In fiery speech, Giuliani calls on Obama to resign, faults him for Libya

[BlueStater]

Source: CNN

(CNN) - Not long after taking a few seconds of silence for those affected by Superstorm Sandy, Rudy Giuliani began ripping into President Barack Obama on Friday while speaking at major campaign event for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan in Ohio.

The former New York City mayor delivered a series of blistering zingers against the president, rallying the massive crowd with line after line of reasons why Obama should "resign" and faulting him for "incompetence" over the Libya consulate attacks.

With new numbers showing the unemployment rate had ticked up to 7.9%, Giuliani said the Obama administration should be "ashamed of themselves" for framing the figure as a positive sign. Giuliani, however, did not mention that 171,000 jobs were added last month–more than economists were expecting.

"He should resign! He told us he would resign if he did this poorly," Giuliani said, referring to a 2009 interview in which Obama vowed to turn the economy around in three years, otherwise there would be a "one-term proposition."


Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/11/02/in-fiery-speech-giuliani-calls-on-obama-to-resign-faults-him-for-libya/?hpt=hp_t2

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This shameless, opportunistic ghoul was the best the Robme campaign could trot out?

[roody]

1. Halloween season-Guliani appears.

[tblue37]

25. Ghouliani? nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

45. Good one!

[Solly Mack]

2. Noun, Verb, Libya.

[freshwest]

20. Yeah, at leat he's graduated from numbers. And he had nothing to say about Sandy... How telling..

[Voice for Peace]

31. funny that, mister new york superman

[freshwest]

36. Suddenly he's a foreign policy expert. Yeah, riiiight. Well, the GOP needs a mouthpiece.

[doc03]

3. Another Republican horse's ass n/t

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. Sorry asshole, it's already over. You lose!

[JB126]

5. This will be the repub's new tactic

When Obama is re-elected, they're going to try to impeach him for anything under the sun.

[jsr]

51. Oh, they will try.

There is no doubt.

[speedoo]

6. Die, douchebag.

Idiot has no clue.

Bernie Kerik's godfather, that's all you need to know.

[Permanut]

7. Well, he would certainly know about incompetence.. n/t

[Angry Dragon]

8. Raygun killed 260+ marines ... What did rudy say then??

rudy is a pimp and a drain on the world

[Shankapotomus]

72. +1 n/t

[Supersedeas]

74. he and Trump are a stain

[Behind the Aegis]

9. Personally, I think this may work against them.

To politicize this way, after the storm, may backfire in a big way. Fingers crossed.

[CreekDog]

10. got to give Rudy credit

didn't announce a divorce from current wife and affair with future wife at this speech.

[Voice for Peace]

32. how do these people take themselves SERIOUSLY?

seriously, this is a SERIOUS question.

[Inuca]

58. I understand what you mean, I think

Giuliani is not an idiot, he is not really an extreme ideologue, he must know that after the debale of 08 any major (an dprobably not so major as well) political ambitions are out of his reach, so why the hell does he do crazy so often??? Not always; I;ve seen him not too long ago in an interview, I don't remember the details, but most of the things he said and how he said them reminded me of the Giuliani I did not dislike too much once upon a time.

[mojowork_n]

68. I wonder about stuff like that, too.

Lately, on his radio show, Thom Hartmann has been mentioning that when Republicans
appear on his program, '...they get paid. When he goes on Faux (or some other seditionist,
sectarian, suck-a$$ news program), nobody pays him. He does it for free.'

Money, career advancement, quid pro quo, those are all good inducements to get people
to do surprisingly awful things.

Oops

Edit -- Thom didn't pile on the adjectives describing Faux. Shouldn't have put those words
inside the single quotes. Added parentheses.

[Voice for Peace]

69. ok.. that's a very good point. they're paid to talk. They don't even think much about what they're

saying, and therefore don't have to question their own seriousness.

[TeamPooka]

11. "Democrats must be held accountable. Republicans, not so much."

[Democratopia]

12. And he couldn't fault Bush for ignoring the warnings that Bin Laden was likely to attack.

He should have stood up for the victims in New York, like Obama has.

[azurnoir]

13. In Ohio yet they're gettin' desperate

sorry Rudy but Sandy and Obama's response is first and foremost in peoples minds these days, Libya is kind of old news as things tend to go

[ThoughtCriminal]

14. 9/11, 9/11, 9/11, 9/11

Even Republicans got sick of this guy.

[Left Coast2020]

21. If the firefighters who died on 9/11 only knew of his bum deal...

...with the Motorola radios that did not work. Crybaby.

[BlueStreak]

15. Who? nt

[John2]

16. This

scumbag was the mayor of New York City. He showed up during 9\11. so why didn't this hypocrite speak about himself? Why is he in Ohio when he could be helping out his fellow New Yorkers on Staten Island instead of campaigning for Mitt Romney? We see where his priorities are don't we.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

17. Grandpa Rudy failed in preparing his city for 9-11

and stuck the emergency command center in the World Trade Center, against the recommendations of security experts.

