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Rudy, how were you brought up? (Original Post) napkinz Feb 2015 OP
What I want to know is.. could rudy ghouli be anymore Cha Feb 2015 #1
Oh how I wish Colbert were still on napkinz Feb 2015 #4
Yes! Cha Feb 2015 #5
Giuliani: Obama Had a White Mother, So I’m Not a Racist. napkinz Feb 2015 #9
here is more about rudy. roguevalley Feb 2015 #17
K&R just for the "STFU Rudy" ammo JHB Feb 2015 #19
hear, hear, JHB. Six time draft dodger or what I like to say, FUCK YOU, AMERICA! I'M NOT GOING! and roguevalley Feb 2015 #20
I saw that.. rudy stepped into it big time now.. not only has he brought hell raining down on him.. Cha Feb 2015 #21
back atcha, cha darling. :D roguevalley Feb 2015 #22
Yes, it's the Hypocritical Lying that makes them so loathsome.. not Cha Feb 2015 #23
too bad that old show "This Is Your Life" isn't still around napkinz Feb 2015 #27
Rudy always was an asshole. lpbk2713 Feb 2015 #2
speaking of holes, he just keeps on digging napkinz Feb 2015 #7
Can someone, or more, here post this to social media please so cowardly Rudy gets Submariner Feb 2015 #3
It is all over social media! vankuria Feb 2015 #10
he is a sick pig. spanone Feb 2015 #6
Just heard on Hardball ... napkinz Feb 2015 #8
Sure when all else fails vankuria Feb 2015 #11
exploiting a tragedy ... what a POS! napkinz Feb 2015 #12
the whole nation went through 9/11. spanone Feb 2015 #13
I remember he made millions lobbying against cheaper prescription drug imports from Canada.... Hassin Bin Sober Feb 2015 #25
integrity, preparedness, accountability? ha! napkinz Feb 2015 #28
Just another right wing chicken hawk. kairos12 Feb 2015 #14
Romney & Rudy napkinz Feb 2015 #24
Nothing says patriotism like doing time in Sing Sing for third degree robbery RufusTFirefly Feb 2015 #15
and Rudy thinks Obama should have been raised the way he was to love his country napkinz Feb 2015 #26
Rudy is out there running interference Mr.Bill Feb 2015 #16
Damn! dhol82 Feb 2015 #18
updated napkinz Feb 2015 #29
Kick malaise Feb 2015 #30
thanks malaise napkinz Feb 2015 #31

Cha

(297,253 posts)
1. What I want to know is.. could rudy ghouli be anymore
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 07:18 PM
Feb 2015

despicable!?

Good Occupy Dems came up with these graphics depicting rudy to a Teabag so quickly, napkinz.. thank you!

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
17. here is more about rudy.
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:42 PM
Feb 2015

He's a perfect republican. He is a complete coward.

Wayne Barrett: What Rudy Giuliani knows about love — a response to his 'doesn't love America' critique of Obama
BY Wayne Barrett
special to the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Rudy Giuliani knows a lot about love.

Ask Regina Peruggi, the second cousin he grew up with and married, who was "offended" when Rudy later engineered an annulment from the priest who was his best man on the grounds, strangely enough, that she was his cousin. Or ask Donna Hanover, the mother of his two children, who found out he wanted a separation when he left Gracie Mansion one morning and announced it at a televised press conference. Or ask Judi Nathan, his third wife, whom he started dating while still married to Hanover and New York mayor. In two SUVs, he and an entourage of six or seven cops traveled 11 times to Judi's Hamptons getaway at a taxpayer cost of $3,000 a trip.

SNIP!

The onetime presidential candidate also revealed at the party that Obama "doesn't love America," an echo of a speech he'd delivered to delirious cheers in Arizona a week earlier when he declared: "I would go anywhere, any place, anytime, and I wouldn't give a damn what the President of the United States said, to defend my country. That's a patriot. That's a man who loves his people. That's a man who fights for his people. Unlike our President."

Rudy may have forgotten the half-dozen deferments he won ducking the Vietnam War, even getting the federal judge he was clerking for to write a letter creating a special exemption for him. And remember Bernie Kerik? He's the Giulaini police commissioner, business partner and sidekick whose nomination as homeland security secretary narrowly preceded indictments. He then did his national service in prison.

Giuliani's rampage against Obama questioned the President's love for America. 'I do hear him criticize America much more often than other American Presidents.' Giuliani went so far as to rebuke the President for not being "brought up the way you were and the way I was brought up through love of this country," a bow no doubt to the parenting prowess of Harold Giuliani, who did time in Sing Sing for holding up a Harlem milkman and was the bat-wielding enforcer for the loan-sharking operation run out of a Brooklyn bar owned by Rudy's uncle. Though Rudy cited Harold throughout his public life as his model (without revealing any of his history), he and five Rudy uncles found ways to avoid service in World War II. Harold, whose robbery conviction was in the name of an alias, made sure the draft board knew he was a felon. On the other hand, Obama's grandfather and uncle served. His uncle helped liberate Buchenwald, which apparently affected him so deeply he stayed in the family attic for six months when he returned home.

Whole story:

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/wayne-barrett-rudy-giuliani-love-article-1.2122253


roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
20. hear, hear, JHB. Six time draft dodger or what I like to say, FUCK YOU, AMERICA! I'M NOT GOING! and
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 10:14 PM
Feb 2015

the son of a thug. How could he turn out any better?

