They are calling for a civil war against the mainland.; Reply to this comment


by newslink October 23, 2008 12:26 PM EDT: Now America has something this year to be Thankful for. Giuliani Did Not run for President! This man is a undercover Nut.; Reply to this comment


by windmaster12 October 23, 2008 12:17 PM EDT: According to documentation obtained by the U.S. Veteran Dispatch, not only did POW McCain promise to give the communists "military information" in exchange for special hospital care not ordinarily available to U.S. prisoners, but he also made numerous antiwar radio broadcasts.

The following is McCain''s own admission of collaboration in an article he wrote, printed May 14, 1973 in U.S. News and World Report:

"I think it was on the fourth day [after being shot down] that two guards came in, instead of one. One of them pulled back the blanket to show the other guard my injury. I looked at my knee. It was about the size, shape and color of a football. I remembered that when I was a flying instructor a fellow had ejected from his plane and broken his thigh. He had gone into shock, the blood had pooled in his leg, and he died, which came as quite a surprise to usa man dying of a broken leg.

Then I realized that a very similar thing was happening to me.

"When I saw it, I said to the guard, `O.K., get the officer.''

"An officer came in after a few minutes. It was the man that we came to know very well as `The Bug.'' He was a psychotic torturer, one of the worst fiends that we had to deal with. I said, `O.K., I''ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.''"

Google:
MCCAIN COLLABORATOR; Reply to this comment


by choiceshaveconsequences October 23, 2008 12:14 PM EDT: Giuliana can read? Why would anyone propose a mandatory prison sentence for a murderer? How would that "mandatory" work for "crack" cocaine as opposed to "powder" cocaine? Would that "mandatory" equate a 15 year old providing marijuana to his classmates with a 40 year old dealing hard stuff on the street corner? See how easy it all is? No problem. Mandatory is mandatory, drugs is drugs and crime crime. That''s the Giuliani School of Reading.; Reply to this comment


by rickwar October 23, 2008 11:07 AM EDT: In a way I agree with Guliani:

Prosecution and jail for those who brought down the financial system

Prosecution and jail for those who took us to war in Iraq when there was no reason

Prosecution and jail for those who diminished our rights under the cover of terrorisim

Prosecution and jail for those who allowed no bid contracts that raped the taxpayers

Prosecution and jail for those who had no plan for Katrina, Ike and other natural disasters

Prosecution and jail for those who break the American Code of Conduct and broadcast over Radio Hanoi and Radio Cuba

Prosecution and jail for those who didn''t have the common sense not to put a city''s anti terrorism unit in the World Trade center

Prosecution and jail for those who created a massive federal debt

Prosecution and jail for those who keep handing out corporate welfare and financial bailouts

Hi I''m Rudy Guliani and I''d like to say Hi! from jail along with my friends.

Now, that''s a robo call I''d love to get; Reply to this comment


by anya136 October 23, 2008 9:59 AM EDT: McCain wants to spread the wealth to the rich. The oil companies the CEOs that are earning millions and millions more than they need to be happy.

Is this the america you want?

McCain would be bad on security because he is impetuous and too ideological. He is erratic in a crisis. Too old now Im afraid. And his running mate is insane she doesnt even know what the job of a VP is and she isnt uncorrupted.

These guys are desperate: they almost called Obama a terrorist, called him a socialist and next week will probably call him a UFO.

It doesnt stick. They have run out of ideas, have weak character, have underestimated the american people.

Time for a change.; Reply to this comment


by rickwar October 23, 2008 9:51 AM EDT: Hi, this is Rudy Giuliani, and I''m calling for John McCain and the Republican National Committee.

I''d like to talk to you about cross dressers
Wife dumping
Putting our alert center in the World Trade Center
And doing other assorted stupid things like this robocall

We''re F**ked and we don''t know what to do next so we thought this would work, Let me tell you about my friend McCain!

Click. Are you there? Are you there?
S**T they hung up on me!

***, just like in the primaries!

Where''s my dress?; Reply to this comment


by rickwar October 23, 2008 9:43 AM EDT: Instead of a Jesse Jackson shaking down a single corporation with threats of boycotts, we have pundits promising something akin to a national conflagration should America reject the Chosen One.

Posted by JANESCHE at 08:45 PM : Oct 22, 2008

JANESCHE,
How are things under your sheet?

Just take it off, you''ll feel better, we''ll see you for who you really are and you won''t have to waste time taking up bandwidth proving it to us; Reply to this comment


by tannerbird October 23, 2008 9:37 AM EDT: Guess what Rudy you would be the first one to go to jail if anyone pushed it.; Reply to this comment


by rickwar October 23, 2008 9:33 AM EDT: Mayor Giuliani,

That is nothing! The Federal Lawsuit unanswered by Senator Obama and the DNC makes the claim that Senator Obama was born in Kenya. The Birth Certificate so far produced is not a valid Birth Certificate.
see www.obamacrimes.com
The lawyer is a lifetime Democrat, check his background out.

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Posted by erich_1 at 03:51 AM : Oct 23, 2008

SOS, Different day; Reply to this comment