This has-been, serial adulterer's time is past and he'll never get to be king, like he always dreamed.

[newspeak]

67. that's what i heard

did he have his trysting place in the WTC? (and it was not with a wife at the time)

i just love these hypotwits. and, i also remember the attacks on american soldiers while raygun was in office.

[LovingA2andMI]

18. Can someone tell me....

Who does Giuliani represent and why is his ideas more "important" to news outlets than the next random person on the street? And PLEASE don't tell me 9/11 because he has rode that horse to death?

[SoapBox]

19. STFU asshole!!!!

Gawd, I just want to poke my ears out, every time you open that stench filled mouth. SHUT up and go away forever...I hate you!!

[AtomicKitten]

22. So, Mr. Wizard is pontificating again.

&feature=related

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

23. This, from a guy who turned to his now-convicted felon police commissioner Kerik on 9-11

and said “Thank God George Bush is president."

Rudy wants to fault Obama's handling on Libya, but he had precious little to say about Bush failing to read the "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Within the U.S." PDB, or Bush's later failure to get Bin Laden (and instead focusing on lying us into Iraq)

Giuliani has no credibility on foreign policy.

He should go back to doing what he does best: marrying his cousins.

[Iliyah]

24. GOPpers don't care about the Libya attack, they only care

about blaming anything on Pres O. Since Pres O and his administration with the help of Governors regarding Sandy and people coming together, FEMA, and others, all the GOPpers focus on is Libya. Screw Sandy and its victims just like screw the 4 American deaths and the 10 Libyans who died trying to protect them. GOPpers are heartless and power hungry.

[llmart]

63. Let's be honest here.......

if you asked those teabaggers to point out Libya on a globe, how many do you think would be able to do it?

So, yes, you're point is absolutely correct. It's not about Libya at all. It's about finding the ONLY thing they have left to harp on.

[elleng]

26. Video w Wes Clark responding to giuliani

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/11/03/pmt-clark-rudy.cnn

[jsr]

27. Rudy, shut yer goddamn trap

[FVZA_Colonel]

28. That fucking idiot doesn't get that the jobs report was positive;

the reason it went up is because more people began looking for work again, likely because they were more optimistic about the economy because so many jobs were being added.

[LaPera]

29. What bullshit! Quit because the republicans refused to give adaquate funding to emmbassy's....

this was planned bullshit from the git-go (and so were the attacks uh, 9-11) HERE'S HOW & WHY.....

Even though Secretary of State Hillary Clinton begged the republicans in congress not to cut funding...Knowing the funding was critical for Libya the republicans set this up....and set up the rest (but it's not flying except 24/7 on Fox and using lying fuckers like republican whores Guliani).

The republicans had a back up plan if they lost the presidency, they know now they are going to lose so they want a bullshit "independent" council to investigate after the elections....like with president Clinton, to weaken (Obama) taking up years & tens of millions of dollars (remember republican Ken Starr)

This is a long planned ace in the hole back-up plan for republicans if Obama won, the republicans will try to tie up Obama's agenda with some bullshit partisan republican 'independent council'....It worked before with Clinton!!

There's nothing there, just like there wasn't with Whitewater same old republican tactics - but republicans will wait it out for years with Obama to weaken him until something pops - Like Monica Lewinsky with Clinton....

Did you expect less from the slimy republicans - This is plan bullshit - but this time it aint gonna fly!!!!

[LynneSin]

30. Really over 4 people when Bush let how many people die on 9/11 and Katrina

Just saying.

No matter what these are all tragic scenarios but don't play that 'HE FAILED US' card while having Romnesia on the 8 years that Bush served.

[LeftInTX]

33. Guess Rudy hasn't been following the latest news on Benghazi

I assume he's been watching only F@ux News

[Ash_F]

34. "Obama should resign cause there's no way we're winning this" -RG2012 /nt

[erpowers]

35. George W. Bush, Rudy Giuliani, and Mitt Romney

Considering 9/11 happened on both George W. Bush's and Rudy Guiliani's watch, Guiliani should not be calling on President Obama to resign. The 9/11 attacks were far more devastating than the Libya attacks. They were made made even worse by the fact that Guiliani would not listen to intelligence officials and did no give New York firefighters the equipment they needed.

First, Guiliani was warned not to put his command center in the World Trade Center in that it was a target for terrorist attack. If there was an actual terrorist attack at the World Trade Center he would have trouble conducting a response. Second, Guiliani did not give New York Firefighters the radioes they needed which caused them not to be able to communicate Ayer the attack. So, someone can ask the question why did Guiliani not resign and call for the resignation of George W. Bush.

As far as Mitt Romney's success at Bain Capital, how many job were created while Romney was at Bain Capital? After that, how many jobs were created while Romney was governor of Massachusetts?