Cha

(297,253 posts)
21. I saw that.. rudy stepped into it big time now.. not only has he brought hell raining down on him..
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 11:00 PM
Feb 2015

Last edited Sat Feb 21, 2015, 02:38 AM - Edit history (1)

but, all these people are standing up for the President who obviously loves his country so much.

And, it's showing what despicable cowards the rest of the little chickenhawks are.

Mahalo rogue!

roguevalley

(40,656 posts)
22. back atcha, cha darling. :D
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 01:53 AM
Feb 2015

Mitt Romney has to go back 145 years to find soldiers in his family and the one there switched sides and betrayed his unit and helped to kill them.

Rudy's father and his five brothers dodged WWII.

I loathe war but given their prancing around the military, it really reeks doesn't it?

Cha

(297,253 posts)
23. Yes, it's the Hypocritical Lying that makes them so loathsome.. not
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 02:43 AM
Feb 2015

that they didn't serve.

They're all sociopaths.. showing off what despicable humanoids will do for a buck. Wonder if rudy had an inkling what Blowback he would incur? this is going to follow him around for a long long time.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
27. too bad that old show "This Is Your Life" isn't still around
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 12:56 PM
Feb 2015

imagine Rudy getting ready to do one of his live TV interviews and Ralph Edwards showing up, bringing out all those from Rudy's past

Submariner

(12,504 posts)
3. Can someone, or more, here post this to social media please so cowardly Rudy gets
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 07:44 PM
Feb 2015

an opportunity to see them and know thousands, if not millions, of people are seeing them?

I don't have Facebook/Twitter accounts, but these should be posted there.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
8. Just heard on Hardball ...
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 08:23 PM
Feb 2015

Rudy LITERALLY crying while talking about what he went through on 9/11. He said, "Obama didn't go through 9/11, I did."

vankuria

(904 posts)
11. Sure when all else fails
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 08:43 PM
Feb 2015

bring up 9/11! Which has absolutely nothing to do with his hateful comments, but keep digging that hole Rudy!

spanone

(135,838 posts)
13. the whole nation went through 9/11.
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:02 PM
Feb 2015

giuliani partners has made the ex-mayor an extremely wealthy man and a blowhard.

a real bullslhit enterprise:

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http://www.giulianipartners.com/default.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuliani_Partners

Hassin Bin Sober

(26,328 posts)
25. I remember he made millions lobbying against cheaper prescription drug imports from Canada....
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 05:02 AM
Feb 2015

Because terrorism.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
28. integrity, preparedness, accountability? ha!
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 02:03 PM
Feb 2015




Rudy Giuliani emerged from the smoke of 9/11 as the unquestioned hero of the day: America's Mayor, the father figure we could all rely on to be tough, to be wise, to do the right thing. In that uncertain time, it was a comfort to know that he was on the scene and in control, making the best of a dire situation.

But was he really?

Grand Illusion is the definitive report on Rudy Giuliani's role in 9/11—the true story of what happened that day and the first clear-eyed evaluation of Giuliani's role before, during, and after the disaster.

While the pictures of a soot-covered Giuliani making his way through the streets became very much a part of his personal mythology, they were also a symbol of one of his greatest failures. The mayor's performance, though marked by personal courage and grace under fire, followed two terms in office pursuing an utterly wrongheaded approach to the city's security against terrorism. Turning the mythology on its head, Grand Illusion reveals how Giuliani has revised his own history, casting himself as prescient terror hawk when in fact he ran his administration as if terrorist threats simply did not exist, too distracted by pet projects and turf wars to attend to vital precautions.

Authors Wayne Barrett and Dan Collins also provide the first authoritative view of the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, recounting the triumphs and missteps of the city's efforts to heal itself. With surprising new reporting about the victims, the villains, and the heroes, this is an eye-opening reassessment of one of the pivotal events—and politicians—of our time.

http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Illusion-Untold-Story-Giuliani/dp/0060536616

RufusTFirefly

(8,812 posts)
15. Nothing says patriotism like doing time in Sing Sing for third degree robbery
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:17 PM
Feb 2015

Rudy's dad and an accessory robbed a milkman at gunpoint in April 1934, and when Harold Giuliani got caught, he gave a false name, Joseph Starrett.

Although no one in his family had a prayer of posting his $5,000 bail, he had friends who could. Three days after being arrested, Giuliani was bailed out by one Valentine Spielman. Meanwhile, the milkman, apparently after being visited by several people at 4 in the morning who threatened him, recanted his original story and said that it was the other man, not Giuliani, who had pressed the gun to his stomach. The sudden change in the victim's testimony meant a reduction in charges against Giuliani, who pled guilty to one count of robbery in the third degree.

Although Giuliani's lawyer pled for leniency, the judge was unmoved. "I am a very sympathetic judge, he explained, "but I have no sympathy for robbers with guns." Giuliani was sentenced to five years in Sing Sing, not only for his participation in an armed robbery but because he steadfastly refused to identify his accomplice and moreover because he had originally given the arresting officer a false name.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)
26. and Rudy thinks Obama should have been raised the way he was to love his country
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 10:27 AM
Feb 2015

maybe Rudy should have been raised the way the president was and he wouldn't be such a hateful person.

Mr.Bill

(24,296 posts)
16. Rudy is out there running interference
Fri Feb 20, 2015, 09:27 PM
Feb 2015

for the GOP. Just throwing shit against the wall to see what will stick and making the clown car of candidates look sane by comparison. Sort of what Trump did in the last election.

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