DUBUQUE, Iowa, Nov. 8, 2007
Giuliani: Focus On My Record, Not Kerik
Republican Candidate Facing Questions Over Support Of Embattled Ex-NYPD Commissioner
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Play CBS Video Video Damage Control For Giuliani Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign felt the heat after ex-business partner Bernard Kerik was indicted on charges that include tax fraud and corruption. Byron Pitts reports.
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Video Kerik May Be Charged Federal criminal charges are expected to be brought against Bernard Kerik, a friend of Rudy Giuliani and the New York City police commissioner under his administration. Bob Orr reports.
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Photo Essay Rudy Giuliani September 11th made this combative New Yorker "America's Mayor." Will he also be America's president?
As mayor, he said, he made hundreds of thousands of decisions. If voters in the presidential race consider that record, he said they can then "say to themselves that if he makes the same balance of right decisions and incorrect decisions as president, the country will be in pretty good shape."
Giuliani was asked at a news conference outside the Dubuque County Courthouse whether he still stands by Bernard Kerik, the former police commissioner who could be indicted this week. He sidestepped that question and said the issue has to be decided in the courts.
"A lot of public comment about it is inconsistent with its getting resolved in the right way in the courts," he said as campaign aides prepared to usher him to his next stop.
In 2004, Giuliani endorsed his protégé's nomination to head the Department of Homeland Security. Only days after President Bush introduced the nominee, Kerik announced he was withdrawing because of tax issues involving his former nanny.
A grand jury has been hearing evidence in Kerik's case on tax evasion and other charges for several months, and was expected to vote Thursday on whether to indict him.
Giuliani argues that the controversy shouldn't overshadow his own crime-fighting record.
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- This is a joke. Sandy Burgler is an admitted FELON who ''consults'' Clinton''s campaign wink, wink . Where''s the wall to wall coverage on that? Biased, as always.
Posted by Signof4 at 08:45 AM : Nov 09, 2007
Can you show a source for a felony charge?
I realize there is a writer''s strike - you better not give up your day job for this spinning !
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- RON PAUL IS THE NEW WAY
What we need is a President who will show us the way. Not the old way. Not the same way, but a new way. Think about this for a minute. What if we pulled all of our troops out of South Korea? They''ve been there for 50+ years. What if we quit worrying about Iran, but instead, realized that its having a nuclear weapon will not mean the end of the world? What if we pulled all of our troops out of the Middle-East, and brought them all home? What if we realistically addressed the National Debt, and paid attention to REALLY DOING SOMETHING about stopping illegal immigration? These are the ideas of Presidential candidate, Ron Paul. He''s a ten term Congressman and a physician who has delivered over 4,000 babies. He''s an intellectual who''s published four books, three of which are devoted entirely to sound economics and one to foreign policy. He was raised on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania as a pious Lutheran, but now he attends a Baptist church. Paul is given to mulling things over morally. Whenever he recollects the helicopter pilots he treated as an Air Force Flight Surgeon (Captain) during the Vietnam War, a war which he now says was "totally unnecessary and illegal," he laments, "They were gung-ho. I''ve often thought about how many of those people never came back." Candidates with the high level of personal integrity and proven track record of adherence to The Constitution, Congressman Paul has always demonstrated only come around once in a lifetime, if we''re lucky. - Reply to this comment
- THINGS PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT GIULIANI:
A Spanish company, Cintra-Zachry, which is owned by the King of Spain, is building the North American SuperCorridor highway through the middle of our country thanks to NAFTA, and they''re going to get the tolls. Giuliani''s Law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani represents that Spanish company. Another Giuliani business, Giuliani Capitol Advisors was once a partner of Cintra-Zachry, and actually owned the rights to collect tolls from the Indiana and Chicago sections of the SuperCorridor before Giuliani sold that interest recently to an Australian company called Macquarie. Bracewell & Giuliani represents some of the biggest multi-national oil, utility infrastructure and financial corporations both in the U.S. and abroad. With that have come the connections that Giuliani has been able to tap into for campaign donations, essential for his Presidential bid, not only in Texas, but nationwide, as he has become the consummate NWO globalist. Particularly unnerving, given Giuliani''s personal experience on 9/11, is his defense of open borders at any cost while condoning the NAFTA Superhighway Corridor and by extension the North American Union, without the consent of the U.S. Congress or the will of the American people. We should have seen it coming when Mayor Giuliani enacted Special Order 40 in 1994, ordering NYC cops to stop checking the immigration status of suspects caught violating the Law. Vote for a REAL AMERICAN--Ron Paul. - Reply to this comment
- RON PAUL WILL PRESERVE U.S. SOVEREIGNTY
All of the trade deals and world government organizations, which all of the presidential candidates support (except Ron Paul), such as the ICC, NAFTA, GATT, WTO, and CAFTA, are all a major threat to our nation''s sovereignty. They transfer power from our government to unelected foreign elites. The ICC wants to try our soldiers as war criminals. Both the WTO and CAFTA could force Americans to get a prescription to take herbs and vitamins. The WTO has forced Congress to change our laws to meet their needs, and not our own. If anything, the WTO makes trade relations worse by giving foreign competitors a new way to attack U.S. jobs. The NAFTA superhighway, being built by a Spanish company, is just one part of a plan to erase our borders and create the North American Union, a single nation State like the EU, out of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, with a new, unelected bureaucracy and money system. Forget about controlling immigration under the NAU scheme. There won''t be any borders anymore, or a free America. Our limited, constitutional government will be gone forever. Let''s not forget the UN either. It wants to impose a direct Carbon Tax on us. Ron Paul successfully fought this move in Congress last year, but if we are going to stop ongoing attempts of this world government body to rule over us, we need someone in the White House who knows how to say "No." We must withdraw from any organizations or treaty that infringes upon our nation''s sovereignty. - Reply to this comment
- a noun...a verb...and 9/11!!!
