Giuliani: Palin could handle 9/11 crisis

[kskiska]

Source: AP

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says if Sarah Palin had been president when the U.S. came under attack on Sept. 11, 2001, he's confident she would have been able to handle the crisis.

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In an interview Wednesday on ABC's "Good Morning America," Giuliani was asked, "If she were the president on 9/11, you would have been confident?"

Giuliani responded: "I'd be confident that she'd be able to handle it. She's been a governor of a state, she's been mayor of a city."

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[ogneopasno]

1. They are talking straight out of their butts now.

This just gets better and better.

[saigon68]

35. They need to WIPE first

[calmblueocean]

2. Wow! She's been MAYOR of a CITY!

I guess stringing up the Christmas light in Bedford Falls counts as national security experience now.

[VWolf]

19. So was Sonny Bono nt

[Virginia Dare]

38. And Clint Eastwood..

Clint would know how to handle it.

[progressivebydesign]

3. Word to Ghouliani.. Wasilla IS NOT a "city", it's a town.

Looks like the "executive experience" talking point is being passed out fast and hard.

[offog]

34. Wot's the big deal with "executive experience"?

George W. Bush had "executive experience" before he became President, and look at what a screw-up he turned out to be. I also have a problem with the message that high-level political experience is the only experience that matters. One of the things I like about Obama is his community organizing background. His experience is working with ordinary and marginalized people who have serious problems, such as trying not to end up homeless. He didn't spend his whole life hanging around rich people and political operatives. Obama is definitely more in touch with ordinary citizens than McCain and Palin put together. McCain, who doesn't know how many houses he has, and has a skewed perception of what it means to be middle-class, is more elitist than he thinks Obama is.

[krkaufman]

48. Because they've picked a supremely unprepared, untested, even unqualified VP ...

... that totally undercuts their previous "experience" argument against Obama, and so they need to somehow twist reality such that *HER* lack of experience isn't like that lack of experience they were talking about before.

Which is why the McCain campaign is so pissed-off at CNN for the Campbell Brown interview of Tucker Bounds, the other day, when she, remarkably, managed to do her basic job as a journalist in trying to get Bounds to provide any examples of Palin's commander-in-chief readiness. Brown didn't fall for the "executive experience" fluff, and kept asking for a single, tangible example. Bounds was made to look like a fool.

[Retrograde]

53. probably a technicality

I don't know about Alaska, but most western states are organized differently than eastern ones. California only has cities (although they can call themselves towns, they're the same constitutionally): they range from the city of Amador (pop. about 200) to the city of Los Angeles (pop >3,000,000). It's like saying you're the CEO of a 10 person company and thinking you're in the same league as the CEO of a Fortune 500 one: same title, same legal type of entity, but vastly different experiences.

New York has cities, towns, townships, villages, and hamlets and despite having grown up there I can not fully understand how they work together.

That said, there are buildings in New York City that house more people than Wasilla.

ETA: according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Alaska_by_population, there are cities in Alaska with populations less than 50. I've had parties bigger than that!

[ogneopasno]

4. Yeah, but could she have been a POW?

Let's ask McCain! I bet he'd have something to say about it!

[Bleacher Creature]

5. Mayor of a city??????

Is he saying that being mayor of Wasila makes her competent to handle a crisis in NEW YORK CITY???

Is this seriously what the Republicans have become.

[Solly Mack]

6. ROFLMAO Noun Verb 911 did it! Palin and 911 in one sentence

What does he win, Johnny?


More derision! More contempt! More mocking!

lolololololol

[liberal N proud]

11. They have no shame

[Solly Mack]

13. absolutely none

they don't even know that the concept exist

[arcadian]

7. You're wrong Guiliani, no body could have orchestrated it the way you did.

Imploding WTC7? Brilliance, sheer brilliance.

[bamacrat]

8. Yes, becasue she handled the raging Moose tragedy of 03' brilliantly.

It was horrible this moose just ran amok shitting all over the place, he even mounted a stuffed moose at a local taxidermists office. Palin quickly boarded a plane flew 500 miles and shot two moose standing in the woods believed to be the suspect moose's family. Give me a break, Giuliani also thought it wouldnt hurt him politically to dress in womens clothing on multiple occasions. What a douche.

[Frustratedlady]

9. These guys need to get a life.

Rudy's 15 minutes of fame is 9/11 and McGoo's is being a POW.

Granted, these are awful events, but they aren't the only people who went thru trials and tribulations at the same time.

Where would they be if it weren't for 9/11 or the Vietnam War?

Answer: They'd both be chasing women.

[Beam Me Up]

10. When all else fails, play the 9/11 card. Again and again and again. n/t

[flakey_foont]

12. that was our correspond from Bizarro World

signing off

Hello


just plain weird!

[soupkitchen]

14. But could she have prevented it?

The Republicans, the party you have your head so much up of ass of, Rudy, that you can't even hear your own children saying what a douche bag you are, failed to protect America from the 9/11 attack. End of story

[CJCRANE]

15. She may look like the Mayor of Podunk, Alaska

but in fact she's from the planet Krypton.

She could have handled 9/11, Pearl Harbor, could've stopped the Nazis and Russians and can leap across the Bering Straits in a single bound.

[AlbertCat]

21. And she could do all of that ....

Pregnant!