Rudy Guiliani should not be calling for President Obamamto resign. I guess Guiliani's new mantra is if you cannot beat them call on them to resign.

[petesan]

37. Who's the failure?

I love how Giuliani, Sununu, all Romney surrogates and Romney himself want to frame President Obama as a failure. Yet he was elected after running one time. Romney however has been campaigning for the job for years and Giuliani had a failed bid as well.

Romney was passed over for a job given to Sarah Palin. I ask you who's the failure?

[lolly]

52. Good Point

And McCain's camp still swears they picked Sarah because she was the best one for the job.

[truthisfreedom]

38. Well, somebody's been relegated to the dustbin of history.

Disinteresting.

[underthematrix]

39. ghouliani, very appropriate

[inamatteroftime]

40. Nothing more than a has-been wannabe striving to be relevant. nt

[tanyev]

41. Much like his fiery speech calling on Bush to resign, faulting him for 9/11.

Oh wait, that never happened.

[bubba4249]

42. Duct Tape

Would someone please put a piece of extra sticky Duct Tape over this idiots mouth!

[Coyotl]

43. Let's impeach Reagan for the loss of 241 Marines in Beirut while we are at it

Aide: Reagan Left Marines Vulnerable in Beirut
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183262,00.html



A former defense secretary for Ronald Reagan says he implored the president to put Marines serving in Beirut in a safer position before terrorists attacked them in 1983, killing 241 servicemen.

"I was not persuasive enough to persuade the president that the Marines were there on an impossible mission," Caspar Weinberger says in an oral history project ... "They had no mission but to sit at the airport, which is just like sitting in a bull's-eye," Weinberger said. "I begged the president at least to pull them back and put them back on their transports as a more defensible position."

[justiceischeap]

44. They know Mittens can't win, now they're calling on the President to resign.

Desperation, they stink of it.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

46. Gools is an idiot

[lonestarnot]

47. Get some more work on your teeth 911er!

We prollee paid for that.

[PA Democrat]

48. I fault Giuliani for his membership in the climate-change deniers party

AKA the GOP.

[muriel_volestrangler]

49. Kick (nt)

[PoliticAverse]

50. The guy who put NYC's emergency command center in #7 WTC certainly could be considered an expert

on incompetence.

[olddad56]

53. this scumbag has no credibility.

[orpupilofnature57]

54. Daffy Duck payed homage to Shrub & Tragedy...

Pay our prez some respect, and try the truth for a change .

[Caretha]

55. Giuliani = Nincompoop

[jpbollma]

59. wow two flippers on the same stage?

With so much flipping and flopping, who was there to throw them fish? Was this at Sea World?

[appacom]

56. Fuck Guliani, fuck Romney, fuck Ryan and fuck the entire republican nightmare

I needed to get that off my chest. Thanks for providing a space for me to do that. I'm nervous that somehow Romney, Rove, etc. will steal this election even though my brain says otherwise. I'm angry as I've never been before by the transparent attempts to smear the president for no other reason than his color, and I'm fearful that others are filled with as much rage as I am. As an old woman (am reminded of this every time some 40 year old calls me "Ma'm&quot , if I want to do bodily harm, whatever are the youngsters feeling?

[northoftheborder]

57. I forgot the third one to tell to Shut Up.

Palin, Trump, and Guiliani!

[JustAnotherGen]

60. Who died and made

This jackass General Patton? Seriously - another gut who was young and capable in 1968 that beats the war drum? He has a son right? Please tell me that if his son is of age he's not wimping out like his daddy did and is in some branch of our military.

[rucky]

61. Can't have Trump whoring all the attention.

[truthisfreedom]

62. This coming from the guy who called 911 so many times that nobody else could get through.

[Lightsource777]

64. noun, verb, Benghazi

[jpak]

65. Yeah Old Rudie was waving an American Flag on top of the WTC when the planes hit

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dumbass

yup

[BE10sCoach]

66. Rudy Guiliani

is an insignificant "pipsqueek", who almost no one takes serious. Stick with attending Yankee games Rudy cause your not good at much else.

[frylock]

70. GOOD. NIGHT. NOW!

if this is what they're resorting to four days out, this thing is done!

[trailmonkee]

71. DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!!

Can't stand that asshat

[NICO9000]

73. A message to you Rudy (apologies to The Specials)

Keep yr goddamn mouth shut. Nobody who matters gives a crap about what you think about anything. What a despicable and desperate tactic, but who could be surprised by this? By Monday, these assholes will be claiming Obama secretly flew to Libya and killed the ambassador himself!

[Arkana]

75. Fuck off, Rudy "Noun, Verb, 9/11" Giuliani.

[Zoeisright]

76. Fuck off, Giuliani.

You are a complete pig and YOU should have resigned after 9/11. Your idiocy in not bringing together the NYPD and NY fire departments cost hundreds of people their lives. Burn in hell.