Oh, let''s just go ahead and forget all this stuff and concentrate on when you''re nominated for president and choose Osama for your VP!
Geezus what a dumb arse. - Reply to this comment
- The Doctor is in! Posted by TrueProphet at 01:08 PM : Nov 09, 2007
LOL -- I need another overpaid medical doctor like I need an undertaker. Doctors in this country get rich on illness and disease, not health. - Reply to this comment
- Vote for a REAL AMERICAN--Ron Paul.
Posted by TrueProphet at 01:28 PM : Nov 09, 2007
Real Americans are ready to move past Plessy v. Ferguson & the Dred Scott decision, not to go back to them. In case you don''t know you''re history, Dred Scott held that people of African descent, whether slaves or not, could never be citizens of the U.S.; Plessy held that racial segregation was okay and affirmed "separate but equal."
We don''t need to go back to those days, and we certainly don''t need Ron Paul. Just ask a white supremacist who he''s supporting in this election. - Reply to this comment
- Hey TrueProphet -- Can you explain to me why White Supremacists and the nuts in the militia movement are all rallying around Ron Paul? I''m just curious about that. Thought you might know something about it since your spams exhibit a superior knowledge about your candidate.
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- You almost got Kerik elected to Homeland Security - that''s your record, Mr. Giuliani.
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- Things people should know about Rudolph Giuliani: A Spanish company, Cintra-Zachry, which is owned by the King of Spain, is already building the North American SuperCorridor highway through the middle of our country thanks to NAFTA, and they''re going to get the tolls. Rodolph Giuliani''s Law firm, Bracewell & Giuliani represents that Spanish company. Another Giuliani business, Giuliani Capitol Advisors was once a partner of Cintra-Zachry, and actually owned the rights to collect tolls from the Indiana and Chicago sections of the SuperCorridor before Giuliani sold that interest recently to an Australian company called Macquarie. Bracewell & Giuliani represents some of the biggest multi-national oil, utility infrastructure and financial corporations both in the U.S. and abroad. With that have come the connections that Giuliani has been able to tap into for campaign donations, essential for his Presidential bid, not only in Texas but nationwide, as he has become the consummate NWO globalist. Particularly unnerving, given Giuliani''s personal experience on 9/11, is his defense of open borders at any cost while condoning the NAFTA Superhighway Corridor and by extension the North American Union, without the consent of the U.S. Congress or the will of the American people. We should have seen it coming when Mayor Giuliani enacted Special Order 40 in 1994, ordering NYC cops to stop checking the immigration status of suspects caught violating the Law. Vote for a REAL AMERICAN--Ron Paul.
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- All of these trade deals and world governmental organizations that all of the presidential candidates support (except Ron Paul), such as the ICC, NAFTA, GATT, WTO, and CAFTA, are all major threat to our nation''s sovereignty. They transfer power from our government to unelected foreign elites. The ICC wants to try our soldiers as war criminals. Both the WTO and CAFTA could force Americans to get a prescription to take herbs and vitamins. The WTO has forced Congress to change our laws to meet their needs, and not our own. If anything, the WTO makes trade relations worse by giving foreign competitors a new way to attack U.S. jobs. The NAFTA superhighway, which is currently being built, is just one part of a plan to erase our borders and create the North American Union, a single nation State like the EU, out of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, with a new, unelected bureaucracy and money system. Forget about controlling immigration under the NAU scheme. There won''t be any borders anymore, or a free America. Our limited, constitutional government, will be gone forever. Let''s not forget the UN either. It wants to impose a direct Carbon Tax on us. Ron Paul successfully fought this move in Congress last year, but if we are going to stop ongoing attempts of this world government body to rule over us, we need someone in the White House who knows how to say "No." We must withdraw from any organizations or treaty that infringes upon our nation''s sovereignty. Vote AMERICA FIRST! Vote for Ron Paul.
