Saturday, July 14, 2007
If you like Bush, you'll love Rudy
It's not often that I endorse one-sided political attack ads, because there's usually another side of the story that's not being portrayed, but I'll make an exception when it comes to this video from the International Association of Firefighters (IAFF) union.
The video features NYC firefighters discussing how the imcompetence and pandering of Giuliani whle he was myor of New York led to the deaths of 121 firefighters durring 9/11. Why did these firefighters die? Because a call to evacuate one of the WTC towers was issued over radios so buggy that these 121 firefighters never heard the call. The first call for evacuation came one hour before the collaspe, the second came twenty-nine minutes before, so the firefighters should have had ample opportunity to escape alive.
The IAFF continues to detail that the radios firefighters used had been a persistent problem since 1993, when the problem reared its ugly head during the first WTC attack. In 1994, a report confirmed that Giuliani knew the radios didn't work right and did, well, absolutely nothing about it until 2001, when he used a no-bid contract to replace the old, faulty radios with new... You guessed it, faulty radios. Radios that hadn't even been field tested.
And guess what radios firefighters were using on 9/11?
Like I stated before, I don't often endorse one-sided political attack ads, but this should be damning. Between Giuliani playing hooky with sessions of the Iraq Study Group before practically getting kicked out of the group, to learning that Giuliani knowingly and willingly placed his city's terrorism reponse center right next to the WTC, the biggest target in the city; and now learning that Giuliani was so incompetent that he couldn't be bothered to give his firefighters the proper radios for damn near a decade... It would be easy to pass a personal judgement upon "America's Mayor." Out of politeness, I'll stop short of declaring such a position and stick to the facts; because the fact is, the one thing which should be glaringly obvious and no longer in question, is that Giuliani is incompetent: completely, utterly, irrevocabbly, and it's to the point of sheer ignorance. And though some may differ, it's in my view that this is a fact, no longer just an opinion. And I defy anyone to tell me diifferently.
An incompetent person does not deserve to sit in the Oval Office. We've already suffered almost two terms with a president who's incompetent, and we don't need another term of it. Or even another day.
In a just world, stories this damning would sink a presidential campaign. Look at what the Swift Boat Vets did to John Kerry in 2004, and just what was that about again? To the best of my recollection, it was about proving that John Kerry had never stepped foot in Cambodia during his time serving in Vietnam -- contradicting a comment Kerry made in a speech, what, twenty years before then? That's not exactly earth-shattering news. In fact, when I looked at the stories during 2004, I couldn't inderstand how it was really big news in the first place. But it helped the sink a presidential campaign that should have won, , and came damn near close to doing so.
So how long will we have to wait for these much more damning stories against Giuliani to do what htey rightfully should?
Here's the video:
[Update] While checking my usual suspects of big rightwing blogs to see if they have even mentioned this scandal (they haven't), I did find out that Yasser Arafat must have been an AIDS-infested homo. Not kidding! These conservative bloggers know no shame. None at all.
[Update, part two] As if there wasn't anything else of importance to note (like, you know, the incompetence of a leading presidential candidate), Michelle Malkin goes after Ted Rall for drawing a cartoon. She even has the audacity to end her post with this setence: "Does anyone on his side of the ideological aisle have the decency to question his patriotism?"
I've got a better question: Who gives a shit? Last I checked, Rall isn't running for president. Giuliani is. So does anyone on his side of the ideological aisle have the decency to question his patriotism? Or question his ability as an executive? To question why he couldn't give firefighters the equipment they needed, or why he chose to be well compensated and up his political profile (for a presidential run, of course) by giving lectures as opposed to helping his country by serving on the Iraq Study Group? All while pimping himself as the 9/11 candidate? Do any of them want to answer for this? Because hearing that Rall is unpatriotic, and that Arafat is a cocksucker, just gets old.
The video features NYC firefighters discussing how the imcompetence and pandering of Giuliani whle he was myor of New York led to the deaths of 121 firefighters durring 9/11. Why did these firefighters die? Because a call to evacuate one of the WTC towers was issued over radios so buggy that these 121 firefighters never heard the call. The first call for evacuation came one hour before the collaspe, the second came twenty-nine minutes before, so the firefighters should have had ample opportunity to escape alive.
The IAFF continues to detail that the radios firefighters used had been a persistent problem since 1993, when the problem reared its ugly head during the first WTC attack. In 1994, a report confirmed that Giuliani knew the radios didn't work right and did, well, absolutely nothing about it until 2001, when he used a no-bid contract to replace the old, faulty radios with new... You guessed it, faulty radios. Radios that hadn't even been field tested.
And guess what radios firefighters were using on 9/11?
Like I stated before, I don't often endorse one-sided political attack ads, but this should be damning. Between Giuliani playing hooky with sessions of the Iraq Study Group before practically getting kicked out of the group, to learning that Giuliani knowingly and willingly placed his city's terrorism reponse center right next to the WTC, the biggest target in the city; and now learning that Giuliani was so incompetent that he couldn't be bothered to give his firefighters the proper radios for damn near a decade... It would be easy to pass a personal judgement upon "America's Mayor." Out of politeness, I'll stop short of declaring such a position and stick to the facts; because the fact is, the one thing which should be glaringly obvious and no longer in question, is that Giuliani is incompetent: completely, utterly, irrevocabbly, and it's to the point of sheer ignorance. And though some may differ, it's in my view that this is a fact, no longer just an opinion. And I defy anyone to tell me diifferently.
An incompetent person does not deserve to sit in the Oval Office. We've already suffered almost two terms with a president who's incompetent, and we don't need another term of it. Or even another day.
In a just world, stories this damning would sink a presidential campaign. Look at what the Swift Boat Vets did to John Kerry in 2004, and just what was that about again? To the best of my recollection, it was about proving that John Kerry had never stepped foot in Cambodia during his time serving in Vietnam -- contradicting a comment Kerry made in a speech, what, twenty years before then? That's not exactly earth-shattering news. In fact, when I looked at the stories during 2004, I couldn't inderstand how it was really big news in the first place. But it helped the sink a presidential campaign that should have won, , and came damn near close to doing so.
So how long will we have to wait for these much more damning stories against Giuliani to do what htey rightfully should?
Here's the video:
[Update] While checking my usual suspects of big rightwing blogs to see if they have even mentioned this scandal (they haven't), I did find out that Yasser Arafat must have been an AIDS-infested homo. Not kidding! These conservative bloggers know no shame. None at all.
[Update, part two] As if there wasn't anything else of importance to note (like, you know, the incompetence of a leading presidential candidate), Michelle Malkin goes after Ted Rall for drawing a cartoon. She even has the audacity to end her post with this setence: "Does anyone on his side of the ideological aisle have the decency to question his patriotism?"
I've got a better question: Who gives a shit? Last I checked, Rall isn't running for president. Giuliani is. So does anyone on his side of the ideological aisle have the decency to question his patriotism? Or question his ability as an executive? To question why he couldn't give firefighters the equipment they needed, or why he chose to be well compensated and up his political profile (for a presidential run, of course) by giving lectures as opposed to helping his country by serving on the Iraq Study Group? All while pimping himself as the 9/11 candidate? Do any of them want to answer for this? Because hearing that Rall is unpatriotic, and that Arafat is a cocksucker, just gets old.
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tas, 9:59 AM
1 Comments:
I'm sure Rudy thanks god every day for 9-11, because it gave him such a great platform, which consists of pointing out that he was in NYC at the time of the attacks. Hopefully these firemen can keep him from using the memories of the deceased for political gain.
Clay, at July 17, 2007 7:13 PM
