I always suspected something was amiss when it came to Rudy talking about relevant issues concerning us. Well Giuliani confirmed my some of my thoughts on him when he let out an advertising blitz in early primary states such as Iowa and New Hampshire. He claims that Democrats like Hillary don't get it when it comes to terrorism and the current realities that we face. However, the 'realities' that he sees are obviously in some parallel dimension.
From The NY Post:
June 5, 2007 -- Rudy Giuliani yesterday charged that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and the other Democratic presidential candidates are living in a "different world" when it comes to understanding the threat of terrorism.
"They're in denial about the Islamic [terrorist] threat," the GOP front-runner said. "It's an issue of war and peace. It's an issue that involves whether or not America is going to be safe."
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"In the debate . . . there was this great nostalgia about returning to the diplomacy of the 1990s," Giuliani said. "It was in the 1990s that we didn't retaliate for the attack on the USS Cole . . . the 1993 World Trade Center, Khobar Towers, Kenya, Tanzania, significant numbers of attacks by Islamic terrorists against us."
Wait a sec, didn't the attack on the U.S.S. Cole happen in 2000? Well its close enough to the 1990s I assume. Still, Rudy does not get it nor even attempt to understand geopolitics. Like many New Yorkers (myself included) he believes that the world revolves around the Isle of Manhattan but many (typically on the left) know better.
Instead of debating the issues on Planet Earth, Rudy lives in the world of black and white, where one is either a coward or a bully instead of approaching situations with a tool that I like to call logic. Of course Rudy and others like him (Bush included) like to play on the politics of fear in order to manipulate anyone willing to buy his crap.
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