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- HOPE FOR AMERICA: PRESIDENT RON PAUL
-- No more meddling in other country''s political affairs
-- No more aggressive military actions overseas
-- No more pseudo-wars like the "War on Drugs"
-- No more IRS and unconstitutional income taxes
-- No more Federal Reserve (the group of private banks which owns our government)
-- No more U.N. (one world government) participation
-- No more NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO or GATT
-- No more North American Union
-- No more federal gun control laws
-- No more illegal aliens pouring-in over our country''s borders
-- No more illegal aliens allowed to roam freely in our streets
-- No more federal Laws which are not authorized by The Constitution
-- No more federal erosion of State sovereignty
-- No more all-powerful federal government
They don''t call him "Dr. No" for no reason. The Doctor is in! Join us in this 21st Century political revolution at ronpaul2008.com - Reply to this comment
- OK, Rudy, we''ll focus on your record...
1. Married 3 times (and wife 3 didn''t know about
wife 1)
2. Pro choice, pro-Gay (lived with gay couple and
even offered to officiate their wedding).
3. Moved NYC 9/11 Response unit to World Trade
Center after 1st bomb attempt so that he could
have a "love nest" apartment near mayor''s office
for afternoon "trysts" with his mistress (now wife
#3)
4. No foreign policy experience. No real domestic
agenda.
5. Penchant for cross-dressing (on at least 2
occasions)
Rudy, your record is pretty shaky. Other than your giant ego, what on earth makes you think you could be president?
We''ve already had dumb and inexperienced. Don''t want another 8 years of it! - Reply to this comment
- This is a joke. Sandy Burgler is an admitted FELON who ''consults'' Clinton''s campaign wink, wink . Where''s the wall to wall coverage on that? Biased, as always.
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- Rudolph the prancing liberal is no different than Billary. They are both far left liberals. Rudolph doesn''t belong in the Republican party. The Republicans hate him because he''s a liberal, but the Democrats hate him because he is pro-war. I guess its a lose/lose situation for Rudolph the prancing liberal who loves to dress up as a woman.
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- thousands of decisions, like the decision to punish NYC museums that displayed artwork he didn''t like, even though, as an attorney, he was well aware that what he was doing was unconstitutional and in direct conflict with U.S. Supreme Court decisions on the subject. He kept getting smacked down in the courts, but continued wasting tax-payor dollars (as if they were his own dollars) to wage his unconstitutional war on public museums. Rudy is anti-First Amendment ideological authoritarian. He''s not nearly as middle of the road as he pretends to be. Rember, he was trying to be mayor in Manhattan. He had to conceal his true right-wing fundamentalist side, and now, he''s getting ready to do battle with Hillary. Once in the White House, we will see what a true snake he is. Pat Robertson already knows.
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- Giuliani has credibility with most Republican voters because of his warmongering and inclination to inflict physical pain on dark people. He is still in trouble with conservative Christians for his pro-choice position as mayor of New York City and for publicly treating his wife and children like dirt. He plans to make up for that by being more overtly racist.
He will remind white Republicans of the good old days when he cut the welfare roles. He did so by breaking the law and denying benefits to eligible people, but no matter. He knows his audience. When they hear the word welfare they will salivate like Pavlovian dogs and decide that Rudy is their man. - Reply to this comment
- There is every reason to believe that Giuliani will act out his every sick fantasy if he were to occupy the oval office. There is no reason to believe that Democrats would finally behave like an opposition. A Giuliani presidency is a nightmarish scenario. We will all be Patrick Dorismond, assumed to be guilty of something and therefore worthy of punishment. It is hard to imagine a worse president than George W. Bush, but Rudolph Giuliani fits that description perfectly.
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- Hezerkani was so scared he developed a foreign accent. Good thing he still said Oh My Gawd in English like all the foreigners did. And what enthusiasm. May computer speech simulator has more emotion.
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- I liked the actors who ran after Bill Clinton holding up cut outs from sales fliers. Where did they lose their loved ones? At a shirt sale at Kmart?
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