She can't even keep her teenage daughter from "joining the club"....but she can handle 9/11! I'm sure she can stand on top of a pile of rubble and human remains and give a lame speech thru a megaphone, just like Dubya!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

16. Alright, everyone.

Can we now agree that Rudy is not only a moron, but is showing signs of early-onset dementia?

[MaineDem]

17. Oh please! The Noun this time is "Palin" eh?

What a fuckwit.

[Auggie]

18. We know it's bullshit. But there are others out there that will be placated.

The pukes will repeat this until all skepticism of their idiot followers (and those on the fence) is erased.

[VWolf]

20. and the number of skyscapers in the great CITY of Wasilla is ...

zero.

[faulknercindy]

22. I read this story

and started laughing and have not stopped. He is a bigger idiot than previously thought.

[RobertSeattle]

23. Memo to GOP: All this CRAP is being recorded

Doesn't the GOP realize how ridiculous they will sound in a few months?

[ladywnch]

24. this is the best laugh I've had today!!!!

"I'd be confident that she'd be able to handle it.......

is that before or after she'd fired the police chief and the public safety commissioner?


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[conspirator]

25. Oh rudy, not 911 again, crawl back to under your rock now nt

[kayell]

26. Wasilla, AK - 2000 census, population 5,469.

2005 estimate population 8,471

Giuliani may want to rethink his definition of "city". NYers may be a bit insulted.

(more evidence for heavy drug use by repugs)

[benld74]

27. Here's a guy who was basing HIS 9/11 experience as a means to

get him elected to the WH. NOW he is BEING TOLD to toe the line and reverse what he believed/said in the past, and to regergitate what he is told by handlers unknown to us, AND he is doing preceisely that!

[LibDemAlways]

28. The entire population of Bumblefuck Alaska would

fit into a New York City block. Once again Ghouliani demonstrates his low IQ and lower opinion of the citizenry he believes will buy this crap.

The GOP is the party of morons.

[Straight Shooter]

29. Sacrilege.

Will the GOP never stop cannibalizing the victims of September 11, 2001?

[jeff30997]

30. "she'd be able to handle it"

If by that he means handling it like Chimpy,cowardly flying from one military base to an other then

yes she could.

[jobycom]

31. Next: Fred Thompson says Sarah Palin could star in a crime drama on TV.

Jack Kemp says she could play quarterback in the NFL. Trot out the Republicans to avow Palin's greatness! Dick Cheney says she can aim a shotgun! George W Bush says she can hold her liquor! Joe Lieberman says she can stand for anything at all!

Jobycom has doubts on a few of those, but not even Jobycom cares what Jobycom thinks.

[saigon68]

36. George W Bush says she can hold her liquor!

[KatyaR]

52. Maybe they can use that photo as the basis for her official portrait.

I think it would look great in the White House.

[Virginia Dare]

41. McCain says she could handle a POW camp..

the woman can do it all I tell you.

[global1]

32. Now That's Just An Asinine Statement......nt

[jb5150]

33. Well, he has a point

She was the mayor of the booming metropolis that is Wasilla.......:sarcasm:

[Mike Daniels]

37. Rudy can say good-bye to any future runs for the presidency

Sheesh. All this talk about judgement and ability and the Repubs are proving that their reserves are completely bone dry.

[Virginia Dare]

39. She could even handle it in the middle of birthing a baby, I have no doubts..n/t

[Mike Daniels]

40. Please Rudy. Please, please say this during your speech tonight

I'm begging you to say it.

I want to see Pat Buchanan and Morning Joe spin on their heads tomorrow morning defending this utter drug-addled statement.

Please, please, please....

[fascisthunter]

42. Yeah..Like Bush Did by doing nothing and Allowing it to Happen

if you call that "handling"

[defendandprotect]

43. I like the way Guiliani equates himself and Palin here . . .!!!

[Swagman]

44. wouldn't she be reading a book about moose to some kids ?

[BayjanDem]

45. This guy is something else

Never has a person milked a tragedy so much. The way he talks, you would think the guy leaped in the air and blocked the planes from hitting the buildings. Rudy is a dirt bag and an opportunist. And I remember the weekend before 911 the New York papers was ripping the guy. Your 15 minutes are long gone Rudy, go away already.

[BadgerKid]

46. Brilliant!

She could put in a call to Osama and have the terrorists fired!!

:sarcasm:

[krkaufman]

47. God, this would be so freaking hilarious if it weren't so scary.

These people are basically spoon-feeding some screenwriter out there with a hilarious political satire screenplay.

[racaulk]

49. A noun, a verb, and 9/11.

That's really all that Ghouliani has, isn't it? It would be funny if it weren't so fucking sad!

[LibertyLover]

50. I'm confident that Palin could have handled 9/11

about as well as Bush did. Which is of course to say, poorly. I wonder what book she would have been reading to the schoolkids and where she would have flown in Air Force 1 to feel safe - perhaps all the way to Juneau?

[Crowman1979]

51. 9/11 and POW are McBush's two magic words!

[yellowcanine]

54. Palin screwed up dealing with her sister's divorce, how could she "handle" 911?

And she messed up trying to "handle" a few department heads when she was mayor of a podunk town, so how is she going to "handle" a national security crisis?

[BreweryYardRat]

55. Palin would probably have "handled" it by nuking the Middle East into glass.

No crazy fundamentalists in the White House, please.

[tinrobot]

56. She'd shoot the planes down with her moose gun.

[Vinca]

57. This is very sad. These idiots will sacrifice the safety and security

of this country just to keep their party in power.